ONE AND ONLY

CHAPTER 39

Bette felt different when she arrived at school on Monday morning – who knew that so much could change in a week ? She was deep in thought – she was crazy for Tina and that was such a high for her. The real changes had come inside her when she had started looking at her life and challenging her own perceptions of things. She had always just accepted that she was an odd ball. But it had taken making good friends in Shane and Carmen and the fact that she had started running for her to start challenging other people’s opinions of her. She had done a lot of thinking and realised that all these people making judgements knew squat about her. What the fuck gave these people the right to make judgement calls on her ? And why had she listened to them ?

Well she had listened to them because she hadn’t known that they were talking shit. No one knew Bette like she did herself and she was pretty sure that while she was probably TOO neat there were worse habits to have. So in short – who gave a stuff ? Bette was learning to rely on herself more and more and that was a good sign of her own maturity. She felt she could trust herself – she had realised that Tina fancied her and she had acted on her own instincts – that had worked out so fantastically well. In the future she was going to listen to other people less and herself much more

“Bette “

Bette removed her ear phones and turned

“Hey Shane “

Shane reached Bette and smiled at her.

“You don’t let the grass grow under your feet do you ?”
“Me ? – no idea what you are talking about – I am just the boring bookworm Bette “

“Like hell you are – that was an amazing thing you did last Monday”

Bette grinned “It felt right”

“Wow – I swear that for the rest of the week Carmen and me were just in awe of what happened”

“It wasn’t that huge “ Bette said

“Huge ? – it was fucking gargantuate – is that even a word ? Well it was as big as the biggest dinosaur that ever walked the earth and is probably the Natural History Museum right now”