Notes: This is my first friends story so please be nice. I do like criticism and reviews though. This story will take place ten years after the finale. This first chapter is just a bit of a prologue, so it doesn't really take place during any time. Please review!
Disclaimer: I don't own friends.
Ten years earlier they had left for coffee.
That was probably the worst mistake of their lives.
Because that was the day the friendship fell apart. It seemed that Monica and Chandler's leaving for Westchester tore them all apart. Their reliance on that one apartment was so great that none of them even realised it. So it all broke into many little pieces.
But whose fault was it really?
Was it Rachel and Ross's?
They were the ones who started the fighting at Central Perk. They were fighting over stupid things. But that soon turned into fighting over serious things. In an instant, the whole gang was involved in the fighting. Eventually Rachel couldn't take it anymore and decided to leave for Paris. She took Emma with her. Heartbroken Ross could only cry to himself as he watched the woman he loved leave with his only daughter. Of course he didn't know that they had left for Paris. All he knew was that both were gone, and there was little chance of ever having either in his life again. Depression swept over his body over the years and every night he dreamt of where they were and what their lives were like. He could only pray that they were happy without him and the other friends.
Was it Chandler and Monica's?
They were the ones who were leaving after all. Ten years of friendship and love were solely based in Monica's apartment, and they knew that they couldn't recreate those memories in the suburbs. So why did they move? For the sake of their children to lead a happy life in a happy neighbourhood. But the sake of their children didn't matter once they got into the fight. Because the fight had resulted in the Bing's divorce. Splitting the children up for what could be the rest of their lives. Monica had left the country and moved to Canada with Jack, and Chandler stayed in Westchester with Erica. Both broke off contact with the rest of the friends, even Monica and Ross no longer spoke.
Was it Joey and Phoebe's?
They were the ones who realised their true feelings for each other at the one time the gang was still hanging together by a thread. But this only pushed the gang farther away and the thread soon broke. Joey and Phoebe continued to see each other, but it was not as friends, it was as an affair. It was not an easy one to hide, and when she got pregnant, she told him it was Mike's and that she should stay with her husband so they could look after the baby. Joey took off to Los Angeles, where he became a movie star. He no longer had the time to speak to Phoebe because he was always in photo shoots and such. He just figured that life was treating Phoebe and her baby well. But it was not. When Mike found out that this baby was not his, he left his wife to the streets of New York, where she struggled. She couldn't find work, and ended up as a prostitute with a son, begging for any kind of food or shelter anyone could give them.
So whose fault was it?
It was everyone's. All of them had spread themselves apart, and all of them had ruined the special thing the six of them had shared.
But the tables were turning, and a small glimmer of hope was starting to appear. But would these six people find this glimmer? And if so, who would help them find it?