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Chapter 4 – Philadelphia – Day 3
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Tina: Oh, I doubt that. She is doing okay in the dorm, but she complains about the line at the laundry room and the noise of the building. And she is in the quiet part of the building. I think her suitemates are party-hearty types. That is why she and Suzanne are going to New York City next weekend. They need a quiet place to study for mid-terms.
Bette: Has she talked to Marilyn about coming and bringing Suzanne?
Tina: Yes, and Marilyn is thrilled. She told them that they would need to go to dinner as her guest at least one night they were there.
Bette: Well, Angie knows her way around New York now. She will make sure that they do not starve over the weekend.
Tina: I know, our baby will be fine. Still hard for me to realize that she is a grown woman now.
Bette: Well, I’m not sure it has hit me yet. But when she comes home for Thanksgiving, I’m sure it will. I do miss Boo.
Tina: I do too. But a phone call always helps. Maybe we can do that this afternoon. But we better send a text first and see if she has time for a phone call.
Bette: Life sure has changed since I was at Yale. Texting for an appointment for a phone call from the parents? Wow… Dad would have been apoplectic. He would have called and expected me to drop everything and talk to him. Of course, there were no cell phones, so it would have just gone to the voice mail system.
Tina: Well, I’m sure that Angie will talk to us whenever we call unless she is in class or a place which would be totally disruptive with a phone conversation. I don’t think we are calling her that much. I know that I talk to her only once or twice a week. How about you?
Bette: About the same. I think Daniel calls her about once a week. Do you think that’s too much?
Tina: No… It’s what it is. I’m sure if we are bugging her or if it’s inconvenient, she will let us know. We just need to be aware she has a life and not to intrude any more than she is comfortable with. I’m trying hard to ask only general questions and let her reveal what she wants to reveal of her life.
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Hi Martha, what an amazing trip to Philadelphia. There was so much information regarding Melvin and what they learnt if him and his life. Poor Bette, I think it’s going to be pretty difficult to explain this all to Mary and her sister as it has obviously hit her hearing all this. Tina is such a tower of strength to her, I love how they are so besotted with each other and hold each other up! I love hearing about their plans for Angie and Daniel, they are so attentive to their children and want only the best for them. The way they talk through everything with them making sure they understand .
Finally the love they have for each other, is incredibly. They way they do everything for each other, they just want to be together, all the time. Enjoying being out shopping, visiting museums, enjoying meals or just cuddling up on the sofa. They are, as you said, the other half of each other !
Loving this so much, will continue on….o hope you are also continuing on, with this story….
Take care and Thankyou, for this amazing piece of writing!
Thanks… I have always thought that the relationship between Bette and her father was the most important relationship of her life prior to Tina. I could see that she struggled to love and admire the man who always seemed to believe she never quite measured up to his standards. But in my mind, I always knew that Melvin loved his children with all of his heart. He just didn’t have the ability to show this to them. His thought was to just leave them all his worldly possessions and they would know. But the truth is that until Bette talked to Gabriel Scott and to Harriett Myers, she would never know how much Melvin loved Bette, Kit, Mary, Paris and even Tina.
When Tina points out that if Melvin had told Bette on his death bed that Mary was alive and that she had another sister, Bette would be in shock. But if he told her that he had known for 15 years or more, Bette might have taken a pillow and smothered him on the spot. The truth was there was never going to be an ideal time to tell Bette or Kit about Mary Southerland. And Bette knows this deep in her heart. She also knows that all of this is a part of the past. A past which is done and dusted. And all the what ifs and if onlys are a waste of energy. Melvin and his relationship with Bette, Kit and Tina is what it was and had its impact on their lives. For Bette and for Tina, it explains so much. It explains why Tina is a part of his will. It explains why the final distribution was 18 years after his death. It explains how he found out about Mary Southerland and her daughter Paris. It explains how Paris was educated in England during her teen years and college years. And it gives another dimension to the personality of Melvin William Porter.
Bette is going to explain most of this to Kit, Paris and Mary in a future chapter. And in their own way, they will reconcile the Melvin they knew to the Melvin to the man they found in Philadelphia.
This for me is the most emotional chapter I have ever written… deep in my soul, I feel the loss Bette feels for the relationship she never had with her father and that is more painful than the fact that she had all those years of loss in not knowing her mother and sister. The reason is because Mary and Paris are still around and there is opportunity to have a good relationship with them. But Melvin is gone and there is no opportunity to mend that relationship with him. Such as life. But as Bette Porter and Tina Kennard always do – they learn from the mistakes including the mistakes of others around them. They have learned a lot from Melvin and much of it is what not to do in life.
Thank you for reading this and commenting…. it is rather gratifying to see that someone sees this story as a gratifying piece of entertainment. There are several more chapters to this Volume and it will continue.