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Day five, letter five
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“Tina. When did you do this?” Bette asked softly, placing her napkin on her lap. She beamed at the blonde, so happy to be here right this moment with this woman that she felt like she could float. “This is amazing.”
“Yesterday. I stopped doing things like this for you, but you better get used to it because I won’t let that happen again.” Tina smiled softly at Bette, unable to look away. With her hair in a ponytail and her cheeks still flushed from running Bette looked radiant, her evident happiness coming off her in waves, making Tina’s heart want to sing.
“It’s so beautiful here. This… Tee… this…”
Tina reached for her hand, bringing it to her lips to kiss the back of it. She turned it over to kiss along Bette’s wrist, then held it in both of her own next to her cheek.
“I know…” she said. “It’s perfect right? A beautiful place to have lunch with my beautiful girl. It’s been a month or so since I came back into town and I wanted a special place so we could check in with each other. How are you?”
Bette moved her chair closer, leaning in to kiss those perfect, pink lips that had been beckoning her all day. She wanted to kiss Tina all over in truth but forced herself to answer Tina instead.
“I am so glad you are here, Tee. I feel like we are dating again, like we have this brand new relationship that is so different in so many ways from the previous one. And so familiar at the same time.”
“It was one of the phrases my therapist wanted me to remember when I came back. I put it in my phone to refer to, to keep me on track…”
“What’s that?”
“To focus on the relationship I want, not the one we had. We can’t continue to do what we did in the past, we have to move forward in a new way with new patterns and ways of solving conflict or making decisions.”
The waitress came out with their drinks then disappeared just as quietly as she appeared.
“I like that Tina. This feels different. And yet the same in a lot of ways…”
“Different good or different bad?” Tina asked quietly, her eyes searching Bette’s.
“Different good in so many ways it is indescribable. I feel completely in sync with you, Tee. Swept up in your romance, your thoughtfulness, your presence…just, you…”
“But…?”
“No buts… well… I just want it to last. That’s all. I can’t bear another breakup. I know that for sure. If I lose you again, I will fall apart spectacularly.”
“You won’t.” Tina said seriously, her hand going to rest on Bette’s leg under the table. “You won’t…” she repeated, her voice deeper, sincere.
“How can I be sure?” Bette replied, putting her hand over Tina’s, linking their fingers.
Sweet Bette, God. She could make Tina’s insides crumble.
“Because I’m scared too. I fell apart too. I can’t function without you, Baby. I will choose you every day. We have to trust each other, trust that the commitment we make is for real and then work like hell for each other, talk to each other. The rest is easy…”
The waitress arrived to take their orders, both ordering the same Cobb salad and Tina asked for two mimosas. When she went back inside, Bette leaned in closer. “What did you mean when you said the rest is easy?”
“I mean the unbridled passion, Baby. The sex that leaves me breathless, the lovemaking that lasts for hours. The fucking up against the door just because. That’s the easy part. And I can’t fucking wait to resume that part of our relationship. I told you I want you back, and I will keep reminding you that I love you, Bette. I love you so much my heart beats harder when you enter a room. I am ready to be the partner you deserve.”
“Come here, Tee. Kiss me. I love you too. I want to be the partner you deserve too.”
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So romantic…. so sweet together… making progress….
How will Bette know? Well, in truth, she won’t. She has to see that Tina has made a commitment to try to work things out always. And she has to do the same. But that is still no guarantee. There are no real guarantees. You have to take a chance… take the risk, because the reward is so much greater than doing without the relationship at all. There will always be a risk…but the more they talk and pay attention to resolving the problems and the disappointments and the hurts, the risk will diminish. Time to take the chance Bette…take the leap. Life is a whole lot better with Tina than without her.
Thanks for the update….
Well said Martha! Fully agree with you!
Ditto
The leap of faith… so crucial and yet so hard! Well said, Martha
Soo Good. Makes my heart sing. I love this Tina. Thank you for the post
SG
Thank you SG, I love this Tina too. She’s strong, going after what she wants. Have a great day
I so love this series of chapters! The little notes from Bette to Tina, how they are building their friendship, their trust and talk really with each other, open up and share what they think, feel and fear.
I understand Bette’s fear that another breakup will let her fall spectacularly, but Tina know and has the same fear but she is willing to fight and not let that fear hold her back.
This is a really good phrase the therapist gave to Tina and to remember, so true:
“To focus on the relationship I want, not the one we had. We can’t continue to do what we did in the past, we have to move forward in a new way with new patterns and ways of solving conflict or making decisions”
They both want the same and are working to make this relationship work, they are on the right track.
Such a pleasure to read this!
Enjoy your Wednesday!
Thank you so much BiBi. I think they are on the right track too. Slow build up. Glad you are along for the ride.
I love this Tina as well. Not sharing with Alice about them as a couple shows Bette yet again that Tina realizes that their relationship is between the two of them. Not the two of them plus Alice. And as I have been writing in my previous comments, the romance in these stories just makes my day.
Bette’s letter and the mention of the Monster Dash 5 K serves several purposes: first, letting Tina know Bette is truly thinking of her to the point of researching an activity she knows Tina might enjoy. Next, highlighting running as a means of helping Bette forget and dull her pain and not drink too much. Running as a means of escape. Lastly, shifting back to an activity that both Bette and Tina truly enjoy doing together, one that contributed to bringing them together in the first place. Running for companionship and pleasure. A true rebirth if you will. The shifts taking place may seem subtle on the surface but cumulatively speak volumes to their commitment to make this work! “Nothing louder than an empty house.” So simple. So sad. So true. So great that they are well on their way to never having to worry about that again. Excellent, BK!
Thank you for mentioning the 5K run. I love your analysis of connecting the run with their time together and the health benefits. I think Bette is also trying to remind Tina that she has a life in LA – activities she did with friends that she enjoyed and reminding her of the bigger circle. They are on their way Billy! So Glad you along with me for the journey….
BK
Love destination dates. I am writing one in my current story as well. I love this story of reconciliation. Slow, thoughtful, romantic and authentic. Tina is taking a chance, well sort of, we all know as she does that Bette loves her completely and there would be no other for Bette. But anyways, the simple things that go into dating that help a couple learn about each other is superbly used to allow the couple to re-a quaint themselves as well as re-invent their relationship.
Nice Job
K
Thank you SUPE. That you are writing a story makes me enormously happy. Cheers
Letter five already! Thanks for keeping up with the daily posts, BK. Sorry for not commenting yesterday but exhaustion took over and I fell asleep right after my short replies to other comments. I’m so ready for 2020 to end!
Back to T + B. Our favourite couple is on the right track to finding out how to be a great couple again. Full of love, friendship and respect for each other, not taking the other one for granted, enjoying the little things, their togetherness, I’d say going for a run together and the surprise stop at the restaurant will do a lot to strengthen the foundation of the relationship.
I love the book moment when Tina laid a false trail to divert Bette’s excitement over the new art tome. I imagine Tina will need a trolly to retrieve this wrapped book out of the closet for Christmas.
Thanks for making Tina tell Bette about her “mantras” she learned from her therapist. It was the perfect moment to share it! It’s just great to see how good they got with communicating. Not only talk to the other but bite the tongue and simply listen to the partner. Tina is right, this is the hardest part. Much easier to get lost in the physical attraction and action. But they even lost this part of themselves.
I went back to “A Thanksgiving reunion” – this is the prelude to this series, right?
Well, okay, if it is then I have some questions. Will we learn what Tina did in Paris? Only some work on location or did she reminisce about a holiday in Paris or Europe with Bette in their early days? Trying to remember what made them happy together then? Though I’m not sure such a vacation was mentioned in the show. Maybe it’s only fanfic. Anyway, just a thought, it might be totally irrelevant to their reconciliation and your story.
Another thing is Provocations, Candace, Bette’s affair. A quote from “A Thanksgiving reunion”: “..the affair with Candace breaking them.”
I really love how Tina is working through her part of their downfall and is wholeheartedly wooing Bette. And as I said before I adore Bette for writing those letters. But I would love to see Bette contributing more to their reconciliation as well. It just feels a little onesided to me and it takes two to Tango.
Bette did the cheating. Tina didn’t tell her to start the nasty with C in the prison cell (sort of…I tend to think that was the first step to cheating). Bette wasn’t forced to sleep with C.
Did she apologize to Tina before T left for SC? This quote from Tina might imply so: “Finding out about Candace had rocked her world and forced her to confront her own demons, her own culpability in the demise of their relationship.”
Can Bette explain the affair to herself? Did Bette already got to the bottom of why she cheated instead of having a fight with Tina or leaving her because they finally drifted away after the miscarriage?
BK, I’m happy if you tell me that you’re just concentrating on Tina’s part of the reconciliation and you assume that B + T talked about all that right after the affair and just before T left. Bette’s explanation and reasoning about her affair would be enough for Tina to say she needed time to think and would leave Bette for some time.
Well, that’s it. Thanks for reading my train of thoughts :-D
Enjoy your day, I’m looking forward to no. 6, it brings me at least some Christmas spirit.
cheers
KiwiP
KP
I am ready for 2020 to end as well. A new year sounds heavenly. Yes the Thanksgiving story is a prelude to this one and I am so glad you read it and shared your thoughts. The affair will be a subject in a pending chapter, for now Tina is taking the lead on the romance but Bette will soon step up to the plate and make amends as well. I am a big believer that it takes two to mess up a relationship and both need to own their behaviors and shortfalls. Thank you for your continued support and commenting your thoughts so well. Hope you get some rest
BK
What a great blessing for these two to be able to enjoy several things they used to do that made time together.
1. Finding a book that would be well-received and special to the one. 2. Running off to the unknown only to roll up on a little scenic town where they used to visit. 3. Lunch planned at a new restaurant with the best seats in the house. 4. Talking to each other and asking questions, questions that could easily be heard and misinterpreted but WAITING for the beloved response and going from there.
Tina understanding and practicing putting Bette first when it comes to any inquiry from Alice. Next time Alice wants to jump into Tibette’s intimacies in the presence of the gang, Tina needs to ask her how long she and Dana have been hooking up.
HAHA that would be the perfect response. Alice would be so busted. Thanks DT
BK,
Another great chapter lady.
Sweet, romantic and healing.
We need these stories to keep us sane & give us hope for the future & Tibette endgame someday.
Thanks for sharing this beautiful story. More good chapters to come….
Collins
Thank you Collins. I think we need these stories too and this site has so many writers willing to offer them. Appreciate you taking time to comment