she had vomited again in the car , and her mother , who was beside her in the back seat , had mopped her up , and all the way there parminder and vikram had kept up a flow of loud talk ; her father kept repeating himself , saying things like 'she 'll need a sedative ' and 'that cut will definitely need stitches ' ; and parminder , who was in the back seat with the shaking and retching sukhvinder , kept saying , 'you might have died .