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Chapter 31 – Spring Time – Conclusion
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The evening and the weekend went rather well. Angie had a morning meeting at the local library with her science paper friends on Saturday. Bette and Tina did their grocery shopping and prepared a home cooked meal for Angie on Saturday night. They decided to do a picnic at the beach on Sunday and a movie at home in the evening.
The balance of the week and the next week went as usual. They finally decided to tell Angie in the middle of the week that they were planning on being married. Angie was beside herself. She was crying with happiness. When Bette and Tina asked her not to say anything just yet, she was puzzled. All she knew was that they were going to remarry in the near future and with that she was over the moon.
The trip to Yellowstone was a bigger and better than the family imagined it would be. Shane and Angie as well as Bette and Tina had the time of their lives. The private tours had been magnificent. There was snow everywhere and the animals they were seeing were plentiful and not like anything they had experience before. Shane took many rolls of pictures and could not wait to have them developed and printed. Bette told Shane that if they were good, she would see if she could get her a show to display her work and perhaps even sell a few of them. The cabin had been plush and comfortable for the four of them. The days had been busy and the evenings had been quiet and congenial. Bette and Tina had loved the coolness of the temperature and the mountain air and the snuggling at night. They had enjoyed having Shane on this trip and had agreed that Shane was a very good travel mate. Perhaps she would go with them to Bear Mountain in the fall. The experiences had been unique – snow mobile rides, hiking, storytelling at the lodge next door, historical exhibits, mother nature in all of her glory and in her natural state. But best of all, they were together enjoying each other’s company. It was a lifetime of memories for all them made in a week.
Angie and her friends had a wonderful weekend in Malibu. Bette and Tina were around but were hardly seen the entire weekend. They choose to eat their meals in away from the teenagers and observe mostly from the security office. The teenagers were perfect guest and seemed to enjoy each other company and the activities that Angie had planned for them. Volleyball in the pool, walks on the beach, an evening bar-b-que with hamburgers and potato logs, an evening movie, breakfast on the patio, and more fun in the pool. There was much laughter, and sometimes when the young people seemed to be deadly serious, but no arguments and no hurt feelings for anyone of the group. And a week later, each one sent a handwritten thank you note to Bette and Tina for providing them such a fun weekend. For Angie, this had been a spring she would never forget.
Bette and Tina were married on Mother’s Day in Peggy’s backyard in Malibu. Marilyn had gotten a special license to perform the ceremony from the state of California. She had performed many marriages in Canada prior to her reunion with Peggy at Shane and Carmen’s almost wedding. Bette had worn a white pants suit and Tina had worn a dress which was white much in the style of a peasant dress. No one knew the wedding was going to take place except for Peggy and Marilyn. They decided not to tell Angie exactly when the ceremony would take place but promised her that she would be present. Shane, Angie, Alice, Nat, Nat’s two children, Helena, Dylan, and Peggy were all in attendance. Even Jack made an appearance. After their vows, there was not a dry eye in the crowd. Bette and Tina then left for a three-night honeymoon in a hotel in Santa Monica. They did not want to go far and Angie was into her last few days of school. So, Shane and Jack entertained Angie while her moms went on their honeymoon.
For Bette and Tina, the family was now whole and intact. They were together. They were in love and they were happy. There was a whole new life ahead of them. Angie was beginning to prepare to go off to college. Bette and Tina were preparing for their new careers and were firmly entrenched in a life together. Life was good….
The End….
Postscript: There is a lot more to tell in this story… many more chapters could be written. Bette and Tina do go on to happy, self-fulfilled lives and eventually become grandparents. Angie proceeds with her education and her chosen career. And following the example of her moms, Angie finds the love of her life. All have rewarding lives from the support and love they receive from each other. However, I believe this is my final saga for Bette and Tina. Thank you for reading….
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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.