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“Your Mom even agreed to help me with the company Christmas party. It’s here next Saturday, so I hope you’ll join us and help out too.”
Ellie smiled.
“Sure Dad. It’ll be fun.”
Tina chimed in.
“You know Ellie I’ll be busy at the Gallery until Christmas but if you want you can come with me a few days. We’re working on a fundraiser for a not for profit, “The Center for Social Justice”. Bette has been working on a pilot program that brings art to inner city teens to encourage them to express their anger and feelings through art. The program has been incredibly successful so the fundraiser is a huge city-wide event to provide funding to enhance the project.’
“Wow, Mom that is awesome. I’d love to get involved.”
Tina smiled at her daughter. She took a deep breath and sighed. For now all seemed fine with the world.
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Tina and Ellie spent the morning decorating the house and then hit the stores. They always loved shopping together and this was no different. Before they knew it, it was dinner time and they were starved. Tina took Ellie to Manuel’s. Ellie loved Mexican food and Tina loved the place and wanted to share it with Ellie. They arrived and were lucky to get a table. They ordered an assortment of food and dug in while they talked about shopping and plans for the holidays. Ellie was excited about planning a visit for some of her friends from Seattle for New Years and they were brainstorming ideas for the group. There was a lull in the conversation and Tina could tell that Ellie’s mind had turned to more serious subjects. She let her daughter have the time to think about what was on her mind. After a moment or two, Ellie began to speak.
“Mom, you and Dad seem to be fine. Is all of this stuff with you and Dad, … I mean is this for real, or are you guys just…I don’t know, going through a phase or something?”
Tina looked into Ellie’s eyes, gave her a warm smile and took her hands.
“Ellie, sweetie, your Dad and I are good. Our biggest problem in our relationship is proving to be our biggest asset in working things out. Ellie, your Dad and I are incredibly great friends. We have always been incredibly great friends. We respect each other, admire each other, love each other and we really never want to hurt each other, but Ellie…that’s really not enough”.
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Omg…it’s out there now. Ellie better act right about this. She’s a very lucky kid. I hope she doesn’t give Tina shit about her life.
Oh no, Tina should not have told Ellie about Bette this soon. She doesn’t owe Ellie an explanation and it should have been put off for awhile. Ellie and her emotions are too raw right now to have a good reaction about this news. Just my opinion, after all this is your story and you know where you are going with it. Can hardly wait for Ellie’s reaction. Hope it’s a good one. Otherwise, Tina will look like a crazy woman and Joe will look like a saint. Thanks for posting.
God I hope you have your next post ready – it´s so not nice to let us hang. It´s such a great story. Thanks. But no cliffs.
I saw how Tina was trying to get a feel if Ellie had come to terms with the break up and all. Maybe she felt Ellie was ready, I’ll wait for the reaction. Thanks for the great post.
So good. What a pleasure to read. I can’t wait for the next chapter when Ellie picks her jaw up off the floor. PPVS.
AGH!… I think you are missing the next page of this???PPS thanks!!
You can’t stop it there….get back to writing!
OMG THAT WAS TOUGH I BET….CANT WAIT FOR THE NEXT POST….THANKS
Well, Ellie had made a quite possitive comment about her mother working in WeHo, so let’ s hope that she is not totally unfamiliar with the scene. And, she admires Bette! Of course people react when something as “different” as that happens to their family-or their mother!- but we keep our fingers crossed and hope you will let us know soon!
OH GOD THE SUSPENSE!!!! AHHHHH! Great post! I’m glad she fully explained to Ellie everything. Ellie deserved it and hopefully she accepts everything and will still be involved with Tina and Bette.
I think that you have Tina handling it very well. As far a timely, it is very natural to be curious, so I actually expected her Ellie to have asked that previous evening. Anyone, in Tina’s set of circumstances, would be scared to death to tell their daughter that she was in love with a woman and not her father. And as open as I think this Tina is she most likely raised her daughter to be some what open minded. But when it’s your own mother it could be a little bit of a challendge to deal with. I think ultimately children want to see their parents happy. But Ellie already thought Tina was happy. This is still my favorite current story. Can hardly wait for an update.
Well, I don’t think Bette’s gender is going to be a problem. Hopefully Ellie doesn’t think that somehow, despite what Tina said about her heart aching, Joe’s cheating “turned” her mother, or that Bette broke up her family. Her idea of what her family and parents’ marriage was has all turned out to be a lot different in reality. It’s a lot to take in, but her parents at least, have always been there for her. Hopefully Ellie has the maturity to just be happy for her mother, that she’s getting something more out of life. Ellie maybe won’t really understand though, until the world stops for her someday. Anyway, great chapter! Thanks for posting, DnA. :)
OH WOW-ITS OUT THERE-NO GOING BACK. FACE UP ELLIE.
A cliff hanger! Please post again soon. Ellie kind of backed Tina into a corner with trying to get more information so that she could understand her parent’s breakup. I kinda think Tina didn’t plan to tell her this soon. Well, Ellie wanted an explanation….let’s just hope she handles it well and accepts Tina’s relationship without giving her a hard time.
Hanging……hanging……hanging! Like Vegas513, it is OUT there for Ellie to chew on. Will she explode or will she be mature and accept that her mother is so happy in this relationship (more than with her dad). Whew…. heavy for a teenager or any age for that matter. Waiting to see what happens…..
Hello D&A, I have just caught up with this fabulous fan fiction. I am loving your take on an older B&T getting together. I do hope Ellie is going to be happy for her Mom. They have both been through so much recently. And just imagine how delighted you would be to have Bette Porter as a Step Mom. Mmmm, just savoring the moment. More of this entaining and exiciting tale. A Fan.
Kill me now lol. I hope Ellie will give them some credit and not act odd.PPVS
Wow! Excellent update. I hope Ellie doesn’t freak out. Thank you :)
Its about to go down! Ah shit