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Chapter 4 – Philadelphia – Day 3
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Angie: Not in the dorm. That’s for sure. I would love to have a quiet apartment or house. Some place where I can get away from these noisy party folks.
Tina: Are you sure about that?
Angie: Oh absolutely. I’m tired of getting up in the middle of the night to get my laundry done. And the student union food is good, but it’s getting a little old already. They don’t have enough fresh vegetables to eat. You guys spoiled me with the fresh fruits and vegetables in the diet. I have gotten to the point that I crave broccoli or some cabbage. Weird right?
Bette: No sweetheart. Music to my ears actually. Well, then we are going to start the process of looking for you a place to live in New Haven. Do not know how long it will take but we will start immediately.
Angie: Do you think I could have a pool?
Tina: No… no pool. You will be living in this place for four or five years at the most and you can only swim in it 3 months a year and we are in hopes you will be in Santa Monica those three months.
Angie: Five years? How do you figure that?
Bette: Two more years of under graduate school and then three years of law school. And that is only if you decide to stay at Yale for law school.
Angie: Oh yeah. And what if I go someplace else?
Bette: We become landlords and rent the house out after you move out. Or we sell the house.
Angie: So, you are planning on buying a house?
Bette: I would prefer that to a lease. That way we can provide you what you need rather than what is available. It’s a little more control for us and for you. But it does have its down sides as well. But we can discuss that at Thanksgiving.
Angie: Do I get a vote in what we get?
Bette: Once we have picked out a place, we will give you a yes or no vote. But a no vote will need a huge explanation and reasons why. You will need to convince both of us that it is not an appropriate place for you.
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Hi Martha, what an amazing trip to Philadelphia. There was so much information regarding Melvin and what they learnt if him and his life. Poor Bette, I think it’s going to be pretty difficult to explain this all to Mary and her sister as it has obviously hit her hearing all this. Tina is such a tower of strength to her, I love how they are so besotted with each other and hold each other up! I love hearing about their plans for Angie and Daniel, they are so attentive to their children and want only the best for them. The way they talk through everything with them making sure they understand .
Finally the love they have for each other, is incredibly. They way they do everything for each other, they just want to be together, all the time. Enjoying being out shopping, visiting museums, enjoying meals or just cuddling up on the sofa. They are, as you said, the other half of each other !
Loving this so much, will continue on….o hope you are also continuing on, with this story….
Take care and Thankyou, for this amazing piece of writing!
Thanks… I have always thought that the relationship between Bette and her father was the most important relationship of her life prior to Tina. I could see that she struggled to love and admire the man who always seemed to believe she never quite measured up to his standards. But in my mind, I always knew that Melvin loved his children with all of his heart. He just didn’t have the ability to show this to them. His thought was to just leave them all his worldly possessions and they would know. But the truth is that until Bette talked to Gabriel Scott and to Harriett Myers, she would never know how much Melvin loved Bette, Kit, Mary, Paris and even Tina.
When Tina points out that if Melvin had told Bette on his death bed that Mary was alive and that she had another sister, Bette would be in shock. But if he told her that he had known for 15 years or more, Bette might have taken a pillow and smothered him on the spot. The truth was there was never going to be an ideal time to tell Bette or Kit about Mary Southerland. And Bette knows this deep in her heart. She also knows that all of this is a part of the past. A past which is done and dusted. And all the what ifs and if onlys are a waste of energy. Melvin and his relationship with Bette, Kit and Tina is what it was and had its impact on their lives. For Bette and for Tina, it explains so much. It explains why Tina is a part of his will. It explains why the final distribution was 18 years after his death. It explains how he found out about Mary Southerland and her daughter Paris. It explains how Paris was educated in England during her teen years and college years. And it gives another dimension to the personality of Melvin William Porter.
Bette is going to explain most of this to Kit, Paris and Mary in a future chapter. And in their own way, they will reconcile the Melvin they knew to the Melvin to the man they found in Philadelphia.
This for me is the most emotional chapter I have ever written… deep in my soul, I feel the loss Bette feels for the relationship she never had with her father and that is more painful than the fact that she had all those years of loss in not knowing her mother and sister. The reason is because Mary and Paris are still around and there is opportunity to have a good relationship with them. But Melvin is gone and there is no opportunity to mend that relationship with him. Such as life. But as Bette Porter and Tina Kennard always do – they learn from the mistakes including the mistakes of others around them. They have learned a lot from Melvin and much of it is what not to do in life.
Thank you for reading this and commenting…. it is rather gratifying to see that someone sees this story as a gratifying piece of entertainment. There are several more chapters to this Volume and it will continue.