"So, what do you plan to do?" Chandler asked, intrigued.
"Well, I have a couple of ideas in mind." She smiled.
"Lay em on me."
"Well, we could offer to take them out to dinner, celebrating finishing the movie," She winked, "and then cancel out at the last minute.."
"Leaving them alone." He interrupted, getting the idea. "It's genius. But I'm not sure it'll work."
"Why?"
"You did talk to Rachel today, right? They act like they're still in junior high. Just them eating dinner together won't do anything if you ask me."
"Oh, come on. After about twenty minutes of awkward silence, one of them is bound to say something."
"I don't know, we might have to go one step further."
"Such as...?"
"Well, we could drop hints that one likes the other. If one thinks that the other feels the same way they do, they won't be so nervous about admitting it." He suggested.
"That's true." She said. "But how do you propose we do that?"
"I have some ideas. But, you know, we're going to have to wait a while, because they'll be suspicious if we do it right away."
"Good point. We can start right after they're done filming the movie, just in time for our 'celbration dinner'." She giggled.
They spent the whole evening discussing it. They were definately intent on getting those two together. It was a good thing, too, because they probably would have never done it on their own.
Rachel nor Joey said anything about their feelings to each other or anyone else, knowing they would push them into telling the other. They were going to do it, eventually.

~~~2 months later~~~

"Hey, Mon!" Rachel shouted excitedly, entering the apartment with Joey.
"We are officially finished filming!" Joey announced.
"I am now a famous actress! This is so cool, in a few weeks, people all over the country will be watching me on TV!" She giggled.
"Congratualtions!" Monica said.
"You know," Chandler chimed in, "we should go out to celebrate tonight."
"That would be great!" Joey exclaimed.
"My treat." chandler offered.
"Wow, thanks, you guys, that is so nice." Rachel said gratefully.
"Hey, why don't you two go get ready and we'll call the rest of the gang." Monica suggested. They left and Monica and Chandler, of course, never even called Ross and Phoebe. They had no idea about Joey and Rachel, and the other four wanted to keep it that way. At least for now.
Within a half hour, Joey and Rachel returned. "So are Ross and Pheebs coming?" Rachel asked.
"No they couldn't make it." Chandler recited. "Ross is teaching a night class and Phoebe wasn't home. But, we can still have fun."
The whole way to the restaurant Chandler was sneezing and sniffling and could barely breathe.
"Are you okay?" Rachel asked.
"Oh, yeah, I'm...I'm...ACHOO!"
"Are you sure you want to do this tonight, you don't sound so good." Joey said.
"Chandler, I think you're coming down with something. Maybe we should go home." Monica suggested.
"I think she's right, you sound awful." Rachel responded.
"Oh, you know what, we're already here. Why don't you two just take our credit card and we'll go." Monica said.
" No, we can't do that." Joey relpied.
"No, it's fine, we want you to." Chandler sniffled. Rachel and Joey got out of the cab and went into the restaurant.
"Oh yeah, we're good!" Monica applauded herself.
Chandler laughed, completely cured of his cold, of course, and they went home.