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Uncharted Territory
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‘Can you describe what your first heartbreak was like? – You tell me Tina, you where there.’ Her eyes well up with tears of anger and despair while throwing the card on the floor in front of me. She’s like a train on full steam there is no stopping. My instinct tells me to stop her and to hug her, but then again if she can’t let things out with me, then where else?
‘When was the last time you cried? – Can be any moment now, seriously, listen to this. What would your perfect life look like? – My old life was pretty fucking perfect. What do you like most about where we live? – My wife is only half an hour away. What do you worry about? – Every single fucking thing. What’s the most disheartening realization you have come to? – That I ruined the best thing I ever had.’ I follow another card landing somewhere on the floor. The worst part is that she is not sarcastic. I’m afraid at this moment she means every word. Her eyes are red, her jaw set and her voice raw as she just goes on and on.
‘If you could open a business what type of business would you open? – God never again. What did you take for granted? – Our life. What’s a question you wish people would ask less often? – What happened Bette, where is Tina? How much space / alone time should people in a relationship give each other? – Ask my wife, she took the meaning of space and time to a completely different level. What’s your most embarrassing story? –Tonight might be a winner. Name one question you want an answer to…?’
‘Bette! Enough!’ I raise my voice to get her attention, my heart aches watching her melt down in front of me. This is not the way I wanted her to talk and open up, I need to protect her against herself. I know there will be a moment she will regret she said this much. I get up from the couch and take the stack of cards out of her hand. Searching for her eyes, I breath out slowly, hoping she will follow. When her chest continues rising and falling rapidly I cup her face in my hands and say the truth. ‘Do you believe that I love you? – Maybe you are not sure, but I do, I do love you.’
‘Oh just fuck you.’ She releases herself from my grip, snatches her jacket from the chair and storms out the apartment. I follow her down the stairs.
‘Bette.’ I beg. ‘Bette, please…’
With her hand on the doorknob, she turns around and shakes my hand off her shoulder. ‘Don’t.’ And I know not to push further, so I let her go.
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Thank you for the chapter!
Honestly i don’t see how all their talks and meeting with each other can help to fix something between them if all of the ending the same – one of them leaving in anger.
Maybe therapy?
I don’t comment much on this story but wow what a emotinal hard chapter was this for them.
Bette made a attemp to communicate by using cards with deep questions on it that they had to give honest answers to it. It broke my heart to see how Bette is deeply hurt by the betrayel of Tina, how she had that meltdown but she gave honest anwers. Maybe this really opens Tina’s eye on how deeply hurt Bette is by her infidelity. Maybe this meltdown was needed so they can really try to repair their relationship. Give Bette some space, she will come back or contact Tina. It seems hopeless but i have faith they will come back stronger than ever as a couple, it just take time, time they have to take both, don’t rush things.
Looking forward to the next chapter!
I haven’t commented much as I don’t know what to say as my feelings and emotions are always a little raw but I am still reading.
Thanks for the post
SG
Tough chapter. They keep getting stuck in a never-ending loop when they DONT go and capture, tackle if necessary the one who is running.
Dang. Bette’s intentions were good, but may I suggest Twister next time? That Bette chose to hide the cards with questions about cheating should tell Tina all she needs to know about the way forward. She has to step up and own it. Say she is sorry again and again until Bette believes her. Say she will spend the rest of her life making amends if she has to. She needs to be on her knees, ugly crying, listening to the pain she caused kind of sorry. It’s time Kennard. Own it. Bette’s behavior, no matter how awful, does not justify her cheating. And for the love, they both need to stop running. I love this story. It’s intriguing in its heartbreak. Bette clearly knows her part in the demise of the relationship, she has suffered enough…
There are very few stories in all my fandom years that have wrecked me so bad after each chapter. This story is marvelous, heartbreaking but so beautiful. I created an account here just to tell you that I hope you will find it in yourself to give it an ending someday. Thanks a lot for sharing it with us.