my lobster | phoebe x joey [completed]

Chapter 7: the one with the quarrel

This night I couldn't sleep too much, because I couldn't stand the idea of being without Joey. I just missed him too much, but he had cheated on me, at least that's what I thought. This made me feel sad and furious at the same time.

Joey couldn't sleep either. He was sad and his mind was filled with a big guilty emotion. He knew he didn't do anything to me, but it just was the result of not being with me because something he had let happen. He was slowly started to think that it was also his fault because he let Charlie kiss him.

The next days we couldn't talk at each other. It was a really difficult situation, because our friends had to be with me and with him at different times and although Joey and I were the most affected, it also did wrong to Chandler. One day Joey and my friends were in the dinning room, when he said he had to go to the bathroom. He was lying. I know it, because I was in the pool and found him there, smoking, so I went to call his attention.

- "Hey! What are you doing?"

- "Smoking"

- "Why?"

- "Because I can't stand separation! And Joey is my best friend!" I could perceive that he felt terrible, because his eyes were pallid and without any light.

- "Oh, I understand you... But smoking is bad for you, Chandler, and you've overcome it a long time ago! It's not fair that you smoke because of us!"

- "I know, but I like it. That's not even that bad!"

Suddenly Joey appeared. I was still mad at him, so I decided to leave. "I'll go back to my lounger then!" I said to Chandler and got back to where I was before. Joey looked at me with sad eyes and I put on my sunglasses as a reply, so that he could see how indignant I was. He stopped looking at me and talked to Chandler.

I fell asleep and a few minutes later I was waked up because I heard a loud splash. It was Monica, who had just entered into the water. My friends were now by me, but it was not like when Joey was with us. We were all a little sad and no one  laughed or made jokes. Not even Chandler, who normally resorted to humor in difficult times, did them. It was just super boring. Finally Monica, in a desperate action, asked the question that all of them wanted to ask: Are you never gonna talk to Joey again?" I got a little angry at her and said "No!" "C'mon Pheebs! You were the one that made me reconcile with Ross!" Rachel said to me, trying to cheer me up. "Well, then sorry for being a drag with you!" I said and then I turned around.

I could hear Monica and Rachel whispering at each other. They were mad at me and I didn't understand it:
- "I don't understand why she is still angry with him!"
- " They should let us be with them at the same time. Just like you and Ross did!"

"Don't be mad at me if I don't want to talk to Joey! He is the one that cheated on me and you should understand it, because I am your friend! I shouted. Suddenly my fury took control over me and I came up with something that would really annoy my friends, And don't come up with your story Rachel because we were not on a break!" Ross and Rachel exchanged a look that meant that my plan had worked: there was going to be a quarrel.

"Yes! I am right!" Said Ross, truimphantly. "No, you are not!" Rachel replied him in an angry tone of voice. I smiled. I had created a chaos and everyone was starting to get mad at each other and that was great, because I was no longer the center of attention. But that did not last long.

"Phoebe!" Said Monica. "What? You have started by asking me if I will ever talk to Joey again!" I complained. There was a loud quarrel between the four of us. Rachel looked like she wanted to punch Ross in the face, while he kept saying "I am right!"and Monica and I shouted at us.
- " Joey is also my friend!"
- "I don't care! I won't talk to him!"
- " You have to! "
- " No, I don't. I just... I hate him!"

Now everyone was shouting at me. Chandler stood there, looking at us with desperation. "Shut up!" He shouted a few minutes later. There was a silence. "Don't quarrel with each other. You're turning me crazy." He continued saying in a low tone. "Sorry" I said, softly. There was a major silence then before. However, everyone was still mad.

I started to think about all the things I had gone through with Joey since we first met. I remembered all his jokes and his nonsenses, all his how you doings and all the kisses he gave me. I realized how much I loved him and how much he loved me. Our relationship was really beautiful and I missed it really much, as much as I missed him, but I was afraid about if he ever would forgive me for having thrown him the ring. Suddenly, a tear fell down my cheek and I said: "I am going to talk to Joey!" "But you just said you hated him." Said Rachel. "I didn't ment this. I was just really stressed." I said, "In fact, I love him and I want to fix things with him."

They all supported my idea, and in a matter of minutes I was knocking on his door. The first couple of times there was no answer, but when I was almost about to abandon my plan of talking to him he opened the door. He looked at my petrified. "Hi!" He finally said. "Hello!" I replied with timidity. It felt like if we were in love for the first time, in our first day, not knowing what to say. "Come in!" He said, and we started to speak.

- "How are you?"

- "Fine, I guess. And you"

- "Fine, although....I miss you."

- " I miss you too...."

- " I don't wanna be without you Joey."

- "I don't wanna be without you neither."

There was a big and beautiful silence. We staid looking at us for a moment, then we slowly started to fall into each others arms and we kissed.

- "Let's get back to where we used to be before, okey!"

- "Okey!"

We kissed even more, this time with a lot more passion and we went to the bed. When we finished, we went out of the room, this time as a happy couple and went to cancel my stay in the separated room.