Out of Closet (B&T time-travel romance), Ch. 27, Part 3
Chapter 27, part 3: Looking into the past (Alice reveals more of her shocking discoveries and Kit shares one of her secrets)

(Previously) “Well, one other thing we already knew. Her beloved sister Katie died in June of 1886 due to the childbirth complications. I read the rest of Maxine’s journal last night and it seems that it was some kind of infection. Maybe some afterbirth was left but it was something that antibiotics of our days would easily fix, I’m sure.”

“Yeah, that would be hard for her to accept,” Kit responded softly, “To lose a family member, especially the one that you love so dearly, is a really hard thing to deal with.”

“And there is one more thing,” Alice added, “And this was a shock even to me.”

Both Kit and Tina looked at Alice with surprise written all over their faces. Tina in particular was confused because there were not so many things that could shock Alice to the point that she had to admit it openly. And after she successfully visited 1885 and came back safe and sound, Tina thought that nothing could shock Alice at all.

“So what is it?” Tina and Kit asked in unison.

“Bette is not Melvin’s daughter…” Alice began dramatically.

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Place: Los Angeles, CA – The Planet
Year: Oct. 30, 2005 – Sunday

“What?!!” both Kit and Tina shouted, looking at Alice in shock.  

“No way,” Tina said incredulously, after a short pause.

“Way,” Alice answered, shrugging her shoulders. “It’s all in Maxine’s diary.”

“Does it mean Maxine had an affair…but with whom? Who’s Bette’s real father?” Kit asked, her mind drifting back to her own life and her own family.

“Well, she didn’t really say that she had an affair but from several entries in her diary it’s pretty obvious that she had. Here, listen and decide for yourself.”

Alice took copies of the diary from her purse and began fumbling with pages, trying to find the right ones. She finally found what she was looking for and said, before reading the marked passages, “The affair was brief but very intense and Bette was definitely a result of that. Okay, here we go, I’ll just read only the important parts. The first entry she wrote right before Bette was born.”