Creative Writing: Jensen's Freakout

Jensen’s Freakout Over Christmas break I watched my nephew Jensen a lot. He lives about a quarter mile away from me, and his mother, my sister, works from around eight in the morning to three in the afternoon, so she needed somebody to watch him and it was convenient for me to be that person. Jensen is almost three years old, but he has something I never had as a child...dentophobia. Dentophobia is a fear of dentists and being at the dentist's office. I had no clue of his fear, until it was time for him to get his teeth checked and I had to go with him. When we walked into the Dentist's office everyone greeted him like they knew him, I didn’t think much of it at the time but looking back I realize they probably knew him because he’d made a big fuss before. He was all smiles and laughs when we were in the waiting room. They even had iPads on the walls for kids to play on while they wait, and Jensen had his head in the device. They called his name and right then was when he started acting up. He …show more content…
The doctor came in, then she talked to Jensen and tried to get him acquainted with her again. Jensen seemed like he was about to be a big boy and get it done, then when the doctor told him to open his mouth for the X-ray he just wouldn’t do it. We tried and tried to get him to, but after about fifteen minutes the doctors asked me and my mom if we were okay with them forcefully opening it, and we said it was. Jensen screamed and screamed until he gave everyone in the room a headache. The doctors were miserable dealing with him. His behavior really surprised me, mainly because he was such a good kid when he wasn’t at the dentist. It took about two minutes to get the X-ray overly with, and after Jensen got a toy. The dentist told us we were going to have to do an X-ray on the other side of his mouth too, but almost right after the told us that the lights shut off. The power went out at the dentist’s