*next year*
"Happy New Year!" We all shout in unison. We are having a party on our farm for New Years and a heap of people are here. There's a play pen close to the house where all the kids are and I gave Michael permission to keep them all in line. Us adults are in the shed with the music pumping loudly making everything shake. Hamish and his friends Adrian and Sam are playing pool and myself and my good friends Emma, Kate, Rikki, Sharon and Carly are playing beer pong but with cruisers because beer is too manly. There are a few other people but they are just sitting around taking and drinking.
"Mum! Mum! Rachel's hurt!" Holly shouts as she runs into the shed. I don't hesitate but to run out to the play pen to see what happened. I see Rachel laying on the ground with a cut on her head. "What happened?" I asked worriedly to all of the kids who just stood there looking at her. "She was pushed and hit her head on the table." Michael explains. I don't know if the hospital will still be open at this time of a night but I pick her up and run over to the car placing her carefully in her car seat. "Holly can you go tell dad what happened and that me and Michael are taking Rach to the hospital?" I ask her. She nods then runs towards the shed while Michael and I jump in the car and put our seat belts on.
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The waiting room is locked so I immediately pick up the phone to call the nurses station. "Hi, can you please let us in? My 2 year old daughter hit her head on the corner of a table and is unconscious." I explain in one breath. "We will unlock the door right away ma'am stay calm." The woman on the other side of the line says before hanging up. About 10 seconds later the sliding doors open and I see a nurse stood there smiling. I walk in carrying Rachel in my arms. The woman directs me to a different room and tells me to place her on a hospital stretcher bed so she can check out the wound. "So how exactly did this happen?" She asked. "She was pushed at our New Years party and bumped her head on the corner of a table." I explain. She nods just cleaning the cut with special cleansing wipes. "We have to stitch this back up before waking her up." She says as another nurse walks into the room with a clipboard.
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After the other nurse got all the details she needed Rachel's wound was stitched up then she was woken up by the nurse. "Mummy?" She said as she looked around the room. "Yes Rachy you bumped your head so we had to come to the doctors to fix it up." I explain. As she was taking the words in she still looked around then yawned. "Is she allowed to leave now?" I ask the nurses. "Yes I suggest you put her to bed when you get home." The blonde one says. "Okay thank you so much." I say lifting Rachel up.
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"Night Rach." Hamish, Holly, Michael and I say one by one before leaving her to sleep peacefully in her bed.
"I'm heading to bed." Hamish says before walking slowly up the stairs. "Okay. You two better get to bed too. It's very early in the morning." I say to Holly and Michael. They nod and follow Hamish upstairs to their bedrooms while I wander to the bathroom to brush my teeth.
Before hopping into bed I go in to check on Rachel. She is lay in her bed asleep with her thumb in her mouth. She looks so peaceful. I kiss her on the forehead and whisper goodnight before joining Hamish in bed.
