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Crossroads- Ch. 18
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Sitting down she took a bite of the noodle dish. She chewed for a minute, then reached over to snare a chunk of tofu from Alice’s container. Looking quizzically at Alice she asked, "How about you? Did you go to anyone after….Dana?"
Alice nodded, as she continued to chew her food. Swallowing, she said. "How do you think I got all the good drugs?" She waved a baby corn in the air as she spoke. "For a long time, I wasn’t real interested in the whole figuring out how to work through grief thing. I was just really okay with pain free living through chemicals. So, I sat there waiting for the sessions to end so I could go and fill my prescriptions." The baby corn was swaying to and fro in an almost hypnotic fashion. "But then," Alice punctuated the air with the corn, "I thought, ‘what the hell, maybe I’ll actually listen’." The corn began its rhythmic swaying again. "I found out that Dr. Jacobsen was worth a lot more than a half milligram of xanax. I even went to a few group therapy sessions." Alice popped the corn into her mouth, which shocked Lara who had become completely transfixed by the weaving ear.
Lara cleared her throat. "Really? I had no idea." She rummaged through her pad thai for corn. Finding none, she reached into Alice’s container and found a tiny ear. Happily she plucked it out and studied it. She set it down carefully and grabbed her wine glass. Taking a sip she continued. "And they helped?"
Alice nodded. Reaching over to Lara’s container she grabbed a wad of noodles and bean sprouts. Pausing before taking the bite, she looked serious for a moment. "Yeah. They did. It was good to see I wasn’t alone. I’m sorry I never tried to get you to go along. I thought about it, but it just seemed like it would be really weird with everything going on between us at the time." She took the bite. Swallowing quickly she added. "Besides, you seemed to be handling things so well." Alice put her container down and jumped up. "More wine?" She hopped up and began to uncork the second bottle.
Lara walked right into the trap. "I seemed to be okay?"
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YES! I am the first commentor-ess! CommentER? Who the hell cares. OK, so when Goldrun and Blue post updates on the SAME freaking night? I am speechless, and will post more (you are feeding my ego…always a good, I mean, dangerous thing, tee hehe!) on the actual chappy soon!
Sorry i havent commented in awhile,but i have been reading!!! This was a great chapter,im kinda liking this lace ship!! Keep up the great work and PPS.
i´m back, again! great updates!! i love your lace. at this chapter, alice is so sweet. lars dreams are so hard, but i´ll think she is just dreaming of (evil) dana, because she knows, that danas death were nearly the death of alice. all the drugs she ate like sweets… she couldn´t loose them both. (i´m so tired, sorry for my bad english)i´m so proud of alice, that she could wait for lara, didn´t pushing her to talk. and the the great ending, she told lara, that she is in love with her. that is so sweet. i agree with bluemini, ther could be fifty more chapters lol.so, all i could say for now is: sail on, my captian, sail on!!!!
Well, who wouldn’t lose their appetite over dreams like that. So, I’m guessing that it’s more like she’s going through the stages of grief in her dreams since she steadfastly refused to do it in her waking hours…and dreams do have a way twisting everything back on itself in weird and irrational ways. So, not so much with the trite, Gold. You are doing a wonderful job!
Yeah. That about sums it up. I don’t even have anything interesting to say. Except that I hope you keep posting, frequently, with chapters as good as this, cos I love this story. Yeah.
Terrific update, Gold – as usual! I’m so glad Lace finally got to spend a quiet night in together, with no interruptions! Lara sooo needed that talk with Alice. And, Alice is such a star – I love how sweet and supportive of Lara she is. And, yay (!!) for her telling Lara she loves her – I really didn’t see that coming in this one, but that’s what makes it so believable. It was the perfect moment to totally open up to Lara, and to convince her that she’s not going anywhere. Fantastic – and not a slice of cheese in sight! I know you’re drawing to a close, but I hope there’s still a chapter (or fifty) more in the works [*crosses fingers hopefully*]!
loved it! really great update, and thats saying something that you were able to impress me at 7:47 in the morning! good job! although i dont know why im up this early…huh…gonna go to sleep now! lol post mroe soon!
OK. Here’s my PS: I find this chapter even more intense than the last one. Or maybe because of the last one’s particular depth, or maybe ’cause I was listening to some melancholy music by Telepopmusik whilst reading, this update delivered a whallop. All kinds of wonderful potential for me thinking you’re moving into a slow-brewing, and, I use this word in the purely literary sense*, intense climax. Talk about emotions. I think one thing you’ve really captured is what any of us want–to understand and to be understood, epsecially with a partner/loved one. I had to go back and read again and let the chapter sink in–which, btw, equates with mad sexcellent writing skillz in my book! Kudos as always. Just when I think you can’t get it any better. I mean, even how you place them physically at points, with Alice ‘nestled into Lara’s taller frame’ is so spot on with the just-right amount of quiet, no interruptions, and austere beauty of nature (sunset, rooftop garden as change of vantage point) providing room to verbalize apprehensions. And the subtle signals of comfort between our two heroines (gestures, eating off each others’ plates, etc.) emphasize the level of comfort they feel towards each other. They may not have it all figured out yet, but that lends to this story’s credibility. Trite? Where? And any tailspins are right on…into Emotion-Land (don’t forget, it’s also always OK when the train stops in Get-It-Onfordshire with layovers in Nookie-Ville. OK, it’ll be up to you to ascertain the appropriateness of where more phsycial intimacy comes in [oops, no pun intended, but I just can’t stop today, geez!]). I totally did not see it coming that Lara would voice that she couldn’t remember how it felt to love Dana. Angst! And Alice says THE WORDS. A cliffhanger and resolution all rolled into one? Sigh….more soon please, your writing is …[insert 87 postiive attribute adjectives here, I don’t want to use just any old boring ones for now…] *literary, my ass….;)
I love it and I am glad to see that lara is talking to alice about all that is going on with her please post soon great update