Steve Brady looked at his wallet. There was his credit cards, well to be more accurate, Miranda's credit cards. He wanted so bad to get her a mother's necklace at Tiffany's , but his credit card wouldn't allow it. He didn't want Miranda to have to pay for her own valentine's present.Then he got an idea…yes this would be a special night for just the two of them.

Mike Hannigan smiled as he picked out the gift at the store. Phoebe was not the type to buy jewelry for, she wasn't Rachel or Monica. Phoebe valued first of all the person, and then how much time was spent on the gift. It was a double anniversary as he remembered standing in front of Central Perk in the show and her friend , Joey marrying them on Valentines Day. For her anniversary, it had to be something truly from the heart.

Carrie was amazed at these two, she was mostly amazed that they could stand to be in the same room for more than two minutes. All it seemed they wanted to do was argue. Apparently, the two kids were quite used to this.

"Even though I did love Emily," Ross said quite sure he had done the one thing he had always been excused of, not knowing when to keep his mouth shut.

"That woman was a bitch." Rachel spit out. "She completely fucked up your life, because of her you lost your job, was homeless, and you had a nervous breakdown. What kind of a person makes you choose between your best friend and her?"

"Hey most people don't sleep with their best friend." Ross defended himself. "And then she saw you get on the plane to Greece."

"You invited me. And then you had the nerve to abandon me and I had to endure an entire week of being called Mrs. Geller and be by myself."

"I had to try to save my marriage. I was willing to do anything at that point."

"Even destroy our friendship?" Rachel said fatally. Carrie stopped her tape recorder because it seems like enough was enough.She had a feeling where this conversation was going and it wasn't a good place. "Maybe you would have been better off if you had made up with Emily." Rachel started to tear up. Ross came over and put his arm around her. She took hers and pushed his away from her."I just think right now I would just like for you to leave me alone." Tears started to form in her eyes. "Come on Emma." Rachel put out her hand and then Emma grabbed on to it. "Bye Ben, bye Daddy." She said as they walked away. Gunther just gave Ross the evil eye.

"Ross , I don't know what to say." Carrie said as she leaned over to the man. "Just forget it." He said softly . "Ben let's go watch a movie." The little boy immediately got up and followed his dad who was now very unhappy with the whole situation. Carrie could have kicked herself for bringing up old memories and hurts. The past should stay the past. She might have wrecked this couple's whole future…..

no one in the world ever had a love as sweet as my love…..

for no where in the world could there be a boy as true as you love

all my love I could love only you

all your life you could love only me

tell me why then why should it be that

we go on hurting each other

we go along hurting each other

making each other cry , hurting each other , without ever knowing why

Ross sat in his apartment. Ben was at home. He called up Carol and explained that he wasn't feeling well. He wasn't , he was sick when he realized that he had hurt Rachel again. She didn't like hearing about London, to her London only meant that it was the first time their best friends realized their feelings for each other. She had to remember seeing him kiss Emily while she still longed for him in her heart. The most comforting thing about the whole trip was when she gave him a hug. She had it all planned, she was going to tell him she was still in love. Then she walked into the hall, she could see how happy he was , and she loved him enough to tell him just congratulations and then wrap herself in those warm arms for possibly the last time.

Rachel sat at Monica's sipping coffee. She was going to stay with her mother, but somehow she felt that this would be better. Emma was playing on the floor with her cousins. Chandler had run to the store to get some ice cream. After all, this was her and her husband to be,so naturally it was the filled with fat kind. The hard stuff.

"I can't believe he brought up Emily." Monica said sympathetically.

"Sometimes I think he thinks he would have been better off staying with her and cutting me out of his life like she wanted. We would have avoided a lot of heartache." Rachel sniffed after talking another sip. Following that the phone rang. "Hello." Monica answered. "oh hi." Rachel knew who it was. "Tell him I don't want to speak to him." She said as she got up from the couch. "I really don't think that is a good idea right now Ross." Monica said as she looked over to see that Rachel was in the other room flipping channels on the television remote. She wanted to talk to him, but her female pride didn't allow that. "Give her some time and some space." Monica advised.

"Time and space. The last time I did that, we ended up apart for seven years." Ross whined. "Do you want her back?" Monica said sternly. "Then listen to someone for a change. I will talk to her and then we'll see okay? She is safe here , and if she didn't want to be far from you, then she would have went back to Long Island." Ross agreed , she didn't want to be rid of him, she just wanted to be away from him for a little bit. "Okay it's your call Mon." "Talk to you later , bro." she said as she hung up the phone. Then she proceeded over to where Rachel was sitting. "He does miss you." She said softly. The next noise was Chandler coming into the kitchen. "Here we are girls. Mint chocolate chip and chunky monkey, filled with 55 lovely grams of fat. Guaranteed to make us forget about men." He sang out. "Honey, when did you decide to follow in your father's footsteps and come out.? Monica asked when she heard that last comment. "I mean for you guys." He said sulking after he brought in the ice cream. Monica put her arm around him. "Come on you big old woman, let's have some of that ice cream. Come on kids. Ice cream!" Monica called as three little toddlers came running.

"Daddy doesn't like ice cream." Emma stated proudly. Rachel put her arms around her and picked her up. "Yes , he says that the cold hurts his teeth. That's' why we never have any." Rachel started to sob. "It's going to be all right. " Monica said as she let Rachel sob into her shoulder. "Men suck." Chandler said as he held her. "Honey, it's either me or men ?" Chandler smiled and said. "Sorry it's you honey." And then he kissed her.

"I really made a mess of things." Carrie said as she sipped her cosmo. "I wouldn't blame Rachel if I never spoke to me again." Stanford took a sip of his own apple martini. "I have a cousin, who looks very similar to me named Steve and he is the president of his building. In fact, he told me about this guy who wouldn't give any money when their super retired and then came to the party and even ate his cake.He was a real loser who wore two nametags too. The funny thing is one time I was over at Steve's and then the so called guy came out into the hall and Steve pointed him out. "

"And your point is?" Carrie asked , obviously bored with this story.

"The loser that Steve pointed out was this Ross guy." Stanford laughed.

"This guy is not a loser, lots of people like dinosaurs and get married more than once. He is very sweet , and he kind of reminds me a little of John. He has the same kind of devotion for her , that Big does for me. I have to do something to get those two back together or I am going to be sick for the rest of the year." Carrie said as she started her own wheels turning. This made her get up. "Where are you off to , Miss Thing?" Stanford asked.

"Go home to your wife." Carrie commanded. Then she got in a cab and headed to the Village and Ross' apartment. She knocked on the door. "Rach, I knew you would come back. " Ross said as he went to the door. He opened it and then saw Carrie with an earnest face. "Haven't you done enough?" Ross said as he started to slam the door. "Ross, wait. I have got a plan to get Rachel to come home." Carrie said excitedly. Ross sighed , at this point he was willing to try anything.

Note if you guys recall in one of the friends episodes , Willie Garson who played the fabulous Stanford , was that same Steve who hated Ross. Also here is some more Friends / SOTC trivia…. Kristin Davis was the one with Ross Library Book as joey's date…and here is another sex and friends connection.. love spouting this trivia… Ron Livingston aka Mr. Post It Berger… appeared with Jen in Office Space then did another movie with a friend… Band of Brothers with David.. okay I have said enough…

Could you BE loving this story more .. only a few more chapters and there is still the BIG scenes with Carrie…