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If it makes you happy – Chapter 5
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It was quiet, silent but for the odd passing car. Bette sat on her sofa and stared at nothing in particular as her mind’s eye replayed familiar scenes. The way the light would catch Tina’s eyes. The sound of Tina’s laugh. The way Tina’s smile could make her spine tingle. The hurt in Tina’s eyes the night she discovered Bette’s worst betrayal of all.
Ten maybe fifteen minutes had past while Bette retreated into memories she had rarely entertained over the last ten months. It wasn’t just the good, she was careful to remember it all. In truth she knew that it was unlikely she’d ever forget the bad.
It was never big events that did this to Bette, it was the small, the otherwise insignificant that caused her to remember that she still loved Tina Kennard and just how deep the connection they shared really was.
Bette had picked up the phone to call Tina and ask her to dinner on Wednesday night as Abby had suggested. She was half way through dialing the number before she realized that she was asking her ex-wife out on a date.
At that moment Bette remembered the part of their heated discussion, the part which she had not relayed to Abby. The bit where Tina had, for at least a fleeting moment, admitted that she’d made a mistake in leaving ten months ago.
That one admission of uncertainty from Tina had the potential to change everything. Bette’s mind began to wonder yet again what it would mean if Tina was had been in her living room on Friday night because she wanted to leave Henry, because she wanted to come home.
“Stop” Bette whispered to herself. Collecting her empty wine glass from the coffee table she got up from the couch and moved to the kitchen. She poured herself another generous glass of Grenache before picking up her glass and, as an afterthought, the bottle. Her journey back to the couch was interrupted by someone knocking at the door.
Bette deposited the bottle onto the coffee table and wandered to the door with glass in hand. Her heart skipped a beat as she pulled open the door and found Tina before her. If she were not so tongue tied, Bette would have made a remark about Tina still having a key and that the locks hadn’t been changed since Friday.
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I was very happy to see your post…glad you came back. Oh…bye bye Abby and Henry. ; )
Great chapter hope that you dont take so long to post another chapter, I hope that once they are under the one roof they realise that, that is where they belong, poor Abby she never stood a chance
Great chapter hope that you dont take so long to post another chapter, I hope that once they are under the one roof they realise that, that is where they belong, poor Abby she never stood a chance
Wondered whqt happened to this story. Maybe thi swill be the first step back home for Tina and to Bette. Let’s hope.
Hello stranger,wondrful to have you back on this site and posting such rare delights as this story is. You have such a fabulous way with words and craft the perfect dialogue and narrative that carries me along like a gentle current on a summer’s day that allows you to lie back and enjoy the simple pleasures of a voyage along the riverbank. I do know that Bette and Tina can reconnect and move forward and face the future together. Please make it so in your splendid dtyle. Thank you. Your Loyal Fan.
Great chapter!! I’m happy to see you post :)
Um, Abby, you and your heart might want to take cover right about now. Please post soon Hack Girl.
Great story, you should come around this way more often! Thanks!
Nice to see you back.
you must soon-enjoying this story
I do remember this story and am excited to see another chapter. Thanks. Can’t wait for the next.
Good chapter. Well I think this s a start for them and hope they will work thing out step by step. OK post soon please, thanks!
glad you’ve posted this story i hope this is the beginning of them getting closer and will help them become a family a complete family
Seems to me there’s still something there, which I hope they explore. Tina as a farmer’s wife? HackGirl, you had me in stiches with that.
always glad to see your post.missing them for too long! thx. post soon!
Gold star in hand, I write ‘thanks’ for continuing. Can’t decide how I want this story line to turn out – good thing it’s up to you. Please post again soon.
No, no way in hell could Tina be a farmer’s wife. I wonder if Abby will shit a brick when she finds out Tina will be sorta moving back in?
Glad to see a new chapter to your story. That was wonderful to read, thank you.
Ah, you’re back. Bette’s learned her lessons, and Tina’s trying, but they seem to have a long way to go. Please post again soon.
good to see your post. can’t wait to see where you’ll be bringing us :)
i can’t see tina as a farmer’s wife either…i hope this move back home will bring them closer together and abby will be gone soon too…welcome back
Bette might have a girlfriend but the G/F doesnt have Bettes heart, thanks for posting. thanks
id b doubtful too…but u cant help ur weakness
Nice to see you back.
Who’s Abby? I totally forgot. I hope Bette would forget soon. =P