Life:
Altered 03.17 ~*~ Bette‘s Week

The following chapters all take place over
the course of a week, starting the morning after Tina‘s confession.

Monday

Bette walked up to the familiar door and
knocked softly; she was nursing a hang over and had fled the house moments
before Kit could grace her doorstep. Calls from all her friends, all of their
friends, checking in on her intermediately.
Kit had left a message on the answering
machine saying she was on her way over, and Bette had left as quickly as she could get
dressed.

The door crept open and Candace looked at her, one eye closed, squinting
from the sun. She looked stunning, hair
tossed, loose at her shoulders. She wore
an old blue shirt that looked worn out and well loved, and a pair of black
panties that Bette wanted to rip off with her teeth suddenly.

“Bette?”
Candace said in a sleepy voice and Bette nodded, taking off her sunglasses and
looking at her. Candace looked her over, and shook her head. She wasn’t going to do this; there was no way
she was letting herself fall back into the vicious circle of being the other
woman.

“I can’t Bette.”
Candace admitted, moving to close the door, and Bette put her hand on the door, forcing it
back open just a crack. The sunlight hit
Candace‘s eyes, lighting them up and Bette begged with her own, pleading for that
moment to explain.

“Please, please don’t cast me
out?” Bette begged, and Candace stood her ground, she was a better
person that this. She was had always
been an honest person, and now this affair with Bette had turned her into a liar and a hider;
she didn’t like it, not one bit.

“So you confessed to Tina, and now she sent you packing and you
come crawling back to me, right? That
isn’t how I want it to work Bette, I want to be with you desperately, but this isn’t
right.” Candace asked and Bette shook her head no.