Disclaimer: The Chronicles of Narnia and its characters do not belong to me, however they do belong to the genius that was C.S. Lewis
Chapter 1: The Dentist's Office
It was a sunny June day and Jill Pole was happily walking home from school. She was usually not that happy when she came home from school, but it was the second to last day of school and the next day the summer holidays would have come. That meant the Jill could finally get out of her school, otherwise known as the Experiment House.
The Experiment House had improved a little. A temporary head master had been assigned to the school and he had been keeping a close eye on the bullies. But after one more year Jill would be entirely free from the Experiment House and off to High School.
Jill took her time as she leisurely walked down the sidewalk. Only one more day before she was free to do whatever she wanted for three months.
"Hello Mum, Lily." Jill said getting into her house and putting her book bag onto the counter. Jill lived in a small two-story house with her mother and her seven-year-old sister Lillian.
"Jill, you are finally here." Mrs. Pole said as Jill walked into the kitchen. "Did you forget that you had to take Lily to the dentist after school? I told you to hurry up." She scolded her fourteen-year-old daughter.
"Sorry Mum, I forgot." Jill said.
"You forgot, it's always 'I forgot' with you Jill, when are you going to become more serious about things? I cannot run this household by myself!" Mrs. Pole yelled angrily. She had a good reason to be cranky. She had woken up at five in the morning to go to work, finished work at noon and cleaned the house, rushed to pick up Lily from school at two o'clock and had just started making dinner.
"Alright, I'll take Lily right now. Dentists always make you wait in the waiting room forever anyway." Jill said. She was a bit annoyed that she did not have any time to change out of her uniform. She hated the experiment house uniform, a black and white plaid skirt, black shoes, white knee high socks, and a white button up shirt. The Experiment House allowed absolutely nothing to be worn in the girls' hair and absolutely no sorts of earrings, necklaces, or any other kinds of jewelry. For a school that was supposed to be modern the Experiment House was pretty strict.
"Lily!" Jill called through the house for her little sister.
Lily came out ready to go with a light blue jacket over her pink overalls, and her shoes laced up.
"Are we going now?" Lily asked, she had been waiting for fifteen minutes after her mother had gotten her ready.
"Yes we are." Jill said putting her jacket back on and taking Lily's hand as they walked out of the house.
"What's wrong with you?" Jill asked her sister. Usually whenever she took Lily anywhere she would have to jog to keep up as her sister exuberantly skipped and hummed all the way there.
"How come Mum's always mad at us?" Lily asked. "It is not our fault daddy left." Lily said.
"She's just stressed Lily." Jill said. "Everything's going to be okay." She assured her.
"If you say so." Lily said. She started skipping and Jill could tell she felt a little better.
"I hope the dentist doesn't pull out any of my teeth." Lily said as she skipped.
"He will if you've been eating too many sweets." Jill told her sister seriously.
"I haven't, and I've been brushing my teeth every morning and every night and drinking lots of milk. See" Lily said bearing her teeth to her sister.
"Oh, I think I see some cavities in there Lily." Jill teased her sister.
"No you don't." Lily said giggling.
The bells over the door tinkled as Jill and Lily walked into the building.
"Hi, we're here for an appointment." Jill said to the receptionist. "For my sister, Lillian Pole." Jill said gesturing to Lily who was standing right next to her.
The young women looked down at Lily and the looked the two girls over. "I'm sorry, but we need a parent to sign these forms." She told Jill showing her a packet of papers.
"Well we live with our mother, and our parents are divorced, so, I'm kind of like Lily's second parent." Jill said.
The women's face softened. "Alright, then, I am sure we can make one little acceptation for you two." She said handing Jill the papers. Jill quickly filled out the papers and gave them back to the receptionist.
"You can wait in there." The women told the girls pointing towards the door that led into the waiting room.
Jill nodded, took Lily's hand and walked into the waiting room. There were only two other people in the waiting room, a middle aged man, and an old women. Jill and Lily sat in the corner and Jill gave Lily a coloring book and a box of crowns, which she had managed to get from the house before she left.
Jill sat in the waiting room practically bored to death. The old women who had been in the waiting room had already had her teeth checked and left, though if you had asked Jill she would have said it had been a waste of the old women's time and money since she had hardly had any teeth left in her mouth. Now the girls were all alone in the waiting room and they were waiting for the dentist to finish on the man's teeth so Lily could have her check up and they could leave.
Jill checked her watch, five o'clock, she would hardly have time to go finish her homework when she got home. The teachers at the Experiment House were merciless they even gave homework on the second to last day of school
Just then Jill saw two girls walk by the store through the window who were wearing the same uniform as her. She realized with dread that it was Adela Pennyfather and Edith Jackle. Adela was one of the worst bullies from the Experiment House and Edith was the girl who pathetically followed her.
To Jill's horror Edith noticed Jill sitting in the Dentist's window and pointed her out to Adela. The two girls smiled sinisterly to each other and walked into the building, 'Great.' Jill thought. 'As if I don't get enough of those two at school.'
Jill heard the tinkling of bells form the door in the front of the building and soon enough Edith and Adela came into the waiting room.
"Oh look Jackle, I think it's Pole, our dear friend from school." Adela Pennyfather said.
"I think you're right Pennyfather." Edith said standing behind Adela. She had always been one of the two faced kids who followed the Experiment House bullies and sucked up to them to avoid being picked on herself.
"So Pole," Adela started, Edith standing behind her looking as eager as a little chipmunk. "What are you doing here, you know a dentist can't possibly fix those horribly crooked teeth of yours."
If there was one thing Jill had learned in her recent adventure to Narnia was that people like Adela Pennyfather and Edith Jackle could not hurt her, and she would certainly not give them the pleasure of seeing her cry.
"It's none of your business what I'm doing here." Jill told them.
"Wow Jackle, I think Pole here has developed a little attitude." Adela said to Edith.
"Too much of hanging around with that Eustace Scrubb if you were to ask me." Edith said.
"Well no one asked you." Jill retorted. Lily had stopped coloring and was watching and listening to her sister's exchange with the mean faced girls.
"Well I'll tell you what she is doing here." Adela said. "Taking her little sister to the dentist."
"Brilliant deduction Sherlock." Jill said sarcastically.
"Look its Baby Pole." Edith said turning to Lily realizing that there were getting nowhere with Jill.
"Forget what I said about your teeth, what is going on with those rabbit teeth you have Baby Pole?" Adela said to Lily, her and Edith laughing.
Lily covered her mouth with her hand. Lily had always been sensitive about her buck teeth, the kids at school constantly called her 'Bunny Girl'.
"I bet the dentist is probably going to have to pull one of those rabbit teeth out." Edith said.
"One of them? How about both them?" Adela said her and Edith still laughing hysterically.
The tears started to pour out of Lily's eyes.
"Oh look Edith, I think we made Baby Pole cry." Adela taunted.
Jill turned red. Picking on her seven-year-old sister? That was just low. Before Jill could tell the two girls off the receptionist came into the waiting room looking terribly put off.
"I suggest if you two are not here for an appointment you leave." She said to Edith and Adela.
Edith and Adela left giving the receptionist a begrudging look and glaring back at Jill.
The receptionist asked Lily if she was alright and gave her tissues to dry her face and a lollipop to make her feel better before she had to go back to her desk outside the room and continue doing her job.
A few minutes later Lily was still crying at the catty girl's words, her lollipop untouched.
"It's alright Lily, you shouldn't care what those two girls say. They're stupid." Jill comforted her sister. Lily's tears finally stopped and she sobbed quietly whiles Jill wiped the tears from her face with the tissues the receptionist had given Lily.
Jill heard the tinkling from the bells on the building's front door again and hoped that it wasn't the two girls back to bully them.
Some minutes later the door to the waiting room opened and a women and a young boy walked in. The women looked very modern and up with the current fads, than Jill noticed the boy with her was…
"Now Eustace, I've done all the paperwork, all you have to do is go in their and tell the dentist what's wrong whiles I shop, alright?" the boy said rapidly.
Eustace mumbled in agreement before his mother left.
Eustace saw Jill and Lily sitting in the corner and walked towards them.
Jill's smiled at Eustace when he sat down next to her.
There was no doubting that Jill's feelings towards Eustace had changed after their adventure. Before she could hardly stand Eustace and thought he was a horrible little follower of all the bullies at the Experiment House, but somewhere along Eustace had changed and become noble, just, and brave and after getting to know Eustace Jill's feelings towards him were now friendly, maybe even enamored. Not that Jill and Eustace had spent much time together after they had become friends, just the occasional greetings in the hall and conversations during the classes they were in together.
"Hello Scrubb, I didn't know you would be here today." Jill said.
"Neither did I." Eustace said. "I-Hullo-what's wrong with your sister?" he asked hearing a miserable sob coming from Lily.
"Pennyfather and Jackle were just here." Jill said, those names were explanation enough for why anyone would be crying.
"Oh, I see." Eustace said. 'What's her name?' he mouthed to Jill so Lily would not here.
'Lily'. Jill whispered.
"Hey Lily, what's wrong?" Eustace asked.
"Those two mean girls said I have rabbit teeth." Lily said.
"Well I had buck teeth when I was your age." Eustace told her in a matter-of-fact voice.
"You are just saying that to make me feel better your teeth are normal sized." Lily said.
"No really, I did." Eustace insisted. "But they went away, lots of little kids have buck teeth."
"Really?" Lily asked.
"Really." Eustace assured her.
"…I don't want them to pull my teeth out." Lily said.
"They won't, believe me." Eustace said.
Lily looked at him and decided to trust him. "Okay." She said smiling.
Jill smiled she had never known Eustace could be so kind.
"So why are you here?" Jill asked him.
"Well Pole, what I was saying was that I didn't know I'd be here." Eustace said. "I just realized today I had a cavity and my mum made a last minute appointment.
"You must have eaten too many sweets." Lily said.
Jill smiled. "That's right, Scrubb here isn't as smart as you about keeping his teeth clean." She said teased Eustace.
Just then the dentist came out from his office. "Lillian Pole?" he asked questioningly.
"That's me." Lily said standing up. "Jill, can you come with me?" Lily asked.
"Sure Lily, I'll be there in a second." Jill said.
Lily walked into the office.
"Thanks for being so nice to my sister." Jill said to Eustace.
"No problem." Eustace said with a shrug. "I never had any younger siblings myself, always wished I had though." He said modestly.
Jill smiled at him one more time before she went into the dentist's office. It was looking to be a very interesting summer.
And that's the first chapter. I hope everybody who reads this likes it. Please read and review.
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