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Chapter 31 – Spring Time – Conclusion
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Bette: So, no big white wedding?
Tina: No… I’d rather get married in our pajamas!
Bette: Really?
Tina: Yes, I would… as long as I’m with you, it doesn’t matter what we wear. Of course, if you want a big white wedding, well, I help you plan it. I give it all the effort it requires. It’s just that it’s going to take a lot time to plan and arrange. And I think we can spend our time much more productively than deciding what color roses we want as center pieces and where to seat folks at the reception. I just want to be married to you Bette and how we do it isn’t that important. What’s important is you and me pledging to be with each other for life. And this time, it’s going to be a lot more meaningful. For I know what happens if I don’t keep my promises. I know deep in my soul what it means to have you as my wife and soul mate. And I know what it’s like not to have you.
Bette: Well, depending on when we get married, we may not be able to have a honeymoon until late in the fall. Our jobs start in September, and it will be all we can do to get everything organized and running by the holidays. We will not be able to take a couple of weeks off for a honeymoon.
Tina: Let’s not take a two-week honeymoon. Sometime in the fall, let’s take a long weekend and go to Bear Mountain together. We can take that long trip after Angie goes to college. I don’t need a long and exotic honeymoon sweetie. I just need a few nights and days with you. And selfishly, I don’t want to be away from Angie that long. We have so little time left before she goes away to school.
Bette: That’s true…as long as we have some alone time, we can delay a honeymoon until later. But at my age, I’m not sure I could survive two weeks of that which we had last night. Okay, how about Mother’s Day? That’s the second weekend in May. Let’s have an informal ceremony at Peggy’s beach house and have everyone over for lunch and have a surprise wedding?
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Hey Martha,
Was catching up after my trip only to find that this is already the end of the story.
It was a pleasure to read it and i want to sincerely thank you for this Tibette story.
Bibi,
As you may have guessed, I write my entire story before I publish the first chapter. The reason is that I want to be sure that the story is complete and that it accomplishes what I have in mind. My hope is that the reader sees the story as I intended. I am not a perfect storyteller. I certainly do not have the flourish of descriptive details and symbolism which many seem to enjoy. I also hope that the reader understands who my characters are and why the behave as they do. If I accomplish that, then I consider it a success. And of course, I hope that in reading my stories, that you are entertained and have some escape from the day-to-day life we all have to deal with.
My thanks to you for reading and commenting. It really helps that someone is seeing this work and actually enjoying it.
My best wishes to you and hope you continue to find stories which you enjoy.
Martha3128
Hey Martha, every writer has their own way of telling a story. You did a great job. I understand your characters and why they behave the way to do, doesn’t mean i questioned some things. I enjoyed reading it and am very happy you wrote and shared it with us. It’s sad that there are not many readers who comment, maybe shy, not enough time? I wish you all the best too!
Hey Martha,
I have thoroughly enjoyed reading your story. I love how you tell everyone’s story within the story, their thoughts, the laughter and the tears. I enjoyed hearing about Angie’s school life, her friends and her home life with her Mums.
There were some difficult areas for you to write… Tina’s therapy sessions, her talk with Carrie and the worry of Bette not being able to take her back. But you wrote it all beautifully.
I am disappointed it has ended. I was looking to reading more in-depth about the Yellowstone trip, the wedding, their new careers with The Peabody Foundation and their house hunting.
I know you recapped about all of this but I wish you were continuing with this story!
Thank you ….. I shall miss reading this story!
Janice 24,
I wrote this story many years ago for the purpose of trying to make the link from the divorce to a happy reunion. I also wanted to write about what effect the divorce would be on Angie. Gen Q with their “no effect” on Angie’s relationship with Tina, just did not seem real to me. The first season where Angie and Bette seem to be close and bonded seem true. But the conversation between Tina and Angie where Tina is explaining why she and Bette were divorced seemed ill timed at best and only hit the surface of an explanation. That conversation should have taken place before the divorce became final, yet it was 2 years later. That for me said Tina had very little contact with Angie during the prior three years. The one thing about teenagers of divorced parents is they want to why it happened. And they want the unvarnished truth about their parents’ relationship. And with most children who have a separation with one of their parents and no information as to why that occurred immediately assume it may have been them who caused the separation. That is one of the reasons that many courts require counseling to divorcing parents so that they can communicate and aid in the emotional and mental health of their children.
This story could have gone on for many, many more chapters. However, writing is not easy and takes a lot of time. I am one who believes that I need a definitive beginning, middle and end to a story. I need the know my path I am going to take and what motivates the characters and what they will discover along their journey. My endings are somewhat abrupt. That is so that I can at some later date come back and actually continue the story if I should desire. But at this time, I must say that I have no real motivation to continue writing about Bette and Tina. I think that is because most people do not want to real long stories with a lot of detail. They are more interested in angst and discord than I am willing to write. And I am really hung up on time and how it affects a story line. An example is in this story Tina realizes that she has missed three years of her child’s life and within 18 months, she will no longer be a child. Unless she takes immediate action, she will never have the relationship with Angie that she imagines she has. And in her life, she has the example of Peggy and Helena. Peggy and Helena love one another, but it is obvious to most that they do not have the bond of most mothers and daughters. Peggy is not Helena’s confidant to whom she goes to in times of trouble, and she never will be. And unless Tina makes some major changes, her and Angie’s relationship will be much like Peggy and Helena’s.
This story is a reunion at a high speed. Perhaps that is not natural for most people. But for me, because they love each other so much and they have such a long history together and the fact that they are spending most of their waking hours with each other, then it pushes things along. They have common ground which is Angie, and they have the time (or make the time) in which their relationship is the utmost priority in their life. And they are living in the same house and have no other obligations except Angie. Without that, the reunion would take a much longer time period.
One of the things which I love is Bette telling Tina that she knew this would be her only opportunity to get Tina back. She had two options: make it work or let it go. And if she let it go, it would be goodbye to all hope of having Tina in her life again. For Bette was a matter of pushing the pain to the side and see what develops. Most people cannot do that. The pain is just more prominent in their life than the love they would have for Tina. And if that happens then the likelihood of a real reunion simply will not happen.
Thanks for reading my story and all my other stories… I appreciate your support and encouragement.