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    Mel’s third-favorite scene in Dirty Dancing is only a second long. It’s when Johnny jumps off the stage during the final dance and flips his head up right on cue with the singer crooning “Hey, baby!”

    So it was very distracting that, for the rest of the day after her karaoke session with Myrna, Frank had been quietly singing those two words to her every time they ran into each other. A “Hey baby!” when he slid into the chair next to her in the breakroom. Another when they met in the middle both jogging to an ambulance.

    She couldn’t help but laugh every time he did it which, knowing Frank, meant he’d probably do it tomorrow, and the next day, and the next.

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    06 Jul 2025

    Bookmarker's Notes

    read this on a plane and now i really really want to watch dirty dancing oh man

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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.
    Or, Mel doesn’t realize they’ve been dating for nine months.

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    06 Jul 2025

    Bookmarker's Notes

    i love frank who is like “yeah we’ve been dating for 9 months” but also talks about how much he loves how straightforward mel is 😭 buddy

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    Mel had thought her way right into a corner with only one option.

    Feelings were messy, unpredictable things. She’d managed keeping them to herself this long, she could keep a handle on it with a one time perfunctory favor sex involved. She simply had to logic her way through it. Frank was her person. He would help her out because he was a good friend. The sex would be carefully carried out and rote. There would be no additional emotional attachment. Everything between them would go back to the way it always was and Mel could move on.

    There would be absolutely no deviation.

    aka Mel's 30th birthday crisis leads her to ask Frank to take her virginity

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    04 Jul 2025

    Bookmarker's Notes

    this was soooo soft and fluffy. incredible

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    “Yes. I’m supposed to leave next week, and she set up a double date for her brother and I.” She looks at Frank, her forehead still wrinkled. Frank wants to smooth those lines away with his thumb. “It would be rude to cancel, wouldn’t it?”

    “Yeah,” Frank confirms, and Mel’s shoulders drop. Frank feels the words rising up, and he knows he’s going to say them. Mel’s roommate wants to set her up. Mel needs a convenient excuse to get the roommate off her back. “I could go with you.”

    “Oh,” Mel says, very quietly. She studies him from beneath her eyelashes, the frames of her glasses. “That’s very kind of you, Frank. I would be happy to have a friend there.”

    “No, uh.” Frank stops, swallows thickly. “I could pretend to be your boyfriend. Get you out of those dates.”

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    28 Jun 2025

    Bookmarker's Notes

    fake relationship kingdon is always so beautiful bc they go from nothing to 90 in 10 seconds everytime

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    When Frank Langdon walks back into the Pitt on a Fourth of July weekend ten months after he left, he doesn’t tell anyone he’s gotten divorced.

    It doesn’t work out for him. Well, until it does.

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    27 Jun 2025

    Bookmarker's Notes

    two idiots who r so stupid for each other they throw their morals away even tho they don’t have to good god