Messer is offered a director job in Phoenix, Arizona with the Phoenix Suns. Their Child Protective Services caseworker shows up and tells them that getting involved together is a very bad idea. The pair agree to go on a date to celebrate, and when they return to the house they end up having sex together and start to develop feelings for each other. She refuses to take it so Messer offers it as an investment, to which Holly accepts. Holly then admits to Messer that because of finance at home she can't afford the extension on her catering business, so Messer offers to give her the money. Life goes on till they see the monthly bills and realize it's way more than they expected. This date is cut short when Messer calls and explains Sophie is unwell by having a fever then Messer needs to take Sophie to the hospital.

Holly attends a date with a doctor named Sam (Josh Lucas) (whom Messer nicknames 'Doctor Love') who is also Sophie's pediatrician. Later, he comes back and makes amends with Holly. When Messer loses his focus due to Sophie's constant crying during direction the game, he returns home to argue with Holly. This goes on and once Holly leaves Sophie with Messer while she covers an important catering job - the same night that he is given the opportunity to direct a big basketball game. They struggle to learn how to care for Sophie and to get along with each other. They try to put their differences aside, since they are advised to both move into Sophie's home in order to minimize her need for adjustment to the new situation. However, after a car accident kills both Peter and Alison, they are left as the one-year-old Sophie's legal guardians. After a disastrous first date set up by their best friends (Peter and Alison), all they have in common are their mutual dislike and their love for their shared goddaughter, Sophie Christina Novak, who is Peter and Alison's child. Holly Berenson (Katherine Heigl) is the owner of a small Atlanta bakery and Eric Messer (Josh Duhamel), known as Messer, is a promising television technical sports director for the Atlanta Hawks.

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