Part 5~

Hey again people! Once again, thanks for all the reviews!! Someone asked who Erica is…well, I made her up, she didn’t exist on the show or anything if that’s what you meant. She exists only in my alternate friends universe, where *I* control chandler, there’s lots of CnM stuff still on the show, and there are no cliffhangers! Well, actually, there are, buy *I* always know what’s gonna happen after the cliffhangers, hehehe…Okay, sooo next part (I really was gonna continue, I was kidding about the last part being the end…) nothin to say, just please read and review!!!

Chandler blinked several times, the morning sun shining in his eyes. He smiled realizing that Monica was still in his arms, the past night coming back to him. He’d just lived out his ultimate fantasy. Or the nicest version of his ultimate fantasy at least. Of course, in doing so, he’d also slept with the one person who he probably shouldn’t have.

Ross was going to kill him.

But it wasn’t like they were just messing around, they’d agreed that this was gonna go somewhere, that they were going to have a kid together.

Monica shifted and Chandler closed his eyes, scared that Monica was going to change her mind and regret the decision she’d made the night before. When he opened his eyes, Monica was staring back.

"Morning," she smiled slightly.

"Morning," he smiled back, kissing her gently on the lips, trying to cover up the awkwardness of the moment.

"This shouldn’t be this awkward," Monica said after a minute, "I mean, we’ve been friends for like 10 years."

"More of a reason for it to be awkward," he smiled at her.

"True."

"Hey, I was thinking…"

"Wow, again?" Monica joked, changing the mood to a lot less awkward.

Chandler laughed, "Yeah, so I was thinking, what are we gonna tell everyone? I mean, Ross is gonna kill me! No matter what our intentions or whatever, I still slept with his sister."

Monica just laughed, "Are you seriously scared of him?" Chandler shrugged. "Well, how ‘bout we keep this just between us…just for a little while?"

"Yeah, I could use a few more weeks to live. Ya know, just to tie up some lose ends, make up with my dad," he paused and added, softer, "make love to you a few more times…" he leaned down and kissed her again.

Monica pulled back, smiling, "Sorry to disappoint you, but if this is just gonna be between us, then you’re gonna have to leave before Rachel gets home."

Chandler leaned down, kissing her once more before getting up and getting dressed. "I’ll come back after I take a shower," he grinned at her, giving her another quick kiss before leaving, "Bye."

Monica just stared after him, the last few hours sinking in. It had been amazing, sure, but she was still scared. Scared of what their agreement meant, scared of reality, scared of the line she’d just crossed with Chandler. Scared that they were in way deeper than they realized.

But also scared that the past night had been one of the best of her life.

~*~

Chandler walked into Central Perk, smiling when he saw that Monica was the only one of his friends there. Over the past few days, they’d stared spending every moment alone that they could get. Something had happened that night, and they just couldn’t get enough of each other. They spent every minute possible with each other, kissing, touching, talking, making love…almost forgetting their reason for getting together in the first place.

He walked over to where she was sitting on the couch and sat down next to her, Monica smiled when she saw him. "Hey, babe," he kissed her on the lips.

"Hey," she smiled, "I missed you."

"You, too," he kissed her again, and they continued to make out, completely forgetting that they were in a public place and any one of their friends would probably walk in at any moment.

"Eh-hem," Gunther cleared his throat, placing the cup of coffee Monica had ordered in front of her, and they pulled away.

"Sorry Gunther," Chandler smiled at him.

"As long as it’s not Rachel…" he walked away, leaving Chandler and Monica looking confused.

~*~

A few weeks later, they were still sneaking around. Joey spent almost every night with his girlfriend, so Monica could easily sneak over, just making sure to leave before Rachel would be up.

Chandler looked around. Ross was sitting on the couch, reading the paper, and everyone else’s back was toward him. He smiled, walking up behind Monica, who was making breakfast. He pressed himself up against her, pulling her hair back so he could kiss her neck.

Monica smiled when she felt his lips. "There’s four other people here, you know."

"Yeah, I know," he whispered back, leaning in to kiss her quickly on the lips before tuning around and leaning on the counter beside her. "So, where do you wanna go for lunch today?"

"Actually, I have the day off, so I was thinking…wanna come here and have lunch?"

"As long as I can stay for desert," he grinned at her and she playfully hit him. He gave her another quick kiss on the cheek, making sure nobody had seen. "I gotta go," he said, this time not directing it to her, but still staring at her, getting assorted good-bye’s as he left.

Chandler closed the door, smiling. He leaned back against the closed door and just grinned. The past few weeks had been unbelievable. He finally stood back up, deciding that he was ready to tell everyone about them. Why not? They weren’t stupid, they’d catch on eventually, right?

He just smiled, he’d tell her that at lunch. Or when she called him at work.

She always called.

~*~

Monica said she needed to tell him something. Or had she said she needed to ask him something? Chandler frowned, at least she hadn’t said ‘we need to talk’. She’d just said that she needed to talk to him, totally different.

Or was it? Chandler just shook his head, walking into her apartment.

"Hey," she looked up from what she was making them for lunch, "Hungry?"

Chandler shook his head, "You gotta tell me what you needed to tell me cause I’ve been going crazy all morning. ‘I need to talk to you’ and ‘we need to talk’ are two totally different things, right? Because they sound really similar," Chandler rambled, "Are you breaking up with me?"

Monica laughed at the worried look on his face. "No, I’m not breaking up with you."

Chandler let out a relieved sigh, "Okay, so what’d you want to talk about?"

"Well…are you serious about us…about this?"

"Yeah, of course," he smiled, that was a perfect intro for his question, "Hey, I was thinking, and do you want to tell everyone? I mean, I don’t see a reason not to."

"I don’t know…" she said uneasily, "I mean, I keep thinking about Ross and Rachel and when they were together and everything between them…and I just, I think that the other four of us screwing in their relationship didn’t help any…I’m just afraid that’ll happen."

"Are you sure, or do you just not want to tell them because you don’t want to tell them that you’re with me," Chandler said coldly.

"No! I’m just…I’m afraid that if we tell them, it’ll make it so much harder…"

"What, you think relationships are supposed to be easy, Monica? Where have you been living? Id think that you’d know by now that life’s not a goddamn fairytale! Love's not a fairytale! Sometimes you have to work at it and you still don’t always live happily ever after!"

"Yeah, but life’s not the hell you make it out to be either."

"Yeah, well, I’ve never bee proven wrong, I always get hurt," he hissed, "When’s the last time you lived happily ever after?" Monica was silent. "Yeah, that’s what I thought," he walked out, slamming the door behind him.

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