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A New Beginning
Chapter 4.
She is Coming Back
Monica got a big shock, but then her voice came back, "Don't be silly you idiot, you're Rach, not;" she changed her voice; "´Rachel Green´."
"Oh thank God, Mon!" Rachel sighed, "It's me!"
"I can't believe you're calling me!" Monica whined, "You have to say hello to Joey and Chandler, they're right here."
She ran into the living room, putting the phone on speaker, "Guys, it's Rachel!"
"What?"
"Hi guys!" Rachel said.
"Oh my God, Hi Rachel!" Chandler said.
"Are you still hot, Rach?" Joey asked.
"I don't know Joe, you'll have to check me out sometime." Rachel laughed, "Monica, can I talk to you?"
"Of course." Monica grabbed the phone and went into the kitchen again, "What's up?"
"I need you to do me a favour." Rachel started.
"Does it have anything to do with the Rachel Green store they are opening here?"
"Sort of, but not until later..." Rachel said, "I need you to find me a place to live."
"What?"
"I'm coming back, Mon." Rachel said, "They want me to run this one because it's new, a friend of mine will run the one in London, but I'm back in like a week, with kids.. everything. You have to do this for me."
"Of course." Monica said, "This was a lot to think about. Are you coming back for good?"
"Yeah, I think so. I wont bring the kids from their home more after this time." Rachel said.
"Wow, I can't wait to see you again!" Monica said, "And the kids. My nieces and nephews! I'm gonna have to get all…"
"Mon, calm down." Rachel said, "Focus! You have to find a place there's available in like a week."
"Yeah, I can do that, how much are you willing to pay for it?"
"That doesn't matter. I have more than enough money with my job. Buy a place with space enough, okay?"
"All right. But how many kids is it that you have?" Monica wasn't quite sure now, "Isn't it 4?"
"Yeah." Rachel laughed.
"Then an apartment wont be enough space. You want a house in the suburbs?"
"That's a long way to work Mon." Rachel said, "Can you figure something out in the city, maybe?"
"Actually, I think I have an idea now! I'll fix it."
"Thanks Mon, now I need one more favour."
"I guess… you want me to tell Ross."
"You're good." Rachel said, "Not because I want to make any arrangement about the kids, 'cause we're gonna be friends, but I don't know what he has told them about me, we agreed on nothing, so I guess he would have to tell them?"
"All right. I'm gonna help him."
"Can I ask something?" Rachel asked, "Does that skirt and top look good on Rebecca?"
"Yeah, she's just so…" Monica stopped, "How did you know?"
"This girl came in, she was talking to Clara, then she told her about her friends and that she had to buy them presents, I came 'cause she wanted me to, and she said that Clara looked a lot like one of them and that her name was Rebecca, then it only could be, right?"
"Yeah, and you know what? She's so like you. She loves that skirt and she's never gonna take it off again when she hears that you made her get it." Monica said.
"Well, actually, she's the only one in the world with a skirt like that. It was a prototype, I actually promised Clara that she would get it, but I wanted my other daughter to have it. Clara was maaaad…"
Monica started to laugh, "I can't wait to meet them again, and the youngest one, what about he/she, what did you call it?"
"Well, it's grown up to be 12 years old and it's name is Gretchen and is a girl." Rachel said, joking a little.
"Wow, I guess she looks like you, as the rest of them does.. ? Actually, Jonathan is getting a little more of Ross as he grows, but not much."
"Nope, Gret isn't, she's all Ross." Rachel said.
"Poor kid." Monica joked.
"AND!" Rachel said, "She loves dinosaurs."
"Oh my God." Monica laughed, "No-one else does?"
"Joshua does a little, he likes to watch the movies with Gretchen, but he's not fascinated with it like her."
"Wow, what about the other girl, wasn't it Rain?"
"Yeah and God, did Ross hate that?" Rachel laughed, "You know Phoebe?"
"Our friend Phoebe?" Monica asked.
"Yes her."
"Yeah.." Monica didn't understand where Rachel was going with this.
"Rain is like her!"
"What?"
"Okay, maybe not as bad, but the clothes thing.." Rachel sighed, "When she's in my store, helping and she calls me mom, people doesn't believe its mine."
"That bad?" Monica asked.
"Yeah, and I tried to figure out how she ended up like that, but I think its because she is a bit of a drama queen, she feels left out, like she doesn't belong in our family, you know? I think it's like a protest."
"That sounds about right."
"Well, I've got to go. Joshua and Clara just came home. We have to order food, I can't cook you know?" Rachel laughed, "Its either Clara who cooks or pizza. Good luck with the telling thing."
"Bye Rach, call me so we know when and where to pick you guys up?"
"I will.. bye."
--
Monica took a deep breath. She knocked on the door to Ross' house. Jonathan opened up.
"Hi aunt Monica." he smiled.
"Hi Jon, is your dad home?"
"Yeah, he's in here. Come on.."
They walked into the office and Monica asked for Jonathan to leave, since she wanted his dad in private. He nodded, curious of what that could be.
"What's up, Mon?" Ross asked.
Monica got it of her shoulders, "She's coming back.". There you go, quick and painful.
"Who's… Monica.. comi-" Ross cut himself short, "You doesn't mean, that SHE, Rachel… is coming back?"
Monica nodded, "She called me last night. It was so nice to hear her voice.. anyway, they are opening a Rachel Green store in New York."
"I know, Bec told me."
"Yeah, they wanted her to run it herself, so she asked me to find an apartment big enough for five people. They are coming in less then a week. Soon as possible."
"Wow, I have to tell the kids, oh my God, what will they say?"
"Yeah, she wants you to tell them everything, she's going to do the same to the others."
"Did she tell you about the kids?"
"Not much." Monica smiled, "But the one you haven't met is a girl, her name is Gretchen, she looks exactly like her father and is crazy about dinosaurs."
"What?"
"Rachel told me that she's a girl version of you."
"Wow, finally!" Ross said, "I mean I've been so happy that the others looked like Rachel, 'cause God is she beautiful, but at least one of them could look like me! And then it's the unplanned one who does."
Monica laughed, "Well, I wanna leave you alone, okay? I have to find an apartment for Rachel and the kids. Good luck with your plan of telling."
--
Ross had bought candy. He had locked out the pictures. The kids would hear everything. Everything. He told himself that he had to do it. He was nervous though.
"What is so important dad?" Rebecca sat down, "You know, because Mary is having a sleepover."
"This is way more important, Bec. And you can go to Mary's later if you want, she's just three houses away."
"Tell us dad." Jonathan said.
"All right. I know you…" Ross trailed of, he couldn't do it. "It doesn't matter. Go to sleepover, go watch TV. I'll tell you some other time."
The kids left and Ross locked the pictures in the drawer again, after looking at himself and Rachel smiling happily the day Jonathan was born. He had been their firstborn. It was an amazing feeling to be a father and hold your baby the first time. He had experienced it 5 times. The 6th he hadn't been there, even though he had wanted to. Ross started to cry, he wasn't good at stuff like this, Rachel could tell them when she came. She was better than him.. or they could do it together. Of course Rachel would have to tell the others. They were moving, so..
Ross fell a sleep.
-- In London --
"I need to tell you something, kids." Rachel said, "You know how me and Emily have been talking about one more store?"
"Yeah?" Rain said, looking curious.
"Well, we got that." Rachel smiled.
"Wow, Mom!" Joshua said, "Congrats!"
"Don't get to started, she's not done." Gretchen said, she knew her mother better than the others, she could read her like an open book.
"Right, Gret, I'm not." Rachel continued, "We're moving to New York."
There you go, out in the open. Rachel sighed, trying to read the looks at their faces.
"Did you just say that we're moving?" Clara said, getting angry.
Rachel nodded, "I'm sorry. But it's my career."
"Wasn't it also your career who brought us here?" Rain said.
"It's not only my career." Rachel said, "It's something very important that I have to do."
"What?" Joshua said.
"I'm going to see my old friends again, I'm going to…"
Clara cut her off, "What about my friends? My boyfriend? RUPERT!?"
"Haven't mom talked to you about being selfish, Clara?" Rain said, sharp as a knife, as always.
Clara leaned back and shut up.
"I'm sure your father wants to meet you guys." Rachel said, dreading the part with the siblings.
"I don't wanna meet him!" Joshua said, "He abandoned us, he couldn't get time to fly over here to see us. I mean how selfish!"
"Joshua.." Rachel said, "If this is anyone's fault, it's mine.."
Rain sighed, "'Cause you moved to another country, right?"
Rachel nodded, "And he did abandon you, kind of, but I abandon someone too."
"Dad?" Clara said, getting back to the conversation.
Rachel shook her head, it was now, "Two of my children."
Rain, who had been holding Rachel's hand, let it fall and Clara leaned back again. Joshua swallowed a big lump. Rachel bit her bottom lip.
"Will dad talk about dinosaurs?" Gretchen asked, out of nowhere.
Never know when to shut up, clearly a thing she had gotten from Ross.
"Yes." Rachel looked at her with tears in her eyes, "He loves dinosaurs."
"So, we have like two more siblings?" Clara asked, "Isn't 4 enough?"
"We've always wanted a big family together. Since our first date I knew I was gonna have a life, have children with that man. He knew it even before me, he knew it before he had his first girlfriend."
"Really?" Clara said, getting into the story.
"I'll rather have him to tell you guys, but I do have a few pictures you could see. They are old, but it's better than nothing."
Rachel placed one of the pictures at the table and the 4 kids leaned in to see it.
"That's our first birth." Rachel said.
"Me!" Clara smiled.
Rachel shook her head, "No sweetie, we have a son, who's one year older then you, and his name is Jonathan."
"Is that dad?" Joshua asked.
"Hmm, honey. That's your father. His name is Ross."
"Did you love him a lot?" Rain asked, looking at the dreamy face Rachel had.
She nodded, "So much. He's the only guy I've ever loved."
"Wow," Clara said, "Gretchen, you look just like him."
Gretchen smiled proudly and grabbed the picture and hugged it, "I love you daddy."
Rachel began to cry, "You know Gret…?" she couldn't say it, but she had to, "He hasn't met you yet."
Gretchen turned her head and looked at her mother; "He knows that I exist, doesn't he?"
"Yes.."
"Then he loves me. People love their children."
"Then do you have my birth?" Clara asked.
Rachel grabbed the next picture, a little worried about the outcome, "Here, honey."
"Why do you have two babies?" Joshua asked.
Rachel sighed, "This one is you, Clara. And this is your twin sister, Rebecca."
Clara's mouth fell down, "I'm a twin?"
"You're not just a twin, honey. But you're identical twins."
"Like Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen who bought a dress in your store?" Rain asked.
Rachel nodded, "It wasn't fun to separate you two, because you were like together all the time, but it would be better, it's not fun to grow up and have someone looking exactly like you."
"How do you know that?" Clara said, a little angry again.
"Because, one of my friends, back in New York, I guess your father is still her friend, she's an identical twin."
"Cool, I have a twin."
"No more births?" Joshua asked.
"Of course more births," Rachel smiled, "Around a year later…"
"Not even a year." Joshua chipped in.
"Almost a year later, then, you came."
"That's me." Joshua said, "My father is holding me."
"He was so proud of me that day." Rachel said.
"Why?" Rain asked.
"Because Joshua was breech, with the butt coming out first, it's harder that way."
"I was hardest?" Joshua asked.
"No that would be Gretchen. I was alone at that time, so…" Rachel looked around, "Where is Gretchen?"
"She's packing." Clara said, listening to the noises from Gretchen's room.
Rachel laughed, "Well, here's Rain."
"Who's that man?" Rain asked, "Someone you had an affair with?"
Rachel giggled, "No, actually, that's your uncle Chandler, he gave me a briefcase with RG on it, it's the one I still have, now you know why I wont throw it out, huh?"
"Is he dad's brother?" Joshua asked,
"No, he's your father's sisters husband."
"Cool." Clara said, "Do you have more pictures?"
"Yes, here is a family picture."
"Who are all these people?" Rain asked.
"That woman, would be your father's sister Monica, we have been friends since we were 6 years old, and she used to be fat. That's my friend, Phoebe, you remind me a lot of her, Rain. She wears the same clothes like you."
Rain smiled, "Who's that guys she's with?"
"Oh, that's her husband, his name is Mike."
"Are you the only ones with kids?" Joshua asked.
"Yeah at that time, we were, but that I know now, Phoebe and Mike have a daughter who is 11 years old and a son who is 8."
"Who's that man?" Rain asked.
Clara grabbed the picture and put it up under her nose, "Oh my God, Mom! It's Joey Tribbiani!"
Rachel smiled, "Now you know why I always watch the old episodes from ´Days of Our Lives´, huh? He was a friend too. I was really close with him."
"Oh my God." Joshua started to laugh, "Crazy family or what?"
Rachel looked around, "So, are you guys on board?"
The kids looked at each other. Catching each others eyes.
"I'm on bored." Joshua said.
"Me too." Rain smiled.
"And me too." Clara whispered.
Rachel was glad, Clara would have been the hardest, "What about you Gret, are you on board?"
"I'm on board!" Gretchen yelled, from inside her closet, but then she came running into the living room, "And I'm already packed!"
Okay, so yeah, now she's told them. I'll be back tomorrow if I've got time. Leave me a review, thanks, Stessa :)