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Bette opened the card to see what sentiment had been written. Again the familiar script met her.
“Moments like this, made me realize what you mean to me. I’m very much looking forward to Friday. T.”
Bette sat at her desk and dipped into the soup. Just as she remembered, it was delicious. Tina always made it on hot summer days when neither one of them could stand the thought of turning the stove on.
Bette leaned in and inhaled the scent of the daisy. Tina didn’t give flowers often, but when she did, this was the flower of choice. She always said she gave this flower because it was the first gift she’d ever received from Bette – on one of their first dates, Bette had brought over a bouquet of them. She didn’t realize how much such little gestures meant to Tina until one day she was returning home from a trip to the grocery store, just after the baby was born and they were all living as a family again.
“Tina! Where are you?” Bette called out as she searched through the house.
“I’m outside” Tina called back. “I’m looking for something.”
Bette came around the corner to see Tina sitting cross-legged, frantically digging through the paper recycling.
“I just got rid of all those old magazines, Tina, what are you doing?”
“Thank God!” Tina said as she opened one of them and set it on her lap. Inside was a pressed daisy, perfectly preserved. “I saw the empty box by the back door and I thought you may have put the magazines into recycling.”
“I’m sorry…I didn’t know that was in there,” Bette said. “What’s it from?”
Tina silently and methodically pulled five more magazines from the stack that had just been discarded, opening each one to reveal another flower. She then picked up one more magazine and flipped to a page where a card slipped out. She extracted it from the envelope and handed it to Bette.
Bette read the card while Tina closed the magazines to once again protect the flowers she had been saving for over eight years.
“They’re the first flowers I ever bought for you,” Bette said quietly. “I had no idea you kept them.”
“Seems even more important considering what we’ve been going through lately,” Tina sighed. “You probably think it’s silly of me to have kept them.”
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Oh my God!
I am so happy that you are back!
I love your stories, i read them more than once over the years.
But i don’t have time to reread this story, have to work very early in the morning , but i hope to read it when i am back tomorrow. I am looking forward to it!
You are a incredible writer and i do hope that you will find the time to write more! For now, thank you again for returning!
I was so happy to see your name again, I love your stories, off to read now,, but please continue to post more stories.,, please post soon.
Thanks for the shoutout! You’re an incredible writer with a natural style that pulls the reader in and makes one sorry when the chapter/story ends. Your writing demands rereading many times. It’s just that enjoyable. :-)
Brilliant, thanks so much for this. 62 Pages of pleasure.
Enjoy your stories which are good to read more than once.
Look forward to keeping on swimming :-)
I love this story, as I always enjoy reading your work!
Loved it, thanks so much. You are such a good writer!
Glad you are back,I love your stories.
I certainly remember this story and I love it more now. Thanks for updating the language so the profane language is present. It’s not that I am a complete potty mouth but let’s be realistic. Several of the stories that have transferred over have blanks or asterisks instead of the actual language. In my opinion, when this happens, the stories lose some of their authenticity and the characters lose their edge. I realize that it takes effort to fill in the blanks especially in longer stories. So thanks for doing that.
I find stories harder to read with the asterisks inserted…it’s like a jolt of reality interfering with my escapism. I had to get to the task of editing them out. I do plan to work on more stories; some easier than others because of where the files are. This story was first posted almost 10 (!) years ago, so the digital file was more challenging to retrieve. I’m not much for cursing, but the occasional well placed F-bomb can really get someone’s attention.
@JKS I can’t believe this story is almost 10 years old! It reads now as fresh as it did then. I really love your stories because they are so well written with realism, humor, sarcasm and authenticity. It also helps that for us ORs (Original Readers), it follows canon for the characters and storylines. :-)
WOW, what a fabulous surprise seeing you back here, JKS! So glad you found your way back here and have even edited! Let me know if you have any questions or need any help!
Wonderful story. Thanks for sharing again!
Thanks for your effort of editing and for giving us this wonderful story again.
It’s still as beautiful as I remember it from reading your story for the first time a few years ago.
Finally I managed to finish reading!
I was slowly reading this story.
And I confess that it was a great trip.
Pretty and wonderful.!
And to think that have passed since the 10 years, but
It remains very current.
The entire universe.
Don’t remember seeing this before and it was wonderful, took me back a ways. So great to have you back giving us something to read from you. Wish other former writers would come back to us, all of you are valued and missed greatly. So many of the stories are not completed, would be so nice if they were. Again welcome back, looking forward to more. Thanks.
Loved this! I love your writing. I’m so glad I’ve come across your stories, be it years later but better late than never lol