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I Will Not Let You Fall
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Time passed, but the door stayed closed. Tina rubbed her damp palms down her jeans and swallowed past her dry throat. Leaning back on her stool, she peeked out of her booth to ask the staff about the delay, but nobody was in the room.
Suddenly, as if thrown open by someone within, the door moved on the other side of the glass partition, sending shivers down Tina’s spine. The door opened just wide enough to let the tall, dark-haired woman dressed in an orange uniform enter while being accompanied by a correctional officer. The officer took off her cuffs, told her something and then left, closing the door behind him, leaving Bette and Tina in the barren visiting booth in full view of one another.
Unaware that she was holding her breath, Tina watched Bette in stupor. In the light of the brilliantly lit booth her pale, gaunt face was much more prominent as were her long thin fingers. A blank lifeless expression became more pronounced as Bette raised her eyes, her broken spirit looking right back at Tina.
Finally, Tina exhaled and her chest rose and fell steadily with the sudden rush of oxygen. She saw Bette picking up her telephone receiver, so she followed the lead after quickly wiping a lone tear falling down her cheek.
”Hello, Tina,” Bette said in a flat voice.
”Hello, Bette,” Tina returned.
”How are you?”
”Not very good.”
Bette nodded slightly and lowered her gaze.
Staring at the brunette’s hand laying motionlessly on the table, Tina tried to reach out and take the hand into her own, but was reminded of the harsh reality when her hand bumped with the glass partition.
Tina’s shoulders sank in defeat. ”I miss you so much, Bette… All those months I’ve been going insane without you, I think about you all the time. I feel so lonely…” Tina spoke in a tearful half-whisper. ”I miss you so much and it’s so fucking unfair that we can’t do anything about it.”
After a pause Bette said, ”Yeah, we can’t.”
Sniffling, Tina studied the woman in front of her. Bette still remained utterly passive and emotionless.
”How are things going here on the whole?” Tina asked.
”Bearable.”
”Do you eat okay? I’m worried you look so thin…”
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Welcome back!
I must say – i don’t like your Tina in this story – she’s too weak, too dependent from another’s opinions. Yes, she’s young, but still. And Bette is right – Tina left her too often to believe in her love. So T has a lot a work to do, if she wants to fix it.
And you will bring back B from jail earlier than 19 years, right?
I like that you are frequently updating my favorite story on here. I feel so sorry for Bette,19 years behind bars?? Anxious to see where this story goes!!
Hi Valerie:
Amazing update; I’m very sorry for Bette, I understand her bitterness, and I think she still loves Tina, and probably she loves her so much that she would like for Tina to be happy, a happiness she doubts it would be with her, so she is pushing Tina away; she also feels resentment because of Tina’s behavior when she left her a few months ago, and Bette can’t understand that Tina’s situation with her parents made her take some distance with Bette’s trial.
But I think Bette knows very well she lied to Tina about her criminal activities and she has some responsibility in their separation.
Now, everything depends on Tina’s next step, would she be willing to wait for Bette? Will Bette recover some hopes about her future?
The answers are in your quill Valerie, but one thing I know is that Bette is empty and she needs Tina to get hopes in her future, and Tina needs Bette to survive.
Thank you for this great chapter, but now you leave us heartbroken, and with lots of questions.
Please, Valerie, post soon (seriously), I’ll be anxiously waiting.
P
This is heartbreaking Valerie!
Nineteen years in prison, i feel so sad for Bette. Is she gonna survive it, she is broken, her spirit died, especially after Tina left her more than once and after Marcus died.
Tina is young and i really believe she loves Bette, but she listen to much to other people and runs away when she promised Bette that she would stay with her.
I feel so sad for both of them, my heart is breaking. Is this really goodbye? Nineteen years is a long time and i hope there is a way for Bette to get out sooner, but i do understand that a relationship is very hard to remain and that Bette doesn’t want Tina to put a hold on her life waiting for her and why she said goodbye.
Valerie, i truly enjoy this story and while my heart is breaking, i still believe that you will give us a happy ending. Your story title,” I will not let you fall” give me the hope that you will bring them back together.
One request, i hate Helena, please don’t let her and Tina get romantically involved.
I truly love this story and anxiously await each update. Nineteen years….of course she did plead guilty, so it’s not surprising the number of years. I can’t say that I like this Tina. I need her borrow someone’s backbone if she can’t find her own.
There has to be a silver lining in this and the two of them will be back together and in love. I’m sure Bette is purposefully pushing Tina away.
Post soon!
Thanks for this great post! Hope we won’t have to wait for 19 years :) Can’t find in my heart any hatred for Bette-the-criminal and can’t find any sympathy there for Tina-the-good-girl. What a paradox! You’ve created a very intense and charismatic image of Bette.
Well geez that was up lifting…Not!…that is some freaking sad shit there…