A letter to Phoebe & Joey

Dear Joey & Phoebe,
One of you is a savage girl while the other is a handsome hunk. In spite of all the judgements passed by people, you never forgot to live the life to the fullest. One, madly in love with the Pizzas and the other, madly in love with the guitar.
You both were kind of outsiders in a group. Maybe that’s the reason you cared about each other very much. Both artists, lost in their own world. Phoebe, the moment you came to Central perk dressing like Ursula to talk to Joey is unforgettable. He, with the heart of a baby didn’t recognize you but still chose friendship over love. The way in which you hugged Joey, ( pressing something against him)is quite funny and memorable. We still remember you teaching him how to play guitar with your unique life examples. When he was really sad about Rachel, you helped him by offering the ‘World’s happiest dog’. ( which afterwards became the saddest one ).
Joey, we miss you both playing chess and not giving a fuck about the rules. Haha. By the way, it’s much cooler the way you guys play it. The care in your eyes when you offered Phoebe a ring after you knew about her pregnancy can’t be described in words and that cute dumbo happily took the ring without even thinking for a second.
We still laugh hard watching Phoebe’s ‘French speaking classes’ and Joey’s ‘not so French’ words.
We felt somewhat sad when Phoebe got married to Mike. It’s not that he was not a good guy but somewhere deep inside, we wanted you and Joey to be together but then it’d have become pretty obvious, right ?
You both share an eternal bond which is the purest one. You added the flavour what we Indians call ‘tadka’ to the friendship. We’re gonna tell our kids that a boy and a girl can remain best friends for the whole life while showing them your best moments on our old laptops. Ken Adams and Regina Phalange, you will always be there in our hearts, eating and singing respectively.
|An open letter by Shreyas Wakankar