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Time does many things. It gives, it takes, it heals and it ages you.
29 years and 7 months ago Melissa King met Frank Langdon for the first time
28 years ago Melissa King wrapped her tiny fingers around Frank Langdons only slightly bigger pointer finger and held on for dear life
27 years ago Frank Langdon tried to teach Melissa King to speak in full sentences
26 years ago Melissa King painted Frank Langdons mother a picture that she has always kept in her office.
25 years ago, Melissa King broke her arm on a climbing frame and Frank Langdon told her that she was going to be okay.
24 years ago, almost to the day, Frank Langdon asked his mother Patricia Sawyer where Mellie and Becca went.
Here, on September 5th 2025, after time had taken years and memories from them, for the first time in a very very long time they stood in the same place at the same time.
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Frank and Mel knew each other once upon a time, but only Frank remembers.
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“How do you write to your friend?” Becca asks. “Do you text him?”
“No, we email.”
“Cool,” Becca says, smiling. “Can I read one?”
“No!” Mel says a little too quickly, and Becca looks up in surprise.
“Why?”
“Because it’s private,” Mel insists. “I don’t look at your messages to Adam.”
“But Adam’s my boyfriend,” Becca says. And then she gasps excitedly. “Is he your boyfriend?”
Mel starts a low-stakes and casual friendship over email. Of course, things get complicated.
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Frank Langdon has spent the last couple years adjusting to his new normal: keeping his head down at work, being a present father, navigating co-parenting, and making sure his sobriety sticks this time around. Those are his priorities; dating doesn’t even break the top ten. Or, at least that’s what Frank thinks before she walks into the ED:
Mel King.
Global superstar.
Written for Kingdon Week's "fame and glory" prompt.
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- Part 1 of love me right
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After months of friendship and blurred boundaries, Mel and Frank slip into something neither of them is ready to name. As a snowstorm settles over Pittsburgh, the space between them disappears—and Mel begins to question everything.