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Chapter 4 – Philadelphia – Day 3
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Tina: You know, I am really enjoying this time with you. We have really been busy for the past few months getting into our new home and our new lives. And within a couple of weeks, we should have all our furniture and drapes and decorative touches done. We still won’t have all the walls filled with the appropriate art, but there is no rush for that. Mary will be with us at the end of the month. Then we have Thanksgiving, Paris and Jeanette’s wedding and then we will start preparing for Christmas.
Bette: So, by the first week in November, we will have a household of five. And John David is around so much, I almost feel like we should count him as well.
Tina: Well, Daniel is at his house just as much as he is with us. Joe has been taking the boys every other week to play golf. And he has been taking the boys to their school intermural games as well. He and Barbara seem to be getting along well. Barbara told me the other day, that she had withdrawn her divorce law suit. Joe was supposed to move back home last weekend. Barbara was thrilled. They are in hopes that they can get Joey settled down now and get serious about school. Barbara thinks that the separation affected Joey more than they want to admit. John David would be in the same boat, but Daniel has come along and they are so busy that he has not had time to think much about the separation and how it affects him.
Bette: Well, I am glad that Daniel has found a friend. I really like the Wilkins. John David is a really nice kid. Maybe they will both want to go to the same school next year. But if they don’t well, hopefully Daniel will keep his friendship with John David.
Tina: Well, it will be whatever it is going to be. That will be up to Daniel and John David.
Bette: We need to have one more conversation with Angie about what she would like to do about housing next year. You know, she may be one of those odd people who wants to stay in the dorm for her undergraduate years.
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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.