Okay so this is my first Friends story. originally everything was in the past tense for the first chapter so I fixed that now after almost a year. Anyway I hope you enjoy this story!

"Flight 421 leaves at 8:40."

"Yes! That's what I have! It's not on the board."

"Well that's what it says here. Flight 421, leaves at 8:40, Newark Airport."

"What?"

"Newark Airport. Why? Where are you?"

"JFK."

The whole ride home, Ross is quiet. He doesn't even bother to tell Phoebe to be more careful as she drives the cab recklessly down the highway. He doesn't say anything to her when she pulls the cab in front of his building. He get out, goes inside, and climbs the stairs to his apartment.

Once he is inside, he tries to go to sleep. He just wants to forget this ever happened. However, much to his frustration, sleep refuses to come. So he starts thinking, and replaying the events of the night in his head.

He feels like an idiot. Why did he think this would succeed? These things only work out in those stupid romantic movies that Chandler pretends not to like. The guy falls in love with the girl, does something stupid to lose her, then shows up at just the right time in just the right place, (and definitely not at the wrong airport) and the girl—seeing that he's made a big romantic gesture—decides to take him back, and everyone is happy.

Ross should have known that's not how real life worked. In real life, that sort of plan always gets messed up one way or another and there's nothing you can do about it. She probably wouldn't have felt the same as him anyway. At least not enough to give up her amazing new job in Paris.

But that isn't even what bothers him the most. The worst part is that even though she might've just told him she didn't feel the same way and gotten on the plane, she also might've told him she loved him too and kissed him right there in the airport. Then Rachel and Emma would move back in and they could be a real family. If he had just made it to the airport at least he'd know what would've happened. Now he'll be left wondering for the rest of his life.

Even though he and Rachel have had a lot of issues as a couple and haven't actually dated in years, there was always a part of him that thought they would be together in the end. But now that little bit of hope is gone. Now that Rachel is on that plane, it's too late. It's not like Ross can tell her how he feels after she moves. She'll already be living there. It was probably too late even tonight. The arrangements have already been made, she's already taken the job and found a place to live.

It's so irritating. Every time he thinks it was going to work with him and Rachel, something always ruins it. Being on a break, Joey accidentally proposing to Rachel, and a cat jumping on Ross' head are just a few examples. And now he can add going to the wrong airport to that list. Maybe the universe just doesn't want them to be together.

Eventually, Ross starts to doze off. He thought that falling asleep would make everything go away, but he has a restless sleep and spends the whole night dreaming about Rachel and what could've happened.