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Real Tibette – Thanksgiving 2023
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Tina immediately filled up. Then she smiled, a smile so big it spilled the tears from the corners of her eyes. And she held Bette’s face and kissed her tenderly.
‘Oh, Bette, I love it,’ she said, her voice soft. ‘I love it!’
***
In the morning, the coon guy was due at ten and the electrician shortly after, so they headed off fairly sharp after breakfast.
It was still ‘unseasonably mild’, and everyone seemed very relaxed. Kit, Sasha and Solly went into the woods to pick flowers, gather pine cones and pretty leaves. Sonny and Ben went round the outside of the building looking for raccoon entry points. Bette chopped more firewood, and presently Tina brought her some coffee.
‘Thanks,’ said Bette.
Tina handed her the cup, then gave her a kiss, caressing her cheek. Bette smiled, her crow’s feet deepening in the warm yellow sunlight.
Tina went and sat on the front steps. She was wearing her oldest Levis, chunky hiking boots and Bette’s golden-brown teddy-bear fleece. Her hair pulled back in a ponytail.
‘What do you think about staying tonight?’ Bette asked, going to sit next to her.
‘With electricity?’
‘Is that a dealbreaker?’
‘No. I don’t mind either way.’
Bette tried to hide how happy she was at Tina’s answer, and failed. Tina laughed.
‘Seriously, though,’ Bette said, ‘you think it’s time we upgraded?’
‘Upgraded what?’
‘This.’ Bette indicated the cabin.
‘Oh, probably.’
‘Remodel or get a new one?’
Tina looked surprised. ‘A new one?’
‘It’s a thought. Someplace with proper showers and fewer coons.’
Tina laughed, and sipped her coffee, her gaze moving across the driveway, the woods, the lake beyond. ‘The thing is,’ she said, ‘a cabin’s not a hotel. If you want to stay in a hotel, go book one.’
Bette looked down into her coffee cup. Tina knew she was verklempt. Tina leaned in and gave her wife a little friendly shove.
‘I always wanted the kids to love coming here for Thanksgiving,’ Bette said, her eyes shining. ‘Have all these happy memories. Sleeping in the car and arriving in the dark. Hot chocolate and hot water bottles.’
‘Shitty little heaters and the crocheted blankies,’ Tina added.
‘Spiders and s’mores.’
‘And jammies and the Macy’s parade.’
‘Your grandma’s jug.’
Tina glanced at Bette, and they both burst out laughing at the double entendre.
‘Yeah,’ Bette smiled softly, when the laughter had passed. Looking down into her coffee. ‘All that, just all of that. I wanted that for them.’
Tina gazed at her wife. At the beloved dark curls, now threaded with silver.
‘Thank you,’ she said, stroking Bette’s hair back from her temple.
Bette turned to her, a question in her ebony eyes.
‘For wanting that,’ Tina said.
They gazed at each other for a second, and then Bette broke into a beaming smile. The kind of smile that comes from a heart filled with gratitude.
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Hey pal,
‘Waves’ from across the pond!!
Is it really as simple as just ask & receive??? Ha!!!
I’m waiting on a relative to arrive at my home & got the hot news flash that you had posted an update!! My heart sped up & of course I had to seed for myself. What a huge surprise & a much welcome one.
Thank you in advance & I’ll comment further when I’ve consumed every word!!
Woohoo!!!
haha, THANK YOU! will reply to your email in a jiffy
thanks for being excited :-)
Largo
I love this TiBette Universe you have created and I keep coming back to read your stories. I was really excited to see you had posted again and I loved this new chapter. Please keep writing! And thank you for the stories!
Hi there, alisanne
How nice to meet you and to hear that you like this little world. That makes me so happy.
I will keep updating this family – Christmas story is in the works. Also one for Another Left Turn, if I can manage it.
Thank you for your encouragement. It means a great deal.
Largo
Hey Largo,
I’m always so happy to read another chapter of Real Tibette and it was great and funny!
You are so talented and i can’t wait to read more!
Hi Bibi, my friend
Thanks so much for reading this and for all your encouragement and friendship. I’m very happy you enjoyed the update.
Take care
Largo
Thank-you for the Tibette holiday story. I enjoyed reading it.
Thanks, Cathy! I’m so pleased you liked it. Make me very happy!
Take care
Largo
Absolutely loved it! Thank you so much for posting.
SG
SassyGran!!
How r U doing kiddo? Gonna mke the trip the exhibit?
Hi
Not making the Exhibit I’m afraid, are you?
SG
Not going this yr. But looking 4ward to the posts by our friends!
Hi SG and Dumplin!
Lovely to see you both here.
Thanks for checking in and reading this update. I hope you are both well.
Looking forward to Laurel’s show tonight!!!
Largo
Totally AGREE w/these comments. NOT surprised that the REAL Tibette fam is adorably caotic as evah!!!
After u’ve calmed down from from the Holloman exhibit maybe there’s a chapter wth yall meeting up wth the Kennard-Porters . . .
Hi Dumplin!
Yes, I’m enjoying the family growing up – working out what the kids are into and how having Alice in NY affects things. There’s a lot of moving parts. Thanks for taking the time to read it and comment. Means a lot.
Take care
Largo
Largo,
I correct the previous comment . . . DISagree that U have been “arrogant” by calling this masterpiece as “REAL”. Pfff! It certainly I S that!!!
Authors on this site have enraptured us with exquisite insight in filling gaps that were not revealed in TLW nor GenQ.
BaddAss Writers U r!!!!
hahaha, you are the best, Dumplin :-)
The gaps…. the gaps, oh the gaps!
I’m so pleased you enjoy what i enjoy writing. It makes it all worthwhile.
Largo x
This was so needed, missed & delicious to deavour.
Excellent writing as per your usual postings.
Tibette has so perfectly fit themselves into each other & draw such strength from one another.
And Angie, trying her hardest to find the right fit & balance in her life & love. Hopefully we’ll get to read in the not to distant future who she meets & really falls in love with.
Overall, a gem & this will join all your other endeavours as my all,time favorites.
Thanks for making our holidays a bit more grateful & joyful.
All my best.
Coll,
Aren’t we the blessed ones who get the healing nectar that comes from creative, humorous, nsightful literature??
Glad U spoke of he “joyfulness” that springs forth
Hey D,
Yes, we are very blessed. I deeply appreciate the efforts of all the writers on this site for giving of their time & creativity in imagining these wonderful stories.
We all need joy in our lives in any form.
Take care my friend.
Thank you for your lovely comments. It means so much to me that you enjoy this Tibette world. I like writing them as a solid team in, as you say, a big messy family, just filled with love and support. Everything we never, ever, saw on the show.
Thanks, friends
Largo
the Writers on this ABSOLUTELY prove that lesbian couples can have stable ‘ships and “double-you-over laughter in all the caotic happening that “framily members” bring
Hey Largo, just got round to reading your beautiful story, you know me always late to the party!!
I loved it, I love this family unit with Kit, Sonny and Solly! I just wish your stories went on and on. I love reading about their adventures. Don’t leave it to long my friend!