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Summer Vacation. Chapter 35
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Joyce grinned, looking less formidable as she aged, she stood to greet Tina warmly with a hug before returning to her seat opposite Bette, the table in between them littered with various folders and documents,
“Thank you …” she replied after a moment of looking Tina up and down, “I’ll have a coffee please, Irish if you have it,”
Tina turned to Bette and grinned, eyebrows raised, “Babe?”
“Just a plain old American one for me …” Bette replied, turning back to Joyce, “my sister and her girlfriend and coming to dinner later, that’s if they both survive Angelica’s dress rehearsal,” she explained, seeing the odd look Joyce had given her when she declined to partake,
Joyce nodded, sitting back in the chair to cross her legs with purpose, “She’s a lesbian then?” she inquired, not shy of prying about the mysterious younger sister she’d heard tales of but not yet seen,
Bette nodded slowly, “I guess so,”
“What do you mean, you guess?” Joyce probed, the lawyer in her not satisfied with Bette’s half-assed answer, “haven’t you asked her?”
“I don’t know,” Bette shrugged, “to be honest we haven’t really talked about it,”
“They don’t really ‘talk’ about much at all …” Tina interjected, feeling confident enough around Joyce, the woman who’d helped them to split, then reunite, then confirm Angelica’s parentage in the eyes of the law to be brutally honest. She bent to pass them both their drinks, “Bette thinks she’ll scare Lottie off if she bombards her with too many questions,”
“I see …” Joyce narrowed her eyes, scanning Bette’s face for a way in, a clue, “that really won’t do,” she added, sounding rather like a mother who was scolding her child, “if you’re going to be working together, which is effectively what we’re talking about here then you both need to learn how to communicate,”
Tina scoffed, realising if she were to carry on Bette would likely to spend the rest of the afternoon not talking to her, “What?” she asked innocently, seeing the look on Bette’s face, “it’s no secret babe that you’re both just as bad as each other,”
Joyce downed her coffee with alarming pace as the couple exchanged informative glances, silently sorting out their differences, “You know, you both need each other in this …” Joyce added, after the still silence had begun to lift, she picked up a selection of the papers which littered the table, “I can’t imagine being a kid trying to deal with all this shit, and as for you Bette, well … if we’re going to get anywhere with this lot we’re going to need a fair amount of help from your ‘stubborn and independent’ little sister, as you so aptly put it, so … you’d better start talking to her,”
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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!!