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We are all in this together Ch 13
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”Bette? This is Tess. I thought I was calling Tina’s phone.”
”You are, she’s asleep… Give me a minute.” Bette slid out of the bed tripping over scattered clothes as she made her way to the door. She put on her shorts and grabbed a shirt before she exited out the door shutting it quietly. Bette took in a slow deep breath, ”Okay, Tess, what’s going on? Why are you calling?”
”It’s Shane, she’s sick,” Tess said the level of worry coming through the phone.
”What do you mean she’s sick?” Bette was now more alert and noticed there was not a sound in the house. She glanced at the kitchen clock up on the wall over the door she had just came through; its jerking hands stuck on the six. She looked down at the phone’s time and seeing it was later than she thought. Where is everyone, she mumbled to herself? ”Why isn’t Shane calling?” Bette said into the phone with growing concern.
”She tested positive for COVID after you guys left. She didn’t want you guys to worry while on vacation. She is going to kill me for calling you guys, but… you need to come home.”
”What?” She said quickly heading back towards the bedroom. ”How bad is she?” Bette opened the door and moved across the room towards the bed in a few steps. She leaned over and shook Tina trying to wake her. Tina groaned, shifted a little but her eyes did not open.
”When she went in to be tested, she said if felt like allergies you know a stuffy nose, cough, since she was working the bar, she wanted to be cautious. On Monday she started getting worst, chills and sweats with really bad headaches. Then diarrhea which was weird because she wasn’t eating much. She said her senses were off and wasn’t really hungry. She has been sleeping a lot, which I thought was a good sign. She has had a light cough for a while but today when she woke, she was having trouble breathing and her throat burned. She struggled getting out of bed and won’t let anyone help her. She fell because she was so dizzy. I think she needs to go to the hospital, but she keeps telling me no.”
”Ok, I’m getting dressed. I’ll call from the road… Have someone stay with her. I’ll be there as soon as I can.” Bette sucked in her breath and shook Tina again with more force. ”Come on T.” Tina woke with a jolt and her eyes flew open.
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Welcome back!!
Got the notification yesterday that you had posted.
Great writing as always.
Such a dark time for Tibette with the pandemic still raging and their personal issues they are working through as a couple once again.
Don’t stay away so long next time!
Thanks for this treat.
Still sticking to this story!
Welcome back!
Wow Alice, great talk and advice she gave Angie.
It’s hard to reconcile and more harder with Covid but i have faith in our ladies. Bette opened up to Nat and i really hope she talks to Tina and Tina to Bette, be open about their feelings, their concerns. In other words, they need to communicate instead of holding it in and in Tina’s case at the end run away.
Please don’t let us wait that long for another chapter, i need to know that Shane will be alright!
I am a little lost in this story. I had thought that Tina and Bette had been through much therapy and resolved many of their issues such as the reason Tina left and why she and Bette drifted apart. And although the time of Tina’s leaving was a tumultuous time for Bette as Kelly was trying to destroy her career as well as her personal relationship falls apart. I have a hard time seeing Tina being upset with Bette for not telling her about this episode in her life. When people are apart, there are going to be things which are not communicated to the other party. And meaningfulness of the missed communications is in the eyes of the beholder. Bette feeling that it was a painful time during her life and believing perhaps falsely that it was done and dusted would have been a natural omission from their conversations. It is only that Kelly has resurfaced that made it necessary to tell Tina what happened. But Tina must assume some responsibility as she was not available in real time to assist Bette in dealing with this episode in her life. Its purely a by product of the separation. My advice to Tina is to deal with the here and now and set the past aside.
I would also like to see Tina become a little less self obsessed and a little more engaged in the relationship. I would give the same advice to Bette. Look for something in your lives which the two of you can work on as partners and contributors to the final results. Living in the same house as housemates with benefits does not naturally build a relationship. There must mutual goals and some interaction besides attraction and sexual desire to make of a close and committed relationship. With the Covid shutdown possibly drawing to a close, they have missed a golden opportunity to build that partnership and mutual goals that long term relationships require. At this point, both Tina and Bette are just waiting for the return to normalcy whereby their jobs will continue and their separate lives will go on. Tina will have much out of town travel. Bette will have her gallery and Angie will be off to school. And their relationship will hang together because the love each other, and even desire each other, but are suspicious that the other will not behave as they would like.
To me, Tina has not proven that whatever caused them to break up in the past will not become a problem again. And Tina is still having a problem in accepting Bette for who she is. I still do not see where is this “domineering” woman that Tina believes Bette to be. To me, this is simply a false perception that Tina has. If Tina feels that she is living in Bette’s shadow and fears such, then she lacks self awareness and of what is really going on. Tina holds the job and the profession she chooses. She participates in the activities she wishes to participate in. She makes her choices with and without consulting Bette. That does not appear to be a dominating force. To me, Tina needs to decide whether she wants to live with Bette as a roommate or have a truly committed joint partnership with Bette. And that to me is where Bette wonders if Tina will up and bolt the relationship once again. And this is such a concern that even Angie sees this as a concerned that her parents will be together in the long run. And none of this is progressing Bette and Tina’s relationship into a more stable and committed one. I see much more trouble ahead.
I appreciate you writing the chapter… look forward to the next.
PS. Let Shane be alright. No more Covid deaths please.