Beyond Friends Episode Fifteen "Face to face"
Guest Star
David Schwimmer as Ross Geller


"Threes Company"

Inside Rachels room its dark except for the light from seemingly thousands of candles lit around the room. The light gave a romantic and mysterious ambiance to the room. Rachel sat down in from of a spinning wheel. Ross clicked on a tape. He sat down in back of her when the music began to play. The song was "Unchained Melody." Ross was wearing his pj bottom while Rachel fit into his oversize pj top.
"I'm so glad we kept that pottery wheel thing Chandler accidentally ordered in the mail." Rachel said as she dumped large handful of clay on the wheel. "This is the most fun and most sensual thing we've had done in a long time."
"And its art!" Ross agreed.
Ross slowly started to spin and Rachel placed her hands around the clay and started to make a bowel shape. "Course reading that book that came with it didnt exactly hurt things either." Rachel said. Ross covered her small hands with his large hands and held them while she sculpted.
"Oh and I so love this song." Rachel said while Ross lightly kissed her on the neck. "And that wasnt so bad either."

Chandler sat outside watching tv. He once in a while he looked over at the door to Rachels room.
"What is she doing with all of those candles?" He wondered to himself. He remembered the pottery kit he had accidentally ordered from a catalog when he actually want a new pair of ice skates. The two items couldnt be any more different but somehow the order was bungled was just the same. Maybe Phoebe worked there. "As long as there is no animal or human sacrificing in there, its all right with me." Chandler said to himself while watching an old rerun of Baywatch. "But why couldnt she be listening to "Unchained Melody" with me in the candlelight?" Chandler resisted the urge to knock on the door and demand they keep it down in there, whatever they were doing.Finally after much debating in his head he got up and walked over to the door. He paused. Its so quiet in there. I hope Ross didnt kill her off. Chandler placed his hand gently on the door and pressed slowly. The door swung open easily. He looked at the nice scene on the floor.
"Hi Chandler." Rachel and Ross said together. They were making a clay pot on the stupid wheel thing. Or maybe it was an awfully deep ashtray.
"This scene reminds me of a movie, wait, its on the tip of my tongue."
Ross reached behind the door and started pulling it shut.
"Say goodbye Chandler." Ross said as the door started to close.
"Goodbye Chandler." Chandler said as the door closed in his face.

Later on that day

Chandler had since gone to work. Rachel and Ross were free to wiggle around without a care inside the apartment now that a certain nosey roomate wasnt there to ask "What are you to up to when the door is closed?"
Rachel had set the oven to cook the clay pot they had made with love and some careless hand movements. Rachel now set the pot on the counter. Ross handed her a paint brush and she picked a red to paint some designs on the pot. Ross looked at her with a smile for a bit then turned serious.
"Rachel how would you like to move in with me?" Ross asked.
"What?" Rachel said moving the brush in a curly stroke.
"Would you like to move in with me?" Ross asked.
"I don't know."
"Well you said the move here was temporary till you got a better job, right?" Ross asked.
"Right." Rachel said."But Ross I'm not sure I want to leave Chandler here on his own."
"Why not?" Ross stood up. "He was here by himself before he saw you again at that newspaper stand."
"Yeah. But you gotta let me think." Rachel said picking another color. "What if we break up. I would have to move back here." "Thats a good point." Ross said. He walked over and took her in his arms. "Tell you what, think about my offer and tell me what you think when we see each other again later."
"Okay." Rachel pulled from him. "I would love more privacy, but you get back from the mueseum late at night nowadays and I don't want to be alone."
"Yeah." Ross said.
"I'll think on it, and get back to you." Rachel said as she finished painting the clay pot."Hows it look."
"Beautiful. Just like you." Ross said and kissed her. In the sudden move Ross made he knocked the pot down and it smashed into a million clay pieces.
"Ooops. I think we have to make a new one." Rachel said as she grabbeed Ross's hand. She lead him to her room. "I think we should go slower this time."
Ross smiled a goofy grin and let her lead him into the room. The door closed behind him, Ross made sure it was closed this time.

Later on

Rachel returned from work to find Chandler had gone out on a small shopping trip.
"Will be back later, had the urge to bye onion rings." Chandler had written in a note left on the fridgerator door magna-doodle. Rachel erased it, wrote "Will be in room" in its place and went into her room.
She sat for a while looking out the window thinking, rethinking and rethinking again the offer Ross gaver her that morning before she went to work at the restaurant. She remembered something Ross had done a long time ago. Something that pissed her off royally when she found out what he had done. But now she was gonna sit down and do the exact same thing Ross had done so many years ago. She was gonna make a pros and cons list of moving or staying here.
She got a piece of paper out of her desk stationary kit. At least with her own paper, she wouldht have to worry about anyone looking at it. Rachel made out two columns.
Pros Cons
Instantly she thought of pros.
Pros - Get to be with Ross 24/7. What could be better than that?

Then Rachel stopped. Being with Ross was the only "pro"? Impossible! It was amazing how quickly the cons came.

Cons - What if we break up? Chandler has been so nice to me, would it be rude just leave and not say thank you? What if I never see Chandler again after I move? And his place is so much closer to work.

Rachel stopped writing. She had made a decision. Rachel got up and hit the speed dial. Ross's phone rang a second and he picked it up.
"Hello?" Ross said.
"Ross, I'm gonna stay here for a while, see what happens, you know?" Rachel said into the phone. "Its not that I don't love you I just want to see how things go."
"Okay." Ross said. "Hey, I'll pick you up in a half an hour for our date tonight."
"Okay." Rachel said and hung up. Rachel went over and got a drink as Chandler came in the door.
"Hows things on the old homestead?" Chandler asked putting things away.
"Oh they could never be better." Rachel smiled. "Never better."