A/N: Well, we've finally made it to the end! Please enjoy.

Disclaimer: I don't own Friends.

Chandler and Monica strolled down the New York City street hand in hand, a comfortable silence washing over them as they made their way back to the coffee house where they were going to meet their friends.

He and Monica had been together for two weeks now, and Chandler was the happiest he had been in his entire life. Every day he fell more and more in love with the most beautiful woman he had ever known, and he was pretty sure that Monica felt the same way. Chandler spent every second he could with Monica; all he wanted to do was make up for all the months or even years that they could have spent together, had they actually managed to figure things out earlier. Regardless of the time it had taken, everything had finally come together, and things were amazing. Chandler and Monica had already been so close that actually dating hadn't been too much of a change for them. Of course, Chandler was still kicking himself for going so many years without kissing Monica Geller, but he couldn't really do anything about that at this point.

When Monica had come back to make sure that he was okay and then confessed that she was in love with him, Chandler had been simultaneously shocked and elated. Monica actually loving him back was the last thing he had ever expected, but it had happened, and the months of worry and confusion that Chandler had gone through to get to that point had all but vanished in that instant. Monica was everything he wanted and everything he needed, and now they were together, and Chandler's life was nothing short of perfect.

As the pair turned a corner, Chandler squeezed Monica's hand, and she stopped abruptly, turning and kissing him quickly, a small smile playing on her lips.

Chandler couldn't prevent a goofy grin from appearing on his face as Monica kissed him. He practically melted into a puddle every time she did, which had, thankfully, been a lot since they had admitted their feelings toward one another two weeks before.

Monica turned and tugged on his arm slightly to get him to start walking with her up the street again. She leaned into him slightly, a contented sigh escaping her lips.

Chandler knew exactly how she felt.

"Monica! Chandler!" a voice came from up ahead of them.

Chandler moved his eyes up the sidewalk until they fell on a small dark haired woman that he hadn't seen in months.

"Julie!" Monica said, her voice riddled with fake enthusiasm. Julie was her brother's ex-girlfriend, after all. This wasn't going to be the most comfortable of situations for any of them.

"I'm so happy to see you guys!" Julie said excitedly as she reached them. She smiled down at their entwined hands. "And it's so great to see that you're still together."

Chandler laughed awkwardly. Julie was still under the very false impression that he and Monica had been dating since November. "Yeah… it's really been a long time now."

Monica nodded, similarly trying to keep up the façade. "Yep, I can barely remember when I wasn't dating Chandler."

Julie looked thrilled at Monica's words, but Chandler couldn't help but feel bad. He sighed. It was time to come clean.

"Actually, Julie," Chandler said with a side-glance at his girlfriend. "We have to tell you something."

Beside him, Monica sighed too and then nodded.

Julie tilted her head to the side slightly, confused.

Chandler continued. "That day in the coffee house in November, I said that Phoebe's song was about me and Monica, but it wasn't." He stopped.

Julie stared at him. "I don't understand."

"There wasn't actually anything going on with us back then," Chandler elaborated. "Monica and I didn't want to be together, and that kiss was just to try to get you to think that we did. It wasn't real. We've actually only been dating for two weeks now."

He squeezed Monica's hand lightly, and she pressed his in response.

Julie continued to stare at them blankly.

No one spoke for a moment.

"Oh," Julie said finally in a quiet voice. "Well, you had me convinced."

Chandler glanced down at Monica who looked back up at him, a small smile on her face. That fake admission of love and that kiss had changed so many things in he and Monica's lives. He laughed quietly. "Yeah, us too."

Julie's brow furrowed in confusion. "Wait, if the song wasn't about you guys, then who was it about?"

All color drained from Chandler's face as he suddenly realized the situation that he and Monica were in. Phoebe's song had been about Ross kissing Rachel when he was still dating Julie… a fact that Chandler really did not want to be responsible for informing Ross's ex-girlfriend about.

"You know, on second though," Chandler said slowly, already beginning to move up the street, "it really was about us the whole time. See you later, Julie!"

Chandler immediately turned and walked as quickly up the street as he could without running, Monica half a step behind, still holding onto his hand.

He glanced back for half a second to see Julie standing in the middle of the sidewalk staring after them, forlorn.

Chandler finally let himself breathe as he and Monica turned onto their street and slowed their pace back to normal.

Monica let out a laugh that she had evidently been holding in since they left Julie. "You really are terrible at keeping your mouth shut," she said, grinning widely.

Chandler shoved her shoulder playfully. "You know, we wouldn't be together if it wasn't for my inability to keep my mouth shut."

Monica smiled up at him. "I guess that's true." She stopped him again and pulled him down for a kiss. "I love you."

"I love you, too," Chandler replied, almost skipping as they continued to walk up the street.

As Chandler finally let go of Monica's hand to open the door to the coffee house for her, he couldn't help but grin in spite of his big mouth and poor, confused Julie. The way Monica smiled at him as he took her coat and hung it up for her was the most beautiful sight he had ever seen.

This was his life now, stupid decisions and all.

And he wouldn't have wanted it any other way.

A/N: And there it is. It's crazy that I'm finally done with this. It's taken 3 months (which is at least a month longer than it should have taken), but I'm so incredibly happy to have been able to finish this story. Figuring out chapter plots kept me sane during classes this past semester, and looking forward to writing at the end of a tough week or two was such a great thing to be able to do. This is undoubtedly my favorite thing that I've ever written. Of course, the best part was that a lot of the cute Chandler/Monica scenes in most of the earlier chapters were already in the show, and I just added bits and pieces to them. Pre-Mondler is such a great thing to work with.

I cannot thank every single one of you fantastic reviewers enough for all of your wonderful comments on this story (and shout out to Phoebe in her review for the last chapter for suggesting that Julie be in this chapter, which had been my plan for this epilogue for over a month now). It's such an amazing thing to know that people actually have been enjoying what I've been writing, in this story and in any of the ones I wrote this past summer. I still have a word document filled with little Mondler fic ideas (nothing on the scale of this story though), so hopefully I'll get to write at least a few of those at some point in the future, but my next project is going to a Parks and Rec fic that I've been outlining for the past couple weeks (so if any of you are Parks fans, check that out sometime in the near future).

It's kind of bittersweet to be writing my last author's note for this fic, but all I can say is thank you. You all are seriously the best ever.