havesomeimagination

[havesomeimagination]

Darkness Settles In

Author's Note: Hello to whoever this reaches! Welcome to my first short story. I do not know how this will go or how many people will see/appreciate it, but I love angst and rewatching Friends. I hope you like it. Don't be too harsh. Please let me know if you want more of the story!

Summary: Chandler and Y/n have been going out for a few months, but what happens when you catch him at his lowest?

You and Chandler have been going out for eight months now. You have been friends since college and reconnected when you moved into the city, consequently a block from the coffee house. He had asked you out as a bet from Joey because he was afraid of rejection, but here you are now. 

Experiencing the one thing you thought he’d never do. 

Cheat. 

Not just cheating with a random girl, no. Cheating with Joey’s girlfriend, Kathy. 

I had just gotten off work and was on my way to Chandler and Joey’s apartment when I saw the door cracked open. 

Did Joey leave in a rush to get beer again? 

I wish that were what I had walked in on. 

Instead, it was Kathy and chandler kissing. 

I had no idea what to do. 

What the hell do you do? The one person who you never thought would do this to you. Hurting you in the worst way possible.

The more I absorbed what was happening, the more I could only scoff and feel the rush of tears gather in my eyes. 

Time stood still when they felt that they had been caught.  

Chandler looks over Kathy and sees me at the door with shock and guilt in his eyes. 

“B-baby, it’s not what it looks like. P-please just hear me out.”

“NO-” he says as I rush out the door. 

He grabs my arm and pulls me back in the hallway. 

“Why did you have to do this? Out of all the men I’ve been with you were the good one, Chandler. You would never hurt me. You wouldn’t do this.” I said, getting cut off by my sobs. 

“Please don’t try to fix this; don’t contact me. Have Joey or Monica drop off my stuff. Goodbye”. 

Chandler tries to find anything to say at the moment, but he couldn’t. It was possibly the only moment where he did not have humor to depend on. He could only feel the consequences of his own actions. The guilt ripping him apart, making him feel a new type of pain. 

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A couple of hours later, the gang finds Chandler staring at the table in his apartment. Kathy was long gone. 

Joey was the first to walk up and break him out of his trance. “ Hey, you ok?” 

Chandler just looks up with his red, puffy eyes, “Yeah, I’m fine, don’t I look it?” 

Monica walks closer as the rest just stare in concern. “ Chandler, what happened? Where is Y/N?” 

Chandler could only feel dread in that moment, the pull on his heart. She will never forgive me, he thought. 

“I, um, I kissed somebody else, and she saw. We are not together anymore; I feel terrible. That about sums it up, HA”, letting out a loud scoff as if he was in disbelief at his actions. 

A series of disappointed groans fill the room. 

“Oh god,” Joey expresses. 

They stand around processing what Chandler confessed to. 

The girls could not help but feel the need to visit Y/N. 

Rachel was the first to say, “ Look, Chandler, you know I love you, but this is your mistake. I need to go see how she is doing. I’ll see you later,” she said while patting him on the back. 

Monica and Phoebe agree and start walking to the door saying their goodbyes. 

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The girls waited for a sign of life as they knocked on her door. 

Five minutes pass, and nothing. 

“ Hey, Y/N! Open up. We know what happened and just want to comfort you, distract you, or do anything you want.” Phoebe shouts. 

A couple of seconds later, the door opens to Y/n in the same clothes she worked in, makeup running down her face, and a stuffed teddy bear from her childhood. 

The girls look at her with sadness in their eyes. Seeing the one person who always was there for everyone else, a ray of sunshine, be so dark and dim. 

Y/n starts bursting into tears until Rachel is the first to engulf her in her chest. She needed her girlfriends there to support her. 

However, as time passed, Rachel, Phoebe, and Monica realized she did not want to talk. 

She would cry, calm down, and cry again. It was a continuous cycle that only stopped when she was lucky enough to fall asleep on Rachel’s lap. 

“I cannot believe Chandler cheated on her. I mean, look at her. She’s going to be like this for a while,” said Monica. 

“I thought they were each other’s person,” exclaimed Rachel.

Phoebe said, “ You know my psychic did say something about a tragic event happening within this week, but this is the last thing I ever expected.”

“This is not fair to her.”

The girls watched movies and talked while Y/n slept until it got late. Around two in the morning, Monica said she would stay there to keep an eye on Y/n while the others went home. 

When Phoebe and Rachel left, Monica cuddled up close to Y/n on her bed and fell asleep. 

The apartment has never been that quiet when Y/n is there. She always has the radio or TV on. 

But tonight was the most silent and dark it’d ever been. 

The sun was not shining anymore, not for anyone.