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Summer Vacation. Chapter 35
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She crept downstairs again, “Lottie?”
No answer. At the bottom of the stairs Tina stopped to listen, aware that the hushed conversation from earlier had stopped,
“Lottie?”
“Hey Tina.”
She sat at one of the kitchen chairs, notably alone, Tina stepped cautiously closer, “Everything okay?”
Lottie shrugged, “Yep,”
Tina chuckled, “You’re not giving me much to go on here?”
Lottie turned to her in surprise, “Huh …?”
“Well,” Tina paused, “in the time it’s taken me to put Bette to bed you’ve had a fight with Jo, and she’s left,” she said, sighing, “all in all I’d say that’s the perfect end to a perfect evening?” she added, taking the empty seat beside her,
Lottie frowned, “We didn’t have a fight …”
“No?”
“No …”
“Where’s she gone then?”
Lottie twirled the stem of an empty wine glass thoughtfully, “Home … to give me time to think …”
“Time to think, why?”
Lottie sighed, “Because she’s going to France as soon as school finishes and she wants me to go with her …”
Tina reached across and took the glass from her before she span it completely over, “Oh …”
“Yeah … oh,”
In the quiet of the kitchen, Tina waited, hoping that if Lottie was as similar to Bette as everyone said she was then the silent treatment would work,
“How could she not have told me?” Lottie asked rhetorically, answering her own question before Tina had time to inhale, “I mean, it’s not as if we haven’t seen each other almost every day for the past few weeks, it’s not as if we weren’t headed somewhere …”
“Maybe it was never the right time?” Tina hypothesised,
“What’s the right time got to do with it?” Lottie bit back, annoyed that Tina took away the thing she was fiddling with, “there’s never a right time, does she think I sat around waiting for the right time to come and see Bette, did we wait for the ‘right’ time to tell my father …?”
“Jo’s not you Lottie,” Tina said softly, “or Bette, and if you’re angry then you should tell her, not me,”
“I’m not angry …” Lottie sighed after a while, “I’ll just … miss her, that’s all,”
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i have so been hanging out for this story but didn’t have the cheek to PM u seeing as i’m way behind…but u did it; i love it; pps.
and i’m actually 1st!!!!
I’ve missed this story, thanks for posting…not that I don’t like what you have given us…it’s just I really love this story.
Wow, you did an amazing job picking right back up with the intrique. I am excited that you have gone back to writing this story,
Not first!!! Look who’s being all prolific and stuff. Good to see this one back. As long as you’re taking requests, how about revisiting “London Town”? (That is what it’s called, isn’t it? It’s been so long.)
I am thrilled to see your story updated! I wish Bette and Lottie would just talk to each other. They are both so afraid of losing the other that they don’t really even get the chance to know each other.
Lottie doesn’t have to stay in France the whole month… she’s got like trillions in the bank, can’t she hire a jet and just go see Jo for 4 or 5 days then come back for a week a couple of times? Or, can’t she fly her new family over to France for a visit while she stays with Jo? I dunno, money=options, and she’s got loads. As for Bette and the old idiots on the board, I think she can easily win one of them over. Or, failing that, make them scared to vote against her! And Al + Hels, too cute! I’m glad to see this back, thanks for the post, sofa, cheers!
what a great story! i think tina being a therapist so fitting for her personality!
Good chapter. Drama coming !
Wow. The drama. Glad to see a B/T story back. Hope you end up updating that story where they are in London sometime if you get the chance.
Thanks for updating this story, I really like this one. This should be a pretty tough decision for Lottie, but Jo doesn’t seem to be having as hard a time as Lottie with it.
Hey Sofa! thanks a lot for this update. I’ve loved this story from the beginning and I think you’re doing a marvelous job with the intrigue. And i’ve already said it but i love Tina’s personnality and B&T’s dynamic here. But I admit that I also fell in love with London Town and would love to see it continue… *hint* *hint*…. Thanks!!!
hehe, ok, see? i’m like 25th down the list, not the first to comment this time. yay for dying batteries. lol. i must say…super cute baby, super cute…lottie and jo and their mini dramas are just adorable and touching and really great. bette and joyce drunk are great, but you paint joyce in this really layered way so that i’m giggling over bette’s ‘curled lip’ while thinking at that very same moment ‘poor joyce’ and worrying about her. i love it, love the directions this story goes, love how you write it, love the characters…i’ll stop gushing now. but i’m glad you had a chance to get to this one. perhaps you’ll do some writing on my little ‘prezzy’ today? *giggles* xo
OH and i love alice and helena…that was also totally adorable. peggy’s whole thing about hearing them. hehehe…more of those two! :) i’m such a demanding grlfriend;)
“tons of inappropriate questions” And we want to hear the answers to all of them… Go Joyce!… ;-)
Thanks for the update. Enjoyed having this story back and the B/T/H safari.
YAY!! I was so excited to read this, & I loved this installment…I wonder what Lottie’s going to do about Jo…? Joyce’s appearance was great, Alice & Helena are hilarious as always, and of course I always love B&T. Thanks, sofa!!