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I Will Not Let You Fall
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Brushing a couple of steps past Tina, Bette drew back a chair at the head of the table.
”But it’s your seat,” Tina blurted out.
Bette looked at Tina pointedly, her cryptic smile never fading. ”Tonight it is yours. You are the birthday girl after all,” she insisted, her gallantry mildly ironic.
Swallowing back her confusion at Bette’s weird demeanor, Tina went along with the offer and sat down at the head of the table. Everyone had been observing closely while she and Bette interacted. When Bette settled back in the chair next to Shane, she greeted Kate who was sitting opposite her. The greeting felt a little too allusive to Tina’s mind, but there was nothing more to it, so the blonde set herself up for a good time.
The conversation at the table was a catch up fest where stories were told, compliments were passed around, jokes were flowing back and forth. One was providing more content than the other, but Bette was the only person who was silent most of the time. Her gaze was distracted, unfocused whenever Tina stole a glance at her. She appeared to be brooding about things beyond Tina’s guesstimate, which only caused the blonde’s already high concern for her lover to intensify. At some point during dinner Tina also noticed that Bette wasn’t eating enough and was drinking a little too much wine.
When everyone was finishing eating Kit’s cake, Tina suggested to stick to Chad’s tradition and ask an introspective question for further discussion.
”That’s a great idea, I love Chad’s questions!” Kit cheered.
”Who’s gonna ask a question?” Shane looked around the table.
”I can do it,” Tina volunteered and immediately fell deep in thought. Finally, an idea popped up in her mind and she spoke up, ”Who are you behind your mask?”
Everyone began to think.
”I’ll start,” Tina said, ”Behind my mask I am weak and scared.”
Next was Kate’s turn. ”Behind my mask I’m a dreamer.”
”Hmm, I guess behind my mask I’m indecisive,” Sunny offered.
Kit was rubbing her chin and gazing off into the distance. ”You know what, I say…behind my mask is a little girl who craves encouragement.”
”Behind my mask I’m batshit crazy,” Molly said in a funny voice with her face serious, inducing chuckles around the table.
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Absolutely brilliant!
Thanks for posting!
Please, please post more soon!
SG
Hi! Thank you for the new chapter!
So, Bette is return, but is she really fully return? Because like Tina i don’t recognize her anymore. What happen with her during this month?
And what about Tina’s secret – what is it? Maybe Tina find a way to communicate with her family in US and Bette find out?
I guess we need to wait and see.
Hi Valerie:
What a very nice surprise, wonderful chapter.
Finally, she is back but changed, I believe all the suffering and starving have made their toll on her. She never was the easiest person in the world, but she was much better after she left jail, but now she has gone very far back.
I believe it’s jealousy about Kate, like when Tina was still in college and had those girls after her, Bette has gone back to that; but now, I believe Tina can make her change to her nice way to be. At least Bette is reacting and is not numb anymore as when she arrived
I think Bette needs time, but she owes an explanation to Tina. All those emotions, hidden in Bette’s mind and heart are making too much pressure, and now we see her reaction against Tina, who has sacrificed a lot, leaving family, friends, job, house, stability, just for her, that is something Bette should consider before going crazy against her.
This has been an excellent chapter. I look forward to the next one, I know everybody is busy, but perhaps you could post the next one soon.
Thank you, again Valerie.
Whoa!!! What on earth is up with Bette? She is in need of some counseling badly! She is so dark and so withdrawn. Here Tina has been waiting for her for what a year and has no clue what has happened to Bette. She has had her own demons to face and control. She has had to forge a new life in a foreign land with people she doesn’t know very well and were not of her choosing. If I had been in this group, I would have insisted that Bette be treated by a medical doctor immediately. Explanation to the doctor: We have no idea why she is in this physical condition. She just show up one day like this. Yes she is our friend from America and no we had no idea she was coming.
It takes more than a few days to get over a starving bout. And if she remained in this mental state for more than a week, then a private counselor would be brought in. She is being cold to everyone in the household, not just Tina. As to this secret of Tina’s. Bette refused to allow Tina to visit her in prison because she did not want Tina to see her in that manner. Once out of prison, she was reluctant to see Tina until they accidentally met and her friend encouraged Bette to see her and made arrangements for Bette to see her. At every crossroads, it has been Bette calling the shots. It has been Tina who has soften Bette’s heart and made her see that she really wants Tina as her life’s partner. Tina has remained loyal to Bette for years with the exception of the seventh through the tenth year of Bette’s imprisonment when she got together with Brenda, the heart doctor. Wasn’t Tina under the impression that Bette was in prison for many more years to come when she got out on parole? Bette is right; underneath it all, she is a monster. At least she is right now. The question becomes is that who she wants to be?
I am really glad that Bette is in Auckland now. But I really want to see her become the Bette Porter we all know and love. I want to see her value and treasure Tina for the woman she is. Please do not let Bette snuff out Tina’s love for her like a candle. I feel its really close now.
Great writing….cannot wait for the next chapter.
Hi Valerie,
What a pleasent surpise to see a new chapter!
Wow, what happened with Bette? What makes her to act so cold and withdrawn, especially to Tina? What is Tina’s dirty litte secret and is that one of the reasons she acts so cold to her?
I am worried about Bette, what happened when she was forced to do odd jobs for Helena and does Helena have anything to do with Tina’s secret?
It has been quite an attack on Bette’s body and mind, working for Helena and the long journey on a cargo ship must have been intensive without food and drink.
Her dark and gloomy feeling she has always been known for has increased tenfold and I’m worried about her. She needs help or has to open herself to Tina so that Tina can help her to become old Bette again, the one Tina has fallen in love with.
What nobody said in their comments is the fact that everyone who lives in the house that Bette has cared for, uses their own names and that outsiders know it. I understand they think they are safe and fully trust their partners, but it is a big risk that they have taken. Kate seems to know Tina as Tina and not by her nickname. Very unwise.
Ok, a very large comment, but that deserves this story!!!
I hope you will update soon! Thank you!
Hey come back ! You can’t be serious and leave us like this, WHAT IS TINA’SECRET ????
Really amazing story, one of the best but please have mercy and post soon !
Great up date so drug out only to leave us hanging on Tina’s last words.. sounds like our Miss Helena have feed Bette a bit of information that didn’t set well with her…enough that may have pushed her off the edge. Problem is how you get her back she seems so lost almost brainwashed well I guess only time will tell right.. thank you waiting to see what up next.
Always so happy seeing an update from you!!
Wow it doesn’t seem like Bette is gonna get out of this anytime soon. I am curious as to what Tina has done or what she thinks she’s done and why Bette would be as enraged about it since she was away from Tina for a long time and was the sole reason for that.
I don’t see Bette holding that animosity if it was over Tina attempting to make that call. Or maybe it’s the jealousy between her and Kate but nothing happened as far as we know. I’m thinking like everyone else Helena fed her false information since she used to be in love with Tina. Oh man.
Please don’t make me wait too long!!
Hola Valerie que bueno que hallas subido el capítulo me dejaste intrigada con lo que le pasó a bette y quisiera saber cual es secreto de Tina que bette sabe esperando con ansias el siguiente capítulo gracias por tus historias
I really don’t like how this Bette treated with Tina. She obviously forgot that Tina abandon all her life only to be with Bette.
And about what Tina’s lie she’s talking? I bet it something to do with Helena.