Prologue: After It All Ended.
When we last saw the 6 best friends, they were preparing for a whole new life. Monica and Chandler were leaving the city to live in Westchester with newborn twins Jack and Erica. After 7 years old being apart and battling with their emotions, Ross and Rachel finally got back together to become a family with their daughter Emma. Phoebe and Mike decided to embark on parenthood and Joey moved to Los Angeles to further his career.
This story is set in the summer of 2007, and a few things have changed for the gang since then.
Well, not so much for Mon and Chan. They're still together and living happily in their dream house in Westchester. After some initial panicking, mostly on Chandler's part, about adjusting to parenting twins, they became great parents. It was everything Monica had ever wanted, and everything that Chandler once thought he didn't want!
Phoebe and Mike decided to move into Monica's old apartment and started trying for a baby straight away. After some initial heartache, Phoebe finally gave birth on her birthday, February 16th, 2007, to twin girls, unsurprisingly, Charley and Cleo.
Joey scored his first big movie in the summer of 2006. Since then he's become a famous face throughout America, he can't go anywhere without being recognised, which he loves! He's not settled down yet and is in no rush to do so.
And last but by no means least, Ross and Rachel. Rachel moved in with Ross as soon as they got back together. A few weeks later, Ross asked Rachel to marry him, just the way he had described it to her two years before; At the Planetarium, filled with lilies, Fred Astaire singing The Way You Look Tonight, "Will you marry me" written in the stars and Ross on one knee. It wasn't exactly a surprise but Rachel loved it none the less. They married in the Bahamas in the summer of 2006, and it seemed like the happy ending that everyone had been hoping for. Until the past came to haunt Ross in a big way and that is what this story is about.