"Don't talk for the moment; the ambulance is on its way. We'll get you to hospital and they will sort you out." She shivered. "Are you cold?" A bit." ... went into the bedroom and got the duvet which I laid over her. The lessons of the compulsory first aid course we all had to take reminding me that she shouldn't be moved. My cursory look around down stairs had me believe that this wasn't the result of a burglary gone wrong. I was convinced that this was Terry's doing. I knelt by her side and. ‘I brought some sandwiches in case we get hungry later,’ she said. ‘Christine said she will be here with Mom and Neil in half an hour.’ Neil was Karen and Christine’s stepfather and he had been married to their mother for over twenty years. Karen came over to take a seat on the couch opposite from him. ‘Has Dad wakened up?’ ‘No, he’s been sleeping since you went out,’ he said. ‘A nurse just left five minutes ago after checking on him.’ ‘I hope I didn’t catch you at a bad time,’ Karen said. When she walked in the door, I took her in my arms, kissed her and told her how scared I had been. She apologized and said her cell phone was dead and she had left the charger in Mike’s car. I asked her how her weekend was and she told me it had been absolutely wonderful, but she was too tired to tell me the details and would tomorrow. We went to bed and when Michelle saw the teddy on the bed she asked me about it. I asked her to smell it and maybe it’d give her a hint. She did so, looking a. “Matt, what are you planning???” I don’t answer but instead I open the strawberries and pop open the champagne “What was that pop?” you ask, still I say nothing but instead I pick up one of the strawberries and stroke it against your lips but as you open your lips and go to bite it I pull it away and kiss you“No biting until I tell you” I whisper in your ear and I put the strawberry back to your mouth, forcing your lips apart as you take it into your mouth “Now you can bite it” and with that.