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Loving Tina, Ch. 10
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The issue had been up in the air for a long time but neither of them ventured to voice it, afraid that the other might reject the idea. They had been seeing each other for over three months now, three months that both felt like one day and a whole lifetime. It seemed so long because they were spending every minute of their free time together and so little because there was so much they wanted to tell each other, so much they wanted to find out about each other. So much had already been experienced and, at the same time, there was so much yet to experience.
There was one thing that slightly terrified both of them. In those three summer months that they were dating, they had not once met each other’s friends. Sometimes they would spend an evening away from each other in order to see them and both had been politely refusing the other’s offer to join them. Avoiding this issue had become somewhat a ritual. But their excuse – and a very plausible one – was that they were so into each other, so into the two of them as a couple and as one undividable unit that they forgot about everything and everyone. Tina’s son Wade was the only person who saw the budding and blooming of their relationship.
But that was until Alice interfered. From what Tina knew, Alice had been Bette’s friend for more than ten years, which most definitely made up a half of her life. They went to school together and then to college and ended up renting a small apartment together. Bette also told Tina that Alice had helped her through the saddest and craziest of her times; according to Bette, she wouldn’t have made it without her, she said she always needed somebody to push her. Alice pushed her with encouragement at one time and spite remarks at the other.
One day after having dinner with her friends, Bette called on Tina who was having a quiet evening on her own after Wade had gone to bed.
“Alice and Shane asked me to say hi to you,” Bette said as she maneuvered her feet out of the tight shoes. “And…”
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It never even dawned on me that this subject would have to be tackled. Worse, I’ve been in this situation before. lol When I was 20 I met someone who was 33 and we were together for 3 years. I met some people he knew but none he’d really call friends. Of course he met my friends as well. He clicked with a friend of mine in that they were both into anime but beyond that he really just didn’t fit in. Hopefully Shane and Alice don’t make Tina and her friends feel like old farts and that the “old farts” don’t make the “kids” feel like little kids. PPS!
I don’t really mind age gaps… I can generally find *some* kind of common ground or something to talk about with people regardless of age, be they grannies or kindergarteners. It’s when people start *only* talking about their kids and the Trials of Parenthood, that I start getting wary. At that point, I just want to go find their kids and have a game with them on the Playstation, or hide and seek, or anything, rather than talk about wee Callum’s teething problems, or have another round of “Guess What Lindsay’s Teacher Said?” I’m totally out of my element in those situations, and can only nod and smile. And I will go on record as saying I love kids… Anyway… Tina has Wade, but the rest of the groups are all childless. And it’s only a 10-11 year gap. There must be something they all have in common to talk about, other than the obvious…? Very interesting chapter, MM, looking forward to seeing how they’ll resolve this.
Hello MM! And hello to any of MM’s mates that are visiting this site to read her excellent work. Thanks for posting yet another great chapter MM. Tina is putting way too much thought into this. What does it matter if their friends don’t get along? It will be great if they do, but if they don’t, what can she do about it? Leave Bette? I don’t think so, and if these friends truely do care about B&T, all they want is for them to be happy. What’s 11 years anyway? T needs to relax and stop worrying about things she has no control over. You totally cracked me up when Bette was thinking to herself and thought “…She wasn’t too fond of being overtly sensitive like this, she was never somebody who cried over chick flicks and movies with Meg Ryan…” OMG I nearly fell apart with the Meg Ryan comment. I don’t know if it hit anyone else like that but it was hilarious to me! Luvin’ your story MM. More please? P.S. I can’t stop listening to Kristen Price’s “Magic Tree” and watching the hot video that she and Showtime put together.
I was hoping this issue would come up. Looking forward the upcoming chapters. Post soon!
it’s funny that you decided to write about this issue. It was one of the things that came to my mind when i first began reading the story. Maybe because it’s close to home -my partner and i have a decade between us!thanks for the upadte! PPS
See, as a girl who realizes more and more by the day that age is just a number, it’s hard for me to imagine taking issue with someone’s age… especially since so many of my friends are about 15 yrs older than me… at least. But, if anyone can write this issue with aplomb, it’s you, my friend! Looking forward to Tina finding the courage and realizing it’s not a big deal (though, I’m sure it’s harder to be the older of the two.). Good stuff, I love it!
Looking forward to your next chapter.
MM I so enjoying your story and cant wait for more,,,please continue!!!
Now that I am inching up into the hight age bracket the age thing does not seem to be as important as when I was a lot younger. Tina should be able to win over Bette’s friends and Bette Tina’s friends.
This meeting gonna be goood!