"So is this the bitter exes corner?" He finally found Emily tucked away practically out of sight, watching Isabel and Seth, her mouth a straight line revealing no emotion whatsoever.

"I wasn't aware we were bitter." She said absently, not pulling her eyes from the dancing coupling.

"Bitterish." He shrugged, "I mean come on, he's my best friend."

"You couldn't ask for a better stepdad for Rosie."

"I could ask for no stepdad." He countered.

"Aaron." She finally glanced at him, a look of half pity and half exasperation. It wasn't like this was the first time they'd had this conversation.

"She called him Daddy last week." Isabel had corrected her, but it still stung.

"I'm sorry." She said automatically, looking anything but.

"But?"

"But what?"

"I know that look on your face, it's the one that says I'm sorry your feelings were hurt, but I know more about how to raise your daughter then you do."

"It does not." She protested.

"Em."

"Okay, I happen to think there are worse things in the world than a kid who has three parents that love her more than anything. And I know my views on this aren't exactly objective, but you know that too, so maybe you need to find a different audience for this chat."

"Sorry." He mumbled, feeling chastened. He knew fathers were not an easy subject for Emily. And to be fair to her, she had been a lot more understanding of his complaints the first hundred or so times she'd heard them. "Okay, so why are you bitterish?"

"I'm not." He raised his eyebrows. He might be feeling hurt, but she was the one hiding out in a corner. "You know Seth and Isabel were hooking up for a year before she would even consider dating him."

"Mhm." He didn't really need a reminder of Seth and Isabel's happy love story.

"Well he never once gave her an ultimatum, or made her feel like she wasn't enough. But with me it was six months and even though I was trying my hardest he couldn't get out of there fast enough." It was an interesting retelling of Seth and Emily's breakup, he would give her that. He wasn't sure he would call it realistic, but interesting for sure.

"You want me to interrupt them and tell him missed out on the greatest woman in the world?" The man who actually needed to hear that message was Daniel Rhodes, but that wasn't an option.

He wasn't sure she even heard him, "Why is it so easy for people to leave me?" The pain in her voice, still somehow so raw after all these years did more than anything to convince him that Emily was right, two Dads weren't the worst thing in the world for his Rosie.

"Em, nothing about you is easy to leave. Trust me." If Emily was easy to leave he wouldn't have been hooking up with her for the last three years, with hardly even a sign that she saw them as anything more than friends. It would be funny if it wasn't so pathetic. She could be pretty damn oblivious sometimes.

"Sorry, I know I haven't made this easy on you."

"No idea what you're talking about."

"No really, I think it's time we have that conversation."

"Really?" Emily had promised him a talk on their relationship on Rosie's first birthday. Better late than never he supposed, watching his two and a half year old rush up to join Isabel and Seth on the dance floor.

"Your daughter called Seth Daddy, but calls me lady. I'm not saying I want her calling me Mom, I don't have a death wish afterall, but Emily would be nice."

"Emily would be nice." He murmured, pressing a kiss on the top of her head before quickly pulling away. Granted, the only person who couldn't see they were dating was Emily herself, but he didn't need a picture of the two of them going viral online. That attention hadn't helped his and Isabel's relationship, and he didn't think it would work wonders for his and Emily's either.

To his surprise Emily reached out and held his hand in hers. And then in a move that had him convinced that Emily might have undergone a lobotomy she leaned closer to him and whispered, "I love you."

Squeezing her hand he whispered it back and made a mental note to ask Seth and Isabel to renew their vows on a yearly basis. Maybe that would get him and Emily to the altar sometime this decade.