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Chapter Five: We've Always Been So Close

Monica lay in bed, her face stained with tears. It was unbelievable. Her best friend was in love with her. Chandler was in love with her. He's been in love with her since he moved in, and he dreams of marrying her and having children with her. It was all so surreal. All the times that Chandler had offered to be her boyfriend, it wasn't just because he wanted a girlfriend like she had always thought, and he had never been joking. He had been so serious and half the times she had laughed in his face. She was a terrible friend.

Phoebe sat on Joey's couch in shock. Chandler couldn't really be in love with Monica, could he? But the more that she thought about it the more sense it made. Chandler had always been so close to Monica, he had always hugged her and let her sit really close to her like no one else. He had told Monica a lot of things that he had kept a secret from everyone else. But the main thing that worried her: never seeing Chandler again because of his love for Monica.

Ross couldn't have been more surprised if they had found out that Chandler was gay or something. This couldn't be happening; Chandler couldn't be in love with Monica. His best friend since college couldn't be in love with his little sister. But he knew that it was true, that he did love her. And slowly, the pieces of the past few years and Chandler's offering constantly to be Monica's boyfriend all flew together as if magnetically.

Joey felt like he wanted to throw up. Not this. This couldn't be what was keeping Chandler in an estate in Long Island. This couldn't be why he was gone. It couldn't be. But the more he told himself that it couldn't be true, the more he believed that it was. Chandler was in love with Monica. Deep love, the kind of love you can only get once in a lifetime.

Richard was fuming. Chandler was in love with his girlfriend. At least he had never told Monica, Richard thought, because who knows what would have happened then. Maybe Monica would have left him to be with Chandler. Wait, there was no way that Monica would go for Chandler, he suddenly wanted to laugh for even thinking about it.

Rachel walked in to her apartment and heard Monica crying in her room. She sighed, ready and willing to comfort another friends tears. She opened Monica's door and Monica looked up, tears in her eyes. Rachel looked at her for a moment before she went and sat next to Mon on the bed and they hugged.

"Why didn't he ever tell me?" Monica sobbed, "Why couldn't he have just told me that he was in love with me?"

Rachel didn't know how she had figured it out, but answered anyways, "How would you have reacted, Mon, seriously? You would have thought that he was kidding and blown him off because of the fact that he's Chandler and is always making jokes. That would have killed him, Mon."

"But I would have liked to have known," Monica argued.

"No, Mon, you would have wanted him to get over you in a sweatpants faze like he always does, but Mon, he can't do that with you." Rachel told her, "Mon, you have to understand that Chandler loves you in a 'going-to-spend- the-rest-of-my-life-with-you-loving-you-and-caring-for-you' way. In a way that no guy has ever loved either or us, Mon."

"I was thinking about it, and it makes sense that he loves me," Monica said, "He's always been so close with me and I never even noticed."

"Mon, you know that even if you weren't with Richard right now that you wouldn't have given him a chance at a relationship with you. And that is why he left, because if he told you, you would have felt almost obligated to give him a chance and he doesn't want to make you be with him. He wants you to be with him because you have serious romantic feelings for him. And lately, he's noticed that you indeed will never love him the way he loves you and he just couldn't take the heartache anymore. Even if he is still really upset, he's never going to stop loving you Mon. This means he's pretty much screwed of ever having a family, because he can't be in a relationship when he's in love with someone else. Why do you think that he's always single? He's good looking he could get lots of girls to date him."

Monica thought over Rachel's words for a minute, letting them all slowly sink in. Chandler really was never going to get over her. He didn't want her to feel obligated for anything, so she lost her best friend. Right now she just wanted to crawl deep into a hole and wither away until she was dead. Because that's how she felt that she had left Chandler.

Okay, that's the end of the very short chapter six. What do you think I should do, should I have Chandler and Monica get together at the end? Should Mon stay with Richard or dump him (even though M/C might not get together there is still a really good chance that she'll dump Richard because I just hate him sooooooooo much.) Please keep reviewing, and thanks for the reviews I have already gotten.