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The Journey 38
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Tina is sitting in front of me and we face the fire. I rest my chin on her left shoulder and my right hand rests on the top of hers, fingers intertwined. With my left hand I reach out and take a gulp on my wine. No one has spoken since our earlier encounter. I have been sitting here quietly thinking, reflecting. Perhaps it is the wine or the late hour. Tina speaks without turning around. She looks at the rug we sit on.
Tina: “That’s a big sip of wine.” I say rather inquisitively. It is really a question. I wait to see if Bette will answer.
Bette: I place my glass on the floor within easy reach and place my left hand on top of Tina’s. “Tee, where is your ring?” I ask quietly, like saying it out loud might somehow make things more real or worse. I trace her ring finger.
Tina: “At the house, in our bedroom.”
Bette: “Have you worn it since.?”
Tina: “No.” I try not to make this harder than it has to be.
Bette: “Have you taken it anywhere with you since.?”
Tina: “No Bette.”
Bette: I slowly take my left hand off the top of Tina’s and rest my forehead on her shoulder. I can feel my chain with dangling around my neck with my ring. With my right hand I reach up and hold my ring.
Tina: “Why did you take yours everywhere?”
Bette: “Pardon?” as I am caught by surprise and I look up. I am glad we are sitting like this. This is an easier conversation not having to make or avoid eye contact.
Tina: “The last time I saw you before you left it was still around you neck and it’s still on your chain, around your neck. The chain I gave you for our first anniversary. If I know you Bette, you never took it off.”
Bette: What Tina says is true, I never once took it off. I give a little laugh. “I guess you still know me.” I think about why I never took it off and I answer her seriously. “Hope for a future, memories, forgiveness, love, to remind me what I’d lost, so I could feel close to me, need I go on?” and I know the wine is making me sentimental, unashamedly so.
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Great chapter. Looking forward to more.
Great as usual, Love it, please post really soon
this is sort of sad, i hope tina will learn how to forgive and trust again, but at least they have a good start
I like your comments BetteAndTinaForever. I think there is a real sadness b/w them at the minute.
loved it! can’t wait for your next chapter don’t let us wait too long……. keep the chapters coming
Love’s highest bourn is forgiveness to your lover’s fault. You love, you wait and communicate, not try to find a way to revenge or get payback.
Thank You for this gift of a chapter.
Simply fabulous!
Shane may be Yoda, but Bette’s become quite the sage herself. Nice job with Tina’s conflict.
That was deep. Emotions such as forgivness are never easy, but the only way to get past them is to talk through them. I want them both to be strong and open w/ one another.Wonderful chapter, please post again soon.
Great chapter, but sad, please make them sort out there problems
Tackling the complex issue of trust is not easy and love can only take you so far. Until Tina can actually accept that Bette’s error, though incredibly painful, was just that… an error, she will have doubts about trust and be unable to forgive. Once she accepts that Bette wants things to change & thankfully Bette is not just willing to go back to status quo, Tina can begin the process of forgiving and moving forward… to a new trust and a NEW relationship, the old one doesn’t exist anymore. I’m not sure that Bette is right about bringing others into the bedroom. I think SHE needs to accept that this too has changed… they cannot erase what happened.Wonderful chapter.
in a way i agree with tina but she has to cut bette some slack forgive and forget. its aparent they still love each but time will tell if she ever gets tinas heart again.
grt!!!!!!!!!!!
Great chapter. Hope time will made Tina forgive Bette. OK post soon please, thanks!
“If I speak in human and angelic tongues but do not have love, I am a resounding gong or a clashing cymbal. And if I have the gift of prophecy and comprehend all mysteries and all knowledge; if I have all faith so as to move mountains but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away everything I own, and if I hand my body over so that I may boast but do not have love, I gain nothing. Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, (love) is not pompous, it is not inflated, it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury, it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. If there are prophecies, they will be brought to nothing; if tongues, they will cease; if knowledge, it will be brought to nothing. For we know partially and we prophesy partially, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. When I was a child, I used to talk as a child, think as a child, reason as a child; when I became a man, I put aside childish things. At present we see indistinctly, as in a mirror, but then face to face. At present I know partially; then I shall know fully, as I am fully known. So faith, hope, love remain, these three; but the greatest of these is love.” Patience IS a virtue.
This is so bittersweet. Tina loves Bette but cannot forgive or trust her…that’s very sad. You can only hope Tina can open her heart again and let Bette in completely. You cannot really and truly love someone until then. Please continue.