Lingering Thoughts Chapter 5

The world seemed quiet that night when Bette was sitting on the front step of the porch smoking a cigarette. She was alone at the house; Helena and Tina went late-night shopping at the Epic Center Mall. It had been two nights in a row that Bette’s mind was rendered with scattered thoughts of Helena. She smoked when she was stressed. Bette was a very tightly wound woman, she would even admit to it but lately she had been more anxious and she knew that it was her mind’s way of telling her that she suddenly was having mysterious feelings for Helena. What kind of feelings were they though? She was in fact having a three-way relationship because Tina loved her but couldn’t shake the love that she also had for Helena so Bette had agreed to be in that sort of tryst with a woman she loathed, and even had sex with her all for the only woman she would ever and had ever loved.

Bette had been staying away from Helena for awhile even living in the same house with her and sharing the same bed but when Tina questioned why she was suddenly insisting she sleep on the couch, she simply stated that her back was hurting and the couch was a better place for her well-being. Then when Bette was riding her Harley Davidson around one day, when she came back, in the place of her old bed sat one of those beds where she could control the firmness of the mattress and have a fabulous sleep. Thank you Tina, Goddess of Her Life but their other bed was fine and Bette then had no excuse but to sleep right next to Helena as Tina wanted. She’d then have to feel Helena’s soft and sensual body lying next to her all night long. Every stir that woman made, a part of her touched Bette gently and Bette’s desire for Helena would increase. Helena would toss, she’d turn, her soft groans she made in her sleep, all were so much to handle.

Bette had smoked seven cigarettes on the porch before she threw the empty pack down, swearing to herself that she could beat those new feelings and she went inside the house to flip on TV and relax a little bit. The first show she had come upon was a movie about a pretty brunette woman whom was having an affair with another slimmer and cuter dark-haired woman even though she was married. Bette flipped the channel immediately. Next channel featured a scientific study of relationships that have gone wrong because people seem to always cheat with their best friends’ husbands. It was passed 8:30pm and when she changed the channel yet again, she saw that a soft-core porno was on and there were two thin, gorgeous brunettes, one with short hair and one with long hair going at it. That did it, Bette was going to go for a ride on her motorbike and erase those damn thoughts from her mind once and for all. Even the television was messing with her head and making her think things that she didn’t want to.