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Chapter 6

When Rose reached her sixth month of life, she also started to grow her first teeth. Since neither Abe nor Janine were experts at being a parent, they had no idea this was going to happen then. Sure, they knew she'd eventually have teeth, they just didn't know exactly when. Or what inconveniences that would bring.

It was a normal day. Well, Abe would have defined it as happy, and wonderful, and extraordinary, and full of light, and all the good things you could imagine. Because he got to spend time with Rose. But he actually would have never said those cheesy things to anyone. He'd died before doing that.

Then, the unimaginable happened.

Rose didn't want to eat.

The day wasn't so normal anymore, and Abe and Janine were completely shocked. Still, they moved on and put Rose to watch a children's TV program. The three of them were seated on the couch with Rose between them. Their daughter, who had her eyes glued to the screen whenever she was allowed to watch TV, wasn't paying attention now, but instead she was moving and squirming in her place. Then, with her small hands, she grabbed the remote control and put it in her mouth. Janine and Abe, a little surprised, thought that maybe she was hungry now. So with the goal of feeding her, Janine grabbed the remote from Rose's mouth.

The little girl emitted a little yell and then hit her mother's hand.

"Rose. Don't hit me." Said Janine – stunned. Rose looked at her and then started crying. She turned to her daddy, who almost always let her do anything she wanted. Abe took her in his arms, looking at Janine the same way he had the first time she asked him to change Rose's diapers – with no clue of what to do.

They tried to feed her again three more times but it wouldn't work.

They finally gave up and took her to bed, since it was already 9:00 pm – and Rose's sleeping time was from 8:00 to 6:00.

At 11:00 though, they woke up because of Rose's cries, and soon hurried to check what was wrong with her. Bet when they arrived and made sure everything was all right, they didn't know what to do. Rose was again squirming and tossing in her cradle, and though sometimes she calmed a little, her cries wouldn't stop. Janine touched Rose's forehead, given that she was sweaty and had some hairs sticking; and that's when she noticed it.

"Abe, Rose has a fever." She said to him in an alarmed tone.

"She what?" He said in disbelief. "A fever?" He asked now, in terror. Babies could die from fever, couldn't they? Abe was so not letting that happen to his little Rose. "We have to take her to the hospital." He continued, already wanting to walk out of the room. "Right now." He said.

"Calm down, Abe. It's just a fever." Janine said to Abe, who right at that moment wanted to take Rose in his arms and run. Just as he moved to do that, Rose – still squirming and crying – grabbed Janine's hand, and tossed her mother's index finger in her little mouth. She made small biting motions. Janine then froze and opened her eyes wide.

"Oh my God." She said, removing her hand from Rose's reach. At this the little girl started crying again.

"What?" Abe asked in a desperate way.

"She… has… You should see it yourself." She finished. Then raised her hand toward Rose and opened her little mouth. In there, you could see small white rectangular forms.

Teeth.

Everything made sense now, and they knew what to do. They gave Rose some liquid Tylenol and put her in bed again. When she was asleep, they grabbed a camera and took a picture of their daughter and her first pair of teeth.

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