OH! DARLING | joey tribbiani

twenty five

Monica, Rachel and Phoebe rushed to Quinn's apartment after she called her friends for an emergency girls' night with orders to bring all bottles of white wine they possessed. The redhead was now pacing around her living room as her three friends observed her with intrigue and confusion, all with a glass of wine in hand.

"Quinn, will you finally tell us what the hell is going on?" Monica asked after a few minutes of nothing but silence, her impatience shining through.

"Joey and I kissed like, three hours ago," she finally came to a stop and faced her friends to share what has been occupying her mind ever since Joey left her apartment.

To say the girls were shocked would be an understatement. They all stared at Quinn with their mouths hung open, not knowing what to say.

"Alright honey, walk us through it," Rachel said after she had recovered from the news.

Quinn gulped down her glass of wine and filled it back up before starting her explanation. "Joey came over to gift me a necklace–"

"The gold one with the garnet stones?" Phoebe interrupted.

"Yes, that one," Quinn nodded her head at her friend and continued her story. "So he gave me the necklace and then suggested to put it on me so he did and I don't know what possessed me but the whole time I had to focus on remaining calm because his touch on my neck made me want to melt in a puddle." She paused to drink more wine. "And when he was done I hugged him and went to kiss his cheek except I totally missed it and ended up kissing the corner of his mouth."

"Sweetie, that's not really a kiss," Monica told her.

"Hold on, I'm not finished," Quinn wagged her index finger at the brunette. "So I pulled back right away and we both were looking at each other, in my head I was debating what to do because for the last few days there's been these moments with Joey that have been... I don't know how to explain it... You know how I am with Joey, right?" Her friends nodded their heads yes. "Well lately it's been a touch more than normal, like I'm bolder than usual with the flirting and I get these emotions when I do that I never got before with Joey. But it also coincided with my ovulation period so I'm trying not to overthink it too much..." She trailed off, getting lost in her thoughts.

"Quinn, honey, the kiss," Rachel snapped her fingers to bring back the redhead to them.

"Right, so I was looking in his eyes, debating if I should kiss him and risk us being awkward with each other for a couple of days or if I should act like nothing happened, and then we both looked at each other's lips at the same time and he asked me "Do you really want this?" and we were so close I could feel his breath on my lips and the only thing I was able to do was to nod my head and then he kissed me like I've never been kissed before, like he had just spent the last seven days in a desert and I was an oasis of water."

Monica and Rachel cocked their heads to the side at the metaphor she used while Phoebe nodded her head with enthusiasm.

"I told you he's your lobster," the blonde grinned. She was two for two right with her lobster theory.

"Okay but we need more details," Rachel butted in. "How was he holding you? Where were his hands? How long did the kiss last?"

Quinn refilled her glass of wine again before answering her friend's questions. "When he first kissed me he cradled my face with his hands like he was holding the most precious diamond in the world while I had my arms around his neck and I was scratching his scalp with my nails which made him moan in our kiss so I took the opportunity to deepen the kiss and slip my tongue in his mouth."

"Atta girl," Phoebe commented with a proud grin, making Quinn shyly smile and blush.

"So after I did that," the redhead continued, "one of his hands slightly moved down my jaw to move my head in a better angle while his other hand slowly moved down my back and then he wrapped his arm around my waist and without knowing he was dipping me down at the same time."