BOYS & GIRLS - Chapter 3
Monica entered to the bedroom running, she couldn't get the picture of Steven and that other girl from the head. She had to talk to Rachel, she had to prepare her for whatever was Steve was gonna tell her, either way he was deffently break her heart into million pieces. There was no one in the room, Monica turn on the lights and through herself to her bed, waiting for Rachel to come back home. She looked her watch, it was 10:50 pm "she just went to the library to pick up some books" thought Monica "Where the hell is she?and where is Pheebs?"
The door opened suddenly and Phoebe entered the room giggling. "Here I am Monica, stop worrying" said winking at Monica
"But how did you...."
"I've told you a thousand times, I'm psychic!"
"Ok Pheebs,whatever"
"Ow. what happen?! you aura is all messed up?" asked Phoebe, starting to arrange Monica's aura "how did it go at Ross'?"
"Ross wasn't home..."
"so what took you so long?, were you having a little "fun" with Chandler?"
"Chandler?... ew no!"
"WITH JOEY THEN?" said Phoebe a little bit mad
"No Pheebs!!, I didn't had "fun" with anybody. Chandler and Joey weren't home either"
"Then what happened?"
"When I entered the house all the lights were off, except for the kitchen ones, well I...I...enter and then..." Monica's voice trailed, she wasn't sure if she should tell Phoebe about what she saw, they've only been friends for a little more than 4 months, and even though she already feel she could trust Phoebe with her soul, she wasn't sure if it was such a good idea to tell her about Rachel's issues
"and then what Mon....Come on...tell me...I won't tell anything to anyone,I promise" said Phoebe with a smile on her face
"Ok.I entered and then I saw... I saw Steve with a girl..."
"And that was the big deal?so he was with a girl in the kitchen, she could have been a classmate.Unless they were..."
"EXACTLY!" rushed to say Monica before Phoebe could end what she was gonna say
"they were making out?" said seriously Phoebe
"well... no exactly... but yeah, between other things they where also doing that"
"OH MY GOD!!!, they were having sex in the kitchen?"
"yes"
"EW EW EW!!" said Phoebe with a disgusted face "I'll never eat in that place again!"
"Big picture Pheebs please!, that's not the point,beside,I already cleaned and desinfected everything,that's why it took me so long"
"Can say I'm surprise though.Are you gonna tell Rachel?"
"I told him he had till tomorrow to make a clean break up with her, otherwise I'd tell her.Rach's gonna be so broken hearted" finnished Monica, not noticing that in that same moment Rachel was entering the room
"Why am I gonna be broken hearted Mon?" said Rachel really worried
"Rachel?" jumped Monica from the bed. "Where were you?you got me worried"
"I was at Central Perk.Why were you guys talking about me?, did something happen? did Steve call?"
Phoebe and Monica looked at each other, none of them wanting to tell her what was really happening
"I... I... went out right after you, so I really don't know" managed to say Monica
"yeah...me too...sorry" said quickly Phoebe
"no, it's ok...He probably still has a lot of work to do...and where did you two go?"
"I...I went to see my brother" replied nervously Monica
"And I...I...I went with her.We hang out with Ross, Chandler and Joey for a while" lied Phoebe
"Really?!with Ross?did you had a good time?" asked Rachel, really pissed cause she could tell her friends were lying to her
"My brother is such an idiot" Monica faked a laugh, and Phoebe started to laugh too "The Geller started to fight again,it was hilarious"
"CAN YOU TWO TELL ME WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING HERE?" asked Rachel, this time even more pissed
"Wha...what do you mean Rach?" asked Monica nervous
"Cause I KNOW you two are lying to me...ROSS AND I WERE IN THE CENTRAL PERK TOGETHER SINCE 7:30 'TILL JUST A COUPLE OF MINUTES AGO"
Monica and Phoebe exchanged guilty looks, they had to tell her... there was no other way. Rachel was really pissed
"ARE YOU TWO GONNA TELL ME?"
"Well Rach..." started Monica "I went to see my brother...that's true..."she couldn't find the words to tell her friend what was really happening, but by the look on Rachel's face, she should find them fast
"Ok, I listen to you..." said Rachel, if there was one thing she hated in the world was the lies, and Monica knew that, whatever was she was hiding it had to be huge
"It's really hard for me to tell you this Rach.I...I went to the guy's house and...and.."
"I didn't went" interrupted Phoebe "it was more interesting to say that I went there than to say I went to Bonnie's to watch 'Days of your lifes' in her new TV"
"Bonnie the bold girl?" asked Rachel
"She's not bold,she shaves her head,I think it's pretty cool,I should try it sometime"
"Really, really not" said Rachel, looking at Phoebe weirdly "Monica, you were saying?"
"yeah,ok,well, I went there and, as you know Ross wasn't there, right?" she laugh nervously "and neither were Chandler and Joey..."
"And Steve?" asked really interested Rachel,kind of knowing where everything was heading to
Monica and Phoebe exchanged looks once again
"AREN'T YOU GONNA ANSWER ME MONICA?"
"Steve was...he was...he was in the kitchen...with another girl...he was having...you know...sex...I'm sorry Rach" said Monica with tears in her eyes for being the one breaking her friend's heart
Rachel was in shock...her face white like a paper sheet,and she slowly sat down on Monica's bed, feeling like neither the tears or the words wanted to come out. Monica and Phoebe sitted each other at one of Rachel's side and huged her "I'm sorry honey..I didn't want to be the one telling you this...I hate seeing you crying, but it was better for you to hear it from me than to watch it with your own eyes" said Monica, with the voice filled with emotions, but yet strong so her friend could feel like she wasn't alone
"We're here for you Rach...if you want me to curse him, I'll do it right away" said Phoebe, trying to make her smile, but Rachel was still in shock. Suddenly she stood up. "I need fresh air" she said, and quickly took her jacket and stormed out the room. Monice was gonna run after her, but Phoebe stopped her "I think she needs some time by herself"
"But did you see her face?" argued Monica "what if she makes something stupid?"
"She just need time and space,you just will have to trust her judment"
*~*
Rachel left the bulding, the night was starry, but really cold. She didn't know where to head to, so she walked to nowhere for a while. After an hour, and without notice, she was in front of the guys' house.There was Steve, that bastard who had betrayed her, hurt her, lied to her and above all things laugh of her, using her for his amusing. After not feeling nothing at all, now she was filled with hate, all she wanted to do was throw a rock to the damn house that'd hopefully would hit the bastard in the head, but Steve's room was facing the backyard of the house, so she decided to head somewhere else. She couldn't believe how blind she had been, Monica, Phoebe and Ross warned her.She was disgusted with herself for letting him even touch her."I really cared about him" thought Rachel "I even think I loved him"
She couldn't contain the tears and started to cry. She cried with a pain like she has never felt before,not even for Chip. She sat on a bench on Central Perk and looked around, she was totally by herself. She took her cell phone from her coat poket and started to dial
*~*
Monica looked at her watch once again, it was 2:00 AM, and still no news about Rachel. "I'm gonna call my brother, it's been almost two hours since Rachel left, maybe she went there.I hope she's there" said Monica really worried. She diealed Ross' cell phone number. In the house everybody was asleep, luckly Ross had forgotten to turn off his cellphone, and started to ring over and over again.
"Hello?" said Ross,still asleep
"ROSS?" yelled Monica
"Monica?!please,it's 2 o'clock in the morning,what do you want?"
"I know it's 2 o'clock in the morning, I just need to know if Rachel's there"
"The last time I saw her was when I left her in front of your bulding like 3 hours ago. But I haven't seen her again, unless she and Steve made up after I fell sleep and is with him now" said Ross, kind of dissapointed
"I really don't think she's with Steve and you haven't heard about it Ross.She just found out he was cheating on her and..."
"WHAT?!" said Ross, quickly standing up "did she... did she see him?"
"no, I saw him..and I told her"
"how did you...well that's not the important thing right now,where is she? how is she?" asked Ross,getting more worried by the second
"I don't know.After I told her, she said she needed fresh air and left, and that was like 2 hours ago.I thought she may have gone to your house"
"No, she hasn't come. Don't worry Mon, I'm gonna go out and find her, ok?, stay there and if you know anything you gice me a call, ok?" said Ross, quickly taking off his pj and putting the clothes he had wore that day
"Ok Ross, please find her, Phoebe and I are sick worried"
"Don't worry, I'll find her" quickly hanging out the phone.
After he was ready to go out, the cell phone ringed again and Ross answered fast "MON?, did you hear about Rachel?Mon?Hello?"
There was a silence on the other side of the line, nobody answer "Weird" thought Ross. The phone ringed once again and Ross answer really fast again. This time Rachel's voice came from the other side, and Ross could see that she had been crying "Ross? come please?I'm scared"
"Rach?!where are you?"
"In the Central Park, near that big horse statue"
"Ok Rach, don't move.I'll be right there in 5 minutes,don't talk to anybody"
"Ok, hurry up, please"
Ross left her room so fast that he even tripped with the last step of the stairs. On his way to the park he called Monica
*~*
"I shouldn't had called Ross" thought Rachel "I don't wanna put him between, Steve is his friend.... but he was so nice with me today... it was so great just to talk to him.... God!, how did I get here?... where is Ross?.... what is taking him so long?". Rachel was really scared, she was sitting in a bench, looking everywhere, waiting for Ross. She has never thought of him like anything than Monica's geek brother who loved dinasaurs, but that day in the coffe house she notice how sweet, nice and carring her was. In the moment they started to talk she realized how much he cared about her without expecting anything back, that's why she called him... she needed to feel safe, and loved like the way she felt that afternoon
Ross appeared suddenly, interrupting Rachel's thoughts "Rach!" he yelled from the other side of the park while he approached to her running. "Honey, are you ok?"
Rachel looked at directly at his eyes, she had never seen how beautiful and sweet they were.... those eyes filled her with a warm feeling she couldn't explain.
"My God Rach, you're shaking" said Ross hugging her while she was still crying
"He was cheating on me Ross" said Rachel between snobs
"I know sweety, Monica told me" said softly Ross while stroking her hair. "I swear I didn't know... I'm gonna hunt him down, and kill him..."
"Just hold me, ok?" begged Rachel. The only thing she needed in that moment was Ross near her
"I'm not going anywhere Rach, don't worry"
They remain hugging for a while, Rachel was still shaking, and Ross took of his jacket and covered her with it. Rachel looked at him really thankful, not just because of the jacket, but also for everything else, for waking up at 1 in the morning just to be with her, for listened to her, support her and not making a lot of question. She wasn't crying anymore, but her whole body soared. She didn't want to go home, Monica and Phoebe would filled her with questions about how she was feeling, and to be honest she really didn't know, she didn't feel ready to answer those questions, she just wanted to be there.... with Ross
"Rach, it's 4 o'clock in the morning, don't you think we should go home now? tomorrow... I mean, in a couple of hours you have classes, and you really should get some sleep" Ross couldn't stop looking into her eyes
"I don't wanna go home... Monica and Phoebe are gonna start asking me how I am, how am I feeling, and I feel like I can't really answer" said Rachel with a really tired voice
"I see... if you want you can go home with me" offered sweetly Ross without really notice what he was saying. Rachel's eyes filled with tears once more. "I'm sorry... Steve... I complete forgot about him... I'm a morron... I'm sorry" Ross was really regretful of what he had said, and didn't know how to take it back
"It's ok Ross... I think I have no other choice than to go back to the bedroom"
"Well Rach, I don't think if what I'm about to say it's going to make things worst... but when I left the house he wasn't in his room"
"Nothing can make this worst" she looked up, and her eyes met his "At least I don't have to take Monica and Phoebe's pitty tonight" a little and weak smile appeared in her face.
Both stood up and started to walk home. Ross was still holding her really close cause she was still shaking because of the cold of the night
"I don't think they can feel pitty for you Rach, they are really worried about you cause they love you so much"
"I know. You know Monica is my best friend, and she's always been, and Pheebs has become in one of my dearest friends, but I'm not ready to hear 'I told you so' right now"
They keep on walking, and Rachel started to cry again. Ross just held her closer and stroke her hair, letting her get all the pain out
*~*
When they entered the house anger took hold of Rachel once more. She let go of Ross' arms and run to Steve's bedroom
"Rach I don't think..." Ross' voice trailed when he saw Rachel standing on the door to Steve's room. He wasn't there, Rachel kneeled down, cover her face with his hands and started to cry harder than she had cried. Ross felt really guilty for brought her there... he shouldn't had, it was obvious that it would only made things worst
"Rach, honey... stand up" said Ross, offering her his hand. She stood up and he held her close once again "this wasn't a good idea... I'm.. I'm..."
"It's ok Ross... I just wanna sleep"
Both went upstairs and entered Ross' bedroom. Once inside they looked at each other akwardly
"You'll have the bed... if you want me I can lend you a t-shirt" said Ross quickly
"Ok... thanks... but where are you gonna sleep?"
"I'm just gonna crush in this couch here" Ross went through his closet and from a drawer took a tiny t-shirt and handle it to Rachel "here, you can wear this"
Rachel looked at the tshirt and smiled at him " 'Frankie say relax'? what is this?"
"Yeah well.... it doesn't fit me anymore" said Ross blushing
*~*
The morning after Ross woke up and looked at his bed, Rachel was still aspleep. "I never thought I'd seen her sleeping in my bed" he thought. Suddenly he remembered everything that had took place the night after, and he was decided to beat Steve to dead the next time he sees him. "I'm gonna make her a nice breakfast, she needs to recover energy" thought Ross happyly while he was walking downstairs. When he got to the first floor nor Joey or Chandler were up yet, he looked at the watch and saw it was 9 o'clock in the morning "it's better this way, I don't want to explain them this whole Rachel thing".
When he was entering the kitchen he feel some keys noices on the house door, when he turned around to see who it was, he saw Steve standing in the lobby, smiling at him
"Up so early?" said Steve with a cheering voice
Ross just stood there looking at him
"Come on dude, you can talk to me now... I'm breaking up with your precious Rachel today... now she's all yours if you..."
Steve didn't finnish the whole sentence when Ross pounced over him and starting to beating him as hard as he could. Steve pushed him really hard, making him crash against the table where they kept the mail
"WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?" asked a really pissed Steve
Rachel heared Steve's voice coming from the first floor and quickly got up, she went down a couple of steps and watched the two guys arguing
"YOU'RE A BASTARD!, YOU CHEATED ON HER!, YOU HURT HER!... I knew you were gonna do that" yelled Ross
"And what are you gonna do about it?... keep on beating me??... why do you take it so seriously?... she's just a girl... I had fun with her for a while, but I already got boared.... why are you so bitter anyway, you have no idea how to have fun... you care too much about everything" said Steve really relaxed
"Just a girl?.... are you sick?... how can you say that... God, she loves you!!" said Ross, not believing what he was hearing
"all the girls love me dude"
Rachel couldn't believe what she was hearing either. 'Just a girl'?, he ment so much for her and she was 'just a girl'?, he was just having fun with her?... why?... "all the things he said... were lies" Rachel thought
"Come on dude... get real... Rachel was too..." Steve lift his eyes and saw Rachel in the stairs "RACHEL?"
Ross turned around and saw Rachel, pale and with the eyes red and swollen from crying. "Rach... you're... you're up" was all he could say, wishing she hadn't heared anything of what Steve said
"WHAT IS SHE DOING HERE?... did you two sleep together?" asked Steve
"Look, you have no right to ask her anything.... I want you out of my house this afternoon.... I don't wanna see your disgusting face ever again... take all your sh¡t and get the hell out of here"
Ross went to where Rachel was, she was still there, without moving. When he get to the same step she was sitting on he hug her and kissed her hair, she was shaking again.
"Rach, I'm so sorry you had to hear that... come, you're gonna take a shower now, ok?... I'm gonna make you a nice breakfast" he kissed her forehead and stroke her hair "I promise you'll never see that guy again, I won't ever let him even step near you, ok?... Everything will be ok now"
Rachel looked at him and just nodded. There was something about Ross' words that made her feel comfortable. If something good came out of all this, it was her new friendship with Ross. And he was right, everything would be ok.... cause now she had him
*~*
Monica entered to the bedroom running, she couldn't get the picture of Steven and that other girl from the head. She had to talk to Rachel, she had to prepare her for whatever was Steve was gonna tell her, either way he was deffently break her heart into million pieces. There was no one in the room, Monica turn on the lights and through herself to her bed, waiting for Rachel to come back home. She looked her watch, it was 10:50 pm "she just went to the library to pick up some books" thought Monica "Where the hell is she?and where is Pheebs?"
The door opened suddenly and Phoebe entered the room giggling. "Here I am Monica, stop worrying" said winking at Monica
"But how did you...."
"I've told you a thousand times, I'm psychic!"
"Ok Pheebs,whatever"
"Ow. what happen?! you aura is all messed up?" asked Phoebe, starting to arrange Monica's aura "how did it go at Ross'?"
"Ross wasn't home..."
"so what took you so long?, were you having a little "fun" with Chandler?"
"Chandler?... ew no!"
"WITH JOEY THEN?" said Phoebe a little bit mad
"No Pheebs!!, I didn't had "fun" with anybody. Chandler and Joey weren't home either"
"Then what happened?"
"When I entered the house all the lights were off, except for the kitchen ones, well I...I...enter and then..." Monica's voice trailed, she wasn't sure if she should tell Phoebe about what she saw, they've only been friends for a little more than 4 months, and even though she already feel she could trust Phoebe with her soul, she wasn't sure if it was such a good idea to tell her about Rachel's issues
"and then what Mon....Come on...tell me...I won't tell anything to anyone,I promise" said Phoebe with a smile on her face
"Ok.I entered and then I saw... I saw Steve with a girl..."
"And that was the big deal?so he was with a girl in the kitchen, she could have been a classmate.Unless they were..."
"EXACTLY!" rushed to say Monica before Phoebe could end what she was gonna say
"they were making out?" said seriously Phoebe
"well... no exactly... but yeah, between other things they where also doing that"
"OH MY GOD!!!, they were having sex in the kitchen?"
"yes"
"EW EW EW!!" said Phoebe with a disgusted face "I'll never eat in that place again!"
"Big picture Pheebs please!, that's not the point,beside,I already cleaned and desinfected everything,that's why it took me so long"
"Can say I'm surprise though.Are you gonna tell Rachel?"
"I told him he had till tomorrow to make a clean break up with her, otherwise I'd tell her.Rach's gonna be so broken hearted" finnished Monica, not noticing that in that same moment Rachel was entering the room
"Why am I gonna be broken hearted Mon?" said Rachel really worried
"Rachel?" jumped Monica from the bed. "Where were you?you got me worried"
"I was at Central Perk.Why were you guys talking about me?, did something happen? did Steve call?"
Phoebe and Monica looked at each other, none of them wanting to tell her what was really happening
"I... I... went out right after you, so I really don't know" managed to say Monica
"yeah...me too...sorry" said quickly Phoebe
"no, it's ok...He probably still has a lot of work to do...and where did you two go?"
"I...I went to see my brother" replied nervously Monica
"And I...I...I went with her.We hang out with Ross, Chandler and Joey for a while" lied Phoebe
"Really?!with Ross?did you had a good time?" asked Rachel, really pissed cause she could tell her friends were lying to her
"My brother is such an idiot" Monica faked a laugh, and Phoebe started to laugh too "The Geller started to fight again,it was hilarious"
"CAN YOU TWO TELL ME WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING HERE?" asked Rachel, this time even more pissed
"Wha...what do you mean Rach?" asked Monica nervous
"Cause I KNOW you two are lying to me...ROSS AND I WERE IN THE CENTRAL PERK TOGETHER SINCE 7:30 'TILL JUST A COUPLE OF MINUTES AGO"
Monica and Phoebe exchanged guilty looks, they had to tell her... there was no other way. Rachel was really pissed
"ARE YOU TWO GONNA TELL ME?"
"Well Rach..." started Monica "I went to see my brother...that's true..."she couldn't find the words to tell her friend what was really happening, but by the look on Rachel's face, she should find them fast
"Ok, I listen to you..." said Rachel, if there was one thing she hated in the world was the lies, and Monica knew that, whatever was she was hiding it had to be huge
"It's really hard for me to tell you this Rach.I...I went to the guy's house and...and.."
"I didn't went" interrupted Phoebe "it was more interesting to say that I went there than to say I went to Bonnie's to watch 'Days of your lifes' in her new TV"
"Bonnie the bold girl?" asked Rachel
"She's not bold,she shaves her head,I think it's pretty cool,I should try it sometime"
"Really, really not" said Rachel, looking at Phoebe weirdly "Monica, you were saying?"
"yeah,ok,well, I went there and, as you know Ross wasn't there, right?" she laugh nervously "and neither were Chandler and Joey..."
"And Steve?" asked really interested Rachel,kind of knowing where everything was heading to
Monica and Phoebe exchanged looks once again
"AREN'T YOU GONNA ANSWER ME MONICA?"
"Steve was...he was...he was in the kitchen...with another girl...he was having...you know...sex...I'm sorry Rach" said Monica with tears in her eyes for being the one breaking her friend's heart
Rachel was in shock...her face white like a paper sheet,and she slowly sat down on Monica's bed, feeling like neither the tears or the words wanted to come out. Monica and Phoebe sitted each other at one of Rachel's side and huged her "I'm sorry honey..I didn't want to be the one telling you this...I hate seeing you crying, but it was better for you to hear it from me than to watch it with your own eyes" said Monica, with the voice filled with emotions, but yet strong so her friend could feel like she wasn't alone
"We're here for you Rach...if you want me to curse him, I'll do it right away" said Phoebe, trying to make her smile, but Rachel was still in shock. Suddenly she stood up. "I need fresh air" she said, and quickly took her jacket and stormed out the room. Monice was gonna run after her, but Phoebe stopped her "I think she needs some time by herself"
"But did you see her face?" argued Monica "what if she makes something stupid?"
"She just need time and space,you just will have to trust her judment"
*~*
Rachel left the bulding, the night was starry, but really cold. She didn't know where to head to, so she walked to nowhere for a while. After an hour, and without notice, she was in front of the guys' house.There was Steve, that bastard who had betrayed her, hurt her, lied to her and above all things laugh of her, using her for his amusing. After not feeling nothing at all, now she was filled with hate, all she wanted to do was throw a rock to the damn house that'd hopefully would hit the bastard in the head, but Steve's room was facing the backyard of the house, so she decided to head somewhere else. She couldn't believe how blind she had been, Monica, Phoebe and Ross warned her.She was disgusted with herself for letting him even touch her."I really cared about him" thought Rachel "I even think I loved him"
She couldn't contain the tears and started to cry. She cried with a pain like she has never felt before,not even for Chip. She sat on a bench on Central Perk and looked around, she was totally by herself. She took her cell phone from her coat poket and started to dial
*~*
Monica looked at her watch once again, it was 2:00 AM, and still no news about Rachel. "I'm gonna call my brother, it's been almost two hours since Rachel left, maybe she went there.I hope she's there" said Monica really worried. She diealed Ross' cell phone number. In the house everybody was asleep, luckly Ross had forgotten to turn off his cellphone, and started to ring over and over again.
"Hello?" said Ross,still asleep
"ROSS?" yelled Monica
"Monica?!please,it's 2 o'clock in the morning,what do you want?"
"I know it's 2 o'clock in the morning, I just need to know if Rachel's there"
"The last time I saw her was when I left her in front of your bulding like 3 hours ago. But I haven't seen her again, unless she and Steve made up after I fell sleep and is with him now" said Ross, kind of dissapointed
"I really don't think she's with Steve and you haven't heard about it Ross.She just found out he was cheating on her and..."
"WHAT?!" said Ross, quickly standing up "did she... did she see him?"
"no, I saw him..and I told her"
"how did you...well that's not the important thing right now,where is she? how is she?" asked Ross,getting more worried by the second
"I don't know.After I told her, she said she needed fresh air and left, and that was like 2 hours ago.I thought she may have gone to your house"
"No, she hasn't come. Don't worry Mon, I'm gonna go out and find her, ok?, stay there and if you know anything you gice me a call, ok?" said Ross, quickly taking off his pj and putting the clothes he had wore that day
"Ok Ross, please find her, Phoebe and I are sick worried"
"Don't worry, I'll find her" quickly hanging out the phone.
After he was ready to go out, the cell phone ringed again and Ross answered fast "MON?, did you hear about Rachel?Mon?Hello?"
There was a silence on the other side of the line, nobody answer "Weird" thought Ross. The phone ringed once again and Ross answer really fast again. This time Rachel's voice came from the other side, and Ross could see that she had been crying "Ross? come please?I'm scared"
"Rach?!where are you?"
"In the Central Park, near that big horse statue"
"Ok Rach, don't move.I'll be right there in 5 minutes,don't talk to anybody"
"Ok, hurry up, please"
Ross left her room so fast that he even tripped with the last step of the stairs. On his way to the park he called Monica
*~*
"I shouldn't had called Ross" thought Rachel "I don't wanna put him between, Steve is his friend.... but he was so nice with me today... it was so great just to talk to him.... God!, how did I get here?... where is Ross?.... what is taking him so long?". Rachel was really scared, she was sitting in a bench, looking everywhere, waiting for Ross. She has never thought of him like anything than Monica's geek brother who loved dinasaurs, but that day in the coffe house she notice how sweet, nice and carring her was. In the moment they started to talk she realized how much he cared about her without expecting anything back, that's why she called him... she needed to feel safe, and loved like the way she felt that afternoon
Ross appeared suddenly, interrupting Rachel's thoughts "Rach!" he yelled from the other side of the park while he approached to her running. "Honey, are you ok?"
Rachel looked at directly at his eyes, she had never seen how beautiful and sweet they were.... those eyes filled her with a warm feeling she couldn't explain.
"My God Rach, you're shaking" said Ross hugging her while she was still crying
"He was cheating on me Ross" said Rachel between snobs
"I know sweety, Monica told me" said softly Ross while stroking her hair. "I swear I didn't know... I'm gonna hunt him down, and kill him..."
"Just hold me, ok?" begged Rachel. The only thing she needed in that moment was Ross near her
"I'm not going anywhere Rach, don't worry"
They remain hugging for a while, Rachel was still shaking, and Ross took of his jacket and covered her with it. Rachel looked at him really thankful, not just because of the jacket, but also for everything else, for waking up at 1 in the morning just to be with her, for listened to her, support her and not making a lot of question. She wasn't crying anymore, but her whole body soared. She didn't want to go home, Monica and Phoebe would filled her with questions about how she was feeling, and to be honest she really didn't know, she didn't feel ready to answer those questions, she just wanted to be there.... with Ross
"Rach, it's 4 o'clock in the morning, don't you think we should go home now? tomorrow... I mean, in a couple of hours you have classes, and you really should get some sleep" Ross couldn't stop looking into her eyes
"I don't wanna go home... Monica and Phoebe are gonna start asking me how I am, how am I feeling, and I feel like I can't really answer" said Rachel with a really tired voice
"I see... if you want you can go home with me" offered sweetly Ross without really notice what he was saying. Rachel's eyes filled with tears once more. "I'm sorry... Steve... I complete forgot about him... I'm a morron... I'm sorry" Ross was really regretful of what he had said, and didn't know how to take it back
"It's ok Ross... I think I have no other choice than to go back to the bedroom"
"Well Rach, I don't think if what I'm about to say it's going to make things worst... but when I left the house he wasn't in his room"
"Nothing can make this worst" she looked up, and her eyes met his "At least I don't have to take Monica and Phoebe's pitty tonight" a little and weak smile appeared in her face.
Both stood up and started to walk home. Ross was still holding her really close cause she was still shaking because of the cold of the night
"I don't think they can feel pitty for you Rach, they are really worried about you cause they love you so much"
"I know. You know Monica is my best friend, and she's always been, and Pheebs has become in one of my dearest friends, but I'm not ready to hear 'I told you so' right now"
They keep on walking, and Rachel started to cry again. Ross just held her closer and stroke her hair, letting her get all the pain out
*~*
When they entered the house anger took hold of Rachel once more. She let go of Ross' arms and run to Steve's bedroom
"Rach I don't think..." Ross' voice trailed when he saw Rachel standing on the door to Steve's room. He wasn't there, Rachel kneeled down, cover her face with his hands and started to cry harder than she had cried. Ross felt really guilty for brought her there... he shouldn't had, it was obvious that it would only made things worst
"Rach, honey... stand up" said Ross, offering her his hand. She stood up and he held her close once again "this wasn't a good idea... I'm.. I'm..."
"It's ok Ross... I just wanna sleep"
Both went upstairs and entered Ross' bedroom. Once inside they looked at each other akwardly
"You'll have the bed... if you want me I can lend you a t-shirt" said Ross quickly
"Ok... thanks... but where are you gonna sleep?"
"I'm just gonna crush in this couch here" Ross went through his closet and from a drawer took a tiny t-shirt and handle it to Rachel "here, you can wear this"
Rachel looked at the tshirt and smiled at him " 'Frankie say relax'? what is this?"
"Yeah well.... it doesn't fit me anymore" said Ross blushing
*~*
The morning after Ross woke up and looked at his bed, Rachel was still aspleep. "I never thought I'd seen her sleeping in my bed" he thought. Suddenly he remembered everything that had took place the night after, and he was decided to beat Steve to dead the next time he sees him. "I'm gonna make her a nice breakfast, she needs to recover energy" thought Ross happyly while he was walking downstairs. When he got to the first floor nor Joey or Chandler were up yet, he looked at the watch and saw it was 9 o'clock in the morning "it's better this way, I don't want to explain them this whole Rachel thing".
When he was entering the kitchen he feel some keys noices on the house door, when he turned around to see who it was, he saw Steve standing in the lobby, smiling at him
"Up so early?" said Steve with a cheering voice
Ross just stood there looking at him
"Come on dude, you can talk to me now... I'm breaking up with your precious Rachel today... now she's all yours if you..."
Steve didn't finnish the whole sentence when Ross pounced over him and starting to beating him as hard as he could. Steve pushed him really hard, making him crash against the table where they kept the mail
"WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?" asked a really pissed Steve
Rachel heared Steve's voice coming from the first floor and quickly got up, she went down a couple of steps and watched the two guys arguing
"YOU'RE A BASTARD!, YOU CHEATED ON HER!, YOU HURT HER!... I knew you were gonna do that" yelled Ross
"And what are you gonna do about it?... keep on beating me??... why do you take it so seriously?... she's just a girl... I had fun with her for a while, but I already got boared.... why are you so bitter anyway, you have no idea how to have fun... you care too much about everything" said Steve really relaxed
"Just a girl?.... are you sick?... how can you say that... God, she loves you!!" said Ross, not believing what he was hearing
"all the girls love me dude"
Rachel couldn't believe what she was hearing either. 'Just a girl'?, he ment so much for her and she was 'just a girl'?, he was just having fun with her?... why?... "all the things he said... were lies" Rachel thought
"Come on dude... get real... Rachel was too..." Steve lift his eyes and saw Rachel in the stairs "RACHEL?"
Ross turned around and saw Rachel, pale and with the eyes red and swollen from crying. "Rach... you're... you're up" was all he could say, wishing she hadn't heared anything of what Steve said
"WHAT IS SHE DOING HERE?... did you two sleep together?" asked Steve
"Look, you have no right to ask her anything.... I want you out of my house this afternoon.... I don't wanna see your disgusting face ever again... take all your sh¡t and get the hell out of here"
Ross went to where Rachel was, she was still there, without moving. When he get to the same step she was sitting on he hug her and kissed her hair, she was shaking again.
"Rach, I'm so sorry you had to hear that... come, you're gonna take a shower now, ok?... I'm gonna make you a nice breakfast" he kissed her forehead and stroke her hair "I promise you'll never see that guy again, I won't ever let him even step near you, ok?... Everything will be ok now"
Rachel looked at him and just nodded. There was something about Ross' words that made her feel comfortable. If something good came out of all this, it was her new friendship with Ross. And he was right, everything would be ok.... cause now she had him
*~*