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goodnight story (Chapter 1)
Two cars pulled into the driveway, one right behind the other, headlights picking out details. Porch steps. Curtains. A bloom blushing on a bush. Glints of reflection from the pool. Home.
There were sounds, but not much talking. Car doors chunked open and shut. Click click clicks as Angelica’s car seat belts were released. The rustle of diaper bags and briefcases. Beeps from cell phone messages left unchecked. Happy nonsense whispers from the baby.
Just inside the front door, life was both familiar and impossibly strange. Bette and Tina stood there for almost a full minute, facing each other. Silent. Adjusting. Incredulous.
And then a small cocky smile quirked a corner of Bette’s pretty mouth. An answering grin spread slowly across Tina’s face. And then there they were, standing in the doorway with coats on and a squirming baby, laughing at the ludicrous beauty of their situation. In that moment they were un-contrite about where they had been. Their sordid, sad, sloppy, singular past had brought them to this moment, and they were giddy with the possibility of what they might become. Together. Again.
Angelica caught the giggles from them. Bette and Tina both turned to her, and gazing at her chubby cheeks, in the echo of her sweet baby laugh, life was recalibrated. Useful things could be said. And done. Starting with taking their coats off.
Bette took Tina and Angie’s jackets to hang up, while Tina settled Angie on the couch to take off her shoes.
“Are you hungry?” Bette called over her shoulder from the closet.
“Yeah, starving. I didn’t get a chance to eat today.”
The jackets taken care of, Bette wasn’t quite sure what to do with her hands. The house was different with all three of them there. With a family in it. Surfaces seemed to be at a slightly different height. Items she had not noticed in a long while reasserted their presence. Bette was suddenly, irrationally, afraid she might accidentally break something. She shoved her hands in her pockets tried to affect a nonchalant air.
“I can make us dinner…”
Tina wasn’t fooled. She heard the notes of insecurity in Bette’s voice and looked up from a stubborn knot in Angelica’s shoelace.
“I would love it if you would make dinner. Thank you,” she said with a reassuring smile.
“And I,” Tina continued, “will get Angelica ready for bed.”
She gave up on the shoelace and yanked the shoe off without untying it. Picking up the baby, she walked toward Bette.
“Then you and I can have dinner and…” Tina placed a soft kiss at Bette’s jawline, “relax.”
Bette grinned. Minutes passed. And she stood still, thinking of nothing. Devoting herself instead to fully experiencing a new and filling sensation. Happiness.
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(61 votes, average: 3.98 out of 5)
Great post.
“Romance and gooeyness and emotional development.” In other words, everything that’s missing on the show. You’re off to a wonderful start and I can’t wait for more!
It was really nice, but why short??Continue please.
You can’t leave us hanging like that! I was desperate to see how this scene played out on screen and was really disappointed that IC didn’t follow it through. But now we have you to do it for us instead. So, more please!!
Very enjoyable start… I can’t wait to read more.. I love a good romance
Great start, if I were Bette I would run in the kitchen and make that stir fry, look what happened last time. Md
Great start…more please!
Liked this alot. Yeah, Bette cooking dinner, her skills have improved in that area, so she should do well with dinner, hopefully. She is a bit unsure about what she should be doing. It will go well, because they love each other and as in most things that is the key ingredient in anything one wants to do. PPS
Very Nice…hoping you will continue!
Perfect!! Very well written. More please.
nice start. bette is so cute when she is insecure or unsure. And you captured so well how only Tina reads her so well and has the ability to quell those insecurities in Bette. pps
It’s off to a good start. I look forward to the next installment.
good start, the akwardness… tina getting angie ready, while bette makes dinner role reversal… Please continue… :)
Great start. Hope you continue soon.
Excellent! Great insight as to the dynamics of what that night must have felt like for both of them.
Sweet beginning. I can’t believe that IC didn’t show us a few minutes of the family getting resituated in the house.
Yes, please write more soon.
”fully experiencing a new and filling sensation. Happiness.” – cute!
This was great! Perfectly imagined, every detail just right. Thank you!
Wonderful start!!!
Bette is adorable when she is being vulnerable and insecure. And I adore how only Tina seems to be able to read her and set her right. Fantabulous start of a gooey loving story!
yeah [pout] where’s the rest of the chapter…
Great Start!!!! I like the fact that Bette is going to make them dinner. I can not wait to read more. Thank you PPS
love it and it sounds so much of what they would do and how they would feel, you capture them very nicely