Passport to Love

Rough Trade East Records

Tea made it's first real appearance in London 1658, when the new beverage was advertised in a pamphlet by a local coffeehouse.

"Hmm, interesting." Monica turned the page in her London Travel Guide Book to where she found a picture of the famous city. "Why couldn't I be raised here?" She muttered to herself as she laid back on her comforter in her hotel room on the second night they spent there. She was about to flip the page once more when her computer lit up and a picture of Rachel appeared.

Setting the book aside she got up and moved the mouse to where she clicked on the blinking light. "Hey Rach!" Monica exclaimed as she was now on video chat with her best friend.

"Hey! I knew you wouldn't be out exploring." She shook her head disappointed with her friend

Monica looked out the dark window "Rach, it's eleven O'clock at night." She told her

She thought about it for a few seconds "Right, sorry. Forgot there is a time difference." Monica watched as she turned around in her desk chair "Jill get out of my room!" She shouted

"Where is my blue sweater?"

"I told you I don't have it." Rachel reminded her sister

Jill rolled her eyes and left.

Monica waited patiently as Rachel came back into focus. "So how is that family reunion coming?"

"It's a disaster. They have us all staying in the same cabin now."

"Cabin?" Monica questioned "I thought it was only a one day thing."

"It was suppose to be." She whined "But my great grandma saw how big we were getting and she rambled to when the last time she saw us was when we were little bitty, then she said that she didn't want us growing up to be adults before she saw us again so she made us rent out a cabin." She explained in one quick breath. "I don't really want to get into it." Her expression changed from annoyed to thrilled "So tell me all about London!" She grinned

Monica smiled and thought back to the previous day and her drunken night that caused her to break a few norms. "Well, not much really happened yet...I told you about Chandler Bing, right?"

She nodded "He came up in a few texts." Rolling her green eyes she continued "I can't believe out of all the people that were to be pair up with you he was the one mean old Mrs. Emerson chose."

"Rach, she's like thirty."

"Yeah, that's old." Her elbows rested on her desk in front of her as she leaned in closer "Why couldn't you be partnered with Chip?" She quickly added "Which by the way I hear Susan found a new friend."

"No!" Monica's eyes grew wide "Who is he? Is it Tommy?"

Rachel shook her head "It's a her, and her name is Carol." She filled her in "Apparently Susan isn't the ball of yarn Chip said she was."

"What are you talking about?"

"Susan had a threesome." She told her softly as all the gossip she had built up inside her came out

"Susan had a threesome!?" Monica shouted then realized how loud that was "Susan had a threesome?"

Nodding Rachel leaned back in her chair as Monica grabbed her computer screen wanting to be closer, as if it was going to bring her to know all the new gossip in town. She had eight more days and she was already missing so much back in New York.

Looking back at her clock she saw it was almost midnight "It's getting really late, I should get to bed." She yawned for the second time that night. First being when she was reading the interesting fact about tea. "I'll talk to you later."