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    Love’s Recovery

    Story written on August 26, 2010 by Gumby.
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    Chapter 17 – Bette pays a visit to Maxine

     

    "Maxine?" Bette shouted up toward the windows, trying to get her mother’s attention.  "For the love of god…" she complained when she still got no response.

     

    Bette tried the door and realized it was open.  She pushed forward, calling out once more above the loud music, before shutting the door behind her.  The house was decorated in such a manner that it exuded Maxine from every angle.  The walls were painted in a simple white, but were decorated impeccably with various paintings that Maxine had done throughout the years.  Bette recognized her work instantly, despite the signature in the bottom corner, based on Maxine’s unique painting technique.  She walked further in and touched a painting that decorated the entrance into the house.  Bette’s fingers followed the exact brush strokes that Maxine had made; she was completely lost in the painting before her.

     

    "This is amazing," Bette whispered as she moved to the next one, oblivious to the woman watching her from the top of the stairs.  "You haven’t lost your touch, Mom."

     

    Maxine quickly blinked back tears as she heard Bette’s soft voice call her Mom.  She found a sense of hope, committing herself now more than ever to regaining her life with Bette.  She watched Bette look around the room before carefully picking up the latest article she had done for Art World that Maxine had cut out to place in her scrapbook of Bette’s life.  As Bette turned back with the article in hand, Maxine instantly witnessed her harden herself, her eyes growing cold.

     

    "I respectfully disagreed with you and the place modern art has in today’s society," Maxine called out, startling Bette, as she descended the stairs and turned the music off.  "Your presentation of it all was amazing though, as usual."

     

    "Pardon me?"

     

    "Modern art…" Maxine wiped her hands on her paint splattered jeans.

     

    "I got that part," Bette answered curtly, "I was speaking more of the ‘my presentation of it being amazing as usual’ part."

     

    Maxine couldn’t help but smile at Bette as she made quotation marks with her fingers in the air. 

     

    "Glad you’re amused, but I wouldn’t expect you to know my presentation of anything."

     

    "I’ve followed your career," Maxine stopped herself and amended her statement, "your life really.  From the day I came back and Melvin…"

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    4. This is a really difficult situation. Bette has entirely too much emotional confusion going on right now to really listen to Maxine and I can understand why Bette wants to get this over with and put it all behind her. Unless Maxine comes up with something really compelling at this moment she won’t get another shot with Bette. She is in a really tough spot. I hope she says enough to at least make Bette think about talking to her again when she’s had more time to deal with all of this.

    5. Intense…your writing is amazing…when it’s funny…it’s hysterical, when it’s sad…it’s deeply melancholy, and when you write intense…it is waiting to exhale time!! You rock Gumby!!!

    16. Awesome as always! i think this is the only way Bette can handle this – and Maxine should have laid her cards on the table before this. Frankly, I don’t have any warm or fuzzy feelings toward her, and I think Bette’s correct to be wary of her. PPS! And Happy Birthday Sea!

    18. LOL Thanks for the birthday wishes…oh my, I ate so much chocolate yesterday, I need another year before I celebrate another birthday!!! When I was younger it was alcohol, now it’s chocolate…next year I’m using sex to celebrate…it’s so much easier on the system! LOL…….What a chapter! Your descriptions are perfection! It’s hard though, Bette is standing there like a stone statue. How do you get someone to hear you when you know they are not capable at that moment of listening? I have complete trust in you and the story you are telling. If anyone can do it, you can. :-) Thanks Gumby!!

    19. Wow. This was so beautifully written. Even though it’s a hard situation. I love how you used Maxine’s art to slightly soften Bette’s heart to listen somewhat. I hope that it will soft just enough to get her to listen and to consider forgiving her mother. And also realize that forgiveness is really for herself. The anger, resentment and bitterness, just let it go. She has to get to the point where she realizes that she does need her mother. Thanks for the chapter. PPS

    20. Damn, Bette was a little harsh and although I understand, I do wish Bette would give her mother half a chance at least. She has decided not to give any creedance to anything her mother says. Bette also has to admit that her father lied to her and kept her mother away from her by threats to her wellbeing. When she hears the bloody gory truth she will start to understand just what kind of an underhanded man her father really was and what he was capable of doing to those that loved him. All she has to do is remember how he had shut Kit out of his life and what he did to Kit’s mother and she will understand more of what her mother went through. Gosh, please let her understand and soften her heart because this is the only mother she will ever have and she has a chance to have her in her life again. Maybe Bette should talk to Peggy about this as well. Thanks for posting.

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