Author's Note: Okay, so, I always felt like the rest of the gang had a hard time taking Monica and Chandler's relationship seriously, but they eventually did it because of things they ended up witnessing. At the risk of sounding too cheesy, let's say that there are several "proofs of love" along the course of their relationship, and the idea here is to show how each one of the friends reacted to a particular "proof of love" and how that changed the way they saw the couple.

It's a series, yes HAHA I don't know if I'm ready for that, but here I go. Since we have four friends, and two people in the relationship, there will be 8 chapters – each friend with a chapter reacting to something Monica did and a chapter reacting to something Chandler did. I'm very excited so I believe the updates won't take long. I hope you can enjoy this. :3

Chapter 1: Joey

Monica & the Sex Addiction

Joey was just finishing his fried chicken skin bucket all by himself since everybody had left. Why the others didn't want the rest of the chicken was beyond him. Wow, that had been quite a day. After covering up for Chandler and Monica's secret relationship, and consequently having his name dragged through the mud by the whole underwear-in-other-people's-home/video-camera/nude-picture extravaganza, he managed to throw everybody off by telling them it was all Monica's fault after she slept with him. He was quite proud of his sexual endeavors, but he knew the girls didn't think about sleeping with him as a regular normal thing – the shocked look on their faces was proof of that, and the disgusted face on Ross just a plus.

Joey almost outted the couple; he really couldn't take any more of the lying and sneaking around, but seeing their pleading eyes silently begging him to protect the secret did it for him. And, of course, since he was at the sharp end of it all to the point of being called sicko, accusing Monica of a sex-addiction-guy-stalking-post-sleeping-with-joey craze felt like some sort of revenge. He wasn't so happy about that though, as he noticed how his enamored friends were trying their hardest not to let the pained look on their faces show.

Joey really tried to understand why they needed the affair to be a secret, and after just shrugging it off as their friends being weird, he actually started to understand. It seemed that whatever it was they had going on was really precious to them, and even though they sucked at hiding, they were willing to do anything to keep that to themselves. Monica going along with the sex addiction thing was proof enough. He almost couldn't believe she just took that on herself in front of all her friends. She'd done some crazy stuff, but he knew she was always worried about saving face; letting her closest friends think those things about her, especially because those were all untrue, was really something.

He grabbed his keys to get out of the apartment 19, carrying the bucket to throw it out on the way to the coffeehouse. Joey wasn't the type of fella to dwell on many things, however he was intrigued. Ever since he found out about those two, he was surprised by all the sounds he could hear coming from Chandler's room. He always believed Monica was heavily sexually charged, but it was almost uncomfortable hearing how loud she could get whenever she and Chandler were doing it. For a while, he figured that was all: they were doing it. After a while, he noticed the sounds coming from his roommate's room weren't all sexual. They sometimes sounded like casual talking (that would last for hours), or just some cute little noises coming from both of them (he didn't want to picture Chandler making those noises though), and even though he couldn't see their faces, he could tell how happy they were. Joey still thought they were just having fun, up until that day. Monica taking all the accusations silently just for the sake of the secret might look like something silly, but he knew her well enough to know it actually meant a lot.

Joey could finally understand why they had to keep that to themselves. Sharing it with everybody would probably ruin what they were still trying to figure out. Somehow, he thought, I don't feel like they're breaking up anytime soon. If Monica was willing to do that because of the risk of jeopardizing a relationship that was pretty much in the beginning, she would probably be willing to do much more to be with Chandler later on. She probably liked him a lot already.

All these thoughts filled his head on the way down, and when he got to the coffeehouse, oh look, it's the happy couple, completely oblivious to his arrival. He took a moment to look at them. They were talking to each other extremely closely, whispering in each other's ear, giggling like high school sweethearts. Monica's hand rested on Chandler's thigh, and every time he said something, she would squeeze it slightly. Chandler's arm was protectively around Monica's shoulders. It's crazy how they fit, who would've thought. They looked really cute, as if nothing stressful at all had happened just an hour earlier. Joey found himself smiling at the scene, but soon reminded himself that they were being too careless again by behaving all cuddly in public like that. Didn't they have any self-control?

Maybe he, too, was getting protective of their relationship. Assuming his father-like mode, he was ready for some scolding.

"You guys!", he whined, "after all that happened today, you're still not being careful!"

I personally feel that Joey was the first one to take their relationship seriously, without needing to see anything huge to believe they were meant to be together. That's why he's the first one. :)