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Random 16 – The End
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"Do you have your answers Tina?"
The younger woman inhaled deeply and knew there was no choice but to face this interview. So Tina turned around slowly and Bette took steps backwards to allow her room. Two sets of eyes were glistening signaling disturbed emotions.
“Bette stop.”
“Stop what?”
“Stop this,” the blonde requested softly, yet the command ignited an anger that was now visible in the dark eyes that measured her.
“You asked me how it was with Candace and I answered.” She accused, “How is this different?”
“She was an affair.”
Bette‘s lips formed into a smile though not in pleasure. “Which I suppose Henry isn’t.”
The brunette took half a stride closer and looked directly at Tina. Their gaze was locked in a battle of emotions that bridged past and present. A promise of forever, errors in judgment, missed truths, forgotten acts and craving for what was missing between the couple and everything in between.
“I’ll stop Tina.” Bette’s voice was still deathly quiet. “You can have what you want but don’t you ever bring him to… “ she almost claimed what was no longer true but in that split second corrected herself. For this was no longer their house.
“… to this house ever again.”
Tina exhaled then said to ease the burden somewhat, “You weren’t here.”
It would hurt less if it no longer mattered and if Bette did not care. But she did and it tore through her like the devastation that a tornado inflicts onto an aging wooden house directly in its path. Like crumpled paper which would never regain its once pristine smoothness since the harsh veins of discontent were too prominent to ignore.
So she hurt.
Bette was acutely aware it. The raw hurt was so intense that it caused a numbness localized to feelings she counseled rationally in recent weeks. In a way that helped during this moment. Sure, it was tempting to cry and express the loss that bled through wounds that seemed would never heal.
“Where was I?” she almost taunted. In truth the inquiry was more so purposed to know precisely when she had lost her partner to the desire for someone else completely.
“You were away.”
Away. In an instant it came together. During the retreat. He touched her in their…in this house just days ago. But she had returned. She was here and Angelica would be with her so Tina could be with him.
“Well I’m here now.”
Bette backed away while facing her ex. The women held a gaze that spoke clearly and announced the inevitable. The brunette looked across the kitchen upon a lover who once held her heart. A partner who cherished the person she stood for and loved her for years despite multiple flaws.
The space separating them was literally about five feet but the rift between their souls made it feel as though a canyon’s length served a partition to previously shared hopes and dreams. There was not much left to say. The diffident and unsympathetic look communicated the thoughts which crowded their heads individually.
Everything they were fractured. There had already been too many requests for reprieve. The couple lived through enough disappointments and nothing remained except for an emptiness that spoke of a significant loss.
Nothing else was left.
It was simply…the end.
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Oh, that really hurt. It feels like a sharp pain in the chest. It feels doubly painful coming on the heels of a sweet, lovely intimate scene. But it’s well-written as always. No needless words or imagery. It’s one concise, compact piece on raw hurt. Though I’m clearly biased for happier scenes, I couldn’t resist reading this. Every line vividly describes Bette’s pain and Tina’s veiled heartlessness. Splendid as always, lwordid! Thanks a lot for sharing your unique talent, lwordid, and a big hi and hello to you too! =) Cheers!
i hope it’s not the end to your randoms because i need the happy ones to continue too :)
This chapter reached out and grabbed me around the throat and just kept squeezing! It brought back so much of the anger I felt all through season 3. When Bette suggested that Tina “explore her feelings” for men, I don’t understand how that equates with fucking a man in a bedroom she shared with Bette for eight years. And then trying to justify her actions by saying “you weren’t here.” Really Tina?! I mean really?!! So it would have been okay for Bette to bring Candace into your home and fuck her in your bed, just because you happened to not be home at the time? Too bad Tina couldn’t just be honest with Bette verbally and say “you don’t matter to me any more. I have no love or respect for you any more,” rather than show her how she feels by having sex with Henry in their room. Grrrrr LOL That whole season disgusted me!! I wouldn’t be so pissed off except your writing is so good it brought me right back there. This whole Random series was VERY well written. Thank you!!
How about we call it a lapse of judgement? A mistake? Ok, an ending if we must but I have hope because it’s there to be an ending for there to be a renaissance. Henry was a nice guy but he always seemed more like a convenience than perfection for Tina. So well written as always – two posts in one week, you’re on a roll, don’t stop now!
Wow, you’d never know english was my native language looking at that post – what I meant to say was: “I have hope because there has to be an ending for there to be a renaissance”
What Seahurst said. Especially more Randoms please!
No, it can’t end this way. Can we go back to the previous post, I really liked that one, Please can we skip this one?
I sure hope this is not the end of your postings. If it is please do not remove your stories from the site as many have done. If you plan to do so, please warn us before you do. Thanks so much for sharing your writing with us.
Thanks for this post. I’m also curious about what happened to Bette and Tina in “The Settlement”.
Oh, that hurt to read. I know there’s alleviation down the line, but the pain is fresh just now. Great writing as always. Thank you
Oh that was just so sad and hreatbreaking. Give us one of your happy randoms please. Great writing. Thank you.
nooooo my Bette will not give up. Not the end