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I Will Not Let You Fall
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Bette pondered. ”That’s a beautiful name. I’ve never heard it before.”
”Everyone calls me Yola, which is common enough, I think.”
”I like Ayola better,” Bette nodded to herself.
”Me too,” the woman glanced at Bette with a smile. ”So, how did you end up hitchhiking on Interstate 5?”
Bette bit on her lower lip, trying to think up a believable lie. ”Just travelling here, there, everywhere.”
”That’s cool. Been travelling for long already?”
”Oh, a long way. You wouldn’t know.”
”And Los Angeles is one of your travel destinations, I presume?”
”You could say that,” Bette replied.
”Is it your first time travelling to LA?”
”Not really,” Bette muttered. ”What about you? You don’t look like a tourist,” she hurried to get the conversation off herself before Ayola formed another question.
”Yeah? Who do I look like to you?” Ayola asked, challenging Bette, in good nature.
Bette feigned a thoughtful frown while rubbing her chin. ”To me…you look like a woman who knows what she wants and how to get it. You look like an independent kind of person.”
Ayola glanced at Bette and narrowed her eyes teasingly. ”You look like someone who just read me like a book. Bearing in mind that we know each other for ten minutes, I don’t trust you already.”
”You better not,” Bette teased back and they both chuckled.
”I actually only work in LA. I live in Jackson, a small town near Sacramento. I’m an assistant lighting technician in TV production, it’s a contract job, so when I’m done with a project, I get back to Jackson.”
”Why not just stay in LA?”
”Oh, please. I hate LA with passion,” Ayola laughed softly, shaking her head. ”The city has no soul. Also, all the pollution. I hate the pollution. After two-three months of working in LA I come back to Jackson and breathe again.”
”Well, pollution is the main environmental problem in most metropolises, not only LA,” Bette said, not sure why she was defending the city she didn’t even want to go to herself.
”Exactly. That’s why I won’t ever stay in any metropolis for good,” Ayola stated before glancing at Bette. ”Where’re you from by the way?”
Bette shrugged. ”Nowhere in particular. I was born in Chicago, but I haven’t been there for decades.”
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Thanks for another update!
Devastating chapter. You’re very surprised me – i didn’t see this coming, that Bette spent 10 years in prison. Most sad part of this that everyone gave up on her – even Tina. Althought we might be expected it from this Tina, who trully never loved Bette.
So, what future waiting for Bette?
What Tina did for 10 years – was a perfect parents girl, college, dating with right peoples, good job?
And when B&T will meet again (i guess through Ayola because she’s in TV business) what meeting will bring them?
Hi Valerie:
Thank you for this amazing chapter. Bette is coming back from prison, clean and ready to have a new life.
All her suffering, the hitting, the claustrophobia, the scorn, all of that, have mature her soul, tempered her mood, her impatience, possessiveness and arrogance and has given her the strength for a new beginning. Fortunately, she still has hopes.
I guess the picture she is seeing now has a lot of memories. She loved Tina and Tina loved her.
Bette made too many mistakes, she was ‘set up’ for a criminal life and she kept in the game, in some way to protect Tina, but Tina wasn’t even aware at the beginning about Bette’s criminal activities, and it was very hard for her when she knew about Bette’s activities.
Tina is not there; Bette threw her out from the prison on her first visit, maybe for good maybe for bad. I’m wondering, what the poor girl did with her life, but you will tell us soon in your updates.
I hope they both find each other and reconnect again, but more mature, and in a more serious relationship.
Thanks again Valerie for this wonderful chapter and hope…, really hope you will post soon.
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Poor Bette but I guess her conviction was the only way for her to get some kind of life back. Also I’m not so sure Tina ever stopped loving her and just gave up because of Bettes wish for her to never come visiting her and forget about her. Also 10 years is a long time so not really fair on Tina to expect her to just put her life on hold for a person who doesn’t want anything to do with her.
I guess they’ll meet again through Ayola and hopefully get a happy ending, I’m such a romantic and it’s Tibette after all:)
Happy to see a new chapter. Looking forward to When Bette and Tina meet again.
Hi Valerie,
Very interesting chapter!
After 10 years in prison, Bette can finally start her life over. It is so sad that she has no one to turn to. The only one who cared was Mrs. Caroll and i have a suspicion she passed away and that that the reason is she didn’t visit anymore.
She is lucky she met Ayola, love that girl already and i think like the others that she is the one who brings Bette and Tina in touch again.
I would like to know how Tina’s life went, what she did, does for work, did she go through life like the sweet girl her father wanted. Did or does she still think about Bette.
I am looking forward to the next chapter!
Wow! I have loved this story from the very beginning and so happy to see you are back Valerie!
This was an amazing new chapter and am looking forward to the next! Thank you!
Very interesting chapter. Thanks for the update and I’m looking forward to more
Thanks for the post Valerie. Really enjoy this story and its my favorite on here. Very good detailed writing. I hope for a happy ending but I dont want this story to end anytime soon. So many possibilities. PPS
Great glad she got out early.. And I worryher neighbor has past away or very sick..i hope Tina kept the apartment even if it did remind her of happier times. She may have moved on but I’m sure her heart still belongs to the same person all these years…thank you great chapter..
I don’t generally review but this time I’d like to do it .
I started to read your fic two days ago and I wasn’t able to let it go until now, It’s amazing
You began your story in 2014 and in my opinion your writing has improved over time, it’s more mature. (I hope you don’t mind me saying this !)
Anyway, I hope to read a new chapter real quick.