The little girl blinked at the odd object in her hand. It was small and white and was tiny enough for the center of her hand. Magdalene Hamato turned over the object in her palm this way and that and even poked at it.

The weird object had come from her mouth. The six year old had been happily eating an apple when she felt immense pain and found the object wedged into the fruit. Some blood trickled out of her mouth and she felt her body go into shock. What was that thing?

Turning it over one last time, Maggie realized it was her tooth. She raced to a mirror and stood on her toes and gazed at her reflection. She smiled wide to reveal a gap in her smile where her tooth should have been. She licked the gum and pursed her lips.

The little girl widened her eyes with realization. Her tooth was gone. Would it grow back? She raised the tooth back to the gap. It won't go back in...what would her mother and father think?

Maggie imagined the scowl her mother often made when she was displeased with Maggie or her husband, Donatello. Her blue eyes would narrow and the bright red of her hair often made her seem more sinister when she frowned. Would she be upset that Maggie had lost her tooth?

The little girl's mouth dropped open in a worried gasp but that worry quickly subsided when she flashed the gap in her smile. She thought about her toothy smile and grinned when she realized she looked just like daddy.

Maggie left her worry behind and began to make faces in the mirror and copying her father's facial expressions. She never realized how much she looked like her dad. She had her mother's orange hair and frame, but her father's red-brown eyes and face shape. But she never really thought much about looking much like her dad. But now that the tooth was gone, she couldn't help but be elated to resemble her father.

"Everything okay, sweetie?"

Maggie spun around to meet her mother's thin frame. April smiled down at her daughter and kneeled down. Her eyes found the tooth in the little girl's hand and it was too late for her to hide it.

"Oh! You lost your tooth! You know what that means, right?"

Maggie shook her head 'no,' scrunching her nose up with wonder. "You're not mad?"

"Course not! It's a natural body function. It's a process of getting older. You'll lose other teeth, too."

"I will?" Maggie brought her finger to her mouth and fingered her teeth. Would she be toothless like old people? April noticed the worry in her daughter's face. "But they grow back! Now we can put your tooth under your pillow tonight for the tooth fairy!"

"Tooth fairy?"

"She's this small fairy that comes in the night and takes your tooth and replaces it with money!"

Maggie's eyes lit up. Fairies! Money! And looking like daddy! That day couldn't get any better! April took the tooth and found a ziplock bag to put it in. "I'll set this on your nightstand for tonight. Who knows, maybe the tooth fairy will be generous?" She grinned and walked out of the kitchen.

Maggie stood there and licked where her tooth had been in her mouth. Her mom wasn't angry, she was going to be visited by a fairy, and even get money! Suddenly, growing up didn't seem that bad. She stood there lost in thought and threw the rest of her apple away. As much as it was exciting to lose a tooth...she didn't want to lose all of her teeth in one go. She stood in the kitchen licking the area lost in though and finally decide to find her father to show him that his little girl was starting to grow up.