Title: We Both Know I'm Too Young For You
Summary: You're not supposed to. Neither are you. ToddMassie.
Word Count: Roughly 640 words.
Inspirations: Impossibility; Lady Gaga; Twilight; Forbidden fruit
Song to Listen to: Beware! Cougar! - The Academy Is...
Interesting Fact #1: I was in a taxi, listening to Beware! Cougar! when the insanelyawesome! lyrics and this plot idea struck me. )
Interesting Fact #2: Hans, if you ever read this, I solemnly swear on myself I'm not 'copying' your exhchange-student-thingamajig.
Dedicated To: You. If you like the odd pairing that is called a ToddMassie, I hope you will add this one to your Stuff to Read on a Website For Decrepits list. :)
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It was a sunny afternoon in sunny Westchester. Everything was sunnily perfect. Sunny smiles, sunny shoppers and sunny families.
Until Todd Lyons jumped out of the BOCD school bus and onto the Blocks' gravel path.
Not looking back, not looking back, he ran up the path that lead the way to the Blocks' coveted Guesthouse which he now proudly called home. Or he used to anyway.
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Banging the front door open, throwing his backpack onto the ground, ignoring his mother's question, Todd stomps up the stairs, slams his mahogany door, flings himself on the bed and starts mumbling profanities into his pillow along with "It's not fair" over and over again.
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A sixteen year old Claire Lyons opens the door of his room gingerly. "What's not fair?"
Todd lifts his copper head and directs a death glare/pout at Claire. "The fact that she still thinks I'm who I was four years ago."
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Claire resists the urge to roll her blue eyes at her younger, prone to melodramatics, brother; instead, she sits on his blue bedspread gently and lays a soft hand on Todd's shoulder. "Todd, you can't still be after her, you know. She has two boyfriends and she's sixteen. You can't expect her to fall in love with a fourteen year old." Claire winces at the fact that she sounds mean and horrible and cruel. She sighs at the fact that it's true.
"Two what?" He raises his head up and looks her in the eye.
"Two boyfriends, Todd. That new exchange student, Nicolas Something-or-the-other and Cam," her voice lingers on the 'm' of Cam, jolting Todd out of his misery.
"Cam?"
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Sighing heavily, Claire removes her hand and presses it against the woodframe beneath them. "Yeah, they got together about a few weeks ago. Soon after he broke up with me, in fact."
"Then...why aren't you crying?"
"Josh asked me out the day before Cam dumped me." She smiles a little at the memory.
Shuddering, Todd asks, "As much as I hate hearing about your love life, Claire, why the hell are you smiling? Cammie, the 'love of your life', dumped you. You should be, like, depressed." He made a disgusted sound as he said 'Cammie'.
"I'm sad, yes but - Todd! You're bleeding!" Claire sees his right arm and grabs hold of it gently. Suddenly glaring at him, she mouths, so their overprotective mother won't hear, "Why the hell do you have a bleeding scar that looks infected?!"
Todd yanks his arm back, ignoring the stinging pain. "I fell in a rosebush."
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Claire's face practically screams '?!'
"Why the heck would you fall in a freakin' rosebush?! They're stupidly huge in Westchester!"
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"I confessed to Massie and she pushed me in a rosebush."
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A/N: Don't worry. This FF will be updated a lot faster than Destroying Each Other's will. Todd has to be one of the best characters in Clique. Him, Claire and Josh. :)
A/N: Feedback, again please. And PLEASE not the Janet Jackson kind. She's still wailing in my school and, creepily, in my head.