The apartment was now empty and filled with boxes. Everyone had gone to attend to wedding business. Emma was asleep in her crib and the only ones left were Chandler and Ross.
"Here you go, bro." Ross said as he handed a beer to Chandler while they enjoyed this time together. Ross sat down and lifted his beer.
"To friendship." He said. "I'll drink to that." Chandler took a sip. "Do you realize that in three days I am marrying the girl I have dreamt about since I was fifteen?" Ross said as he took another sip. "Well I already have the girl of my dreams and it is all because of you." Chandler smiled. "That is so sweet." Gushed Ross. "Careful dude, you don't want to become too girlish. Remember we're men." Chandler reminded him and they both took another swig from the bottle. Out of the clear blue sky Chandler started crying. "What's wrong?" Ross asked. "I just realized that you are going to be in Paris." Chandler started to sob in his girlish type voice. "But it will be alright." Said Ross as he hugged Chandler like a baby. "We'll come and visit and you can come and visit us." Chandler remembered that Monica had always wanted to go to Paris because of her love of cooking. "That would be great."
"Do you realize that it has been a long time since it has been just the two of us?" Ross said curiously. "Yeah, Joey has always been around. Just like the child I always wanted." Chandler said sarcastically. "What was life like before Joey?" Ross said philosophically.
"We struck out with girls." Laughed Chandler. " Monica's refrigerator was always full."
"This is great just us. Remember back in college the band, and when we used to party with Gandolf?' Ross reminisced.
"Gandolf was the best and he sure knew how to party. One time we ended up in Nova Scotia. Hey remember Missy and Adriane ? We said we wouldn't go after them because of the pact and we both made out with them."
"Yeah, that was the night you made out with Rachel." Ross reminded him.
"And you made out with your own sister. God how hammered were you? "
"It was too dark and she started to kiss me first. Remember when those two guys threatened to beat us up for taking the couch? You tripped over a little girl's jump rope."
"Yeah but they stopped threatening us. Remember when I bought the couch and tried to get it up the stairs?"
"I was ready to kill you if you mentioned the word PIVOT one more time."
"Hey you know, you owe me too pal. When you went to China, I was the one who let Rachel know you were in love with her."
"That's right,I guess both of us owe each other ." Ross said as he took another sip. "Well I 'm ready for another one. How about you? He got up and went to the refrigerator.
"You know I may say that Joey is my best friend, but you are my oldest friend. I mean , here it is almost twenty years later, and we are still in each other's lives."
"But you and I are more than friends, we're family. You are the godfather to my children and I am uncle to yours. And we will be joined together because you love my sister."
They clinked their bottles. "To family."
I know this chapter might be shorter, but I wanted a special Chandler and Ross moment before the wedding and the final chapters. Hope you like it…. Thanks for all the nice reviews and keep them coming.