Chapter Eight
"Come on Mike" Phoebe practically flew through the living room grabbing him as they went through "we've gotta go look at that house across the road"
"oh yeah" Mike remembered "what about the kids?"
"Monica said they could stay here" Phoebe paused for a minute "come on"
Monica came down the stairs holding baby Daisy, she was followed by Rachel and Alex with their babies. Rachel put Charlotte on the floor to play with all the toys around her.
"Alex?" Joey asked, really really excited now and wanting to be with Lola as much as possible "can I hold Lola?"
"Sure darling" Alex gently handed her over to him, she knew that Joey would look after her the best he could, and there were four other very experienced parents there to help him if he needed them too "right well I hope you don't think I'm rude" Alex yawned "but I'm going to have a sleep, wake me up if Lola-Marie needs me"
Rachel collapsed down onto the sofa, next to her husband and snuggled in under his arm. "So, Joey, hows fatherhood treating you?"
"yeah not too bad" Joey couldn't force himself to look away from Lola's beautiful sleeping face "I'm so glad I changed and fell in love with Alex, I'm so lad that I'm not the same person who left for LA all those years ago. I'm so glad I've grown up, if I hadn't have done that, Lola wouldn't be here!"
"So" Monica looked at Rachel and Ross and prayed that she wasn't talking out of term, even though deep down she knew she wasn't "you're next"
"we have a nine month old baby" Ross corrected her and then immediately regretted it "we started the baby boom"
"Don't you want another one soon?" Rachel asked him thinking that maybe her plan had a little bump in the road "like in six months or so?"
"yeah, maybe, but not right away, lets let Charlotte be the baby of the family for a few months" Ross sensed straight away that he had said the wrong thing and upset Rachel,
"Anyway" Monica interrupted, sensing the same as Ross "we're going to have a scan next week, we'll find out whether we've got a boy or a girl"
"Excellent" Joey smiled at them for a nano second, which was the longest he had looked away from Lola since Alex had gone to bed "what would you like?"
"A boy" Monica responded almost too quickly and then thought of a valid reason "seeing as there's so many girls"
"I'm not too bothered" Chandler responded as truthfully as Chandler Bing can
"So" Joey changed the subject sensing that Chandler wasn't a big fan of the conversation that was going on "Charlotte's cute isn't she Ross? She looks like you!"
"Yeah they're both so different" Ross replied picturing his girls faces in his mind "Emma's like Rachel and Charlotte's like me"
"They're both beautiful though" Rachel added not letting either of her girls be put down "all of our children are beautiful"
"Mommy, mommy" Liberty Hannigan came running into the room "where's my mommy?"
"she's gone to look at something with Daddy" Rachel smiled at her, she had always thought that Libby was stunning "are you okay Libby?"
"yes" Libby responded "but Summer's upset"
"Okay" Rachel got up and followed Summer out of the room, as she walked out Ross watched her go and thought about how sexy she was "let's go and see if she's okay"
"Right now she's gone" Ross started to be extremely honest with his friends "please try not to make Rachel broody again, I don't want another one right now"
"Ross, come on" Monica told him sternly, she wasn't too happy with her brother right now, "it's not just you're decision, its Rachel's too, don't you think that now Charlotte's getting a little bit older, I'm pregnant and Phoebe and Alex have tiny babies that Rachel might want another one"
"I don't though" Ross told her selfishly "not yet anyway, Charlotte is the baby and I'd like her to remain that way for a little while."
"I think you need to talk to Rachel" Alex added as she came down the stairs butting into the conversation, but not in a rude way "she wants another one soon, she already told us"
"Okay" Ross agreed reluctantly "I'll talk to her tonight"
"Hey baby" Joey said to Alex, really pleased that he could see her and be with her again "couldn't you sleep?"
"I did, but not for long, I wanted to be with you and Lola" Alex responded as she gently sat herself down on the couch causing Joey to put his arm around her "I'm feeling okay though, is Lola okay"
"Yeah," Joey responded lovingly "she's having some daddy time"
"Can she have some mummy time?" Alex asked longing to hold her daughter, she was missing her, even if she was just being held by her dad
"Of course here you go" Joey responded and gently gave Lola a kiss and handed her over "I love you Lola-Marie Tribbianni"
"Rach" Ross called up to where the kids were playing, he couldn't wait anymore, he had to talk to her now "can we go home for a minute, I would like to talk to you about something important"
"sure" Rachel was obviously worried about it "Monica, can I leave Emma and Charlotte here?"
"Sure, whatever you want" Monica smiled, she loved it when Emma and Charlotte came to play
Rachel realized that Ross wasn't happy. She stormed out of the door, she could sense an argument brewing and didn't really want to have one. Ross followed and shut the door behind him. He really didn't want an argument either but could sense it too.
