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The Real Tibette – Christmas 2023
‘Okay. What did it look like? Did it have jewels on it or was it like this?’
She showed her plain gold wedding band to Herbie.
‘It had a diamond,’ Herbie said.
‘Shit,’ Bette muttered. She looked back towards the kitchen and saw Alice talking to Martin Scorsese. She waved at her. Alice glanced, then ignored her. Bette waved again. Alice gave a wide-eyed ‘I’m talking to MARTIN SCORSESE’ leer. Bette responded with a shake of the head that meant business.
A moment later, Alice stepped into the yard.
‘This better be good, Porter, I— Oh, hey, Herbs, where did you disappear to?’
‘We have a crisis, Alice,’ said Bette. ‘Do you have a phone on you?’
‘Sure.’
‘Great. Look up what to do if your dog swallows a ring.’
***
In the living room, Shane was talking to Kit when Alice and Jed appeared. Alice said she had someone she wanted Kit to meet.
‘Who is it?’ Kit asked.
‘Someone very special!’
‘Who?’
Alice stared at her, blank, then Jed said: ‘Smokey Robinson.’
‘What?’
Alice burst out laughing. ‘Of course it’s not Smokey, it’s . . . Just come with me, okay? I promise you’ll like it, c’mon . . .’
She levered Kit, not very patiently, up off the sofa, avoiding Shane’s perplexed expression, and then Jed quickly jumped into the vacated seat while Alice led Kit through to the kitchen and into the utility room, where she shut the door.
‘What’s goin’ on?’ Kit demanded.
Alice brought Kit up to speed.
‘Oh my Lord,’ Kit sighed. ‘That girl!’
‘Yeah. Angie’s looking after her, and me, you, Jed and Sonny have to babysit Shane and Tina and make sure Shane doesn’t go in her room and Tina doesn’t wonder where Solly or Bette are.’
‘Oh my Lord . . .’ Kit keened.
‘Kit . . .’
‘All right, I’m on it. Does Sonny know?’
‘No.’
Kit fixed Alice with a concerned look. ‘Is that little dog gonna be okay?’
‘Of course,’ said Alice, a little too casually. ‘I mean, he should be. Bette just needs to get him to the vet. Fast.’
***
Which was exactly what Bette was trying to do. After Alice had googled their problem and discovered that they had about two hours to recover the ring via, shall we say, the upper route, Bette had called their usual vet’s out-of-hours service and been directed to the Blue Pearl animal hospital on West 15th Street. It was about a half-hour walk but she took the car in case Solly wasn’t well enough to walk home afterwards.
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(9 votes, average: 4.89 out of 5)
Of course keeping this story as a “fav” just knowing it’s here!!! And fortunte to have $$ means to support monthly.
Hmmmmmmm, maybetime for an increase?!!!
happy holidays, buddy! hope you and well and thank you for reading this story
Largo x
Thank you, what a great present
Happy Christmas and a healthy new year.
SG
hi SG! hope you’re well and have had a good xmas? thanks for keeping up with this story
Largo x
Thank you so much for this Christmas present! Another great story about our favourite couple.
Hey alisanne1! Thanks so much for reading this story. :-)
Hope you’ve had a good time over the holidays
Largo
Beautiful!
Hi OneStorm1! Thanks so much for reading and commenting. Means a lot to me. :-)
Hope you’ve had a good time over the holidays
Largo
Hey Pal,
Happy holidays to you also from across the big blue pond!
Interesting party with lots of extraordinary guests. Shame Bette couldn’t get to meet AB – but maybe will anyway.
Wow, Shane popping the BIG question. Hope this time its forever & they’ll both be happy together.
Gotta say that Sol might want to rethink about hanging around Sasha in the future – that girl is dangerous to be around!!
Thanks for another great glimpse into the wonderful life of Bette & Tina & their awesome family.
Thinking though that there should be a quick follow-up chapter about their Christmas Day though!! Ha!!
Thanks for the treat.
Hi pal! YOu’ve just reminded me that I owe you an email! Oops. Really dropped the ball – sorry.
Thanks for reading this. And yes, I am moulding Sasha into being Trouble with a capital T. No fun if it’s all too easy, is there?? ;-)
I hope you’re well and that you’ve had a good time over the holidays.
Speak soon
Largo x
Sasha, Sasha, Sasha! Of course she will be the one telling tales of Mama T and Mama B to her children. What a pleasant surprise this Christmas night to find your story. And then to have Shane pop the question! Thank you for keeping the spirt of Tibette alive. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all the readers of this site. Donate please!
Hi majic! Hope you’re well! Thanks so much for reading this story and for commenting. It means a lot to me. :-)
Y’know, it’s a real dilemma, writing this story, whether to skip ahead in time or not. In some ways, I’d really like to. I’me very drawn to the idea of writing B&T’s life with adult kids and grandkids etc. But then you end up skirting around the ‘d’ word and I don’t ever want to write that.
Agree about supporting this site! Hope you had a good time over the holidays!
Largo x
LOVE it Largo! So nice to see you continuing this story and now we need to hear all about Shane’s engagement and why Angie is so tired (is she pregnant?) and more more more Tina and Bette with all the drama. Merry Christmas!
BK
Hey BK! Lovely to see you and thank you so much for reading this story. :-)
I had not thought AT ALL that Angie might be pregnant. That’s…. quite interesting???!!! I hope you have had a good time over the holidays, my friend.
Largo x
Hello Largo, thank you for the beautiful gift. May you continue with this beautiful story, for me it was a wonderful gift!!!!Happy New Year, good health and peace!!!!!!
Hi Hannab! Thanks so much for reading this story and for commenting. I’m so pleased you enjoyed it! That’s all I ever hope for. :-)
Wishing you a very happy new year too!
Largo
Hey Largo, hope you had a wonderful Christmas, didn’t have time to read it yet but after today I’m of from work for a few days. I can’t wait to read it then.
Hi Bibi! I have had a lovely Christmas. Saw all my family yesterday and had a good laugh. Hope you enjoy your time off! Take care, my friend
Largo x
Sorry, I’m late commenting. Just catching up now on things after the holidays.
I’m just so happy you’re continuing these stories – I love your version of the family.
Enjoyed this little slice of their holidays!
Please, please continue for other occasions.
Hi Erin! It’s so nice of you to read this story and to encourage me to write more. :-) Thank you very much. It makes me very happy that you enjoy this version of the PK family.
Hope you have a very happy new year!
Largo
hi Erin
I just saw the message you sent me about Another Left Turn. I can’t reply to it (I think the site disabled some of the messaging function) but you can message me on Bluesky at @mccannthecan.bsky.social and i’ll try and get it to you
thanks!