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.
She got up and waddled over to the table with the phone. "Hello?"
"Um hi, is this Rachel Green?" the voice on the other end asked.
"Yes, it is," Rachel replied.
"My name is Amanda Jones, and I think I am your daughter," Mandy said to her mom.
Rachel's heart stopped. Was this for real. "Um, what?" Rachel was finally able to muster.
"Well," Mandy began," My name is Mandy Jones. I found my birth certificate last week and your name was on it. So I used the internet until I found you. I then came to New York and went to your apartment, but the lady there told me you had moved. So, I called you." Mandy finally exhaled after telling her entire story in one breath.
"So, you're in New York, right now?" Rachel asked. "At my old apartment?"
"Yes," Mandy nervously replied.
"Just stay put and I will be there in about twenty minutes, okay?" said Rachel.
"Okay, I'll be here," Mandy said as she hung up the phone.
Rachel began to panic. What was she going to do? Her daughter was here. She was going to go pick her up. What was Ross going to think? She walked into the kitchen where Ross was finishing putting away the dishes. "Honey, I'm going to go out for a little while," she told him
"Why?" Ross asked.
"Um, I just really want to go for a drive," Rachel replied lamely. "I'll be back in about an hour! Love you!" she said as she grabbed her purse and ran out the door. Ross just stood in the kitchen looking bewildered. What was up with his wife?
Mandy sighed as she hung up the phone. Her mom was on her way to pick her up. She didn't know whether to be excited, nervous, or both. Her mom had sounded kind of shocked and panicked on the phone. She really hoped that her mom wasn't mad that she came.
Rachel's mind was all over the place on her drive into the city. She was finally going to meet her daughter. The daughter she had missed for fifteen years. She was also going to have to answer a lot of questions, not only to her daughter but also to her husband and friends. She knew none of them had a clue she had a daughter when she was twenty. Actually no one, other than her parents knew, not even her sisters. Rachel also thought her parents had blocked that time from their minds. It was like she was the only one who knew this girl even existed. Amanda Jones, her daughter.
Mandy looked at every car that drove by, hoping each one was her mother. Finally, a Ford Explorer pulled up to the curb and stopped. Mandy gasped when she saw the woman who got out of the car. It was her mother. She was so much more beautiful in person than in picture. Mandy ran to her and gave her a huge hug.
When Rachel pulled up to the curb outside her old apartment building, she saw a young teenage girl standing there looking very nervous. When the girl looked up Rachel began to cry. The hair, the eyes, everything about her. Rachel would have known her anywhere, it was her daughter. She got out of the car as fast as her eight month pregnant belly would allow and began to walk toward the girl. The girl suddenly gasped and ran and enveloped Rachel into a big hug. Mother and daughter just stood there for what seemed like an eternity holding onto one another. Rachel finally let go and backed up a couple of steps to look at her daughter. "Wow, I mean, I can't believe its really you," Rachel softly said through her tears. "I've missed you so much."
Mandy looked in amazement at this woman who was her mother. As Rachel muttered these words, Mandy felt her heart swell with joy. Her mom had missed her. She was glad to see her! Mandy then said to her mom, "I've missed you too. Even though I've only known about you for a week, I think I've missed you my entire life."
In the next couple of chapters Rachel begins to explain everything that happened! Please read and review, thanks!
