#melfrank stuff

MELFRANK 💗 + polaroids, original photos ONE, TWO, & THREE [frame only]

MELFRANK 💗 + polaroids; original photos 1, 2, and 3 [frame only]

abby definitively recalls her husband inexplicably ditching her for probably like forty+ minutes at one point that glitzy (well, for pennsylvania, at any rate) evening. which was actually mostly fine because surely whatever duty it was that frank took his leave to see to, most likely involved the corp types (often as sterile as the hospitals they oversaw) or gloria underwood. either option being a tedious fun-sucking drag; like the phrase ‘i’d rather eat glass’ obviously came to mind. when he finally did return, his hair had come a little loose from its carefully gelled state, and his mood (which had already been quite good and jokey) had improved dramatically. probably the hospital found what it sought, mega grants or a new benefactor with pockets deeper than the mariana trench or something. abby thought very little of it all, until around five days later, when she caught frank tagged in a pitt staff polaroid stack, on the hospital’s ‘community initiatives’ (a seriously bullshit + fancy way of saying ‘charity operation’) instagram. he looked equal parts stupid and sexy – duh, the factory setting for frank langdon – but she was very confused… because she had sincerely no clue who the pretty girl with the slim shoulders and the deer-in-headlights expression in the photo with frank was. her socials, if she even had them, were not tagged either (but robby’s were??), and a cursory scroll through the comments only illustrated more mystery, because she seemed to be being exclusively referred to as ‘dr. princess’. but then tanner, now a sturdy and chatty six, wiggling about in abby’s lap at the same time she discovered the picture, simply glimpsed down at the screen in his mom’s hands and accidentally revealed all, saying, “mel! mom, when can mel come over to our house again?”

meanwhile, mel patiently explains that yeah, that’s really just trevor. her best friend since grade 8. they did kiss during a ‘7 minutes in heaven’ dare once, but it never meant anything, and it didn’t even last the entire 7 minutes, because they both always liked other people. she shares that she and ‘t’ still check-in with each other fairly regularly over text, and sometimes they even meet up for dinner or something when she and bec go back home to indiana. a rarity. and there’s honestly, sincerely, truly not a single thing to be jealous about. so it’s just a little bit absurd, she thinks, as she also just as patiently reminds frank of the ring on his left hand. frank breezes right past that though, visibly relieved to find out this tim or trevor or tyler or whatever is/was just a pal, and instead opts for making a mildly vulgar joke about how isn’t mel so glad that he at least (demonstrably) has much more stamina and can outlast an obviously inadequate ‘7 minutes’. mel makes a face, and frank points, telling her she’s doing a very good impression of the third photo down, on the left.

(window overlay from here btw)