Charlotte and Ethan walk in the apartment. "Are you ready to go?" Cooper asks Ethan. "I have tickets for the Laker's game tonight.
"Not yet." Charlotte tells Cooper. "I need to talk to you in the bedroom first." Charlotte looks at Ethan. "I know you've got to be hungry. Fix yourself a snack while I talk to Dr. Cooper."
"Okay, Momma Charlotte."
Cooper follows Charlotte into the bedroom. "I can't believe he calls you Momma and refuses to call me dad or daddy."
"He doesn't like you." Charlotte shoots.
"I figured that and it's so bizarre because kids love me and they hate you."
"Jen was drunk as a skunk when I picked him up. Do you know he locks himself in his room when his mother drinks?"
"I didn't know that."
"I know how it is from first hand experience."
"I know that, Charlotte. Maybe I should look into getting custody of him or at least partial custody so he's not around her as much. I'm confidant the judge would give it to me since I'm a better influence."
"Not if the judge talks to Ethan. Ethan thinks you're worse than his mother."
"Why?"
"Apparently, he's seen you drunk. He saw you giving his mother a blow job. The kid hates you. Cooper."
"What?" Cooper's mouth drops and he sits on the bed.
"He heard noises and went to check it out. He peeked in his mother's bedroom and saw you on your knees with your hands and mouth all over his mother's private parts. He thought it was disgusting."
Cooper puts his hand over his head and flops back down on the bed. "Oh God."
"I agree with him. You are disgusting."
"I told you about this, Char. I remember that night. It was a few months ago. I remember he came out of his room asking what the noise was and Jen sent him back to bed."
"Your kid thinks you're a pervert and so do I."
"Oh, come on, Char, I'm not a pervert. You used to enjoy doing that stuff with me. Then you're a pervert to."
"I'm pregnant with your twins. Don't you dare call me a pervert. You're the one who can't control it."
"Okay. Let's stop fighting. It's not going to help the situation. I already told you about this. It happened months ago so that shouldn't be the issue. The issue is me trying to explain it to Ethan. Do you want to help me?"
"You're on your own for this one. You made your bed, now you have to lie on it."
Charlotte pads into the bathroom and closes the door. Cooper walks out into the living room and joins Ethan on the couch. Ethan's munching on Doritos. "I need to talk to you, Ethan."
"What for?"
"I did a bad thing and I know you saw it."
Ethan munches on his snack and moves away from Cooper when Cooper sits next to him on the couch .
"I shouldn't have done that, not because it's gross and disgusting or anything like that."
"Huh?" Ethan looks at him.
"You're still very young and I don't expect you to understand but when you're an adult those things you saw me doing with your mommy, they're okay to do if both people agree to it."
"Ewww. Why would you want to kiss my mommy's privates? That's disgusting. That's where the pee comes from and her hinny is right behind it."
Cooper sighs. "When you're an adult you'll understand. Adults like that stuff."
"Ewww. ..I don't ever want to be an adult then."
"Trust me, you'll like it someday but not until you're all grown up. For now, it's not okay to touch anyone's private parts."
"I know that already. They told us that in school."
"What I did with your mom was wrong because I'm married to Charlotte. When you're married, you're only are supposed to do those things with your wife."
"Charlotte doesn't do that." Ethan defends.
"That's how we made the twins. That's how mommy's and daddy's make babies, by joining their private parts together. A little piece of the daddy joins up with a little piece of the mommy and a baby is formed. It's called sex. It takes nine months for the baby to grow in the mommy's belly before it's ready to be born."
"Is that how you and my mom made me? You made sex ."
"Yes." Cooper smiles.
"Were you drunk?"
"Yes." Cooper sighs.
"So you doing sex with my mom was a bad thing because you and my mom weren't married? It was a bad thing you made me?"
"It was okay, because I wasn't married to Charlotte yet. I didn't know Charlotte back then. If two adults aren't married and they want to have sex, it's okay."
Ethan hits his head with his hand. "I'm confused."
"Okay, well you're a little young to hear this. I just wanted to explain what you saw me doing with your mother and it was wrong because I'm married to Charlotte."
"Or else it's okay for adults to have sex if they want to if they're not married?"
"Right."
"So you're the only bad one because my mommy isn't married so she's allowed to have sex if she wants but you aren't allowed because you're married."
Cooper nods. "Right."
"So, you're a bad man?"
"I told Charlotte and said I was sorry and she forgives me."
"I wouldn't forgive you."
"Gee. Thanks. How about we go to the game now?"
"Is Charlotte coming?"
"No. She's not feeling up to it. The twins are getting bigger inside her, it's wouldn't be comfortable for her to sit at the game."
"So you had sex to make the twins and Momma Charlotte can't go to the game because she's uncomforatable? Only you get to have fun?
"That's the way it is. The mommy can only get pregnant and carry the babies. I don't make the rules."
"But you could stay home with her instead of going to the game."
Cooper's mouth drops a little. "You're right but this is my one day a month to spend with you."
"I want to stay home with Charlotte."
Charlotte's standing by the bedroom door listening to the conversation. She looks at Cooper. "How is it that a seven year old cares more than you?"
"Uh…Uh." Cooper can't answer that.
"Honestly, Cooper. Your son is more mature at seven than you are at forty."
"Your making me look bad, kid." Cooper smiles at Ethan.
"Can we play battleship now, Momma Charlotte?"
Charlotte smiles at Ethan. "I've been dying to play battleship with you. Let's play."
Ethan smiles big with his baby blues eyes. Charlotte looks over at Cooper who's smiling at her with the same baby blues eyes and her heart melts for the two men in her life.