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“I think it’s beautiful that you kept them,” Bette said quietly. “And I wish I knew what we needed to do to make you feel as though you and I are in a better place.”
“So do I,” Tina replied as she stood. She tucked the magazines under one arm and reached for the card as she walked by.
Bette handed it to her and wordlessly watched her go inside.
Bette’s intercom buzzer brought her back to the present.
“Please don’t tell me there’s another delivery,” Bette answered.
“No, I’m just stepping out for lunch,” Tara said. “Can I bring anything back for you?”
“Thanks I’m fine,” Bette replied. She glanced at the tray. “She thought of everything.”
“You okay?”
“I’m good, thanks. Go and enjoy your lunch.”
Bette placed some sun-dried tomato pesto on a piece of crustini before popping the morsel in her mouth.
She savoured its flavour as she chewed, and followed it up with another spoonful of soup.
“That woman can cook,” Bette said thoughtfully.
She enjoyed the rest of her lunch before moving out into the gallery lobby to assist staff with greeting guests in Tara’s absence.
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Bette arrived at home just after 6:30 that evening. She had plenty of time to prepare for her dinner date, but all she wanted to do was relax. It had been an emotional memory-filled day. Even when the memories were good, that kind of reminiscing was quite exhausting.
She checked her phone messages and saw that there were two awaiting her. She hit the button on the machine and walked into the kitchen to pour a glass of juice.
“Hey, it’s me,” Tina’s voice followed her into the other room. “I just wanted to let you know you’ve gotten all the reminders I had planned for the day. I hope you found it enjoyable and not irritating. Talk to you soon.”
The machine beeped to indicate the end of the message. The second one started immediately afterwards.
“Hi Bette, it’s Terri. Sorry for the late notice, but I had a crazy cab driver who didn’t get me to the airport in time and I missed my flight back from San Francisco. I won’t be back in LA until after 10. Let me make it up to you. I have Friday free. Call me sometime tomorrow.”
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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