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The Adventures Of Bette Porter And Sissee Gardner After Yale (Part 8, Chapter 4)
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The Adventures Of Bette Porter And Sissee Gardner After Yale (Part 8, Chapter 4)
PART EIGHT: ORANGE GROVE, CALIFORNIA
Chapter 4
We were both dressed similarly in pant suits, as we gave each other meaningful glances, across the table. My outfit was very traditional in a brindle brown while hers was an ultra fine pale yellow pinstripe with patch pockets. Under the jacket she had on a simple white blouse with ruffles on the cuffs.
I was not too sure if I liked that hairstyle but looking at her closely, across a small table I thought it was appropriate for an art gallery owner. With the wing tips coming down nearly under her chin her hair was almost like a picture frame with her beautiful face as the focal point.
She raised her glass to mine.
“Here’s to the new us, Sissee.” She looked at me with a warm smile. “I have been wanting to do this for a long time.”
I raised my glass to touch hers. “And what is the new us?” I asked.
“You, me and friendship.”
I nodded my head, smiling back and yet, confused. “To friendship,” I said, clinking glasses and wondering if that was all this meeting was about.
Was I hearing it right? Is that all she wanted was just to be friends? Once lovers; now friends? I was taken aback.
In all honesty, I went there hoping to have lunch and then go to her house for a sexual encounter. I really did think that would happen, that we would fall on each other as soon as her front door closed and make mad passionate love even on the floor or the sofa, unable to contain ourselves. However….my head, heart and body were all in the wrong place.
“Let me tell you what I ordered,” Bette was saying. “Now listen to this, I know it by heart because I have had a lot of power lunches here and this is Joe’s best. Are you ready?”
I nodded with a wry smile.
“Australian lamb chops with eggplant and preserved lemon cous cous. Tomato ginger compote and yogurt tzatziki.” She looked at me with expectation. “How does that sound?”
“It all sounds good but I wouldn’t want to have to spell it.”
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Please dont let her stoop to Sissee level. I’m funny, I dont like to share. thanks
well Sissee’s got guts, I will give her that. She needs them to even think of saying such a thing to Bette..saying that Bette is being unreasonable for not forgiving her for cheating on her with Howie..because “it never happened.” Uh…the baby??? I have only heard of one reported case of immaculate conception. Sissee doesn’t love Bette, she just wants to play with her,while staying married… and if Bette is smart she will run far away, fast. It would be nice to see Sissee treating Bette with some respect, but she hasn’t, and isn’t now. Bette deserves better.
bettyvhall, I am kind of confused because of your comment. Does it mean that Bette belongs to you and you don’t like to share? Mmmmmm. I guess we all want a piece of her. As for stooping to Sissee’s level, there is no doubt that cheating is wrong but it is all part of the story and I really do appreciate your comments whether they are for or against.
Well, there are certain among you, who just can’t accept that when someone has too much to drink they might do things they would never dream of doing when sober. Then there are those who may have been there, done that and know what can happen. Not everyone gets pregnant but that is what happened to Sissee. She drank that night in the snow bank to ward off freezing and fear of their circumstances and, according to Howie, willingly had sex with him, even though it was Bette whom she was thinking of. Howie told Sissee privately what happened. Sissee later chose to tell Bette the truth and the truth cost her their relationship and is still making a difference.
Caeleigh, Thank you for your comments. I answered part of them above. As the writer, I apologize to you if you think that Sissee does not respect Bette. Trust me, she very much does.
I totally forgot that James had a boyfriend but then again my focus was more on Bette and sissee. I can understand that Sissee had sex with Howie. Those things can happen as long as it wasn’t on purpose like the cheating she now is doing on Howie. In mine opion it’s a different kind of be trail. It is important that you don’t keep it a secret and that’s what sissee did she told Bette. Only Bette didn’t realized why sissee was open about it and the most important fact is, she came back to her. That means she loves Bette and knows she was wrong. I think Bette couldn’t life with the fact that it was with a men. A men that was a part of sissee life long before. Maybe when it was a woman Bette knew she could fight for her and probably felt she would win. But the fact is that Sissee was pregnant and that complicated everything. It was a different time less freedom so she knew she never could give sissee a family as in the sentence of the real word family a house, wife, kids, dog, cat. What Bette did was a hard thing to do but she did it out of love.Now on this chapter. I think sissee has changed, I know everyone changes after so long but she even changed more because she feels out of place with Howie and that’s why she cheats. Bette is and will be her big love forever.Now because she thinks (I belief Howie knows) cheating on Howie is easy and she can get everyone she wants. Why wouldn’t she get Bette back but her presuming is wrong. Like I said before the cheating on Bette was a different kind it was a mistake. This the whole now thing isn’t. Her whole attitude is like I know what I want and I always get it. This time she is wrong and she will learn that the hard way. I belief she will learn that when she sees Bette with Tina. She will learn the whole respect thing. Now this all sounded right in my head but explaining it is a whole different thing. Hope you will post soon.
September, Yes, Sissee is now cheating on Howie and many of us find it unjustifiable. It can’t be justified. Just because she had someone like Bette at one time and wants those feelings back, does not make cheating right, no matter who it is with. You do go on with a very keen concept of the storyline so far. I think you, and perhaps others, are seeing Sissee as a very selfish person. She is not considering her husband and children, although the way Sissee the author sees it is that Sissee the character works very hard at being a mother first, being there for Howie second, writes for a weekly newspaper and then also finds time for, shall we call it extra curricular activities. Nothing on the home front suffers because she is discreet in her dalliances. As for Sissee soon seeing Bette with Tina and seeing what respect is, well, that may not be a good example, if I understand you correctly, because let’s remember that Bette cheats on Tina, not once with Candy but repeatedly and also with a NYC Twink. Thank you for your input September, you explained it very well.
I thought Bette would give in to Sissee. She has more strength than I give her credit for. Thanks!
kbergin47, Let’s just say that Bette has very good intentions. How long that lasts becomes the rest of the story.
I understand all that, and not necessary to go over it again,but the fact remains that sissee did have sex with howie, regardless of who she was thinking of, and to tell Bette “it never happened” is ludicrous, and if just wanting to play with Bette, when she is married, is respecting her, no thanks.
Caeleigh, What Sissee said was, “That’s because you can’t accept the fact that in my MIND it never happened.” Obviously, it happened. You’re right. It was not an immaculate conception but Sissee maintains that she had a blackout of the actual act. I don’t know about you but once or twice that has happened to me from too much booze. I had a blackout when the next day people tell me I did thus and so or this and that and try as I will, I can’t remember. It happens to a lot of people and is not that off the wall. It happened to Sissee, the character and it is what it is.