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And it Started With a Phone Call Chapter 30
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"Now this is truly for when you care enough to send the very best" Alice continued to skim the page.
"Alice, I’m a note taker," Bette was trying to find the words to explain. "Please, don’t read any more."
"Sweet Mother of God, I’ve read enoughhere," Alice tossed the pad of paper onto the dining room table as if it suddenly burst into flame. The pad slid across to Bette where she stopped its progress briskly with the palm of her hand slapping down on the flat surface. "Do I want to know why you were taking those kind of notes?"
Bette’s face was flushed to an extent Alice had never seen.
"Tina enjoys it when I’mtalkative," Bette stated simply. "So when I knew we were going to be on the phone this weekend, I wrote a few things down to say."
Alice exaggerated a rapid double stop sign with both hands and then placed the index finger of each hand in her ears.
"La la la I can’t hear you I can’t hear you"
"You asked!" Bette spoke with enough volume to ensure Alice would hear regardless of how much noise she herself was making.
"God is punishing me for being inquisitive right now isn’t he?" Alice asked as she let her hands fall to her sides. She then looked heavenward. "I will never put my nose where it doesn’t belong again if you would please banish these images from my mind"
"Can we please get back to the topic at hand?" Bette asked,
"Oh God, what you said you’d do with your hand" Alice scrunched her eyes closed and placed the palms of her own hands over her face.
"Alright Alice, now you’re just being ridiculous," Bette said, this time with a serious tone and her hands placed on her hips.
Alice lowered her hands to reveal a bright-eyed grin.
"Teasing cease fire?" Alice offered.
"Yes please," Bette agreed. "Now sit down and help me with this."
"Let’s look at the possible approaches," Alice got right down to business as she descended to her chair once again. "There’s the practical approach. You could mention how the commute to her work isn’t as bad from here as it is from her place."
Bette jotted down ‘practical’ and ‘commute’.
"That’s boring," she said.
"We’re just getting started here," Alice said, pointing to the paper in front of Bette as she continued. "There’s the financial aspect. It’s cheaper to share space and you have lots of room."
"I don’t think this is going to sweep her off her feet, Alice."
"Well given the evidence of what does sweep her off her feet, I think I’ll make my exit if you start down that road." Alice said sternly.
"There’s romantic," Bette said as she wrote the word on the lined paper. "I love her and I want her there everyday when I wake up."
"Bette?" Alice said.
"Yeah?" Bette looked up from the word she had written.
"Shred the notes and go with your heart," Alice shifted back from the table and stood. "I’m so happy you’re happy with her, but I can’t help but be a little bit sad for me. You know. Because I’m still looking."
"You’ll find the right person some day Alice," Bette started.
"Thanks, you already gave me that speech," Alice laughed to try to lighten her own mood as much as to dissipate the shadow she had seemingly cast over the conversation with her friend. "Seriously, Bette," Alice waved to the pad of paper. "Shred those notes."
Bette stood from the table and embraced Alice.
"Thanks for coming over."
"Good luck tonight," Alice said as they separated. "You know it will go your way, everything always does."
Bette showed Alice to the door, and stood on the porch to see her off. She then returned inside, tore the notes from the book and walked into the kitchen to use the paper shredder.
"Romantic it is," she said as the whir of the machine chewed the paper into hundreds of tiny remnants. Her mind was buzzing with what the coming evening could change in her life.
(tbc)
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I want more…please. Great chapter and post soon
Another great chapter. Hopefully Tina will say yes to Bette’s question!!!
The sharing of breakfast was very sweet. It’s these sort of little traditions that give a relationship have depth.
Nice to see that Alice figured out what made her so angry with Bette asking Tina to move in. Understandable, no one likes to think they’re losing their best friend. Plus, it’s always lonlier when you aren’t the one in the relationship.
“Go with your heart Bette”. Best advice she could have received.
Loved this little departure. Nice set up to the reconnection.
I feel bad for Alice.I hope Tina says yes too.Nice update.
Ha this is getting more fun and hope Tina will say yes to Bette. Post soon please, thanks!
Awww!! My heart filled with warmth on Bette sending Tina breakfast, then there was laughter with the notes, and back to the warmth with the romance. Sigh this is just so amazing! Thank you for sending me off to bed on what usually is a dreadful Sunday night on a happy note :) Now I’m looking foward to your rendition of a good Sunday night
i just dont know what to say. weve got such freaking sweet with breakfast shared together. to al and bette being the dear friends they are to freaking hilarous. to sweet again. gawd this was great. its showing your range again jks. please as soon as y ou can. thanks.
oh u have to leave us huh, nice
hmmm. yes romantic it is… bring tina home
Don’t keep me waiting..I hope there are many more chapters before I leave for BC…keep up the good work
great story – love the aggressiveness of Tina in previous chps! Hope Bette comes up with a really romantic way to ask her to move in – she is such a romantic sometimes!! look forward to next chpt and the reunion after NY trip.
Great chapter, Let Tina say yes.Love them together
Thanks for the installment. I think Bette should have the house totally set up for Tina’s arrival. I am interested to see how romantic our Bette can be.
yup, romantic and funny. thanks and don’t work to much! :)
I am really enjoying your story. Thank you for the “sappy” stuff, that’s what life is made of or at least makes it happier. Even knowing they end of up together, I am still hooked on every chapter, so keep ’em coming.
Peace right back atcha.
Fins, what a fun chapter! I saw that coming with the notes and was laughing before Bette even knew what was going on. I hope you have a good week and you let us in on how Bette does it soon! You Rock!!!!!
Amazing Please continue post soon Thanks.
I could just see the mortified look on Bette’s face. I bet she WONT be writing down anything “talkative” for a while…LOL…..thank God for paper shredders.
How sweet it is for Bette to share breakfast with Tina?!
How funny it is to have Alice discover Bette’s “notes”?!
How good was the advice Alice gave to Bette to go with her heart?!
Can’t wait for the next chapter!!!
I LOVED this chapter. Special moments and rituals in couples are so important… and Sunday breakfast is such a good one. :) I love it when the woman I love is always in my head…
Bette being so to remember exactly on the note pad & trying to get it back was so vivid and FUNNY… just plain funny. Thanks for this. : )
Loved this….so much! I have this sense you test yourself with some of these scenes to see if you can pull them off – well, you can!! Keep it coming and we’ll all just keep reading!
hey JKS great chapter cant wait ofr TIna to get back to LA. want some B&T lovin lol
Wonderful as always. LOVE this story.
o yeah, i’d got with alice’s advice… shred those notes bette. kay.. my pillows are waiting for me.
Beautifully romantic, .. thank you so much.
I just started reading this at the weekend and I had to literally tear myself away from my computer but as soon as I woke up I’d be back to read the rest of it.
This story is amazing, it has made me fall in love with FanFic all over again. I love the way you write, I can’t remember the last time I actually had to look words up because I wanted to clarify the meaning so I didn’t lose anything.
I was smiling and laughing out loud as I read each chapter. When I saw that you’d written the next chapter I almost jumped out of my seat with excitement.
It’s gonna be hard for me to think that this isn’t what happened between Bette and Tina in the beginning.
Thank you soooooooooo much for this. Okay, I’m off to read the next chapter now.
At first I thought the page held those romantic doodles where you combine your name with your lover’s. Wrong!
Bette Porter in love is a wonderous thing to behold! Love looks good on her. I can hardly believe she is using the ‘L’ word so freely!
Your B&T are so clear! Sunday night should prove to be smooth sailing!
Thanks!
this chapter is definitely needed before the evenin comes. always love reading your stories.. :) post soon!! i can’t wait…!
It’s been my experience to go w/ your gut, it never leads you down the wrong path. If she rationalizes it too much, she’ll end up sounding too logical. If she listens simply to her heart, she’ll be completely romantic and not add the touch of logic she needs to have Tina agree. Her gut will always guide her best.
Next chapter!! I can’t wait to see how romantic Bette is.