Slide Away

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"I love you." She says.

"I know you do." I answer.

Her grey eyes meet mine, "Do you love me?"

"More than anything." I whisper.

She smiles slightly and presses her lips against mine. I wanted to pull her closer to me, but her baby bump prevent that. Katniss buries her face in my chest as I tighten my arms around her, kissing her forehead softly.

"I love you." She repeats.

"I love you too Catnip." I say.

I close my eyes and take a deep breath. Tomorrow will better than today. I tell myself. Tomorrow we start fresh.

------------------------------ Katniss's POV ---------------------------- 

   Time seams to fly by quicker than I want it to. It feels like it was just yesterday that I was finding out I was pregnant. I'm almost eight and a half months pregnant now. How had time flown by so fast? 

Time flies by when your having fun. 

   These past few months have been hard not only for me but everyone one else. Gale and I's mothers and the kids moved to district 4 not long ago. From what I'm hearing they have a house on the water and the kids love it there. It was good to hear that they were happy.

    Gale and I had been doing well by ourselves. It's been a bit hard though since Gale got a job on the Police force. He leaves early every morning and comes home pretty late. I don't have a problem with it, but it's getting harder to do things by myself due to my baby bump and the fact that I can't really see my feet anymore makes it even harder.

   The babies are the only problem. One twin likes to kick while the other likes to move. It's hard to sleep at night when one is constantly kicking at my ribs and bladder while the other is just moving around trying to get space.  

    Before my mother left for district 4 she did an ultrasound so Gale and I could know the genders of the twins. We found out that we were having a boy and a girl. Not only did we find this out but we know exactly who kicks the most and who moves the most.

   It only took me and Gale a few days to agree on the name Elliot Jason for twin A. Just so happened that he was the one who was keeping me up all night with the kicking.  Picking a name for twin B was harder than we thought. It took us weeks to find a name for her but we did. We finally decided on Olivia Elaine.

And considering I had nothing better to do, I sat at the kitchen table and translated what their names meant. It was early in the afternoon and Gale was going to be home around 9:00 or 10:00. Translating my babies names was really just something to do to pass the time.

Elliot: with strength and right.

Jason: to heal

Olivia: olive tree

Elaine: shining light or sun ray

   I cared about what their names meant, but I didn't at the same time. It was rare these days to know what some names meant. I was lucky my father had a book of names in it with what their meanings were.

Elliot kicks my ribs for the 10,000th time today. What was his problem? If anything I was expecting Olivia to be complaining not him. I put a hand over my stomach.

"Eli, I don't know what your problem is but you need to take a chill pill." I say.

   He responds with another kick and I feel what could be either Olivia's elbow or knee under my hand. She was moving again, Probably trying to get away from Elliot.