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diggin' the dancing queen by royalblakes
Fandoms: The Summer I Turned Pretty (TV 2022), The Summer I Turned Pretty Trilogy - Jenny Han
19 Sep 2025
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She feels her heart clench in her chest as she watches them. What she would give to freeze this moment and keep them happy forever. Take a photo and keep it in a locket around her neck. Her brush with death has only seemed to strengthen the urge to hold them close.
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Susannah makes her own observations on a late August night.
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“Melissa Joan King,” Santos says slowly, “is that a fucking hickey on your neck?"
(Or five times Frank is reminded that Mel is an attractive, dateable human being + one time he does something about it.)
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20 Apr 2026
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Fine. Fine, Santos. Frank thinks. Take her to karaoke and your house and the movies, but I'm taking her to her first concert.
He takes out his phone and immediately searches ‘Alanis Morrisette concert near me’.
A.K.A Frank Langdon absolutely crashes out when Trinity Santos starts hanging out with Mel King
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18 Apr 2026
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The moment the pieces fit together Cassie has to scoff at her own stupidity.
The picture keeps shining back at her from his phone, no matter how long she stares at it. One sigh. Two heartbeats. Three taps of her foot. His screen doesn’t turn off. Four shakes of her head. Five blinks. Six seconds.
The fool must have disabled automatic the screen dim feature just so he could longingly and dreamily and stupidly stare at a photo of Mel, despite the fact that Cassie is pretty sure every time Langdon closes his eyes he can see Mel perfectly in his mind.
Cassie lets her emotions battle it out for a second inside her. In the end, both disgust and fondness tie for first place.
It’s nice to see Langdon like this, of course. Pathetically pining, sure, but also awkwardly excited. Carefully optimistic for all that he is worried and tentative, too.
(or, five times someone sees a picture of mel on frank's phone + one time someone sees a picture of frank on mel's phone)
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01 Apr 2026
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“Don’t keep yourself on a leash,” Cassie had said, nudging Mel’s shoulder as they walked from the locker room. “Get out there! Go on dates!”
Mel—although responding with a scrunched up face of uncertainty—had taken the option into account.
The rest is history
or: mel starts dating and frank gets so jealous he starts scaring her dates off while simultaneously offering to teach her some... tricks
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24 Mar 2026
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And for a little while, she doesn’t think about anything else. Not about the fact that he isn’t hers. Not about how, when this is over, he’ll go back to his kids. Back to his wife.
For now, she lets herself have this moment. Just the two of them, doing what they always do, supporting each other, listening, being there.
Just her and him.
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21 Feb 2026