𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗖𝗛𝗔 𝗖𝗢𝗟𝗟𝗘𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡

𝗣𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗿

"I'm scared." Charli pouted as she dressed in a large hoodie and leggings.

"You saw Dixie and Chase go through it. You'll be okay."

Charli sighed, getting into the car. "I wish Chase was here."

Heidi turned around in her seat to place a comforting hand on her knee. "I know but he said he will come by the house later after he's done with his meetings today."

The drive felt way longer than normal. It was probably her nerves acting up.

They pulled into the clinic. Marc had his arm around her and rubbed her arm soothingly. Heidi went ahead first to give the receptionist Charli's name.

They take them back to the room. The surgeon was already back there getting set up. Charli sat on the reclining chair.

"Okay, Charli. Are you ready?" He asked.

"We'll be here the whole time and Dixie and Noah are coming here after it's done," Marc assured her.

Charli nodded and turned towards her mom. "Can you at least hold my hand until I go under?"

Heidi gripped her hand, "Of course."

Charli laid her head back down against the headrest. The nurse put the mask over her face so she could inhale the laughing gas. In a few seconds, she was out like a light.

Dixie and Noah arrived while she was still getting the procedure done. She woke up woozy and disoriented.

"Charli...Charli...can you hear us, Honey?" Heidi coaxed.

She rubbed her eyes with her sweater paws. She tried to turn her head to look at Heidi but it was like she had no control of her neck. Her head flopped to the other side causing Dixie to snicker.

The surgeon finished cleaning everything up. "You did so well Charli."

She scrunched her shoulders up and says in a high voice, "Thank you."

"Oh my god, that was so cute," Noah awed.

"Are you in pain anywhere?" Marc asked rubbing her arm.

Charli scrunched up her shoulders again, "I'm okay."

Her eyes fluttered, and she curled up into a ball on the chair.

Noah stuck out his bottom lip, "Why is Charli so cute when she gets her wisdom teeth out but you were such a demon?"

Dixie hit his shoulder, "I can't control how I act under the influence."

Charli was once again fast asleep.

"She looks like a chipmunk," Dixie observed, "I wasn't this swollen was I?" She titled her head to her mom. Charli's cheeks were pretty big and the head wrap that held two icepacks to her cheeks squished them further.

"No you weren't, you were just difficult to handle."

Noah chuckled and shut up after Dixie glared at him. A knock on the door interrupted their laughter.

Chase came in a hoodie and sweatpants. His hood laid back on his head.

A chorus of his name greeted him.

"I thought you weren't coming to later?" Heidi questioned.

"My last meeting got canceled so here I am." He walked up to a sleeping Charli, ghosting her swollen cheek with his thumb. "How is she?"

"Woke up a little bit ago. Very cute unlike Sailor Mouth over here." Noah pointed at his girlfriend with his thumb.

Chase chuckled. The nurse came back in with a bag of cotton balls, a saltwater solution, medication, and her four wisdom teeth all wrapped up.