Hi! OMG guys this is my tenth chapter and I have reached 100 reviews, whoop! I love you guys please keep doing it with suggestion or whatever really. By the way if you read my other MV stories most will also be updated in the next week or soo,

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SHANES POV

I was once again lay on my bed facing the ceiling wondering why my life sucks so badly. Not a feeling that I'm unfamiliar with but it still felt like a fresh wound. I'd always been told that these things happen to the weak and I'd never really listened to Dad's drunken advice - just to show a little more resentment toward him, but he could be right. Sure he wasn't all that wise but if you think about it in this case I had been weak. To love. If I had just quit making up the fantasy of me and Claire being some amazing couple I wouldn't be in this mess.

So what to do? Listen to Claire and just forget it all. At the time that really hadn't been an option because I was still so hung up on how much I wanted to be with her. But now I had to be honest with myself. Claire could really love me and I'd always known that – which could be the reason why I'd struggled so much to say I felt.

So now you know what to do. Just let it all go...

My body was already numb of all feeling and emotion. All I had to do was carry it all on, Claire was young and a girl – she was probably just up for the idea of being in love. She never cared about me she was just being naive. And seriously I'm 18 what was I thinking that I'd found my future wife or something?

Kinda, I did love her,

But now I can't she doesn't love me and if she's over it then then I should be too. I wasn't going to be that boy from the movies that declares his love by taking her to the top of the Eiffel Tower or something, like I said it's just the movies I need to be real and admit she doesn't feel the same.

So that's it just fuck it, fuck her and fuck love. I need to get my head straight and get on with my life, I don't care about her and I defiantly don't want her I can do better.

What use is there there trying to explain myself is she doesn't care.

I climbed out of my bed, grabbed a wrinkled shirt and jeans before heading to the shower to try and wash away all emotions once and for all so I could resume being my old boring X box-loving-chilli-making-slacker-boy self.

CLAIRE'S POV

I couldn't believe what I'd just done; I'd gone into his room and told him that I wanted it to be over for us to go back to normal, my head was telling me what to say and how to act. But all the time my heart was screaming at me to shut up and tell the truth.

I love you Shane

Why am I being so stupid? He used me and still I can't get over my feelings for him. Every time I saw him my mind would flash back to how he held me and how gentle he was that night. Even before then, the times we'd laugh as he chased me around the house and more serious times – he made a deal with a vampire to protect me!

I did think he loved me, even if it was just as a younger sibling there was still something. How could he be so cruel? Was it some kind of player thing, that it was funny to do that to a girl? I should be thinking that he is a selfish pig, but no naive little Claire was hopelessly in love. I mean I know Shane is going to get over it soon enough but I'm not sure I will.

Oh God, I thought as an ache, which has visited my heart many times these past days returned. I have so got to talk to him.

Down the hall I heard the creek of his door as it opened. What if he's coming here!

I quickly straightened up and rubbed my eyes in a failing effort to cover up the fact that I'd been crying. Again

Maybe I should go to him first.

I then followed my gut and walked to the door as I have done millions of times before, but now it felt like each step I was taking, I was shaping my future. I pulled the handle and took a small step forward.

As I thought Shane was there too, not far out of his room but facing the opposite way to me – toward the bathroom. He turned his head as he heard me open the door, there were a few seconds before either of us moved and we did he went first. It was a small movement; he simply rolled his eyes and maybe smirked a little before twirling around on the balls of his feet and going into the bathroom.

I stood there staring not knowing what to do. But I knew what was going to happen. I was going to step back into my room go to my bed and cry whilst I thought about how bad I'd messed up.

This isn't you, it never has been

I'd never been one to give up or sulk about losing and now I couldn't stop crying. How could I change a lifetime habit so quickly?

Because of a boy

One that has clearly never cared. I mean how is rolling your eyes and smirking going back to normal. God I could scream and maybe throw some things around, but once again that isn't me. Dam it maybe I just need to forget about this fantasy relationship.

MICHAEL'S POV

Oh my God. What the hell is happening to this house, it seems like this whole family is slowly tearing at the seams. It was never a normal family but still... We've all always loved each other – some more than others. But now Shane and Claire are at each other's throats and Eve is pissed at me and Shane.

I stared at my still full bowl of cereal; I was so not hungry anymore. Last I heard Shane was in his room getting yelled at by Eve and Claire was still in her room.

In more ways than one this whole thing is my fault. I mean I was the one who made the bet with him; the girls think Shane's the big bad bully in this but no. Far from it.

I've known that boy for 15 years and never did I think he'd be admitting he was in love to me, I'm not saying he's messed up but he does not cope well with feelings. In his childhood he wasn't given a lot of love, so he never bothered with it and just bottled up everything he felt. I know him, now everything has gone wrong he'll be telling himself that everything was fake and pointless. So freaking wrong...

At that second Shane walked in hair freshly wet from a shower.

'Hey man.' He said casually like it was a normal day and headed straight for the kettle.

'Urm hey. Is everything okay?' I asked, hoping for an update.

'Yep.' He said bluntly, I was again for, me and Claire are... But it never came.

'You want a top up?' He said pointing a finger at my half empty mug.

Why in hell is he asking me about coffee.

I was done with the weird inner monologue and just came out with it.

'Dude what's happened with you you and Claire?' I saw him freeze in his action slightly before looking up to meet my eyes squarely.

'Nothing. I'm over it.' Liar. He said it like we were talking about some school yard crush.

He then walked out of the kitchen leaving the kettle screeching. I look at it shaking my head at my own reflection.

'Not good.' I whispered.

Yay chapter 10 done! Hope you guys like it I know not a whole lot of talking in there mostly thoughts so basically Michael is the only one fighting for S & C. But should he be? I still have no idea. Review you guys!

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