The Priors.... Epoisode Twelve

Episode Twelve

13th February 

It was the day before Neal was due home and Sarah was busy giving the house a spring clean!

Then a trip to  the supermarket to buy the ingredients for Neal's favourite meal

Sarah arrives home tired but happy. After putting the shopping away she goes upstairs for a nice relaxing bath and an early night as she needs to be up very early in the morning to collect Neal from the airport. It's only been ten days but she has really missed him.

 At the same time she feels a little apprehensive she knows Kandy's right she will have to tell Neal that she can never go through being pregnant again! That they will never have children of there own? All she can do is hope that Neal will give her the chance to explain it all....but then does she understand it all herself??

Sarah frowns as she climbs into bed 'Boy! What a mess!!!!!' she thinks as she turns out the light 

Kandy had asked if Sarah wanted her to stay that last night but Sarah said it was time for Kandy to go home and see Chris, who was now back from HIS trip delivering a boat to Spain (he's a boat builder) Chris was all Kandy could talk about yesterday and Sarah knew she had been missing him as much as Sarah was missing Neal.

It was only 6:30pm but Sarah was soon asleep! All that house work and shopping had exhausted her. Kandy had laughed at her and said she was nesting!!!!

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 Sarah wakes with a sharp pain in her stomach. At first she thinks it's a mix of stress and excitement because Neal's coming home.She wonders if it could be food poisoning and thinks back over what she had eaten that day?......Nothing that could give her food poisoning she decides!

 But the pains just get worse and she starts to panic. She decides the best thing to do is for her to phone Kandy.... the pain is just unbelievable!

  'God, giving birth can't hurt THIS much!!!!!' Sarah thinks to herself through waves of pain

At Kandy and Chris's place they are both asleep when the phone rings, Chris answers the phone and Sarah asks for Kandy in a sort of high pitched voice.


Chris hands the phone to Kandy and palls a face mouthing to her "It's Sarah? she sounds strange?....I think we've been here before? I hope Neal's not been up to no good ....again!"

 Kandy give him 'the look' takes the phone and a minute later jumps out of bed and starts pulling on clothes telling Chris to get dressed FAST.

As soon as they are dressed and Kandy has located her purse 

Kandy arrive twenty minutes later with Chris in tow. Sarah had given Kandy her own key so she lets herself in....

 "Sarah, where are you? Are you OK?" Kandy calls out as she takes the stairs two at a time

 She finds Sarah curled up on her bed

 " You look awful" Kandy's says rushing to the bed and putting her hand on Sarah's sweating forehead

 "Thanks!" Sarah groans

Chris standing in the doorway looks across at Sarah on the bed

"I think you should go to hospital? I'm going to call an amberlance" he tells her matter of factly.

Kandy expected Sarah to protest but instead she just groaned and clutched her stomach

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 The amberlance was there within five minutes. Chris had gone down to wait by the front door and when they come rushing in he directs then up stairs calling out to Kandy that the ambulance has arrived

 Kandy who was sitting on the side of Sarah's bed holding her hand gets up and walks to the bedroom door. The paramedic's enter the room and go over to Sarah lying on her bed.

 They ask a few questions and just as they say they will need to take her in....... the most embarrassing thing ever happens..... Sarah feels the sheets go wet

 " Oh, my god!!!!! I think I've just WET myself!!!!" Sarah screams and bursts into tears

 The paramedics exchange glances

"Is there any chance you might be pregnant?" one of them asks

"No! Well I can't see how I can be?" Sobs Sarah

"Would you mind if I exam you?" the paramedic asks with kindness in her voice.

Chris and Kandy leave the room so the paramedic can feel around Sarah's lower abdomen " Madam your in labour?" she tells an astonished Sarah.

 The paramedic gestures at her partner and they talk briefly the second paramedic turns to Sarah "we need to get you to hospital NOW!"

All Sarah can do is nod, she was in shock and paralysed with fear!

 Kandy stands in the doorway with Chris, neither of them knowing what to do? With Chris not knowing where to look! He takes Kandy's hand and gives it a squeeze Kandy had told him what Sarah had said and he knew how frightened BOTH girls were...... this was going to be a looooooong night!

The Priors...... Episode Eleven

The Priors Episode Eleven

 When Sarah had stopped crying Kandy hugs her and asks if it to do with the death of their mother?

 "Well in part, yes! You know when mummy died after having you we all loved you so much but it was hard daddy was so sad and Rumi and I missed mummy so much although I was too young to understand much. Well, I suppose I never got over it? I just never wanted children I was so afraid I would die too! I don't know why but Neal and I just never talked about having a family? I thought Neal was not the type to want children and HE thought I was!"

 "Then when I found myself pregnant I was horrified but Neal was over the moon! I just did not know how to tell him how frightened I was? Then a couple of weeks later I lost the baby.... I was sad but oh, sooooo relieved!"

 Sarah sobs even harder her body racked with guilt

 " I know I'm a really horrid person! *sob*....I never wished the baby gone but I just..... don't think I could ever cope with giving birth!

 I knew by then how much Neal wanted a child so after the doctor gave me the all clear I just ran,and that's how I ended up at your place!"*SOB*

 Kandy reaches out and hugs Sarah.

 "Oh, my god! Sarah, Neal loves you! I'm sure if you told him he would understand!" Kandy tells her.

"I hope so because I'm telling you, I just don't think I can go through that again!" Sarah looks at her sister.

  With that both girls full silent neither knowing what to say!

The Priors.... Episode TEN

Sarah starts to tell Kandy all about her first meeting with Neal 

"We were both dating other people at the time, I was seeing a guy called Peter and Neal was dating a friend of mine, Faith"

 "Faith and I decided it would be fun to double date and we went to SNARGO'S"

 "WOW! was Peter loaded too?" interrupts Kandy knowing Snargo's is very expensive.

" Well, lets just say he was doing OK! Anyway we went out to dinner together and I thought Neal was a bit of a.......well, bighead be truthful!"

Both girls start to laugh at this piece of information

"Go on" Kandy says wiping her eyes 

"So as the evening wore on I noticed that Peter was paying Faith a lot more attention than he was me, which meant I was left talking to Neal. 

As we talked I realized that he was not so bad after all and in fact we got on quite well."

  After the meal we had coffee's but I could tell Peter and Faith only had eyes for each other

Sarah pauses for breath

 " The next day Faith and I meet up for lunch. I could tell she had something on her mind she just could not look at me!"

 "In the end I got it out of her, she really fancied Peter and it would seem he felt the 

same! The had secretly exchanged phone numbers and had chatted away most of the 

night. Apparently Peter was going to talk to me that evening and well.......dump me I guess!"

 "Oh, that's horrible! What a cow! But how did you end up with Neal?" Kandy is shocked.

 "Well, it was only ever very casual with Peter so I told Faith to go for it and gave her my blessing. Six months later they got married!"

 " Both Neal and I were invited to the wedding and we both came on our own. I think Faith planed it that way and she sat us together at the reception! After the meal Neal asked me to dance, he made me feel so special.... like I was the only girl in the room"

 "After that he asked for my phone number and we started seeing each other"

 "Then Neal had a big job in Miami and he was going to be away for 4 months, he asked me to go with him so I left my job and we went to Miami"

 "We'd been there about a month when we were talking, I think we might have been a little tipsy"

 They both start to giggle "He asked me to marry him, I said yes and two weeks later we got married on the beach in Miami"

 

"So that was it! I was Mrs Hage!"

 "WOW! what a wonderful story! One to tell the children!!!" Kandy smiles at Sarah expecting her to laugh but instead she suddenly bursts into tears.

"What's wrong?? Why are you crying? What did I say?"

Then like a light bulb going on she realizes what it is she might just have said!

Sarah and Neal's Wedding Album

Faith and Peter's Wedding Album