Oh Great, Now I Can See Dead People by Deborah Durbin

Author:Deborah Durbin
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi, epub
ISBN: 1780999798
Publisher: Psychick Publishing
Published: 2012-09-28T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO

While Ange is on planet happy land today, I am walking around like a zombie. Not only did no one tell me quite how exhausting the life of a psychic could be, but also no one told me quite how exhausting organising a wedding could be either.

The idea of me and Jack just buggering off to Las Vegas and being married by Elvis Presley is very appealing right now, but it would upset my mum too much.

‘And then there’s Colin’s family. Mum wants them to come. Then do I invite all of Dad’s side of the family just because they’re related to me, despite the fact that we haven’t seen them since my dad’s funeral?’ I ask Annette as we prepare for the lunchtime radio show.

Poor Annette looks like a woman at breaking point. Poor love is in no way what you would call glowing in any way, shape or form. Her ankles have swollen, she’s permanently hot and has to stand, leaning on the desk, to do the show because the baby keeps lying on her sciatic nerve. And here I am worrying about place settings and table flowers.

‘And what about Jack’s family?’ Annette asks as she winces in pain.

‘He doesn’t have any – well, apart from his uncle and auntie; you know, the ones who own the fancy dress shop in Bristol. But he isn’t even actually related to them. He was put into care shortly after he was born and has no idea who his mum or dad are.’

‘Ouch!’ Annette looks very pale as she holds her hand to her stomach.

‘Annette, are you OK?’ Stupid question really.

The Sixth Sense theme tune is playing, which is the lead up to my programme, meaning that I am on in about thirty seconds, but I’m more concerned about Annette who is looking whiter by the second.

‘Annette?’

Annette clutches her stomach and falls to the floor.

‘Oh no! Jeff!’ I shout through the mic to the booth next door.

Jeff looks up from his desk of switches that resembles the Starship Enterprise, but is in fact the sound system for Town FM.

‘Oh shit!’ he says, as he throws his headphones and latest travel report to the floor and rushes into our room.

‘Annette? Are you OK?’

‘Get her to the hospital, Sam, or she will lose the baby,’ I hear Ange say.

I’ve never seen Jeff, who is very much a middle-aged man – pepper-grey hair, shirt, tie and dad-sweater – look so panic-stricken. Usually the only contact I have with Jeff is when he reads the news and travel report after me. He’s just your typical dad-type figure. Never married, Jeff has always kept himself to himself – or so I thought. Obviously got that wrong.

‘Sam, do something!’ Jeff begs as he sits by Annette’s side, holding her hand tightly as Annette doubles up in pain.

I quickly punch 999 into my mobile and request an ambulance, while simultaneously flicking some switches on Annette’s desk and waving to Liam, the sound tech, to do something with the show.

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