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crawled up your butt?" Ellie inquired watching Gabe pour himself a glass of milk. She smiled sweetly at him when he shot her a glare from the glass rim.
    "Being pregnant is the worst thing ever." He sounded like a petulant child and knowing that he did, made Gabe want to hit something. This was the main reason why Ronnie had kicked him out of bed. There could only be one grumpy person in their bedroom and as far as Ronnie was concerned that right did not belong to Gabe.
    So Ronnie kicked him out of bed to find comfort with the couch. It was with pillow in hand that Gabe had trudged down to the kitchen to find something to help him fall asleep.
    "I have no sympathy for you," Ellie said, maneuvering around the table in the attempt to organize her books. "Ronnie on the other I sympathize with implicitly. Be happy that you're not the one carrying around a watermelon sized cargo everywhere with you."
    "I'm suffering too." He indignantly rebutted. "No sex, crabby girlfriend, weird cravings, and the mood swings!"
    Ellie scrunched up her nose and tried not to laugh. "Okay first of all, Ew to the sex thing. That's an image no child should ever have of their parents. It's just.... Ew." She closed her eyes and shuddered, laughing when Gabe threw an abandoned bottle cap at her. "Secondly, Gabe, you need to stop being such an ass and just  be  there for Ronnie. It's not easy going through a pregnancy without having someone there to help you…" She quieted and Gabe wanted to kick himself for conjuring up thoughts on her recent breakup.
    "Ellie… " It'd been almost nine months since she’d come home that fateful night crying and shattered. But Gabe had hoped that Ellie would've been over the breakup by now.
    It was bad enough that she had to be reminded on a daily basis of how much Nicholas' presence had affected her life with the twins on their way, but now Sophie's mournful cries of wanting him back did not help at all.
    "Ellie… "Gabe called again unsure of what to say now.
    "I'm alright ." She reassured. "Gabe I'm fine, really."
    "I know." He pulled her to him as best as he could with the round belly in the way, and caressed Ellie's hair when she dropped her head against his chest. "I know you're fine. But it's okay if you aren't sometimes. Ron and I will love you even if you fall off the  'fine' wagon. We'll always love you, Ellie." Ellie only wrapped her arms around Gabe's waist a little tighter and sniffed.
    The very second she drew away a pain unlike any other shot through her lower abdomen bringing her to her knees. She blindingly reached for Gabe’s hand while trying to breathe through the pain. "Gabe," She whispered, holding on with unbelievable strength. "Gabe!" she wailed as another bout of pain wrenched through her.
    " Ellie, what is it? Is it the babies? What's going on? Ellie!"
    "Call… call the ambulance!" Ellie managed to gasp, hand falling to her stomach as pain laced up from the tips of her toes, up her legs and fired off canon sized blasts in her lower abdomen. On her hands and knees now, she groaned as contractions wracked her body.
    Gabe returned in a beat and was instantly at her side. “ They're on their way, Ellie. They're on their way baby, hold on…oh God!" He caught sight of the blood reddening Ellie's pajama bottoms. Gabe paled, breaking out in a cold sweat.
    It took this exact moment for his fucking anxiety attack to happen? Now? Gabe's mind was in a rage as he desperately attempted to calm himself down. "Fuck…RONNIE!"
    Footsteps were heard, and Gabe wanted to yell at his girlfriend not to run ---it wouldn't do to prematurely induce her own labor now. It'd just be his luck if Ronnie did follow Ellie into labor! God! There was so much fucking blood!
    "Gabe… Oh God, Ellie." Refusing to panic, Ronnie appraised the situation before making a quick dash for dish towels and the roll of paper towel on the kitchen table. Handing the paper towel to Gabe, she slipped the dish towel over the pool of blood