The Long Road to Love 7
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Rachel pulled away surprised at the intensity of Ross's kiss. She started to walk away from Ross and a little bit miffed at his manners thinking that he had no right to kiss her like that. But then she stopped. Rachel realized that Ross had every right to kiss her if she didn't like it, which she did, because she was his wife. She had lost the option of being thought of like that when she had said, "I do".
Ross watched as his wife went from being extremely annoyed to somewhat relaxed. He realized that even though he was her husband she deserved respect no matter how hungry he was for intimacy. Ross blushed in the darkness even though he knew Rachel couldn't hear his thoughts.
Rachel slowly turned around and walked calmly towards him.
"I'm sorry." Both said in unison. They laughed for a minute, calming their frazzled nerves.
"Rachel, I— I feel the need to apologize for my actions a few moments ago. That was very callous of me, and I hope you will accept my sincere apologies." Ross said staring at his feet.
"Ross, its fine. I guess because we do not act as husband and wife I forget sometimes that we are." Rachel said embarrassed.
Ross stared at Rachel. He wasn't sure what to say, and he knew that all of this was partly, well mostly, his fault. Now Ross felt bad, he wasn't sure what he should do. "Rachel, why don't we live as man and wife?" Ross asked carefully.
"What?" Rachel asked. He knew perfectly well why.
"I asked—"
"I heard you, I was just in a bit of shock at the subject of the question. Ross, I…" Rachel didn't know exactly how to broach this subject delicately. "Ross, I know that you are still in love with your first wife, and I am not about to try and take her place. I realize that you are still grieving and I would never try to cut that short." There, she had said it.
Ross took a step closer to Rachel. His face became hard and cold when he spoke of his previous wife"I am not still grieving over my wife. That was a woman full of hatred and vengeance." Ross paused and his face became full of gladness when he continued to speak, " I'm very glad that you came into my daughter's life. You are so good to her and I'm glad that's she's used to you now. That, for some reason makes me warm inside, Mrs. Rachel Geller." Ross said with the slight southern drawl that Rachel was starting to love. "Now, since you broached the subject I believe that we SHOULD start living like husband and wife." Ross ended quietly. Ross again stepped closer to Rachel as he watched a series of emotions flow over her face.
"Ok…." Rachel said quietly and a little nervously she wasn't sure what to expect, and young women were not permitted to speak about such things to each other.
Ross reached over and grabbed Rachel's hand sensing her nervousness. He led Rachel slowly into the house.
~ The Next Day ~ Haha I wasn't gonna write anything like that lol!!! I dunno maybe later… haha
Rachel woke up the next morning with a smile on her face as she rubbed her sleepy eyes. She snuggled closer to Ross, and almost blushed when she thought about what had happened the previous night. Rachel sighed *So this is what its like to be married*. Rachel was so excited that she had finally broken through Ross's shell. Though she still did not know the entire story of Ross's deceased wife, Rachel decided that for now, everything was best left where it was.
Ross looked over at his wife who was now gazing happily at the ceiling while snuggled close under his arm. Ross's grin slowly turned to a frown as he started to think about Martha. She had always been angry, cold, and mean-spirited. *Stop, Ross, stop thinking of her. Focus on what you now have with Rachel.* Ross sighed it was no use fighting with himself. He slowly leaned over and gave Rachel a warm and passionate kiss. Ross decided he needed more, so he wrapped his arms around her more tightly and leaned in for another kiss. He nuzzled her neck and stroked the side of her face.
Rachel moaned, she wished that they could stay in bed all day. But Rachel knew that there was work to be done and she must be the one to do it. Slowly she tried to get away from Ross because she knew that if she didn't get away now, it would take her much longer to want to get any work done. Not only that, but she knew that Meg would soon be waking up, and she didn't really want the poor young girl to walk in on anything intimate.
As if on cue, Meg bounded into Ross's room, "Da—" Meg was dumbfounded as she looked from her 'mother' to her father, soon a small grin spread to her face. By this time Ross and Rachel had moved quite far away from each other. Meg suddenly leaped up onto the bed, snuggled under the covers, and gazed adoringly into the bewildered faces of her parents. Ross glanced over Meg's head to Rachel, who had a small grin on her face.
Ross cleared his throat, "Meg," he said tentatively
"Yes, Daddy?"
Once again Ross glanced over at Rachel who gave a slight nod to assure him as to what he was about to say, "Honey, we have to talk to you about something that you may not understand, now, but you will when you are much older." Meg nodded a little nervously because she didn't understand what she had done wrong. "Honey…. mommy and daddy… have grown up things that we have to do… and we—well.. honey now that I am married to mommy we need you to please knock before you come in our room? You need to please respect our privacy, can you do that for mommy and daddy?" Ross asked carefully as he watched Meg's face.
"You mean you don't want me anymore?" Meg whimpered as tears filled her eyes at the thought of being 'abandoned'
"No, sweetie!" Rachel interjected, trying to stop the tears from coming. "We love you sooo much, we just want you to knock before you come in our room, simple as that, ok?" (I know I should have had more to this but I didn't feel like writing it all:-)
"Otay, mommy." Meg said as she wrapped her arms around Rachel's neck. "I love you mommy!"
"I love you too." Rachel said as she kissed Meg on the forehead.
As Ross watched his wife and daughter interact, Ross realized just what an amazing women he had married. *Things don't always work out the way that you think they will, do they* Ross thought.
What will tomorrow bring?
No one knows for sure.
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