I hope he catches them, and that they tell me his opinions, through them I know if I'm on the right path.
Remember English is not my native language, I hope the translation is correct, check it, but sometimes I miss some incorrect personal pronouns for the phrase, sorry.
I reiterate, I do not own the characters of Friends and in this case neither the plot of the film Sleepless in Seattle, or its characters, I only rely on them for the pure pleasure of writing stories without any economic interest, and Monica and Chandler they inspire
CHAPTER 3:
On Monday Sophie sat next to Vivian, the girl's parents were separated and Vivian had told Sophie that her mother listened to a radio program where people told their story and those who were interested wrote an email to the program and so on people got in touch.
"Vivian, can you tell me what radio your mother listens to find a boyfriend?"
"Do you want to find a boyfriend? Why aren't your parents divorced?" said Vivian.
"No, silly, it's for a friend, he needs a girlfriend for his dad…"
"I think it's WABC (770 kHz), if you want I can ask my mom"
"Ok, confirm it for me by tomorrow, thanks"
The next day Vivian confirmed to Sophie which radio station was, and told her that she heard her mother tell a friend that the best calls were on Friday or Saturday.
The friends spend Christmas Eve with Phoebe's family, Sophie explains to Alek what she found out, and while the parents are in the living room, they in Sophie's bedroom decide to listen to the radio and hear the interviewer ask those who are alone to call, tell their story, and those who are interested in that story, write to the station's email and they will take care of forwarding the email to the person who called.
Alek and Sophie thought that this was the best way, the next day would be Friday, and Alek could call the program.
At dusk on Christmas Day, Alek and Chandler are at home, Alek decides to call the radio, they ask for his name and an email address, Alek has one since his father installed it on his tablet so he could communicate with Sophie and his friends.
When they receive a call from Alek in the production of the program, they are surprised that he is a child and the reason why he calls seems like a good hook for the audience, so they immediately put it on the air.
Alek tells the interviewer that he is looking for a girlfriend for his father, obviously the interviewer, who has been doing this job for years and knows how to find more information, is interested in this call, and begins to investigate, until she asks Alek to pass the phone to his dad to talk directly to him.
Alek arrives with the phone at his father's office and tells him that he has to talk to the woman on the phone.
"Alek, what's wrong? Who is she?
"Please dad, please talk to her, I need you to tell her."
"What do I have to tell …?"
Alek returns to the phone, "Miss, wait a moment, I have to convince him."
"For God's sake, Alek, what are you talking about, who are you talking to?"
"With the WABC program (770 kHz) I called to find you a girlfriend, a good one, not Janice"
"Alek, you've gone crazy, I'm not going to talk to anyone, nor do I want you to find me a girlfriend."
Alek, with tears in his eyes that were already running down his cheek, asks him again, "Please dad, talk to her."
Chandler sees his son so desperate, crying, that he picks up the phone,"here I am"
"Sir, do not say your name, just the initials, we will register you for that information."
"Where are you going to register me?"
"It will be the key for whoever wants to answer this call. Now I ask you, ¿Why is your son looking for a girlfriend for you?"
The interviewer had an enormous ability to interrogate the interlocutor, Chandler was a very intelligent man, with a quick brain, and also quite reserved, but she managed to get Chandler little by little, question by question, to open up and tell her that he was a widower, when he had met his wife, who died in an accident when Alek was just over a year old, and he loved his wife very much and missed her and had not found anyone who surpassed her.
When the call ends, the interviewer invites women who want to console this father to write to the program's email.
After cutting Chandler realizes that he inexplicably fell into that woman's trap, he couldn't believe what he had done, telling those things on the radio to a stranger and to all of Manhattan, it had been a great stupidity, what a shame it would be if someone who knew him had hear it, they would think he went crazy or was an idiot.
He called Alek, who was listening hidden behind the office door,
Alek had never seen his dad so angry, his face was red, Chandler crouched down to his height, with an angry face and with his index finger pointing at him, he told him "
Alek, you lost your sanity, this is the last time you do something like this, you will be without television for a week."
In the Village Monica had spent Christmas Day with her parents, Ross, Ben and Rachel at their house.
After lunch Ross left with Rachel and Ben, and Monica returned to her apartment.
She was tired, so she got into bed to read while she listened to music on the radio, at one point she remembered the call show she had heard the previous Friday.
Alek, you lost your sanity, this is the last time you do something like this, you will be without television for a week."
Monica found the boy who was speaking endearing. He wanted his father to be happy and he wanted to have a mother, but his father rarely came out and when he did it he didn't know how to choose the right one.
Monica smiled at the boy's appreciation.
She then heard how the boy wanted his dad to get on the phone, and when he did, CMB told the most romantic and sad story to the point that Monica started crying when she heard it.
At the end of the program, Monica thought about writing to the email that had been given on the radio, but then she thought it was nonsense, absurd, she had not fallen that low... However, she thought that she could write something to the boy, give him hope.
She wrote a long email with tender words addressed to Alek…. but she didn't send the email.
The next day at the cake shop she heard that a couple of her colleagues had heard the program and had fallen in love with that sad widowed man.
When she returned home she thought that all the women were desperate to comfort the man, but the one who needed comfort and hope was the boy, so she sent the email.
The week went by quickly and New Year's Eve arrived. Eliot invited Monica to a party for a client of the firm, an advertising agency. She didn't love those kinds of parties where she didn't know anyone, but she thought it might just be an opportunity to find someone more interesting than poor Eliot. -
Chandler was forced to go to the company party, although he undoubtedly preferred to spend that night with his son and his friends since Phoebe had organized a party that he knew would be much more fun. -
He thought about going alone, but a couple of days before Janice had called him to apologize for her reaction to the cancellation of the trip, and he decided to invite her to the party, it wasn't the best program for him, but he would feel worse going alone.
The party was very lively, it was full of people, some were dancing, others were chatting animatedly. At one point Janice told him that she was going to the bathroom and Chandler took the opportunity to go to the bar to order a drink.
When he turns around with the glass in his hand, he bumps into someone, a woman. He looks at the glass, hoping he hasn't spilled it on the lady, and while apologizing, he raises his head and meets those beautiful blue eyes that had caught him in the toy store. She gives him a huge smile, they stare at each other for a few seconds, she also remembers him from the toy store, Monica tells him, "it's okay, nothing happened" and then she says "Excuse me, they're calling me" since she sees Eliot motioning for her to approach him.
At that moment Janice arrives from the bathroom and the spell is broken, she asks him "what's wrong?" She sees him so absorbed, and Chandler answers "nothing."
Janice wants them to go dancing, but Chandler flatly refuses, "I don't dance."
Janice insists as she always does, but Chandler tells her, "That's enough, it's my last word."
Once the holidays are over, Alek begins to receive hundreds of messages forwarded by the radio station in his email.
He is surprised, and calls Sophie. -
They both decide that they will read them one by one, something may come out of that, although there are many of them. -
Every day when they come home from school, at one or the other's house they start checking the messages.
Not a week has passed when Alek stumbles upon a woman's message, but evidently what she says is directed at him, not his father.
He gives it to Sophie to read, and she too feels like she's the one. The email was sent by Monikchef.
Alek decides that it is time for him to tell his father, maybe he will realize that the call was a good idea.
Chandler listens stunned to what Alek tells him. "Dad, you received hundreds of emails from the program, Sophie and I read several, but there is one that we think could be a girlfriend."
Not a week has passed when Alek stumbles upon a woman's message, but evidently what she says is directed at him, not his father.
"What email address did you receive them at? Since when are you receiving those emails? How come you didn't tell me anything? "You don't understand that it can be dangerous, those women are probably crazy."
Alek asks his father to at least read the one he chose, but his father doesn't want to read that email or any other.
"Alek, are you going to give me your tablet, I'm going to delete all that garbage…"
"No dad, please…"
But Chandler takes Alek's tablet and deletes everything, but not before being surprised by the amount of emails he received. "Women are all crazy," he thought.
However, Monikchef Alek's email had been forwarded to Sophie, so he still had that one.
While they are all having a drink at Chandler's house, he tells his friends the whole embarrassing story.
Joey can't stop laughing at how stupid his friend was, how intelligent he is, how he let himself be fooled.
"I don't know Joey, I can't understand it either, but it didn't stop there, yesterday I discovered that Alek was receiving hundreds of emails from women, obviously crazy, and they have been reading them with Sophie. It hurt my soul, because he couldn't stop crying, but I had to punish him, I deleted all the emails that those strangers had sent to his account"
"I tried to explain to him how dangerous it is, I hope he understood, since he will be another week without television.
Phoebe looked at him with a smile... "don't you think that maybe Alek wants you to keep your promise..."
"He didn't listen it…"
"But maybe he senses it… besides I think breaking a promise like that is not good…" Phoebe looked at him seriously.
"Maybe, but I didn't promise how long I would fulfill it…" Chandler answered, annoyed.
Meanwhile, in Alek's room, Sophie tells him that he has to answer MonikChef's email.
"Sophie, I'm looking for a girlfriend for dad, not one for me…"
"I'm not stupid, what I'm saying is that we have to write to her as if you were your dad, remember that he gave his initials as his name, CMB, well, we respond by signing as your dad."
"Sophie, but how do we make her believe that a man is writing to her and not me, 7-year-old child, I don't even know what to put in those emails that are supposed to be… Well, I don't know, how do couples write to each other?" Alek answered with concern.
"I'm going to look for romantic books that my mom has, and we'll mark phrases that boyfriends would say to each other to conquer each other," Sophie said firmly.
"Do you think it's going to work…" Alek asked with doubts.
"If we are careful not to put anything too personal, or anything…, well nothing like saying "I want to kiss you…" something romantic, but more general."
"Well, let's try it, because we might lose, at most she won't answer us anymore, and we'll have to choose another way to find the right girlfriend."
The next day Sophie had gathered a bunch of phrases that they could put in the email, only they had to organize them as a conversation.
"Look Alek, at first your dad will only thank her for her email, saying that it was very nice, how goods he was with his son, and we add something else, we send it and see if he answers us."
So they did it.
On Saturday Chandler and Alek are walking down 5th Avenue, they are going to skate at Rockefeller Center, when he sees that beautiful woman coming again, only now she is accompanied by a tall, dark-haired man and a child. … He is surely her husband, although he is not the same one who was with her at the party. He is hypnotized by this woman whom he meets again and again, Monica feels his intense gaze, but since she thinks that he is married to the blonde woman from the toy store, and that he went to the party with another woman, she considers that it is not worth it. He is obviously a bad husband.
Early on Sunday morning Sophie hurriedly called Alek to tell him that MonikChef answered "CMB you have nothing to thank me for, your son is a sweetheart, he cares so much about you, even if it is difficult try to find someone, obviously he needs a figure maternal and perhaps you need to love
again, it is not good to be alone, and without the intention of anything greater, if you want to write to me I am here to listen." "Monikchef"
Alek is happy, it seems that the trick is working, now CMB will have to answer.
While Alek and Sophie decide that afternoon they will prepare an answer that will interest
Monikchef.Janice calls Chandler to go to dinner and watch a movie, but since the babysitter is sick and Mike and Phoebe have a commitment, he invites Janice back to the house for dinner.
Alek is devastated. They have a good girlfriend on their hands and this witch keeps showing up.
Sophie advises him that after dinner he go to sleep early, wait a while and then fake a nightmare...
Alek follows Sophie's instructions, which so far have been very good, and starts screaming and Chandler runs to his room, Janice's night once again ruined.
Alek is devastated. They have a good girlfriend on their hands and this witch keeps showing up.
Since Janice has already tired Chandler enough with her insistence, he easily accepts the ending and doesn't try to stop her.
Chandler's disinterest in the face of her threat makes Janice even more angry and she leaves, cursing herself.
On the other hand, the exchange of emails continues to work, Monica waits for the answers that, although they sound like old movies, say nice, romantic things, she believes that it is probably because he is a shy man who moves very slowly, and she doesn't wants to hurry, not after what he
said about his wife.