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Joey and Ross both attempt to come clean to each other that they're dating Rachel and Charlie. Phoebe finds out Mike has another girlfriend.

Monica, Chandler and Phoebe find out that they can hear through the walls in their hotel rooms. Monica and Chandler cover the wall where they can hear Joey and Rachel kissing, and Phoebe covers the wall where Charlie and Ross are kissing. Both couples put their relationships on hold while they wait to talk to the other before proceeding. On the plane home, Ross tells Joey about him and Charlie, but Joey doesn't tell Ross about him and Rachel. Monica decides to get rid of her poofy hair by getting corn rows. Back in New York, Ross walks in on Rachel and Joey kissing.—Anonymous

In their hotel room at Barbados, Monica (Courteney Cox-Arquette), Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow) and Chandler (Matthew Perry) overhear Ross (David Schwimmer) kissing Charlie (Aisha Tyler), while through the room's other wall they can eavesdrop on Joey (Matt LeBlanc) and Rachel (Jennifer Aniston). Joey tells Rachel that he saw Ross kissing Charlie and hence decided to pursue things forward with Rachel. Ross decides to stop anything else that could happen with Charlie, and decides to tell Joey about it. He goes to Rachel's room, at which point, she makes Joey hide and he is pulled into the other room by Chandler to eavesdrop while Ross tells Rachel about kissing Charlie. He says Charlie told him that she had broken up with Joey and that he had been wanting to ask out Charlie since the day he met her. After Ross leaves, Joey and Rachel, at the others' urging and unable to stop picturing Ross while trying to kiss between themselves, agree to put their relationship on hold until they talk to Ross.

On the plane home, Ross tells Joey about him and Charlie (after Joey says that he saw Ross and Charlie kissing) (Joey says that he wants Ross to be happy and that Charlie makes more sense with Ross than with him), but Joey does not tell Ross about him and Rachel in the effect that it might upset him (Ross was going on and on about how Loyal and generous Joey is. Ross even calls Joey his best friend, over Chandler). Back in New York, Rachel tries to tell Ross, but he becomes mad over shampoo-explosion-related emergencies (a bottle exploded inside his travel bag and covered everything). Rachel and Joey decide to tell him together the next morning. But when an attempt to kiss each other goodnight turns into a make-out session between them, Ross walks in on them.

Meanwhile, Mike (Paul Rudd) tells Phoebe that he has in fact been seeing another woman, for over 3 months now, Precious (Anne Dudek), but he will break up with her at their date that evening. Due to a miscommunication however, Precious heads to Mike's apartment (while Mike was waiting for her at a restaurant) and encounters Phoebe. Precious demands an explanation and Phoebe breaks up with her on Mike's behalf. Precious starts to freak out, which Phoebe unsuccessfully tries to stop with some tough love. Phoebe tries a different tactic and convinces Precious that Mike is not worth it, pointing out that he was going to break up with her on her birthday, after not even telling her he was still in love with Phoebe and was flying to Barbados to propose. Precious takes the talk to heart, and, when Mike arrives, slaps him in the face before storming out.

After Chandler is annoyed by Monica's hair frizzing up in the humidity, Monica goes to the salon and returns with a braided hairstyle with cornrows. In spite of Chandler disliking the cornrows, she has fun with them until she gets tangled in the shower. At Chandler's urging, she agrees to get rid of the cornrows, but finds a Jamaican hat to wear with her hair.