Good start. Looking forward to where this will go!

Chapter 2: The first day

Elly woke up on her first day of orthodontic college. She got dressed and went downstairs and quickly ate breakfast. After she was done, she went to the bathroom to brush her teeth and got ready to go to college. Her mother was going to drop her off.
 
They got in the car. About halfway there, her mother looked over to her and asked what was wrong. She could see Elly looked a bit troubled.
 
"Well, I don't know," Elly said. "I'm just a bit nervous, I guess."

"Don't worry sweetheart, you be fine."

"Thanks Mom." 30 minutes later they arrived at the college.
 
Elly gave her mom a kiss on the cheek and went towards the college reception.
 
"Name please?" said the receptionist.
 
"Elly Hall," said Elly.
 
"Your first class is in room 2.1C."

"Thank you." Elly went to go look for the room.
 
Elly looked around and saw she had to go upstairs.
 
Eventually Elly found the room and saw it was a small class of about 7 students.
 
She opened the door and a woman greeted her. 
 
"Hello, who might you be?"

"Hello, I'm Elly Hall."

"Oh, good, you're the last one in my class to arrive. Please take a seat."

Elly took a seat and the professor began with the usual welcome speech you would expect on every first day of class.
 
"Hello everyone, I'm professor Emilia Evans, but please call me Emily. I'm the teacher for your orthodontic related subjects. The other teachers probably will introduce themselves later in the day."

"I'm sure you all want to socialize with your fellow classmates but I'm afraid you have to do that during lunch break, as I want to start right away."

She gestured to the dental chair.
 
"I'm going to let each of you make an impression of the other classmate's teeth."
 
"Elly and Alex, you go first." She instructed how to make the alginate and how to use the tray and after that was done, everyone got to rinse to get rid of the remaining alginate.
 
"Now that everyone is done, we are going to make a model with the impressions that you all just took and I want you to do it in teams of 2." 
 
Elly picked Alex because he very was gentle with making impressions of her teeth and she tried to be gentle with his impressions as well, but she had to start again after she was startled by Alex's gag reflex, having to reapply the alginate in the tray.
 
Emily instructed how they should go about making the models.
 
After they were done with the models making, they had turned them in to Emily.
 
When Elly turned hers in, Emily looked at the model and raised an eyebrow of interest.
 
Elly didn’t notice it and left the classroom with her classmates for lunchbreak.

Let me be the first to say this is an interesting idea.  I'm sure that I won't be the first "like."  Looking forward to more.

Well, I think you've set the stage beautifully.  Fresh ideas are hard to come by and I was instantly intrigued.

where could i sign to this college... dream would come true if i could have such a treatment

@aktivator82 Seriously! I'd enjoy going to school there!

@carking... Yes, seriously!!! Full banded braces, expanders, herbst appliances and 2 fixed facebows awesome !!!!!

Good story so far seems a promising start  keep up the good work

I know I'm rather slow on some parts and then go very fast again.

Chapter 6: Home sweet home?

When Elly got home, she saw she was home alone, it being only 15:30. Her parents were still working and wouldn't be home for a few hours.

She went upstairs to her room and sat down in front of her big mirror. Even with her mouth closed, she could see 2 bumps.

When Elly tried to smile wide, her lower lip got caught behind the 2 bumps when she quickly tried to get her lips together to hide all the metal.

She opened her mouth again, but this time to examine her whole mouth. Both expanders were rather bulky, with a piece of acrylic between the bands and the expansion screw.

While opening and closing her mouth, she could hear the Herbst arms making a clicking sound.

Elly had seen a lot of mouths in dental school already, some even with braces. She never had seen as much metal as she now had in her mouth.

She teared up because of the situation in her mouth and the appliances starting to hurt.

She laid down on her bed and said to herself, "wha did you geth youwseof into thisth time, eooy?"

After she said that, she sat up straight from shock, not being able to really talk properly and not discovering it sooner as she hadn't said a word since her braces were installed.

"Oh, men, I sthound howwible."

Sighing and falling back on her bed, she fell asleep from a tiring day.

A few hours later, her mother called from downstairs and woke Elly.

"Elly, dinners ready."

"I wioo be wight thewe mom," already having forgotten how hard it was for her to speak.

When she came downstairs, her parents were waiting for her at the dinner table.

Elly sat down without saying a word and put mashed potatoes and beetroot with gravy on her plate.

Mixing the mashed potatoes with the beetroot and the gravy to be able to at least eat something.

When she did take a bite of the food, she found it was rather difficult to chew the still chunky remaining pieces. It was hard to get it in a place she was able to chew it and it was even more difficult to swallow due to the expanders.

Her normal 10-minute dinner took her 30 minutes now.

After they had dessert, her dad asked how her day had been.

"I don't weally want to taok abouth ith."

"Come on honey, I know it's hard to talk but if you don't talk at all it won't get better."

"Whath do you guysth know abouth how hawd it isth," Elly said.

"Well Elly," her mom said, "we also had small mouths and we both had expanders. I, on my top jaw and your father on the lower jaw, and this has by chance resulted in 2 narrow jaws on you."

"So, we both know the struggle of having the difficult time talking and swallowing," her mom said.

"You even have your mother's overbite," her dad said, "but hers was corrected with headgear."

"Tho it'sth the both of youw fauot I need all of thisth metal," Elly said in a joking tone, feeling a bit better.

"I guess it is," her mother said, giving her a kiss on the forehead. "Now go and clean your mouth, your

braces are full of mashed potatoes and beetroot."

"Yesth mom." Elly rolled her eyes.

Elly went upstairs to the bathroom to clean her mouth with her toothbrush and the special L shape toothbrush. It was hard to get all the food out of her braces and off her upper expander.

After she was done, she smiled a very silver smile and thought she might do fine as a braceface at orthodontic college and went to bed.

(No it's not the end)

This is great! Keep it up!

great to see another chapter! really enjoying this story so far, keep up the great work!

I'm a bit unsure on how to proceed I could:

1. Go by all the classmates of Elly & Alex on how they get everything put on but that seems like its a repeat of what happend to Elly & Alex.

2. Let Elly & Alex find out when they return to class.

What do you guys think?

Wait, are their classmates getting Headgear and braces, or just being informed what happened?

Hmm, it's ultimately up to you, but maybe option 2? 

Wow! Really interesting! Please, keep going!

If you go for option 2 (the reveal in class), you have the option of looking back on other people in "flashbacks" if you come across something that you particularly like later, whereas if you introduce everybody now, you run the risk of getting bored with all the characters before you are ready to reveal what is going on.

Option 2 for me... but with option 1 as a back-up plan!

Won't do Option 1 as stated it would repeat to much.

Ah, stick with option 2 then.

( Heheheh, would be nice to read about some female students that can't remove their headgear!    M)

Chapter 9

After a very awkward train ride to the city, they got on Alex's bike and headed to his house.
When they got to Alex's home, his mom looked a bit shocked at the contraption around his head and face.

"Oh my, what did they do to you?!?" his mom asked.

"Mom, relax, it's okay, this is a headgear. I need it for treatment."

With that, his mom relaxed a bit and noticed Elly.

“Who’s this, Alex?”

“This is Elly.”

“Heooo, nice to meet youw.”

“Hi, Elly nice to meet you. Sounds like you have a hard time talking.”

“Yesth, I have 2 expandewsth.”

“Sorry to hear that, hope you get used to them soon.”

While Elly and Alex's mom had been talking, Alex went to grab his swim gear.

“You ready, Elly?” he asked when he got downstairs again.

“Yesth, I am.” And they headed over to the pool.

Once at the pool, they paid entry and went to the changing rooms, both grabbing a different cubical. Elly was done rather quickly, but not Alex. He took off the straps, then tried to take off his shirt but got caught on both face-bows, which hurt pretty bad because he was pulling with some force on his shirt. After he managed to get it off, he grabbed the waterproof straps, then put his clothes in a locker together with Elly's stuff to save on the money. He asked Elly if she could help him put on his straps. Of course Elly was happy to help him. He said on what hole both straps needed to be and Elly attached them.

Alex took a good look at Elly. There she was a beautiful girl with long hair, not that tall (like he cared about that) and a good body shape. While Alex was looking at Elly, Elly did the same to him. Alex was taller than her and was in good shape, no six-packs, but she didn't care.

They both had a great time at the pool swimming and going down the slides just like they were little kids, the braces gave them a much younger look as well.

After they had been in the pool for a few hours, they decided to get out and go home.

On the way back to Alex's place, he asked if she wanted to stay for dinner.

Elly said she would like that, if it wasn’t any trouble at least.

Alex said it wouldn’t be a problem at all. His mother always made too much.

When they came back to Alex's house, it was almost time for dinner.

“Hi Honey, Hi Elly. Did you guys have a good time at the pool?”

“Yes, we did mom. I invited Elly to stay for dinner.”

“That’s fine.”

Half an hour later, dinner was ready and they again struggled to eat, but they managed eventually.

When dinner was over, Alex's mom asked if Elly wanted to stay the night.

“Oh, I don't know if I can sthtay the night,” Elly said.

“Oh, I insist and it's already getting dark and there's no train service tonight because there's engineering going on from 20:00 to 05:00.”

“Oh, I didn't know that,” Elly said.

“We have a spare room where you can sleep.”

After informing her mom what was happening and why she wouldn’t be home tonight, she spent the evening on the couch talking to Alex and his mom and dad.

At 23:00 they got ready to go to bed. Elly brushing her still sore teeth and Alex trying to get a toothbrush in his mouth, but was a bit frustrated from all that happened that day. He sighed. Elly picked up the toothbrush and said, “Open your mouth, I will help you. I will be as gentle as I can.” After she was done, she gave him a kiss and they went to bed.

Chapter 11

When Alex and Elly came inside, they saw their classmates had braces and some had external appliances as well.

“Good morning class,” Emily said when she came in. “Today we will take a look in each other's mouths and discuss some of the treatment plans after. Sound okay?”

The class gave a grunt of agreement.

“Great, let's start. Does someone want to go first?”

“I wioo,” Emma said with a lisp.

Emma stood up and laid down on the chair.

“This camera will assure you can see everything on the screen.”

“Emma, like every one of you, has banded braces, but unlike all of you, has a tongue crib and elastics. These boxes around her teeth will pull her teeth together. The elastics run from her top first premolar to her central incisor to the same teeth on the bottom and it's the same on the other side. Thank you for showing us, Emma.”

“Who’s next?” Emily asked.

“I will go next,” Ian said and got in the chair.

“Again, Ian has braces but his lips are pushing on his teeth a lot, so he has an upper and lower lip bumper to keep his lips out of the way. These normally are removable, but these springs keep them in and these springs on the wire will make sure I will be able to connect the wire to these two teeth soon. Thank you for showing us.”

“Who wants to go next?”

“I will,” Abigail said and got in the chair.

“Abi here has an underbite, for that, she, of course has braces with something that's called a tandem appliance. It's like a reverse pull headgear without the massive frame around the face. The inner part is just like a face-bow but the outer part has these two hooks on them. Normally we use elastics, but we want to see if it's faster to use springs. It's a lot more discrete than the frame but she still has something sticking out of her mouth, and if Abi opens up you can see the TPA and the lingual arch to hold the arch of the teeth. Thank your Abi.”

“Who’s up next?”

Julian just got up without saying anything and got in the chair.
“Julian here has a deep bite, so he has been given a bite plate and these 2 springs that go from his upper canines to his second lower molar on both sides to pull his lower jaw forward a bit and his upper jaw back. He might need headgear on the top as well, but we will see that if it doesn't really want to move. Thank you, Julian.”

“Who wants to go now?”

“I wioo,” Jack lisped.

“Right, have a seat, Jack. Jack here has a fairly narrow upper jaw, so he got an expander but he might need more appliances. We have to wait and see how his mouth responds. Thank you Jack.”

“Elly, do you want to go next?”

“Sure,” she said and got in the chair.

“Elly here has an overbite, and for that she got a Herbst appliance, and also two narrow jaws, for that she got upper and lower expanders. These expanders will turn automatically and if I'm right that happened last night, right?”

Elly nodded.

“Good! Did you notice it when they turned?”

Elly shook her head.

“Elly and Jack both got these self-turning expanders that will turn during the night to ensure the most comfort. Thank you, Elly.”

“Who wants to go next?”

“I will,” Alex said.

“Good, have a seat. Alex here needs his molars moved back so that's why he got these two face-bows. They are fixed in the tubes to ensure optimal wear time. He also got an extra pair of waterproof straps, so showering or any water-based activity can be performed with the straps in place.”

“Yeah, they worked well yesterday.”

“Oh, you already tested it?”

“Yes, Elly and I went to the pool.”

“Well, very good you used the straps. Thank you, Alex.”

“And Lily you're last, please have a seat.”

“Lily here has just got braces for now. She might need more appliances later but her teeth need to move a bit first. She's the only one that doesn't have something extra. Thank you, Lily.”

“For all of you, it's possible you need an appliance removed, replaced with a different one, or one or more that need to be added.”

“We will look more into the treatment plans next week. This “mouth showcase” has taken a long time, but I have to inform you of one thing before you go for a break and stay here for nothing. Mr. Williams called in sick so you’re out, now have a nice weekend everyone.”

Everyone got up and left, Elly grabbing Alex's hand again.

They saw Lily in the hallway.

“Hi Liooy,” Elly lisped.

“Oh, hi guys,” she said, sounding a bit down.

“Whatsth wwong?”

“Well, I'm the only one that just got braces, but I'm a bit worried about what I might get.”

“Oh, you be aowight, what I got isth sthounding wowse then it isth.”

“Thank you, Elly,” while hugging Elly.

“So you two a couple?” Lily asked.

“Yeah, we kind of awe,” Elly replied, “we oike each othew.”

“That was quick,” she laughed.

“Yeah, we know, but you know how funny love can be,” Alex said.

“Yeah, I do. My boyfriend called me Jaws,” she giggled.

They all laughed at that.

“Well, I need to go,” Lily said.

“Yeah, so do we. I need to go to Alex's place to grab my stuff and head home.”

After they said their goodbyes, Alex and Elly got on Alex's bike and headed home.

They hang out together somewhat at Alex's place and at 16:30, Alex took Elly to the train station. On the platform, they both kissed and Alex asked Elly if she wanted to be his girlfriend to make it a more official relationship. She said she would love that and kissed him some more until the train came and Elly had to go.

She waved to him from inside the train and left for home.

On the train she messaged her mom she was on her way home.

Mom: I’m already home I’ll make something soft for you to eat tonight.

When Elly made it home, she put her bike in the shed and came inside.

Elly's mother heard the tapping sound of high heels and said, “You have a pair of high heels on.”

“Yesth, I think they awe 15 or 16 cm high, but ouckioy they got a poatfowm asweoo.”

“Did you buy them in the city?”

“No, Aoex'sth mom gave them to me. They wewe too big fow hew and couodn't wetuwn them.”

“That's nice of her. Well, dinners ready in 30 minutes.”

Elly didn’t want to tell her about Alex being her boyfriend just yet.

She sat down on the couch and messaged Alex she was home. They talked a while longer on Whatsapp until dinner was ready.

After dinner, Elly took off her shoes and went upstairs to brush her teeth and remained upstairs watching some YouTube videos until 23:30 when she put her phone away and went to sleep.

Take the time you need. It is better to put together a good story that takes time rather than a poor story that you hurried to write just so that you could post it.

I am enjoying what you have written so far, and am looking forward to more good material from you. I have been adding the chapters to TheArchive as you have been posting them.

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