sorrrrry i left ya hangin for so long!! ive been having some health things goin on...but yeh here's ya an update. once again, sry so short. luv yalls. *rachele*

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~chapter 6:~

Rachel knew how much she loved Joel. Yet, she knew how much she loved Ross. She'd been stuck in the middle her whole life, and she was happy with both. Yet, the love she felt for Joel was so much different. So much more--- magical.

No one knew about Joel. No one.

It sucked. She was ashamed of how she's acted. She was dating Joel when she was carrying Emma. ROSS'S CHILD! It was so wrong. Disgraceful. Unlike her.

She wished she could take it all back.

"This Emma?" He reached into the car, stroaking her hair.

"Yeah, yeah...this is my girl."

"She's so beautiful." He looked at Rachel, stroaking her hair also, staring into her eyes. He got lost in a mass of her. How much he loved her. "Just like you."

Rachel smiled, leaning in, and giving him a long kiss.

::four hours later::

"It's so beautiful down here." Rachel said, lounging by the pool, with Joel next to her. Her hair was pulled up into a messy ponytail, and she had on a black bikini. She saw the stares Joel was giving her, and preferably didn't mind.

Emma was in her crib asleep upstairs in Joel's house, after they'd gotten settled in, earlier. They figured they'd be staying awhile...

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Ross sat, realizing it was yet another day without her. It was that same emptiness, that he'd felt since she'd left. He wished, she'd call him. He'd called her cell, more than once, but she'd not answered it, he figured she's probably turned it off, dodging his calls. But why would she do that? What had he did to her?

He scanned his thoughts, realizing he hadn't did anything to make her leave. It wasn't his fault. Wasn't his fault at all.

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"I'm gonna go use the phone, okay?" Rachel informed Joel, as he rubbed the sun oil on the small of her back, and kissed it.

"Don't stay long." He smiled, a small michevious smile.

Rachel giggled, as she walked into his kitchen, pulling her cell phone out of her purse and dialed Monica's cell number.

After two rings, she picked up. "Hello?"

"Mon..Hi." Rachel said.

"Rach! How are you? Where are you?" She asked, frantically.

"Mon, I'll tell you but please don't tell Ross. Please."

"Why are you acting weird like this?"

"Promise me, you won't tell him."

"Okay..Okay why?" She asked anxiously.

"I'm in Orlando."

"Wha-Why? Who? How long?" Monica asked, still not getting what she needed.

"I just wanted to tell you...I miss ya'll already, but I'm gonna be down here for a few weeks. I'm with someone, I'm safe, Emma's ok...We're fine, so don't worry. Love you, Mon."

"What? Rachel..why the hell are you acting like this? It's not you. You're not like this."

Rachel took a deep breath, and realized she wasn't. She wasn't like this. She took a breath though, and knew she'd changed, and didn't care.

"I know, I know okay. I've gotta go... talk to you later." Rachel rolled her eyes at herself, as she let a tear escape, hanging up the phone.

'I've screwed up.' She thought to herself. 'I really have.'