TheDreamChaser: Me too. lolz. Hope you like this chapter.

Mewgirl223:Well, wouldn't you be mad too? lolz.

RxRFannnnn:Hope, you like this chapter, and continue to keep the rest of the story a mystery.

Latezz123: Thanks for the advice :D. Its kind of too late to start any other subplot but i'll try to do that for the other stories I'm working on. I really thank you for the review.

TheMaskedShupeteer: Well damn. Someone's mad. lolz. Well I'm sure everybody else who's on the anti-Richard team will gladly take a cut of the profit on that testosterone of his. lolz

TheDreamChaser: I wouldn't say that... I'd SCREAM IT! thanks for the reviews

teentitanslover4ever:Awww. I'm sorry, and I hope that this chapter makes up for that.

She went back home that same night. She lye on the 'bed' that was on her rooftop, thinking about everything and nothing until she fell asleep. And by the next morning, she was back to work.

Within a couple more weeks the flowers he had sent to her were wilting. She had told Jenn to stop taking care of them since the Fourth of July fiasco. She picked up her office mail and found one of the invitations to the wedding. She sunk even lower in her chair, deflated and ready to give up completely. She called Roy and got his voicemail. She left him a message stating that she's be on the next plane out to London. Before she knew it, she was going down an escalator in Europe and seeing him standing with a card that said in big bold letters, 'RACHEL'. She mouthed quickly, 'I'm sorry.' In turn he flipped the same card over and it said in small meek letters, 'me too. J' Rachel laughed slightly and when she reached the bottom of the escalator she hugged him.

"Thank god you said it first. Because that would have been really embarrassing." She presented him with a bag of their regular orders from where they went to lunch everyday. "Are you trying to make me cry Roth?"

"No. But its around lunch time so why break tradition?" she asked him. He smiled brightly and accepted the bag before something came to mind. "Not that I really care, but why are you here?"

"I just had to get away for a while."

"This close to the wedding? Kori's probably freaking out." he said kind of amused.

"You're where?" she yelled while she got her roots touched up. "It's a week before my wedding and you're in friggin' London?"

"Yeah I know, I'm sorry I…." she trailed off looking to Roy for help. He wrote down on a napkin, 'Your fiancé's a douche and I just need time.' she gave him a 'not funny look.' and opted for the last part. "I just need some time."

"You're my maid of honor, and you needed time? Are you kidding me?" she asked as if Rachel were the insane one.

"I- uh-" she looked to him again and he pointed to a new option, 'I'm madly in love w/Roy!' She slapped the back of his neck and listened to Kori again.

"Rachel, the band sucks, the caterer doesn't know shit, my dress might make me look fat! You need to get back here right now! Right now!" she said like a spoiled child.

"Kori," she began but was cut off with a very loud and commanding,

"Right! Naaaoow!"

After pausing for a moment, Rachel finally said, "No!" and hung up the phone.

"Wow." Roy clapped for her.

Back With Kori

"What the fuck?" Kori asked aloud.

"Do you need me to be your maid of honor?" Kitten asked hopefully. Karen looked at her seriously.

"Who always invites her?" she whispered.

London

"I've always thought about Kori getting married before me." she flipped through Roy's photo album of the three of them in elementary school. Then as they grew so did their group, expanding and expanding through high school and college. "But I don't think I can stand next to them while they make those promises to each other. While she says my words." she closed the book she looking through angrily.

"I still think you should have told Dick, she cheated on him."

"No. I didn't want him to pick me by default. I wanted to be his first choice. Or someone's first choice."

"Yeah. You are."

"I know your trying to be nice, but stop it please. I know I'm not his first choice."

"No. I mean." he scratched the back of his head suddenly nervous. "You are someone's first choice." he sat across from her. She just looked at him shocked suddenly realizing there was a reason he put up with her. "What? You never wondered about me?" he asked. "I don't know how to say this." he sighed. "Rachel, I like you a lot. I've always liked you. Then when another guy came into the picture, I liked you even more. You are…..home…for me." she smiled softly. "Don't worry this isn't love. I would know. Then again my kind of love isn't the overbearing kind. I mean when I'm in love, I drink any old beer and watch television the same exact way I always do." he let out a soft laugh.

"Roy?"

"I don't know, maybe I just miss you Rae." he shook his head "You've fallen for someone else. I think that you still are in love with him." she nodded slowly and walked over to him. She gave him a hug and sat down next to him rubbing his back comfortingly. "Damn." he said breaking the silence. "I knew I should've gone for Kitten." Rachel snorted and let her head rest on his shoulder.

"Roy." Rachel called him the next morning as he poured them coffee and tea, "I'm going back."

"Well I think we both knew you weren't going to miss that wedding."

"No I'm going back for her." she shook her head. "I'm not this person. I can't just do whatever I want and not care about other people's feelings."

"You seem to have no problem doing it to yourself." he pointed out.

"Besides that fact, Kori, didn't do anything wrong. I did."

"Rachel, I can't listen to this 'Daddy beats me because he loves me.' crap anymore."

"But this isn't me being pathetic anymore." she sat across from him. "I always thought Kori was the one who took everything from me. But it's really just me who's giving stuff away to her. She is my best friend. And I'm going to be there for her. I'm going to that wedding." she finished. And he looked at her understanding.

"Then you win." she smiled.

Rachel unloaded her stuff from the taxi cab when he reached her apartment. The stairs were blocked by a mail truck so she waited a little while for it to move. It whirred away to reveal Dick was sitting at the bottom step waiting for her. He looked up at her and stood up before they walked towards each other.

"How did you-?"

"I called your office." he explained. "Jenn told me that you'd be here around now and I wanted to see you as soon as you got back."

"Well you have to go. Because I can't do this anymore. She deserves better. So do you, and so do I." she climbed the steps with her suitcase.

"I called off the wedding." she turned to face him. "I told her I couldn't marry her." she smiled a little bit but pretended to still be upset.

"When?"

"A couple hours ago." he shrugged it off. But she looked at him proud and happy.

"Well what did she say?" she asked him after they made their way upstairs.

"She was pretty pissed off. Mostly about what people will think." he covered his nose which Rachel noticed had a small scar on it. "She threw a few things." He took off his jacket and threw it down on the bench next to the door revealing a small gash on his arm. "She got creative." he chuckled nervously.

"Did you tell her about us?"

"She asked if there was somebody else." he nodded. "I said no." she looked downcast. "Because I'm not sure if there still is." he continued. "That's a decision that's up to you completely."

"I don't know what to say."

"I don't expect anything." he said honestly. "I don't really deserve it. I mean, I didn't want to hurt a lot of people. But I just wanted to thank you. You are the only person who's asked me what I wanted and not cared what the answer was, as long as it made me happy. And I also wanted to apologize. For being such a moron years ago outside that bar and last week in Jump. I made the worst decisions of my life there." he moved a little bit closer. "Basically, we shouldn't have conversations outside of bars and nightclubs anymore." she laughed at that. "That is if there is still an us." she kissed him sweetly and looked him in the eyes.

"There was always an us, wasn't there?" she whispered and he nodded before he kissed her back. There was a knock on the door.

"Rachel!" Kori whined from the other side. "Open up!"

"Kori?" she asked confused. "How did you get in the building?"

"The fucking pizza guy let me in, who cares? Let me in, I need to talk to you!" Rachel rolled her eyes and looked around making sure Richard was out of sight.

"Yeah. I'm just changing. Give me a second!"

"Ugh! I've seen your ass already just open the door!" Rachel did so as she pretended to just be pulling on her shirt. "I called off the wedding." she announced.

"You did?" Rachel asked knowing she was lying.

"Well technically, Dick said it first but I was thinking it way before him." she barged in and sat on a nearby sofa.

"I think I need some air to process that. Do you want to go for a walk?" she left the door open trying to allow Dick to escape.

"No." she shook her head. "I need to sit down." Rachel closed the door and stood by it. "Okay now before I tell you what I came here to tell you, I just want to say, that I'm not the only one being dishonest here."

"What am I being dishonest about Kori?" she asked still nervous.

"Oh please. Give me a little credit here Rachel!" she continued shaking her head. "Kitten told me you lied about Roy. I know for an absolute fact that you're not sleeping with Jason, so what? Are you making up stories to make me jealous?" she asked. Rachel wanted to do nothing less than rip her condescending tone from her body but she kept calm. "You know I'm more sexual than you, I always have been."

"I-I wasn't -you just-" she was babbling and then something crossed her mind. "How do you know whether or not I slept with Jason?" she asked suspiciously.

Kori moved her eyes to the side and smiled like she had been caught in a lie. "Well you told me he was circumcised."

"Okay. And?"

"And he is not."

"Jason is the guy you slept with?" she asked.

"That's what I wanted to tell you."

"When?"

"That Fourth of July weekend." she said standing up to get a bottle of water from the fridge. She explained as she walked. "Well, I mean we were both lonely and drunk. And then when it was over, we both felt bad about it. When it was over, we agreed never to do it again. Then of course, we did it again. Twice. Or more." she took a sip of water.

"You slept with him more than once." she said more than asked.

Kori nodded before swallowing. "Jason and I have a deep connection. It's like, genetic." she said blissfully ignorant.

"Genetic?"

Realizing it was wrong she tried again, "Chemical. Whatever, I'm not a word person." she sighed. "My point is, I'm going to need you now more than ever."

"Why?"

"I took a test."

"You're pregnant?"

"I am. It's insane. And good. Jason, has been amazing. He's not what you'd think, ya know?" she shook her head. "Yes I know he's a caveman. A total caveman, but one time, he made this little splint for a chipmunk's broken leg." she scrunched up her face in adoration, "Is that not the sweetest thing ever?"

"Yeah. Sure."

"I've gotta go though. He's downstairs waiting. I love you so much."

Rachel stood there in stunned silence. Before walking out, Kori stood by the door and turned back. "It's crazy how things work out. Isn't it?" she just nodded in response before leaving. Rachel felt awful, and was going just about to start searching for Dick and telling him that he could come into the open.

But before she could take three steps forward, there was a knock on the door. Rachel jumped a little bit in surprise and answered it quickly. She opened the door and looked up to see Kori standing there with a confused and knowing look at the same time.

"Is that Dick's jacket?" she looked to the one thrown down onto the stool. He had put it there when he showed her the cut. "What is it doing here?"

"Oh he just left it at the restaurant. I must've picked it up." she shook it off recovering from her moment of shock. But Kori didn't buy it.

"No. No, he didn't. Cause he was wearing it today." she said matter of factly. "What is it doing here?" she asked and got no answer. "What is it doing here?" she repeated.

"Kori." Rachel's voice was small.

"Where is he?"

"Kori." she shook her head not wanting to say another word.

"Where is he?" Rachel didn't step away from the doorframe as Kori tried to step in. "Where is he?" she yelled and banged her fist on the door. She pushed past Rachel and called out his name. "Richard. Dick!"

"Kori, please don't!"

"Richard!"

"Just don't please!" Rachel pleaded.

Kori went on a rampage. Checking the showers, the bedroom, the closets until finally he stepped out from the kitchen. She confronted him immediately. She was bawling her eyes out.

"You lied to me!"

"Me!" he asked. "Kori you're pregnant with Jason's baby!"

"No! How could you do this to me?" she asked, her throat raw from crying. "And with her! With Rachel? Rachel, how could you do this to me?"

"I never meant to hurt you!" she pleaded close to tears. "I'm so sorry!" she tried her best to apologize but Kori didn't want to hear anymore.

"I hate you." she pointed to her. "I hate you, I hate you, I hate you! IhateyouIhateyouIhateyou." she said it until the words seemed to blend. "I never want to speak to you again." She slammed the door leaving the two silent.

Two Months Later

Rachel picked up Dick's dry-cleaning as a deal. She picked it up and he would take care of dinner for the rest of the week. She walked down the street and saw red hair coming her way. She stood in front of her. Kori met her eyes still carrying hatred after all the time they spent away from each other. She wore a fall dress that flowed in the breeze. She couldn't see the baby belly but she was sure it was there.

"Hey" she got no response so she continued, "You look good Kori."

"Clearly I'm going to be one of those girls who only carry in the belly." she smiled very slightly. Then said viciously, trying to hurt Rachel. "I bought him that shirt." she pointed to the white one in the bag.

"I'm really sorry Kori." Rachel said sincerely, not letting her statement phase her.

"You're really sorry you slept with my fiancé?"

"No." she shook her head seriously. "For hurting you. But that is the only thing I will apologize to you for."

"You always were jealous of me." she said. "Ever since I got into Notre Dame."

Rachel shook her head, but only said, "You're right. I was always jealous. Kori, I miss you. Everyday." Kori walked away. She turned back and told her,

"You know, for the first time in my life, I'm happy." Rachel nodded "Really. I am happy." she pressed her hand against her stomach and Rachel smiled.

"Good." she walked away and looked back once and waved. Rachel waved back and decided to try to call her later. Just then her phone rang. "Hey, where are you? Okay. I'm turning the corner now." she turned and saw Dick sitting on a bench. She kissed him and he took the dry cleaning from her. She whispered to him as they walked home, in an effort to tease him, "Imagine, I'm holding you're hand right now." But it backfired.

"Why imagine?" he took her hand in his and she flushed pink again. "You're blushing again."

"No I'm not." she removed her hand and ran down to their apartment. He chased after her and they made it to the elevator before kissing each other again.

A/N: Heavy. Don't worry I'm not ending it here. I promise! Until next chapter,

Much Love and Respect

~Poppie~