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Give Me A Chance
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“Mr. Porter your wife is out of surgery but I’m afraid the prognosis isn’t good. The aneurysm ruptured and bled into the brain, causing a stroke. We’ve stabilized her, but we fear that the stroke damaged brain cells and there is increased pressure within the skull. Even if she were to survive the damage is too severe for recovery. I’m very sorry Mr. Porter. We’ve done everything we can to make her comfortable.”
“Thank you doctor.”
“I understand you have a young daughter.”
“Yes, I’m on my way to her school now.”
“Please get here as soon as you can. Her mother is frantic that she won’t get to say good-bye.”
Melvin hung up and asked the driver to speed it up. Even though the doctor didn’t think that Maxine would live through the night his stubbornness refused to believe it. His wife would never leave her daughter alone in this world. She would fight with every fiber of her being. Although he and Maxine had been divorced for six years Melvin was not prepared to be a widower. He bowed his head and prayed.
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About an hour later Melvin walked into the hospital room holding his nine-year-old daughter’s hand. Bette let go of her father and ran to her mother’s bedside. She’d been crying since she was pulled from class and taken to the principal’s office. He and Evelyn tried to prepare Bette without scaring her but how do you prepare a nine-year-old for a catastrophic loss that would collapse her entire world.
Maxine was resting comfortably after the surgery. Other than the bandages on her head and being hooked up to various machines to monitor her vitals she looked just as beautiful as ever to Melvin. How could it be that she was dying?
Being mindful of the tubes and wires, Bette crawled onto the bed and snuggled with her mother. She was steadily sniffling as she tried to get her tears under control.
Melvin was half-way in the room, and Evelyn stood just inside the doorway wanting to be supportive but unobtrusive.
As she stroked her daughter’s hair with one hand, Maxine motioned Melvin closer and took his hand with the other.
“Now promise you’ll take good care of my girl.” It was a command that left no room for discussion. The light in her piercing blue eyes was fading but not the intensity of her gaze as she looked into the soulful brown eyes of the only man she’d ever loved.
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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.