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“Because everything is better in Pittsburgh.”
These days, people described her as a "chill girl." A girl who didn’t cause trouble. The girl-next-door prototype. The kind who wears her heart on her sleeve.
Honestly, she didn’t see herself as a chill girl. She was anything but that. People only thought that because they didn’t see Mel swallowing her emotions and letting them build up inside until her guts started to ache.
It was her guts that led her to that bar after a hellish, chaotic shift. Her stomach churned as she knocked back a shot of tequila and watched Samira Mohan—her best friend—leave the party with Frank Langdon, who, very likely, was the love of Mel’s life.
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21 Jul 2026
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To understand social interactions better, Mel makes a spreadsheet cataloging her co-workers responses. She incorporates aspects of others' personalities into her own, noting how they respond. The data is useful and comprehensive and Mel is satisfied with the experiment, so she stops.
Until Frank Langdon shows back up and punches a big hole in her carefully cultivated data.
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20 Jul 2026
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Trinity tilted her head to the side with a curious look at Mel. She did this sometimes when she realized there was some fundamental knowledge about social rules that Mel didn’t have. It happened more often than Mel would’ve liked. “That’s kind of why people flirt, Mel. To figure out if someone likes you back without having to say it outright.”
“Oh.”
Trinity leaned closer to Mel with a mischievous grin. “Is there someone you’d like to test the waters with?”
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OR: Mel decides to try flirting with Frank.
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20 Jul 2026
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He lit a cigarette while leaning up against the wall, Mel falling into a seated position next to him. “Right, I’m sure that it’s frustrating to see autistic patients suffer, what with-”
“Becca, yeah,” Mel nodded. “You were great with her.”
Langdon made a bit of a strange expression. “Sure, with Becca. But also with you.”
“Me?” Mel said quizzically. “I’m not autistic.”
Langdon nodded, a second late. “Right, yeah. Yes.”
Mel doesn't believe she's autistic. So why does Langdon keep treating her like she is?
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07 Jul 2026
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"But I don't want this to end, Mel," Frank admitted softly.
Mel's words faded as she stared at him, at the warmth and tenderness in his eyes as he shifted closer to her. "Like… you don't want the wedding to end?" she asked as he drew near. He shook his head slowly.
"No, Mel. This. Us. I want… us to continue. Exactly as we are now."
In which Abby is remarrying a mere year after the Langdons divorce. Mel convinces Frank that they should attend the wedding as a fake couple, so as to show his ex-wife that he has fully moved on, but she does not anticipate the turn their evening takes when the two friends follow their roles a little easier than expected...
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