Title: Sweet Sixteen

Author: Saaam

Rating: PG-13ish, just to be safe.

Disclaimer: Don't own 'Friends' or anything its associated with.

Summary: It's the triplet's sixteenth birthday, and they get to see the video filmed by Joey on the day they were born.

Author's Notes: The idea for this story has been kind of bouncing around in my head for a while, so I just wanted to get it out. As always, reviews are welcomed.

It was a day that the three had been waiting for their entire lives. They were finally sixteen, and in most states, turning sixteen entails a whole new world of freedoms. Getting a job would be easier, and most importantly on everyone's minds, driving licenses were an opportunity that were definitely coveted by Frank, Leslie and Chandler.

Their actual birthday fell on a Thursday and the following Saturday consisted of a close family celebration, which included Frank, Alice, their Aunt Phoebe and Uncle Mike, who had always had a huge impact on their lives. They had sat around and lazily chatted the day away, and it was hard for the adults at the table to believe that just sixteen years ago, there were no triplets and there didn't seem to be a hope for there to be any children for Frank and Alice.

The children had always had a close bond with Phoebe and Mike. Phoebe was like a second mother of sorts to the girls; she was always giving advice when the girls had problems with boys or their parents. Leslie and Chandler had always admired her quirky fashion sense, even in her later years. Mike had taken to showing Frank the world of arts and drawing and calligraphy, something that Frank could never get enough of. Plenty of weekends had been spent at Mike and Phoebe's large house in Long Island, and the triplets always coveted the time that they spent with their Aunt and Uncle.

Instead of cousins, the triplets had to get used to the children of the other five in Phoebe's old group. Ben was almost twenty and was in his third year at Harvard for law school. Emma was still younger than the triplets, being almost fourteen. Monica and Chandler's twins, Jack and Erica, were eleven and starting junior high. Even Phoebe and Mike's young daughter, Kate, took some getting used to. Joey had a family of his own as well, even though they lived in California and didn't make it to New York as often as they would have liked.

Frank had grown to be very studious and culture oriented. He got his fathers curly hair with his mother's dark color. He was taller than his father, almost reaching 6'2. He had hopes of attending NYU on a full scholarship, and with his high grade point average and connections through Ross in the paleontology department, he was practically a shoo in.

Leslie was a girly girl, with beautiful, chocolate colored hair and piercing green eyes. She was not as much concerned about studies as she was concerned about fashion, and boyfriends, and a social life. This was something that distressed her parents, but something that they had no control over.

Chandler was exceptionally quiet, which was very unlike her brother, sister and the relatives she grew up with. As she had gotten older and able to respond to her own name, the others had resorted to calling her Channy as to not confuse her with Monica' husband. She was a cute girl with an incredibly high intellect. She was more like her brother than her sister, except with her brother's academics and clubs came a high amount of social standing and friends. She was mostly a loner, and she enjoyed writing in her diary and staying at home.

Frank and Alice couldn't have been more happier with the types of people their children were growing up to be.

After dinner, while Alice was cleaning up the dinner she had prepared for the birthday dinner, Phoebe pulled the triplets aside as she set her napkin on the table.

"Happy birthday, guys," Phoebe repeated the phrase for what probably seemed like the one hundredth time, but the kids never tired of hearing it.

"Thank you so much for coming, Aunt Phoebe. You too, Uncle Mike," Leslie smiled charmingly at her Aunt, stepping in for a hug. Phoebe returned it gratefully.

"Me and your Uncle Mike were wondering if maybe you guys would want to come out to Monica and Chandler's this weekend. I mean, since you guys can drive now and everything, it won't be such a hassle to arrange your parents to take you all the way out to Long Island. Monica has a birthday thing planned for you guys, and you know what that means…" Phoebe smiled enticingly as she trailed off, and the three knew that if Monica was cooking, then that was a reason in itself to be there.

"We would love to. But Frank will have to drive," Channy mumbled begrudgingly, bringing light to the fact that Frank was the only one of the three to get his license on Thursday.

"Oh yeah, I forgot about that," Frank smiled, puffing his chest out a bit. Anyone could tell that in no way, shape or form did he forget he had a license to drive; but he didn't want to brag.

"Really? That is so great," Phoebe laid a hand on Mike's arm as she turned to look at him. "Monica is going to be so excited!"

"I know," Mike smiled brilliantly, looking at the kids in turn. "They haven't seen you guys in forever. They're going to be really surprised at how grown up you all are."

"So it's a date then?" Frank asked, clapping his hands together and looking and his siblings, Aunt and Uncle. "A weekend at Chandler and Monica's?"

"Yeah. And I think Ross and Rachel will be there as well. Ben just left to go back to school again, and I think that they are pretty down about it," Mike admitted. "I think they're bringing Emma, though. And the twins will definitely be there."

Chandler, Leslie and Frank all looked at each other, the excitement apparent in each other their eyes. Not only was this another chance for a birthday celebration, but it was their first real trip away from home. A drive from the city to the Island wasn't the biggest distance in the world, but it was away from chaperones and away from their parents. They were even out from under the watchful eyes of their loving Aunt and Uncle. There was an exciting rush of freedom overlaying the situation.

And the three couldn't be more excited about it.

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