Four Weeks Later
Ross and Rachel looked picture perfect together posing for their wedding photographs. Standing together with their three year old daughter Emma, the family looked complete. There was a subtle glow surrounding the newly weds that Judy Gellar couldn't quite determine the cause of.
"They look fabulous together, so happy," Rachel's father Leonard mused as he stood side by side with Judy.
"Don't they just?" she gushed in return. "I really envy their happiness."
"I do too," he admitted quietly. The pair exchanged a fleeting glance that was charged with excitement and chemistry. Ever since Leonard had divorced form Rachel's mother Sandra, he had given up on finding love again. He had been alone for so long, he wasn't sure he would remember what to do if he ever got the opportunity to be with a woman once more.
Judy had also been feeling neglected and ignored over the past ten years. When Monica and Richard were dating, Jack somehow got it into his head that it was acceptable to get his own "little twinkie". Since the birth of Emma three years earlier, Judy and Leonard had been spending a fair deal of time in each others company. Every time they met, the sexual tension between the pair became stronger and stronger. Fleeting glances across unknowing family members, short-lived touches in crowded rooms. It had become clear to the unlikely couple that the desire for one another was reciprocated, and had become too strong for them to ignore any longer.
"We all knew they would end up being 'on again' at some point," Judy commented. Leonard just nodded slowly in response, whilst watching his eldest daughter and granddaughter dancing together.
"So are you staying in the city tonight or heading back out to Long Island?" Judy asked, with a small smile playing on her lips in anticipation of the answer.
Leonard grinned as he could see the direction that the conversation was heading in. "I haven't quite decided yet. I may need some convincing."
Judy blushed and turned away in an attempt to hide her crimson cheeks. "Well, I've booked myself into a spa hotel in the city for tonight, and I'm afraid that I'll be all alone in that large king size bed."
"It sounds to me like you could use some company. Isn't Jack going to be joining you?" Leonard asked, wary of what he might receive as a reply.
"No. I've told him that I need some time away from him. He found out that I know about Brandy, and things have gotten very tense at home. Ross and Monica don't know anything about it and that's the way I'd like it to stay, for the moment at least."
It was getting late, and so the lustful couple decided to sneak away to Judy's hotel suite.
"I feel like a teenager again," Judy gushed as the pair hurried into a cab just along the street from the reception venue, where their eldest children had just made their declaration of love for one another to the world.
The couple locked eyes and then within an instant they were in each others arms, clinched in a passionate kiss. All the desire, lust and longing that had built up between the couple over the last three years were being poured into that one kiss. The rest of the world was just a blur of shapes and colours to them as the cab driver knowledgably guided them through the maze like streets of Ney York City. The only thing that pulled the duo out of their loved-up fantasy was the cussing from the driver, and the screeching of tyres on tarmac. And then there was darkness.