Chapter 31

Disclaimer: I don't own anything to do with friends, but im getting closer to it.

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Beth: Thank you for the suggestion. I thought about it, and it would work into the story really well, so im going to use it. As you will see in this chapter :o) If you have any more ideas let me know and ill see what I can do.

Vanessa: I'll send my pics of matty over to you ASAP hun :o)

A/N: Ok so I think the next 2 chapters are defiantly it. Then a sequel. I'm also toying with the idea of a "What if Phoebe hadn't been attacked" storyline. Showing you how different their lives would have been. Would do you think?

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Ross arrived at the Museum as quickly as he could. The curiosity of Rachel's "Game" was getting the better of him. He sighed, exhausted from the wild goose chase that his girlfriend was evidently sending him on.

"Hey Professor Geller," A man in overalls wiping the linoleum floors with a mop greeted him as he got to the planetarium doors.

"Oh hey Pete. You don't happen to have a seen a woman around here have you?" Ross questioned, doubtful.

Pete gave a knowing smirk. "Not recently Sir, just me and you here now,"

"Thanks anyway," Ross gave a half-hearted nod and kept walking. Letting Pete get back to his cleaning.

He got to the doors and paused, his hand on the doorknob. He took a deep breath and flung the door wide open. The room was in complete darkness.

He let his eyes adjust to the light and looked around the room, not moving from the doorway. He let out a sigh of frustration, feeling defeated in someway. Just as he was about to shut the door back over and leave he heard a clicking noise and suddenly the ceiling lit up with a cornucopia of stars.

"What the hell?" Ross looked up into the "sky" and read what was written.

"Remember our first night here? It was the most wonderful night of my life. Thank you for everything. I truly love you Ross Geller. Meet me at Monica's. Love Rachel."

Placed on the podium were a blanket and 2 cartons of juice. One cran-apple and one cran-grape.

Ross laughed out loud as he thought back to the night they had first made love and been caught by bunch of kids on their class tip to the museum. All his annoyance went out the window as he realised how sweet Rachel's "game" was turning out to be.

He let the door close in front of him, and stood for a moment pondering his life with Rachel, and everything that had happened between them, especially in the last 24 hours.

"Get what you were looking for?" Ross span around abruptly to see Pete standing behind him, still smirking smugly, his mop still in his hand.

"Oh, yeah, sort of." Ross continued to think in confused silence before making his way to his sister's apartment. He couldn't wait to hold Rachel in his arms again and find out what exactly she was planning.

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Ross apprehensively opened the door to Monica's and peeked his head around the door, not knowing what to expect. The room looked absolutely no different, much to his relief. Just a few randomly placed candles flickered, allowing enough light for him to see a yellow posit note stuck onto the television.

He shut the door behind him and walked over to the note, ripping it off and reading it. "Turn on the video recorder."

He did as the note said and flipped the on switch. He sat on the coffee table, bent over so he was leaning his elbows on his knees.

Suddenly a familiar scene flashed onto the screen. It was the prom video he had once shied away from watching. But this time he was gripped as he took a trip down memory lane.

He sat, engrossed, for the 10 short minutes the video played. Tears stung at his eyes as he remembered vividly the feeling of rejection that had gripped him 10 years ago as he watched Rachel leave arm in arm with Chip Matthews. Now it was all coming back to him in waves. That same feeling of failure, love and hatred all rolled into one.

It wasn't Rachel's fault though. She was oblivious to how he felt. She lived in Rachel land most of the time, never once taking on board how anyone else felt. A little selfish, maybe, but Ross even loved that about her. Her flaws were perfections to him. She could do no wrong in his eyes.

Just as he was about to turn the video off the screen flickered and Rachel appeared alone.

"Hi again sweetie. Ok if everything has gone to plan, you have been to the planetarium and seen my message and you have just watched the prom video. I remember watching that video and thinking how you were the sweetest man on earth for what you did for me that day. I realised there and then that you were the man of my dreams. The man to love me and give me the passion I so longed for. Phoebe was right Ross, you are my lobster. That's me just figured it out. It's taken me 18 years, but it's been worth the wait. You've been worth the wait.

You are probably sick of running around after me. But meet me at Central Perk. I have a surprise for you.

See you soon"

She kissed her hand and held it up so her palm was visible on the television. Ross reached out his hand as if he could actually feel her touch, her kiss, through the TV.

As the screen faded to black he jumped from his seat at the coffee table and ran for the door, leaving everything still switched on. There was no time for fickleness. Rachel had a surprise for him, and he had to find out what it was.

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Sorry for the long delay guys but ff.net hasn't been letting me post :o( Anyways. next part up tomorrow. Remember to review ;o)