The Heartbreak Factor - Part Four

Laid in bed with the sound of birds twittering away outside the bedroom window in the trees of the garden, I sighed to myself with a smile as I gradually opened my eyes to look up at the ceiling. I found myself tracing patterns in the alcove as I counted down from five to myself. 

Five. 

There were no other sounds to be heard in the whole entire house apart from the sound of the birds’ song. 

Four. 

In the distance you could hear the sound of little footsteps that gradually got louder and louder, the closer that they got. 

Three.

Whispering was now happening outside the door of mine and George’s bedroom. 

Two.

The whispering was silenced and the footsteps got closer until they were right beneath the bedroom door. 

One.

“Mummy!” 

“Mummy, can we go to the beach today?” 

“Mummy! Katy keeps saying that we’re annoying her.”

“Mummy! When will we be able to go out?” 

“Mummy! How come Katy is allowed out to her friend’s house for the day but we’re not allowed?”

“Mummy!”

“Mummy, are you ignoring us? Mummy?”

I sat up, propping my head up from the pillows and smiled at my son and daughter that were stood waiting patiently for a response from me from the bottom of the bed. Smiling at them, I patted the bed space beside me and within no time at all, both of them jumped onto the bed and snuggled right up to me - one either side. 

“Right, you two. A few more minutes in bed and then we can get up,” I smiled. “Deal?”

“Deal,” they both chorused in unison as they both burrowed their heads onto my pillow and closed their eyes for a little while longer.

“Look at you lot,” George grinned, carrying two cups of coffee into the bedroom in his dressing gown that the kids had all got him for the previous Christmas. “All as snug as bugs in rugs.”

“Shh, we’re having a few more minutes in bed,” I grinned, making the most of the silence. 

“Suits me,” George grinned as he clambered into bed beside us. 

*

The whirring sound of the ambulance’s siren sounded constantly outside the ambulance as I sat on the bed, cradling my baby bump in tears. I didn’t know what to think. Everything was going around my brain at the speed of light that everything just seemed to come out as a blur. I didn’t know what was going on. 

George was sat beside me, holding onto my hand tightly as the ambulance sped through all the traffic. A paramedic was in the back with us, monitoring my heart rate and checking my blood pressure - both which were sky high, which wasn’t really surprising. I felt so lost. All I could think about was my babies. 

*

Christmas carols were playing in the background as the school hall filled up with proud parents all waiting for their children’s Christmas play to begin. George and I snaked our way across the row that our tickets had been assigned to and Katy followed along behind us, tapping away at her phone as she texted her latest boyfriend, Craig.