F.R.I.E.N.D.S Imagines

heartbroken (chandler) |part two|

after you had inherently broken up with chandler, you had to come back to pick up the items that you had left at his apartment. walking up to the door brought back old memories, causing you to try to conceal your tears. you reached up to knock on the door, stopping as you were about to do so, and put your hand down as joey opened the door to leave and go somewhere. 

"hey, ______. what are you doing here?" he asked, looking down at you while you looked up at him. 

your hand awkwardly went down to your sweater sleeve as you ran your fingers over it.

"i'm here to finish picking up my stuff," you told him. "i have a few things that i left on the bar."

joey let you in, seeing you walk inside to see your few items in a small box. he shut the door behind the two of you, about to walk past you as you turned around to face him.

"can i ask you something?" you said, seeing him nod as he went over to the fridge to get a drink. 

"what's up?" he asked, taking a sip of his drink as he went over to the bar where all of your stuff was that was still left at their shared apartment. "oh, _____, i think this might be chandler's."

you looked over at what he was holding, him looking over at you as he put it down and apologized. you walked over to the box, searching through the different items before looking over at joey once more. 

"joey, can we talk for a second?" you said, running your fingers through your hair as he watched you. "did you hear what chandler and i fought about?" you muttered, picking at your nails. it was a nervous habit you had gotten into while dating chandler. 

"we all did, _______. we were sitting in monica's room," he said. 

you nodded, looking down at your nails still before continuing. 

"and you heard what i said about-" you continued, but joey nodded as he interrupted. 

"yeah, i heard."

you nodded, picking up your box as you started to leave, but joey moved to stand in front of you as he put his hands on the box. you looked up at him, seeing him set down the drink. you were staring up at him, your eyes not moving from his. 

"hey, joe, do you want to- hey, ______," chandler said, entering the apartment as you quickly cleared your throat as you stepped away from joey and towards the door, pushing past chandler without talking to him.

chandler turned around to look at his best friend in confusion.

"what are you doing? that's my ex-girlfriend," he said. 

"nothing was happening," joey said.

"and you expect me to just believe that?" 

joey nodded, picking up his drink as he turned to walk back to the bar and sit down as chandler looked back at his best friend.

"you can't possibly sleep with her," he said. "she's mine."

joey furrowed his brows.

"she was yours, chandler, but then you cheated on her," joey said. "with monica."

chandler looked back at the door as you opened it, looking up at him before looking over towards joey.

"i think i dropped one of my shirts over there," you said, looking over at joey who handed it to you. he smiled down at you, seeing you staring up at him while chandler furrowed his brows at what was happening. 

"thanks," you said softly, taking the shirt from him as you turned to walk out of the door, looking back at him briefly before exiting their apartment as monica, rachel, phoebe, and ross all watched what was happening as they came back. 

"what, uh, what was that about?" rachel asked as she walked into their apartment. 

"joey is trying to sleep with my ex-girlfriend!" chandler said, causing the friends to look at each other. 

"i mean," ross began. "you cheated on her. with my sister. i think she can do what she wants."

"but with my best friend?" chandler asked.

"you don't control her. and i honestly think that it's not that weird if she sleeps with joey because of what you put her through," phoebe said. 

chandler shook his head, walking out into the hallway to find you about to walk down the stairs as he grabbed your arm as he pulled you back to him. you turned around to see who it was as your eyes grew panicked and sad. 

"let go of me, chandler," you said, your eyes trying to avoid his. 

"you're sleeping with joey?"

"i'm not sleeping with- why would you care? you cheated on me," you told him, getting your arm out of his grasp as the friends came out to see where you  went. 

"chandler, let go of her," rachel said. "you lost. you don't get to keep her."

he looked down at you, seeing you looking away from him. rachel came up to him, taking you out of his grasp as she took you to monica's apartment. 

chandler turned to face joey and ross, looking between the two of them.

"joey, how could you," he said.

"i haven't even done anything with her!" he said.

"you're trying to sleep with my ex-girlfriend!" 

joey looked at him, walking over to monica's apartment as ross stayed out in the hallway.

"chandler, you're gonna have to get yourself under control. you cheated on her," he said. "she can do what she wants."

"there are rules, ross. there are rules that say you shouldn't fool around with or date girls that your best friends have either dated, are related to, or could possibly date. i dated her!" 

ross sighed. 

"i know," he said. "i know, but if she's the one trying to sleep with him, then it's not something that joey did. _______ did."

"i'm not gonna blame it on her," chandler muttered. "if anything, i want her back."

ross put his hand on his shoulder.  

"______ is not yours anymore."