"so what have you got planned for us today Dr. Geller." I ask as I walk into the living room where Ross was waiting on me to finish getting ready. He stood up and approached me and when he got to me he grabbed my cheek with one hand and kissed me ever so softly and slowly pulled away resting his forehead on mine.
"You're really beautiful you know, and I love you." he whispered short of breathe and choked up. He was trying his best to be okay with all of this. With leaving me. But he knew it really wasn't.
I let a tear fall and and a quiet muffled cry escaped my lips and he pulled away to see it and wiped it away quickly.
"None of that today, okay?" he asked soothingly and I closed my eyes and nodded yes. "Okay."
"Good." he smiled. "Now.. how does dinner and a walk sound?" he suggests taking my hand and leading me out the door behind him.
"Can we replace walk with something else?" I ask seductively running my finger down his chest and biting my lip.
"I love you so much" he exhales the words out and continues to walk me out the door. The whole can ride there I'm quiet though. Thinking about how I'm going to survive without him here and I decide this is the best time to confront him.
"So how exactly do think I'm supposed to live without you." I blurt out tilting my head.
"Rach, I.." But he's at a lost for words and I see him just look into my eyes searching for an answer. "I just know you'll do fine."
"So you're going to do fine without me?" I ask referring to his answer. I was pretty hurt by all of this. He was so ready to move on and didn't even think about the consequence of leaving me.
"Rach, can we please not argue on our last day together?" he asks desperately and I just turn and look out the window. It hasn't really hit me yet that he's leaving today. I won't see him for a whole year basically. I'm lost in my thoughts when all of a sudden I feel inch closer to me and pull me to his side. He rubs up and down my side and plants a kiss on my forehead. We don't speak for the rest of the cab ride because we know what each of us were thinking.
We reach the restaurant and we walk in hand in hand. We sit down and eat and Ross is acting really quiet and distant the whole time, but it's probably just because he's leaving.
Once we finish, we take a walk through the park when Ross lightly chuckles to himself.
"I can't." he shakes his head.
"Can't what?"
"I can't wait any longer." he replies and makes me stop and gets down on one knee in front of me.
"Marry me, Rachel. I love you with every part of my being. I was born to love you, and I need you as my wife. You're the most beautiful woman in the world, with the biggest heart and I love you so much. So please.. please marry me."
His words spill out smoothly and softly and he stares up at me holding my hands.
I roll my eyes back trying to catch my tears and let a breathe I've been holding escape and shake my head yes.
"Yes, Ross." I say with tears streaming down my face.
Ross picks me up bridal style and spins us around once.
"She said yes! She said yes!" he yells out into the park and people look our way in Awh and clap. He put me down and kissed me properly and then my face began to fall.
"What the matter?" he asked bringing his hand to my lower back and pushing me forward into his embrace.
"Its just that you proposed but you have to leave in an hour so we can't even celebrate or be together or anything.." I say sadly turning around and walking away from him.
"Rachel, baby wait!" he tells grabbing my arm. "Look, I know this is kind of difficult but I love you! I want to marry you, and be with you forever. Please.. We can make this work.. Plus I dont want any guys trying to snatch my girl up." he grins.
I finally give in and the whole gang drives him to the airport.
First Ross says goodbye to Phoebe who's already tearing up.
"Bye, Pheebs. I love you, stay weird don't change on me okay?" he jokes and phoebe lets out a small laugh and hugs him.
Then he moves on to Joey and Chandler and gives both of them a hug and turns to Monica.
"I love you sis, I'll see you soon okay?"
"I love you too, Ross. Don't be too long." Monica demands and hugs him.
"I won't. And take care of Rachel for me okay? I can't be here to do it so I need you to look after her and make sure she's always safe."
Monica nods. "I will Ross."
Then he sees Rachel. She was standing farther away from all of them already bawling her very eyes out. He went up to her and hugged her tighter than ever before.
"I love you, baby. But you'll be okay." he kisses the top of her head multiple times.
I just stand in his embrace and sob into his chest. "Rach, stop please, I can't stand seeing you like." he whispers in her ear kissing her neck.
"then.. don't.. Leave me." I say inbetween sobs clenching his shirt in my fists.
"I have to.." he says fighting back tears. He kisses me deeply wrapping his arms tight around my waist. He keeps kissing me for a good minute and I pull away again.
"I love you so much, I can't go with not seeing you for a whole year!" I cry and he finally gives in and cries too.
"It'll get better, i'll call every night."
I closed my eyes and cried some more when he pulled me to a secluded corner. "I love you, please remember that, and when I get back in the summer I'm marrying you." he whispers smiling widely.
I don't respond and just kiss him passionately causing us both to lose our breath.
That's when the announcement came on for his flight to leave. We walked back over to everyone else and he said one more final goodbye.
"Baby I love you." he repeats again and I kiss him not lettin him go.
"Rach, I have to go.." he whispers and I slowly let go of him. I hold his hand and slowly let it drop as he walks away. He quickly turns around and runs back to me and kisses me once more before getting in line. I watch him move up in line until he's next. And I don't know what came over me but I just needed to kiss him one more time.
"Ross! Ross!" I yelled and he turned around confused and saw me running to him and caught me in his arms and picked me up as I kissed him.
"Don't leave, don't leave! I need you, I'm asking you to stay." I pleaded and kissed him multiple times.
"sir, are you boarding the plane?" the attendant asks.
"Yes." he whispers and drops Rachel and quickly walks into the gate. He knew that if he stayed one more second or even saw her cry again he would stay, and he also really wanted to go.
