Simply Complicated~part 1

What You Get for Falling

Hey people! Today has been actually a pretty good day for me which is weird considering my first week of school pretty much blew…but today was better. And know what I never realized? Just how unfunny David Letterman is. Seriously, I, of course, watched Letterman last night cuz Matthew Perry was on it, and he is just so…unfunny. Like, I wanted to hit him upside the head and knock him out so that I could take over cuz even I am funnier than he is. But newayz…the fic…this takes place 5th season and starts with 'TOW the One Hundredth' (is that what it's called? Ya know, the one where phoebe has the babies? Something to that extent, at least…) and goes a completely different direction with it…and it ain't gonna be a really sad drama type thing, I need something to cheer me up cuz of school and stuff, so it'll be happier than my last couple fics, lol. And this will have all the characters in it since you people get mad at me when it's only CnM, hehe ;) But it is CnM. So read and review. Oh, and the characters aren't mine…but my birthday is in 52 days, so if any of you are wondering what to get me…wink, wink, nudge, nudge ;)

Chandler searched the hospital trying to find Monica. He needed to talk to her, needed to tell her that he didn't think they were just 'goofing around,' and that if she just 'goofed around' with that Dan-the-nurse-man guy (no offense to guy nurses…this is Chandler thinking, not Jamie…wow, referring to myself in the third person, I thought I broke that habit…) it just might possibly kill him. Not possibly, it would kill him.

Turning down the next hallway, he grinned at the sight of Monica. But before she saw him, he saw Dan walking over to talk to her. Chandler stopped dead in his tracks, not having the guts to go break up their conversation. He watched silently as Dan handed her a piece of paper, he presumed, with his phone number on it. And at Dan's next action, Chandler had to use every bit of self-control he had not to scream or punch him, he wasn't sure which. He kissed her. Not long, but he still kissed her. Dan wasn't supposed to kiss Monica. He was supposed to kiss Monica. Him and no one but him.

Chandler quickly turned around and started to walk away. Monica really thought that he wasn't serious about them. She really thought they were just messing around. She wasn't serious about them.

Before Chandler knew it, he was back to Phoebe's room. He decided that he'd might as well go in and see her, anything that might take his mind off of Monica.

"Hey, Phoebs."

'"Hey," she grinned at him as he walked in.

"Where is everyone?" he asked, looking around. She was alone other than the three babies she was holding.

Phoebe just shrugged as Chandler walked over to her bed. "What's wrong?"

"Nothing," he mumbled, letting one of the babies grab onto his finger, avoiding eye contact by looking down.

"Wanna hold one of them?"

"Sure," he said, so she gently handed him the baby that had been holding onto his finger. "Which one is this?"

"Chandler."

"What?"

Phoebe, laughed, "No, she's Chandler."

"Oh. Well, now that it turns out that she's a girl, what are they gonna name her?"

"Chandler."

"Oh."

Phoebe just looked at him. "Okay, there was no joke or even an attempt to defend yourself there, seriously, what's wrong?"

Chandler continued to stare down at the baby, not knowing how to answer Phoebe's question. He played with the baby's hand, noticing that she was starting to go to sleep. He just sighed, almost wishing that he could trade places with her. Then he wouldn't hurt right now.

And he couldn't for the life of him figure out why it hurt so bad to know that Monica was going out with someone else. It had only been a couple of weeks; he shouldn't have gotten that attached yet. Of course, he hadn't really meant to, it was just supposed to be about sex. It was only supposed to be 'goofing around.'

But he hadn't been thinking. If he'd been thinking, he wouldn't have let himself fall that much for her. But he hadn't been thinking, he'd just been feeling, letting himself fall.

And now he was getting hurt. That's what he got for falling.

"Chandler. Chandler," Phoebe repeated and Chandler finally snapped out of it.

"Huh?"

"Are you okay?"

"Yeah, fine," he forced a smile.

"No you're not. But I guess if you don't want to talk about it, I'll just eventually pick up the vibes since I'm a psychic anyway…"

Chandler sighed, "Well, the thing is-" he got cut off by Joey and Ross walking in.

"Joey! How do you feel?" Phoebe said excitedly.

"Good now that those rock-thingies are out."

"Stones," Ross corrected.

"What?"

"Stones. They're called kidney stones, not kidney rocks."

"Oh. Well, that's the same thing, really," Joey shrugged.

"No, it's not."

"Yeah it is. I mean, rock, stone, same difference."

"But they're called kidney stones. If you said you had kidney rocks, no on would know what you were talking about."

"Then how come you did?"

"Hey," Rachel said as she and Monica walked in, cutting off Ross and Joey's argument.

"Hey," Ross and Joey said at the same time before going back to arguing.

"Oh, Mon, I meant to ask you, what'd you think of Dan?" Rachel asked and Monica glanced up at Chandler before answering. And it was barely even a glance, no one else would have even noticed it. But Chandler did.

"He seemed like a nice guy, cute," she shrugged.

"So you're gonna go out with him?"

"I don't see why not."

Chandler looked up at her, hurt. What about him? Wasn't he her why not?

He handed Chandler back to Phoebe, mumbling that he'd be right back before walking out the door.

"What's up with him?" Joey asked.

"I don't know."

"Got me."

"He wouldn't talk to me about it, but I think there's something wrong," Phoebe said, and Monica looked down, feeling guilty.

She knew what was wrong. Hell, she was what was wrong. And, yeah, she felt guilty for being that reason, but if what was going on between them wasn't going anywhere, she didn't want to keep doing it. The longer they kept it up the more they both stood to get hurt. So, it was good that it ended now since they'd just been messing around.

Monica sighed, looking up at the closed door that Chandler had just walked out.

And maybe if she kept telling herself that, she'd eventually believe it.

~*~

"Chandler, you coming?" Joey asked, walking toward the door.

"Huh?"

"Monica and Rachel's, are you coming?"

Chandler just shrugged, "I don't know."

"Dude, what's up with you lately?" Joey walked over and sat down in the other chair, turning to face Chandler.

"What-what do you mean?"

"I mean, what's wrong? You've been acting really weird lately, like you're…I don't know, depressed or something."

Chandler just looked at him for a couple of seconds, wishing that he could tell him what was wrong. But he quickly snapped out of it. If he told Joey what was wrong, Ross would eventually find out. And Ross most likely wouldn't be too happy to learn of Chandler's fling with his little sister.

"It's nothing, Joe, really," he smiled at him, hoping that even if he didn't buy it, he'd at least let it go.

"Well, whatever," Joey shrugged and stood up, and this time Chandler followed him as he walked out the door and over to Monica and Rachel's, mostly in an attempt to avoid any more questions.

As soon as they walked in and closed the door, there was a knock. Chandler turned around to face Joey. "Ya know, once you're inside, you don't have to knock anymore…"

Joey just shrugged in confusion, going over to the refrigerator, so Chandler sighed and opened the door, immediately freezing.

"Hi."

"Um, hi, is Monica ready?" Dan asked and Chandler fought the urge he had to slam the door in his face.

"Um, no, but she'll be ready in a few minutes if you want to come in," he said, wishing that he had remembered that tonight was her date with him. If he'd remembered, he never would have come over. He'd be some where else. Anywhere else.

As Chandler walked over to the living room, Monica's bedroom door opened, so he looked up, and for an instant, their eyes met. Monica held the gaze for a couple of seconds before breaking it and turning her attention toward Dan.

"Hey," she smiled at him.

"Hey," he returned her smile, "Wow, you look great."

"Thanks, you, too," she paused. "Oh, um, you already know Rachel," she said and they exchanged 'hey's.' "And that's Joey," she motioned to Joey, whose mouth was full, so he just nodded, "and this is Chandler."

"Nice to meet you," Dan held his hand out to Chandler, who took it.

"You, too," he forced a smile.

"Well, we'd better get going, we have reservations," Dan said as he looked down at his watch. "It was nice meeting you guys."

"Bye," Monica said as they walked toward the door.

As everyone else said their good-bye's, Chandler once again caught Monica's eye, but she looked away as she turned to walk out the door.

But before their gaze was broken, Monica had been pretty sure of what the look in his eyes had meant. She'd seen that look in his eyes before, but had never thought that she would be the cause of it. He was hurt.

She'd just broken his heart, and he was hurt.

To

Be

Continued…

Okay…my first parts always suck…so it'll-I hope-get better…I've just had this idea for almost ever, and finally decided to write it…so please review and tell me if you want me to continue…