Finally arriving home, Tina walked into her apartment where the child minder was playing with Angelica.

“Tina I thought you were going to work”

Picking Angelica up and giving her a huge hug she replied “I was not feeling great so I decided not to go in today, besides I get to spend some more time with this little angel”

“Ok in that case I’ll see you tomorrow”.

Tina put Angelica down in the play pen so that she could get changed into something a little more comfortable, than the suit that she was wearing. Walking into her bedroom she took off her suit and put on a pair of jeans and a t-shirt. Just as she was walking back into the living room she herd Angelica screaming, rushing to the play pen she picked her up and swaying side to side she to tried to calm Angelica down.

In a gentle tone she said “it’s ok baby mummy T is here” repeating this over and over again. Nothing seemed to be working; Tina looked in the play pen to see if anything was in there that may have harmed her baby, not seeing anything out of the ordinary she was even more confused.

Tina placed Angelica on the floor very gently; she started to remove her clothing to see if anything was noticeable. Finding nothing again she started to get very worried, it was not like Angelica to cry for no reason, she was normally a very happy child.

While Angelica was on the floor Tina noticed that her hands were on either side of her head, taking a closer look Tina saw for the first time a bruise that was developing into a lump.

Picking up her phone she rang the doctor and made an emergency appointment.

Driving to the doctors Tina thought back to this morning when she kissed Angelica goodbye she knew it was not there then she must have hit her head with the child minder or in the play pen.

Finally arriving at the doctors, she got Angelica out of her car seat and walked to reception, by this time Angelica was quiet which for some reason made Tina even more worried.

“May I help you” the receptionist asked

“Yes I have an emergency appointment with the doctor”

“Name please”

“Tina Kennard with Angelica Kennard-Porter”

“Oh yes Doctor Pearse will see you straight away”

“Thank You”

Tina knocked on the door and then entered into the office.

“Miss Kennard what seems to be the problem with Angelica?”

“Well you might think that I am being overly cautious, but when I got home this morning Angelica starting screaming, I checked her over didn’t find anything initially but then I noticed that she had her hands on either side of her head, I took a closer look and that’s when I found the bruise and saw that she also was developing a lump”

The doctor walked over to where Tina was sitting with Angelica and took a closer look at her head.

“Oh Yes I see what you mean, it looks quite nasty but no skin has been broken. I would like to run a few tests just to see how reactive Angelica is with head injuries you can never be to careful”

Taking a small light from her top pocket the doctor shined the light in Angelica’s right eye a few times and then repeated the process again in her left eye. Standing up again Tina saw that the doctor had a worried expression on her face.

“What is it, What’s Wrong” Tina said in a slightly loud voice.

“Well I’m not to happy with the amount of time it took for her pupils to react to the light, I am going to phone the paediatric unit at the hospital and let them know that you will be coming, they will be able to run further tests to let you know exactly what is wrong with Angelica”

“OH MY GOD” Tina replied and then bust into tears.