The appreciated mistake

From Phoebe's POV, involving Chandlers new roommate, and Phoebes moving out - *Vic*

Disclaimer- I don't own friends, or anything associated with it (Sadly not even Joey, or Pheebs). I wish I did, but I don't so please don't sue me.

It was just a few days ago, Monica had found the truth, I was moving out, actually the truth was I'd already moved out and into my grandmas house. I mean one minute I'm a girl on the street, almost all alone other than an albino guy (at one point), then by chance I happen to meet a girl who's kind and considerate and a really great friend, and then its like I meet her and BAM, like five minutes later im living with her! Well, now I think about it I DID meet her, have a drink and then about a half hour after I'd met her she asked me to move in with her, and then it took about another half hour before we got to her place so it took about an hour, not five minutes, but hey it still was really quick! Anyway so I'm living with her, and have a whole group of friends, then to top it off I some-how run in to my grandma who I haven't seen since before my mom killed herself when I was 13, I mean an actual blood relative. Obviously I had two sides to my decision, one was Monica was driving me INSANE with her perfectionist, neat- freak attitude, and the other was that I hadn't seen my grandma for so long and needed to catch up. See both leaning on the side that was in favour of leaving, so I left! I just didn't want to hurt her feelings so I didn't tell her for weeks, actually I never told her, and so she kinda guessed when she caught me taking a lamp from my room.

Anyway so now Chandler has finally found a new roommate, which is great, he seems to have forgotten about Kip, he hasn't heard anything from him since he left anyway. I think I'll have to go to Monica's soon, the others said she's not as upset about me moving out. The others all knew I'd moved out, and they all knew how I felt, and helped me to move most my stuff out while Monica was at work each day. I know, to begin with I was so happy, the fact that I had a roof over my head, I still am happy, and I love having her as a friend and everything, we were so close, and hopefully we'll remain that way even now after I've moved out. Ross told me he felt the same way, after he moved to college he felt free because when he lived with Monica she never let him in her room while he was eating unless he had a container under his mouth or the mini vac to hover the crumbs straight off the floor, he told me how she was fat in high school, and how surprising it was that she could eat all the time, and still have time to clean her room at least four hours a day, if you think about it, its very weird. He also told me about her best friend from high school called Rachel, for some reason when he said her name he seemed stuck in a daze. After he snapped out of it he told me that when this girl Rachel used to come over for sleepovers the whole time, and when they had pizza in her room she always put a plastic sheet on the floor to catch the crumbs, so he did understand exactly how I felt and helped me move out, I think Ross is a really good friend, and I'm sure he always will be, even though he believes in science and I don't. So while I'm over there I can meet Chandler's new roommate. I grabbed my handbag off the counter in the apartment I now shared with my grandma, ready to go to work, I had an appointment in about fifth teen minutes and decided I should go now so I wasn't late.

~Time Lapse~

Monica and I had just made up, she was now okay with me living with my grandma. We were standing in the middle of her apartment, and ended our hug, we had nothing else we had to do so we headed over to Chandlers to meet his new roommate. "Chandler told me that he's a photographer." Monica informed me excitedly. We walked in while a confused Chandler was showing a guy around, who I should add looked amazingly cute. He turned around and grinned.

"Hey Mon, Pheebs you guys made up!" He said relived. "Oh yeah this is Joey Tribianni." He introduced us.

"Are you the photographer?" Monica asked the guy Joey.

"He has the sort of body that should be in front of camera if you ask me." I whispered to Monica, causing us to both giggle like high school girls.

"No he's an actor, the other guy split. It had something to do with Mr Heckles I recon." Chandler informed us.

"So hello ladies." Joey said causing me to giggle and Monica to grin, he walked over to me and took my hand, "How you doin?" He asked making me melt and nearly fall over, which I probably would have if he hadn't been holding my hand.

"You kay Pheebs?" Chandler came over and ask concerned.

"I'm more than okay." I said dreamily as Monica dragged me out the room.

"Phoebe whats up with you?" Monica scolded whilst trying not to laugh at my being so naïve.

"What? He hit on me! Ohhhh I think I'm in love " I stated smiling, before thudding back to reality "Oh wait its cos he hit on me and not you and your jealous cos you have a crush on him." I hazard a guess.

"Do not." She said.

"Uh huh, yeah right okay I believe you." I said, trying to get her to admit it.

"Fine, I have a crush on him too!" She admitted, "But admit you do to."

"I do not." I said causing her to give me a look, "Its more than that…" I joked.

"Oh brother! Well just don't you look at him before you cross a street Pheebs." She Joked.

"Oh ha, ha! So I heard Ross's coming over soon, he's just having major problems with Carol isn't he?" I asked.

"Yeah, she spends so much time at the gym, and then comes home and tells Ross all about her friends there, she spends so much time at the gym with all those women, you'd think she was a lesbian." Monica Joked causing us both to laugh. I could see I'd definitely be visiting Chandlers more often, this new guy didn't look boring like Chandler was at times - he looked all action. Maybe he'd do well for the whole group, and the little mistake that Mr Heckles made would be appreciated and be a benefit to us all.