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Broken Girls with Strange Frames (Ch. 5)
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“I will take the compliment,”
“Oh, no thanks,” I said. “I’m watching my weight.”
Don’t think I missed the hateful look Bette shot me after I said that. I didn’t.
“You don’t see the big deal?”
“Besides the accent, what’s so great about her?”
I gaped. “You have to ask?”
Bette just shrugged and drank her coffee. “I guess she isn’t my type.”
I looked at Bette and then looked back toward
“It’s a nice place,” said Bette, leaning back. “Although, I can’t say I won’t miss the old place.”
“Yeah. It’s sort of…” I trailed off. “Well, I mean, that’s where we had our first date, so.”
Bette looked at me like I had fifteen heads-which, to be fair, is actually how she looks at me a lot. “No, it isn’t.”
“Uh, okay.” I shrugged and took a sip of my coffee. “If you say so.”
“It isn’t,” she insisted. “If you want to get technical, our first date was only three days ago, at the Chinese place on La Cienega.”
“Right,” I agreed, “but if you want to be not technical.”
“If you want to be not technical,” Bette said, “then it was a few weeks ago when I took you to a movie. Which could not only be construed as a date, but the ultimate sacrifice on my part because if I never have to sit through a Meg Ryan movie again, it’ll be too soon.”
I laughed. “No, I mean, like-the first time we met up at
“That was practically a year ago.”
“Right.”
“
“Fine,” I said. “But I thought it was.”
“You did?”
“Well,” I said defensively, “you sent a lot of mixed signals.”
“That may be true, but-”
“And then you asked me to move in with you!” I rolled my eyes. “I mean, hello, I totally read that as-”
“Al!” Bette cried, smiling slightly. “I mean, I liked you and all, but do you really think I’d ask you to move in with me if I was interested in you romantically then? I’m not that type of person.”
“Okay, but I didn’t know that.”
She looked at me over her coffee cup, her eyes glittering in that way they had. “You really thought that was a date?”
I shrugged. “Yeah.”
She snickered. “Sorry.”
I don’t know if you can really blame me. I mean, especially not if you know what it’s like to be wrapped up in Bette Porter. And after I met her, I was actually what you might call obsessed. And moving in with her didn’t help. At all. Which is actually another really good story, one that I totally don’t mind telling.
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Oh. My. Goddess.
I love your fic.
You definitely rock and rule! Keep it up, Rachel!
Fun, fun, fun! I so enjoy these two together. This feels like I am getting a glimpse into ‘pre-Bette’. Sort of like her formative years. Or at least before she became the Bette everyone else knows. Alice is killing me in her histrionic righteousness. More, please.
Is it my imagination, or is this getting better with each chapter? And the first was great. I love Alice’s ‘voice’. It’s just dead on. And as for Bette’s characterisation, it’s amazing. It was a really nice touch that she doesn’t like people to be angry with her. It just gives her that touch of vulnerability that makes her so devastating. And her solution of steam-rollering Alice into saying something untrue is just really typical Bette. I say again this is fantastic.
I never could quite see Alice and Bette together…until now!!! Thanks for this ‘most interesting’ glimpse into their past relationship!!
Parallel universe, parallel universe. Intriguing parallel universe.
Is it possible that there’s another group of TLW fans, enjoying this story (instead of the crap-tastic ones of S2)on their pay channels in a parallel universe?
Are our worlds starting to converge?
Is this the ‘good news’ we were told to expect? Evidence for the existence God?
Can we get this one on Showtime, in our lifetimes???
Any physicists in the house???
Einstein’s theory of light? Will you all be gone before this can reach you to read this? Anyone???
WOW damm girl that was a shit load of reading but I’m caught up now. I’m really enjoying this story.
My gods the characterization in this fiction is spot on! Not only that, but you’ve mangaged to add depth that I’m sure Ilene doesn’t even see in these characters or perhaps forgot about with season two. Nice one, I’m dying for more and I’ve only found this series an hour ago! Great story I cannot wait for more. Count me as a die hard fan.
its a great story and i love it u have the characters so dead on and i like seeing this other version of bette its very intriguing (however the hell u spell it) and i cant wait for the next chapter!! it’ll also be very interesting to see how u bring every1 else into the story!!
Ok I am so hooked and this line has me in love: I’m like, a hair-whore. More please lets keep this pace going….*yeah*
Great story, hope you spam the site like mad! :D
Alice? Moving in? I thought they only dated for 6 weeks.
Musta been some breakup. (And then best best friends.)
Ive just read the last few chapters and its just great cant wait to read more very funny,loved the Hair whore comment lol so keep it comin!thanks
Now this chapter is funny as hell!