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Broken Girls with Strange Frames (Ch. 6)
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And it was a good lunch. We ate and drank coffee and I read People and Bette read the newspaper and when I was done with People, I passed it to her and I did what I did best, which is people-watching.
I was rather engrossed in this guy with dreadlocks who had made a drum set out of the table and was currently banging alternately on two coffee mugs and a blueberry muffin with a fork and a spoon, when Bette looked up from her magazine. “
“What?” Dreadlocks guy was apparently developing a d-beat.
“Did you read the Passages page?”
“Nah, I never read that. It’s boring.” Oh, man, look at him go!
“Oh.”
I tore my gaze away from the amazing drum spectacle happening a mere seven feet away. “Why?”
Bette passed me the magazine, open to the Passages page. Her finger was resting atop the “Health” section, and I skimmed it quickly. What had apparently caught her interest was: “Classic jazz and R&B artist Kit Porter checked herself into an alcohol rehabilitation clinic last week”.
“Huh,” I said, passing the magazine back. “Good timing for my article, then.”
Bette shot me a look. I wondered if maybe I had said something insensitive.
“Uh, it’s good, right?” I asked. “You’re happy?”
“Well… of course. As long as it sticks.”
“Hey, it said she checked in last week. That means she probably checked in like, right after I got my article.”
“Maybe,” Bette said.
“How does that make you feel?” I pressed.
Bette arched an eyebrow. “You’re a reporter or a shrink?”
“I can be both if you want,” I said cheerfully. “Are you going to visit her?”
“In rehab?” Bette wondered. “I don’t think so.”
“Why not?”
“We barely get along at the best of times. I don’t think it would be a good idea to tempt fate by visiting her while she’s cranky and going through withdrawal.”
I shrugged. “Still. I bet it’d be nice for her to have some support.”
Shaking her hair out of her eyes in a way that I found generally pleasing and dramatic, Bette said, “Okay, why don’t you visit her, then?”
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That was really funny – In fact I’m glad all my co-workers have gone home because I just fell off my chair laughing. Great chapter and thirding what techgal said.
Simply sublime!
Alice’s running commentary is just so insightful, for both of them. This quiet, sometimes introspective Bette is interesting to watch unfold. You are blending the quirky and the sophisticated nicely.
Dude u crack me up!
This is solid gold stuff, I only just like started readin it and I like read all of it, just now and man have u like got Alice down or wot!
Well Done u!
rofl. Its just so Alice. :D
You have NOO idea how much these posts & your story is keeping me entertaned at the moment!! I love them!! Please keep them coming!! x
this is great…love the little alice-logue running through her brain.
This Bette is coming across as a highly intelligent, cultured, slighly self-involved woman with a soul. Her thoughfulness of others, with Kit, Spencer and Alice shines through. She’s no Johnny one-note. Alice’s narration is a perfect vehicle for revealing her complexity.
I want to be in this story. It’s so interesting and real!
BTW, I take back my Cher comment…
damm the three amigos plus bette, funny stuff.
Moving in with bette that’s a huge step, glad alice didn’t coke again
Oh my god, I was like laughing my head off all along, this is such a great story!!
I have no troubles at all imagining them like that there when they were younger.
Good job!
xxx
techgal, thanks for the excellent comment. can i just second that?
I love it too. Really funny; and so Alice.
LMAO! You’ve got Alice down to a T – I’m lovin’ it.