my greatest fear; the dentist

Wisdom Teeth

Today is August 7th, a couple months after you last heard from me. I apologise for not keeping you all up to date on my life and how everyone is doing but things have been chaotic at the clinic and i've had to help out with the younger patients.

We've been at the clinic for just under an hour now and Luke and I are sat playing snakes and ladders, once again in the staffroom.

"Ha! I win." Luke shoots a sly smirk at me and I just roll my eyes. "You're such a cheat."

He chuckles. "No you're just a poor loser. Come on, pack it away. I've got a patient to tend to and I believe your brother wants to speak with you in his exam room."

I furrow my eyebrows. "What? why?"

Luke points to his jaw and I immediately know.

I start to panic and I can feel my heart starting to race. "No..not my wisdom teeth. Surely they aren't through yet!? How can he take them out, if they aren't-"

Luke chuckles softly and places both of his hands on my shoulders. "Hey, he just wants to check on them. That's all, my love. Relax, okay?"

I sigh with relief. "Phew.."

He lets go of my shoulders. "Now pack that away before you lose any of the pieces, then head to Dr Jackson's exam room." He winks.

I fake gag, as he knows I find it weird when people address Ollie that way.

Luke chuckles before walking out.

As soon as I've packed up, I grab my phone from the couch and make my way to Ollie's exam room. As I enter, I notice Brooke sat at the Computer and Ollie leant against the counter, on his phone.

He looks up and straight at me. "Ah, Ava." He grins at me before putting his phone down and patting the chair. "You know the drill."

I sigh as I sit in the chair. "Sadly, yes. I wish I didn't."

Ollie chuckles before grabbing a pair of gloves and a mask. "Hey! I take full offence to that."

I roll my eyes, trying to hide my smirk. "Good."

He sits down and lays me back. As soon as I am parallel to the floor, he applies his mask and gloves.

Brooke gets up from the computer and goes to the cupboard to find some new tools. She places them on the tray for Ollie and then takes a seat beside my legs, to hold my hand. "So what've you been up to all morning?"

"Snakes and ladders with Luke." I laugh a little.

She chuckles. "Again? Aren't you both getting sick of that game?"

I scoff. "He definitely isn't, due to the fact that he keeps winning."

Ollie turns on the overhead light and brings it closer to my face, adjusting it to my mouth. He accidentally shines it in my eyes and I quickly squint them shut. He notices me flinch and he quickly re-adjusts it. "Sorry princess." He reaches over to the counter for some sunglasses and gently applies them for me. "Better?" I gently nod and he grabs his tools before bringing them close to my mouth and tapping my chin. "Open, nice and wide."

I comply and let him get to work on checking my wisdom teeth.

Brooke watches as he gently inspects the back of my mouth.

"Hm..I can definitely see them starting to come through. However, they aren't ready to come out yet." I sigh with relief and Ollie notices and chuckles. "Yep, that means no surgery any time soon."

I mumble, as he takes his tools from out of my mouth. "Thank goodness."

Brooke chuckles. "It's not as bad as you think, we've both had ours out."

"Does it hurt?" I ask, slightly nervously.

Brooke looks at Ollie.

"Urm, well not really. The procedure certainly doesn't as we'll knock you out for the whole thing but you'll be in a bit of pain when you wake up."

I sigh gently as Ollie turns the overhead light off and allows me to sit up, before taking off his gloves & mask.

I stay sat in the chair and go on my phone. "Is Lei in today?"

Ollie thinks for a moment. "I don't believe she is, I think she's off sick today."

I furrow my eyebrows. "Sick? She's off sick? When is Leila ever off sick?"

He chuckles. "I know. I took her temperature this morning and it was over 38 degrees so I advised that it was best she took the day off so that she doesn't get her patients ill."

"Yeah..wait- you just wanted her to stay off so that you could take all her patients, didn't you?"

Ollie cracks a small grin. "Hey, it's our little secret. yeah?"

I laugh a little. "Fine but only if we can order pizza tonight."

He chuckles. "Deal."

Brooke laughs a little, before checking the clock. "We've got another patient arriving in the next five minutes."

"Right, go find someone to sit with or go back to the staffroom." Ollie checks the schedule. "Esme and Andrew are free right now, okay?"

I nod and smile gently. "I'll go sit with them, see you later."

Ollie smiles gently as he watches me leave the room.