The next day was a lovely and sunny one.
It was 8 o'clock on a Saturday morning. Smithy woke up and looked over to Kerry who was still fast asleep. He sat up and kissed his beautiful girlfriend on the lips before heading downstairs.
When he got down there, Susan and Graham were already up, sitting on the sofa, eating cornflakes and watching GMTV.
"Morning darling" said Susan, giving her son a cheerful morning smile.
Smithy replied "Morning Mum"
Graham got up and took the breakfast dishes out. From the kitchen, he called out
"And how's my darling daughter this morning?"
Smithy told him that she was still sleeping upstairs as he sat on the sofa to eat his breakfast. At 10 o'clock, Smithy went upstairs to get changed out of his PJ's and saw that Kerry was still sleeping. 'She must be tired' he thought, leaving her and going back downstairs. At 12 o'clock, Susan went upstairs to the toilet. On her way downstairs, she popped in to the bedroom and saw that Kerry was STILL sleeping. She went downstairs and asked her son
"What time did you and Kerry go to bed last night then love, because she must be very tired as she's still out cold!"
Smithy replied
"It wasn't that late, only about an hour after you two. Do you think she's okay Mam? Surely she shouldn't be this tired?"
Susan told her son that she was fine, probably just worn out being pregnant.
However, they did start getting worried when Kerry was STILL sleeping at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. Kerry's dad. Graham went upstairs to check on his daughter. He came downstairs looking a bit embarrassed.
"Susan, you know woman, when you're pregnant, do you still get that...you know...girl Thing. Pre menstrual something?"
Susan and Smithy looked at each other and laughed. Susan answered him
"When you're pregnant, some girls can still have it".
"Okay then" replied Graham.
As Graham and Smithy had made dinner last night, it was Susan's turn. She went in the kitchen and started making some sandwiches and salad. After she made it, she told Smithy to go upstairs to see if Kerry was coming down to have some food. He went upstairs and into their bedroom. Kerry was still out cold. Or so he thought. As he sat down and put his arms around her, his hand suddenly went all cold. He looked at his hand and saw that it was covered in thick red blood. In confusion, he pulled Kerry's blanket back and froze.
"MUM! GRAHAM ! CALL AN AMBULANCE. NOW!"
They came running up and saw exactly what Smithy had seen. Kerry was lying there in her PJ's, but was lying in a pool of blood. Her own blood.
Graham looked at his daughter and exclaimed 'Oh my goodness! That's more than there was earlier!"
Smithy turned around in slow motion and started at him.
His face suddenly turned to anger and he started shouting with a raised voice at Kerry's dad.
"You saw blood earlier! You mean you're telling me that my girlfriend, your daughter was bleeding earlier and you didn't do anything about it?"
Graham looked as though he was about to cry
"I didn't know, I thought it was that girl thing you were talking about, that's why I asked you if they still have it while they were pregnant and, when you said yes, I thought that's what it was!"
Susan told Graham to go downstairs and phone an ambulance, and that's exactly what he did. He did that while Smithy and his mum stayed upstairs with Kerry.
The ambulance came ten minutes later and Kerry was rushed off to hospital. Smithy went in the ambulance with her and Susan and Graham followed in Smithy's car.
They all got to hospital and Kerry was rushed in to Intensive care. Smithy, Susan and Graham were told to wait outside while the doctors tried to save both Kerry and the baby.