Joey walked into Monica and Chandler's apartment, a slip of paper in his hand. He was ready to ask Monica and Chandler a big question, and he had a bad feeling that they would say no.
"Monica? Chandler? You home?" he called, looking around for them. Just then, a very tired Monica came out from the bedroom. "Oh, sorry," said Joey. "Did I wake you, Mon?"
She shook her head. "I couldn't sleep at all last night. Did you need something, Joey?"
"Yeah," he said, nodding. "So there's this audition where I get to eat this like sweet soup stuff, and it's supposed to be baby friendly so they want a baby on the commercial too. So I was wondering if I could bring Sophie."
"No," said Monica. "You can't do that to my baby!"
"What? It'll be sweet relief for you the whole weekend, I'll get more exposure, Sophie will make some cash, and she might start a new career."
Monica looked at him for a minute, then nodded. "All right. Is it today?" Joey nodded. "Okay, so does she need to wear anything special?"
"Something nice, I guess."
"Okay, I'll go find something then. I'll bring her out when she's dressed and you can take her."
"Great!" smiled Joey happily, grabbing a Coke from the fridge and heading into the living room to sit on the couch. A few minutes later, Monica came out of her room with Sophie, who was wearing a pretty purple dress with green flowers on it. "Oh, she looks so pretty!" he said.
"I know," said Monica, smiling back at him. "So you can take her now, just don't stay out way too long."
"I'll come back right after the audition is over, I promise, Mon. No need to worry."
Monica nodded, then watched as Joey and Sophie left.
Once they were at the audition, Joey and Sophie had to wait for a while until they were told that it was their turn to try out. The whole process had confused little Sophie, so Joey had to explain the whole thing to her using words that she would understand. When he finally got through to her, she was very excited and she was practically bouncing by the time that they finally went back.
"Hello," said the casting director when they arrived. "Names?"
"Joey Tribbiani and Sophie Bing."
"Good. Now let's start, yeah?"
They began the audition, and Joey and Sophie ate the soup, looking very happy and satisfied. When they were finished, it was time for Joey to say his line.
"Mm, soup," he said. "Isn't this good, Sophie?"
"Cut! It's Lacey."
"No, me Sophie."
He rolled his eyes. "Well you're playing a kid named Lacey. Now let's try this again."
They did it again, and Joey said the same thing again. However, Sophie seemed like she was doing very, very good at her acting. When they tried four times, the casting director finally decided that he could not get the part, as not only was he saying the lines wrong, he had noodle soup all over his face.
"Come on, dude!" pleaded Joey, walking over to him. "You've got to give me another chance!"
"Look, Tribbiani," said the casting director. "The baby eats food better than you. You just don't even have a chance at this commercial."
"But I was Dr. Drake Ramoray!"
"I don't care who you were. You ain't good for the part. Now go, you can come back with the baby in the morning."
"No," Joey countered. "If I go, then I'm taking the baby with me."
A woman came over and talked to the casting director quietly, and then he nodded. "All right, Joey. We've come to a decision."
"Yeah?"
"You get to be the crazy uncle who doesn't like the food."
"Yes!" cried Joey, doing a fist pump. "Sweet! So what happens to me?"
"You don't like the food, so then your family kicks you out and you have to eat at McDonald's instead," said the casting director simply. "You're depressed and wished that you had given the food another chance."
"Great! When does filming start?"
"Tomorrow. Be here at eight with the baby."
"Will do!" said Joey, smiling. He headed on his way home to tell Monica and Chandler the good news.
When he got there, he told Monica and Chandler and they were thrilled that they would get to see their little girl on TV.
"Oh, little Sophie is going to be on television?" said Chandler. "This is fantastic! She's going to be the best actress ever, aren't you Soph?"
"Ya!" cheered Sophie, clapping her hands together. "Me best actress!"
They all giggle at her, then Monica went into the kitchen to get dinner and Chandler helped her make it. Once it was finished, they all snuggled onto the couch together to watch a movie, and Sophie said that she wanted to be in one someday. Joey alone was certain that she would. She had pure talent, even at her young age.
(Hope you enjoyed this chapter! Please review if you did, I love getting feedback! In the next chapter we will see the actual filming of the commercial and get to see it air! TBC!)