“Knowing Mr Porter like I do, I don’t think he’d like that very much” responded Sam.

“Ya reckon?” laughed Bette.  “Anyway we finally bumped into each other when I was about twenty but at that stage we were both different people I was the ‘straight’ laced member of the Porter daughters and she was the rebel without a cause.  She was so thin and strung out I hardly recognised her.  She was completely withdrawn and very frail.  We spoke for a few minutes with usual pleasantries, that was that I walked away getting on my train back to college.  By then I was mid way through my medicine degree.  Over the next few years I got myself sorted and got a job in paediatrics in the centre I work in now.  Then two or three times a year I’d get a call from some lockdown over the city saying come pick your sister up.  Invariably Kit would be high or drunk or possibly even both.  We never really spoke on these occasions I would just pick her and drop her where wanted to go and that was that, until the next time.”

“Oh my God, Bette that must have been hard for you”

“It was Sam; here I was succeeding in every other area in my life.  Whether it was my career, my love life or my daddy but I was failing miserably at being a good sister.  But I just felt left down by her.  My mom died and Kit promised she’d be there for me and never leave me.  I was ten years old and she left me, it broke my heart and now she has left me again for good this time.”

A single tear rolled down Bette’s cheek.

“Oh Bette”

“Anyway about five years ago she moved back to LA in fact she moved back into West Hollywood.  She had changed yet again.  She was more like the old Kit.  She was stunning, got her voluptuous figure back and more importantly she was clean and sober now for two years.  Alex was the reason Kit sobered up.  They had met about two previous to them moving back to WeHo.  Alex came and blew Kit apart.  They fell in love and eventually married.  Alex was very instrumental in restoring my relationship with Kit.  Although it did take some time, I finally got my sister back.  Alex was amazing and so good for Kit.  They were one of life’s couple who really belonged together.  They got married a year after moving here and that really went down like a lead balloon in Daddy’s eyes.  Imagine his two Porter girls are both gay”