TOW they Meet Again
This story may seem weird at first, but at least it's original (I think. I've never read a fic with this plot line sooo… sorry if I took someone's idea! It wasn't intentional!)J. In this fic, Rachel doesn't know any of the gang except for Phoebe, who's her best friend, and Monica and Ross, who she hasn't seen since high school, and doesn't remember. Monica, Ross, Chandler and Joey are best friends. Monica and Chandler are dating, and you have to find out the rest for yourself. I don't own any of these chracters, all though I wish I did! (especially Ross) But, I'll settle for all of them! :D I mean no infringement on property, and this script is meant for purely entertainment.

Rachel sat in her office sorting through files, and muttering to herself. She hated her job so much, it was so demeaning. It was taking her no where. She had worked there for 3 years, and had done the same thing every day that she was there. The only reason that she bothered to stay was so that she could pay her rent, which she was a month behind now as well.
"Shit!" Rachel yelled as she dropped the stapler on her foot and yelped in pain. "Ugh! Why do I even bother?"
"Did you say something?" Rachel's boss Carla asked her as she entered Rachel's cubicle. "I thought I heard you say something."
"No. Nothing at all." Rachel fumed wishing she had the guts to just quit.
"Oh all right then." Carla said giving her a funny look as she walked away.
Rachel sighed and slumped over her desk hating her life. If only there was something good in her life!

Ross sat at his desk, organizing some papers on his desk and whistling. His friend would be here any minute, so that they could go out to lunch. He tried concentrating on his work, but found it hard, as his mind drifted to his lover, who he had been going out with for almost 3 years now. He stared up at the ceiling, and let his mind drift off, relax, as he thought about how fulfilling his life was. A knocking at the door interrupted his thoughts.
"Hey!" Ross said, getting up and kissing him.
"Hey." The man replied smiling back at Ross.
"Ready to go out for lunch?" Ross asked smiling back and looking eager to get out of his office.
"Am I ever!" The man replied taking Ross' hand and leading him out.

Rachel shot a look at the clock and saw that it was time for lunch. She let out a sigh of relief as she grabbed her coat and walked quickly out of her office, before her boss could ask her to stay in and do extra work. She smiled as she exited the building, and breathed in the midday Manhattan air. She looked around and squinted, as the bright sunlight shone down on her. She started walking in the direction of the food court, eager to get some food in her stomach. She groaned when she saw that there was nowhere to sit. This is what she hated about New York City. There were too many people. She got into the long Pizza Pazza lineup. She stared blankly at her watch, and realized that she only had 45 minutes left for lunch. The lineup was moving slower than a snail.
Once she had ordered a slice of cheese, she paid and left, looking for a vacant seat, so that she could sit down and eat. A man noticed her standing with nowhere to sit, and asked her if she'd like to come and sit down with him and his friend. Rachel nodded gratefully, and sat down beside them, attempting to make small talk over the noise of the hundreds of people chatting over lunch.

"Hi!" The man said. "I'm Ross, and this is my friend Michael!"
"I'm Rachel Greene. Thanks for letting me sit with you, or else I would have had to go eat lunch in my office!" She said over the noise.
"No problem." He replied simply. The name sounded familiar, but he couldn't quite place her anywhere.
Over lunch they talked about their careers, boyfriends, girlfriends, and everything they could think of. Rachel felt strangely comfortable with Ross. He seemed like a really nice guy, and she seemed to remember him from somewhere, but her memory failed her, and she couldn't come up with anyone that he could be.
"I have to go to the bathroom." Michael said. "I'll be back in a minute."
Michael left, leaving Ross and Rachel alone.
"You two seem really close." Rachel implied.
"Yeah, there's something I didn't tell you, I'm, uh, gay. Michael and I have been going out for about 3 years."
"Really? I sensed a closeness there." Rachel said disappointedly. She really liked Ross and had hoped to get to know him better as more then a friend.
"What about you?" Ross asked. "Any current boyfriend?"
"No. I'm all alone. I don't even have a roommate. I can hardly pay my rent, I have an extra room, but no roommate." Rachel laughed
Ross laughed with her. "What do you mean no boyfriend? You're very pretty, I would've thought you'd been snagged and caught a long time ago!"
"Nope. Still dangling!" Rachel commented. She looked at her watch and realized that her lunch had ended 10 minutes ago. Carla would be mad.
"Crap!" Rachel exclaimed. "My lunch break ended 10 minutes ago! I better get going."
"Can I see you again?" Ross asked sincerely.
Rachel grabbed a napkin and a pen and scribbled her number down.
"Here. Give me a call anytime, and we can get together." Rachel answered smiling.
"That would be great." Ross smiled back.
"All right. Gotta go!" Rachel said running out of the food court and all the way back to work.
She smiled as she jogged into her office building, but stopped when she entered her cubicle, and saw her boss sitting at her desk looking through her stuff.
"Hi, can I help you?" Rachel asked coldly.
"Yes, you can. You're 20 minutes late." Carla answered in the same tone. "Next time it happens, you're fired."
Carla got up and left, and Rachel made a face at her back, and sat down smiling. She thought about Ross all afternoon. What if he didn't call? She didn't have his number, so she wouldn't be able to see him again. He worked at the Museum of Prehistoric History. She could always go down and ask for Ross. She loved his brown hair, and large brown puppy eyes. They made her melt.
"Great" She thought. "I have a crush on a guy who's gay."

Ross sat in his office staring at a picture of a dinosaur on his wall. He thought of Rachel, and decided that he would call her right when he got home. He was looking forward to seeing her again. He couldn't wait to tell his baby sister that he had met a really cool girl at lunch. Maybe he could even set his friend Joey up with her. Ross decided to go home early. He grabbed his coat and left, locking up his office, and skipping out of the building, towards his car.
When Ross got back to his and Michael's place, he dropped his stuff off, and went across the hall to Monica and Chandler's.
"Hey Mon, hey Chandler!" He greeted them as he kissed Monicas' cheek.
"Why are you home so early?" Monica asked as she cuddled up to Chandler on the couch.
"Just felt like it." Ross smiled.
Joey emerged from the bathroom, and Ross greeted him.
"I met a really cool girl today at lunch!" Ross said excitedly
"Does this mean you're not gay anymore?" Joey asked hopefully
"Of course I'm still gay, she's just really nice and pretty. But, if I wasn't gay, I'd probably go out with her." Ross said grinning like a schoolboy who'd just gotten his first kiss.
"Ross has a crush!" Chandler teased.
"No. I'm going to call her now!" Ross replied as he picked up the phone and dialed out the number. He hung up the phone disappointed a minute later. "She's not home yet. Oh well. It's better this way anyways. Michael and I already have plans."
The gang all groaned, as they hated Michael. Even though he had lived across the hall from Chandler and Monica and beside Joey's apartment for over 4 years, they still hated him. Especially when he made Ross give up Ugly Naked Guy's apartment to move in with him.
"Why do you guys hate him so much!?" Ross questioned them
"Because he's so boring!" Chandler quipped. "You deserve better!"
"Yeah, like a woman!" Joey said, obviously upset, but supporting Ross' choice to be gay.
"Oh, leave him alone." Monica said, going to hug her brother. "You go out for dinner with Michael, and call this girl after you come back."
"All right." Ross said. "I'll call her later. Hey Joey, maybe I can set you up with her? Anyway, Michael's going to be home soon, so I better go. Bye."
Ross exited, and Chandler thought for a minute. "I can't even remember when Ross first told me he was gay. I guess it was sometime after high school. He'd been a big loser back then, remember, Mon? He'd had this huge crush on a girl named Rachel Greene, and after she told him he was a huge loser, and she would never date him, he stopped liking women." Chandler said sadly.
"I remember." Monica said quietly. "I can't believe she'd do that to my brother though. We used to be best friends."
"I wonder if this girl is as hot as Ross says she is." Joey said absently, not listening to Chandler and Monica's conversation.
Monica and Chandler sighed, and continued to talk amongst themselves.
The next day was a Saturday, and Ross bounded out of bed, waking Michael up who was sleeping beside him.
"Why are you getting up so early?" Michael asked crankily.
"I'm going to call that girl that we met at the food court yesterday. We're going to meet up somewhere." Ross said grinning to himself.
"Why? She didn't seem nice. I don't like her. Get back in bed so that I can go to sleep." Michael replied almost angrily.
Ross shook his head, changed out of his pajamas and left to call Rachel. Michael sighed, and decided that he needed to have a little talk with Ross.
Ross called Rachel's house, and she groggily answered.
"Hello?" She asked tiredly.
"Hi! Did I wake you up?" Ross asked
"Yeah, kinda. Who's this?" she asked him.
"Oh! It's Ross!"
"Oh hey Ross! I was waiting for you to call!"
"Sorry for waking you up! I just thought you'd be up at 11:30." Ross replied
"It's 11:30?? I should have been up 2 hours ago. I just stayed up really late watching a movie on TV."
"What movie?" Ross asked
"Grease. John Travolta used to be so sexy." Rachel sighed.
"Yeah…" Ross agreed. "Listen, would you like to do something today? I can introduce you to my friends and my little sister."
"Sure! What time?" Rachel asked
"How about 7:00? We can go out to dinner and a movie, and you can meet my friends before that. They live right across the hall." Ross said
"Well, then I'll come over to your house." Rachel said
"Yeah! I live at 546 Marden Ave. Apartment 18." Ross said
"Well then I'll see you at 7:00!" Rachel said happily.
"I guess so!" Ross agreed. "Bye."
Ross hung up, and sighed happily, sinking into the couch, and daydreaming. Michael came out of their room, and walked right past Ross into the bathroom. Ross watched after him. Lately, it seemed that things had been getting worse between him and Michael. They fought almost constantly. Ross decided he had to get out of their apartment, so he decided to go down to the Central Perk, to see if anyone was there.

Rachel got out of bed, and called Phoebe to come over. Once Phoebe was over, they had a girl talk about how she should act around Ross.
"Don't let on that you like him." Phoebe instructed Rachel, who was sitting cross-legged on the couch bouncing up and down happily.
"Okay." Rachel said.
"Practice not liking him." Phoebe said to her.
Rachel frowned and put on a bored face.
"No, not bored, not wanting to be with him but not attracted to him." Phoebe said.
Rachel put on the same face, and Phoebe let out a frustrated groan. "We're not getting anywhere Rachel."
"Well, I'm sorry Pheebs, but that's my I don't like you in that way face!" Rachel complained.
"All right. Let's practice your manners." Phoebe said changing the subject.
"Okay." Rachel said.
"Okay. So he's gay. He doesn't like you that way, you're a friend to him. Avoid touchy topics like ex-boyfriends and breakups, and current relationships and so on." Phoebe replied characteristically.
"I don't know Pheebs. I can just pretend he's my friend! I can do that." Rachel looked unsure. "I can--- do that… I hope."
When Ross came back from the coffeehouse hours later, Michael was sitting on the couch reading.
"Ross, I need to talk to you." Michael said matter-of-factly
"Can't it wait, Michael? I'm going to meet Rachel in an hour." Ross said.
"It's important." Michael insisted.
"Okay, well what is it?" Ross asked impatiently.
"I don't think…" he began
"What?" Ross asked
"I don't think we should see each other anymore." Michael whispered.
"What?" Ross asked completely shocked. He hadn't been expecting this. He had been expecting Michael to ask him not to go out with Rachel. Not break up with him.
"You heard me." Michael said emotionlessly. "I think you should move out."
Ross was at a complete loss for words. He loved Michael. There was no way that this could be happening. He got up, went into their bedroom, and slammed the door.

An hour later when Rachel came to the apartment, the door was open.
"Knock knock!" Rachel called out cheerfully.
She heard the door slam, as Ross came out of his room throwing stuff in a suitcase and cursing.
"Ross, are you okay?" Rachel asked sincerely.
Ross didn't hear her, and he continued throwing stuff into a suitcase, as he started crying.
"Oh my god Ross. What happened? Rachel asked
Ross jumped, shocked that someone was watching him.
"Rachel! Oh no! I forgot that you were coming. If I'd remembered, I would have…" Ross motioned to the mess in the living room. Everything was thrown about. Ross had clearly gone into a rage, and broken everything that wasn't his. He started sobbing.
"Ross, it's okay! Tell me what happened." Ross wiped his eyes.
"Well, Michael, broke up with me and asked me to move out." Ross said, suddenly angry.
"Well if he doesn't want you, he's crazy." Rachel said comfortingly.
"Thanks." Ross said surprised. "Hey, do you, sorry if this is too forward, but do you still have that spare room at your place?"
"Yeah! Would you like to come live with me?" Rachel asked happily.
"Yeah I would! I mean, if it's not a problem." Ross said timidly.
"Of course not! Here, I'll help you, and we can go back to my place and set you up. I'll take a rain check on the movies and dinner." Rachel said.
"Oh, I wish I could wait around to see my sister kick his ass." Ross answered. "My sister had always hated him, and when she found out about what Michael had done, she, Chandler, and Joey had gone completely ballistic. Oh! Come meet them!" he said in a much better mood.
"Uh, sure?" Rachel said following his lead.
Ross knocked on his sister's door, and Monica answered.
"Rachel?!" Monica asked clearly very shocked.
"MONICA?!" Rachel asked in the same surprised tone.
Suddenly, Ross and Rachel realized who they were. Ross instantly remembered what she had done to him, and immediately wished that he had never met her again.

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