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"I met a girl today," Chandler said as soon as he got up to his apartment where Joey was sitting waiting for him.
"You what?" Joey sat up in such surprise that he almost toppled off his chair.
"I met a girl." This was astounding. Chandler met a girl?
"What's her name?" Joey asked.
"Well, that's the thing. I don't know."
"You don't know?" How was that possible? Oh wait, Joey thought to himself. It was possible. He had slept with women that he hadn't learned their names.
"Nope," Chandler grinned. That was a rarity too. Chandler was smiling. Over a girl. Over a girl who wasn't Kathy (AN: none of you guessed Kathy! I guess I pulled one over on all of you). Joey felt slightly guilty over the whole Kathy situation as he had actually been the one to introduce them. He had slept with her and brought her to meet Chandler. It turned out that he and Kathy were better as friends, but her and Chandler really hit it off. And then it was always the three of them. Inseparable. Well, at least they had been.
"Why didn't you get her name?" Joey asked.
"It all happened so fast. She helped me pick out spaghetti sauce and then when I thanked her she just walked away."
"Why didn't you stop her?" Chandler shrugged still grinning. "Was she hot?" That was eventually where Joey's mind always went.
"Extremely, Joe. Probably the most gorgeous woman I have ever met in my life."
"Really?" Better than Kathy? Joey wanted to ask, but he kept the last part to himself.
"Yes. More so than Kathy, I think." It was as if Chandler had read his mind. Joey grinned at his roommate.
"That's great man!"
"Yeah?"
"Yeah." It was a shame then that he hadn't learned her name. It really wasn't phasing Chandler. And the important part was that he was smiling. And this girl, whoever she was, had done that to him.
though all the times I tasted love
never knew quite what I had
little darling, if you hear me now
never needed you so bad
spinning around inside my head
Joey smiled as he left the next morning. Chandler was happy. He was happy that Chandler was happy, and most importantly Kathy had not been mentioned at all that day. Chandler was even talking about going to a Knicks game. Something they hadn't done together in awhile. It was enough to put a spring in Joey's step. And on top of that, it was a gorgeous day and he had a call back. Life was good. Life was very good. And it was going to be a great day, he could tell.
And life was about to get even better, because one of the most beautiful women that Joey had ever seen, and he considered himself quite worldly when it came to women, was coming his way and was paying so little attention that she was about to walk right into him.
"Oh!" She looked up and her bright blue eyes met Joey's. "Sorry about that."
"No problem," he smiled at her. She smiled back. God, what a great smile, he thought to himself.
"I should have been looking to where I was walking," she said apologetically. "I'm such an idiot. I was lost in my own little world." He wanted to be lost in that little world of hers as well.
"Like I said, it's no big deal," Joey assured her. "I'm Joey by the way."
"Monica," she introduced herself.
"Very nice to meet you Monica," he told her.
"You too Joey."
"Hey, would you like to get some coffee sometime?" Joey nearly crossed his fingers that this girl said yes. He was used to getting women to fall all over him, but he had a feeling that this girl wasn't like the others that he usually dated.
"Sure," she rummaged through her purse and came up with a piece of paper and a pen. She scribbled her number down for him and then handed it to him smiling.
"I better go," she said as she started to walk past him. "Call me."
"Sure will," Joey said waving the paper as she walked by. Grinning to himself, he unfolded the paper.
"Monica," he read. "555-4736." Monica. He was absolutely right.
This was going to be a great day.
sail away with me honey
put my heart in your hands
sail away with me honey
now, now, now
"20," Joey read the paper again. "Apartment 20." He had called Monica and they had set up a date for that Friday night. And here he was in front of her door, he had found it. Apartment 20. Taking a deep breath, he raised his hand and knocked. The door flung open and a woman, quite beautiful, stood before him. She had light brown hair that was pulled back into a ponytail and she smiled at him.
"You must be Joey," she said.
"Um....yeah. Is Monica home?"
"She's finishing getting ready," the woman explained. "Come on in. I'm her roommate, Rachel." She stuck out her hand which he took. Looking around the large apartment, Joey noticed another man sitting on the couch.
"This is my boyfriend, Ross. He's also Monica's brother," Rachel introduced. The man, Ross, stood up and walked over to where Joey and Rachel were standing.
"Nice to meet you," Joey said shaking his hand.
"You hurt her and I'll kill you," Ross responded smiling.
"Ross!" Rachel said smacking him lightly in the shoulder. "Don't mind him. Ignore him. That's what we all do."
"I mean it," Ross repeated shaking a finger at Joey. "Limb from limb." Joey was fairly sure that he could take this guy, but he didn't want to mess with him. He just smiled and nodded his head. Most important was making a good impression on Monica and her friends. He liked this girl. Really liked her.
Monica stepped out of her bedroom and Joey's mouth dropped open. She looked amazing. Black strapless dress, with her hair pulled up and piled on top of her head.
"Hi," she said smiling at him. "You met Rachel and Ross?"
"We met," Ross said nodding. "I think we've reached an understanding." Monica gave him a strange look, but simply chalked it up to her brother being odd and reached for her purse.
"Are you ready to go?" She asked Joey as she pulled on her jacket.
"Yes, it was very nice meeting both of you." Joey opened the door.
"Rachel?" Monica whispered as she passed by to leave. "How do I look?"
"Stunning," Rachel whispered back. Monica smiled and walked out to meet Joey in the hall.
"You do look amazing," Joey informed her as they descended the stairs.
"Thank you, you don't look that bad yourself," Monica told him. He made her heart flutter, and her head spin when he looked at her. Joey had that talent of making the woman feel as if she was the only woman in the world when he looked at her. It was something he prided himself on. Something that had taken dedication to achieve. It was going to be a good night, both of them could see that right from the start. And, if everything went the way it should, it would be a long night as well.
A very, very long night.
sail away with me
what will be will be
I want to hold you now
One thing that Chandler had not done when Kathy had left him was to hit the bars. He preferred to be home and drunk. But that night he had gone out. Joey was on a date, nothing new there, and some of his friends from work asked if he wanted to go out to get a drink with them. In this new Chandler attitude, he had said yes and that explained why he was sitting at a bar with his friends from work John and Mike sharing a few beers and laughs.
"So Chandler, any new women we should know about?" Mike said approaching the subject as gingerly as he could. Even his work buddies had been worried about him. It had taken quite some time to finally get over his wife, ex-wife now, and they were happy to see that he was coming out and going back to being the Chandler that they all knew.
"I met this girl the other day," Chandler started. That girl. He couldn't stop thinking about that girl. She was gorgeous, but that wasn't the thing that stuck with him. There was something in her eyes. There was something about her. He didn't even know her name, and yet.....there was just something about her.
"Pretty?"
"Way out of my league," Chandler told him nodding. "Dark hair, blue eyes...."
"What's her name?"
"I don't know."
"You don't know?" John asked raising one eyebrow at Chandler. That had been Joey's reaction too, Chandler laughed to himself.
"No. I never found out her name. But I....I can't stop thinking about her."
"That hot huh?" Mike asked teasing.
"Yes, she was....but...." He kept coming back to the same thought. There was something about her. But it was ridiculous. He had no idea who this woman was. He had talked to her all of five minutes. She could be anyone. It was New York City, for God's sake. There were millions of people in this city what were the odds of running into her again?
Seriously, what were the odds?
I've been talking drunken gibberish
falling in and out of bars
trying to get some explanation here
for the way some people are
how did it ever come so far?
Monica was amazing. Joey was falling for her. And he never fell for girls. Sleep with them, yes this he did.
Stick around after? No. That wasn't Joey's style. But this girl. There was just something about her.
"I want you to meet my best friend," Joey said to her one night about a week after their second date. They had been on four dates all together, and every one had been fantastic. Now Joey wanted her to meet Chandler. He had met her brother and her roommate, it was her turn.
"Okay. Chandler, was it?" She scrunched her face trying to remember the name that Joey had told her.
"Yes, Chandler. How about tomorrow?" She smiled at him.
"I would love to meet him," she assured him. "Tomorrow is great."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes. Positive. Tomorrow will be fine."
"Okay," Joey grinned at her. "Then we'll all have dinner tomorrow."
Sail away with me honey
put your heart in my hands
sail away with me honey
now, now, now
sail away with me
what will be will be
I want to hold you now
Monica was nervous. She wanted to make a good impression on Joey's roommate. He talked about him all the time.
"He's like a brother to me," Joey had explained. And more than anything Monica wanted him to like her. To accept her.
She smoothed out the wrinkles in her dress with her hand one more time before taking a deep breath and reaching up to knock on the door.
Inside, Joey heard and called to Chandler, who was still in the process of getting ready in his bedroom.
"She's here."
"Okay, I'll be out in a minute," Chandler called back. Joey smiled and opened the door.
"Hey you," he said to Monica pulling her into his arms.
"Hey yourself," she said kissing him.
"Chandler's almost ready," Joey told her as they broke apart and he slipped his arm around her waist. "Chandler," he called in a whining voice. "Are you ready yet?"
"I'm coming, I'm coming," Chandler said walking out into the living room buttoning his sleeves. When he looked up, he stopped dead in his tracks and his heart stopped.
"It's you," he whispered.
sail away with me
put my heart in your hands
sail away with me
now, now, now
sail with me
what will be will be
I want to hold you now
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