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“Vanilla ice-cream!!” They both yell out and laugh
“You know Mommy would want us to try something different right?”
“Yeah. Probably something with chocolate.”
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Bette and Angie sit down to lunch and place their orders. Once the food is served and half consumed, Angie starts a conversation with her mom.
“Momma? What were you thinking about today?”
“What do you mean sweetie?”
“Today when I was calling you to look at the painting and you didn’t hear me. You said you were …” Angie hesitated for minute as she tried to recall the exact phrase her mother had used. “lost in thought. What were you thinking about?”
“I was thinking about how I first met your Mommy. It was at an Art Walk like the one we just came from.”
“Did you think she was pretty?”
“I thought she was beautiful. I still do.”
“Did you ask her for a date?”
Bette laughs at her daughter’s precociousness but is saddened when she realizes that they had never talked about the times before she was born when they were a happy couple. Their daughter had only known them as co-parents living apart until now.
“I didn’t ask her for a date that day because I didn’t know if she liked me, but I wanted to.”
“Then how did you get married and have me?”
“When I met your mom, I was looking at a painting that I liked a lot. She came over and asked if I wanted to buy it. The artist was her friend Valerie. Your Mommy was watching the paintings for her because she had to leave. We talked about the art and then I gave her my phone number. I told her to have her friend call me because I wanted to show her paintings in my gallery.”
“You had a gallery before? I thought you worked in a school.”
“I had a gallery before I worked at the school, and before that I worked in a museum. Valerie called me and she came to the gallery and we decided to do a show. While we were getting it set up your Mommy came with her. She said she wanted to help, but she was just coming to see me. That’s when I knew that she liked me, so I asked her for a date.”
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Hi,
I think i have to reread the first story before i read this one.
It is fanstastic you bring it back!
Hi Bibi28
Yes, it is a true sequel that picks up three months after the previous one so will be helpful to know what happened before, Thanks for reading both.
It will be a pleasure to read it again! I will try do that next week
Delighted to see this!
Had a read of Something Italian and that stirred the brain cells (need to these days) but I think I’m going to do a re-read.
Thanks for starting to post again
SG
SassyGran – you’re not the only one that needs to stir the brain cells. I have to go back and read it myself so I can be accurate in the sequel. For example I can’t remember the all the Acts of Love and Kindness. I need to make sure Bette doesn’t repeat any. :-)
Thanks for going back for a re-read.
You’ve kept your promise to write a sequel to this great story, I’m so glad , thank you !
izzie, it took five years but glad I could keep the promise. Now I have to finish it. Thank you for reading and encouraging me.
I went back and read the entire book preceding this one. It is a great story. The way you handle Bette and Tina’s reconciliation is absolutely wonderful. The therapist Emma is absolutely one of the best. I do not know if you base this on some life experience, but she is certainly someone I would want to see if I needed therapy. The changes in Tina are phenomenal but the changes in Bette are so clear and evident that it just warms my heart. It’s just strange to me that people can and do convince themselves of some false notion or assumption and then conduct their lives based on that notion and destroy their relationships as a result. That is the case with Bette and Tina. Tina’s notion that Bette does not find her desirable and Bette’s notion that Tina does not find her desirable snowballs into eight years of separation and unhappiness for both. And then to finally reconcile when they start to discover the truth – that if they had really talked to one another and acted on what they truly both wanted and needed, the separation might never had occurred.
I love the fact that Bette is truly a romantic – the 17 random acts of love and kindness was such a great idea and plot line. As of three month ago, they were only up to Act XIV. There are three more to go. The maturity shown by Bette as she reconciles with Tina is absolutely wonderful. Even though she has doubts from time to time, she is not afraid to get help when they surface. Tina shows some temper and doubt from time to time, but she just seems to brush it off and goes forward. But I really feel that Tina is truly committed to Bette in this relationship and will do whatever it takes to make their lives happy and fulfilling.
I look forward to this continuation….I notice that you use this flashback of their initial meeting from Love will build a Bridge. I am still in hopes that you will complete that story. Its a good one as well with a completely different Bette and Tina.
Love your stories…..Thanks for beginning a new one.
Martha3128- thank you for going back to read the previous story, the sequel will make much more sense since I reference back to some of what happened in the first one.
Emma is one of my favorite recurring characters. She has done wonders for Bette, and in some cases Tina too. I paired Bette and Emma romantically in one story where Bette and Tina did not reconcile. It wasn’t popular with Tibetters but it was one of those stories that I felt I had to write.
I appreciate you noting Bette’s growth and maturity. She didn’t cheat in this story but she took responsibility for her failure in the relationship and Tina realizing that running away is not the answer. I wanted to stress how open, honest communication on any level could make or break a relationship. I also wanted Angie to be at the center of the story because too often on the show I think there were times Bette, Tina and audience forgot Angie even existed until they would bring her back for brief appearance. One of the failures of GenQ in my opinion was making Angie 16 years old. I think she was actually 3 maybe 4 when the show ended 10 years ago. A 13 or 14 year old would have really tested Bette and Tina’s parenting skills, and so much more growing pains to deal with.
Back to this story. You are correct, the Art Walk meeting was one that I re-posted and used in Love a bridge between our differences (with a slightly different conversation). I’ve also used Leigh’s the Angels Watching Over Me exhibit in another story I think. Sometimes when I pull a story down and I don’t intend to re-post I will save bits and pieces that I really like and re-use them. However I am acutely that some readers have great recollection of details even if they read the story 10 years ago so I try to vary it somewhat. As I do the rewrite I will try to change some of the scenarios so it doesn’t sound like a remake.
As usual I appreciate the time you take to read, and analyze and provide insightful comments. Bette has 3 more Acts of Love and Kindness to complete so we’ll see how imaginative she gets for the finale.