PAD Challenge Afflicted

The Tooth Fairy

“Oooooooooooh,” groaned Sprinkle. “My tooth hurts!”

“Let me see,” said Mama fairy.

“No, it hurts too much!”

“You’re going to have to go to the dentist.”

“Will it hurt? I don’t want to go.”

“It might hurt a little at first,

but then the pain will go away.”

Mama and Sprinkle fluttered over to the dentist.

They had to wait in a room with lots of chairs.

Sprinkle and Mama looked at magazines.

Soon a lady fairy called, “Sprinkle!”

Mama and Sprinkle left the magazines

on the low table.

The lady led them to a small room.

Sprinkle and Mama waited some more.

Sprinkle wished she would have brought

in the magazine from the big room.

Then another lady fairy came in.

“Hop up in this chair,” said the lady.

Sprinkle sat in the big chair.

She was careful not to wrinkle her wings.

The lady said, “You’ve brushed your teeth

and flossed, I see.

So this won’t take so long.”

The lady used a tool to scrape Sprinkle’s teeth clean.

She used another tool to suck up the spit.

It made a funny gurgling noise.

Sprinkle wiggled and squirmed.

“Hold still,” Mama said.

Finally the lady was done.

“Now, the dentist will see you.”

The dentist came in

and told Sprinkle to say ahhh.

“Ahhh,” said Sprinkle.

“I see the problem,” he said.

He took out a needle.

“It will pinch a little,

but it will keep you from hurting a lot.”

Sprinkle was brave and opened her mouth wide.

It pinched. “Owww!” Sprinkle said.

Then the dentist used another tool

and pulled out the tiny tooth.

She didn’t feel that at all.

He wrapped the tooth in gauze

and gave it to Sprinkle.

“Put this under your pillow

and the tooth fairy

will give you a nice surprise.”

“Really?” Sprinkle said.

“Yes, really.”

“I will give you something, too,” said the dentist.

He brought out a box of toys and said, “Pick one.”

Sprinkle chose a brightly colored yoyo.

She and Mama told the dentist goodbye.

That night Sprinkle put her tooth

under her pillow made of moss.

Later that night she heard a noise.

She peeked out from under her fern blanket.

The tooth fairy flew in her window

wearing a sparkly blue gown

and a golden crown.

When she came toward Sprinkle,

Sprinkle gasped in surprise.

“Mama! You’re the tooth fairy?”

“Shhh! Don’t tell anyone,”

Mama said with a wink.

Sprinkle smiled

and went back to sleep.

In the morning she found

a shiny, silver bracelet under her pillow.