Katelyn

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"I love hunting for Baby Names," Donna sighs. I laugh. It's been more than a month since I last saw Travis, since I left. It still hurts, but not as bad. Donna and Kitty fill the whole in my heart. Well not fill. No one could replace Travis and Aphmau and Kacey. But they are like band aids. Helping me to heal.
"Your more excited than I am!" I say with a smile. We are at Donna's apartment. It's just down the street from mine. I'm sitting at her dinner table, eating cookies. I do this every Sunday now.
"I just love babies!" Donna sighs. "Logan and I always wanted a forth, but we just weren't financially stable enough after Rollo was born and after that, I don't know. We just weren't ready."
I wonder what it would be like to have decided to be a mother. Would I be enjoying this more? Would I be looking forward to my due date? I'm looking forward to meet my baby, but I'm just too young for this. I look at Donna. She's smiling. 
I wish she was able to have another child when she wanted one.
If anyone deserves happiness, it's Donna.
"So no more kids for you?" I say. Donna blushes and leans forwards.
"I'm going to tell you something that you can't tell any of the kids, okay?" I nod. What is it? Is it what I think it is?
"We are trying for a baby right now!" She sounds so excited.
"That's amazing!" I shout. She shushes me. I feel a smile crawl onto my face. Please Irene, give Donna a child.
"Yes. Very. Now back to baby names," Donna's face is bright enough to light up the whole world.
"I just don't know what to name her."
Her. My little girl. My little Mija.
We have countless catalogs spread out in front of us.
Donna flips through one of the catalogs. I run my fingers through a knot in my hair. It isn't blue anymore. Well, it's still blue, but navy blue with purple streaks. Donna helped me. We even did a streak of purple in Kitty's hair.
"The most popular names in O'kasis this year were the names Menphia, Irene, Lizzy, Jessica, Jason, Kestin, Andy, and Travis."
Travis. If it was a boy, I'd name him Travis after my one and only who I had to leave behind.
"None of those sound right," I say. I lean back on my chair. "How did you think of Kitty's name?"
"Well, the woman who helped us get off the streets, her name was Catrina. Logan didn't want to name her Catrina, but we both wanted to have the name have something to do with her. So we named her Kathrine, Kitty for short."
"What about Yip and Rollo?" Those are the names I am most curious about. I mean, plenty of my friends had weird names, well only Aphmau. But Lucinda's mom was Hyria so, I think that counts.
"Yip's comes from Ancient Ru'an. And Rollo's full name is Robert. Not that interesting, huh?" She laughs.
"I think that it is very interesting," I lie. Donna laughs harder. She reminds me of Aphmau. So very cheery and sweet.
"I almost named Kitty, Abigail though," Donna says once she catches her breath. "That's my middle name."
Abigail. Something clicks in my mind. Abby. I want to do the same thing Donna did. Honour the person that saved me.
"That's perfect," I say softly. "Abigail."
"Pardon, Katie?" Donna is confused.
Abigail Travis.
"Donna, I want to name her, Abby," I say. My due date is six months away, but I already have a name.
"Oh, that's such a sweet name," Donna says. I nod.
"Can I?"
"Of course you can! I don't own the name, you don't need to ask!" I jump up out of my seat and embrace her.
"You act like one tough cookie, Katie, but really your just a massive softly."
I don't really agree with that. Maybe around people I like. Maybe.
Once I sit back down, Donna bites her lip. What came to her mind?
"Katie, I was wondering if you had any contact with the her, Abby's dad."
My eyes widened. No. Travis. I feel as if my heart has been stabbed. I can think of him. But I don't think I can talk about him. I don't know. It confuses me so much. I shake my head.
"Maybe you should," Donna suggest.
"I can't."
"Is he a bad person or...?" I feel slight anger, then remember Donna doesn't know Travis. She doesn't or else she would never say that.
"No. No he is the sweetest person, I've ever met." Other than Aph, I add silently. And Kacey.
"Then why?" I cut her off.
"I have to go to work," I say. I stand up quickly.
"You can't run from your problems, Katie."
No, but I can try.
Donna doesn't know how good I am at running.

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