The Games Cupid Plays - Part 2: Guess Who's Back?*****
For a moment, both Ross and Rachel forgot that this was the thing that seemed to keep getting them into trouble in the first place - their love for one another. Ross put one of his hands on Rachel's back and pulled her closer to him, and ran the other one through her hair. Eventually, Rachel slowly pulled away, and opened her eyes. The two of them just stood there for a minute, looking into each other's eyes. Finally, Rachel broke the silence. "That shouldn't have happened. At least not so soon after..." She trailed off as she felt those puppy dog eyes on her again, and she realised that she had no argument. Ross moved to kiss her again, but Rachel backed away again.
"Ross, look, maybe we should... give each other some space, figure out what we want," Rachel told him. Ross was clearly heartbroken by these words, but Rachel was even more heartbroken, having to be the one to say them. With all the strength he could muster, Ross replied with, "Okay, but before I leave, I just need to say one thing."
"Fine, what?" Instead of saying anything, Ross, caught up in the moment, took Rachel's face in his hands and kissed her again, before she could stop him. However, it was at this exact moment that Monica entered. They quickly moved away from one another so as not to give Monica any reason to be suspcious.
"Hi guys," Monica started. "Ross, someone you know is in town, and they want to talk to you."
"Who?" Ross asked, thinking that it was an old college friend who he had been expecting a visit from for a few weeks. The name Monica said was indeed that of an old friend, just not the one Ross was expecting.
"Emily."

Emily sat in Central Perk, nervously talking to Chandler and Joey.
"He's going to hate me. He's going to hate me even more than he already does," Emily said. She had come to tell Ross something. An important something. She had only found out about it a couple of days before, through a friend of the family.
"Hey, come on, Ross doesn't hate you," Chandler told her, comforting her.
"Yeah, he was just confused," Joey said in addition.
Ross entered from behind, and steeled himself. He hadn't talked to Emily since the slip-up that had changed everything for them - they had both decided it would be better if they just made a clean break. He also didn't know how he was going to handle it if Emily wanted to get back together with him.
"Hi, Emily," Ross said, still standing.
Emily looked up and gave Ross a half-smile. "Hi."
"Well, we, uh... have something to do," Chandler told Ross and Emily, seeing that they needed to be alone.
"So," Ross said, feeling awkward.
"So."
"Um... why are you here?"
"Because I need to tell you something."
"Oh?"

Rachel was in her room, trying to sleep. However, she couldn't, because her mind was all aflurry with the events of earlier in the evening. She was also sure that Emily had come to reclaim Ross, and she didn't know if she could handle it if she lost him again.

Ross couldn't sleep either. He couldn't get the events of that evening out of his head either. But he had an added worry - what Emily said. He couldn't believe what she had flown all the way to New York to tell him.

The next morning, Rachel was absent-mindedly picking her slices of toast to pieces. She still couldn't stop thinking about that kiss that Ross had given her - she was sure it meant something, but what?
In the middle of her thoughts, the door suddenly burst open, and Ross rushed in.
"Rach, I need to talk to you."
"I need to talk to you too."
"Alright, I'll go first."
"Alright then." For all the breeziness in her voice, Rachel couldn't possibly have been prepared for what Ross was about to say.
"Rachel, I know why you came to London."