The Missing Gem

42 | Halloween

Lucas

October 31st arrived pretty quickly and Nicole and I sure had plans for the spookiest night of the year.

Her best friend Diane was hosting a little Halloween party at her apartment and we were obviously attending. Nicole and I really love Halloween, that was something the two of us knew we had in common shortly after we first met. Of course it was no surprise since the two of us are both young souls individually, and obviously as a couple, we bring out that childish side of each other a lot more.

We had thought about a matching costume for the two of us and had actually planned for something slightly different, but due to the unexpected surprise, we were forced to change it and since Nicole loved Friends, we had agreed on going as Rachel and Ross.

We were going as Ross and pregnant Rachel. Which was also going to be a fun way to break the news to Diane.

It took us quite a long time to find the same exact dress that Rachel wore on Monica's wedding - also known as the episode when we learn that Rachel is pregnant - but after a lot of research on Amazon and Pinterest, eventually we did, and Nicole was one hundred percent sure that Diane would get the hint on the first try, since she was just as obsessed with the 90s TV show as she was.

My costume on the other hand was pretty easy - Ross was wearing a tux on Monica's wedding, so all I needed to do was rent a black tuxedo and use a massive amount of gel on my hair that Nicole had help spray paint so it would look black.

When we pulled up to Diane's place, we could see that the party was already at full swing by the amount of cars parked outside her house.

"Ready, Rachel?" I said with a glint in my eyes as I smirked at her after securely parking the car.

"Ready, Ross." She winked at me, letting her giggles fill the silence that lived inside the car after I turned off the engine and consequently, the radio.

When we got to the party, Trevor and Diane were the first ones to come at the door, like the gracious hosts they were.

The couple went for a couple's costume just like most couples chose to go for on Halloween. And from what I could gather after taking a quick look around, we weren't the only matching couples.

Diane and Trevor chose to go as Harley Quinn and The Joker and their costumes and characterization were top notch, literally. They looked as flawless as if they were in a big Hollywood production movie.

Thinking about it for a second, and knowing Diane as well as I know her now, knowing how extra she was about everything and anything in life, I would bet my life that she had probably hired a professional makeup artist to work on their faces just for this special, fantasy themed night of the year.

"Hi!" She had a glass filled with rosé wine on her hand while she looked at us up and down before flashing us a huge smile. "Ross and Rachel? Really? Oh my God, that is the perfect costume! You should have let me know, we would have gone as Monica and Chandler." She moved her index finger between her and her boyfriend.

She hugged us both and closed the door behind us before Trevor pulled his hand out and shook mine and hugged the Rachel Green look-a-like next to me.

"Yeah well, this was kind of a last minute costume. We got some unexpected news and we had to ditch our first idea. We were actually thinking about coming as Morticia and Gomez Addams." Nicole explained. I could see the wheels in Diane's head slowly turning, slowly putting the pieces of this teeny tiny puzzle together.

"Wait a second..."

Of course this pregnancy was more than a surprise and a shock to both me and Nicole. We always used protection whenever we had sex and therefore we never expected it to happen, nor did we talk about wanting or making a baby, at least not this early into our relationship.