Two Months Later

"What are the chances that the girl ends up with the girl baby and the boys end up with the boy baby?" Olivia asks Eli as their babies enjoy tummy time on the floor before her.

"Well, that's a simple compound probability ½ x ½ = ¼," Eli replies.

"You are really starved for adult conversation, aren't you?" Olivia giggles.

"Don't get me wrong. I am loving being a stay-at-home dad. It's just that by the time Ty gets home from work, I have to work on my night classes. There isn't exactly a lot of time for adult interaction."

"Do you regret the way these kids came into the world? I guess that isn't the right word for it, since you didn't have a choice in it, but you know what I mean? Are you sorry it happened like that?"

"You know, Liv, I'm really not. It's right that you're his mother, and I never would have chosen that on my own. How is single parenthood working out for you?"

"It's ok. When I first discovered that a baby wasn't my magic ticket to romance I was pretty devastated, but Mollie and I, we're going to be ok."

"You ever think of having more kids?"

Olivia laughs, "I think one kid is going to be enough for me, at least for a long while."

"Ty, and I were talking about having more kids… in a couple years."

"One with your genes?" Olivia asks.

"Yeah, Ty insists on it more than I do. I mean, I feel like Isaiah is my son. I think if I loved him any more than I already do, it might actually kill me."

"I know what you mean," Olivia smiles, "Still, carrying on the gene pool, that wouldn't be a bad thing. I'd be willing to help you guys with that, you know. I could give an egg, or carry it if you prefer. I know you were a little freaked out by the male pregnancy thing."

"I was, but Ty wasn't. He actually enjoyed it. It grew on me in the end. I mean, if we did surrogacy, the baby wouldn't be in the house with us, you know, until it was born. I couldn't just roll over in bed, and put my hand on the baby in the middle of the night."

Olivia looks down at his words.

"I'm sorry, I know that some people are squeamish about the whole gay men sleeping together. I didn't know you were in that group, I won't mention it again."

"No, it wasn't that," Olivia looks up at him, genuinely shocked that he would think that, "I just wish there had been someone to feel Mollie in the middle of the night."

"Sorry," Eli says.

"No, it's fine," she says.

"So in a couple years, are you going to be willing to give us an egg, and pretend to be pregnant?" he asks.

"Yeah," she says.

"And if you ever change your mind, and want to give this one a sibling, both Ty and I would be willing to help you out."

"You'd be ok with Ty helping me out?" she asked with raised eyebrows. Most people assume that she doesn't have a crush on Ty anymore. As far as she knows, it is only herself and Eli who are aware of the truth.

"I would, because whatever there is, or was between you, I know that neither one of you would act on it. So… I don't know, Liv, we're a family. I don't know how we could become more a family."

"And what's a little semen between family, right?" she asks.

He giggles.

"If I have another one, I'm going to have to use your stuff, Eli, because the world needs more boys like you."