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Summer Vacation. Chapter 5
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Tina watched her, unsure why her presence at Bette’s gallery both angered and concerned her. Was Bette’s gallery on the list of places to visit found in LA tourist mags? No, not really. Bette’s gallery was small and elite, Tina knew that, she knew it wasn’t the kind of place ‘average joe’ would stumble across. So she had two choices; ignore her or confront her.
“Lottie?”
Lottie swung around, her trance-like state interrupted. She found herself face to face with Tina who wore an expression she couldn’t decipher. Actually, she looked pissed off.
“How are you?” Tina continued, “did you have a good time with Alice last night?”
Something in her voice told Lottie she should try and keep this brief, “Yes thanks,” she answered, “we didn’t stay too long.”
Tina waited, knowing that the silence would get to her eventually. Deploying her most useful tool, the knowledge that she could maintain her silence for longer than Lottie could.
Lottie shifted uncomfortably, her eyes directed anywhere but Tina, “I … erm … I thought I would come and check out Bette’s gallery.” she admitted honestly.
“And?” Tina asked, folding her arms, it was a heavily loaded question.
“It’s great,” Lottie said, “although I only just started.”
Tina sighed, “Well in that case I’ll leave you to it … ” she began to walk away, “I didn’t realise you were so in to art,” she added harshly, “you know if you had waited until Bette came home she probably would have offered you a tour.”
And with that she walked away, leaving Lottie to asses from Tina’s viewpoint how it had looked to find her there. She was right to wonder, art lovers would have started at one of the bigger galleries and if it was Bette’s gallery that she specifically wanted to see then why not wait for Bette to show it to her?
Because she wanted to know more about Bette ‘now’, that’s why.
She sat down on the centre seat, her head in her hands, the gallery was astonishingly beautiful. She had wanted to tell Tina that she understood art, that she knew upon walking into the gallery that it flowed and captivated, drawing the viewer in. She had wanted to say that art was an enormous part of her life, that she had toyed with it as a degree choice before being steered away by her father. That she had often failed to understand it’s significance in her life and that learning about Bette had somehow made sense to her. She watched as Tina disappeared from view, knowing she should leave now.
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Maybe an unknown sister
your still killing me… and if you left any clues … well i missed them… unles lottie was talking with melvin while bette was talking to tina on her cell… ok waiting for the next chapter
I think maybe Bette had a child and the father raised her, I dont believe that Melvin knows about it. Lottie is just trying to find out about her other parent. It happens all the time when the child get older. thanks
wow u’ve got me going on this one…all signs makethis Bette’s daughter BUT i have a feeling not!!!! Is Lottie’s dad, Bette’s brother through their mother, Maxine…or is Lottie Bette’s half-sister through Maxine and this mysterious dad????? I gotta know soon, pleaszzzzzzzzzzz
Give the girl a car. Everyone in LA has a car. She can affor a hotel for the summer, but no car, no realistic. Thanks for sharing!
Maybe Tina feels like Lottie is trying to take her place somehow. I’m definitely sucked in, so PPS!
You are driving your readers…me included…crazy trying to figure out how Lottie might be related to Bette. I for one give up and will just wait until you tell us.
i’m getting really worried about that lottie person, she’s bothering me a little though i don’t think she’s evil or anything but she’s seriously disturbed, sort of LOL…i hope bette gets home soon
I love this story! Bette needs to come home before Tina loses it. If that is Bette’s daughter then will this put a riff in their relationship? I mean Bette had all these years to tell Tina…and I remember you had Kit say something about Bette going to Paris when she was 19 and Melvin didn’t know where she was….oh the suspense I love it!
Who really is Lottie!
Intriguing. Can wait to see what the relationship is between Bette and Lottie. Hope this info is coming soon.
cant wait for there more and bette/lottie to meet where we can see where it leads to…p.p.s.
I feel like Tina. Who is this Lottie person? She can’t be Bette’s daughter, can she? Has Lottie patterned her life to follow Bette’s. You really have us guessing. Keep Posting.
Gotta tell you, I love this story, and the storyline, and the whole mystery around who Lottie is, etc, but honestly, what I love the most about this story (and maybe your writing in general as i hope to find out with more stories of yours) is the way you portray Bette and Tina’s relationship. There are a lot of amazing authors on this site and a lot of them have done a fantastic job in describing the life-long relationship that B&T indeed have in our favorite fanfic land, but there is something very special about your B&T… They are so “together”, and real life-partners at so many levels. I mean, the very fact that you start this story with them both on opposite sides of the country and still make them appear closer and more in love than ever is simply amazing, and so addictive may I add! I really love your style and some the tiny details you integrate here and there… like this feeling of Bette that Tina gets everytime she enters one of Bette’s galleries… Tiny detail, but oh so meaningful! Thanks, and please post soon!
damn whooooooo is Lottie?????????????????????????????