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    The letter on the subway

    Story written on April 9, 2011 by kins40.
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    Chapter 15

    Chapter 15
    Mid-morning found Bette at her desk, once more, finishing a telephone conversation.
    "Certainly, please forward your portfolio, I would be delighted to have a look at it. Just send it to this address. Yes…I will be in touch as soon as possible." 
    She bid her farewell and replaced the handset on its base.
    Everything in her professional life seemed to have taken off, a far cry from the turmoil she was experiencing in her own personal existence.
    She had gone home for a few hours after making her letter "delivery". She had tried to rest but the excitement her actions had triggered still lingered in the pit of her stomach and she had found herself quite restless and unable to put her head down for any kind of meaningful sleep.
    She wondered if Tina had experienced a similar sensation when she had hidden her letter on the subway. Hers had not been intended for anyone in particular, but Bette’s was destined for one very special person. The dissimilitude of the two scenarios increased Bette’s anxiety further.
    As she had paced nervously back and forth the whole length and breadth of her apartment, she had kept going over and over again, her actions of the very early morning hours.
    She was an intelligent woman sensible, logical, level headed, sane even and she definitely understood the concept of odds, especially when those odds were  stacked very high against her. Yet, she did not at all feel delusional at having entirely relied on fate to help her mend her situation with Tina.
    When the idea had entered her mind, she had to admit to herself that her own imagination had bowled her over. The simple grandeur of the gesture appealed to her breaking heart. It seemed so ridiculously impossible to achieve that she felt compelled to do it.
    She wanted to prove to Tina that she could be vulnerable too, open herself publicly and that is was ok. At least, she thought so.
    The letter had explained her side of the story. Not that there were any sides to be taken, but it summarised how Tina’s letter had impacted her existence.
    The letter had also let expose the true nature of Bette’s feelings. There was no denying that Bette was in love with Tina and she had expressed it openly, in plain view, for all to see.
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    1. Great story. I like how things were resolved. :) To hand write 100 long letters is really painful. Bette should show Tina her swollen calloused fingers. :)

    7. This was a great story. Please write more about this story or please start another. We never get tired of B&T stories. Especially, ones as good as this one. WRITE AWAY. :)_

    10. K thank you so much for this beautiful story..i want you to know that i’ll never get tired of your stories because i know how talented you are and although im sad because it already ended*sigh*, im happy in a way because of the upcoming epilogue..hope that you wont keep us waiting for so long..

    13. “a kind of certainty which only comes but once in a lifetime” i remember this line in one of my favorite movies of all times…Bridges of Madison County

    15. As if! Bette wrote 100 of them?!! Wow. Amazing what love can make you do. Very beautiful ending, I loved this story it’s sad it’s coming to an end but at least you’re doing epilogue right? Anyway, SPB!

    16. Hey! Finally caught up. Not easy to stay tuned when mom and dad decide to pay a visit! Anyway… “Wow” to this chapter! Great ending, and great (almost)final line “I think I would have missed you even if we had never met!” Encore une fois, tu as vraiment le sens de la formule! I also loved the tint of “realism” subtly masked by Bette’s grand gesture in this ending. I mean, finding your soulmate’s letter is a fateful occurence… But for this very same soulmate to find your own letter is… a plain miracle! And one that would flirt with “unlikeliness”. That’s why I love that you had Bette be smart and realistic enough to “push” destiny and leave that one hundred letters on that train. But of course, “genious you” managed to still make it a romantic element of the story with Bette handwriting those (100) letters… YOU’RE GOOD!!! Lkg fwd to the epilogue! Thanks! Kw

    19. Oh Kins you had me teary-eyed from Chapt. 14 on. Having collected baseball cards as a kid I chuckled at how I mistook 23/100 as the letter’s date (although that was implied as the opening salutation Bette considered ;) …This story, perhaps more all others, has taught me so much and in more ways than you imagine. Thank you for sharing you talents through the muse of Tina and Bette – for those of us that love them, how could we ever grow bored with their story, especially when so finely written? I’m looking forward to reading and learning more from you! PS I too appreciated your use of the BOMC quote at the end

    24. Thank you Kins40 for your wonderful story and your willingness to share it with us-your readers! :-) Hmm..?? Bored of this kind of story?? NO WAY! :-D LOL if you want to do some polling on this, please count me in! ;-) I couldn’t agree more on what Dainty said. BTW I thought the young man who gave the letter was James! :-p but still, even though the probability was higher by 100x, to have Tina got it or to let a totally strangers pass the letter to the correct person is so damn small! However, you beautifully let us believe that! :o)) LOL maybe I got those OCD streak on me so I got this kind of thinking :-p anyway, looking forward to the epilogue. I do hope you’ll share your talent again in another story in the future ;-) PPVS, thanks again!! PS: no tissue! I assume no one notice, hopefully!! LOL :-D

    26. Beautiful ending. I immediately went back to the first chapter to reread and savored every word. So many great moments. I loved the description that Tina had “unknowingly mistreated the pages”. The contrast between Bette having hardly left a fingerprint on her perfectly-framed and revered letter and Tina no longer able to read hers as it had been crumpled, wrinkled, cried upon, and smudged was so poignant. Your writing style is fabulous and I hope to be reading another story soon. Looking forward to the epilogue! Thanks for sharing.

    32. Fantastic chapter. You have got to be kidding us to think that we would ever tire of reading about Tina and Bette in love. All you have to do is look at the number of readers to know that that statement is not true at all. We sit and wait for you to post another chapter and still want more every time. So, if you want to keep writing this story, by all means please do so. Just know there is no way on this earth that we would tire of reading about this Bette and Tina and love every word that you write about them. I think there are several hundred that would agree with me. Loved everything about this chapter. You did a wonderful job with it, especially the last half of the last sentence, “…a kind of certainty which only comes but once in a lifetime.” I loved that line when Clint Eastwood uttered it to Meryl Streep in “The Bridges of Madison County” when he was telling her how much he loved her and had never told another woman those words. You are a true romantic. Thanks so much for sharing this wonderful story with us. Thanks for posting.

    33. Hmmmm, last to one?! It seems K you do not have regard for my health. This seems to work vice versa. On a serious not beautiful chapter. I will be sad to see this end but; I hope this means we will still see more from you. I love the way Bette ad hand written 100 copies of her letter. That must of took forever to do, at least she never photocopied them. The guy on the subway was there for a reason; fate had brought the beauties together once, so why not let it be twice. Although it could be seen as the 3rd time fate brought the beauties together. I already know from what I’ve written on my ff. You will erm make me suffer lol. Thanks again Caramel :D

    36. Kins, this my second reading of this story and it finds me in tears just like the first time. What a beautifully rendered tale of love and falling into the softness of that love fully. Thank you so much for sharing your wonderful talent!!!

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