AUTHOR: higherbeingfriendsfan - Debz

EMAIL: debz11888@hotmail.com

CATEGORY: MG/CB angst

RATING: PG-13 just in case

SPOILERS: Series 6 and maybe a couple from series 5

DISCLAIMER: F.R.I.E.N.D.S don't belong to me, but I really wish they did, especially Matt LeBlanc. They belong to NBC, and Warner Brothers, and all of the writers and people who make the show.

AUTHOR'S NOTES: This is set in at the time of series 6, and goes up until TO Where Paul's the Man. I just want to say Thanks to Sara, you've really got me started with writing fan fics hun!

I just want to say thanks to everyone who reviewed they were all so sweet :) they really made my day!!!

Just to recap

Chandler was going to propose to Monica

Monica slept with Richard and Chandler walked in on them

The rest of the friends came in and found out

Chandler left for a week

When he came back to apartment 20 Joey and Phoebe were there and Chandler asked Phoebe if he could stay at her apartment

Ok now on with Chapter Two

Chandler, Phoebe and Joey walked to Phoebe's apartment in silence. Joey and Phoebe didn't try to get Chandler to talk to them because they knew once they got inside he would tell them how he was really feeling. When they got to Phoebe's apartment Chandler went into the bathroom and washed his face, he knew that he needed to speak to someone and Joey would be the best person, but he also knew that Phoebe, even though she sometimes made fun of him, had a heart of pure gold and she would be just as kind and helpful over the whole thing. Once he had finished getting washed up he went into the living room, where Joey was sitting on the couch and Phoebe was at the kitchen counter making some coffee.

'OK I guess you want to know what I've been doing this past week' Chandler said

'Only if you want to tell us, man' Joey told Chandler.

'Yeah, but first Pheebes why don't you finish making the coffee'

'Sure', Phoebe said.

Once Phoebe had finished she sat on the couch on one side of Chandler whilst Joey sat on the other. They sat in silence for a few moments before Chandler started.

'OK I'll start from the beginning, that night when Monica. when she...you know, I was going to propose to her' Chandler started

'Wow', Joey and Phoebe said together causing Chandler to laugh slightly

'Yeah, me can you believe that? Anyway I left to my mom's like I said before, whilst I was there I was miserable and I didn't have any clothes so I came back, but I can't go back to my mom's for a while because she's touring Europe, otherwise I probably wouldn't have come back, and when my mom gets back I'm going to stay there for as long as she'll have me'

'What?! Where does she live', Joey asked

'Don't worry Joe, she only lives on Long Island, you can still come and see me, I'm not moving to the other side of the world' Chandler smiled for the first time since THAT night

'Sorry' Joey said sheepishly 'I'm being selfish'

'Don't worry Joe' Chandler said again Then he asked them the question they all knew was coming. 'How's Monica?'

'MMM...I don't actually know I haven't spoken to her for a while' Joey said

'What where you doing at her apartment then?' Chandler asked

'She just went grocery shopping she has food' All three laughed at this.

'OK Pheebes, how is she?'

'She's acting like nothing's happened, but really she's a mess' Phoebe said

'Good' Chandler said, but Joey and Phoebe knew he was convincing himself as well. They kept talking for a couple of hours, but after Chandler had asked about Monica they had tried to avoid her name.

The next day everyone, excluding Chandler, who was still asleep at Phoebe's was at Monica's. She was making breakfast, whilst they other four where in the living room, talking.

'Yesterday I was here and Phoebe dared me to eat 20 cookies in 2 minutes, and I'm not one who wont accept an east challenge, and she said if I did she would pay me $100, so I did, but she wouldn't pay me' Joey was whining to Rachel and Ross.

'Because you only ate 19' Phoebe was defending her point

'No I didn't' Joey argued

'Yes you did, because there was only 19 in the packet, so I knew you couldn't eat 20, without having to go to the shop or something, which meant that you didn't eat 20 in 2 minutes'

'Yeah but Chandler said that wasn't fair and said you should pay me $50, for making me ill with eating so many' Joey said then realised he had mentioned Chandler

'WHAT?' Rachel, Ross and Monica shouted together.

'Chandler when did you speak to him?' Rachel asked.

'Yesterday'

'Where?' Ross asked Joey

'Emm...he was at his mother's, I phoned there, because I just thought that he might go there' Joey said, proud of his quick thinking.

'How was he?' Monica asked

'Why would you care?' Joey said

'Of course I care' Monica argued

'You've a funny way of showing it' and with that Joey was out he door, followed by everyone else, as they all realised that Joey was lying

They followed him to Phoebe's where he went in where they all saw Chandler making coffee.

'Chandler' Rachel and Ross yelled happily, Rachel ran up to him and hugged him

'Rach, air, needed, to, breath' Chandler struggled out

'Sorry' she said and hugged him slightly less tightly and then stepped aside to let Ross hug his best friend.

'Where were you, man?' Ross asked, and with that Chandler explained the story again. Ten minutes later they were still talking then they all looked up when they heard the door open and Monica stood there.

'Chandler', she breathed

'Monica', he said. The others looked on silently asking themselves the same question, What was going to happen between Monica and Chandler, and what would happen to their group?

So what do you all think?