Rating: PG or T for Teen

Paring: Ross and Rachel

Ownership: I do not own any of these characters. They are property of Warnerbrothers BRIGHT/KAUFFMAN/CREAME

Chapter 1: Innocence

As I watched her and my sister view the television set. I knew that one day she will be my wife. As I closed my eyes, picturing that so far, far, far, away dream come true. She tapped me on the shoulder. I looked into her crystal blue ocean like eyes and smiled. She asked me "are you alright?" I couldn't speak, my voice was clogged by her feminine beauty. I just smiled, that's all I could do, then I replied "Yeah, never better". She smiled, and went back to talk to my sister. Just then the door bell rang, my sister Monica flew to the door as she knew that she awaiting a pizza delivery.

As she talked to the pizza delivery boy. I was left alone with her, for those deafening silent few minutes. I looked at her and said "Well, summer is almost over, eh?" She returned my question with her heavenly voice. "Oh, yeah. Aw, school is going to start next week." I laughed and asked "Don't you like high school? I mean, you've got all the popularity and everything…" she interrupted and replied "Well, popularity isn't the biggest thing on the planet!"

The next week flew by, with a couple of dreams about her, on my part. Every time my head hit the pillow I was transported into this world, of her and I. She caressed my check, and kissed my lips, and I tussled in her favour. Though reality is not as I wished it would be. If it was, I knew I would want to get Rachel Karen Green, my love, to hold me as tight, as her arms could possibly hold me. Though I knew, it was impossible. This was high school!

And I was shakin' at the knees!
Could I come again, please?
Yeah, the ladies were to kind!

You've been... thunderstruck!
Thunderstruck! Yeah-yeah-yeah! Thunderstruck!
Oooh, thunderstruck...
Yeah...

The music blasted from the car she stepped out of. Her boyfriends car, Chip Mathews. The pretty, and very stupid boy of the school. I opened the door to the school and Chip's Big Boys as people called them. Pushed me out of the way, and caused me to drop all my books. As I stopped and bent down in front of the door, the girl that haunted my dreams walked passed me and said "You really need to be more careful Ross."

Yes, that's me. Ross Geller. A 17 year-old Jewish nerd learning at Lincoln High. I got up and smiled at my sister who stopped and helped me with my books. I then said "Thanks, Monica." She then looked into my eyes deeply like she needed to tell me something very serious "Ross, you have got to relax. Look I know you have this thing for Rachel. But you can't hurt yourself, alright?" I looked at her sadly and said "Alright. I won't say anything" Monica smiled then got up and followed Rachel and Chip into the hall way. Ross laughed and thought "Doesn't mean I can't think about her."

As the day went by, it became lunch. The one subjected I dreaded. I walked to the cafeteria with my lunch securely in my jacket pocket. Or so as I thought. A couple of the jock jerks, as I call them. Ran into me, and my lunch fell out onto the floor and before long, someone trampled right over it. This was my basic routine. Come to school, look at Rachel, get pushed by Chip's Big Boys, stare at Rachel, get my lunch trampled, stare at Rachel, then sit alone in the Cafeteria eating lunch, and then finally the release of the last bell, until of course; after school.

If I walked too close to either one of the Big Boys, or the jocks cars. Then yeah, there would be trouble. Thankfully today, that didn't happen. Though something interesting happened today when I got home. I arrived at my casa, and put down my back pack that I proudly made with the name tag "geography rocks". My other one had been stolen a couple of years before, by a, you know what? I don't want to talk about it!

As I got home, I noticed that Monica wasn't home yet. I wrote a note to my sister letting her know that she shouldn't worry, not like she would anyways, but I would be at the library researching for a science project that I had coming up.

When I got there, I felt the need to use the bathroom. I knocked on the only bathroom door in the place, and a voice shouted in a minute. I waited and then the door opened and he said "Rachel, what are you doing here?" As I looked at her I noticed that she was crying. She looked down and said "This is the only place where I won't see my friends at. Unless my home, but they will find me there!" I asked sympathetically "What is it? Do you want to talk?" Rachel then laughed and said "Yeah, okay".

Rachel and I talked for a while, and I came to the conclusion that "Okay, let me get this straight. You are upset because no one complimented you today on the way you looked?" Rachel sighed then said "no, they did compliment me. But its not like I feel appreciated. All I hear is that I am a piece of meat and I hate that! Why can't Chip appreciate me for other things then my looks"?

I nodded then said without thinking "Oh, so you want someone to tell you how amazingly stunning you are. How when every time I look into your eyes, a light inside me beams up and my heart beams up faster, and faster, like a feather in the wind. When you laugh, you sound like a bird singing delightly on the first day of spring." I stopped my thoughts, and said "Never mind what I think." Rachel was crying, and she said "Ross, that was beautiful." She reached for my hand and held it and said "Ross, I have to get going now. Though, maybe. Why don't you and Monica come over tonight?" My eyes flickered and then I asked surprised "The both of us?" Her smile beamed up again, and she then responded "yeah, I think maybe you should."

Monica and I walked across the street to the Green's residence. Monica asked me "What did you do?" I looked at her confused then said "Nothing, she just invited you and ME to her house. Relax, nothing else happened." Monica replied "Oh". I could have sworn she sounded disappointed. As I played that conversation in my head I heard Monica ring the door bell. Rachel opened it and gave both Monica and I a hug. As I got inside her well lit house I noticed a sound coming from the kitchen.

I walked into it and saw Chip there. Rachel then said to me "I told Chip about what you said this afternoon, and he said that was amazing." I then asked frightened "You told him about it?" Chip nodded and then said "yeah, and you and I should talk, you know. I really need some advice." I then gulped and said "ok". Chip then turned around and smiled around at Rachel, kissed her check and pulled me upstairs.

As I got pushed upstairs into a corner, Chip said to me. "What are you trying to pull Geller? Are you trying to steal my girl?" I looked down and said "no, of course not! I just wasn't thinking! I won't do it again." Chip punched me in the stomach then said "You got that right. Because if it does, then somebody is going to get hurt! I have a feeling it might be you!"

Should I fall out of love, my fire in the night

To chase a feather in the wind

Within the glow that weaves a cloak of delight

There moves a thread that has no end.

For many hours and days that pass ever soon

the tides have caused the flame to dim

At last the arm is straight, the hand to the loom

Is this to end or just begin?

Chorus:

All of my love,

all of my love,

all of my love to you now. X2

The cup is raised, the toast is made yet again

One voice is clear above the din

Proud Arianne, one word, my will to sustain

For me, the cloth once more to spin

Chorus

Yours is the cloth, mine is the hand that sews time

his is the force that lies within

Ours is the fire, all the warmth we can find

He is a feather in the wind

Chorus

The songs featured in this fanfic are: Thunderstruck by AC/DC and All of my Love by Led Zepplin.

Please tell me if you would like for me to continue this fanfic. Thank you.- Lobsters forever