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Give Me A Chance
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“But you gave up. I have pain and regrets too but I never gave up on my marriage. You didn’t even try.”
“It’s a lot more complicated than that. It wasn’t just that I cheated. I let her down in a way that we could never come back from.”
“Can you tell me what you did Daddy? Give me a chance to understand what happened.” Bette asked in a little girl voice much like it might have sounded when she was only nine years old and heard her father’s plea as her mother lay dying. She didn’t want her mother to go any more than he did but even to her young immature heart his distress sounded more like fear than sorrow.
Being a man of God Melvin often thought about the day he would stand in judgement before God. What would he say to Him when he opens the book of life and reads his sins? That day would come soon enough, but today was the day he would confide in his daughter about what happened between him and Maxine. How he let her down.
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“Come sit.” He motioned Bette to take the seat next to him on the couch.
“You know your mother loved children. She volunteered a lot of her time working with underprivileged kids and raising monies to support children’s charities. When we got married, she wanted to start our family right away. At least two or three in five years was her plan.”
“Her plan, not yours. Didn’t you want kids too?”
“It’s not that I didn’t want them, but I had other ambitions for my career and our lifestyle. I wanted to wait a couple of years, but she was adamant. I was 45, and she was 32 and the clock was ticking according to her, so I relented. Don’t get me wrong. I was thrilled when she got pregnant with you, and I loved you very much and Katie adored you. It was a happy time for all of us but then everything changed. You were two years old when she started talking about having our second baby, but then Shirley got remarried and they moved to California. Katie was in her junior year in high school and didn’t want to move so Maxine and I agreed she could live with us until she graduated.
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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.