The Divorce

20

"How are you feeling?"

The bright light suddenly vanished and my eye lids shut themselves from staring at the intense light for the last few hours. I tried to speak, but the cotton balls in my mouth made it hard, and I could feel the saliva overflowing from my mouth and down the side of my chin, all the way down my throat making me want to vomit.

I felt a tissue wipe it all off and the cotton balls vanish from my mouth and I leaned over into the sink and spat out all the liquid in my mouth.

"Hurts," I managed to get out as I sat up in the dentist's chair. I could see Gabriel and Fern's silhouettes from the corner of my eye, sitting there like frozen statues through the entire procedure, refusing to leave me in a random dentist's office in a foreign country.

I could barely remember their conversation, I was mostly unconscious for most of it, until that rude sharp light woke me up and all I felt was pain, and all I heard was voices.

"It'll take her a bit longer for the anaesthetic to wear off, so make sure you keep an eye on her at all times."

"Sure I will," I nodded, and then realised that the dentist wasn't talking to me.

I felt a set of hands around my shoulders, pulling me out of the chair and I looked at Fern, "Rude, I was sitting." 

"Yes, we need to get back it's quite late." 

"Get back where?"

"Home."

"Home? Who's home, where are we?" I asked, trying to see past the big man blocking my view, no other than Gabriel.

"My mouth really hurts," I told them as Fern opened the car door, ushering me inside, "What did they do to my mouth," I could barely feel my cheeks.

I buckled up looking at Gabriel sitting next to me, well not next to me but one seat down in the back, he had one of his poker faces on so I didn't know what he was thinking.

I leaned over, placing my index finger against his cheek, when he moved I nearly jumped in my seat.

"What are you going?"

"I was just checking you were human," I said straight and clearing my throat, "You looked frozen for once."

Well, he looked frozen quite often but I wasn't going to say that out loud, or the other ridiculous things that were running through my head. I tried relaxing my jaw, trying to get that odd sensation out but it wasn't working. My entire lower face hurt and it was hard to move my upper mouth.

"This is going to set us back," Gabriel said.

"Set what back?" I asked confused.

"It's ok, we can hide the bruises with makeup."

"What bruises?" I asked, did they mean my bruises? Why would I have bruises? I raised my hand to touch my cheeks, wincing when they stung like someone had punched me. 

"The dentist said your skin might bruise a little bit from the procedure."

"What did they do?" I asked, raising my hand to touch my feet when Gabriel's hand shot out and grabbed it, just as my finger was about to touch my lip.

"Best not to touch it, we don't want the tooth to fall out."

"Tooth, fall out?" I asked confused. Didn't the tooth already half fall out at the restaurant?

"They had to get rid of the whole tooth because it snapped and exposed the nerve," Fern said, his eyes meeting mine in the rear view mirror, "So we got you a new tooth!"