Dan closed his eyes, Phil was already asleep but Dan had to much to think about. He slid out of the bed and put on Phil's pyjamas witch were the closest item of clothing to him at the time. Dan tiptoed silently out of the bedroom and slipped his laptop off the breakfast bar.

Dan's POV:

I sat down on the sofa with my laptop and opened G-mail. I started to type not relay sure what I was going to write or even if I wanted to write it. I decided to simply write … "meet me at the coffee shop at 12 if you can, its important".

Phil's POV:

I rolled over to see Dan, but Dan had gone. It was odd for him to be up before me so I checked the time 12:30 it was late but still not time for Dan to be up. It hit me, what we had be talking about the night before … he was probably in his own bed. I jumped out of bed and reached for my pyjamas . I had to get dressed because I couldn't fined my pjs anywhere. I bolted up to Dan's room still with only one of my sleeves on my arms, wriggling about in it trying to get it on as fast as I could and calling out for Dan. I swung open his door but his duvet lay on a heap on the floor and his bed striped of all bedding, exactly the way it was when we decided he should move into my room. He must be downstairs. I shut his door and ran downstairs still calling out for him. I walked into the living room to see Dan's open laptop on the sofa.

"Dan, Daaaaan"

I called out but I couldn't hear him. I looked down at his laptop hoping whatever was on it would give me a clue as to what had happened. G-mail? I know that its not rite to look at his emails but I had to know what was going on. I clicked on the latest one that had been sent, it was to Chloe his old best friend from high school. I had already known they had got back in touch and I know its wrong but I part of me relay wanted to know what they had been talking about.

"meet me at the coffee shop at 12 if you can, its important",

I read the first email aloud to myself then I looked at what she had written back.

"is this to do with Phil?"

"yes and please meet me it … I need to talk"

"we already talk about all your little relationship problems on line why cant we do that",

my stomach twisted as I read that email from Chloe, I closed the lid and walked into the kitchen, I didn't want to know any more it was Dan's business who he told not mine. But I hated it so much. Why would he talk about me to Chloe. Well at least I know were he is. I thought but I still didn't know when he would be back. 1 o'clock past then 2 o'clock then finally at 4:25 I herd the door click Dan walked in with Carrie. Why was he with Carrie?

"Phiiiiiiiil..."

Dan called out into the apartment and I stepped out from the kitchen and walked into the hallway, to see Carrie grinning from ear to ear, with her frizzy hair moving, franticly swooshing from side to side as she moved her head.

"Dan were the hell have you been?"

I demanded glaring at him. Dan looked a bit pale and worried then he walked into the living room and sat down gesturing that I should do the same so me and Carrie walked in and sat on the sofa.

"Dan what exactly is going on"

I was so worried that I started to shake.

Third person:

"Phil, this morning I woke up and I thought about what we talked about and I decided you are right, I do want to have a child, so I went to meet up with Chloe, you know my old friend from high school"

Dan paused to let Phil nod showing that he understood what Dan had said so far.

"so I spoke to her about my plans and I said that I needed a mother and well, I didn't exactly ask her but she took it the wrong way, and well um Carrie sore me and she sat down with us but I think oh yes then that's when Chloe stormed of and I explained all that to Carrie and well..."

Dan trailed of so Carrie interrupted, she spoke tentatively not wanting to stop Dan from speaking but Dan was grateful for the help, he had started to panic and speak fast. Phil just sat and took everything in still not sure quite what was happening.

"so when I herd what Dan wanted I … well its just so lovely that you to want a baby and well, I want to... I want to help in anyway I can"

Carrie finished then looked at Dan for some kind of conformation that she had said the write thing, Dan polity nodded back at Carrie.

"so are you saying that you want to be the mother of me and Dan's child?"

Phil raised his eyebrows, he wasn't sure how he was meant to react to this.

Carrie and Dan nodded back at Phil and he suddenly realised that all of this was now completely up to him, so with a shaking voice he said,

"so what do we do next..."

"well I went to the doctors to ask about this and they have given me all of this paper work"

Dan reached into a plastic bag that was resting on the arm of the chair he was sat In and pulled out 4 text book sized pads of paper all printed in tiny black writing and coved in little dotted lines for signatures. The next week was spent with Carrie, Alex, Dan and Phil and all of there parents signing things and having millions of tests. So many people came into the flat every day to look over everything and make sure it was all child safe. So far it was all ok and it seemed like all plans could go ahead. They had been told that the day before carries due date the flat had to be inspected again and all the tests and interviews and everything had to be put together with birth certificates and signatures from every single member of every family. Everyone was so tense the slightest thing put people over the edge and there were always at least 5 people in the flat to wined each other up and cause another mental brake down. But everyone knew that this was nothing compared to how difficult and amazing it would be for Dan and Phil to have a child.

Carrie's POV:

Dan and Phil told me they wanted me to stay in the baby's life despite the fact that by law the baby would be a Howell- lester not a fletcher. The thought of having I kid … I felt dizzy when I tried to see into the future of my child, my baby. We had all decided that we wanted the child to be conceived and born completely naturally. But this left a decision that had to be made. Who would be the father? It would require so much trust on the part of who ever wasn't going to be the father. And it was hard to think of aether of my friends in that way. It was going to be so hard but the benefit of creating a family … even if the kid would have a mother and 3 fathers. Alex had not said much on this matter, I didn't think he minded it was a grate thing that I was going but he would have to accept that I would have a child with someone else. I hoped that Alex would accept his part in my baby's life.

10 years later-Darcy's POV:

I had never contemplated that my family was anything but normal. I grew up with the fact that I lived in a flat in London with Dan and Phil who were my dads I suppose. Well I called them both dad but I called Alex dad to I often went to stay with Carrie and Alex I suppose now that I think of it having 3 people I called dad was odd. And as I got older it seemed even more odd that I didn't even know witch one of them was my 'real' dad. So one day when Dan was walking me home from school I asked him.

"Dad, witch, are you my dad or is it Phil or, or is it Alex?"

"Darcy it doesn't matter, I can tell you, if that's what you want, but remember it doesn't make a difference to who you are. All of us love you and your family doesn't have to be normal to be happy"

Dan smiled lovingly at me and I walked with him for I wile thinking about what he had said and I decided that I wanted to know.

"no, I think I do want to know"

"well we decided it would be best if I was your dad"

"why"

Dan giggled then he looked down at his beautiful baby girl, she had brown hair and brown eyes like him but she had carries big smile and a heart shaped face with amazing ringlet hair.

"well we couldn't decide then it came down to your eyes"

"i don't understand?"

I looked at Dan who was looking brilliantly happy.

"well me and Carrie both have good eyes but Phil has glasses"

"so Carrie is my real mum"

I asked wondering why I had never asked before.

"yes"

"but what about Alex?"

"well me and Phil decided to have a baby but Phil was adopted so he didn't want to adopt, he doesn't like it, so we decided to have a baby naturally and we chose Carrie to be the mummy and then we decided I would be the dad and Alex didn't mined because it doesn't matter that me and Carrie aunt in love because we are friends and I love Phil and she loves Alex and we are all happy that you are in the world."

I fell silent again what dad was saying made scents and I'm happy with my life like this. When we got home Alex and Carrie were round as they often were, I ran over and hugged Phil before jumping up on to Carries lap she kissed me on the forehead then Dan came in with tea for everyone. Life seemed so blissfully perfect now that I had all the answers.