It was Julie, who would forever be known as Julie from China. Rachel found out about Ross' love for her and ran to the airport to welcome back her friend. When she got there, she found him kissing her and was with Julie until the night of the kiss at Central Perk. Julie slowly and deliberately walked toward Ross holding the large shovel, ready to strike him with it. His last memories of her were throwing things at him and ducking when he told her of his love for Rachel.
"Julie, it's been thirteen years, get over it." He said cowering.
"It still hurts, you told me all the wonderful things we were going to do and all the great digs we would go on. We were going to get a cat and then who knows what else." She cried as she laid down the shovel. She tore off the khaki to reveal an elegant red and black oriental robe. She knelt down and picked up a long haired white cat. "She's beautiful isn't she?"
"Yes, she is." agreed Ross as he tried to pet her. The cat hissed at him and took a swipe. Ross was never that fond of cats, remembering the night he was going to tell Rachel his feelings. Julie pulled her away screaming. "No one touches my pussy, my baby." She cradled the cat in her arms like a baby.
Next to her was a table of crystal vases. They were flawless in their beauty. Each one of them was a work of art. Holding her cat in one hand, she picked up a vase and hurled it at Ross.
"Isn't this where we left off?" he cried. "Julie, I loved you, well maybe not loved you, but I might have been on the way to, if there would have never been a Rachel."
"I was your perfect woman. I knew how to make you happy. I shared your passion for science. I was your intellectual equal. We would have had such brilliant children. Now you are marrying her, that waitress."
"Julie, you don't know what happened after you and I broke up. Rachel and I dated for a year, then I cheated on her, we broke up, said we made a mistake, she tried to blame me for everything, we broke up in the middle of sex, I found another woman and married her, said Rachel's name at my wedding instead of hers, went to Vegas got drunk married Rachel since Emily had left me. Got my third divorce and then after one night of sex, Rachel got pregnant. We have a daughter named Emma and after I thought I would lose Rachel forever, we are getting married."
"You're getting married to that waitress!" Julie screamed as she threw another vase.
"I have been married twice since we broke up, Julie. I am sorry I hurt you."
"Well the next time you fall for a woman, make sure there is room in your heart for her." She said as she sadly sat in the big red velvet chair. "Make sure you truly love her." She said softly as she put her hair up into a bun.
"I do love her, Julie. I loved her then and will love her forever." He said.
"You have a terrible tendency to put women on a pedestal and compare them to another. Even your dear Rachel has flaws." Julie said coyly. "If she didn't, there would have never been a list to compare us."
"That list was a dumb mistake suggested by two idiots." Ross said as he scoffed.
"Nonetheless, you made that list and if it wasn't for that list, we would have still been together." Another vase came sailing. Again he ducked.
Ross came over slowly and held Julie's hand as if to appease her. He softly said." Julie, I know we would have been great together. That's why I made the list. I was happy with you, but there was something missing. You were great and a paleontologist, my intellectual equal, but you weren't her." Julie winced when he said that. "There was only one Rachel."
"Rachel! Rachel! Rachel" she screamed. "You never wanted an intellectual equal because that would have threatened you. You wanted to be the smart one. Rachel was perfect for you because she was dumb and pretty. She was just a waitress."
This angered Ross enough to stand up from his own chair. "Rachel is not dumb. I am very proud of how she went from being a spoiled little Daddy's girl to a fashion executive. She did it all on her own too. She is incredibly intelligent and has a keen sense of style. She is now an executive for Polo."
"You are still the smart one. You are still a paleontology professor. It was always your career, but I bet when she started to advance, it threatened you, because she wasn't the little waitress anymore and I bet that's when it ended."
"I let her go to Paris; I even bartered my precious dinosaur artifacts to keep her in the US. I thought I was doing it for Emma, but I was doing it for us." Ross tried valiantly to explain to Julie, but it all seemed point less. Julie had made Rachel to be the enemy.
"If Rachel would have become more educated, would you love her as much? Or would you be threatened? And tell me how much interest has she taken in your career?"
"Rachel has always supported me. She has gone to lectures with me. She would always listen when I read her my papers that were to be published, and she went all the way to Barbados to hear me when I was the keynote speaker at a conference."
"I do know how she supported you. She griped and complained at those lectures and at that conference, laughed at the term "homo erectus." She has never fully supported you and thought of your profession as a joke. She has put you down in front of others as a geek and a doofus." Julie smiled when she thought what she said had done its damage.
Ross had an introspective look in his eye. He knew what Julie was trying to do. Rachel had never meant to hurt him. After all, he had done the most heinous thing that a man could do to a woman betray her. That night with Chloe could have been prevented. All he had to have done was just gone home and waited for her phone call. It would have come. And Rachel just misunderstood his science . That's why she might have laughed at something she didn't understand, not to hurt him as Julie claimed. "We have always been two different people. In high school she was the most popular girl in school, no one knew I existed. One thing will always bring us together though, a force that no matter how many times we have been torn apart, unites us. That is a heart that beats as one. That is what is called love, Julie. That force was so powerful and wonderful, it created Emma."
"I am happy for you, but remember, just let the woman be herself. Respect her career and her own interests. Share each others passion." She walked into a mist and once again he was awake staring at Rachel. Shaking it off as another dream, he fell back asleep.
The vision was dark and ominous. It was as if Ross had went back in time to the Garden of Eden, where temptation started. He was now naked and standing in front of a snake like woman. Her mouth was as red as blood and instead of offering him an apple, she offered herself.
She was the woman to change everything forever, she was the one who he had slept with, the reason they went on a break that lasted seven years, Chloe.
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