A new Start- Chapter One
Continued from 'epilogue.' I don't own any of these characters…
It had been a week since Richard proposed. He had persuaded Monica into moving in with him and she agreed. It's just time to grow up, she kept telling herself. Richard and her had been spending more time together, getting to know one another better, like re aquatinted. The more time Monica spent with Richard, the more she agreed that she had done the right thing.
The others were disappointed I both Chandler & Monica. Chandler; for not proposing sooner, and Monica for accepting Richard's proposal. It was easier to be mad and disappointed in Monica because she was the one who was round. Chandler had fled, the four understood, but why did he have to cut them out of his life also? They hated him for not calling to tell them he was all right and that he would see them soon. Joey felt the worst. He had lost him when he and Monica moved in together, and now he lost him all together. Ross too, he now lost his best friends, some one to teas about their collage years in New York University. The girls missed his humor and his gentle heart, how he always came to them with his relationships. They loved him for that. For being able to open and expose his heart. Not knowing it they were losing Monica as well. She was spending most of her time with Richard. Planning the wedding, moving boxes. Phoebe and Rachel were eager to know who would be the maid of honor, but not as enthusiastic as they would have been if Monica was marring Chandler. Even Ross was being pushed out of her new life.
Time came and went during the few months before the wedding. Chandler's left belongings were moved to the basement for storage. Richard had not felt comfortable knowing her ex-boyfriends closest things still sat in her bedroom.
February 14, the wedding day. After the announcement in the paper of their engagement, the date was set for Valentines Day. The most romantic day of the year, a day nether would forget and would always cherish. After weeks of arguing over the color of bridesmaid's dresses, which ended up being a dark pink, everything went smoothly. Both Rachel and Phoebe were chosen for the maids of honor and Ross was canceled out as the best man. Even though he felt uncomfortable standing next to him fathers best friend and his sister's future husband, Ross put on a happy face. Joey was sitting in the front pew, he was mad that he hadn't gotten to be part of the wedding but he wasn't connected to any of them, only as a 'friends of the brides.' Monica stood in the back of the church ready to walk down the isle with her father standing next to her, in a satin dress holding 6 white roses in her hands, she and her father slowly walked down the isle towards the man she had first really loved.
As the priest asked the church if there was any objections, Rachel shouted.
"Yes, I do, she doesn't belong with him, she belongs with Chandler."
The others followed, boosting their opinion of why they wouldn't be together, but nothing was said. The priest continued on as if nothing had happened, because nothing had happened, it was all in their heads. The couple lovely starred into each other's eyes, seeing their future full of happiness, and blessed moments.
The church erupted with applause as the couple left the church. The guests cascaded out the doors the see them leave. But one person was left sitting in the last pew, nearest to the windows and emergency exit. He sat there more depressed than ever, feeling his heartbreak more and more as he watched his life roll by like a movie, but in his head. Once he heard Monica agree to the vows he wanted to bolt out of the church as fast as he could. He didn't want to ruin her day.
"May I help you my son?" The priest asked. Chandler looked up at him, sorrow in his eyes, 'I'm sure that he's never had a broken heart.' Chandler thought as he sadly looked at the man before him.