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Secrets I Keep – Tina Kennard – The L Word – Touch Tones
“Joyce Wischnia’s office, Jean Rawlins speaking.”
“Ms. Rawlins, Tina Kennard calling. Last minute I know, but is Joyce free for dinner tonight?”
“Oh, let’s see Tina. She doesn’t tell me everything.” I hear Jean tapping keys, and I have a hard time believing she’s in the dark – for even one minute – when it comes to Joyce’s billable time. “What did you have in mind?”
“Joyce loves which red wine again?”
“Oof! Tina that stuff’s hard to find, and very expensive.” Jean emphasizes.
“Consider me warned. What’s her favorite though?”
“They’re two of them actually. From consecutive years, 1968 and 69.”
“Any clue who carries it?”
“At two hundred and fifty dollars a bottle? The Wine Shoppe on Beverly.”
“I’m on it. I have an account there. Can you get her to my house by seven?”
“Yours and Bette’s place, right?”
“God, yes! I’m back home!” I realize I’m shouting. ”Can she come? At seven?”
Jean’s voice sounds amused. “She’s nodding her head, yes, Tina. So, looks like she’ll see you then.”
Bette and Tina’s House – 7:15 pm – Tina
The closer to three hundred dollar bottle of wine is breathing, Bette is late, and Joyce and I are touring the garden with Angelica. ”Did you know I have a house in Santa Fe?” Joyce asks.
”Did I? No.”
”I was there last month, and I gotta ask you . . . what was Bette’s mother like? I can’t imagine.”
”Lovely, really. A very talented, interesting woman with, as you know, a very unusual story.”
”No signs of shadowy gangsters disguised as Indians?” Joyce smiles down at Angelica who spins streams of bubbles around us out of a wand.
One lands inches from me, and I stare into it amazed and whisper, ”Bette’s mother’s an older lady painting in the desert, and friendly with the Native Americans. She fits in.”
”A perfect camouflage!” Joyce booms, which makes Angelica rush up to her, and the bubble bursts.
”Alligator!” Angelica shouts.
”I don’t know about that.” Joyce laughs. ”Can’t you think of something scarier?”
”Alley-ga-tor! Alley gator took a bite out of mommy.” Angelica pats her stomach three times.
Inside the house Bette throws open the front door, and Joyce looks at me puzzled. ”That sounds impossible,” Joyce muses, ”even for her.”
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This bit of Tina’s thinking had me and a friend of mine laughing just now. Please enjoy the story. It was a lot of fun to write.
To have been a fly on Bette’s wall, as Jodi’s sign language and hand gestures had insinuated . . . that her necessary infidelities were coming soon . . . and to have seen Bette’s face, as it had dawned on her that Jodi – the also Alpha-lover – by way of signing with her fingers and otherwise, intended to fuck someone else . . . to this day, I’m so sorry I missed it.
That had me laughing too!
You have a writing style so unique, i love it!
It is important that Tina doesn’t hold secrets and tells everything to Bette, i am sure Bette is willing to help her.
Bette is so competive and loves a good challenge, bring it on!
And Angie, she is so cute!
Thanks for the update!
TINA does have a sense of humor with those descriptive metaphors of being with HELENA/HENRY.BETTE on the other hand falls in the catergory of voodoo.All is fair as the saying goes and TINA got the help she needed.Taking over the studio from AARON gonna be a walk in the park i hope.thanks
Via email to me from a new reader –
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Comment: This series is wonderful. Truly enjoy the story line & your interpretations of the action & thoughts of the characters. Tibette is alive & thriving in your world & thankfully now in mine.
Their love story is awesome & the insights add to the backstory of the original L Word show.
Thank you for your efforts & love of this marvelous couple.
Entertaining as always, thanks
Thanks BB this made me LOL !
As usual your writing and the pictures make your stories the best to read.
Love this series and anxious to read more soon. No secrets between our favourite couple please, I would love to read Bette’s reaction to Tina’s confession :-)
Lillian May
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You have taken your story line to a whole new level…Tina going to a Gypsy to entrust her relationship now with Bette will survive…wow…did not see that coming…so thrilled you did that. Tina is smart to realize she needs someone to ride shotgun is right…someone who has the stomach & nerves of steel to handle the game plan to take over Aaron’s job.
Laughed when I read Tina blushed recalling the sex with Helena at unusual places….right
place in the storyline to place this…I understand Bette now; so not surprised the complexity of Bette hating & trying to get Tina back at the same time…you did a fantastic job with Bette’s character. Like how you didn’t make Jodi a wimp of a character…Bette leaving her won’t have
shedding tears…Good to see Joyce back in the play…self assured; spoils herself comes to mind; can manoeuver anyone she wants…maybe that is the definition of a lawyer…haven’t given much thought to it…No one lectures Bette; though I don’t think Joyce had that in mind…
Bette & Joyce cooking…looking forward to that challenge…well…looking forward to the next chapter better put…you are one intriguing writer…can’t get enough of you…;-)
CJ~ @CKquon4 @Blackbird_write Oct 1
Masterful nostalgia! Helena and Bette were my absolute faves! A Joyce/Bette showdown…the PPV event of the year
I’m about to update this story.
Excellent chapter!
Bette loves a challenge.
The whole constellation