[@Prisk] That sounds good. Mel wouldn't have thought anything of the fling other than they had that attraction and went with it once and that was that. But Natalie would have stayed in her mind nonetheless. Melanie would have probably only written essays for Natalie and no one else because she kind of liked her in a way and it didn't bother her. She also wouldn't have had time to do it for more people or on a very regular basis cause she was always busy tinkering and studying.

I think Melanie would consider doing it again (meaning with Natalie). Which puts us at an interesting starting point for them IC. She wouldn't admit it, even to herself, at this point, but I can see Mel being rather quick to fall back into that feeling from back then, whatever spur-in-the-moment heat it was. Depending on how things play out IC, she might backtrack then and realize she has played that up in her head quite a bit.