Remember that time I went to Colonial Williamsburg to research a fic? I actually wrote that fic! And had a blast doing it!

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Title: with the sun in my eyes
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Pitt (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Wordcount: 11,905
Warnings:  No Archive Warnings Apply 
Relationships: Melissa “Mel” King/Frank Langdon
Characters: Melissa “Mel” King, Frank Langdon, Mel King’s family 
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Different First Meeting, Colonial Williamsburg, Nerd4Nerd, Period Costumes, more importantly: period hats, the embarrassment of wearing the same t-shirt as everyone else in your grade on a field trip, too much information about 18th century craftsmanship, felicity is the best american girl fight me, melissa “mel” king is very lonely, Autistic Melissa “Mel” King, Appalachian Frank Langdon, Virginian Melissa “Mel” King, this is extremely cheesy, You Have Been Warned
Summary:

“Whoa! Your dress is so cool!”

Mel jumped at the sound of the loud voice. A boy was standing just to her right, a giant grin on his face, and—was he talking to her? She stared at him, at his sweaty, floppy hair; at his lime-green t-shirt that read East McDowell Middle School in blocky white letters; at the weird dent in his chin. He was clearly a couple of years older than her, old enough that she was surprised he was talking to a girl at all, much less her. The older middle school boys at her church avoided the girls like the plague and always sat on the other side of the classroom during Sunday school. She couldn’t remember the last time an older boy had voluntarily spoken to her.

But this boy didn’t seem put off by her silent gaping. He just bounced where he stood, arms swinging by his sides, and asked, “Where’d you get it?”

It came out more like whuhrdj’gettit and his eyes were so blue they were almost scary, but he looked like he really wanted to know. So she swiped at the tear tracks on her face with the back of her hand and offered, “I got it for my birthday. It’s Felicity’s.”

“Yeah? Who’s she?”