Monica Geller was excited, actually she was beyond excited, and there were no words to describe how excited she was. Today was the day, the day she had been dreaming of since she was younger; and no it was not it was her wedding day; it was prom, and what could be better than going on a double date with your best friend and her boyfriend?

Today, people wouldn't be judging her on her looks they would be judging her on her dress, her shoes, her hairstyle; it was going to be perfect! It would be her dream comes true, she had been planning it right down to the smallest detail, and nothing would go wrong, nothing. Her parents had gotten the camera out and they were filming her, like they did on every other special event, it was all going to plan, well sort of…

"Dad! Turn it off," she begged her dad as he struggled to control the camera, needless to say he wasn't able to tell whether it was on or off. She shoved the sandwich into her mouth, as she went to greet her best friend; Rachel Green. Assuring her dad it was still on, needless to say he didn't believe her, she could just picture her parents showing this video to her kids in the future, but there was no time to worry about that now, all she had to do was focus that everything was perfect and went exactly as planned.

"Oh, you look so great," she said smiling as she greeted Rachel.

"Ah, so do you, beautiful," replied Rachel glowing in the praise, and hugging Monica.

"Oops!" Monica exclaimed forgetting the mayonnaise that was on her fingers.

"What?" Rachel said breaking away from their hug.

Monica bit her lip, she knew what this day meant to Rachel, but she knew she couldn't lie about the new stain of mayonnaise on Rachel's dress, "Shoot, I think I got mayonnaise on you," she grimaced, knowing Rachel that dress cost hundreds of pounds and even more to repay it, how come she always had to mess things up? Was it too much to ask for one perfect night?

"Oh, that's okay, it's just the shoulder," she said giving her dazzling million dollar smile that she had perfected after hours of cheerleading practice, which Monica thought must've been gruelling, with Coach Beastie being the coach. She shivered at thought of her coach, "it's not mine anyway!" Rachel added letting the worry fall of Monica's shoulders.

"Everybody smile," Monica's father said focusing the camera on Monica and Rachel, Rachel waved and smiled at the camera being the naturally photogenic person she was.

"Turn it off!" She said with a fake smile perched on her face, she wished her family wasn't so weird, especially when Rachel wasn't around, and that wasn't including Ross, who seemed to develop a whole other personality when Rachel was around.

"It is off," Her father replied, Monica sighed why did her dad seem to think he was right? He didn't have a clue when it came to technology. "Isn't it Ross?" He said gesturing to Ross; who would probably lie to annoy Monica, they were siblings after all. Ross didn't reply, he seemed very engrossed in tying his shoeless, he was starting to get red and flustered for no apparent reason. "Ross?" Her dad said again.

"Yeah, yeah it's off," Ross replied distractedly his mind else, he looked sheepish, bashful, "you look pretty tonight," he blurted out, before returning to his bashful look, Monica smiled to herself it didn't take a genius to work out who he was referring to.

Rachel looks surprised; "oh, thanks," she mumbled looking at the floor.

"Well I'm gonna go… to the kitchen," Monica mumbled feeling. When she got to the kitchen her parents were talking, well whispering really, she could only catch a few words that consistent of 'Ross' 'Rachel' and 'crush' but that made no sense whatsoever did it?

At that moment the doorbell rang, it was Roy but not Chip, cue more photos, Rachel kept glancing at her watch, but Monica was over the moon! She had a date! She hadn't been stood up! She must've had a gigantic beam on her face but she wiped it of as soon as she saw Rachel's teary expression.

"Why isn't she here yet?" She said glancing at the clock; she was going to be late. "I can't go to my own prom without a date, I can't, and it's too late." Rachel moaned returning to the drama queen façade that she kept up night and day.

"If you're not going then I don't want to go either." Monica interrupted, but even she was doubtful whether or not Chip would turn up, but how could she enjoy prom without her best friend? Everything was falling apart and there was nothing she could do to stop it.

"Oh, I'm gonna kick Chip's ass." Roy muttered under his breath just loud enough so that Rachel and Monica could hear him and give a weak smile.

Things were not going to plan; Ross Geller could work that one out, there was a lot of crying, muttering and shouting from downstairs, he peered over the banister to see what all the fuss was about. Roy, Monica and Rachel were downstairs; Ross sat back down on the stairs wondering what all the fuss was about before doing a double take; where was Rachel's date? He knew Roy was Monica's date, she had been driving them all crazy with "Roy this and Roy that," for weeks now, but where was Rachel's date? Was that what all the fuzz was about?

"I have a wonderful idea. You should take Rachel to the prom." His mother said, Ross gave a week smile, surely she was kidding about this, surely he liked her and she liked him… as a friend, but would she really say yes to him?

"Doubtful." He muttered he'd given up on Rachel a while back, it was never going to happen between the two of them and he had just accepted that, plus if things went well he would soon be dating Carol who was in his college classes. There was no point of pining over something that would never happen anyway.

"Jack, give me that. Talk to your son." His mother replied, taking the camera of her husband the light still flashing red.

"Your mother's right. Take her, you can wear my tux."

"Dad, she won't want to go with me."

"Of course she would, you're a college man."

"I don't know." Ross said, but after letting curiosity get the better of him he got changed into his dad's tux, his feelings for Rachel may have temporarily evaporated, but he didn't want her night and his sister's night to be ruined because of some jerk that didn't turn up.

"I can't believe I don't get to go to my own prom, this is so harsh." Rachel said wiping some tears from her eyes, but it was no use every time she wiped them away more seemed to magically reappear from her eyes.

Meanwhile Ross was trying and failing to keep his cool. "Uh, just a sec dad. Okay, be cool, just be cool. Okay dad." His stomach was turning, the butterflies in his stomach had turned into gigantic moths, he wasn't ready but he was as ready as he ever would be anyway.

"Rachel, ready or not, here comes your knight in shining…" Mr Geller said, Ross grimaced he really didn't appreciate the cheesy entrances. Rachel's ears perked up, was Chip hiding upstairs? Why was he hiding upstairs? A glimmer of hope soared through her body as someone made their descent from the stairs, unfortunately for her it wasn't Chip…but Ross.

Ross held a corsage, "Rachel, do you want to go to prom with me?" He asked sincerely, he could feel himself blushing, but in his defence it wasn't like he had time to prepare or anything. Monica smiled, unsure of what to react, she wasn't exactly sure of what to make of her big brother asking her best friend out, but if it meant that Rachel would go to the prom, then that was great.

"Uh, Okay," Rachel said once again surprised.

"Well bye kids! Have fun," Judy and Jack said ushering the four out the door before taking one last photo, without giving Ross time to object to being called a kid. It was only then; in the car that Monica noticed Ross had a dopey grin on his face, she had only seen this expression a few times before but she just hoped it didn't mean what she thought it meant… Did Ross really like Rachel? She thought to herself because if he did he was setting himself up for a fall…

A/N I hope you liked it, I hope the character's weren't to OOC, this is basically a what if Chip hadn't turned up and Ross had asked Rachel. I like that episode so much! but I was so sad when Chip turned up and Ross was there in his dad's tux :| And I like Ross/Rachel so this maybe a one-shot or a story IDK yet. Review and tell me your thoughts!