Finally Joey got a part in a movie directed by Warren Beatty. The character had to kiss a guy, and Joey proved to be the most convincing actor when it came to the kiss.

"Wow," Monica smirked, "being with Chandler is really paying off!"

Chandler mused, "All those years I helped you rehearse lines, and *this* is what gets you your break?"

Joey nodded and kissed him. "We should've thought of it sooner, huh?"

Chandler accompanied Joey to the movie set and met Warren Beatty. But when he met the attractive actor that Joey had to kiss, Chandler suddenly got jealous and insecure. Was it just his imagination, or was the kiss between them a little too good? Was Joey possibly getting bored of Chandler and thinking about moving on?

Then after they finished filming the scene, Joey inadvertently gave Chandler the wrong impression when he tried to get his co-star's phone number.

Chandler couldn't take it, and finally demanded to know whether he and Joey were in an exclusive relationship or not.

"What? Of course we are. Wait, you thought I was coming on to him? No! He's straight. I was just getting his phone number for Phoebe."

"Phoebe?"

"Yeah, so she'll cheer up about Ryan leaving. And it wouldn't matter if he *was* gay. I'm with you, you know."

Chandler felt relieved and much calmer now. "I'm--I'm sorry, Joe. I should've trusted you. I just, um..."

"It's okay." Joey hugged him and kissed him. "Listen, Chandler, I know I went through a lot of women pretty fast--"

"*Pretty* fast?"

"Okay, faster than most women reject you. But I'm not gonna be that way with guys too. I've got you now, and I really like you."

Chandler smiled back shyly. "Really?"

"Yeah, and I don't want to spoil what we've got now. And you know," he hugged Chandler closer, "since I'm making money again, I can buy you more presents, like the leather chairs, the big TV, and the bracelet."

Chandler winced at the memory of the tacky gold bracelet that Joey had bought him, when they were still just friends. He had even been forced to buy a second bracelet when he lost the first one, then Gunther found the missing original. It took Chandler forever to talk Joey into not wearing the matching jewelry everywhere.

"Um, no more bracelets, okay? Let's make the bracelets we already have more special."

"Okay," Joey kissed him happily. "Hey, maybe we should start wearing them again?"

Chandler laughed nervously and sighed. "Um, okay." This was the price of being with Joey, it seemed, and perhaps the bracelets would prove to be effective man-repellent, as well as woman-repellent.

***

Meanwhile, Monica and Richard broke up because she wanted to have babies someday, but he didn't. She remained upset and sleepless about the breakup for weeks.

After the Warren Beatty movie, Joey was back to looking for work again. At least he had something respectable to add to his resume, after that whole disaster when he was cast as Al Pacino's butt double.

Having nothing better to do at home, Joey started using Chandler's laptop to find porn on the internet. Chandler got mad when he found out. "Hey, I told you not to touch my computer! And for this? What, do I not satisfy you enough?"

"No!" Joey explained that he was just trying to make up for the fact that he and Chandler were both inexperienced when it came to gay sex. "I thought, you know, I should make sure we were doing everything we could be doing."

"You swear that's it?"

"Yeah! Look at this." He pointed out a particularly adventurous picture.

"Ooh," Chandler was both shocked and intrigued.

Joey smiled and showed him more stuff. "See anything you'd like to try?"

Chandler was too embarrassed to answer, so Joey pulled him closer and gently rubbed his back. "It's okay," he whispered. "You wanna hear what I like?"

Chandler nodded, and listened to Joey's sexy voice describing various things from the porn, and his own fertile imagination. Chandler wasn't sure about everything he heard, but he finally spoke up and described some of his own sexual fantasies, with and without women. The dirty talk made them hot, and they rushed into Chandler's bedroom with new inspiration.

Joey certainly had a talent for loosening inhibitions.