After a while, everyone headed across the hall to tell Ross and Phoebe the news. They hoped that they were done having sex now.
Fortunately, Ross and Phoebe had dressed, and were currently gathering up their baby shower presents. "Oh, hi!" Ross blushed and thanked Rachel for letting them borrow her bedroom. "We'll, uh, we'll go home now."
"No, wait! Joey and Chandler want to talk to you guys."
"What? Oh!" Ross hadn't noticed them standing behind Carol and Susan. He went over to hug them both. "I missed you guys!"
"We missed you too. And Phoebe." Joey went over to hug her next. "Uh, Carol and Susan told us that you and Ross were, like, together now."
"Yeah." She smiled happily. "He's really over Rachel and everything. When she told him that she and Monica--" But Phoebe broke off, not sure whether they knew everything yet.
Chandler said, "Yeah, Monica and Rachel told us. It's kind of a funny coincidence because, um, me and Joey... got together too."
"Whoa, whoa, what!" Ross was shocked.
"Ha! I knew this would happen! They're lobsters!" Phoebe declared triumphantly.
"What?"
"Oh, come on! Didn't you think something was gonna happen, with Chandler proposing to him in the coffeehouse, and pretending to be married, and kissing him all the time?"
The women shrugged and laughed, but Ross still could not believe that Joey could be gay. "But--but all those women..."
Joey told him, "But I really wanted Chandler. I mean, I kissed him on New Year's, I bought him a bracelet and stuff, and I got jealous about Kip... and Eddie. I've been waiting for him to admit that he was gay and come onto me, but instead, he suddenly ended up with Monica in London, and I felt jealous."
"You did?" Monica was surprised too.
"Why do you think I couldn't stand watching you guys kiss and make out in front of me? And I even prank called Chandler at his office and told him I loved him."
Ross remembered Joey doing that on Wednesdays, back when Ross was unemployed and living with them. He said, "But I thought you were just teasing him, Joey. And he said that it had been six months."
Joey shrugged and answered, "Yeah, it started out as a prank, but why would I go on doing that for six months, Ross? Why wouldn't I have gotten bored and prank called one of you other guys instead? And I think I only stopped doing it a couple of months later, after everybody found out about Monica and Chandler, and they said that they loved each other. It was like, there was no point doing it after that."
"Aw, Joey." Chandler hugged him and kissed him tenderly. "I-I should have known it was you, anyway. Who else would know the number of my direct line, getting past my secretary every time?"
"Yeah." Joey sighed. "I guess we both were in denial about how we felt. But this past month together, it made us see everything clearly."
Chandler nodded and smiled. "It--it was great." They kissed again, while everyone else watched and realized how happy they seemed together.
Carol and Susan were relieved that everything had worked out at last, so they hugged everybody, then said they had to go home and pick up Ben from the babysitter's.
Susan teased them, "Now I hope you guys can take care of yourselves without your fairy godmothers around!"
"Yeah, we don't mind helping out sometimes, but we've got friends of our own that we've been missing lately. Bye!" Carol waved at them as they started for the door.
Joey stopped them. "But wait! Don't forget those books that you left at our apartment."
Susan said, "Oh, yeah! We better get those before we forget."
"Aren't you glad that we won't be giving you a test, Joey?" Carol laughed.
Joey nodded, and Chandler said, "We learned a lot anyway!"
Then the others decided to help Ross and Phoebe go home with the baby shower presents. The six friends talked some more about their wild month and promised to meet each other in the morning to catch up.
Later that night, Joey and Chandler returned to their apartment at last.
"Wow, what a day!" Joey said as he sat down in his recliner.
Chandler came over and sat on Joey's lap, letting him nuzzle his neck. "You're not too tired, are you, Joe? Because I think we should celebrate our coming out and making up with the gang."
Joey smiled back and nodded, then picked Chandler up and took him to the nearest bedroom.
They laughed, kissed, and undressed each other playfully. Soon they lay down and got serious, moaning and making the bed squeak. After their passionate lovemaking ended, they collapsed breathlessly and cuddled. The guys fell asleep in each other's arms, still naked and sweaty.
The next morning, Chandler woke up rather early for a Sunday. He smiled and looked at Joey, still sound asleep, for several minutes. Just when he was going to lean in and kiss him, Joey jumped up and scared Chandler.
"Baaa!" Chandler yelled as he jumped back.
Joey started giggling. "I've been awake for an hour or so... but I just loved watching you sleep, and I love the way you watch me sleep."
"You!" Chandler rolled his eyes, then kissed Joey, who giggled again. "What's so funny?" Chandler said, teasing and tickling him.
They giggled and play-wrestled on the bed, ending up entangled and under the covers again, before they finally got out of bed.
Since they were hungry and it was over an hour until they planned to meet the gang at Monica's apartment, they decided to have a light breakfast.
"Do you want eggs or cereal?" Joey yelled to the bathroom, where Chandler was cleaning himself.
"I'll have some cereal and orange juice!" Chandler shouted back. Then he came out of the bathroom with his hair still dripping, and leaned over the kitchen counter to kiss Joey.
"Mmm." They sank into the kiss, and Joey stepped around the counter and slipped off Chandler's towel. They moaned and groped each other, forgetting all about breakfast and the rest of the gang.
"Oh God, you're insatiable, Joey!" Chandler said.
"What?" he asked, not familiar with that word.
"Never mind." Chandler kissed him back and ran his fingers through his hair. "Oh, I need you more than anything," he whispered, turning Joey aside and nibbling on his neck.
"Me too." Joey hugged him and felt complete with Chandler in his arms.
The chick and the duck wondered into the living room then, chirping for their breakfast.
Chandler moaned, "We have to stop."
"How about we give them your breakfast?"
"Okay!"
Joey hadn't poured the milk yet, so he put the bowl of cereal on the floor for them, then filled another dish with some water. "There."
"Good! Let's go!" Chandler took Joey by the hand and ran back into his room.
They fell onto the bed again and kissed passionately. Chandler was glad that Joey had recovered from his hernia quickly. Maybe one of these nights they could go about breaking Chandler's record with Monica of seven times in London.
The rest of the gang slept in, but later, when Ross and Phoebe arrived at Monica's and realized that Joey and Chandler hadn't shown up yet, Phoebe giggled.
Ross asked incredulously, "You mean those two are doing it again?"
Monica replied, "I think they were earlier, then they fell asleep in bed. I knocked and came in before, but they had left the lower half of Chandler's door open. I could see clothes sprawled all over the place and hear them snoring."
Phoebe smiled and shrugged. "Well, that just leaves more breakfast for us then!"
Ross said, "Maybe we should make them help us move the rest of your stuff to my place next weekend."
Rachel asked, "Have you found somebody to sublet your apartment?"
"Not yet, but I put up some ads."
They chatted and ate breakfast, then Ross and Phoebe decided to go home and make love too, since she wasn't having morning sickness.
"See ya!"
Monica and Rachel washed the dishes together, then lounged down on the couch and read the Sunday newspaper together.
Rachel kissed her and hugged her. "I love you, sweetie."
"I love you too."
Later, Joey and Chandler woke up and came over to apologize for missing breakfast.
Monica sat up and said, "It's okay, guys. But we should all hang out again sometime. You've been staying at home too much lately."
"Yeah, sorry," Chandler said.
Rachel told them, "Ross and Phoebe also want you guys to help them move the rest of her stuff to Ross's place next weekend. We'll probably take some boxes in his car and some in her grandmother's cab."
"Oh, okay. We won't miss that." Joey's stomach grumbled loudly, so he said, "Oh, uh, we better go eat now."
"Yeah." The girls laughed.
Joey went on ahead, while Chandler said, "Um, maybe we'll hang out at Central Perk later, or go out to dinner tonight."
"Sure. We'll call Ross and Phoebe to ask what they wanna do."
"Okay, thanks. Bye!"
"Bye!"
