The Tower Of Learning

You couldn’t get hold of the things you’d done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens.
-Stephen King

Then they hung up.

TBC…

11:45a.m., May, 19th, 2010

Bette and Tina were driving to the beach letting everything
sink in.

Tina: So, I noticed we’re driving a Saab.

Bette smirked and looked over at Tina.

Bette: I’m still Bette Porter, I refuse to drive anything
other than a Saab.

Tina laughed.

Tina: You are so laid back. How did you get like this hmm?

Bette: Through three years of intense therapy.

Tina: You have got to be kidding.

Bette: I kid you not. I have been going to therapy twice every week for the past three years. First thing I looked into when I got to New York.
Tina: That’s wonderful. Do you plan on keeping it up here?

Bette: Of course. I don’t know where I’d be without therapy. Do you know if Dan Foxworthy is still working.

Tina: Yeah, but he’s in private practice now.

Bette: That’s fine.

Tina: His rates are very high B.

Bette: That’s fine. Money isn’t exactly lacking when it comes to my situation.

Tina smirked.

Tina: Oh really now.

Bette raised her eyebrows and smirked.

Bette: Why, yes really. Let me put it this way, my job and my boss treat me very well.

Tina: Who is your boss?

Bette: Peggy Peabody.

Tina’s jaw almost dropped down to the vehicle floor.

Tina: Holy shit, does Helena know that?

Bette: Yup.

Tina shook her head.

Tina: She never told me.

Bette: I told her not to, we’ve been corresponding for a while. But now I’m slightly miffed that she didn’t tell me about the Sharon situation. But what’s done is done. Sharon got hers and I’m happy about that much.

Tina: How about this, no more talking about Sharon. It’s over and it’s done with. No more. That chapter of my life is finished.