A/N: I am very excited to bring you guys the second chapter of Phoebe and Mike's story! All the support that I am receiving for all three stories within this series is absolutely surreal, and I honestly don't know how to thank you. As I said, I am alternating perspectives between the couples because it seemed to be a good idea, and will also apply to the other two books. Please also keep a look out for a book that I am writing that is a crossover between Cougar Town and Friends and one that is only Cougar Town. Anyways, let's continue on with the next chapter.

Chapter 2 – Mike

I keep one hand on the steering wheel, whilst looking at Phoebe in the shotgun seat. "Is it this one?" I say, pointing at the sushi restaurant that was on the other side of road.

Phoebe glances down at the restaurant website that was up on her phone with the map, and nods. "Yeah."

I pull over at the side of the road where there are lines that you can park on, and take the key out of the ignition once I've backed into the spot. I throw the keys to Phoebe, who catches them and puts them in her bag. She gets out, and walks into the road to open the door for Christopher so he's safe. I get out myself, and go round to open the door for Adeline. Phoebe insisted that we have child locks fitted on both cars so that the kids would endanger themselves, but they didn't fit on her car much to my amusement.

The four of us cross the road and stop outside the door to the restaurant. It's quite posh, and my worry that I would feel overdressed in my tux from earlier in the day at the wedding disappeared. Phoebe twists the doorknob and waits at the sign that was asking us to politely wait for a waiter to come and take us to our seat.

She gives me a desperate look, whilst trying to keep Chris and Addie from wandering off, and I move closer to them. A waitress comes over to us, and I move right up to talk to her.

"Table for 4, if that's okay," I say, and the waitress nods.

"That will be fine," she says. "Come through," she motions for Phoebe and I and the kids to follow her. She takes us to a booth towards the centre of the restaurant and a little off to the right. Addie hops onto the seat closest to me, and then Phoebe decides to sit at the one directly next to her. I sit down in the very last seat that is at the left end of the table. Chris joins me in the seat that's directly next to it.

Before the waitress leaves, she leaves two adult menus and two child menus in the centre of the table. "I'll be back to take your orders for drinks," she says, as she leaves to go behind the counter.

Phoebe searches in her bag, and takes out the twins' iPads. She passes the first one to Chris and hands the second to me to give to Addie. "Thanks for suggesting this place," I say to Phoebe. "It looks so cool."

"You're welcome," Phoebe replies. "A colleague at work suggested it. She has kids and had been here before so she knew that one of our biggest worries would be Addie and Chris."

I nod. "Yeah," I say, whilst looking through the menu. "I'm going to have to go for lemonade or coffee, unless you were planning on driving the way back home."

"I'll drive so you can have a beer," Phoebe says back to me.

"Are you sure?" I said, because I didn't want to force Phoebe to have to drive just so I could drink.

"Yes, it's fine," Phoebe said, looking at me with her best sincere look. "I don't mind at all."

"Thanks, Pheebs," I smile, and pass the menu to her as I am definitely going to take the chance to have a beer.

We sit in silence for about five minutes until the waitress comes back over to take our orders.

"Shall I go first?" I ask Phoebe, and she gives me a nod. "I would like a pint of beer," I say, and the waitress writes it down. "Is that all?" she asks.

I turn to Addie. "What do you want?" I ask her. She points to the orange juice on the kids menu. "My daughter wants an orange juice," I say.

The waitress writes that down and turns to Chris and Phoebe. "What can I get you guys?" the waitress asks.

"I would like a cappuccino," Phoebe says, as she turns to Christopher. He points towards something in the kids menu. "My son would like apple juice," she says, and the waitress writes it down. She talks through the order, and Phoebe and I say that that's all we want. The waitress says that she will come back when we are ready to order our food, and that we should just wave her over when we need her.

I sit back in my seat, and take my phone out of my pocket. I smile down at my lock screen, which is a picture of Pheebs, Chris and Addie when we last went on a hike together. I have an email notification from the bride of the wedding that I was at earlier thanking me for doing it, and saying that the money that she was paying me for the service would be sent to Phoebe and I's bank account as soon as she could. I also had a text from Phoebe from much earlier today when she was at recess break and had wished me good luck for the wedding performance.

I swiped up on the lock screen and typed in my password. I started to compose an email to my client and then sent it. I decided then to check Facebook. I saw that Monica had recently been on her timeline to celebrate the fact that Jack and Erica had had a successful first day at high school. I clicked on the post to comment, and typed out a congratulations to them both. I scrolled further down my timeline, and saw that Chandler had reposted a joke that I hadn't seen before. It was a one-liner that I had to try and stifle the laughter that bubbled up inside me whilst reading it because we were out in public and I thought that Phoebe wouldn't have appreciated me laughing drawing attention to us.

I put away my phone after remembering that I needed to choose what I wanted to eat as well and ask Addie too. I decided on getting a sushi platter with a little of everything as I couldn't just decide on one thing, and I wasn't too sure of the different types of sushi and what I liked.

"Hey, Ads," I said to Addie, and she looked up from her iPad. "Have you chosen what you want?"

"I didn't realise that sushi is raw fish," Addie said, "So can I have chips instead?" She pointed towards the kids menu, and I saw that chips was an option on the menu.

"Sure," I said, making a mental note of it for the waitress. I turned back to Phoebe. "Are we ready to order yet?" I asked her.

"I think we are," Phoebe replied, and I waved over the waitress. "I would like the sushi platter, and my daughter would like a plate of chips," I say.

The waitress nods, and writes it down. She turns to Phoebe, who orders for herself and Chris. The waitress then walks away and disappears behind the counter. I get out my phone again, and continue to scroll through Facebook. I pause when I see that Joey has posted on his status, and click on it. Apparently he has just secured one of the main roles in one of the most anticipated films to come out next year, and so I decide to like the post and comment my congratulations.

"Pheebs," I say, and she looks over. "Joey has secured one of the major roles in Vengeance of the Darkness!"

"Really?" Phoebe, looking excited. I pass over my phone to her so she can read the post. She reads it, and says, "That's amazing! His career has been really taking off just recently!"

"I know," I say, happily. "He really deserves it after struggling for so long with only smaller roles, obviously with the exception of Days of our Lives."

Phoebe agrees. "It's been ages since we last saw him," she says, and I agree. The last time that we saw him was at the New Year's celebration party that Monica and Chandler held earlier this year, and even that was a stretch for him because he has started to get so busy with his career but didn't want to let that affect spending time with his friends more than it had to.

"Maybe we'll get an invitation to an early screening of the film," I say, as this has been the case for all his projects yet where he can make it happen.

"Probably," Phoebe replies. "He's always been that sweet, even when he started becoming more famous."

I agree with Phoebe. We don't see much of the others, but the one who's been the best at keeping in touch is by far Monica and Chandler, but I think that's to be expected with how much Monica cares about all of us. She really is still the mother of all of us, even though she now has her own adorable family, and we'd all be lying if we said we didn't still love and appreciate it.

Almost just as I was thinking that, a notification for a text flashed up at the top of my phone screen. It was from Monica, and she was asking when Phoebe, the kids and I were free to do something together and with Ross and Rachel and their daughters as well. I showed the text to Phoebe.

"We don't have any plans this weekend, I don't think," she said. "Reply to Monica saying that this weekend should be fine with us."

I replied as Phoebe wanted me to, and then turned my phone off and slipped it back in my pocket. A few minutes later, the waitress comes over with our food. I helped pass around the plates to the kids.

"I'm sorry that I also forgot to give you your drinks," she apologises, looking awkward. "I'll be right back in a minute," she added, before rushing back behind the counter.

I start eating my sushi platter. The waitress comes back, apologises again and gives us our drinks. She goes away again, and I return to eating my sushi.

"The food here is really good," I say, feeling pleasantly surprised. "It really lives up to the cool but equally as professional vibe."

Phoebe agrees, and I see that the kids also look happy. Addie is quietly eating her chips, whilst Chris is attempting to successfully dip a rice roll in the small container of soy sauce with his chopsticks. I resist the urge to laugh at his currently futile attempts as it's adorable, but I wouldn't want to risk embarrassing or upsetting him in front of everyone here at the restaurant.

Phoebe notices my gaze, and leans over to help him. She demonstrates with her own chopsticks, and then she guides Chris's hand whilst he has a go. He manages to do it, so she lets him have a go again completely by himself. He's successful, and looks up at Phoebe with the biggest heart-warming smile. He looks over at me, and I smile.

"Well done, Chris!" I say. "Now you'll be able to steal Mom's chopsticks at home!" I add a laugh afterwards, earning a look from Phoebe which is somewhere in between disapproving and amusement. "Not that you would get away with it now," I add.

Chris laughed, and Phoebe and I met each other's gaze and smiled in happiness that our son was happy. "You'll have to keep it down slightly," I say to Chris, and he focuses back on his sushi.

"It was definitely the best idea to come here to celebrate the first day back at school and work," I said to Phoebe. "Thank you again, Pheebs."

"Babe," Phoebe says, with her chopsticks in one hand. "You don't need to thank me since you are part of what has made this dinner outing so good."

I smiled even wider at Phoebe, feeling truly blessed for about the fifth time today that I chose to marry someone as sweet, beautiful and down-to-earth as Phoebe. I can tell that she is thinking the same kind of way about me, and our eyes lock in a mutual expression of gratitude and appreciation for each other. We all finish our meals, and then Phoebe and I argue over who will pay the bill, and I make the final decision that we'll split the bill between us.

I round up Addie and Chris, and take them to the toilets as I know that neither Phoebe nor I would appreciate either child needing the bathroom on our way home and being forced to pull over because of it. I wait between the doors to the female and male toilets, until I decide that I may as well go myself. Luckily, Addie is waiting for me when I get out because my only worry was that either of the kids would go looking for me or Phoebe, and get lost somewhere where they shouldn't be.

We only have to wait about two seconds for Chris to join Addie and I, so I then start to lead the way out of the restaurant to the car. Phoebe is already sitting in the driver's seat, and so I call shotgun as agreed once I had helped the kids get into the car safely. Phoebe backs out of the parking space, and we start to drive in the direction to join the highway.

A/N: Sorry to cut this chapter a little short, but I thought that leaving it here seemed a pretty solid place to finish. I hope that you like this instalment of the story, and I hope that you will continue to read and review future chapters as well as my other works which include the other two books within this trilogy and my Cougar Town and Friends crossover and the book which is solely set in the Cougar Town world, but is a prequel. I am always open to suggestions for new subplot ideas, and I hope that you guys are happy to see some inclusion of Joey, as I know that he is the other main character that I haven't mention so far in this trilogy. As always, thank you so much for all the support in all I've written, and I hope that you will continue to enjoy it!