Author's note

This might not be any good. To be honest, I only wrote it to stop myself worrying about results day tomorrow (arghh). Anyway, I'm working on something else at the moment but I'm not sure about it so it may take me a while to post but I'll see.

If I could have the rights to Friends as soon as possible, that would be appreciated. No? Ok then…

One more cup of coffee

We walked in silence along the quiet grey streets to the coffee house, no one wanting to admit that this could well be the last time we would come here together. The journey seemed to take a long time, good. I didn't want this moment to end.

I was walking behind Monica who was pushing the pram with our kids in it. Ours. We finally had everything. Well, we had to say goodbye to the city and seeing our friends every day. A sacrifice that seemed worthwhile at the time but now I was unsure.

Could we say goodbye to all this?

10 years it had been, maybe more. I could see Mon fighting back tears.

"It'll be ok" I said "You'll see. Besides, this is your dream remember?"

"Yeah. I just didn't think it would be this hard" She sniffed

"I know" I hugged her awkwardly as we arrived at the coffee house.

Me Mon and Phoebe sat on the couch, Gunther came over and made a big fuss of the twins but sensing something wasn't right, he backed off. We all ordered our drinks; I couldn't help wondering if this would actually be the last time we came here. I hoped it wouldn't be but in a way, it would be too sad to come back and remember everything.

Everyone sat there quietly, not knowing what to say. Joey passed some comments about the twins and we just nodded. I couldn't help noticing how much everything had changed since we first came here. I mean, I know we came here nearly every day but it was only really now I noticing things. The posters had changed for a start. I remembered the first time I ever went into central perk, the walls showed various posters from the 50's and 60's. Now, there was some modern art there. Wow. Things had really changed around here. I looked around at the other customers; there was a young group in the corner, laughing about something or other.

So this is how it's going to be I thought. We were just one group, one insignificant group and now there was going to be a new one. Weird. I thought, it seemed like a big deal to us but really, who's going to remember? Wow, what a time to have an existential crisis!

I looked at my watch, aware that time was marching on. 12:30. We said we'd be there at 2 and it took about an hour to drive out there. I turned to Mon

"Honey we really should get going if we want to be on time"

"Really?" she asked

"Yeah. I'm sorry"

"So this is it?" Phoebe asked

"I guess so"

We sat there for a few minutes not wanting to go.

"Well" I said "Maybe just one more cup of coffee"


"It's quarter to" I said

"Yeah, we're really gonna have to go now" Mon said

"Ok, well we'll walk you to your car" Ross said

We all stood up slowly, left a tip then slowly walked towards the door. I opened it for Mon to go through with the twins and followed after her.

"This is it" I said as we walked down the sun drenched pavement, towards eternity.

'And crawling on the planet's face, some insects called the human race, lost in time and lost in space, and meaning'

Footnote

Well, I hope you lot enjoyed it. I know the quote at the end was a bit random but I really like it and it could also tie in a bit with Chandler's existential crisis. Thanks for reading and good luck if you are getting results tomorrow (16 August) or any time in the near future x