Friends story first attempt

Story set six years after the series finale.

Chapter 1

Chandlers POV

As the rain gently fell on the window Chandler turned to look at his sleeping wife she looked so peaceful yet he knew there was something she wasn't telling him.

She had been distant lately and was often late home from work or just seemed to go out for hours and return tired and not in the mood for conversation, he felt like he was losing her and despite his best attempts at romantic meals and expensive gifts she didn't seem interested in talking or trying to fix what was left of their slowly fading relationship.

Chandler rolled over away from Monica and looked at the picture of his two beautiful children, Jack and Erica it was coming up to their sixth birthday and as much as he wanted it to be there best birthday ever he had a feeling that it might just be the tipping point and the moment that might just make or break his marriage. He closed his eyes and fell into a light troubled sleep.

The next morning he awoke to the dull beep of the cheep alarm clock. he decided he would confront Monica as to what was going on and as he tried to gather his thoughts he realised that Monica was not lying next to him and left to make breakfast without so much as a "good morning"

Putting on his robe and walking downstairs to there always perfectly clean kitchen, Chandler tried to feel positive and walked in and said "good morning my beautiful wife and how are you this morning?"

Without even looking up from making Jack and Erica's breakfast she replied "fine" and continued making bacon, frying eggs and buttering toast.

Hoping that the reason he got such a blunt answer from his wife was that she was busy and he decided that he would try again after the Bing household morning routine had died down a bit.

He tried several times again that morning to try and get Monica to open up to him and just plain try to make some kind of conversation but all he received in return was being ignored and the occasional sounding grunt to which Chandler took as she was getting annoyed and should probably back off a bit and just hope to himself that eventually she would feel ready to tell him what was going on.

That morning it was his turn to take the kids to school, it wasn't a long drive to St marks elementary school but Chandler quickly became lost in his own thoughts only to be interrupted by Jack asking "daddy why is mummy so sad?"

As Chandler turned and saw his sons big blue eyes looking up at him he began to see himself in his sons eyes as he remembered so clearly seeing his parents' marriage fall apart that he became so determined to not let anything destroy his marriage so that his kids wouldn't have be put through the same pain that he had felt it "I'm not sure Jacky but I promise ill find out what is and make mummy happy again" he said with a slight grin etched across his face

"you pinky promise mummy will be happy soon?" asked Erica who even though was biologically his and Monica's child he could swear she was as she reminded him of her so much that he could never ever let her down.

"Of course" replied Chandler deciding at that moment he was going to make things right even if that meant going to her restaurant and asking or even marriage counselling whatever it took he knew that he could and would save his marriage.

As he pulled up in his dark blue Skoda he had all sorts of ideas rushing through his head as to what to say and how he was going to do this. Out of force of habit he picked up his phone and stared blankly at it before deciding to ring his old best friend Joey Tribbiani it had been about six months since they last spoke as when he moved to LA and chandler had his own family they sort of lost contact but he knew Joey would be there to talk to him at this moment and help motivate him to get his old wife back. Pressing the call button he waited oddly nervously for his friend to pick but after several rings and no answer he left a message for him to call him back and hung up the phone. Getting out of the car he walked like a man on a mission the staff at the restaurant knew him as the Head chefs husband so he wasn't stopped as he opened the door to the kitchen and then he saw it...

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