Can the Tide be Change Part XI (I of II)


Tina drove to therapy and said her weekly prayer to the parking gods and found a convenient spot.

“How was your weekend Tina?”  Hammerstein actually meant it as a social nicety, but Tina thought she was getting down to business.  She told Dr. Hammerstein everything from Peggy’s arrival at her office on Thursday afternoon to her relief at being home alone on Sunday night.

“Tina why did you agree to take Friday off knowing you have a big presentation today?

“I figured it was a nice opportunity to spend some time with Angelica and surprise Bette at the office.  There are so many distractions and too much to do during the day that I had to work on Sunday anyway besides saying no to Peggy Peabody isn’t really an option.”

“I take it Bette didn’t enjoy her surprise.”

“Not after it almost got her fired.  I just want to keep things interesting.  I don’t want to lose the spark this time.  Last time, towards the end, our sex life mostly revolved around inseminations and then I lost the baby and Bette had an affair and I left Bette was with my first woman besides her and that was kind of liberating”

“How so?”

“Sex with Bette was satisfying, it still is, it’s just, well, Shane has had more action in our pool than we have.  Bette and Helena are opposites that way.  Helena is perhaps too uninhibited and Bette and another thing if I ever move back into that house I’m going to burn that California King sized bed.  I used to picture us lounging on Sundays in that big bed with two or three kids and now I hate the damn thing.  We can completely shut the other one out and retreat to the other end of the universe.”

“And you can’t do that to each other in a smaller bed?  If that was the case I’d recommend that all my clients having relationship difficulties sleep in a sleeping bag with their significant other.”

“It’s so easy to fall into old patterns in bed as well as everywhere else.  That was the hardest thing about the weekend.  I felt so anxious being at the house, I couldn’t relax, we rubbed each other the wrong way, it was terrible because I could feel us slipping back to where we were a year ago.  Bette kept getting phone calls from every woman she ever dated and surprise I wasn’t exactly in the mood.  If we can’t spend one week together without arguing how can we spend the rest of our lives together?”

“Did you discuss any of your concerns with Bette?”

“Yes.”

“Well that’s progress.  You’ve both gotten used to living apart, spending time alone, not having to compromise with a partner, you were slowly working on getting back together and then the you were thrust back together after your accident.  What you are experiencing and feeling is completely normal Tina no couple gets along 100% of the time.  You’re aware of how you are reacting and trying to break the patterns these are good signs.  When are you seeing Bette again?”

“We’re having dinner and a relationship check-up on Wednesday.”

Tina’s session was over and she made her way to the studio after stopping for some Pete’s coffee only to find that someone had parked their top of the line Range Rover in her spot.  “This day just keeps getting better.”  Tina drove to the guest lot and hiked to her office.  “Jennifer some asshole parked in my spot.  Can you find out who it is please?”  Tina was exasperated and only had a few hours until her meeting.

“I’m afraid that asshole is me.”

“Helena what are you doing here?”

“Is that how you usually greet your boss?”

Tina was confused.

“By the way what did you say to my mother?  You certainly won her over, I owe you big time.”

“Nothing, I just told her the truth.”

“Come let’s go check your new perquisite.  I hope you like the color.”

“Helena what are you talking about?”

“Your new car.  The studio has replaced the crashed one.”

“Helena, I can’t accept it, that’s the kind of behavior that got you in trouble before.  I don’t want your mother cutting you off again.”

“It was my mother’s idea.  We picked it out together.  You’ll find there’s a new contract on your desk with a raise and profit sharing.  Let’s go celebrate.”

“Helena we worked hard last week and over the weekend finalizing the monthly progress report for Geoffrey.  I don’t want all of that work to go to waste.  Why don’t we do the presentation as planned for you that way you’ll be brought up to do date and then we can go celebrate afterwards.”

******


Bette’s first meeting of the day was the Committee on Student Work followed by the Committee on Student Life.  Bette was mortified and worried that the whole school would soon be gossiping about her having an affair with a student.  She had lunch at her desk instead of in the faculty/staff cafeteria.  James tried to point out that if she had lunch at the cafeteria the faculty and staff would know exactly what she having for lunch.

“Bette Tina’s on 5257.”

“Thanks James.  Hey Ti, what’s up?  How did your presentation go?”

“You’re not going to believe what happened.  Peggy fired Geoffrey and gave Helena her old job back and I have a nice new contract on my desk waiting to be signed.”

“That’s great Ti.  I’m really happy for you.  Do you want to celebrate tonight?”

“I’d love to but I’m about to go out with Helena.  Why don’t we celebrate on Wednesday, I have a screening to attend tomorrow.”

“Okay, Wednesday it is.”  

This time Bette knew exactly what to get.  She purchased a beautiful bouquet of seasonal flowers, a box of Teuscher truffles and a bottle of fine champagne.  Bette rang the bell and Tina answered with Angelica.  “Look who’s here Angel, it’s Momma B, give her a kiss.”  Angelica kissed Bette on the check.  “Should I give Momma B a kiss?”  Angelica nodded her head yes.  Tina gave Bette a lingering kiss.  “Well someone’s in a good mood.”

Bette played with Angelica while Tina finished putting together a picnic.  “Tina I’m not dressed for the beach.”  “Bette, I’ve got yoga pants and a shirt you can wear.  It’ll be fun.”  They brought everything outside and loaded it into Bette’s car.  “So what’s with the Range Rover?  Did the insurance company get you an upgrade?”  “Nope, it’s one of my new perks.”  “It’s not exactly your kind of fuel efficient car.”  “I know, but Peggy and Helena picked it out for me and after the accident I’m more concerned about having Angelica ride around in a safe car than MPG.”  

“What else was in that contract?”  “A raise, profit sharing, an extra week of vacation”  “Did you have a lawyer look at it?”  “It’s basically the same as my old contract with a few new perks thrown in.  Peggy is happy with the job I’m doing.”  “But what if that changes?  I want you to be protected.”  “Don’t worry about it Bette.  Let’s just go and celebrate.” Tina didn’t want to fight.  “Are you sure you feel safe going in my car?”  Tina rolled her eyes at Bette and opened the passenger side door and got inside the car.

They ate pasta salad, strawberries and slightly melted truffles and drank champagne and helped Angelica fill buckets of sand.  The sight, sound and smell of the ocean and its gentle breezes had a calming effect on both women.  They were able to talk about how they were feeling and enjoy the moment.  Tina leaned over and kissed Bette savoring the slight flavor of chocolate, strawberry, champagne and sea salt until sand from Angelica’s shovel hit informing them their attention should be elsewhere.

“I’m gonna get you!  I’m gonna get YOU!  Tina got up and chased Angelica around the beach while Bette watched from behind her sexy sunglasses.  Soon it was time to pack up and go home and Bette and Tina bathed Angelica and Bette read to her and Tina rocked her to sleep.

Tina found Bette in the easy chair with her feet up on the ottoman and her eyes closed.  She joined Bette in the chair and whispered, “Did you know this reclines?”  Tina reached for the lever and they snuggled side by side.  Tina kissed Bette lightly on the lips and then down her neck, which still tasted and smelled of the sea.  She traced her finger around Bette’s jaw and ear and along her forehead and back down.  She drew her finger up chin, over her lips and nose to the hairline and back down and ran it lightly across Bette’s lips.  Bette kissed Tina’s finger and then drew it into her mouth, Tina pulled it in and out letting it go deeper each time while looking into Bette’s eyes.

“I feel like I’m in high school, babysitting for the neighbors and have snuck my boyfriend into the house and we don’t know how much time we have before the parents get home.”  

In response Bette started to hungrily kiss and put her leg over Tina’s.  Bette was running her hands along Tina’s bare legs and long the hem of her shorts.  Tina’s hands were roaming under Bette’s shirt.

“What are you doing with your hands young lady?”

“Trying to get to second base.”  Tina said not so innocently.

Then Tina’s hands went south.  Bette had started to grind against Tina’s leg that was nestled between hers.  Tina grabbed Bette’s delightfully fine ass and pulled Bette closer into her body.  Tina enjoyed running her tongue around Bette’s lips and along her teeth.  Bette opened her mouth and devoured Tina’s lips.  Bette took Tina’s hand and removed it from her ass and brought it forward placing it where she wanted to feel Tina’s fingers.  Tina laughed to herself Bette really was behaving like a teenage boy racing against the clock, but she was happy to give Bette what she wanted.  She glided her finger over Bette’s clit making her moan.  

“Fuck me Tina. Please fuck me.”

“Wow, fourth base.”  Tina raised her eyebrow.  “Looks like I’m getting lucky tonight.”

Tina entered Bette who warmly welcomed her inside.  She added another finger and increased the pace and let her thumb stimulate Bette’s clit as she sucked and nibbled on Bette’s neck.  “Oh fuck.”  Bette grabbed Tina’s head and brought Tina’s lips to hers.  “Now babe?”  Bette nodded her head and took hold of some of Tina’s hair.  Tina took Bette’s lower lip into her mouth and curled her fingers stroking Bette’s g-spot until she felt her tighten around her fingers and shudder, the familiar warmth flooding her fingers.  Tina kissed Bette gently as she recovered.  

Bette opened her eyes to find Tina smiling at her.

“Thank you Ti.”

“For what?”

“Taking care of me.  This was supposed to be your celebration.”

“And what makes you think it isn’t?”

Tina withdrew her hand from between Bette’s legs and licked her fingers clean.  God did that sight turn Bette on.  Bette kissed Tina conveying her urgency with her lips.    “Damn Porter you recover quickly.  Are you sure you’re not 17?”  Bette put her hand under Tina’s tee shirt and began exploring Tina’s breasts.  “You certainly have a fondness for breasts.”  Bette’s tongue entered Tina’s mouth until they both needed to breathe.  “And French kissing.”  

Bette moved down to Tina’s neck and pushed the shirt higher so she could kiss and lick Tina’s stomach, she unbuttoned her shorts and let her fingers traverse lightly along Tina’s inner thighs, Bette moved again so she was sitting on the Ottoman and she pulled off Tina’s shorts and underwear with Tina’s full cooperation.  She kissed and licked along Tina’s legs and inner thighs and she very lightly sent her tongue along the lips between Tina’s legs.  Bette had been challenged and she meant business.  

Bette ran her tongue back and forth using various speeds and patterns, dancing with her tongue from one end to the other and circled close to Tina’s clit teasing and blowing on the sensitive skin but not touching it directly.  She teased around her opening but refused to enter.  Tina tried tangling her hands in Bette’s hair and silently messaging Bette to put her out of her delightful misery.

“Tina if you don’t keep your hands to yourself and behave.  I’ll take twice as long.”

Tina removed her hands from Bette’s hair and planted them on the headrest arching her back.  She couldn’t handle testing Bette’s resolve she might be serious.

Bette finally let her tongue roam over Tina’s clit.  Tina’s hips involuntarily jumped in response.  Bette let out a deep throaty chuckle and went back to teasing Tina’s center swirling her tongue around and around.  Tina was refusing to beg she groaned into the back of her hand.  Bette finally made her way back to Tina’s clit, she kissed it lovingly, Tina moaned loudly and then Bette started sucking on it as hard she could.  Tina couldn’t believe how intense it felt and thought she would lose her mind.  “Oh shit, oh fuck, OH” Tina’s back arched off the chair and she got light headed when she came.  

Bette enjoyed lapping up the fruits of her labor and started inserting her tongue deep inside Tina, she kept on going, fucking Tina with her well versed tongue until Tina came in her mouth.  Then Bette replaced her tongue with her fingers, drawing them in and out over and over again, the fingers from her free hand were playing with Tina’s nipples and her lips made their way to clit, until Tina levitated off the chair and had an orgasm that made the world go black.

Tina could take no more. When she was able, she opened her eyes and saw Bette licking her fingers.  “Bette come here, please.”   Bette joined Tina on the chair.  Tina’s skin was warm, her face flushed.  “So how many 17-year olds do you know who can beat that Kennard?”  Bette grinned.  “Not a one.”  Tina kissed Bette tasting Bette’s just reward for all of her hard work.  No man of any age or Helena had ever made love to Tina with the same passion as Bette.  

“Nobody has ever loved me the way you do, nobody makes me feel the way you do.  God what you do to Porter.”  Tina kissed Bette.  “Let’s take a shower and go to bed.”  The shower revived the blissed out Kennard and she pinned Porter against the tile when Bette was not expecting it and it didn’t take her long to get Bette to moan with delight.

Bette and Tina got into bed and Bette wrapped Tina in her arms.

“Am I going to see you again Porter?  My mother always told me they lose interest once they get what they want.  They say they love you just to get you to have sex and then poof they’re gone and you’ve lost your good name.  In the end only the good girls win.”

“How do you feel Kennard?”

“I feel like a winner.  Being bad feels really good.  I’m not sure my mother was right.”

“Well, I’d like to see you again.”

“Oh really.”  Tina tried to say it liked an impressed teenager trying to play it cool.

“Are you free Friday night?”

“Yeah, I think I’m free.  You know Friday night is date night”

“Good, I’ll pick you up at 8:00.”

“G’night babe.”  Tina managed to plant a small kiss on Bette’s lips before falling asleep.

*****


The alarm rang way too early for a tired Bette Porter.  

“Ti you’re killing me with the early alarm.”

“I’m not the one who took forever to make her girlfriend come and then spent an age making her come on a weeknight.  I’m not the one who had to prove she still has the sexual stamina of 17-year old.”

“I didn’t hear you complaining.”

“That’s because I was afraid you would take even longer to make me come.”

“Oh really.”  Bette asked skeptically

“Well I guess mind altering orgasms are worth waiting for.” Tina kissed Bette and got out of bed.  Bette groaned.


*****

Tina called Bette at the office later that day.

“You’re in trouble Porter.”

“Why is that Kennard?”

“Because I just spent half of my meeting with the CFO thinking about how it felt when you finally started sucking on my clit last night and the other half focusing on what it felt like to have your tongue inside of me.  I had to schedule another meeting under the guise of wanting Helena to hear what he had to say word for word.”  Tina laughed.

“Well I kept having flashbacks of you licking your fingers after making me come during a campus facilities meeting and then I kept imagining what I want to do you on Friday night if I get invited in for coffee after our date.”

“Wow, you were serious about Friday.”

“Of course I am.”

“I don’t have a weekend sitter.  You usually have Angelica.”

“Who babysits for you when Marta can’t?

“Helena sometimes helps me out, but I can’t ask her to watch Angelica so we can date that might be pushing it.”

“What about Shane?”

“Bette it’s a Friday night we can’t do that to her.”

“How about Alice?”

“Do you really want Alice asking where we are going and what we’re doing?”

“Kit?”

“She loves seeing Angelica but I haven’t had the heart to ask her to babysit since she and Angus lost the baby.”

“Look why don’t you bring some take out to my place and we’ll go out during the week one night when Marta can stay late.”

“I’d like for us to spend the weekend at my house.”

Tina took a deep breath.  She really didn’t want a repeat of last weekend.

“Bette why don’t we spend Friday night at my place and then we can spend the rest of the weekend at the house.”

“So if we regress only part of the weekend will be ruined?”

“Exactly.”

tbc…