Beyond Friends Episode Eighteen "Tell Me About it
Season Two Premiere
Special Guest Star
David Schwimmer as Ross
"Where do we go from here"
Chandler shuffled his feet and looked down at them. Rachel stood at the doorway. She eventually leaned over and closed it. It closed with a soft thud. Chandler looked up.
"Whats true?" Chandler said scratching his head.
"You know what I mean." Rachel said pointing to the phone. "I had the radio on over at Monicas place."
"So I guess that means you heard." Chandler sighed heavily.
"You could have always told me how you felt about me Chandler." Rachel said crossing the floor. "But instead you told millions of strangers and a radio doctor who would forget about it as soon as the next caller started talking."
"I couldn't tell you, not as long as you were with Ross." Chandler explained. "You guys seem to be really getting along good this time. No english girl or no dumb rich guy to screw it all up. And now just as all this is happening I do the stupid thing of falling in love with you."
"But why now?" Rachel asked. "We've known each other for so long, why did it have to happen now?" Rachel shook her head. "My head is swimming, I need some air." Rachel ran over to the door.
"Rachel!" Then he remember something he said long ago. "I love you! Deal with me first!"
Rachel couldn't help smiling at the comment but she still opened the door and left. Chandler sat in his recliner.
"Chandler you idiot what have you done now?" He said sitting back and closing his eyes.
A few blocks away Rachel walked silently with her coat arond her. She forgot how cold it was when she had sprinted over from Monicas apartment. She even forgot she left Monica there alone with a bottle of Champange Du Bois that wasnt even open. Rachel sat on a bench and thought.
"If I love Ross then why did I break all speed records going back to the apartment just to confirm what Chandler felt about me?" She felt a drop and looked up. It was starting to rain. She felt immediate de ja vu as she thought of the day she first went to Chandler in the pouring rain after she lost her job and her home. The rain actually felt good, as she tried to think of other things.
But she found she couldnt stay on other things as long as two seconds. She thought of the dream she was having the first day she went to work with Monica at the restaurant. How Chandler came in as a friend and ended up kissing her with such unbridled passion. It had felt so real to be just a dream. She had dismissed it as an after effect of too much salsa way too late at night. Now she thought it could hve been a omen, a sign of things to come. Rachel stood up as she was now getting drenched. She wiped the wet hair out of her eyes. It was too late to go back to Monicas. And she couldnt even go over to Ross's place for she didnt even know the security number on his alarm system.
She knew what she had to do.
She had to go back to the apartment and Chandler.
Chandler amazingly was still sitting in his recliner when a now very drenched Rachel opened the door. He looked up as he heard the door close and lock. Rachel peeled the coat off of her and started to wring it out over the sink. Chandler yawned, he must have dozed off and stood up. He walked over by her side. She turned to him as she finished wringing out the excess water in her coat.
"I was getting worried about you." He confessed handing her a towel for her hair.
"I kinda expected that." Rachel said tying the towel arond her head. "Did Monica call, I half expected her to after I ran out like that." She paused. "By the way, she didnt hear your audio confession so its not gonna get back to Ross you love me."
"Thank god. I have the horrible habit of falling for other guys girls. And I thought that was only gonna happen with people Joey dated." Chandler said only half joking.
"Chandler I want to be with Ross, but I don't know what to do about you." Rachel confessed walking away from him.
"Me neither to tell the truth. I don't want you to hurt Ross. I have to confess..."
"Gee, more stuff I don't know about you? Do you wear womens underwear in bed?"
Chandler smiled. "As I was saying I been thinking of ways that you could be with me, if you wanted to and be with Ross at the same time."
"What?" Rachel asked. She sat down. "I think I may have some feelings but I dont know if they run beyond friendship or not."
"You're not sure." Chandler stated.
"Yeah." Rachel agreed. "Remember that dream I told you about?"
"Sure, the one about me and you in your bedroom." Chandler said thinking. "It was around the time when Monica told Janice that you and I were a couple."
"Right. Maybe there was something about that telling us that maybe we could be together. But I'm not gonna break up with Ross just to see if I could get along with you romatically or not."
"Thats a great idea." Chandler said snapping his fingers.
"Whats a great idea."
"A test run." Chandler said. "We go out for a week or so and if we dont do well as a couple, we'll go back to just being roomates. And Ross doesnt have to be the wiser."
"I don't know. Its like the head of the donner party saying that if we eat one of the dead people it doesn't make us cannibals." Rachel sighed. "I dunno." Rachel laid down on her stomach then immediately sat back up. "Ok hot shot. What if we DO get along. What if we love being together. What do we do then?"
"Well, I'd to think we'll cross that bridge when we get to it." Chandler sitting on the couch with Rachel. He placed his hands one her shoulders. She tensed them immediately relaxed as she got used to his hands being there. "What do you think?"
"I think its worth a try." Rachel sighed. "I have an idea." Rachel got up and got a piece of paper. "We'll make a plan."
"I can't believe I'm planning to decieve one of my longest friends with his girlfriend." Chandler shook his head. "What is this anyway."
"On Tuesdays Ross works late so we can be together then." Rachel said writing it down. R+C night under Tuesday. "Then Ross and I will be together for the rest of the week and on the weekend of the trial me and you can be together."
"Makes sense. I guess." Chandler said picking up the paper and crumpling it up.
"What are you doing?" Rachel said as he carefully inserted the paper wad in his mouth and chewed it.
"Can't have Ross finding this." Chandler said swallowing it.
"Cant have me seeing what?" Ross said as the door closed.
Rachel and Chandler stood up fast. Chandler almost choked on a leftover piece of paper that was in his mouth. He swallowed it and smiled.
"Ross!" Rachel said running over and hugging Ross. Ross leaned over and kissed her on the lips. Chandler actually felt a little jealous looking at this display. After confessing his love to her, she was still kissing Ross like that. He sighed.
"What can't I see?" Ross said smiling. Rachel turned to Chandler. Ross reached around Rachel and hugged her from behind.
"Well I guess the gig is up." Chadnler sighed. "It was fun before it even started."
"We were making secret plans for you surprise birthday party." Rachel broke off Chandler before he said anymore. She feared he was gonna tell the truth about the "trial"
"Really Chandler?" Ross said looking his way.
"Yeah." He agreed smiling. Rachel sighed. "Even thought its month
away, theres never a wrong time to come up with ideas for our Ross's birthday party!"
"See?" Rachel kissed Ross on the cheek. "Lets go out for a while. I want to show you something special."
"Okay." Ross said opening door. "I'll be right downstairs."
As soon as Ross left Chandler sighed. "That was close. Too too close."
"We'll be fine." Rachel said getting a dry coat. "With luck it will turn out we're a bad couple and Ross never has to know."
"Right." Chandler said watching her leave. "But what if I don't make a bad boyfriend?" He finished after she left.
