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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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    05 Feb 2026

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    “Mel.” Frank sounds tense and serious. She doesn’t like when he’s tense and serious, especially not when she thinks that it might be because of her - why else would he not reply to her picture? “What are we doing?”

    “We’re - we’re trading pictures, Frank, like we said we would -”

    “Yeah, I know, but… are you seriously gonna tell me that you’re not sending ones where you look hot on purpose?”

    The air leaves her lungs in a large, violent breath. She feels like she’s been caught with her hand in the cookie jar. Or like she’s been caught leaving secret, encoded messages on a post-it note inside the lid of the cookie jar without telling anyone the post-it note or even the cookie jar itself is there. She wanted to take cute pictures to send to him this week in the hopes that he would like them, but she didn’t know that he noticed how hard she was working for it, didn’t realize that he realized - oh, God, is her new push-up bra that obvious?

    “I’m not - I didn’t - um -”

    “Are you alone right now?”

    “Yeah, I’m alone.”

    Frank sighs on the other end of the line, and she waits patiently for it all to come crashing down.

    “What are you wearing?”

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    28 Jan 2026

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    “I just confessed to not being able to score,” said Ray. “That’s supposed to be embarrassing.”

    “Personal relationships are not a game.”

    Ray blew out a rueful–sounding breath. “You never heard of first base, second base, playing for both teams?”

    “I’m broadly familiar with the metaphor,” Ben allowed.

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    04 Jan 2026

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    All the things Ray told himself he didn’t want when they were back in Chicago freeze when they’re exposed to the cold and shatter into icy shards. He hasn’t been running on instinct, not really, not for a long time.

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    31 Aug 2025

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    Elle's always noticed women. Elle, Enid, and Vivian, lovers and friends in law school, learning how to be who they are.

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    17 Aug 2025