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The Adventures Of Bette Porter And Sissee Gardner Schmidt After Tina (Part 3, Chapter 10)
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The Adventures Of Bette Porter And Sissee Gardner Schmidt After Tina (Part 3, Chapter 10)
PART THREE: ORANGE GROVE, CALIFORNIA
Chapter 10
I excused myself from Kyle and went to the restroom. While I was in a stall I called Bette. She answered on the first ring. When I told her I wanted to spend the night with her she told me to go to her house. I really had a motel in mind where we could meet half way but she insisted I go there instead.
I asked her if there was a place in her house where she and Tina had not made love and she promised she would find one, the same way I had. It was just a thing with us that we both understood.
I called my house and Howie answered. I told him this was a courtesy call to let the family know that I would be spending the night at Bette’s and going on to my meeting at the Post in the morning from there. Without saying a word, he hung up.
After exchanging a sweet goodnight with my son I drove to West Los Angeles. When I pulled up to Bette’s house I was absolutely flabbergasted to see Tina’s car parked behind Bette’s.
No, that is an understatement. I was totally shocked, wondering what had transpired between my phone call and the present situation and why could Bette not have called to warn me?
I parked across the street and wondered what to do. Should I sit and wait until Tina left? Did she bring the baby over for Bette to see? Was Henry there? Or was it just Bette and Tina? Were they having a personal conversation, trying to resolve the baby issue? Was Tina coming on to Bette? Was Bette really over her? Oh my God, one thought begat another until I was wound up tighter than a drum.
I wondered if I should just call Bette and ask her what to do or should I just take it upon myself to go to the door? After pondering it for several minutes I thought I had every right in the world to go in there. After all, she had invited me to do so.
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OMG! What a great chapter. I really thought Tina would blow her stack when she found out about Bette & Sissee, but she seemed to take it well, for now anyway. I’m just leary of her. You left off at a very romantic place so I can’t wait till the next chapter. Have a great afternoon!
wow! wonderful chapter,can’t believe ur doing such an amazing job with this story, please don’t stop, keep them coming..can’t wait for the next update..too anxious
Gumbsee40, Thank you for your comments. That praise is music to my ears. It seems you are getting to be a regular here so all the more power to you. Hope you keep it up because it means a lot to me
An interesting approach to the Tina/Bette story for this latest post – it is good to see some of the relationships beginning to resolve. Thanks for continuing to write for us.
Kbergin47, I already posted to you but I don’t see it so I will try again. You know, where Tina is now – in 2006. She thinks she is in love with a man and even though she was shocked to hear that Bette and Sissee are a couple, in her state of mind she quickly rallied to remember what her priorities are. I think that is why she took it so well. You say you are leery of her. We’ll have to see what happens. Thanks for your post and you have a great afternoon too!
3raphael, Thanks for being here. It is a DIFFERENT approach to TLW characters but not at all is it the Tina/Bette story. Yes, this chapter does try to resolve their differences as it affects Bette and Sissee. In TLW Joyce Wischnia tries to scare them into communicating. Here, Sissee simply suggests they communicate. It works.
Just a note to let you know I’m still reading. As I’ve explained before I read mostly from my cell phone and the popup format doesn’t allow me to leave comments but anyhow, sissee, you just keep raising the bar with every chapter. Just when I think things are smoothing out then you add another twist. As for this chapter and the recent developments, Wow! I’m really surprised at Tina’s restraint. I really love Bette and Sissee together and as Tina pointed out they do communicate very well, perhaps sissee, just has a way with Bette. It seems with every chapter you post I find myself more and more asking, “Tina who?” but this chapter was a little hard to read being the tibetter that I am. And I felt the sting from some od the comments Bette and Tina directed at one another as I’m sure the did. Like when Tina told bette she was really serious about Henry I know that must’ve hurt just a little and also when Tina asked “how long” referring to bette/sissee and bette answered “since 1985” Ouch that completely minimized the Bette and Tina relationship/connection. But then again after following this story perhaps I’m the one who’s had it wrong…maybe just maybe Sissee Gardner is Bette’s one great love. (Sorry for the long post but it’s been awhile)
Colenickel, Happy to see you posting again and please don’t ever apologize for a long post. I love everyone’s posts, big or little. I think Bette and Sissee learned early on to communicate with each other because after they were lovers, they were confidants plus their Yale degrees more or less put them on equal footing. Of course Sissee the writer wanted to make sure B&S were communicators because B & T clearly were not. As for Tina’s restraint, as I explained above, you have to remember Tina had crossed back over to men. Her heart belonged to a man at the time. She does start with some direct questions but then reminds herself that it shouldn’t matter anymore. I honestly can’t see how Tina could hurt Bette by saying she was really serious about Henry. The way Tina hurt Bette was by taking her daughter away from her. Tina left Bette and with what Bette rediscovered with Sissee, she was over Tina. And then the 1985 remark may have minimized Bette and Tina but both Bette and Sissee qualified it as their love affair really began AFTER YALE but then stopped for a duration until AFTER TINA.
This is again a very telling chapter of the love of Sissee to Bette (I see that more than the love of Bette to Sissee). I was not happy when I realized Bette didn’t tell Tina about Sissee and her earlier (she finally revealed their relationship after talking for a while). I felt bad for Sissee. I have that insecure feeling that Bette will dump her for Tina, and it took Sissee a lot to come out to her own family (Howie and the three grown children). I love to see B & S together, not B & T together (I am still a tibetter for TLW) in this adventure story, can you make sure this adventure would have a happy ending of B & S? :-)
Bette’s Babe, I think you misjudge Bette. As she told Sissee, Tina had just gotten there, three minutes ago, so we have to assume Bette spent that time taking her daughter into her arms and holding her close with tiny words of affection. Prior to that, if you recall, Tina never returned her calls so Bette did not have much of a chance to tell her anything. As for your hope that this adventure has a happy ending for Bette and Sissee, I can’t really say that at this time. I hope you’ll read on since there is a 2007 series coming up and a 2008 series that I am presently also writing elsewhere.