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Some nights were, naturally, worse than others.
Nights where Frank laid in bed for so long, staring at the ceiling, that it made his heart start to race with anxiety and his back ache and ache and ache no matter how he positioned himself. Nights where his thoughts spiraled out into worst-case-scenarios that seemed so vivid and inevitable that he would have to get up and go to the bathroom, just to turn the light on and look at himself in the mirror to remember what was actually real.
Those were the nights when he wanted the pills again the most: alone in his guest bedroom, trying to wring sleep out of his body like the last few drops of water out of a dirty dishcloth.
He tried not to call Mel on nights like that. He did not always succeed.
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13 Oct 2026
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“—and I know that there’s Becca and Tanner and Millie to consider, but I was wondering if you maybe wanted to move in? Together? With me?”
Mel blinks. He certainly doesn’t look like he’s having a stroke.
“Frank, why would we move in together?”
“I thought it might be nice,” he shrugs here, acting nonchalant even though Mel can see the tension in his jaw. “To take that next step in our relationship.”
“Frank, what are you talking about? We’re not in a relationship?”
At this, Frank’s frown deepens before widening into a frustrated half smile. “Uh, yes we are? We’ve been dating for nine months?”
What.
Or, Frank thinks Mel doesn’t do physical touch.
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29 Sep 2026
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“Mel,” he says slowly, “if I texted you during a shift and said you are the most beautiful woman I’ve ever met, what would you do?”
I don’t know if I mean to give him a physical display of my answer, but I fall forward on my elbows, nearly knocking over my tea.
“Right,” he says. “So that’s issue number one.”
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After a small misunderstanding, Mel tells a lie she can’t take back, and now she has Langdon in her phone pretending to be her imaginary boyfriend. Maybe it would have been easier to just date the IT guy.
Fake dating - with a tiny twist <3
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07 Sep 2026
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mel corners frank in the break room to yell at him about being a better man, wishing that he could see himself the way she sees him.
she does not plan to kiss him.
she definitely does not plan to let him teach her everything she's never done.
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30 Aug 2026
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“I just– I don’t understand why you kissed me if you didn’t…want this.”
His expression morphs into something between fear and disbelief and he takes a step closer, her arm held to his chest. “What are you talking about? What do you mean I don’t want this?”
“I heard what you said today. To Donnie. I shouldn’t– I didn’t mean to eavesdrop, I swear, I was…looking for you. And I heard you. I just wish you would have talked to me instead of, I don’t know. Instead of trying to get rid of me.”
Frank gawks at her. “That’s what you think this is? You think I’m too chicken-shit to talk to you about how I feel so I, what, concoct some fucked-up strategy to get you to leave first? Jesus, Mel, is that really what you think of me?”
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28 Aug 2026