Ross began to tell his future father in law about his daughter, 'You should see her now, she's so beautiful and she's growing up so fast…'.

'You see Ross, whenever Emma is at Rachel's mother's, I don't have the chance to go and see her…'

'You're always welcome to come to our place; you're her grandfather after all, why don't you come and see us again in a few weeks? Emma would love to see you…' Ross suggested.

'You know what Ross? You're a good man…but I have something to ask you, and I want a straight answer…'

Oh shit. Ross had a feeling he would soon turn things around and bring up the past, he knew exactly what he was going to ask. 'What's that?' he asked.

'You do love my Rachel don't you Gellar?', Dr Gellar asked him, lowering his glasses so they were sitting on his nose, almost to prove a point that he was being serious here.

Ross cleared his throat. 'I…I love her more than life itself, I know you don't think highly of me for whatever reasons but…'

'Those reasons Ross, you know exactly what those reasons are, I think you are wonderful for my daughter otherwise, I just need to know that you wont mess her around…'

'Sir, you need to trust me…I love Rachel, I always have…. we have Emma and another child on the way…'

'Another child?'

'Oh you didn't know?' Ross asked. Rachel mustn't have got round to telling her father yet either.

'Not till now, now why didn't you both care to tell me?'

'I thought Rachel was going to tell you…she probably would have tonight'

'Oh..'

'Listen, she would have told you anyway but back to the point…if you don't believe me when I tell you that I love your daughter, than maybe you will believe me after I do what I intend to do tonight…'

'And what is that Gellar?'

'Propose…' he said quietly, afraid that Rachel would hear if she came back over now, 'I'm going to propose to her…'

Dr Green didn't say a word. Ross wondered whether he should have told him this, he was hoping he would come round to him after telling him this but maybe he had dug himself an even deeper hole, as usual.

'What do you think?' Ross asked him. 'She doesn't know yet, and I would prefer if you didn't say anything to her?'

'I wont say anything to her Ross but I will say something to you…'

Ross gulped.

'Take care of her…' was all he could tell him. 'If you promise me that you can make her happy, then I will believe you Ross…'

'Thank you…I do love her, you have to believe me when I say that and I know I've made mistakes in the past…but I think we are all guilty of that…'

'True…' Rachel's father agreed. 'Very true…'

Ross smiled. 'We've both grown up now, I will make her happy and she makes me happy every day…'

'Sorry about that…' Rachel said, interrupting their deep conversation, 'there was a long queue in the restroom…'. Ross looked over at Dr Green, 'We've just been talking about a few things Rach.'

'Really?' She asked, surprised that the two of them had survived in only each other's company. 'What about?' she asked.

Ross smirked, 'Now that would be telling wouldn't it?' he said, looking over at Rachel's father.

Rachel didn't quite like the secrecy between them, but was just thankful that they were finally getting on, 'So, did you tell daddy about Emma walking the other day?'

Ross nodded, 'Yeah a little bit, I told him about a few things, I told him that he could come and visit us someday as he hasn't seen Emma for a while…'

'I would love to come and visit, and I would love to come and see my other grandchild when it's born too…' He said.

Rachel stared at Ross. Oh shit, he had told him.

'…Oh I'm so sorry Daddy…'

'Don't be, just promise me you wont keep anything from me in the future…'

'Promise'.

The waiter came over with their meals, 'Enjoy your meals….'.

'Thank you…' they all chorused before digging into their delicious dinners.

By the time they got back to the apartment, the moon was shining, and the rain from earlier now consisted of large puddles on the pavement, hardly anybody was out on the street, it felt like they were the only two people around. 'I love this…'. Rachel said, the only words either of them had spoken in the past 10 minutes, they were too engrossed in the night's beauty and peacefulness.

'Me too…' Ross said, kissing her golden hair, smelling that scent of coconuts, which he had always adored, 'do you still think we'll be like this when we're old?' he asked.

'Do you mean in our sixties?' she asked, dreading the thought of reaching that age.

'Yes, I mean…can you see us still like this even then?'

'Don't you?' she asked.

'No, I do…'

'Me too..'.

'So you think we'll definitely still be together by then?' he asked.

Rachel stopped walking, 'Of course I do, what's this about Ross?' she asked. She focused on his face, which was almost like a shadow now as the darkness had almost filled his face; the light was shining on his eyes though which brought out a twinkle in the left eye.

'What's it about, Its about us, our future and our hopes…'

'I mean, what are you getting at?' she asked.

'I'm getting at this…'. He slipped his hand into his coat pocket, feeling around for that one box which meant everything for both of them, he cupped the box in his hand and pulled it back out. 'Rach..'.

She noticed the box, 'Oh god.'

'Rach, you know how much I love you and you know that there isn't anything that I wouldn't do for you, its been almost like a fairytale with you even though we've had our ups and downs…'

Rachel let out a small laugh; a tear was trickling down her face as she looked at him as he fulfilled her dream since she was a teenager.

'I want to grow old with you, I want to watch our children grow up and best of all…I want to spend everyday with you, making you happy…'.

Rachel looked at his shaking hand over the box, he took hold of her hand and kissed it, 'Rachel Greene…'.

As he said her name, she let out a cry, all those years of being in love had finally paid off, and she was going to finally be able to say that word which she had been hoping to say to him forever. 'Yes?'

Ross opened up the box, revealing the most beautiful diamond ring, Rachel put her other hand over her mouth in astonishment, it was more beautiful than any other ring she had in mind. 'Will you marry me?' he asked her, looking deep into her eyes praying that she would tell him yes.

Those four words repeated in her head, the only other time somebody had said that to her was Barry, she had only said yes that first time to please her parents, for the wrong reasons, but now she could actually say yes and mean it.

She could see Ross sweating as he waited for her answer, '…Yes…' She told him, 'YES YES YESSSS!' She screamed now. Ross took out the ring and took hold of her finger, 'I love you…' He told her, before placing the ring onto her finger. It was a perfect fit.

Rachel wrapped her arms around his neck 'I love you too.'

Ross placed his hands gently on her curved ass; 'You've just made me the happiest man alive…' He told her.

'You've just made me the happiest woman alive…' She told him.

'I know it wasn't how you would have hoped me to have done it, but in the end it came to the point where anywhere would be perfect…' he told her.

'Ross, it was better than how I had imagined it,' she told him, 'Now come here.' she told him, pulling him into her and kissing him hard on the lips.

The rain began to get heavier now, making both of them soaking wet, but it didn't matter, they were in each other's arms, and that was enough for both of them.

(That's the end of this story, but don't fret! I'll be writing up a story soon for the contest on May 6th, so you can look forward to that! And if that's not enough for you, I will be writing a sequel to this story soon also…and I'm sure that I'll write many other stories in the future! Thank you to everybody who took out their time to read this; I hope you enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed writing it!)