Content notes: dentistry, nitrous oxide (“laughing gas”), marijuana, spanking, sadomasochism, addiction, death, anxiety, hypochondria, local anaesthetic.
I knew as soon as they slipped the heart rate monitor onto my finger that I was fucked. The machine beeped and numbers lit up: 98, 103, 105. They seemed to get higher the more I looked at them.
“Feeling a little anxious?” the hygienist asked.