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“But you promised you’d take me.” Anne reminded Ninon as she glanced at the stove clock.
A half hour, she dreaded the thought. I have to be there in half an hour.
“I know hun, but there’s this demonstration going on tonight down at the campus…” Ninon tried to explain.
“That’s very important to the cause, I know.” Anne gritted. “I can’t go by myself. I can’t. Who do you suggest?”
She clutched her jaw as another nerve-ending spiked a shot of pain through her infected tooth to the root of her gums.
“Oww, fuck.” Anne grumbled. “You hear this?”
“I do sweetie. I’m really sorry. Can Constance take you?”
“She hasn’t answered her phone all morning. She’s probably off with D'Artagnan doing God knows what.” Anne rubbed her left cheek above her sore gum. “I’ll reschedule.”
“No, you can’t live with that for much longer…Porthos?”
“Away with Alice for the weekend.”
“Aramis?” Ninon suggested.
Anne laughed. “Sure, why not? He suggested that he could pull it out and save me the money. Next.”
“That only leaves one person.” Ninon pointed out. “Anne, I’m sure he’s not upset with you. It’s been a couple of weeks since you two – ”
“No! Out of the question. Athos is not – Ouch!” Anne paused and muttered into the phone, “I’ll go by myself.”
“I’m really sorry - ” Ninon began to apologize again but Anne’s patience was wearing thin, so she hung up.
Perfect. She thought as she glanced at the clock again.
Her anxiety was eating away at her now. She hated doctors, dentists, the whole lot. They poked and prodded at you like a living science experiment. She mentally cursed her family at the moment for having terrible genetics when it came to their teeth. Not like cursing her family was out of the ordinary anyway.
There was no way she was going to call Athos to take her. They had barely spoken since they slept together a few weeks before. It was mostly her fault - she stopped returning his calls and avoided him whenever she could. This would be too much for her to handle in one day if he were to come with her.
Before she had the chance to back out of the whole appointment, Anne grabbed her purse and left her apartment.