Sweet Nothing In My Ear

The Rubber Band Ball

After everyone left Monica put Alex to bed and started cleaning up the living room where he was playing with his cars on the floor.

Chandler went to his room after leaving Monica's place. He had fun over at Monica's. It wasn't awkward or weird, it was like that conversation they had the night before never happened. It almost felt as if she changed her mind about being just friends...

"I have to stop saying that. She doesn't want me." Chandler said to himself in his empty room.

Monica checked on Alex one last time before going to bed.

The next day everyone came over to Monica's for breakfast. Besides Chandler. Monica was a little upset that he didn't come over with Joey and was wondering where he was. "Where's Chandler?" Monica asked as Joey sat down and started to dig in.

"Had to be at work early." He explained

Monica nodded in understandment. She continued to pack Alex's lunch thinking if what Joey said was true or was just an excuse? She thought about it and looked at the clock. It was only 7:30.

Everyone talked for a little bit before they all started filing out and heading off to work.

Monica helped Alex put on his book bag before they too left for the day.

They were walking down the street to his school. Alex was playing with his rubber band ball that Chandler got him when he dropped it. He tried picking it back up but the people around him kept kicking it out of his reach. He struggled to find it. He was worried that he was never going to see it again.

Monica saw Alex whipping around like he was looking for something. She moved aside out of everyones way and bent down in front of him "What's wrong?" She signed.

He looked behind him again looking for the ball.

Monica looked at him and then his hands. She moved his head towards her's "Where's your ball?" She signed

He started to get upset and cry "I dropped it." He signed to her.

Monica saw him start to cry. "Hey...we can make you a new one okay." She tried cheering him up. Monica looked at her watch "We have to go to school." She grabbed his hand again and continued to walk the way to his school.

She knew how much he loved that ball. Like father like son; she thought.

Monica was running around the kitchen trying to prepare food for the customers when Rhonda came through the double doors "Monica, someones on the phone for you!" She shouted through the kitchen.

"Can you take a message? I'm kind of busy right now." She said putting the finishing touches on one plate and starting the next.

"They said it was an emergency." Monica looked up. The word emergency she feared the most, like a deer in headlights. Everytime she got a call and they said emergency it always involved Alex. Like the time when they found out he was deaf, or when he broke his arm playing on the playground at school and falling off the monkey-bars, or the time where he stepped in broken glass from where Joey was watching him and they were playing with a ball in the house.

Monica ran through the building of Alex's school, she went up to the front desk. "Hi, I'm Monica Geller, Alex's mom." She told him.

"Yes, room A153. Down the hall third door on the left." She told Monica who was already half way there when she told her what room number.

Monica looked through the window of the classroom and saw kids running around, and Alex sitting on the table top with his teacher and the principle next to him. Monica walked in and went over to him "What's wrong?" She asked them.