Title: Bad Boys
Rating: T
Summary: Bad boys are hard to resist when you're a teenage girl. AU, BxG.
Inspired by:
The trailer for the episode "Good Copy, Bad Copy"
The song, "If You Want It To Be Good, Girl (Get Yourself a Bad Boy)," by Backstreet Boys
The song, "Real Good Man," by Tim McGraw
A/N: This idea popped into my head while I was watching the trailer for "Good Copy, Bad Copy." I wrote most of it before I watched the actual episode. The episode itself didn't turn out the way I expected it to, so the story seems really weird to me now because it has very little to do with the episode… but that's okay. That's what AU is for!
She couldn't resist the bad boys.
Bad boys had a certain appeal. They were rebels. They didn't follow the rules, and they never let anyone tell them what to do. They did whatever they wanted, whenever they wanted.
She secretly wished she could be like that. She felt burdened by responsibility sometimes. She was always worrying about living up to other people's expectations of her. Not to mention her own.
What would it be like to be free of all that? Gwen wondered.
She longed to let loose and run wild. She was so tempted sometimes to just say, "F-- it. I'm doing whatever I want – consequences be damned!"
She wouldn't have to care about anyone's wants or feelings except her own.
But she couldn't really do that. It was too selfish, and she was afraid of what might happen. The cost was too high. She couldn't alienate the people she loved, and her conscience would torment her if she did anything that she found morally reprehensible.
So she sought out bad boys instead. It was her own form of rebellion. Pursuing them gave her an adrenaline rush because she never knew what to expect or how they were going to react. It was a challenge.
And she loved a challenge.
Bad boys fascinated her these days. They were so unlike the nice guys she knew from school.
Nice guys were boring. They did what they were supposed to. They had good manners and treated you with respect. A nice guy who genuinely cared about you would try his best to make you happy. He would listen to you and usually do what you said or asked.
But what was the fun in that? There was no mystique there. She couldn't help feeling dissatisfied because it was all so predictable.
They weren't anything like the dashing heroes of romance novels or movies.
Gwen wanted that. She wanted to be swept away with romance.
That was why she liked Kevin. And Mike, too. On some level she had picked up that he was no good, even before he'd become Darkstar.
Bad boys always knew exactly the right things to say to make you melt. They were charming when they wanted to be and could easily smooth-talk their way into your heart.
She knew that it was only because they were skilled manipulators and liars, but she couldn't help falling for it anyway.
Nice guys weren't like that. They were honest and generally told you the truth. But the problem was that the truth was not usually what a teenage girl wanted to hear. It was too ordinary, and certainly not romantic.
She wanted a bad boy.
First Kevin, then Mike, and now…
Bad Ben?
(To be continued in Chapter 2...)