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Frank was here. At a speed dating event. Which meant that he’d spent his evening sitting across from a dozen other women, looking for the same thing she was - a relationship.
The realization made her stomach sink. For months now, she’d been telling herself there was a reason Frank hadn’t made a move. Maybe he wasn’t ready after the divorce. Maybe he wasn’t even interested in dating at all - maybe he was too busy with work and the kids to even think about it. But he was here, which meant none of those things were true.
Frank wanted a relationship - just not with her.
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12 Aug 2026
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“I need to get out of this dress,” Mel said abruptly.
Frank went very still beside her, his voice was quieter, lower too, “oh, yeah?”
“Yes. I get very overstimulated by unfamiliar fabrics, and this kind of zipper always digs in.”
“Right,” he said, leaning back again with a chuckle to himself, running a hand across his face. “Right.”
Or, Mel doesn’t work the day of Pittfest, nine months later she meets a handsome stranger at a bar
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04 Aug 2026
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Grounder Frank Langdon takes a wife.
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After 100 years of isolation, an apocalypse bunker is running out of food. In order to survive, the colony must strike a deal with the survivors on the outside. The solution is an arranged marriage between Mel and Frank, and Mel leaving behind everything she's ever known to join him and his tribe.
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25 Jul 2026
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The PTMC'S new penpal scheme aims to encourage friendships throughout the hospital by fostering anonymous connections proving that you can connect without the necessity of knowing each other personally.
Mel King knows 3 things:
1. She has a teensy tiny little crush on Frank Langdon, who wouldn't? (even if she'd only known him a day)
2. She wants more friends.
3. The PTMC penpal scheme is the perfect way to make a new friend, without the usual social pressures.Frank Langdon, also knows 3 things:
1. He has thought about Mel King an awful lot these past 10 months for someone he'd met once.
2. He doesn't want to participate in the PTMC's penpal scheme right now, it's the least of his worries.
3. He's going to have to do it anyway.What could possibly go wrong? :)
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19 Jul 2026
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Frank huffed, setting the mug down. “How many times are we going to have to go over this, Mel? I like listening to you talk. I’m not just being nice. We’re friends.”
“It’s important to ask,” she said, still watching him carefully. “Because sometimes people say they want to know something but they don’t actually mean that they do. They’re just being polite. And it’s hard for me to tell that, always.”
“I’ll tell you what,” he suggested. “Let’s make this easy. With me, you never have to ask. Consider it my… blanket approval, I guess.”
He pointed to himself. “I, Frank Langdon, am interested in what you have to say.”
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