{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 sixty three ~ the one with good news Heather's POV
It was nice to see friends in happy relationships, knowing that they were happy and exploring different aspects of adult life with someone that they could see a possible future with; but at the same time, it was heart-breaking. It was heart-breaking because I knew that I wasn't exploring the same aspects of adult life and due to my past relationships, a part of me wondered if I was ever going to get to spend a future with someone. Instead of seeing myself with someone who I truly loved and would want to spend the rest of my life with, it felt like I was going to be the crazy drunk Aunt that my friends' kids would try and bribe things from. I would be the Aunt that the kids avoided because they felt sorry for her and didn't want to here her pity stories about how she could have had love if she had met the right person. I didn't want that. I hated to think that that was going to be my life but at this rate, I wouldn't have much choice.
Right now, sitting in Central Perk I was surrounded by my friends and yet my mind still floated back to the idea that I was going to be alone and miserable for the rest of my life. I had once again hit rock bottom, I had no boyfriend and I had spent a whole year studying to be a Real Estate Agent to now, not even have my dream job because there were no vacancies and so I was working in a diner. To top all of that off, I had had my hopes shattered when someone offered me an interview and then used it to just use me; and I had obviously declined the offer. If I was going to become a successful Real Estate Agent then I was going to earn it, I was going to work hard for it and I was hoping that it would all pay off in the end because right now I was desperate for my dreams to come true. A part of me wondered if I should just beg for any Real Estate job I could get, but then I reminded myself that if I wanted to prove everyone wrong then I needed to stay professional and wait for my chances.
Monica was so excited about having a boyfriend, she was like me and dreamed of settling down with someone. But both of us had been unlucky in love and had had our hearts broken several times. I was jealous of her now though, we all were because she was not only dating this really handsome guy but he was also a millionaire; obviously someone had handed her a second chance at her love life and I was just silently praying that they came to me next. The rest of our friends were just as smitten with Pete as she was, probably because he was a millionaire and they wanted the chance to see him use his fortune in person; although we all knew that he wouldn't. Pete seemed really down to earth, I liked him, he didn't seem like he was throwing his money in our faces and just wanted to get to know his girlfriends' friends. He was a nice guy.
"So, you're like a zillionaire?" Phoebe asked from her place on the couch, leaning past Monica so that she could talk to Pete, who was sat on the armchair.
"And you're our age." Chandler couldn't get over the fact that someone our age had this much money. "You're our age?"
"You know what, you should buy a state and then name it after yourself."
Pete nodded, liking the idea. "Like Pete Dakota."
"Or Mississi-Pete." Phoebe added, laughing at her own idea.
"I got it, Pete Chicago." Joey stopped the laughter as he spoke from the stools and I shook my head at him, hoping that he wouldn't say anything else to embarrass us.
My brother decided to be honest with him and frowned. "That's not a state, Joe."
"Oh, and Mississi-Pete is?"
Pete stood up from the armchair. "I got to go, so, I'll see you guys later."
"You're our age?" Chandler repeated as he walked with Monica to the door of the Coffee House.
We watch as Monica rubs Pete's head to say goodbye to him and cringe as they both look uncomfortable with the situation. Once he had left, she runs back over to us and complains about her current situation because she doesn't feel any chemistry between them and she doesn't know why. "Okay, I'm running out of places I can touch him. I mean, is there something wrong with me? Why am I only attracted to guys where there's no future? Either they're too old or they're too young, and then there's Pete, who's crazy about me, he's absolutely perfect and there's like zip going on. Does it sound like there's something wrong with me?"
"Yeah, kind of." Phoebe answered honestly.
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Everything that I said before, about not knowing if this was the right career for me to go into or when I was second-guessing about whether I should have declined the spot for that Real Estate Company; well I officially take it back. Because my second chance had finally been awarded and I was ready to live the rest of my life as a professional successful Real Estate Agent. After sending my resumes to several different companies around New York; I had an interview and I was going to make sure that I did all of my research and looked my absolute best so that they would have to hire me. This was my second chance; I knew it was because how else would I have gotten this job? Now that I had this opportunity, there was no way that I was going to let it slide and this company would have no choice but to hire me because I would be the best person for the job.
As soon as I put down the phone, I ran over to the apartment building opposite because I needed to tell someone and that was the one place where I knew my friends would be. When I started rushing up the stairs, I almost ran straight into someone that was heading down them; I was just going to ignore the almost incident but the person had other plans and stopped me from overtaking them. Just when I was going to argue with them on the staircase, I looked up and realised that I had almost bumped into one of my friends, Joey. And this almost incident just meant that I could tell him my news before any of the others found out and I was more than happy to do that because I was so excited and couldn't stay still.
"Heather, what's going on with you? How many coffees have you had?"
I shook my head. "None! I just have great news, Joe, I have great news!"
"Well are you going to tell me or just keep shouting in my face?" He laughed as I stopped jumping and took a deep breath to calm myself down.
"I have a job interview."
His face immediately dropped. "A job interview? Don't you remember what happened last time?"
"I have to go to another job interview at some point, besides this time is different. I can feel it, Joey, this one is going to work out."
Joey didn't seem convinced but brought me into a hug and kissed the top of my head, I tried to block out the butterflies in my stomach from that small gesture, brushing them away as the excitement that I had about my interview. "You'll do great Heather, you deserve this."
a/n: i have two seminars this morning whilst my mum & my sister get to sleep 🥺 -lizzie ⭐️
