Okay, so this is a week later. Hope you enjoy.

Disclaimer: Still not mine.

A New Beginning

Chapter 5

This is Home

"Oh my God." Monica couldn't stand still, she was jumping up and down like a little girl.

"Monica, calm down!" Chandler said.

"I'm excited!" Monica said, defensive.

"I'm excited too." Phoebe said, "But in a normal way."

"Me too." Joey said, "I gotta see if she's still hot."

"Rachel is not someone you can sleep with." Chandler told Joey.

"Like I was going to do that." Joey said.

They all laughed, that was exactly what he had had in mind.

"Now, I can't believe that Ross isn't here." Phoebe said.

"He's just late. If he had a choice he would not miss the love of his life moving back, now would he?" Monica smiled.

"God, that's her." Phoebe pointed, "And Mike aren't here with the cameras. Why did he have to pee!?"

"It's not only her." Monica said, "It's them… 4 kids! RACHEL!?"

Rachel looked up, she saw Monica waving at them. She hurried to them and gave her a hug.

Rachel whispered, "I've missed you so much, Mon."

Monica looked her in the eye, "But you're back now."

Rachel forgot all about her children. They were just like air.

"Hi Chandler, I've missed you." she told him, "I still have that RG briefcase you bought me."

"Really, it's great to have you back Rach."

"And it's great to be back. Hi Phoebs!"

"Hi Rachel!"

"I heard you have children now, where's Mike?"

"He had to pee, and he have to camera so…"

Rachel laughed, "My sweet Joey. Aw, I love you."

Joey hugged her, "I love you too, Rach."

Rachel looked around, "Come here kids."

"Hey…" Rain said, looking shy.

"This is your aunts and uncles, and this is Joshua, Rain, Clara and Gretchen." Rachel introduced them.

"Where's dad?" Gretchen said, dying to meet him, "You promised me that he would love me even though he never has met me before."

"Gretchen, right?" Monica asked.

"Yeah?"

"I talked to him the other day, he is dying to meet you."

"Oh my God." Rachel said.

"What, mom?" Clara asked.

"There he is." Rachel pointed, "Ross is here."

It only took Ross two seconds to spot Rachel and then two seconds after that, he was meeting her at the halfway, embracing each other. When Rachel felt his warm arms around her, she started to cry. Ross felt her body shaking, so he stroked her hair.

Monica looked at the two people. Clearly in love. Phoebe caught Monica's eyes, was this scene saying something, or what?

Ross finally let Rachel go, "Rach sweetie, you're crying."

She sighed, "I just can't believe how much I've missed you, Ross."

"I've missed you too." Ross said taking her hand.

Rachel dried her eyes with her sleeve and saw her mascara running, "God, I look like something coming out from a horror movie, don't I?"

Ross laughed, "You're still beautiful."

All Rachel wanted to was give him a kiss, but that wouldn't be appropriate, "Now, let's get you to meet your children. You're gonna love Gretchen."

They walked towards the others, Ross said hi to his friends and Rachel grabbed Clara's hand, "Do you have some make-up?"

"I'm saving your day, ain't I mom?"

"Yeah, I'm owing a free blouse." Rachel said grabbing some of Clara's hand bag make-up, that was okay, she thought. When she was done, she saw Ross standing behind Monica and the kids were looking every place else, than at him.

"All right." Rachel said, "Come here Ross."

She grabbed his hand and Gretchen's hand, Clara, Rain and Joshua were walking themselves.

"Kids.. this is your father, Ross Geller. Remember him? I'm sure he remembers you."

"Dad?" Joshua tried.

Ross looked at him, "Joshua, look how big you've gotten!"

Ross swirled him around,

"Wow, you look just like Rebecca!" he told Clara afterwards.

"I can actually remember you a little bit." Clara said, she hugged him, "It's nice to see you again dad."

"And this is Rain I guess…?" Ross tried.

Rain smiled at him, "Hmm, are you gonna talk about dinosaurs all the time, because then I'm gonna go."

"I wanna talk about dinosaurs!" Gretchen said, letting go of her mother's hand, "Mom promised me you would talk to me about it."

Ross looked down at this little girl, looking just like him, being just like him. Then he thought about how the other 5 were all Rachel, but this time they had gotten a Ross. He already loved her. He already knew, that she was gonna be daddie's little princess, just the way that Rachel had been her father's little princess. He hugged the girl and lifted her up, he walked to Rachel, "Thank you so much, Rach." he began to cry, "She's so perfect. Finally a child looking like me."

Rachel stroke his arm, "I felt sorry for that kid when I saw her, you know? But, I guess she's gonna be okay."

Ross sat her down, and she ran to he group to say a real hi, like the other kids were. Ross and Rachel walked away a little.

"I love her so much." Ross said.

"I do too." Rachel said, looking at her kids, "The fact that she reminds me so much of you makes me love her even more."

"I have felt the same about Rebecca." Ross sighed.

"You know, Josh like dinosaurs too, not so much though, but he can watch the movies."

Ross looked at Rain, "It seems like the name Rain isn't that bad for Rain after all. She's kind of flaky, right?"

"I've always seen Phoebe in her." Rachel told him. She moved her eyes to look at him. She smiled a weak smile and Ross grabbed her hand with a more secure grab, than before and that sent a shiver down her spine.

"God, I've missed you so much, Rach." Ross said, leaning towards her.

"No, Ross, the kids." Rachel whispered.

Ross quickly kissed her cheek instead of the lips as he was going to, "Okay."

He let go of her hand and they walked to the group.

"Where's our siblings?" Joshua asked.

"They are in school." Ross answered, "And their names are Jonathan and Rebecca."

"And you will meet your cousins too." Monica smiled, "You have four of them, Gavin and Peter is mine and Chandler's, they are 8 and 10. Lily is Phoebs and Mike's, she's 11 and Peter is 8, he's theirs too."

Clara smiled, "Can I dress her up the way I did when Gretchen was little?"

"If she wants too." Phoebe said.

"When can we meet the others?" Gretchen asked.

"I think you mother should meet them first." Ross said, catching Rachel's eyes, "Otherwise they are gonna be overwhelmed, right?"

"Of course." Gretchen said, "Can she go meet them now and we can go to like, someplace else then here? Because this place is killing me."

"Yes," Monica smiled, "Ross and Rachel can go pick up Bec and Jon, we can go to our place, or aren't you comfortable with us yet?"

"I'm very comfortable." Rain said, looking in awe at Phoebe.

At that moment Mike came from the bathroom, "What time will they arrive?"

"Mike?" Rachel said, "We're already here."

Mike turned his head, "Oh my God Rachel, hi."

"Hi," Rachel sighed, "Can we go?"

"Yeah……"

They walked out to the cars. Monica and Chandler went into one car with Joshua and Gretchen. Mike, Phoebe and Joey went into Mike and Phoebe's with Clara and Rain. Ross and Rachel had Joey's car, they went in, when Ross changed his mind and told Rachel to go by herself. She agreed and Ross went with Monica and Chandler.

Rachel started the car and started to drive. She could actually remember the way, no problem with that. When she was at the parking-drive she took a deep breath. Some students would probably recognize her, there had been a documentary about her store and it had knocked out all the hit-shows from the lists. She walked into the school and immediately felt that she didn't belong there, but she had to do it.

"Can I help you?" a sweet girl asked.

Rachel smiled at her, "Yes, I'm looking for the place where you eat, isn't it that time now?"

The girl nodded, "Yeah, it's that way.. I'm sorry, but have you been teaching here? I feel like I've seen you before?"

"Oh, no, no, no." Rachel laughed, "My name is Rachel Green, I'm a designer."

"That's why I know you!" the girl said, "I watched you on TV. What are you doing here?"

"I'm looking for two students."

"Okay, but the dining area is that way."

The girl pointed again and Rachel said thanks and finally she stood in front of two open doors. Looking in, she got the feeling that she never would have the luck to find Rebecca and Jonathan.

Rachel went to the nearest table and poked one of the guys, "Hi, excuse me?"

"Yeah?"

"I'm looking for Jonathan and Rebecca Geller? Are they eating now?"

"Yeah, Bec is. What do you want her?"

"I.. eh, just have to talk to her." Rachel smiled, "I can't see my own head in here, can you tell me where she sits?"

"I've seen you before?" the guy suddenly realized, "Are you related to Bec?"

Rachel smiled. "Yeah, close family, but actually it's the first time I'm going to see her in years, so you can't know me from there."

The guy sighed, "All right, she's in the other end of the room."

Rachel smiled at him again and started to walk. All eyes were on her, and she felt kind of annoyed, sometimes she could hear them gasp, when they found out who she was. As she got closer, she recognized Mary as one of the girls around the table, and she had no problem in seeing who Rebecca was. She heard Mary gasp, "Oh my God, I know her!"

"That woman?" another girl asked, "Isn't that the one with the store?"

"Yes, Rachel Green." Mary said, "I was in her store in London. We talked, she was very nice. I'm gonna say hi, wonder what she wants here?"

Mary got up and met Rachel, "Hi ms. Green."

"Oh," Rachel took her hand, "Hi Mary, how are you doing?"

"Great, that's my friends. Lena and that girl I told you about.."

"Yeah, Rebecca, I can recognize her when I see her." Rachel rambled, she just wanted to sit down so everybody weren't staring at her.

"I know you?" Rebecca said, standing up. There was like ten meters between them.

Rachel swallowed a lump, "Yes, you do."

"What do you want?"

"I know you father really hasn't told you about me coming, but…" Rachel looked around, feeling everybody staring at them, that didn't matter though, "I've came to tell you that…"

Rachel was cut off, "Mom?"

She turned around and saw Jonathan staring at her in disbeliefs.

"Hi Jonathan…" Rachel whispered.

"It's really you?" Jonathan screamed and ran towards Rachel with open arms, he embraced her with a hug and Rachel immediately felt the tears running again.

"Oh God.." Rachel whispered, "Look how big you've grown, you look more like you father now then you did when you were little."

"And I remember you totally now.. dad hasn't told me anything about you, but.. wait a minute, does dad know you're here?"

"Yeah, he just picked us up at the airport." Rachel whispered.

"What are you looking at?" Jonathan said. All the people inside the room were staring at them.

Rachel laughed, then she turned around and looked at Rebecca.

Rebecca on the other hand was staring at her, not believing what she'd just heard, "Are you saying that you're my mom?"

Rachel nodded, "I'm pretty sure. I was counting you as my second child when you came out.. by the way nice skirt. I have to tell you…" Rachel walked closer, "Clara wasn't happy when I sold it to your friend, I've promised her that skirt, but I told her that she had to learn that she wasn't the queen of the world."

Some of the people surrounding them laughed.

"And who's Clara?" Rebecca said, didn't want to believe anything of what she heard.

"Oh, you don't know?" Rachel said, "I told your father to tell you about it.. come here, this is private."

"I don't believe you!" Rebecca whined.

"Are you telling me that you actually think that a strange woman will fly all the way from London to come and pretend to be a high school girl's mother?"

Rebecca sighed, "I just don't believe you… I mean you've been gone for like 13 years and now you're coming back, why?"

"I'm opening a store in New York, honey." Rachel said.

"So, that's the reason you're coming back?" Jonathan asked, "You're coming back because of your work, and you just expect us to love you?"

"No, not at all." Rachel said.

"Great!" Rebecca yelled, "Because I refuse too!"

"Becky please, don't make a scene..."

"Becky?" Rebecca said.

"That's my name for you.."

"Well, I hate you!" Rebecca continued, "You abandoned your kids, what kind of a mother does that? Dad, he stocked with us! Okay? He didn't abandon in us!?"

Rachel yelled, "Maybe not on you and Jon, but he did, fuck him, abandon four other kids!"

The whole room got quiet.

"Four kids?" Rebecca whispered.

"Oh, yeah-. Big chock-" Rachel began to cry, "When I left I took three kids with me, and I was very pregnant with your little sister!"

She turned around and started to walk away from them. She knew they wouldn't forgive her, but don't believe that she was their mother? That was too much. She felt a person grab her hand, "Stop there, ms. Green."

She turned and got a look on the person. It was the guy she had talked to.

Jonathan caught up with her, "Mom, don't run. I love you. I wanna talk."

Rachel gave Rebecca an angry look, she stood there in the middle of the room, crying, "Then let's talk. Joey borrowed me his car. We can go to Monica and Chandler's. We just have to pick up Gavin, Peter, Patrick and Lily on the way."

Rebecca slowly lifted up her head, "You know them?"

"Surprisingly enough." Rachel said, "Because I'm just a stranger, but you know what Rebecca? If you don't want to know me, I totally understand, if my mother had left me alone with nobody to understand me, I would be like you too. If you don't want to be my daughter, I don't care, because I don't need another daughter. I already have 3!"

Rachel turned around and walked out of the room with Jonathan right behind her, saying; "She needed that. Somebody had to tell her she isn't queen of the world, like you described it."

"Well, Clara needed that too." Rachel said.

In the hall, everybody was staring at Rebecca, when she began to cry and sat down at the floor. Mary rushed to her side, "Bec, she is telling the truth. Go get her as your mother before you regret it!"

"Yeah," Lena said, padding her hair, "Haven't you wanted a mother like forever?"

Rebecca looked up, tears in her eyes and whispered, "Yes…"

"Then go get yourself one!"

Rebecca stood up, "You're right.. but now she wont talk to me, because I hurt her feelings!"

"She came all the way out here to tell you that she's back." Lena said, "Even though your dad probably told her that you were in school, she did that, because, she loves you."

Rebecca hugged her two friends and started to run after her mother and her brother.

"Hurry up, Bec!" Mary screamed, "It's Rachel Green for Gods sake!"

BTW I'm really starting to like Mary, I don't know why, but there's something about her I like.. can't figure out what. ah, well, leave me a review.. Thanks, Stefania.