After a session of wild dancing, the group of friends exited the dance floor and made their way back to the table to join Gabriel. They were busy in drunken conversation when the strange guy from the corner of the room came over and started talking to them before joining them at their table. He waiting patiently for the majority of them to finish their drinks then offered to buy them all another round. While he did, Andrea and Honey took a trip to the toilets along with Kerry and Yvonne. The girls asked the others to keep an eye on their drinks until returned but after they left, most of the group made their way back onto the floor for a dance, leaving Gabriel, Smithy, Dan and the strange man left at the table. Andrea and Honey returned from the toilets and danced their way onto the dance floor. Just a few minutes later, Kerry and Yvonne returned. While Yvonne skipped her way through the crowds to find the others on the dance floor, Kerry headed towards their table where she drunk her drink in one before persuading Smithy and Dan to follow her for a dance. Dan got up straight away and walked ahead but Smithy declined Kerry's offer. However, he didn't have a choice as Kerry took his pint from his hand, placed it on the table, took him by his warm hand and led him through the crowd of nosy drunk people.
Once on the dance floor, they joined their friends as they all drunkenly danced away together.
Suddenly, the worst thing ever happened!
A thing that made everyone...speechless and scared!
As they were dancing, jumping and bouncing along, to the loud dance music, Kerry felt this buzzing, dizzy feeling in her head. Smithy was dancing nearby and saw her shut her eyes tight as if in pain. He looked at his friend and asked if she was okay. Kerry mimed back that she was fine. They both carried on dancing but Kerry realised that something was wrong. Her eyes were stinging, her head was banging and she had a sharp dagger-like pain in her chest, as if someone was sticking in a knife and twisting it. Suddenly, the dizziness over came Kerry and she collapsed to her floor, lying on her back, her whole body shaking violently.
The music stopped and everyone froze, not knowing what to do, just staring at Kerry shaking madly on the floor.
Then all of a sudden, Smithy raced over to her and tried to stop the shaking. Seeing that he was having difficulty, Dan and Des ran over to help him. They pinned Kerry to the floor and managed to stop her shaking. The three of them looked at each other, waiting for one of them to do something. Dan looked at Smithy who had gone into total shock, just sitting there, holding Kerry's arm to the floor. Dan realised that he was the one who would have to save his best mates life. He started resuscitation on Kerry, while Des looked up at everyone at shouted:
"Are one of you fools going to call an ambulance, or are you waiting for Kerry to call one herself?"
Sheelagh ran off outside to call one, while the rest of the coppers told everyone to move back and give them room. Dan looked over at Smithy, who was still sitting there frozen, grabbed his arm and said:
"Smithy mate, snap out of it ! She'll be alright. She's Kerry Young!"
Smithy looked at him, and gave a little smile, just as the paramedics came rushing in. They found out that Kerry was still breathing, but her pulse was very fast ! One of the paramedics, with the name tag 'Ryan' looked up at the group crowding round and asked them worryingly:
"Has she taken anything?"
Neil looked at him and inquired:
"Like what exactly?"
Then, the paramedic replied:
"Drugs"
