The door ringed.
Sabrina went running for it, her yellow summer dress pressed against her fur while she dashed downstairs. She looked through the door's peephole, seeing her friends white teeth blending with her white fur. The wolverine unlocked the door, letting some snow in with the arctic fox, she dressed a blue blouse and red skirt. They hugged each other and giggled, while Sabrina closed the door.
"Did you bring it?" Whispered Sabrina.
Ellen nodded and smiled, opening her purse. "Everything is here, let's go to the bathroom!" She exclaimed.
"Shush!" Said Sabrina, putting one paw pad over Ellen's mouth. "Mom is in the kitchen!" Whispered again the wolverine.
The fox giggled and nodded. Sabrina took her by the hand and brought her upstairs, locking themselves inside the bathroom. Ellen laid her purse over the bathroom sink and started to unload it: a small steel file, a wire cutter, a flask of alcohol, some cotton and a fashion magazine.
The girls opened the magazine and browsed it until they found a picture of Gazelle, it was an article about her last show. She posed for the photo in a powerful stance, a wide and delicate smile on her face.
"They are soooo straight… you think we can do it?" Asked Sabrina, biting her lip.
"Sure we can Sabe, you saw how Elisa fixed her teeth. She said she did by herself, so we totally can do it." Reassured Ellen. "And when we are done with you, you do me, ok?"
"Okey!" Exclaimed Sabrina, seating on the closed privy.
Ellen picked the steel file and took a deep breath. "Oh!" She exclaimed. "Let's make a before-after!" Picking her cellphone.
The wolverine straightened herself up and got close to her friend, smiling. The arctic fox lifted the file between then and, smiling,took the picture.
"Ok, let's start!" Ellen held Sabrina's jaw open and delicately moved the file over one of her upper fangs. White powder started to stain the file mixed with saliva. Sabrina looked up to the ceiling, moving her eyes time to her friends face, time to her moving hands. "Oh… it's just like filling our nails!" Exclaimed Ellen.
"-ee -ereful." Said Sabrina moving her mouth the least she could.
"Shush Sabe." Replied Ellen.
The file kept moving back and forth, picking up speed. Soon enough the white mush started to get lines of yellow. Sabrina's expression changed from one of tedium for one of pain, tears forming at the edge of her eyes.
"S-OP!" Shouted Sabrina.
Ellen pulled the file away from Sabrina's mouth. "You ok Sabe?"
"Is it almost done? It's hurting a lot, El." Complained the wolverine.
"I barely took the tip Sabe…" She pulled Sabrina to the front of the mirror. Her long fang seemed shorter - by a bit. The tip was gone, but it was still a long way from being the same level as her other teeth. "I think it will hurt a bit more before we get it to the level of the others."
"Ok…" Sabrina smiled, but with little confidence. She sat again over the privy and sighed, opening her mouth wide and exposing her large canines.
Ellen approached the file again and resumed to work. The back and forth start, grinding the tooth to powder. The white mixed with more yellow and Sabrina sank her claws over the privy lid. A few more back and forth and stains of red started to show, first as lines then as as small stream. Tears rolled down the wolverine eyes, her arms tense, her claws piercing the plastic lid she sat over.
"Oh crap!" Exclaimed Ellen. She picked a ball of cotton and embedded it in alcohol. "Sabe, this will hurt a bit." She pressed the piece of white cotton against the now small fang. Sabrina's expression changed from doubt to agony, as the alcohol got in contact with her exposed pulp. The cotton ball quickly soaked the blood, becoming red and was discarded in the trash. Ellen quickly put two more cotton balls inside her friend's mouth, as to eliminate part of the accumulating blood. "Well… that's... one. Let's start the second one?" Asked the fox with doubt.
Sabrina nodded in agreement, but her confidence was shaken. She stood up and went for the bathroom sink, washing her mouth. She could see now in the mirror that her once large fang was reduced to a small rectangular piece, even smaller than her front teeth. She smiled with satisfaction and sat again over the privy lid. "Ok, let's go again!" Said Sabrina, opening her mouth.
"Ok, I'll do the front ones now." With little confidence Ellen started to file Sabrina's front teeth. The file quickly changed from gray to white, then from white to yellow and, finally, to red.
Sabrina's teeth dripped with blood and she held her eyes closed with all her strength, holding the pain in and trying not to scream.
"Done." Said Ellen in an exasperated tone. "I'll clean your teeth again, ok?" Asked Ellen, embedding another cotton ball with alcohol.
As soon as the wolverine nodded Ellen started to brush the ball against the exposed teeth. Her small paws could easily reach inside her friend's large mouth and she carefully cleaned each of them, making sure that every place the file had grinded bone was properly cleaned. When she threw the cotton ball away the wolverine dozed, inebriated by pain.
"Are you ok Sabe?" Ellen held her friend by her shoulders. Her mouth dripped blood, spots staining her yellow dress and the marble white teeth.
The wolverine smiled amidst her confusion and pain. "How do I look El?" Asked Sabrina, faintly. She smiled, causing more blood to spill from her mouth.
The arctic fox smiled a nervous smile. "You look perfect El." She lied.
The file trembled in her hand.