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Summer Vacation. Chapter 45
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She could wish for anything. She could ask for some divine intervention to make her better, to make it easier, to fix the communication difficulties between her and Bette so that it didn’t always seem so hard. She could ask for some sign that confirmed what it was she thought she already knew, that she really did love Jo and should just tell her so, making it seem like what she ought really be wishing for was the courage to fix both,
“Lottie?”
Jo stared at her, Angie too and she smiled back at them, taking a deep breath and grabbing Angie’s hand to get her to help. Together they blew, taking out each and every candle and the warm glow that came with them as the last candle blew out. Lottie felt as if a breeze or chill ran threw her and with it came some evidence of a new beginning.
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Bette stood in the background, watching silently, smiling at Alice and Helena who fought about the best way to cut up the cake and blushed once Lottie started teasing them about the chocolate filling in the centre. Intriguing Shane and Carmen, Dana, Lara and Kit, none of whom knew the story, so she and Jo set about relaying it in a language that was supposed to go over the little girl’s heads but probably didn’t.
Tina turned to pass Bette a slice of cake, “Here you go babe,”
Bette took it and grinned, running her forefinger through the smooth icing, it tasted good, she made a loud yummy sound and then blushed when Lottie heard it, turned and grinned at her,
Bette smiled back, “What?”
Lottie shook her head knowingly, “Nothing …”
“SingStar … SingStar …!” Angie leapt up and down excitedly in response to Helena’s question about what they wanted to do before bedtime,
Helena exchanged a tired look with Tina,
“You better check with Lottie,” Tina insisted, hoping to remove the responsibility from herself, “after all, it’s her birthday,”
Angie and Li ran across the room squealing, “Can we, can we, can we?????”
Lottie looked back at them perplexed, “What the hell is ‘SingStar’ …?”
Thirty seconds later and she was beginning to regret that very question, when Angie pulled out a bunch of games and had everyone gathered on the couches, still eating their cake as she started looking for a volunteer to go first, eagerly pushing the microphone on anyone who would take it,
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that was really really really good…i say it ever time, but this story is just getting better with age. i took your advice on the end, but what i did read was beautiful and in my experience, very accurate to…just, everything really. lovely sweety, really good. *smile*
I love this story, but I dunno, I can’t help but be a bit distraught sometimes over Bette and Lottie’s mother. She left such a mess. And why couldn’t she have written Bette a letter, thrown her a bone? Or something, I dunno. It’s like Bette got no answers in the end. I suppose Lottie’s not getting all the answers either, but I’m really glad they’re at least forging something out of it. On a different note, the bit with Al and Hels was hotness. Really good chapter, sofa, thanks
Love alice and helena together!!!! good for shane for telling bette and lottie to talk and talk they must!!! i do feel bad for both though their past is just messy and must terrible for the both of them understand and take in… crazy.. anyway fantastic update… just gets better and better!!! :)
One up it you did Sofa, I think I said before that I like the whole family dynamics of this story. I feel badly for Bette as she didn’t know her mother as well as Lottie and Lottie being young really dosen’t understand that maybe Bette still has some kind of what I call,absent mother worship” Motherless daughters will always think of their mothers as the mother that would have been perfect. Well done. Thank you. Md
Really enjoyed Bette and Lottie talking, finding common ground and sharing their loss. Alice and Helena ain’t so bad either. ; )
hey sofa, was a great convo between B & L, great to see them both come out of their shells (sorta), but I have one issue with this chapter. and as you may or may not recall I have a thing for B & T filled NC17’s and this one had anything but……YYYY OH YYY SOFA!!!! When I read Tina’s thoughts on B singing, I was like yay…some one is gonna get lucky!!! r u gonna fix that just for me???? HUH HUH??? PPS!!! LOL!!!
I’m glad to see Bette and Lottie getting closer, but I still feel sad for Bette that there’s nothing there for her from her Mother. It’s like she wanted Lottie to seek Bette out for Lottie’s benefit. There’s nothing that shows us that Bette’s Mother missed Bette all those years. Great chapter…loved the Ally McBeal dance.
If it was up to Alice to do all the digging, she should have thought twice about her dare. Or helped Helena with the cleanup. Ah, I guess it turned out OK in the long run. Shane got lucky to only have faux dairy intruding upon her bodily crevices-got to be better than sand. But when did Shane get so modest?
Another wonderful post! I so love this story. It took me a bit to get my head around Alice and Helena together but….. I totally get them as a couple now. Looking forward to your next chapter. jinjur
I am totally hooked on this story. Looking forward to more.
As u know I love dis story n am so glad dat u have been posting almost regularly:)Just brilliant as usual, thanksPPS
I agree with Madcapper about Bette and Lottie and am glad that they are working their way through this together and communicating MUCH better. Neither can erase the past, but they can build a better future for themselves and take back what was taken from their mother and honor what she tried to do. This will also bode so well for Bette when she has to explain it all to Angie when she gets older. GREAT job Sofa, please continue :o).
Just enjoyed reading the last two chapters. I loved the Ally McBeal/ Barry White dance… my daughter and I do the steps every time we hear the song. Perfect with Helena rockin’ out to the Clash….then rockin’ Alice! Hot. You write the group scenes that I would love to see on the show. I agree with jp22, Bette’s mother frustrates me. How could she have not contacted Bette?? Glad to see that she and Lottie are trying to open up. Amazing as always, sofa.
It is nice to see Bette and Lottie starting to get to know one another better. Thanks to Shane for continuing to get the ball rolling. I love this family that has been put together. Thanks for the post.
That was great and Im with pattifloatn, please post more, thanks!
superb writing as usual and thanks Helebette for the NC17…I have loved Lottie from the beginning and I hope her and Bette get that sisterly feeling going on…they need each other. PPS.
i really like crunchie rolls with my gravy and onions and a beef sausage…the roll lasts longer than bread which just gets sodden, mind you on bread, on a plate with knife & fork is cool too. Now I’m hungry gonna go make me a tortilla. Post soon. I love this story. More Tina. I’m a Tina fan all the way.
Bette and Lottie really needs to talk a lot more. Right now they have one thing in common. Their Mother. Lottie could tell Bette a lot,about her that Bette missd out on,let Bette stop feeling that her Mother didnt care for her. Helena and Alice were hot. Hot Hot. thanks
Splendid as always, Sofa! I really love the way you write the group, family scenes. I think you’re the fanfic counterpart of Angela Robinson, the go-to director of TLW framily episodes. Loved the Kennard-Porters’ Ally McBeal dance. Laurel has been criticized for her dorky dancing in the show. So it was funnier to imagine her doing that famous dance as your Tina in her own, offbeat but utterly endearing way. Btw, I googled that dance just like you suggested but sorry, I didn’t recognize you from the lineup. ;> Glad that the headstrong, at times emotionally accessible sisters have finally started talking, heart to heart. *Thanks again* Sofa! Hope this “Summer Vacation” goes on and on and on… P.S. If you must know, helebette posted the longest comment in the previous chapter. :)
Shane is such a sweetheart and I am glad she is being her usual quiet unassuming self and helping Bette and Lottie reach out for one another. I am so happy to see Bette and Lottie trying to find their own path together. Sisters need one another no matter how old or how long seperated. Every chapter gets better and better!