OH! DARLING | joey tribbiani

thirty two

"Hey Joey, how'd the audition go?" Rachel asked the actor who came bouncing through the doors of Central Perk.

"Incredible," he answered her. "I met the director this time and you will never believe who it was."

"Who?" His friends all asked in a chorus.

"Alright, I'll give you one hint. Wait, where's Quinn?" He noticed the redhead wasn't with them.

"No, I don't know that movie," Chandler joked, earning a glare from his roommate.

"She's just in the washroom," Monica answered him, trying to imitate her friend's accent. It was a distinct one they had never heard before meeting her, heavily influenced by the French and Irish brogue she grew up surrounded by.

Joey nodded his head and sat down on the empty chair around the round table and barely ten seconds later, Quinn was joining them, her face brightening up when she noticed her boyfriend was back.

"Hey pet," she grinned at him and sat on his lap before pecking him on the lips. "How did the audition go?"

"I was just about to tell everyone about it but I wanted to wait for you," Joey told her, lovingly smiling up at her as her fingers scratched his nape.

"You guys are sickeningly cute," Phoebe remarked to the new couple.

"Yeah I don't remember us being like that, were we honey?" Rachel asked Ross.

"Oh you totally were!" Quinn argued, finally turning her head away from Joey. "And you didn't even have the decency to move away from in front of the tv too."

"Yeah, that's right!" Joey supported his girlfriend.

"Anyways," Monica jumped in before it could escalate to a useless argument. "Joey, you were saying?"

"Oh yeah! So I met the director," he caught up Quinn with the part of the conversation she missed. "And the hint about who he is, let me think... Oh! Warren Beatty." He ended up revealing who the director was.

Chandler shook his head at his roommate while the others gasped in awe.

"Wow!" Monica exclaimed.

"Yeah, there's just one thing that might be kind of a problem," Joey told them, holding Quinn tight as he repositioned himself on his seat. "See, I had to kiss this guy."

"Because he was just so darn cute?" Chandler asked.

"No, as part of the audition," Joey rectified, not catching on that his friend was joking. "See, I'm up for the part of this guy who the main guy kisses."

"Well hey, you're an actor. I say you just suck it up and you do it," Ross said. The girls all glared at him. "Or you just do it."

"I did do it, I'm a professional," Joey defended himself.

"Plus, do you really think I'd date him if he had a problem with gays and men kissing men?" Quinn asked Ross, to which Joey nodded his head.

"Fair point," Ross mumbled.

"So what's the problem?" Monica asked the actor.

"After the scene, Mr. Beatty comes up to me and he says: "Good actor, bad kisser". Can you believe that? Me, not a good kisser. That's like Mother Theresa, not a good mother!" Joey scoffed.

"Come on, who cares what that guy thinks?" Phoebe said. "What does Warren Beatty know about kissing?"

Monica and Chandler looked at her and the blonde realised what she said. "Oh," she chuckled before scrunching her face.