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Give Me A Chance
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“I promise.” Melvin answered in a shaky voice, as he kissed the pale hand that looked so small and fragile in his grip.
“And you” Maxine turned her attention to Bette lifting her chin. “You take good care of your daddy too. You hear me?”
Bette nodded before laying her head back unto her mother’s chest. She felt like bawling and throwing a tantrum and begging her mother not to die but her parents had always instilled decorum even under the worst of circumstances.
Surprisingly it was Melvin that broke down. He bent next to the bed and stretched his long arm across their bodies, so he was hugging them both. In a heart wrenching whisper, he pleaded with the dying woman.
“Maxine. Please don’t go. Stay with our little girl. I know I let you down Maxine. I was weak. I didn’t mean to. But I need you to stay and look after my girl.”
“If only I could. Baby you know I would never leave you, but God is calling me home. I forgive you Melvin. I love you both with all my heart. Please take good care of each other.” And with that she went to her eternal sleep.
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Present day …
By now Melvin had been in Los Angeles for almost two weeks and though he was feeling fine physically he was emotionally drained from all the baring of his heart and soul to the three most important women in his life now; Kit, Bette and Tina. All three had challenged him to own up to his bad behaviors and made it very clear that there was little room for him to go back on his word.
Neither Kit nor Tina was as fully invested in trusting Melvin’s redemption than Bette. The only other time she’d witnessed such vulnerability in her father’s manner was in her mother’s hospital room. They had never been closer than in those moments when they shared the emotional pain and trauma of watching someone, they both loved dearly taken away from them.
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After meeting Kit for breakfast at the Planet Bette and Melvin had driven to Santa Monica to meet with her realtor who’d left a message the evening before that the offer had been accepted and the property owners were anxious to close the deal. Bette just had to sign the final paperwork and deliver a cashier’s check. By the end of the meeting she had the keys to the new Bette Porter Gallery in hand. She took her father there.
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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.