#❦ — joey tribbiani & chandler bing (cairoes)

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“Would it help if I stayed?” / chandler to joey

Nightmares & Sleeping Meme

Group trips were always the best! It wasn’t easy syncing up six different schedules, so it wasn’t often they got away as a group (that wasn’t a case of emergency. And Joey loved every part of it. He loved the traveling, he loved the going out; whether it be to make a fool of himself at the club or to terrorize the streets being the most annoying tourist the city they visited ever saw. But there was always a period towards the end of the trip where his mood took a bit of a dip. It was a feeling he could never quite shake, no matter how big or how old he got. And that was the feeling of homesickness.

He was out on balcony connected to his hotel room. He was lost in thought as, staring blankly the little remnants of life still flickering across the sleepy town they were staying in. - The fact that this place couldn’t look any more different from the busy city he was used to certainly didn’t help the knot in his stomach. He barely noticed when the owner of the neighboring room stepped onto his own balcony, he only did when he heard the flicker of a lighter break the silence he sat in.

He blinked a few times before his eyes focused on his roommate. A look of shook, a tad overreacted as he usually did, fell across his features at the sight. “I’d jump over there and swat that thing out of your hand if I didn’t think I’d fall with it.” The conversation that followed was light, playful, typical for the pair. Chandler eventually put the cigarette out and joined him in his room. That was when he got into what was really on his mind. He wasn’t going to say anything at first, not wanting to sour the mood of the trip for anyone else. But he was never the type to keep a secret, and that was especially true when it came to Chandler. 

A bit ironic, considering how great the other was at opening up. But while he did have his moments where he did still act quite Chandler-ish, they’ve always had a close bond that usually overpowered the icks he had around that sort of thing. The solution he offered may have surprised anyone else, but Joey shouldn’t have expected any less from his roommate. The two had each other’s backs far beyond the point of rational - though, Chandler was never afraid to call him out on his dumber ideas. But that night he seemed to take pity on Joey. Pity that he’d gladly accept.

“I think it’d help a lot,” he admitted. He smiled, perhaps the widest it’s been that night. But then a look of playful defeat fell across tan features. “This means I’m gonna have to sleep in my underwear, doesn’t it?”

@cairoes