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    Hindsight – Chapter 19

    Story written on January 25, 2007 by Jobadge.
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    Bette Porter: My heart was telling me so many things…

     

    I think I was coming to the realisation that I should view our situation in as much that I needed to let her go… I needed to feel that I hadn’t lost her… just let… her go… let her be happy with the life she had chosen to follow… 

     

    Was it what I wanted…, I wasn’t even prepared to allow my thoughts go down that road, because I knew what the answer would be…?

     

    I had to learn to see that I had Angelica in my life, and as such I would have Tina in my life to a certain point… and with that I knew that I would have to be comforted that she was happy elsewhere… I only ever wanted her to be happy… and if I couldn’t make her happy… and I couldn’t… our situation had proved that fact…, she wasn’t happy with me…, therefore… I wanted her to be happy… with someone else…

     

    Could I accept that she would be happy with someone else…?

     

    No… but I didn’t have a choice…

     

    I looked into her glassy eyes, I had to tell her, I had to diffuse the intensity of our ‘lost’ situation…

     

    I took a deep breath before speaking, the silence between us seemed to have lasted forever, we were just standing facing one another in Angelica’s bedroom while she quietly played with her toys, completely oblivious to the surrounding tension between her two mothers.

     

    I swallowed the lump in my throat, my chest was rising and falling like nothing I could recall recently, “T… Tina…you… you haven’t lost me… I’m… still here for you, and I’m… glad… that you have found someone to… make you happy, and… I’m sure…”

     

    “Bette… please…”

     

    “No Tina…, let me just say this… please…”

     

    “Okay…”

     

    I took another deep breath, it was so painful to look into her eyes, I glanced at Angelica, who looked back at me with that gummy smile, I smiled despite pain I felt inside.

     

    “Are you happy Tina…?” I asked her.

     

    She just looked at me, her lips parted as if she were about to answer, she looked to the ceiling; she bit her lip before looking back to me…

     

    I couldn’t even begin to tell her how much it hurt to say those words to her all those months ago, ‘I think you should explore those feelings you have…’ I don’t think I had ever experienced a physical pain so intense…

     

    Did I actually want her to explore them, I don’t know…, it was a double edged sword… if she hadn’t of reacted to those feelings who would of known what the future held for us…, but did I actually expect her to explore those feelings and for this to be the result… never in a million years… we were meant to be… forever…

     

    But she did explore them…, and look where we were now…

     

    “You know that I’ve only ever wanted you to be happy…”

     

    “I know…” she whispered.

     

    “I… I need to know… that everything… we went through was worth it…”

     

     

     
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    3. I’m with curious!!these one pagers will be the death of me, I love the slow burn as much as the next girl but this one is turning into a blaze that no amount of aloe vera is going to help!!lol. Jo, we beg of you, end the suffering!!

    5. you are incredible! i absolutely adore your way of writing… it touches my heart every single time i read your story… especialy this one… keep up the marvelous work you’re doing… post soon :)

    8. I am so stressing here. Bette let Tina talk, we need to know what she wants to tell you before your talking makes her change what she was going to tell her. Remember she brought bags with her. Come on Please!!!!!

    10. omfg, this is just, just too excriciatingly painful…tell her Tina, tell her u’ve been a rat’s arse determined to make her feel as downright rotten as she made u feel over Candace BUT now u’ve had your revenge, it don’t taste so sweet when u see your one true love so completely dissassembled and dying….ffsake tell her…b4 I strangle the last breath out of U…LMAO…sorreeeee but !!!!!!!!PPS I must luv being tortured by u.

    11. “Are you happy Tina…?” … You know, I’m quite certain that Tina’s never actually asked herself that question since she left Bette. Well now would be a good time… an excellent time, in fact!… As I’m sure the answer would probably lead her to answer Bette’s other question, which in other terms means: Was it worth sacrifying your forever true love? In the name of what?… Normality? Security? Predictability?… Hindsight, Tina… now would be an excellent time to have a little taste of it…

    14. Hey. Its going to get tough from now. How does one answer that question? If Tina says that it was not worth it then it could end up with Bette getting even more upset and angry as it might indicate that Tina hadnt thought it through when she acted on her feelings but it was just an impulse and that too for nothing but more pain in return and at the cost of breaking up their family :( Now if Tina says yes then it would mean that she is happy with what she chose, that is her so called “new life”, which will still be painful for Bette to know as now it would confirm that Bette has truly lost her :( Tina is in a difficult situation and everything depends on how tactfully and sensitively she handles this situation while at the same time abiding by Truth. Thank you for this thought provoking story :) As u can tell I an very eager to know Tina’s response :) Please post soon :D

    15. Half way through I kept telling myself that I had to stop reading this, it was just to painful. You are a magnificant writer and of course, I couldn’t just stop reading. So I continued and painfully, panifully, enjoyed it very much. Yet, I don’t know how much more my poor heart can take. In the word’s of Mary J. Blige, which I happen to be listening to while reading this, “No More Drama.” Can you please, please write a “Situations” just to give us a break. I truly love your writing, but can you just throw in one non-painful story. Thanks!!!!

    16. Tina is gonna say “I don’t know” that’s the safe answer. Jo I was hoping for maybe a 10 pager…I was robbed of 9 pages…but damn if you didn’t pack alot of emotion into that one page…awesome as usual.

    18. I don’t think that Tina is happy or she would not be in the state that she is. I know that she cares about Bette but to touch her and feel her pain tells me that there is more going on inside of her. Bette has no clue that Tina has been reminding Angelica of her other mother or that she sings Bette’s favorite song that she sang to Angelica as a reminder of Bette. There is some buried feelings on both part. I hope that by Bette opening up some that Tina will allow her wall to crumble and work her way back to her true love.

    23. As usual, so sad and painful. I think Tina knows what she wants, and one of them has to do SOMETHING, and I don’t think it’s going to be Bette, so… Tina should just take her and kiss her and… make it better. Too easy of an answer? Yeah, I thought so too…

    24. Wow Jo… Powerfull words, REAL communication, you make that connection we see on the screen between them, between those hazel and chocolatbrown eyes, you make that connection palpable… Amazing as always, my friend ;)

    27. this was so painful and sad, because beside all the pain that Tina have been inflected on Bette it wasn’t worthy because Tina is not happy wiht her new life

    28. With every chapter of this..i try to see the positive…some tiny light at the end of the tunnel…its always been very sad..but i have to believe that Tina is there for a reason…other than Angelica…and i still believe that!…great writing..

    31. OK Jo, We need more. The slow burn is great but my heart can not take much more. Please just let Tina tell Bette she wants her back. Great Chapter Thank you PPS

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