Summary: Will a secret Rachel has hidden for 15 years finally come out? If so, will her marriage to Ross be able to survive?

This story takes place in the present time. Ross and Rachel have been married almost a year, and Rachel is 7 ½ months pregnant with their second child. Emma is 3 ½ years old. Monica and Chandler still live in Westchester with their almost two year-old twins. Pheobe and Mike have a one-year old daughter named Sky. Joey is in L.A.

Then next morning after Kristie had gone home, Mandy sat in her room thinking about what she had discovered the night before. Should she go and talk to her parents about this? "No," she thought, "If they wanted me to know I was adopted they would have told me before I was fifteen. There must be some reason they don't want me to know." She took out the folder and started reading through the other documents it contained. Most of the adoption papers were a bunch of legal jargon that Mandy did not understand, but then she came upon a clause that shocked her to her core.

"Miss Green must never try to contact the child. It is best for the child if she believes her adoptive parents are her birth parents. The child is to be taken immediately after birth and given to her parents. After the birth there will be no contact between the Jones and Miss Green."

Mandy could not believe her parents could ever be this harsh. Why did they think it would be best for her to never know from where she came? Was her birth mom some horrible person or were her parents simply being cruel? Mandy knew one thing for sure, she had to find this Rachel Green. Mandy kept shifting through the documents hoping to find an address, phone number, social security number, or any link to her birth mom which she could use to locate her. Finally on the last page of the document, she found an address. It was for somewhere in Long Island, NY. Was her mom from New York?

Mandy decided to do the only thing she knew to do. Google search the address. When she did the search a listing came up for a Sandra Green at that address. She wondered if this was a family member of hers, or if it was just a coincidence. The only way to find out was to call the number, which Mandy could not do at home because her parents would wonder why there were calls to New York on the phone bill. She also couldn't use her cell phone because she didn't have one! Her parents didn't think it was appropriate for a girl her age to have a cell phone. She was the only person in her entire grade without one. So Mandy wrote the number on a piece of paper and put it in her purse. Now she just had to find a way out of the house.

Mandy told went into the kitchen to find her mom preparing lunch. "Hey mom, is it okay if I go for a walk?" Mandy asked.

"Why do you need to go now? We are just fixing to have lunch. Also, I'm not sure if it is safe for you to be walking around the neighborhood by yourself," was her mom's reply.

"Well, I'm just trying to get in shape because cheerleading tryouts are after Spring Break, and I've decided that I really want to try out," Mandy tried to reason with her mom. She really had been considering trying out, so it really wasn't a lie.

"Well, I think your dad and I will have to talk about this cheerleading thing, but I guess it could never hurt to get in a little better shape. Just be back in 30 minutes for lunch," Anita finally relented.

"Thanks mom!" yelled Mandy as she ran out of the door.

She only had thirty minutes, so she would have to act fast. She walked two blocks down to the gas station at the edge of her neighborhood. They had a pay phone. Her fingers shook as she put her money in the slot. She was really going to try and find her birth mom. Her birth mom she had only known about for less than a day. As she slowly dialed the numbers, new thoughts began to jump into her head. What if her birth mom didn't want to hear from her? What if it had been her birth mom who had put that clause into the adoption papers? What if Rachel hated her? Mandy wasn't allowed to dwell with her thoughts for long though because a woman answered the phone on the first ring.

"Hello?" answered the voice of a rather snooty sounding woman.

It took Mandy a second to respond. "Um, yes, she finally answered. I was wondering if this is the residence of Rachel Green?"

"Well, it was about fifteen years ago," Mrs. Green replied.

"Well, this is Amanda calling. I knew Rachel…….in college," Mandy quickly improvised. "We are having a reunion next month and I was trying to get in touch with Rachel." Whew, that was a close one, thought Mandy.

"Well," Sandra replied, "I can give her current number. She is also Rachel Geller now, so that may have been why you had trouble finding her."

Mandy quickly took down the number the woman whom she assumed was her grandmother gave her. She then said good-bye and hung up the phone. Well, that wasn't too hard. Now came the hardest part, did she actually have the nerve to call her birth mother.

Mandy looked at her watch and realized she had been gone almost thirty minutes. She knew her parents would come looking if she was even one second late, so calling Rachel would have to wait for another day. "If I even call her at all," Mandy thought.