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Clearly Jade was looking forward more to Tori’s wisdom tooth surgery, but the whole experience ended up better than she could have expected.
The day’s festivities began only moments after she’d helped Tori stumble from the dentist’s office to her car, parked right outside the building. As soon as she’d been put in the passenger’s seat, Tori lazily leaned back in the seat and hung her head, allowing Jade to buckle her in. She was still highly affected by the anesthesia, stuck in a weird, confusing limbo of being in a half awake and half asleep state. She could only lay there against the seat’s back, her head fuzzy, her mouth feeling completely numb, and wanting nothing more than to just relax and go back to sleep.
Once Jade had buckled her in and gotten into the driver’s seat, she leaned back and looked at her girlfriend in her groggy, post surgery state. She looked miserable, and Jade actually felt a bit bad for her.
“Tori? We’re going home now, okay?” she said, only getting a small noise from Tori in response. Jade started her car, beginning the drive back to Tori’s. It wasn’t a long ride, but to Tori, who moved from dozing to being confused and barely awake, it felt like it took forever.
About halfway home while they were stopped at a red light, she suddenly snapped into the most awake state she’d felt, despite still feeling groggy, and turned her head to Jade.
“Dade,” she muttered, sounding very close to tears, “huh hentist hook my teef.”
Jade turned her head to look quickly at Tori, surprised to see tears in her eyes. She thought she’d been dozing again and was a bit surprised to hear her attempt at talking.
“What did you say?”
“My hisdom teef!” Tori tried, as a single tear rolled down her cheeks. “Hey’re gone!”
“Ssh, Tori, don’t try to talk,” Jade said, but it was too late. Tori let out a sob, attempting to mourn the loss of her teeth without really being able to express what she was trying to say. Jade took one hand off the wheel and brought it to Tori’s shoulder, patting it gently.
“Hey, don’t cry,” she said. “Want to listen to some music?”
Without waiting for an answer, Jade reached for the radio, tuning it to their favorite station. A pop song was playing, and Jade turned the volume up a bit. Tori gradually stopped crying as she realized it was a song she liked, Jade’s distraction clearly working. Tori sniffled, moving her head to look out the window as she listened to the song. Jade turned her head to look at her again.
“There, feel better?” she asked.
Tori replied with just another little pitiful noise. The rest of the ride was fairly quiet and uneventful, and by the time they had gotten to Tori’s house, she had gotten a bit more clear headed. That wasn’t to say she was completely out of the anesthesia woods, but could think a tiny bit straighter (and didn’t need as much guidance to walk from Jade’s car to the front door, though Jade still did help her walk).
Trina was there to greet them at the door. “How is she?”
“She cried about her teeth being taken by the dentist on the way home,” Jade said, walking past Trina to walk Tori to the couch. “It was hilarious, but I got her to stop by putting some music on.”
She helped Tori get settled on the couch, propped up by some pillows. Trina came over to watch Jade get Tori settled.
“I think I’ve got it from here,” Trina said, looking at Jade once she was finished fussing with Tori. “Thanks for driving her.”
“Oh please, like I’d miss seeing her like this,” Jade said, plopping down on the couch next to Tori. Trina crossed her arms.
“Besides, as her girlfriend she asked me to stay,” Jade added. “Moral support, or something.”
Trina uncrossed her arms with a sigh. “Oh, fine, you can stay.”
She suddenly gasped, looking at Jade as if something had just hit her. “Actually, this is better, it means I can go out tonight after all!”
Before Jade could get a word in about that, Trina scampered away up the stairs, muttering about which boy she could call and ask out now that her night was free. Jade rolled her eyes, before turning her attention back to Tori.
“How are you feeling?” she asked softly. Tori slowly brought a hand up, flashing Jade a thumbs up. The little bit of energy she’d accumulated had worn off already, and she just wanted to sleep again. She leaned her head back against the couch, and in the blink of an eye, had drifted off.
When Tori woke up again, it was to the sounds of police sirens. A small part of her was concerned, but it took laboriously moving her groggy head up to the TV to see it was just an episode of Cops. Jade’s attention was fully focused on the TV, but Tori slowly realized that she was snuggled close to her, and the pair of them were sharing a blanket. With those comforting thoughts, Tori drifted off to sleep again.
The next time she woke up, it was to Jade’s voice, talking quietly on the phone.
“Yeah, I’m here with her. She’s been sleeping on and off all afternoon.”
Tori couldn’t make out who Jade was talking to, but just the sound of her voice was comforting enough. She quickly dozed off again, and the next time she awoke, it was getting dark out.
Jade was still snuggled up to her, and seemed to sense that Tori had awoken again.
“Hey, there you are,” Jade said. “We should change your mouth things now.”
“Howth hings,” Tori repeated. She realized that her mouth didn’t feel as numb as it did before, and without thinking much about it, she opened her mouth. The blood soaked cotton and a generous amount of saliva that had been in Tori’s mouth fell out into her lap, making her suddenly cry out at what had happened.
“Mouth blood,” she cried, her words now clearer that the cottony obstructions were out, turning to Jade, who had a completely opposite reaction.
“Whoa, cool,” she said. “I didn’t think there’d be that much.”
“Jade,” Tori groaned. “Just help me get new ones.”
“Oh, fine,” Jade said, throwing the blanket from over herself. She sat up and reached for the coffee table to the bag the dentist had given her for Tori, picking out the plastic bag full of cotton.
“Here,” she said, handing Tori the cotton. “Put that where the other ones were.”
Tori carefully opened her mouth and replaced the cotton, making a face once it was settled in her mouth.
“I cah’t halk hoperly ahain," she said, leaning back in her spot on the couch. Jade tossed the bag of supplies back onto the table and settled back in next to Tori.
“Don’t worry, it’ll be over soon,” she said, crossing her arms and turning to Tori.
“Hi hess,” Tori said, with a sigh. “Hanks hor being here hith me.”
“Like I told your sister, I wouldn’t miss seeing you like this for anything,” Jade replied, shooting Tori a smile.