In this story Chandler's circumstances will change. A move to another country and the people he will meet there will influence his personality, they will help him be at peace with the past, understand, forgive, mature, he will become self-confident, with clear objectives, but also quite stubborn with some decisions, although he will retain the funny and sarcastic child that lives within him. Until one day someone will come into his life and literally destroy it, which will be due to his stubbornness, we'll see.

I hope you catches de story, and you tell me your opinions, through them I know if I'm on the right track.

Remember English is not my native language, I hope the translation is correct, I check it, but sometimes I miss some incorrect, sorry.

I repeat, I am not the owner of the characters, I only rely on them for the sheer pleasure of

practice writing stories without any economic interest, and these two characters inspire me.

Chapter 1:

That morning the house is in disarray. Things are all over the place, his mother gives orders to the poor maids who don't know, his grandparents try to calm her down, but they know that when Eleonora gets into a state of excitement it is difficult to calm her down.

Chandler, faced with so much commotion, tries to take refuge in his room, but nothing is better there. Marilyn, the nanny, hurries to put all his clothes in two large suitcases, and his toys, books, memories, photo albums, frames with photos of his dad, everything ends up in two large cardboard boxes that she still has to close seal and inventory for the move.

Marilyn is not one of his favorite babysitters, but it still makes Chandler sad to see her so

overwhelmed.

He had complied with his mother's order to throw away the toys he no longer used, but there were some cloth dolls that he loved, and he had held them tight every time he heard his parentsfighting, which was almost diary. Those dolls were his friends, his protectors, so he forced Marilyn to keep them at the bottom of one of the boxes, in case his mother checked, since for her they

were just old, half-disassembled dolls. But Chandler didn't care how they were, he needed them, because although there were no longer fights or shouts at home, he was going to another country, and that scared him a lot, he knew that he was going to need them.

The next day early in the morning the moving company came to collect all the packages, his mother and he would travel with only a couple of small suitcases. That afternoon they said goodbye to the maids and Marilyn and together with his grandparents they left for the airport.

Aunt Olivia, their mother's older sister, also came to see them off, with David, his cousin, only a year younger than him and with whom he had a lot of fun, in reality David was more than a cousin, he was his best friend, so separating was a pain for him. It caused a lot of sadness, he didn't know if where he was going he would find a friend like David.

David was also very sad about Chandler's departure, and when they hugged goodbye they both couldn't help but in reality, his grandparents and Aunt Olivia were also crying, the only one who wasn't crying was

his mother, she was radiant and very excited about the new life that awaited her inLondon.

Chandler had looked in the library for books about London, with photos, it seemed like an old, gray, rainy city, nothing to do with the city... but at the same time in Manhattan and in Long Island he had suffered a lot, and he was totally determined to never return to New York and he swore to himself that he would never do so, no matter what happened.

The grandparents and Aunt Olivia assured that they would soon travel to see the new house. They also hoped that his mother would visit them when she was on her tours in the city, but Chandler knew that he would not be part of those visits, his mother never took him on her presentation tours, so he would depend on his grandparents and his aunt who they were traveling to London

with David to see them again, and he wanted it to be followed.

After many hugs and kisses they boarded the plane, during the flight Chandler slept, since the night before he had hardly been able to find sleep.

When his mother woke him up, they had already landed, after completing the immigration procedures and collecting their suitcases, they took a taxi to a hotel where they would stay until their things arrived. -

Nora still had to hire a maid to put the house in order, since she hated doing those tasks, plus the maid had to take care of Chandler when he came home from school, since he would attend day school, and she also had to hire a weekend babysitter to accompany her child while she go out ortravel.

As far as Chandler was concerned, he knew that his life would not change anything, New York or London he would always be alone with a maid or a nanny, nothing would change that.

Nora had already enrolled Chandler at St. Paul's School, which was not far from the house. At that school he would attend the rest of primary school, and then when he turned 13 he would continue at St. Paul's Junior until he was 18, then university would come, but that would take a long time.

Four days after arrival they left the hotel to settle in the new house.

The house, located in the Kensington neighborhood, was very large, in the basement there were the maid's and nanny's rooms, on the first floor there was the living room, the dining room, the kitchen and a bathroom for visitors, and a small garden in the background. On the second and third floors, each floor had two bedrooms and a bathroom, and on the fourth floor there was a huge suite, which his mother would obviously occupy.

Chandler didn't understand why they wanted such a big house if he would practically live in it alone.

He chose one of the bedrooms on the second floor, and he was excited that, the day David came, he would be able to occupy the other bedroom on that floor. Furthermore, the second floor was well away from his mother's suite, which would save him from hearing her when she was with a boyfriend.

After the move, Chandler warned that in a week Nora would continue with her presentations and he would be left alone with the new maid, it was then that he asked his mother to enroll him in a tennis club and a swimming academy, since they were the two sports he liked the most.

Nora understood that he could also make friends until he started school, she even enrolled him in a schedule that would allow him to continue with these sports when classes started.

Shortly after starting he had already made a couple of friends, one was Canadian and the other Australian, so he was not the only one who had a different accent from the rest of the children, and thus avoided being made fun of.

He loved tennis, he liked to compete and to be able to, with hard hits, shed some of the

helplessness of being alone for so long.

On the other hand, in swimming he was not interested in competition, he enjoyed swimming calmly, diving, this relaxed him and made him feel at peace.

This is how he spent his summer vacation and the 1st. September classes began.

The school was very demanding, he, a month before leaving the City, had taken a fairly difficult exam that he had to pass to be accepted into the school that his mother had chosen. Several children took the exam, but only eight passed it, among them was him, the other seven had applied for the middle level, only he did so to enter the primary level.

The first months at school were difficult for Chandler since because of his accent his classmates called him "the Yankee" disparagingly, but he had learned at school in The City that by speaking humorously he managed to get closer to others and with sarcasm he managed to make others

uncomfortable. the most aggressive, so no one bothered him.

Anyway, at school he couldn't connect with any child, during recess he was always alone writing in a notebook, in fact his only friends were still the ones he had made at the tennis club.

On the contrary, in class he was quite restless, funny and talkative, which brought him challenges from the teachers.

All of these characteristics of this boy's personality caught the attention of Mrs. Marion, the language teacher, where Chandler excelled, as well as inmathematics.

One afternoon, with the excuse of reviewing a task she had given him, Marion started talking to Chandler. She noticed that he always avoided talking about personal topics, when a question pointed to his family, for example, he always came out with a joke.

Evidently this lonely and very intelligent boy was hiding behind a fun and carefree behavior and she was determined to find out what lay beyond it.

He also seemed to be a very tenacious child, since, in a few months and with effort, he managed to lose his American accent and managed to speak perfectly like an Englishman, which allowed him to avoid being bothered.

On the days when he didn't have to go to tennis or swimming, Marion tried to make him stay out of time, with some excuse and to be able to talk, and after several weeks and little by little she began to get Chandler to open up, Marion found out that his parents they had divorced when he was 9, that they fought all the time, that they were rarely home, so he was always alone with the

babysitter, that his mother was a writer and traveled all the time, and that in July his mother decided that they moved to London.

After gaining some trust with her, Marion began to investigate Chandler's feelings about the reality he was experiencing. This was more difficult for her since he avoided talking about the pain, the loneliness, feelings that Marion was sure were flooding his brain and his heart.

Now that his accent had disappeared, Marion advised him to join a team for the different sports that were at school, but Chandler did not like to participate in team sports, much less those that were somewhat violent, like hockey or Rugby. Although he really liked watching them play, he was not interested in being part of them, so Marion suggested that he join the cricket team, since it was a team sport where he would make friends, and at the same time it was not violent. Chandler

joined the team, and since its rules were not very different from baseball, he managed to make a place for himself.

Sometime later, knowing that Chandler spent many weekends alone at home, and cautiously breaking the school rules, Marion met with Nora, explaining that by being left alone in the house, simply with the babysitter and without other members of the family, was affecting him emotionally, so she proposed that, on those weekends when Chandler was left alone with the babysitter, she could invite him to her house, there was her husband, a math teacher, and her three older children, and so on he would have the company of a family, even if it wasn't his own.

Nora agreed, in fact she felt relieved, because of her profession she couldn't stop traveling from one place to another all the time, and this seemed like a good solution so she wouldn't have to worry about leaving Chandler alone in home during trips.

Chandler began spending most weekends at Marion's house, and this allowed her to delve into his personality and try to get him to overcome his fears, his insecurities, his feeling that he was not important to anyone. In that house, Chandler felt that he mattered to Marion and her family.

Over the next few years, Marion and her family became an unconditional support for Chandler, even helping him through adolescence.

This was not an easy time, he was stubborn in his decisions, and the anger he had with his parents in those years surfaced, they made him rebellious, when he shared the house with Nora, Chandler almost did not speak to her, or did so in monosyllables, on the other hand, he constantly sought to

annoy her and refused everything she asked of him. He even went from being an orderly and neat child to a teenager who did not allow the maid to enter his room to tidy it up.

During that stage, his relationship with his father also worsened. In fact, since they moved to London, he had only seen him twice during a couple of trips that Charles made to Europe, but telephone

communication had remained fluid until he began to refuse to talk or answer his father's calls, and when he did, he treated him with bad manners.

Charles thought it was because of Nora, but when he called Marion, with whom he also had Charles thought it was because of Nora, but when he called Marion, with whom he also had communication to find out Chandler's progress, since Nora and he practically did not speak to each other, Marion explained that Nora was suffering the same treatment, that she was trying to

get to him to talk, but he was very closed off, very angry.

Little by little, with a lot of patience and affection, Marion managed to break down the walls that Chandler had built to isolate himself and spent days trying to make him understand that his parents were teenagers when he was born, just a little older than him, and they found themselves with an enormous responsibility, that they had not been able to handle because, to make matters worse, there was no love between them, he was a victim of that situation, but his parents had also been victims of the bad decisions of their grandparents that forced them to be together.

Chandler was intelligent, but emotionally immature, so it took Marion a while to he understandsand forgive them, to be sure that his parents loved him, perhaps in a different way than the lovethat other parents show to their children, but because of the way it all started, their way of showing their love was different, but they cared about him. She reminded him that Charles always called her to find out how she saw him and Nora, when she was in London, visited her to inquire

about his academic and emotional progress. The well-being and happiness of their son was of great interest to them, she did not have to doubt that he was important to his parents.

She also made him understand that he was not to blame for anything, that he was a very valuable being, with a good heart, intelligent, who had managed to make good friends who appreciated him just as he was.

For Chandler, Marion and her family had become his adoptive parents, and despite their angry or discouraged moments, he always listened to them and did not doubt their words.

Henry, Marion's husband, and Teddy, the youngest son, helped Chandler with advice during his sexual awakening, since, although during his childhood he had seen many things and learned others from his mother's books, it was an activity to which he just arrived at when he was 17 years old, obviously he enjoyed it a lot so from then on he didn't stop practicing it, although with all the care that those had explained to him. -