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Trust No One #16 – Touch Tones – S07
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My mother stares down the table at me, as if I, too, were a convict. ”So sad, to have a felon in the family.”
Evangeline continues my faux pas. ”When is Charles getting out?”
”Bud, you’re taking me. When’s his next parole hearing?”
”Coming up real soon, I think.” The mayor says.
”Don’t forget now, Bud, you’re center stage during The Shrimp and Petroleum Festival.”
I whisper to Savoy, ”Not possible. It can’t be named that.”
”Things are very counterintuitive down here.”
Louellen hands her empty bowl to Augustine, who replaces it with trout loaded with crabmeat. ”Will you be singing the National Anthem again, Evangeline?”
”Ninth year in a row, I’m proud to say, yes I am!”
Savoy’s eyes sail up to the ceiling. ”Only when I imagine myself with a severe head injury does it begin to make any sense.”
On Nellie’s front porch –
At nearly midnight, with the old ladies all safely down in bed, Savoy and I share a bottle of cognac.
She lets out a long stream of blue smoke. ”Bette, I looked you up, both you and your mother.”
”I’m happy to say, we’re not after you.”
She blows out a smoke ring. ”Lucky for you.”
”In more ways than you can imagine, but seriously, are you in some kind of trouble?”
”A fucking mess, alright.”
”My mother won’t leave, if she thinks her friend’s not okay with you.”
”She’s not harboring a fugitive, at least not anymore.”
”Go on.” I wait patiently and sip my cognac. The night outside is surprisingly cool with the breezes off the water, and the sky, a deep space jet black and sprayed with a thousand stars.
I stifle a yawn. In an hour, I’ll go to sleep, but not until I hear Savoy’s story.
”For a long time my company lied every chance it could get about the real number of barrels per minute that were gushing out down there.”
”By how much?”
”Tens of thousands and then millions!” She shouts. ”There was fucking oil everywhere. Absolutely, everywhere! I went off my head and called The Guardian, and it wasn’t too much later they started printing BP’s real oil flow, in bpm’s. That’s barrels per million.”
Then, a long silence.
”That caused a massive shit storm, and I had to run.” Her leg nervously jiggles. ”I guess blowing up my life was worth it? Right?”
”Only you know the answer.”
Painfully, she sighs. ”Whales and thousands of oiled dolphins and birds still died.”
”Maybe not as many, if you’d kept silent?”
”Fuck, I hope so!”
”I think what you did was brave.” I lift up out of my chair about to announce that I’m off to sleep, when she stops me cold.
”I Googled you. I think I said that.” Savoy begins to laugh, and finally catching her breath, she says, ”You are so gay. The stuff I read about you on the Internet! You’re hilarious.” She wipes her eyes of tears. ”I hope you’ll stay longer.”
”I get that a lot, especially from my lawyer. You want my headlines, instead Savoy? You can have them!”
”She’s pretty though, your fiancée.”
”Very.” I smile, satisfied at the thought. ”You seeing anyone?”
”Me? No, I’m keeping my head down driving swamp boat tours hoping things will blow over soon.”
”Will Charles get out of prison early?”
”Good Lord! You can’t think I’m interested in him!”
”No, no, forget that! But is he a good son?”
”Hang on, I’m not too drunk. What was Shakespeare’s line for Othello?”
”I’d embarrass myself, if I even tried.”
“I would not put a thief in my mouth to steal my brains. That’s how I feel about Charles coming home, but I’ll be long gone by then.”
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For more of Bette’s continuing adventures in the bayou, stayed tuned for the next post #17 coming soon.
Bye, Blackbird
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Yes! Update! This is getting more complicated for Bette? What the heck Savoy wants for Bette to do?
And Tina. Is there trouble in the horizon for her? Gambling problem for Aaron? Damn!
Thanks for the update BB.
It leaves me wanting more, especially now we have an ‘English Rose’ in there :-)
Don’t make me wait too long for the next post !
Hmm, what the hell Bette landed in? The story has so many twist, it keeps you captivated.
Hope there will be not trouble for Tina and her job.
Thanks for the update!
Sounds like Tina and Bette are in for some trouble. Enjoyed it
Trouble? Not really. But things to discover. Principally, I’m interested in your thoughts on Savoy, and the other cast of characters you met at the Dinner Party. I’m writing and beta testing a longer story here, with The L Word cast of characters, for a film script. The screenplay, (beta testing here in prose) will feature the strong female leads I’ve introduced, and an unfolding environmental theme that’s dramatically set in an environment both beautiful, but with a tragic past.
I’d enjoy hearing what you think.
Blackbird
MARY asked BETTE to come to her.BETTE meets NELLIE who is being poisoned by someone,SAVOY is a whistleblower on the run,the MAYOR’s son is in jail,the MAYOR’s wife is eating herself into an early grave and now MARY wants BETTE to entertain SAVOY(who hasn’t met TINA yet)who talks about BP(british petroleum)with GATOR and oil spills.Very twisty but entertaining especially if Aaron is gambling the movie away and ALICE wants to know about ms psycho.continue please
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Lollypop91
September 15, 2015 at 5:48 pm
Absolutely nailed it! How involved can Bette get with this issue, she’s got Tina and Angelica to consider, how risky will this be? Also, what’s happening with the film. Bette and Tina have already been through so much, can they both deal with these new challenges together? Roll on the next installment…
Blackbird… Always a hidden gem! An ode to NYFW? The iconic Iris Apfel? In the last chapter, too ! Whoa Nellie! ! Very nice touch!
I am an admirer of these amazing photos
you put to accompany this story,
I must confess that I saved a few on my computer.
I hope Bette return home soon.
The entire constellation.
Bette does return in the next story – The Good Sister – https://lesfan.com/?p=92437
Please enjoy! Blackbird
LillianBB227 –
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This chapter has left me in so many directions with questions: Politics; gambling problems; Tina’s sister;
Shane’s mother; BP oil flow causing copiousness environmental problems; spark my interest in Bette’s mother’s abundance of money…The new character Savoy fits her name to perfection wonder where she
will lead us; can’t see Bette obliging her mother getting it on with her…again you have plenty of material here to continue keeping the readers anxious awaiting for the next chapter…#GreatJob…