The New Beginning - The Story of Ross and Rachel

The One With Rachel's Baby Shower

Writer's Note
So only a few chapters left. Enjoy! :)
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A month later

Rachel is now 32 weeks pregnant. Monica and Phoebe prepared a baby's shower for her in Ross and Rachel’s apartment. As the couple, Ross and Rachel, didn’t want to find out the baby’s gender yet, so they decided to go with a gender neutral theme, a natural vintage theme dominated with the color light brown, green, and white. Everything was decorated perfectly, there was a table filled with cupcakes and flowers, hanging in the background was a matching party garland with the words written on it, “welcome baby”, and underneath it there were some baby’s onesie, teddy bear, and baby’s romper hung up in a piece of rope.

This time Monica learned her mistakes, and come in prepared. She made the guest list a head of time and make sure she didn’t left out Rachel’s mom, Sandra Green. They also invited Ross’s mom, Judy, and a few of Rachel’s female coworkers and friends. The Green sisters however, as expected, couldn’t make it to the shower. Rachel didn’t even bother to ask the reason why they couldn’t come, because she knew it’s probably because of their busy schedule. Yes, she’s right, the green sisters are indeed busy, busy laying down on the beach somewhere in Mexico. Meanwhile, the dads, Ross and Chandler decided to take the kids to Mike and Phoebe’s place, a few blocks away from Rachel’s and Ross’s apartment.

Rachel was wearing a white lace sabrina dress and a pair of matching shoes. Her gorgeous golden brown hair was set loose just above her shoulder. She decided to cut her hair shorter because she couldn’t stand the heat any longer. As the center of the party, Rachel walked over the room and greeted everyone who came. After a while, it’s time for Rachel to open her gifts. This was the highlight of the day. Thanks to the early invitation, Sandra was able to buy her daughter a present.

“So this is from me.” Sandra gave the presents to Rachel

“Thank you so much mom. You don’t have to.” She smiled brightly

Rachel was in awe when she opened the presents and found a gorgeous necklace inside.

“Well, I figured, the baby is going to get a lot of presents. So I decided to give you a present instead. You are a wonderful mom, I’m so proud of you, dear.”

Rachel was touched by her mom kind gesture, she’s holding up her tears. Sandra then gave Rachel a hug.

“Thank you so much, mommy.” She whispered

She continued to open the presents. Judy and Jack gave her gift cards so they could spend it they way they needed to. Monica and Chandler gave her a grey lacy bassinet and an elephants theme gift basket completed with a matching swaddle, a blanket, a comforter, and a pair of tiny socks. Phoebe and Mike gave them a  cream hand-sewn baby’s sweater and a matching baby shoes. Joey sent them a red ride-on toy car, that probably not going to be useful for another year. As for the others, there were tons of baby toys, bottles, grooming kits, and clothes.

Today Rachel couldn’t be any happier. On her second pregnancy she already knew how to handle a newborn baby, so she wasn’t as nervous as her first pregnancy. It wasn’t the pregnancy or the baby she’s worried about, it’s something else. It is Ross. Ever since they ran into Joey in the hospital about a month ago, Ross always stay quite whenever someone say Joey’s name. Ross some times would sit on the dark or staring at the sky alone as if something keep bothering his mind and it made Rachel worries.

While the other guests left, there were only three people in the room left, Rachel, Monica, and Phoebe. They were sitting on the couch and talking.

“Mon, can I ask you something?” Rachel hesitated, as she started biting her nails

“Sure, what is it?”