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Broken Girls with Strange Frames (Ch. 17)
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“I like my exes to stay exes.”
“Really?”
“Mm-hmm.”
“So, you’ve never been friends with any of your ex-girlfriends?”
She shrugged and studied the pamphlet again, although she seemed to be honestly considering it. “I don’t think so.”
I absorbed this.
Bette folded the pamphlet up and stuck it in the bottom of the stack. She said, “It’s not a conscious effort, I don’t think, we just never stay friends.”
“That’s just…”
“It’s not as strange as the expression on your face would suggest.”
Having no mirror handy to precisely gauge the concentration of my facial expression, I said nothing.
After another moment and another half of a pamphlet, Bette said in one of the most unreadable tones ever: “So, this friend, is she…”
I rolled my eyes and tried not to look bitter. “She’s cute. And taken.” Which is exactly what I would have said even if Tamara was single, because I didn’t really love the idea of Bette Porter dating any of my friends, especially if she wasn’t going to date me. I added, “One of those sickeningly domestic relationships where the two parties involved try to pretend that they’re not in one of those sickeningly domestic relationships.”
Bette, engrossed in a third pamphlet at this point, made a humming noise that indicated she knew what I meant and could not agree more with my scathing presentation of the situation.
But then I said, “Seven months now. With Colleen Nace.” And Bette dropped her pamphlet in her lap.
“Colleen Nace?” she wondered, her large, expressive eyes doing double-duty in both largeness and expressiveness. “Blonde hair-” she attempted to make some sort of vulgar gesture with her hands; I caught its meaning to be ‘big *****’ before she dropped her hands awkwardly and finished-”real estate broker or something?”
‘Or something’? And according to Tamara, Colleen and Bette dated for six months?
“Yeah.” I smiled. “That’s the one.”
“Huh.” Bette retrieved her discarded reading material and said thoughtfully, “I dated her, you know.”
Despite being several steps ahead of her, I pretended, for her sake, to be astonished. “Oh?”
“Yeah. We only broke up about… oh, a year ago.”
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I’m telling you, I can’t get enough of this story!
The funniest story of them all, I wonder when our pals are going to go to an art show at the “Bette” and possibly meet a certain someone… Looking forward to more great writing, and superbly hilarious character thoughts and dialogue. Thanks rachel_raj for the goodies…
Alice is so obviously not the one. Seeing Bette’s insouciance about relationships with others, it’s gonna be a joy seeing her fall like a ton of bricks for Tina! But, I can wait!
Loved being present at the actual creation of The Chart! So, a lot of good did come from this abortive mating afterall. And they did remain friends after, love having the knowledge of their future that they don’t have, know what I mean???
Bette not being friends with her exes, laughing at the sickeningly cutesy relationships and falling hard. Yeah, those are all going to come back and bite her in the butt.
The creation of The Chart…the original Big Bang! Thanks for including that.
It’s like reading an extrmely history book written by Alice! The birth of the chart and seeing the changes Bette has made between then and now. Simply brillant. I cannot wait for more.