{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 forty eight ~ the one with the baby plan Heather's POV
Even though Chandler had refused to break up with Janice, we tried to remain positive; sure, none of us were her biggest fans but at least there were some good points about her. She wasn't ugly, she was smart and she obviously cared about my brother a lot; I should be happy that Chandler was dating such a nice girl but I couldn't fathom how he didn't find her annoying. We all agreed that she wasn't funny and that if we had to spend more than five minutes alone with her then we would probably die. Her whole background was complicated as she was married and in the process of getting a divorce from her current husband; but my brother didn't see the harm in that and believed that everything was normal. He thought that having a relationship with an-almost divorced woman made him more mature and he was almost proud of himself.
I couldn't reprimand him on his relationship though, not when I was seriously rethinking mine. Nick was still at his convention and I had been ignoring his phone calls all week, scared that if I answered then I would be pressured into agreeing to something that I wasn't ready for. We hadn't even been together that long but he wanted us to move in together and that was a massive step, something that I didn't take lightly. He seemed to think that we were ready, otherwise he wouldn't have said anything but there was no way that I was ready to take that step. I felt that I had rushed things with Carl and that was why our relationship didn't work out, my relationship with Nick was supposed to be different but now he was steering us in the same direction and I was freaking out. I was preparing myself for when he returned at the end of the week because I couldn't avoid him forever, especially not when he lives across the hall from me.
A morning in Central Perk was what I needed to take my mind off all of my problems. My friends were always around to make me forget about my problems, and I was thankful that they had their own issues that usually were much bigger than mine. Joey had fallen after jumping on his bed and now his arm was in a sling, he tried to make up dramatic excuses about what had happened but my brother shut his theories down and told us the truth. He was stood by the counter, ordering himself a coffee as I sat on one of the stools, sipping on my own drink. Chandler, Rachel and Ross were on the couch, having their own conversation before my brother turned to me and I knew that he was going to bring up the exact topic that I didn't want to talk about.
"So, made a decision about Nick?" He asked, causing the other two on the couch to face me as well.
Rachel placed her cup on the coffee table and nodded. "Yeah, are you going to move in with him?"
"I'm not moving in with him. It's way too soon and I don't want to rush anything."
"Good choice." Ross agreed with my reasons. "So, when do you have to break the news to him?"
"The end of the week. I feel like such a bad person." I groaned, resting my head in my hands.
"You're not a bad person, okay? You want to take this relationship slow and if he wants to rush into things then he needs to find someone else, because you are not making the same mistake twice."
