A/N: This chapter won't be up for a while probably, but I was desperate to be able to get this idea down on paper. It is the third chapter based on my story about the Cougar Town and Friends characters. I am always excited to update this story in particular because I really love the whole dynamic of having two things that I love mixing together, and being able to see how my favourite characters would interact. I just wanted to say that I appreciate all the love, support and feedback that I get and hope that you guys will consider continuing to stick with my writing as they have already done. I also hope that the fact that I am writing from Monica and Jules's POV as they are obviously played by the wonderful Courteney Cox is not confusing for you guys, but I hope that as I write them, they will adopt their own distinctive voices.

With all that being said, let's get on with the story:

Chapter 3:

"We should explore our surroundings more," Jules said, from the table that she was sitting around with Ellie and Andy. Andy was trying to entertain Stan, by trying to offer him his teething toy or his baby bottle filled with milk whilst Ellie and Jules sat talking over cups of coffee. They did it mainly out of habit, as they were used to hanging out together back in Florida.

"If it means interacting with other people," Ellie started to say, and Jules rolled her eyes because she was sure that she knew what was coming next, "you know how I feel about things like that."

Jules looked at her with a cynical expression. "How will you ever be able to feel like you fit in here if you never socialise or make some kind of attempt to get invested in the new community?" she asked her.

"Maybe I'm happy just doing things on my own terms," Ellie said, gesticulating around her and Andy's kitchen. "I have a loving husband, my son and all my friends on my doorstep, and that's all I could ever, ever ask for."

Jules decided that there was no point in continuing the conversation, especially since she knew how seriously Ellie would take it because she wouldn't let her forget it until some kind of conclusion was reached.

"Grayson and I just want to see more of the surroundings," Jules said, as a way of trying to bring peace and purpose to the situation, "and we just wanted to know whether you guys would have plans in joining us."

Ellie replied, saying, "Andy is welcome to go, but I will be staying here and looking after Stan."

"I'm happy with that," Andy said, trying to make eye contact with Ellie as a way of checking that she was happy as she was trying to sound. "As long as you are."

Ellie sneaked Andy a quick smile as her way of making sure that he knew that she was completely okay with the proposition.

"I'm going to leave, then, so that I can go get ready," Jules said, pushing away the mug after she drank the last of the coffee. "Thanks for the coffee, Ellie," she said, smiling at Ellie and she walked down the hallway to put her shows on and leave.

Jules walked down the steps from Ellie's and right up to hers and Grayson's house door. The handle clicked, and she walked straight into the hallway. She walked down into the kitchen, where Grayson was drying up the last of the cutlery and plates from breakfast.

"Hey, Jules," he said, turning around with the dishcloth in one hand and a plate in the other. "What did they say?"

"Ellie said that she would stay behind and look after Stan, which is no surprise," Jules said, and Grayson nodded in agreement, "but Andy said that he would be up for it, and Ellie seemed okay with it, so we should tell Monica and Rachel that we are good to go with them."

"I'll go and tell Monica after this," Grayson said, starting again to finish the rest of the washing up, "so you can go and start getting ready."

"Thanks so much, babe," Jules said, waking back through the hallway to the foot of the stairs and then up them to her and Grayson's bedroom. Once she was into the bedroom, she looked through the clothes that had been unpacked so far to find one that she thought would look good for the day. She ended up deciding on a plaid shirt and a pair of skinny jeans.

She took them to the en-suite bathroom and got changed. She then dragged a brush through her hair, and concluded that she was happy enough that she looked presentable and not overdressed. "Grayson!" Jules called as she realised that she must have left her handbag on the table, and she was about to go back downstairs to search when the door opened and Grayson walked in.

"This what you were looking for?" Grayson said, and Jules's gaze was drawn towards the handbag that was resting on his arm.

"Thank you so much, babe," Jules said, taking the handbag from Grayson's outstretched arm and quickly kissing him. She walked past him and exited the bedroom. She thundered down the stairs, and stopped quickly stuffed her feet into boots. She shouted goodbye to Grayson, and made her way back down the steps of her house to Ellie and Andy's.

She knocked on the door and Andy opened it. He looked ready to go, but Jules asked anyway. "You ready to go to Monica and Chandler's?" she asked, and he nodded.

They both turned to walk back down to the road and up to Monica and Chandler's. Jules decided that she would be the one to knock. Monica opened it and said, "Good, you're both here!" She turned to look behind the door and added, "Chandler's almost ready, so we'll be able to leave soon."

She opened the door further, and walked out. Jules and Andy could now see into the house, where Chandler was adjusting his shoes. He stood up and Monica locked the door shut after him and she joined the others as they walked down to the main road.

"I was thinking that we could go and get coffee and explore Central Park," Monica said, looking around at the others to try and gauge their reactions to the proposed plans. "Is that okay with you guys? Because we can always just go and do something else…" she trailed off.

"No, no, don't worry," Jules said, trying to reassure Monica that she loved the idea. "I'm really down to do anything."

"Good, good," Monica said, feeling less tense and anxious to please everyone and more of her usual, arguably bossy self. She darted a look at Chandler, who returned it with a look that Monica knew that he was thinking that she was worrying far too much and that everything was fine and she was already doing more than enough.

Andy was walking alongside Jules, just trying to soak up the atmosphere as the four walked towards the bus stop to wait for a bus to take them into the main city. Chandler and Monica were walking side by side, holding hands as they usually did. The temperature was colder than what Andy and Jules were used to, which Jules had discovered would be less of a problem as she still had an old winter jacket that she had bought a while ago, but Andy was less prepared in his jean shorts and a plaid shirt.

Monica noticed as she was walking along and had turned back just to check that they were still following them, and decided to ask, "Andy, are you okay there in those jean pants and the shirt without being too cold?"

He looked up, and shrugged. "I'm fine," he said, but Monica had a feeling that he was just saying it because there was no easy place to get anything warmer around where they were walking.

"Are you sure?" she said. "I'll buy you a pair of jean pants when we're in the city, if you want."

"Thanks," Andy said, and Monica could tell that he was being 100% sincere in his thanks to Monica.

"You're welcome," Monica said. "It's honestly nothing." She was just happy that she could help a friend out when he needed it, or needed it and hadn't quite realised yet.

Andy still couldn't really understand why Ellie had a problem with Monica. If anything, she seemed so much like Jules that he actually expected her to like her. And she had never been rude or anything to her, so it seemed even more weird and unprovoked. In the end, he just decided that he would push the thought to the back of his mind with the conclusion for the moment that it would just be another of the things that Ellie did that would never make sense to him, and focus on enjoying the moment.

The four of them waited at the bus stop, Monica and Chandler keeping together to try and keep warm and Jules and Andy doing the same.

"Do you guys manage to get our like this much, with having Jack and Erica and everything?" Jules asked out of curiosity and the fact that she knew exactly how hard it had been for her and Travis, and Bobby too when he had been around to be committed.

"My parents help out a lot," Monica replied, feeling glad about it the thousandth time. "We were both surprised when they offered as I haven't always had the best relationship with them, but turns out that Jack and Judy Geller can't resist any opportunity to be grandparents."

Jules chuckled. "I certainly didn't get that level of support with Travis."

"How come?" Monica replied, "You might have said before so I apologise but I'm sorry, I have the world's worst memory sometimes."

"Oh, Travis and I's father had a difficult relationship when we were still married," Jules replied, and Andy shot her a sympathetic look because he knew all too well how hard it had been first-hand and how difficult it was for Jules to talk about it. "He was just never around, and was off seeing other women often just as I really needed him. We're in a better place now that Travis older, even best friends."

"I'm so sorry to hear that," Monica said sympathetically, "but at least you are still friendly with him because I can see that it would be almost impossibly difficult just to cut someone completely out of your life if they once meant enough to you to devote your entire life to them."

Jules nodded in appreciation of Monica's respectful attitude to the situation. "It's true," Jules said, "and Bobby's starting to look for people that will make him happy in the ways that I just couldn't so things are looking up for him too."

"That's great!" Monica said, as she and the others focused their gaze on the fast approaching bus that they were planning on boarding. "Do you guys have money to pay for the bus?" she asked Jules and Andy.

"I've got a few dollars in my wallet," Jules replied, intending on using some of it to buy Andy's ticket as well as she strongly suspected, since Ellie was in charge of managing the money that she and Andy spent, that she had refused to give him any because of her disapproval of him being part of this trip. "Is that going to be enough?"

Monica nodded her head. "Yeah, definitely," she said, now at the front of the line waiting to get onto the bus. There was only one other person, who had just arrived looking very flustered, in the line as well as the other four.

Monica and Chandler boarded first after paying, and started to search for seats before settling on two that were close to the back, but had an empty pair of seats directly behind them for the others. The bus was surprisingly empty for the time of day, with only an older lady aboard and a younger woman with a pushchair and a slightly smaller child on the seat beside her.

They were only on the bus for about twenty minutes and got off on a stop that was on the road that had the Starbucks on it that they wanted drinks from as part of a larger shopping area. Monica and Chandler got off first, and Monica started weighing up her options for what they did next. Jules and Andy were trying to take up as much as they could of what was going on around them as everything was new to them.

"Do you guys want to look around the shops or get something to drink first?" Monica asked, pulling her scarf closer to her neck as it had got caught in the hood of her jacket and started unravel from its cosy position between her neck and the hood of her jacket.

"I don't mind," Jules said, contemplating searching for more wintry clothes in the shops as most of the clothes that she still had were suited better to a warmer temperature which she was coming to realise with each day would not be very common in New York as it fluctuated most of the time, and was particularly cold in the fall and winter months.

Andy said that he didn't mind either, but Monica still had the fact that she had promised that she would buy him a warmer jacket fresh in her mind so she wanted to prioritise doing that. Chandler was happy with doing whatever Monica wanted to do, as he knew that she liked to do whatever she wanted and he didn't have any reason to disagree with her so he didn't see why things couldn't go the way she wanted.

"Since none of you guys seem to mind what order we do things," Monica said, looking around to assess her options for final decision making as she talked, "I think that it would be a good idea to go and get a jacket for Andy and then go straight from the shop to Starbucks."

No one expressed any further objections to this, and so they all made their way to the shops. Monica walked in first, and started searching for directions to the different areas of the shop. She found out that the male selection of clothes available could be found on the second floor, which was accessed via the escalators.

Jules decided that she would stay downstairs with Chandler, who really wasn't at all interested at looking at the clothes on sale, and Andy and Monica went up the escalators.

"What's your kind of style?" Monica asked Andy, wanting to get a better idea of what exactly she was supposed to be looking for.

"I don't pay much attention to it, honestly, especially since I married Ellie and she likes everything to look exactly how she wants," Andy said, "but I guess this might help you get the gist." He gestured to what he was already wearing, and Monica already started thinking up possibilities of the kind of jackets that would suit him.

"I think I've got a good enough idea," she said two minutes later, and started walking directly towards the far corner of the second floor. Andy tried desperately to try and keep up with her, as she had started walking fast as she was acting very much as if she was 'a man with a plan', and would do everything she possibly could to get it.

Monica started looking through the jackets that were stocked up on hangers on a rack that was fixed to the wall. Andy was following her gaze, trying to judge whether he liked the look of them or not. After sifting through the options, Monica stood on her tippy toes to try and reach one of the jackets at the very top of the rack, and managed on the third attempt.

"I really like this one," she said. Andy got to take a closer look and see that it was a light brownish colour and looked from the outside as if it was far thinner than it was in reality. The lining of the jacket was a layer of some much thicker looking almost padded material that looked like it would be very insulating.

Andy liked it because of the simplicity of the colouring and the fact that it looked like it would be a snug fit, and he also thought that Ellie would like it because he could see the stylish appeal to the jacket that she would pick up on. Overall, he was really satisfied with what he and Monica had found, and glad that Monica seemed to have an eye for finding clothes that he would be happy with and someone like Ellie would too.

"I really love it," he said to Monica, trying to make sure that his feelings of gratitude were apparent in his voice as he spoke.

Monica looked satisfied with herself. "Good, good," she said, fumbling in her handbag for her wallet. She paused for a moment, and said, "Do you want to try it on just so you're happy with the fit?"

Andy took the jacket off the hanger, and put it on. He was happy that the sleeves weren't too long and that the main body of the jacket wasn't too restrictive around his figure. He took it off, and handed it back to Monica, who put it back on its hanger.

They both started searching for the nearest check out, and found one that was opposite the escalator that they took to get onto the floor in the first place. Surprisingly, there was no queue so they walked straight up to the nearest till, and paid for the jacket. They walked back towards the escalators afterwards, and started searching for Chandler and Jules.

A/N: Just a short author's note to say that this chapter is now over, and I hope that this update is satisfactory for those that are interested in reading it. As usual, please don't hesitate to review and make suggestions for future chapters, and do the same for the other books that I am working on. Finally, I just want to say that I appreciate all the support that I have been receiving throughout all of the books that I have been writing, and I hope that you guys continue to enjoy what I do as much as I do because it honestly makes the hours of hard work that I spend on this chapters all worth the while. Thanks again, and see you guys soon!