"Beyond Friends" Episode Two
"Good Intentions" Part One
Guest stars
Demi Moore as "Alison"
Bruce Willis as "Wesley"
"Matchmaker, matchmaker"
Rachel walked through the hall of Bloomingdales, precariously balancing a stack of file folders in one hand and a cell phone in another. She rounded the corner and almost ran into a coworker of hers Alison Cooper.
"Whoops!" She said when she stepped quickly aside. As much as she trived to prevent it, inevitably a few folders and other odds and ends wound up on the floor. Alison leaned over and helped Rachel pick them up.
"I'm so sorry, Ms Green." Alison nervously stuttered. "It will never happen again, I assure you." She used her free hand to push up teh wire frame glasses that kept slipping down her nose.
"Thats all right!" Rachel calmed Alison. Alison, Rachel remembered came to work shortly after Joanna met her untimely demise. She replaced Joanna but she turned out, to Rachels own complete surprise to be a complete polar opposite of Joanna. She rarely yelled, or even spoke above a whisper. Sophie, Joannas battered assistant, Sophie absolutely loved her.
"Uh, Ms Green." Alison spoke again, as she stood. She handed over the folders and adjusted her bun with a free hand. "We will be having a meeting tomorrow around noon, you know for the Christmas party?"
"Yeah." Rachel placed her hand on Alisons shoulder. "Please call me Rachel." Rachel insisted.
"Ok...Rachel. Anyway I wont be coming to the christmas party." Alison said. "I'm horrible in big crowd of people."
"You should come! Not many people besides me and Sophie see you and it could be a special treat." Rachel replied.
"Well, I would come but I don't have a date." Alison said. "I'm not very good with dating, I'll just stay home and give myself another manicure."
"Don't be silly! I have the perfect date for you. Hes funny, smart and generous. Plus he happens to be a very good friend!" Rachel beamed assuredly.
Chandlers office
Chandler sat at the coffee break area with Wesley, one of the new transfers in his department. They were talking.To look at them, you would think they were already good friends, but they had only met not too long ago.
"I don't know if I can get used to this area Mr. Bing..." Wesley started.
"Call me Chandler." Chandler said.
"Ok." Wesley looked around. "Man, is it just me or do we work with the stiffest people in the universe?"
Chandler chuckled. Wesley David is the first person he ever met that was funnier than him, and that wasnt too often.
"I know what you mean, its like these people take a starch bath before they come into work." Chandler said.
"Hey, are you planning on doing anything for that Christmas party this year?"
"Not really. I may hang out with my friend Rachel." Chandler thought for a second.
"Aw the famous Rachel." Wesley said. "Tell me more about her."
"Well shes is really sweet and very pretty and has a good sense of humor." Chandler described Rachel. "I should know. or she would have stopped hanging out with me years ago."
"She sounds very nice." Wesley said checking his watch. "I gotta go. I have a whole night of nothing to plan for."
"Okay." Chandler said and went back into his office.
Later on that day
Chandler sat in his easy chair eating a luke warm cup o noodle. He was also tryng not to spill anything on himself at the same time. The door bell rang and he jumped and spilled the styrofoam cup all over his suit. He had not changed yet out of his work suit. Chandler hurried scooped noodles and chicken back into the cup.
"Just a minute!" He called. Whoever was at the door was apparently not the most patient person in the world. They knocked harder. Chandler got up and opened the door.
It was Rachel.
"Nice shirt, Chandler, is the noodle look in?" Rachel said and walked past him.
"Yeah, tomorrow im gonna wear chicken ala king on a kilt." Chandler said as he grabbed a bunch of paper towels.
"I have something to tell you!" Rachel said excitedly.
"Oh no, I have something to tell you!" Chandler countered.
"If its anything about how much that hugo boss ripoff will cost to dry-clean I think my news is more important!" Rachel said looking over the soupy suit.
"My news is more important ! And this is sooo not a ripoff!
Its a professionally made ripoff, the same one you gave me for christmas the year Ross gave you that strobe light." Chandler said recalling one of Ross's dumber gifts to Rachel.
"Okay," She stood closer to him. "I have a solution."
"What?"
"Why dont we just go together?"
"Good plan."
"On the count of three." She nodded.
"Ok."
"1.....2.....3!!!!"
"I have the perfect date for you!" Chandler and Rachel said together. They paused for a second. Chandler cocked an eyebrow at her. "Did we just both say the same thing?"
"I believe so."
"O....k...." Chandler said and paused. "You go first."
"Ok." Rachel smiled. "You know my boss Alison from work?"
"Yeah, shes the real shy one right?"
"Thats the one?"
"So what about her?"
"Well I want her to have a date for this years christmast party and I suggested you!"
"Yeah?"
"And I convinced her to like try you out. And if she doesnt like you then she doenst have to go to the party is she doesnt want to. See?"
"Why do I suddenly feel like a car thats about to be test driven?" Chandler said.
"Well this is a tough part. She wanted me to have a date of my own and well I kinda, you know, dont have a date." Rachel confessed.
Chandler smiled."Can I tell you my news now?"
"Yeah."
"Well this coworker of my Wesley, he was just transferred from an upstate office..."
"Chandler what have I said about setting me up with one of your geeky coworkers?"
"That you didnt want me to do that."
"Thats right."
"But this is different!"
"I'm listening."
"This guy is just like me, but funnier and better looking and really a lot better with women than I ever hope to be."
"Ah."
"Ah?" Chandler asked.
"So I would be dating you, but in a different package?" Rachel asked.
"Basically yeah." Chandler replied. "Come on! If you dont date this guy there wont be a double date and then your friend wont come to the party and every good thing you been trying to do would have been just an interesting waste of time."
"You do have a point there." Rachel agreed. She thought for a moment.
"Do we have a deal?" Chandler extended his hand.
"Yes, we have a deal!" Rachel shook Chandlers hand.
"And alls thats left is the crying."
"What?"
"Never mind." Chandler said.
End of Part One.
