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Give Me A Chance
“Apparently, Mrs. Porter suffered a brain aneurysm at her art studio this morning. I’m afraid I don’t have all the details but it’s life-threatening Mr. Porter. She might not make it.” Mrs. Wilson thought she heard the phone drop, followed by silence. “Mr. Porter are you there?”
After almost a minute, Melvin answered in a shaky voice. “Yes, I’m here.”
“I’m sorry to give you this news Mr. Porter. I’m sure time is of the essence so do we have your permission to release your daughter to Ms. Sanders. We haven’t pulled Elizabeth from class yet, but under the circumstances I’m sure she will want to go to her mother.”
“No. Tell Ms. Sanders to wait for me. I’ll come get my daughter, but I may need her help.”
“Fine, but we need you to come now.”
Melvin was in shock and could hardly speak but grunted his assent and promised to be there in 30 minutes. He asked that they not pull his daughter out of class until he arrived.
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Melvin didn’t trust himself to drive. He asked Marva to arrange for a car service and briefly told her what he knew. He left instructions for her to brief Charlie and clear his calendar for the next few days letting his clients know that he had a family emergency. He trusted Charlie and their competent associates to take care of business while he took leave.
Before he’d hung up with Mrs. Wilson he’d asked to speak with Ms. Sanders. She repeated most of what he’d already learned from the principal, but she was able to provide him with the name and phone number of Maxine’s attending physician. They agreed to meet in the school cafeteria and together would go with the principal to pull Elizabeth from class.
Melvin knew Evelyn Sanders socially, as she was one of the art gallery owners that displayed Maxine’s work, but they were not friends. Regardless he was grateful to have someone else there that knew Elizabeth to help shoulder the burden of telling the child that her mother was critically ill and possibly dying.
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Melvin called the doctor from the car on the way to the school. His worse fears were realized.
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Love when n Author takes the reader back in time because it always feels like stepping into some else skin reminding myself how swiftly lives can be re-routed to flow on a different path.
Smooth chapter Bat
DumplinT – thank you. You are so right how one moment or one decision can change the entire course of your life. I appreciate you reading and commenting.
Hi! Thank you for the chapter!
Sorry, but i need to say it – how stupid Melvin need to be to have sex with whore without condom?
Zhenya, thank you for reading and commenting. Totally agree, Melvin was very irresponsible. He shouldn’t have been with her in the first place, but unprotected sex with anyone outside of a committed relationship is taking a chance.
Hi,
Thanks for the post.
Hasn’t made me like or have any sympathy for Melvin.
Look forward to the next post,
Happy Easter:-)
SG
SassyGran – thank you. Happy Easter to you too.
I know it’s hard to like Melvin given his past behaviors but he is repentant and hopefully we will see some good deeds and selfless acts before he leaves us. Thanks for loyally reading and commenting.
Hey Bat,
My apologize for commenting so late. Have this week night shifts.
Like father like daughter, both could not cope with the stress and pressure and fell prey to someone with whom they could temporarily escape. Only Melvin was so stupid to get a STD and lost his manhood and couldn’t give Maxine what she so much wanted, a second child.
Both betrayed the woman they see as their love of their lives, but Bette fought hard and long to prove to Tina that she is worth the second chance and i am very happy that Tina is willing to work it out so they can be a family.
Great chapter!
Bibi28, I just posted this last night so you are not late. Thank you for your comment as you summed it up perfectly.
Bette will see the parallels in their behavior and their lack of coping skills and hopefully learn a lesson that escaping your troubles in the arms of another is destructive not only to relationships but to lives. She is fortunate that Tina is giving her a second chance.
I didn’t write it into this story, but if you recall on the show after Bette cheated with Candace she also had a one-night stand that she picked up in a bar when she was in NY. I decided to use a similar scenario for Melvin.
Thanks again for your insight and for loyally reading and commenting. Hope the night shift isn’t too hard on you.
This was a fantastic chapter. Never would I have guessed the reason for the demise of his marriage to Maxine. He was a very weak man and an idiot to have unprotected sex. Can not blame Maxine at all for leaving him, she did the only thing she could given the circumstances, poor thing. Just hate that she had to be written out so soon because Bette needed her so much. You have done miraculous work writing this story and explaining everything the show did not and glossed over her childhood. Thanks for making this all clear.