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Remembering Me – Part Two
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Around us the canyon walls are turning a deeper color of dark orange as the sun lowers in the sky. I inhale the dry air and think of fire season that’s coming soon.
The baby’s head lolls from side to side as she nods off.
A group teenagers jostle each other and pass me on the trail. I look back and see Shane still talking with her friends.
I knew maybe three people when I first moved here, to a city of millions and millions. Lost time after time, it’d taken me months to navigate its freeways, discovering only the surface of this city. Meeting Bette, who knew thousands of people, I was given entree into LA’s underground.
Dating her we’d taken our time, I say that now…I slept with her on the fourth date. I’d dressed so carefully to fit in with the artists from all over the world, who wore things I’d never seen, but in the end, it hadn’t mattered. Across any room, her eyes had undressed me with the fast sting of a zipper.
It’d stayed like for years and then, we’d drifted away – almost losing each other – and now, this under current of depression that feels so wrong.
My phone rings in my pocket, an old friend from my non-profit days. ”Hello there!” I say to Catalina.
In her exuberant Spanish accent she gushes, ”I just heard you had your baby! How is she? How’s Bette? When can I come see!”
”Tomorrow?”
”Bueno, bueno, bueno! Say three? I’ll miss some traffic.”
”Prepare yourself for anything.”
”What do you mean?” Her voice sounding concerned.
”I mean if at three o’clock this baby has other ideas…”
”Well! Bette can take care of it. She’s home with you right? On maternity leave, too?”
”Actually, her job imploded. She’s looking for a new one.”
”Lots of catching up to do! See you!” Catalina rings off.
Shane catches up to me. ”Right, I know, we’ve hardly walked a hundred feet.”
”Not much of a hiker are you?”
She taps out a cigarette and lights it. ”Not really, no, but let’s keep going. I’ve definitely made it this far before.”
As we hike up the trail Bette appears, running as if something’s chasing her. Seeing us, she waves and slows down and stopping beside me her shoulders heave as she catches her breath.
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Fantastic chapter!
Alice and her Vampire, God, she is the only one of the gang to get involved like that.
I would’nt mind to only see Bette in tanktop and pajamas, she looks incredible sexy in it.
Beautiful pictures! I love them and this story.
Thank you!
Thanks Bibi! (Here’s more about what I was thinking, too)
As the writer, I’m creating the arcs and portraying the inner struggles Bette’s going through in this pivotal part of her life. To do this as an immersive experience for the readers I’m creating sub-textures and metaphors in Bette’s mind as she tears and knits her thoughts and emotions back together, Hopefully, there’s a real sense of sharing that grief and hope with her through her experiences.
Starting moodily with post-coital bliss and moving to uncertainty on her trail run, her true feelings of tenderness are revealed in her watercolor portraits of Tina and the baby. All these mixtures of emotions she goes through as she wrestles with her sense of alienation she’s labeled her, lesbian daddy blues.
Her character changes dramatically in “Remembering Me, Part One” through “Part Two”. From ardent in her quest for sexual intimacy, her professional high-powered egotistic self no longer suited up for action, we’re meeting the struggling Bette Porter trying to find her way in a wholly new form of intimacy that’s unfolding.
Love your writing. Thanks for continuing to write.
Okay, so I had time to read it before my flight loved it! I see Angelica isnt the only one nursing (smile)! Vampires…….yup only Alice! I love the incorporated pictures cant wait until the next chapter!