Quiet and shy 35 year old Ashleigh
Oakes lived
and worked up at Mornington Field, which was once a fully operational RAF station,
and he lived in Apartment 6 of Dowding House, which had been converted
from what was once the bases Sergeants Mess
He was not a native of the small country village
of Mornington-By-Mere or indeed the Finchbottom Vale which nestled comfortably
between the Ancient Dancingdean Forest and the rolling Pepperstock Hills.
Ashleigh was in fact a foreigner by birth,
having been born in Nottingham, but he and his family moved to Downshire when he was still a schoolboy
and he lived in Nettlefield for 20 years.
He had always been gifted with his hands and
was encouraged by his parents to pursue a profession which would make the best
of his skills and after school he took an apprenticeship with a jeweler called
Harry Lamb and he worked for him until his death.
Harry had no family so Ashleigh inherited the
business from him which he planned to carryon in the same way that Harry had taught
him, however on first seeing the quaint picturesque village of Mornington-by-Mere,
while on a walking holiday he fell in love with the proper chocolate box
picturesque idyll, with its Manor House, 12th Century Church,
Coaching Inn, Windmills, an Old Forge, a Schoolhouse, a River and a Mere, so he
decided to move the business and himself.
Moving to Mornington proved to be a momentous
decision because despite being a quiet shy man, and new to the
area, when he moved to Dowding House he instantly fell in love with his new neighbour Yolanda Torres.
She was not new to the Finchbottom Vale but she was a
new resident in the village although she was not a stranger as she had worked in Shallowfield for
Downshire Denticare and divided her time between there and Mornington.
She would have liked to work all week in Mornington but there just
wasn’t enough dentistry required for that.
Yolanda had always loved the village and had often dreamed of living
there but never dared hope that it might actually happen one day.
But when the opportunity of an apartment up at Mornington Field
presented itself she snapped it up.
She was also not cursed with Ashleigh’s affliction of shyness but
she was immediately attracted to her shy neighbour.
But despite their being a mutual attraction four
months quickly passed by and nothing happened between them.
Until that is he got a toothache, which he at first
ignored, then he self medicated and finally he made an appointment to see a
dentist.
He got the earliest appointment he could, which was
two days after he first woke up with the toothache and his appointment was at
midday.
Ashleigh didn’t like going to the Dentist’s it
terrified him and just the thought of it wound him up to such an extent that
his heart pounded in his chest and with every passing minute the adrenilin
pumped around his body and his palms sweated and his head throbbed.
He would have gladly killed someone than to see a
dentist but it was getting worse with every minute.
The Doctors, Dentists, orthodontists and pharmacists
were all based elsewhere and provided a skeleton service to the village.
The Doctors presence was maintained by the Dancingdean Health
Centre in Shallowfield and one of their number, Locum Doctor Kelly Spearman lived
in one of the Military Row houses.
The Dental and Orthodontic staff came from a
large specialist practice in Finchbottom, Downshire Denticare and the Shallowfield, Robert
Harvey Pharmacy in Oakwood Road filled any prescriptions and delivered them to
the surgery every day.
The reception area for the Doctors, Dentist &
Orthodontic Surgeries sat in an extension between
the two buildings.
Because Mornington was such a small village
none of the practices were open full time but Baron St George, the head of the
Mornington Estate heavily subsidized all three as well as the small Chemist
shop, which shared the Doctors premises.
Ashleigh had got the earliest appointment he could,
which was at midday two days after he woke up with toothache.
He walked up to the
desk and, Katie Parsons, the receptionist directed him to the waiting room.
Ashleigh didn’t like going to the Dentist’s because
it always wound him up, so as he sat in the waiting room with his blood
coarsing through his veins causing his heart to pound in his chest and with
every passing minute the adrenilin pumped around his body so that by the time
he was called his heart was ready to explode.
As he went into the room the dentist was sat at a
computer in the corner with her back to him.
“Take a seat” she said and he turned around and sat
in the chair and then the light was turned on and angled into his face.
This served only to make him produce even more
adrenelin and then he realised that the Dentist was Yolander.
“You need to relax Ashleigh” she said
“I have a fobia” he snapped
“Well you still need to calm down” She said
“You have to relax”
“I cant” he panted
“You really must” she insisted and put her hand on
his and that action slowed his breathing down imediately and when she squeezed
it, it stopped altogether for a moment.
“Nice and calm” she said.
Yolanda was looking at him lying in the chair with
his eyes fixed on her.
“Very calm now” she said as she stroked his hand
“Nice and calm” she added and then her mouth was over
his and Ashleighs andrenelin was pumping again and he was far from calm as he
reciprocated and she took that as acquiescence so she
sat on his lap
“Are you relaxed now?”
“Yes” he replied
“Good” she said and kissed him again
After five minutes of very satisfactory kissing she asked
“Are you feeling better now?”
“Yes much better”
“Good” she said as she slipped off his lap “Now lets
do a propper exam, and tonight I will come round to yours and help cure your
fobia of Dentists”
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