"It's been forever." I whined as I paced around Jennifer's lounge for the hundredth time.

"Calm down Phil." Dan muttered from his seat where his gaze was glazed over and he looked like he was about to sink into another extensional crisis.

"Dan," He looked up and blinked the blurriness from his eyes. "No matter what it says, I love you." I offered softly. Old Dan would have risen, given me a kiss on my glabella, then whispered 'I love you more'. But Old Dan was hidden today and New Dan was at the wheel. New Dan blinked, smiled, grabbed my arm, pulling me to him then hugged me and said

"I love you too." I sighed and once again hide my disappointment as I stood up and Jennifer rounded the corner. I turned to face her.

"Well?" I asked nervously, making Dan rise to his feet realizing she had returned.

"It wasn't clear." She shook her head then moved into the kitchen where she opened the now room temperature take out and retrieved the ice cream from the freezer.

"What do you mean 'it wasn't clear'?" Dan asked following the both of us into the decent sized, somewhat clean kitchen.

"I mean, after I peed on the stick it fell into the toilet and the stick said negative but it could be a false negative and or it could have been the toilet water messing with it." She explained, pouring the take out and the ice cream onto the deep bowl that had a hand painted Dr. Who design on the sides. "So, I have to drink at least two gallons for the next test." She said thickly around the food in her bulging mouth then placed the bowl down and rummaged in the fridge. "Thanks for the food, by the way. How did you know I wanted this?" She asked pouring out a glass of what looked like lemonade.

"I figured with the seafood ice cream cravings-" I began but Dan interrupted me.

"So what, we have to wait another hour for you to find out if you are carrying our spawn or not?" He looked appalled as we did by his rudeness. Jennifer opened and closed her mouth like a fish before being able to speak and when she did, she sounded like she was on the brinke of tears.

"Well, I didn't think it would be a big deal and we could hang out." Her voice shrank as she finished the thought.

"And that's fine," I promised wrapping an arm around her shoulders and giving her an affectionate squeeze while shooting daggers at Dan telling him to stop being a twat. "Right Daniel?" I asked but the question only had one right answer and everyone knew it. He was about to disagree but he shut his mouth, mumbled fine, then went back into the lounge and sulked while he whipped out his phone to play a game or tweet something. I turned Jennifer towards me and asked if she was okay. She nodded but tears were leaking down her face then she excused herself to the bathroom again. Went she left the kitchen, I did as well then stormed into the lounge. Dan was playing Flappy Bird went I ripped it from his hands.

"What the hell, Phil?" He asked rising to his feet, outraged at the interruption.

"I should ask you the same thing!" I growled, pocking his phone in my back pocket then placing both hands on my hips. "What the hell is wrong with you?" I interrogated him. He was about to yell but then his face crumbled and he sank to the sofa with a look of utter shame and sadness melting into place.

"I don't know anymore." He admitted.

"Yeah well, that makes two of us." I roared, he may not be pissed anymore but that certainly didn't stop me any. He looked up at me with what looked like tears in his eyes.

"What do you mean?" He asked. In that moment he looked like a confused little boy being told that he was now an orphan. I opened my mouth but I now didn't have the heart to tell him how much he had changed since I married him. Instead I sat down next to him and rubbed the back of his hand with my thumb.

"I understand you're nervous about being a dad and all but don't take it out on me or certainly not the woman who has agreed to give us children at her expense." He nodded sniffed loudly and wiped his nose on the back of his arm like the little orphan.

"Yeah that is pretty twaty of me." He admitted.

"Damn straight it is!" I laughed which got him to laugh then he leaned his head on my shoulder and I was reminded of how much older I was compared to him. But I ignored it and wrapped my arm around my husband's shoulders like I had just did to our surrogate mother only minutes before. "I love you, you wanker." I whispered, he chuckled again.

"I love you too, you Phil." He kissed my cheek as we heard a small sniffle behind us. We both turned to see Jennifer using the wall as a shield as she watched us. Tears were not longer running down her face, but they still had left a stale trail in their wake. Dan got up and walked to her she cowered a little, afraid of being yelled at again, but was surprised to receive a hug instead. "I'm sorry, Jennifer. Please forgive me, it's been crazy lately and I was taking it out on you for no reason at all. I'm truly sorry." Jennifer looked very small with Dan bending over to contort his body for the maxim capacity to hug her. She manged to wriggle her arms out and around to Dan's back to hug him back.

"It's fine, Dan." She whispered back. We all knew it wasn't but the moment had past and we all just wanted everything to be okay again so we collectively let it go. They pulled apart and we all congregated back to the kitchen where Jennifer drank and devoured like a meat deprived carnivore.

"So what do you want to do for an hour?" Dan asked the both of us conversationally when she had rinsed out her bowl in the sink.

"I think I have an idea." Her smile was sly as she told us to wait here and she exited, leaving Dan and me alone. We both waited but when nothing happened, I felt we needed to fill the empty space between us with conversation.

"What do you think it is?" I asked, sounding more excited than I actually was. It may have been the real Dan that apologized, but I knew he was gone now.

Dan blinked, looked at me, shrugged then mumbled "I dunno." One of these days, I knew I would erupt. I thought that day had finally come but that was the exact moment Jennifer can around the corner, the smile still on her face as she said

"This way."