Take her to the kitchen

You guide Rachael to the kitchen and pull out a chair for her to sit in at the table.

"What's the matter?" you ask her. Rachael sniffles a bit before managing to utter out a few words.

"Jake broke up with me," she says. You were expecting those words to come out since Rachael wouldn't cry too much about anything else. Rachael burst into more tears. You decide to go up behind her and place your hands on her shoulders. You slowly massage them and whisper to her, "it's ok. It's ok..."

"He was seeing this older girl behind my back," she says between sobs. "She's a year older than him and is working as a secretary at some large company in town. Her name was Michelle or something..."

You remain silent for a while and let Rachael cry a bit more. Finally you say "well he's incredibly stupid for picking any girl over you. After all you are the most beautiful girl in the world and you know that right."

Rachael continues to sob, though a bit less, and looks up at you. "You're just saying that she says," and tries to **** a grin. You laugh at her and say "of course not! It's true! But you're ugly if you are crying so don't cry."

This causes Rachael to grin a little. "There you are!" you say in a teasing manner. "Stay right there I'll make you something to eat."

You manage to prepare a salad and a few small sandwiches on a plate. You also grab some sodas from your fridge and bring them over to Rachael, who has stopped crying now.

"Eat up," you say. She thanks you and grabs one of the sandwiches, and takes a nibble from it. "Not good?" you ask her. She shakes her head and says "no...it's just fine."

She tears up again as she takes another bite of the sandwich. You stare at her in silence until she finishes eating.

Finally she looks up and starts to talk. "I realized something now, and I have something to ask you...why are you always so nice to me?"

You laugh at this question and easily say, "because you're a friend. Duh." She grins at this response and says "you're always there for me when I need you, but you never come complain to me or anything."

You respond by saying "well I don't have much to complain about."

She goes on. "I've also never heard you share any secrets with me, or anything. I've never been able to do anything for you have I?"

"That's not true," you say. "You've been a great friend all these years and you've been there for me.." You lied about her being there since you really don't complain to her.

She has stopped crying now and looks at you. "Well..I know one of your secrets though," she says. "While walking down the hallway I saw what you were looking at in the living room on the computer."

Your heart skips a beat. 'Shit,' you think to yourself. "Uhh Rachael I can explain that," you stutter. Rachael grins and shakes her head.

"Don't explain," she says. "I can keep a secret too. After all I think it's only right that I do something for you since you've done so much for me."

"You're not the Rachael I know," you say to her. "Rachael always makes fun of me about these things." Rachael laughs at this. "I guess that's true," she says. "Well tonight I guess that Rachael is on vacation."

There is an awkward silence. "So I guess you really don't have anything to say to me after all my whining," she says. "I just thought now that you could help me get over Jake and we could have one of our friendly conversations. For fun you know?"

'What to do now?' you think.