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Chapter 4 – Philadelphia – Day 3
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Bette: Sure. You have the menu. You want to do the honors?
Tina: Sure. I’m really hungry this morning and I need some coffee badly.
Bette: There is a coffee maker in the bathroom. I’ll make us a pot and let’s have one before we shower. Are you ready for your robe yet?
Tina: Not really but I will take it. Maybe it will absorb some this sweat.
Bette picked up the robes off the floor where they landed last night and gave one to Tina and then kiss her good morning and smiled. She then went and put a pot of coffee on. She then prepared two cups, putting cream in both and walked them out to Tina. Tina said that it would be an hour before their breakfast arrived, so the coffee was nice to have.
They sat on the sofa and put their feet on the coffee table and enjoyed their coffee.
Tina: Margaret has put together Daniel’s applications to three different middle schools. We are going to send them out on Monday. They were Daniels’ top choices and she highly recommended all of them. And all are public schools in the Los Angeles County School System. She then told me that even though she has never done this before, she could use her position to ensure that Daniel gets the school of his choice or of our choice if that is what we wanted. She felt that we had given her a home when she needed one and it was the least she could do. She loves Daniel. And she is willing to do the same for John David as well. But since his mom is a middle school teacher, she would have her own contacts and sway over the powers that be. And if he gets the middle school of his choice, the likelihood is almost certain he will get the high school of his choice.
Bette: Well, maybe we need to talk to Barbara and Joe about that. If they want to go to the same middle school, then they need to know that. But if it’s not Barbara’s school then they are going to have transportation problems just like we are. We lucked out in that Margaret is providing all the carpooling services. But we won’t have that next year.
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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.