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The Burden of Control – Chapter 12
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Previously…
What could feel worse than your parent abandoning you?
Bette had recently discovered the answer to that very question.
Losing your wife.
Losing yourself.
Bette knew that Kit was somewhat correct when she said that Bette had a problem. She didn’t want the alcohol. She didn’t crave it. She just wanted to stop the pain for a little while. What’s wrong with wanting to be free of pain? Bette Porter wasn’t an alcoholic. At least that’s what she told herself.
Bette didn’t need the alcohol.
Bette needed someoneshe needed Tina.
But now
Bette once again reached for the glass. This time she brought it to her lips and cringed as the liquid burned a numbing trail down her throat. Alcoholics liked the taste of alcohol. Bette Porter did not.
Placing
the now empty glass on the table, she again reached for the phone. This
time she dialed the complete number and brought the phone slowly up to
her ear. It rang four times and just as Bette was about to hang up, she heard the other line pick up.
Bette: (quietly and hesitantly) Hello
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Chapter 12
Bette entered The Planet, immediately spotting the small
group of familiar faces seated at a table in the back corner. After glancing at Kit, who nodded
encouragingly from behind the counter, she hesitantly made her way over to
them.
regaling her friends with her latest assignment for LA Magazine, when a sudden
sharp nudge to her side stopped her mid sentence. Glancing up, she scowled at Dana for the
interruption, until she noticed that everybody’s attention was focused
elsewhere.
Bette watched, with more than a little trepidation, as
Shane, Dana and finally
spotted her approach. These were her
best friends. People who had seen her at her best. People who had seen her,
most recently, at her very worst. Shane
had once said that she and Tina were the glue that held their little group
together. In betraying Tina, had she also betrayed them?
Bette: (quietly)
Hi.
Shane: Hey Bette (She
stands and offers Bette he chair) Here take my chair. I’m going to get a
refill. Can I get you something?
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it’s good to have friends, especially those like alice, shane and dana…but i think bette need to be honest with tina too and tell her, or let the girls tell her
She should tell Tina, what is going on, because even though they are estranged, she wouldn’t wish that she was sick. Please lets get Bette and Tina back together, it just doesn’t feel right that she is with Helena, as one of the girls said she is trying to become Bette. Look forward to the next chapter.
so funking heart breaking…Bette need to tell Tina i know she dosent need pity from anyone but Tina should know they had a history together and still have..i hope Bette will be ok..post soon thanks :o)
how happy am I that you posted!!!! I want you to kill off bette LMAO just kidding, but I will support any story line you go with. do what you want!!! it will make for a better story.
Heartbreaking, but good
OMG! that was so sad I’m just really sad to read of this it’s heart breaking OMG! Please continue Thanks!!
Hmm…should Bette (or the girls) tell Tina about the disease? Well, really only Bette has the right to make that choice; and I think she’s entitled to ruminate over that decision. I would understand why she would choose to keep the illness a secret from Tina (not wanting to burden her ex-wife; not wanting that kind of sympathy when she wouldn’t have received attention or care otherwise, under the circumstances; not wanting to be pitied be either Tina or Helena; mostly, not wanting fear to dictate either of their behaviors toward the other). Ultimately, Bette should be honest with Tina, if she ever wants at the very least a friendship with her.
bette has to tell tina shes sick and she can lean on tina for a change, i wnat them back together.
i work at a renouned cancer hospital. and bette should come here. its works miracles. and from what the patients say and what i believe also, never give up and have a postive attitude. thanks.
It was so heart renching, you actualy had me crying. So well done, this chapter realy took me there, I could see the confussion and the turmoil on the girls faces, going threw the motions of finding out your close friend has a terrible illness. Thank god for friends like Alice, Dana and Shane. I hope this story has some happy times around the corner…Either way I am reading and awaiting the next chapter. Thanks a bunch tibette
Not tell her are are fucking crazy!!!!!!!!!! WTF!!!!!!!!!!! tina get your ass home!!!!!!!!! I am glad the girls are going too be their for her!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tina should be told, and handle it honestly, good or bad, your call. I really like the love that the gang has for each other, that is what B needs. If you want, seeing how each of them handles this would be great, from each POV. The journey will be hard, and the outcome is always up in the air. I am MORE than confident that where ever you take this story..it is in good hands. It is my favorite…
Glad Bette decided to tell the girls. She is going to need support during this ordeal. I suppose you have some sort of cliff hanger planned for Tina’s finding out. Well, we’re all waiting paiently for you to tell your story. It’s one of the few I actually follow. Thanks.
This so sad and I cry about it. Glad Bette and the grils have a talk and work thing out!