About a week after the "conferences", Ross was kicked out of the apartment he was going to move to. The apartment was Emily's cousin's so it made sense but he couldn't move back to his old apartment because it was now being rented out. "Hey," he said when he entered Central Perk and sat down with Joey and Chandler.

"Hey," answered Chandler while Joey hid the magazine he had been looking at.

"Emily's cousin kicked me out!" said Ross, frustrated. He had already told Rachel and she promised to look for some apartments for him.

"What?!" exclaimed Chandler.

"Why?" asked Joey.

"Well, when you're subletting an apartment from your fiance's cousin and then you don't get married, sometimes he wants his apartment back," said Ross. He didn't get why Emily's cousin couldn't just give him time to find a new apartment first. He now had to find a place to live by the end of the week.

"How can he do that? Didn't you sign a lease?" asked Chandler.

"Who needs a lease when it's family!" exclaimed Ross, clearly upset.

Joey got an idea. "Hey, you can stay with us! We'll take care of ya!"

"Oh yeah!" Chandler chimed in. "Absolutely! Anything you need man! But you have to promise me the second you are feeling better so that we can make fun of your hair!"

"Yeah," agreed Joey.

"You got it," said Ross.

"Okay."

"Thanks you guys. I really appreciate this. All right, I'm gonna go get packing again," said Ross. "Man, I've been moving around so much, I'm beginning to feel like a nomad." Joey started laughing at that and Ross looked at Chandler. "What?"

"He thought you said gonad," explained Chandler as Joey started laughing again.

As Ross left he didn't even want to know. He figured it had something to do with the magazine Joey had hid. He made his way over to Bloomingdale's and went to Rachel's department.

"Hey!" said Ross, giving her a kiss on the cheek.

"Hi, sweetie!" Rachel kissed him back. "Hey, so I think I found you an apartment!"

"So did I! I"m moving in with Joey and Chandler!"

"Ohh, that's even better! You'll be right across the hall! Yay!"

Ross nodded and grinned. "Yeah! I know! It's great. So, I was wondering if you come over and help me pack?"

"Of course!" Rachel thought for a minute. "Wait, shouldn't Monica help? She's better at this."

"No way. I want to be able to spend the evening with you." Ross kissed her. "Okay I gotta go. I'll see you later."

"Okay." Rachel watched him leave and knew she was lucky to be with him again. Everyone deserved a second chance with the one they're meant to be with.

The next day Rachel and Monica were at Central Perk both enjoying a cup of coffee. "So where were you last night?" asked Monica.

"Oh, uh, Ross needed help packing his stuff to move in with Joey and Chandler," answered Rachel, taking a sip of her coffee.

"You helped him pack?" asked Monica.

"He asked me to."

"I'm his sister! I'm good at packing! I'm the packing queen!" exclaimed Monica. "Why did he not think to ask me?"

"I don't know, but if it makes you feel better I was the one who thought to ask you," said Rachel.

"No, that does not make me feel better!"

"Then ask him why, not me," sighed Rachel.

"Okay, I will!" exclaimed Monica. She was going to figure out one or another just what was going on with her brother. And with Rachel too.

That same day when Chandler and Joey walked into their apartment, there were boxes everywhere. Ross told them how much he appreciated them for letting him move in for a while. And then he told them he had taken the liberty to redo their answering machine greeting. Once Ross had gone back to the bathroom to put some stuff away Joey and Chandler both shared a look, wondering what they had just gotten themselves into.

Joey and Chandler's apartment was empty. At least that was what Monica thought when she walked in. She noticed that someone had piled the boxes into a fort. Probably Joey. "Ross?" she called out.

Ross popped up from his hiding place in his fort. "Yeah?"

Monica walked over and started hitting him. "How dare you?!"

"W-w-what?" asked Ross. What did he do wrong now?"

"You had Rachel help you pack!" she exclaimed. "And you didn't ask me!" She hit him again, this time a little harder. "I'm the packing queen!"

"Okay, see this is why I didn't ask you! You would've yelled at me for packing wrong!" Ross notice the anger on his sister's face. "But, but you can help unpack!"

Monica smiled, satisfied. "Okay! First, we need to get you a dresser! Oh, and storage containers!" Monica was getting excited. While she talked she pulled out a pad and a pen and started writing everything down.

Ross tuned her out and went back to playing in the fort.

Late that night or early that morning, Rachel snuck over to Joey and Chandler's to see Ross. "Hi!" she whispered, wrapping her arms around Ross and giving him a kiss.

"Hi," he whispered back.

"Are Joey and Chandler asleep?"

"Joey is, but Chandler snuck out to go somewhere about an hour ago." Ross started to kiss her, neither of them noticing that Joey had walked in on his way to the bathroom.

"Aw, man!" groaned Joey. First Chandler and Monica, now Ross and Rachel? Why was he the one always finding out about his friends secret relationships.

Rachel gasped. "This isn't what it looks like!"

"Yeah," agreed Ross. "Rachel, uh, just came over to, uh, borrow something."

"Really?" asked Joey. "Couldn't it have waited till morning?"

"Okay, fine! This is what it looks like," said Rachel.

"So, you two are dating again?" asked Joey.

Ross nodded. "Yes, but you can not tell anyone! Especially Monica!" He knew Monica wouldn't be happy if she found out.

"No one else knows?" Joey was going to have a hard time keeping huge secrets from everyone.

"Well Phoebe knows," admitted Rachel. "But promise us that you will not tell Chandler or Monica!"

And was it difficult during the next few weeks. Joey couldn't tell anyone about Chandler and Monica and he couldn't tell Chandler or Monica about Ross and Rachel. But then Rachel found about about Chandler and Monica. Technically, he hadn't told her, she figured it out. Then Phoebe found out about Chandler and Monica and together Phoebe and Rachel devised a plan to get Chandler and Monica to confess their relationship. And then Ross moved into the Naked Guy's apartment and found out about Chandler and Monica. Now the only relationship he couldn't tell anyone about was Ross and Rachel's.