{joey tribbiani ff}
•book one•
Heather Bing moves to New York, hoping that her life will continue to be as perfect as it currently is. She has a comfortable place to live, friends to laugh with and a boyfriend that she truly loves.
"I could've reach...
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chapter three ~ the one with all the flaws Heather's POV
Things quietened down for a while because we were still processing the news that Ross was going to become a Father and that was strange to think about. I didn't feel old enough to have a baby, or to have friends that were having babies but Ross was more mature than any of us and it made sense that he was the first one to have a child. Everyone was placing bets on what gender they thought the baby would be and I was sure that it would be a girl. For some reason I could imagine Ross having a daughter and even though he says that he doesn't mind, we all know that deep down he's hoping for a boy. There's just something about men who want to have sons, whereas women don't seem to mind as long as the baby is healthy then it shouldn't matter.
All this baby talk was making me think about my relationship with Carl and what was next for us. We had been together for three years now and were living together, was the next step to have a baby? In my head, I didn't feel like it was the next step and if it was, then it wasn't a step that I was ready to take. When I have a baby, I want to feel completely ready and currently, I feel far from it. Even though Carl has a good steady job and could provide for our family, I want to have my own career before settling down to a family life. We haven't really talked about the future recently but when we did, we both agreed to wait before we tried for a baby and that was what I still wanted to do. There was plenty of time to have children when we were ready and that was not going to be any time soon.
"Heather, what are you thinking about?" Chandler asked, shaking my shoulder softly and bringing me back into the conversation that I hadn't been listening to. "You were daydreaming."
"Oh, sorry, I was just thinking about everything."
"Everything meaning Carl?" Monica smirked, nudging my arm.
Rachel leaned over the back of the couch. "Oh, when are we going to meet him?"
"Soon, hopefully, he's just super busy with work."
Joey frowned. "He's always working, what does he do anyway?"
"He's a Department Manager for a big Finance firm. We both used to work in the branch in Michigan, that's how we met."
"Adorable!" Monica squealed. "I wish I could meet a Carl, handsome, funny, rich..."
"You seem to know him without even meeting him."
"Well Heather is really good with descriptions." Rachel answered. "Plus, she has tons of pictures of him all over her apartment."
It was true, even though my friends had never met Carl, I had told them all about him and invited them to my apartment so that they could see pictures of him. Despite not wanting to put too much furniture in the apartment because we wanted to keep it minimal, I managed to hang up photos of the two of us in as many places as possible. At the start of our relationship, we had taken hundreds of pictures together, there weren't many recent ones but I loved having all of the memories around me because it reminded me of how happy we were. Sometimes I wished that we were still that happy but things change and you just have to keep moving forward.
