* This story is based on the timeline of the mid-seasons in friends where Chandler and Monica just started their relationship and hides it to everyone. (Joey doesn't know, too.)

Lastly, I do not own any of the characters. *

1. Coffee house

"Hey, D'you remember the time we were at the beach house?" Phoebe said suddenly gazing the empty space. Then she sipped some coffee she was holding. "Yeah" everyone replied remembering the images. "I had fun." phoebe continued. "I found my real mom." "Yeah, and we played strip-happy-days game and Joey was THIS-close to being totally naked." Ross gestured making a little gap between his fingers. Joey grinned. Then Rachel pointed out. "Yeah, do you remember when Ross didn't read my letters and get in bed with me?" The others laughed. "Hey! It was 18 pages FRONT and BACK. An-and it was 5AM in the MORNING!" Shouted Ross as Rachel turned her face to the other side snorting. "Hey, you remember when Monica got stung by a jellyfish?" Joey laughed and playfully hit chandler on his shoulders. They looked at him clearly their expression saying-why did you bring the story in?-. Having joey recall the memory, Chandler who had an arm around Monica immediately took it back. His slightly alarmed face was the evidence he was remembering the moment he peed on her. "Oh, yeah." they said. Some were laughing and some had a disgusted face. Monica wanted to get out of the situation so she burst out saying, "D'you remember when Chandler kept hitting on me?" Chandler gently hit her on the arm with a -w why whyyy?- face. Realizing her mistake she was impatient that the others may discover their relationship. The same horror was upon Chandler.

"Whatt?" Ross shrieked. Almost jumping out of the chair he looked furious. "Y-you you hit on my sister?" "Ross calm down. It wasn't even a big deal." "Not a big deal? My best friend hitting on my sister is not a big deal?" "Ross just listen. I said I would die an old maid and chandler offered to be my boyfriend-" the couple looked at each other daringly. Then continued. "-but I said he wasn't a boyfriend material, and at the beach house he was just trying to prove himself not." Chandler felt like he should explain more. "Yeah, I just wanted to prove her wrong. I just got a little offended." "But what would happen if I was hitting on her?.." Chandler asked peeking at Ross's expression. "Well, then I would, you know.. Be mad at you. I mean, your my best friend and she's my sister." "I mean it's weird, isn't it?" Ross looked at everyone as we wished they would confirm him right. Meeting his gaze Rachel said "well yeah, but I would say it would be weird because they are friends than the fact that it's your sis and bestie.." she carefully checked his expression. "Yeah but still.." Ross said. Then Monica interrupted. "Okay Ross, let's just drop the topic." Chandler could tell she got a bit indignant with her brother. He also was worried how his best friend would react when he found out about them, but right now, watching her get irritated was actually pleasant for him. He loved that Monica cared about their relationship and wasn't ashamed of it. Still he had to hide his smile from everybody. Then Phoebe suddenly shouted "hey, hey! You know what we should do? We should go to the beach house again!" She smiled innocently. Everyone but joey agreed loudly. "Yeah, last time we didn't enjoy ourselves, you know, it rained and we didn't get to play strip happy days properly!" The agreeing look on everyone's face cracked as he mentioned strip game. Ross said "I'm fine with going to the beach house but there aren't going to be any strip happy days game this time, Joey." Everyone nodded whilst joey cried, "oh, come onnn~!"

2. Apartment

Chandler and Monica lied on his bed cuddling up. They happily grinned feeling the warmth of one another's body. But Monica sensed something different. Under his over-sized shirt she could feel some muscle. She was surprised but pretended not to notice it. "Hey, what are you gonna wear at the beach, sweetie?" Chandler asked. She softly laughed. "Well, nothing special.. Unless you have something on mind?" "Nah, just something I can enjoy but not Joey." He smiled at her and rubbed her back. Then Monica broke the silence with a serious tone. "I know Ross is crazy about this but we are gonna have some lone time aren't we?" He saw a little desperation in his girlfriend's eyes. He thought it might be harder to hide than in their apartments but he wanted to be with her as much as she did, so he replied "sure, I'll just sneak up to your room when everyone's asleep." Just as she hugged him, door 19 swung open. And they heard footsteps walking closer to their room. They jumped out of the bed then Joey entered the room. Chandler pulled the sheets and shouted "nope, not in here!" Joey looked at the two of then suspiciously. Monica knew she had to act out, so she played along. "Chandler! You borrowed them from me!" "What's going on?" He said. Chandler and Monica shared looks and opened her mouth. "Chandler borrowed my goggles and he doesn't know where they are now!" She tried to act as if she was enraged. For a few second no one spoke. The first to speak was joey who went "oh, I needed them for my audition and took it from Chandler's room. Was that yours?" "So where are they?" Chandler asked. Joey mumbled "I left it in the room because I was so mad at the penguin guy." Both looked at joey but Chandler questioned, "wHAt WeRe yoU auDitiOninG FoR?"

Five friends sat in their seats looking out the window, except for the one who was driving. Clear blue sky, smooth waves, little towns with small-white houses. The New York yellow cab was arriving to their destination. They walked in to the mansion with the same interior. But this time, there were no sand on the floor. "Yeah~beach house, baby!" Joey shouted walking in. "Wow, I think we should go to the beach now when it's hot." Rachel spoke as she hand-fanned to her face. "We can just drop these off and get ready. We'll meet down here 30mins later." The girls ran up to their room when the guys slowly walked upstairs.

"Wow, Rachel~" Monica praised her in her new bikini. "I know~I got it on sale" she happily yelled. The yellow bikini had two stripes crossing her chest and opened back. It suited her perfectly. Monica could already see Joey's reaction for it. "What are you going to wear, Monica?" Phoebe asked sitting on the edge of the bed. "Well, I was gonna wear this." She held a Macha colored bikini.

"Wow, Mon~~" Rachel said astonished. A golden ring held two parts of her bra together, two stripes down her back went around her front drawing a beautiful curve, and there was an oval hole showing her flat stomach. "Wow, you two are serious." Phoebe spoke in awe. She pulled her bikini out. When she came out wearing it, the blue bikini had a stripe hanging over her shoulder and little ribbons on each side of the triangle underwear. "Wh-Phoebe~? You look beautiful, too." Rachel shouted. Phoebe smiled looking at herself in the mirror. "Oh wow, I do."

meanwhile the boys were not complimenting each other's looks. Which was one of the differences between girls and boys. Joey was already wearing his flippers and snorkeling goggles. Ross walked around the room trying to find his swim suit.

"Man, I thought I brought it." Ross complained. "What? Your mind?" Ross frowned at Chandler's sarcastic comment. "Why don't you get ready, Chandler? You know Monica's gonna be mad at you if she sees you just lying around." Then Ross went back in the bathroom. "Well, why don't you just go shirtless, if you can't find it?" Chandler mumbled. Ross poked his head out the bathroom door looking at him. "What?" "You want me to go shirtless?" "Woha man! you want to see him-" Joey stared at him. "N-Noo! It's not like that." "Then what?" Ross asked. "I a.. thought it's not fair that only girls have to wear bikinis and.. we get to hide ourselves.-" Chandler knew he was getting lost. He didn't know how to persuade Ross and joey to take their shirt off, since he was going to. He had been going to the gym that he had been paying 50dollars each month. He wanted to be in shape for monica. So he worked out for a month and he was in quite a shape, but he didn't want to be the only one to be shirtless. So he had to convince them. "-I mean you can get tanned here with great sunlight, Ross. It's better to get tanned for free from the nature." They stared at him. Then Ross nodded. "Well, that doesn't sound bad, I mean that tanning place costs too much." "I guess I'll take'em off if you do it too, man." Joey said to Chandler. "Yeah, me too." Ross looked at him. Chandler pretended to be hating the idea. "..Alright." So the boys all wore a shirt and swimming pants and came down stairs.

The girls were busy in their room. Rachel walked across the room searching for sunscreen. "Hey, mon. Have you seen my sunscreen?" She asked. Monica replied that she haven't seen them but had an extra for her. Then the girls wore a blouse over the bikini. "Are we ready?" Phoebe looked around the room. "Oh, wait a minute~" Rachel rushed and grabbed a large hat. "What? I have to protect my skin-" "And now we're ready~." Rachel said.

3. Beach

Hot sunlight heated the brown sand. They set up a parasol and put their stuff under it. And everyone started to take off their clothes.

Chandler got kind of nervous, of course Monica saw his body before but these days they didn't have much time together, so she didn't know how his body changed. Joey saw Rachel in her new bikini saying "how you do'in?" Rachel glared at him then fixed her eyes on Chandler. "Oh my god. Chandler, did you work out?" Monica looked up at her boyfriend. She now understood why his body felt harder earlier. She was blushing a little. Chandler saw her. His eyes sparkled watching her in her new bikini.

They jumped in the cool sea. Splashing water at each other, chasing around and pulling down. As the other's attention were away. Chandler and Monica came together. She smiled at chandler." Wow, someone's been working out~" "I thought you hated to work out." "Well, I was tired of spending money for the gym, so I thought I should work out at least to balance the expense. And I wanted to show you my bulging Biceps, what do you think?" He flexed his muscles. Monica laughed "I think there great. aww, you're so cute."

"And you look ravishing." "Is this why you didn't tell me what you were wearing?" Monica shyly nodded. Chandler caressed her cheek and bent down and whispered in her ears, "I love you." Monica's face was glowing-the only expression that can be shown by a women who is being loved so much. She put her arms around his shoulders kissing him. Then parted to say "I love you too, Chandler Bing." If it was possible they fell for each other harder as time passed by.

While the couple were together. The others were enjoying themselves, too. Joey kept failing to do snorkeling, phoebe tried to help and they laughed together. Ross slowly got closer to Rachel and hugged her from behind making her fall in the water. She stood up spitting water and beamed at him. Ross laughed and tried to run away from her, but the water pressure stopped him and soon Rachel caught him. She got on his back to do the same. He tried to pull her off his back but kept getting splashed by water in his face by her fluttering kicks. Rachel laughed brightly and Ross playfully laughed, too. After two of three hours they came out of the water hungry and exhausted. They were all soaked up and water dripped from their hair. As the others put their clothes on Chandler helped Monica put her blouse on, but she was cold and the thin silk couldn't heat her body. So he took his shirt off and put it around her. "Chandler, aren't you going to be cold?" She asked her teeth clenching and shaking. "I'm gonna be fine. Is it better?" She smiled as an answer. Ross looked at them but just smiled. It was already 4:30. "Hey, Mon. what do you think we should do?" "It's too early to have dinner." Ross and Rachel said. "Why don't we get back to the house and take a nap for couple hours and go grocery shopping near the house for dinner?" Chandler suggested. Everyone agreed. "Pheebs, there's a grocery shop near, right?" "Yeah, it only takes 5mins on foot." So they headed to their beach house.

4. Beach house

When they arrived at the beach house everyone hurried in to take a shower. Though Joey just lied down on the couch. "Joey, wash yourself before you lie on the couch!" Monica and phoebe yelled. Joey mumbled and went to wash himself.

After the shower the girls and boys went to their room and quickly fell asleep. Though Chandler wished he would be able to hold Monica when she slept. He really enjoyed watching her sleep like an angel. After 6, everyone started to wake up. They came down stairs and started to take parts in the preparation of dinner. This time Monica hadn't brought a lot of food, so they had to buy the rest. Monica was charged with energy after the nap and already wore an apron. She started to direct the others like a general giving orders.

"Today, I'm cooking steak for dinner. So I need you guys to help me. "Chandler, Phoebe and Joey, you guys can go buy these groceries. Here's the list." And she handed a paper that had 10 categories of food to buy. "Now Rachel and Ross, you guys can help me set the table and cook rib-eye steak on the grill." "Now everyone, to their positions~!" The two team went to do their duties and Chandler smiled at Monica. He thought it was really cute when she ordered them. Monica locked eyes with him and winked.

6."Hey Mon, we're back~" The three of them walked across the kitchen and placed the grocery bag on the table. "Thank you~ hey, joey what is that?" Monica pointed at the sandwich he was about to eat. "You can't eat something before you have dinner!" She put both her hands on her waist. Joey hid his sandwich behind his back and quickly added. "Wha;.. I saw this sandwich place when we were coming back and I just.. couldn't resist the smell." Joey looked at Monica like the cat in the boots. "Okay, but you have to eat dinner as you used to." "You got it." Monica turned her back and Joey gestured as he was whipping his sweat on his forehead to Chandler. Chandler lifted his brows. "Hey Monica do you need some help?" Phoebe asked her as she was really starting to cook. "Oh, that would be great, Phoebe. Can you help Rachel set the table? You can bring all the side dishes to the table in the living room." "Hey, Mon? What should I do now?" Ross asked. "Ross, you can peel these corns, and Chandler you can wash these green beans." She mentioned Chandler who looked like he wanted to help. Just as he tried to use soap to wash the beans Monica added not even having to look at him. "Chandler, you can't use soap for that." "Okay, now I will make my special sauce for the ribs~" When everyone went to their stations Rachel said "You guys realize this is the first time in several years that everyone's helping Monica prepare dinner?" "Wow, you're right. I can't believe we didn't do anything all these years." Ross said. "Well, that's because she never let's us touch any of the food." joey spoke eating his sandwich. Monica gave him a look." Well, maybe that's because you always eat them before they are cooked."

"Oh, hey. Let's make a toast." Ross stood up from his seat and held his glass. "Here's to our new annual trip." Everyone followed him raising their glasses. "And every jellyfish that didn't sting Monica this time." Phoebe innocently added. "Cheers~" the six friends shouted. When phoebe took out the jellyfish story Chandler remembered himself peeing on his friend who became his girlfriend now. 'Who would have thought things would turn out like this?' He grinned.

"Oh god, I'm so full!" They all leaned back. "That was one delicious rib." Joey said rubbing his tummy. "Well, I didn't eat the rib but I really liked the corns and those creamy potatoes." Phoebe did the same. Monica chuckled satisfactorily. "So what are we gonna do now?" Rachel said. "I have no idea, what time is it?" Chandler said. "It's about 7pm." Rachel replied. "Oh! I know! We should play strip happy days!" Joey yelled with sudden excitement. "No~!" everyone bellowed. "Aw-come on~" Joey frowned. "We are not making that annual too, Joey." Chandler sarcastically added. "Okay, whatever we do let's clean this up first." Monica said already standing up.

"Oh it's starting to rain, guys." Phoebe said. Everyone turned their heads to the window. "yah." "Now it's perfect! We can just stay home playing strip happy days, right guys~?" Joey smiled like a child. "Well, alright." The other members finally agreed. "But we're gonna need margaritas." Rachel walked to the kitchen asking "Mon, can you help me?" Then joey took out the game set "do you bring that around with you?" Chandler seemed confused. "Yeah!" He and Hoss shook their head.

"Okay, here are the deserts." Rachel and Monica came back. They all sat around the table and started the game. "I'll go first." Phoebe rolled the dice. "Okay, six. Fonzie gives you two cool points~!" Everyone smiled. The game kept going and the person to take their cloth was obviously-joey. "Okay, I'm just taking my shoes off." He held his shoes up so everyone could see. "But hey, you can't gang up on me this time!" "Aww, that was the reason I was playing this game~~" Rachel mischievously laughed. "Well, it's my turn so." Chandler grabbed the dice. Right now he had 3points. "Ohh, that makes you five cool points~!" Phoebe said. "Who are you gonna pick?" Ross asked. Chandler looked around the table. He saw Ross, phoebe, Rachel, Joey and Monica in the order. He was thinking Joey at first but he wanted to give it a change. He didn't want Monica to get naked, so that Joey could enjoy himself. So he picked someone else. "I'm going with you Ross." "What?" Ross's eyes grew bigger. "Oh, yay!" Phoebe said. "Come on Ross~" Rachel added up. "I can't believe you chose me!" Ross shouted taking off his socks. Then the game kept progressing. After an hour everyone had taken off their shoes and socks. It was Rachel's turn now. "I get 1points, meaning I can strip someone~" Rachel made a goofy smile. "Chandler?" "Oh come on-" He sighed and tried to undo his pants. "Oh, wait. You have to stand up~" Phoebe laughed. Chandler looked at his friends everyone seemed to be enjoying the fact that he was taking his pants off. He saw Monica, she seemed to be enjoying it too. "See?" He held his pants in his hand. "Hey, man. You sure do have a nice butt." Ross unconsciously stared at his butt, than added. "No wonder your boss liked smacking your butt." Chandler stared at his college friend. Monica who was also next to Chandler enjoyed looking at him. His slim yet a little muscular legs were attractive. She didn't now she would enjoy seeing him get naked in front of everybody but she was getting a little turned on. When her eyes followed up his legs and saw his underwear she was glad that Joey interrupted by naming Rachel. "Okay, okay, I'm just taking my shirt off." She was still wearing a sleeveless. Now it was her turn to roll the dice and she got four. She picked a card and added the points which made five. "Now Monica has five cool points!" Phoebe who was already shirtless and skirt-less shouted with excitement. Monica's eyes naturally went to Chandler. She seductively said "I'm going with Chandler." "Ah-Whohoo~" Phoebe and Rachel cheered. Even Ross and Joey seemed happy. They sure were getting drunk. Chandler stood up. Surprisingly he was the first to take his shirt off among the guys. He undid his buttons one by one. As three of the buttons were undone. Monica could see his neck and collar bone. She was completely enjoying it. When chandler actually took off his shirt his bare skin showed. Not too muscular but shaped well, his broad shoulders and chest-she liked to lean on. She couldn't take her eyes off him. Luckily other girls were looking, too. Chandler seemed to get a little embarrassed. "Uh..Ladies?" "..And gentlemen?" He said staring at Ross and Joey then sat down. "I'm sorry man. But I just can't believe you actually went to the gym frequently to look like this." Ross added. "The truth is, I can't believe it either." Chandler simply said. "So, is it my turn now?" "Yup" The others answered. "I'm choosing Monica." "What?" the Gellers said. "You heard me." "Yeah, baby~" Joey shouted. This time it was Monica's turn. "Okay~." She stood up and took her t-shirt off. "Wheww~" Rachel howled. Monica looked at Chandler seductively. "Woww" He knew she was hot all through their relationship but he was always amazed. After the secret couple had took their clothes off, "Rach" "Joey" "Ross" followed. At the end everyone was naked only wearing under wears. And they were all seriously drunk. "Hey, why don't we switch rooms too?" Rachel shouted, a wide smile across her face. "Umm, that could be fun~" Ross agreed. Monica said excited. "Okay, so here's an idea. We get 6sticks and each pair has the same length and we'll split girls and boys and whoever picks the same will share a room. Neat?"

"Great." Everyone agreed. "Okay, okay, here's the stick" Monica quickly grabbed chopsticks from the kitchen and cut them in different length. "Here, Chandler. You boys pick." She gave 3 different length sticks to him and did the same to the girls. "Ohh, I have the longest!" Joey yelled holding the stick he chose high in the air. "Mine's the middle one." Chandler held a stick too." "Aww, man. Am I the shortest?" Ross dropped the stick. "So , what about you girls?" "I got the longest!" Monica yelled, alcohol blurring her mind. Then she realized when Rachel said "Oh, I got the medium size." That if she wanted to share a room with Chandler she needed Rachel's. "Hey, what about you pheebs?" Joey asked. "Oh! Then this must be the shortest. I couldn't tell caus I only saw mine." "So should we go upstairs and switch the rooms now?" Ross said already walking to the stairs. "Oh, woops~!" And he fell on the stairs. "I'll help him up." Chandler said as he put his arms around Ross's back. He was the least drunk one among the crew. And in this case he had business to do with Ross.

Monica opened her bedroom door and walked towards her bed like a new-born deer. Her legs were trembling and she fell on her bed with a little help of gravity. She hummed some notes she didn't know the origin. She looked at the fan on the ceiling spinning. Then someone walked into her room. She forced herself to wake up and find out who had invaded. "Hey! It's my boyfriend~!" She got up but tripped in the space between the 2 beds. Chandler quickly ran to her and held her up. "Hey, sweetie. Are you okay?" Monica saw his ocean blue eyes. "Oh, yeah." "But wh-how did you come here? Did you pull the long stick?" He smiled at her like she was the cutest creature on Earth. "Well, I knew Ross had it, so I exchanged it with him, to be with you." She grinned at him and kissed him. He kissed deeply as a return. He tilted his head to capture more of her lips and caressed her cheek. "You are so beautiful." He told her parting his lips.

They lay on the bed holding cuddling up. Then he turned to the bed table to check the time. But it made them lose balance and they fell between the empty space again. Chandler fell on the ground with Monica on top of him. He didn't want her to get hurt so he used himself as a damage cushion. "Ow" he winced. "Are u okay honey?" Monica looked up to see his face. "Yup, as long as you're okay." He smiled. She cuddled into him and whispered "I love you, Chandler." And she soon fell asleep. He enjoyed her warm body temperature. Then he stood up and lifted her like a princess. He lay her softly on the bed and covered a sheet over her. He looked at her daringly and placed a kiss on her forehead adding "I love you too, Monica."