The One Where Emma Turns 18

8

"Okay, what is happening here?" Erica asked with a confused frown on her face.
Monica and Ross both nudged each other and laughed.
"That was us doing our routine. We made it up in high school and that year, Joey got us invited to Dick Clark's New Years Rocking Eve. We did it live on television!" Monica spoke with pride.
"You did a routine you'd make up in high school on TV?" Erica asked, still frowning.
"It was quite a scene." Joey said, raising his eyebrows.
"Yeah. How cool is your mum?" Chandler said to the twins and I laughed. "Hey. It's your aunt." I stopped laughing.
"Oh well. At least they can't do a repeat now." Erica giggled and everyone chuckled along, not noticing that Monica and my Dad looked completely offended.
"We could do it!" Monica insisted.
"Definitely." Dad insisted.
"I dare you." Phoebe smiled a mischievous grin.
"Fine!" Monica yelled.
Her and Dad stood up and performed a dance routine that made everyone cringe. They looked completely proud once they'd finished and everyone clapped along.
"I told you." Monica snapped her fingers before sitting down, out of breath.

"Who's the girl?" I asked my dad. We were looking at a photograph of him with his arm around a baby-faced girl.
"That's Elizabeth." He told us.
"Who's Elizabeth?" Katie asked, staring at the picture.
"She was just an ex-girlfriend." Dad shrugged.
"Really? I thought she was a long lost daughter looking at that photo." Erica grinned. Chandler burst out laughing and high-fived his daughter but they both silenced once struck by Ross' unhappy glare.

The gang then looked at a picture of an apartment covered in lit candles.
"What's this all about?" I asked.
"That's the old apartment. I took that picture just before I proposed to Chandler." Monica told us, and we all 'aw'd respectively.
"That looks so romantic." I gushed.
"It really was." Monica smiled and her and Chandler gave each other an affectionate cuddle.

"Hey, look. It's our wedding." Chandler smiled as we looked at the next photo.
"Rach, you look so anxious. It's only looking back I realise why." Phoebe pointed out.
"Why? What's going on?" I asked.
"That's the day I found out for sure I was pregnant with you, Em." My mum told me with small tears in her eyes.
"On Monica's wedding? Jesus, you didn't half steal her thunder." Katie said.

"Who are these two babies?" Jack asked.
"And what on earth is wrong with that ones face?" Erica screwed her face up in disgust as she asked.
"Uh... that's Emma and Aaron." My mum told Erica and Aaron's face dropped. He smiled again quickly.
"Don't worry. I've seen pictures of myself as a baby. I get it." He shrugged.
"You were definitely unfortunate looking." I giggled and Aaron nudged me.
"That's so crazy, right? You two met when you were a few hours old, and here you are together on your eighteenth birthday. I think it's really great." Phoebe grinned.
Aaron and I both smiled at each other and shared a kiss. "It really is great." He said.

"Here's another one for you, Aaron." Joey chuckled as he handed us a photograph showing Chandler and Janice kissing in the old apartment.
"Gross." Aaron muttered and everyone laughed. "I still can't believe you actually dated my mum. I find it weird."
"You find that weird? You'd find something else weirder." Phoebe laughed as she put a couple of pretzels into her mouth.
"What?" Joey asked and she leant in and whispered something into his ear. Once she'd finished, Joey burst out laughing.
"What? What is it?" Aaron wondered.
"Your mum -" Joey pointed at Aaron, "also slept with Emma's dad." Joey pointed at me.
Aaron and I both gagged.
"How has this never come up before?" I yelled while everyone else (except Aaron and my dad) laughed.
"It just isn't a conversation I wanted to have with my daughter about her boyfriends mum." My dad shrugged. Aaron and I continued to gag.

Once we'd recovered from that gruesome thought, another strange revelation came out.
"Uh... what on earth is going on here?" Erica asked.
She held a photo up of Joey kissing my mum.
"Do none of the kids know about this?" Joey asked my mum, curiously.
"I don't think so." My mum shrugged.
"Know about what?" I asked, confused.
"Joey and I dated, not long after you were born actually." My mum revealed.
"What?" The younger generation of us gasped in unison.
"Not for long. But yeah." My mum said.
"That's so weird." Katie commented.

"What is this place that keeps coming up?" Jack asked, holding up a photograph.
"That's Central Perk." Chandler told him.
"It was our local coffee shop. We hung out there like -"
"Every single day." Phoebe finished Monica's sentence.
The gang all looked nostalgic.
"There's so many memories there, isn't there?" Phoebe mused.
"It was my first job." Mum said.
"It was where we had our first kiss." Dad said fondly, nuzzling my mum afterwards.
"It's where I found you Mike!" Joey sparked up, talking to Phoebe.
"It was Central Perk that actually gave me the inspiration to buy my own coffee shop out of the city." Monica admitted.
"So, is it still open? Can we go and see it?" I asked.
"Well, I know it's still open. I walked past it when I was working in the city a couple of months ago." My mum said.
"Let's go." Chandler suggested, and we all gathered our stuff.