A couple of little drabbles in songfic form (without the songs but with a link to the lyrics!). They don't really sound very like the characters but there might be some believable thoughts there. I think it is a very Seth-Summer-Zach song but as I'm not such a fan of them, as opposed to Kirsten-Sandy, I haven't really thought about their relationship so much, consequently I found it somewhat harder to write. Ah well, it's not fab but let me know what you think.

Summary: Second song-fic (without the song) to the song in the title. P.O.V.'s of different characters on their respective love-lives/love triangles, SS-Z, SK-R RM-L, LM-R, (can you decode?)

Disclaimer: No I don't own the characters or the song, I did make up the rest though! 'Snaps for me!' lol!

Popular Mechanics For Lovers

Please look at the link for the lyrics! Thanks!

http/www. ocmix2the/ popularmechanicsforlovers. htm
(minus the spaces)

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I guess my leaving knocked you down, knocked you into his arms.

Knocked me for six; my new found friend your boyfriend.

What were the chances of that? The universe is so working against me.

You think he's so sweet. He's good-looking not geeky, clever but not too studious, he's sporty, he's popular, he won't sail away when life goes down the plughole, he won't ramble incoherently to your father, in short he's not me; you sure got yourself the anti-Cohen you wanted.

He's nice, so nice. Almost too nice, makes me sick sometimes. If he wasn't so nice it would be easier to hate him. But he's nice, perfectly nice and he likes comic books. What is with that? I am totally being conspired against.

You know I'm sorry. Sorry for leaving, but I'm far more sorry I left and let him get you. That's wrong, I know, but I tell you what else is wrong?

You and him.

I swear.

Seth

- - - - -

You're not swept off your feet but he's certainly knocked you off balance.

What else could it be? Kirsten Cohen doesn't stumble for no reason.

He's different I guess, but aren't we different enough? I thought that's what made us, what, by some crazy quirk of fate, kept us going, kept us together.

Opposites attract and all that.

But now it's all we ever argue about.

So where does Carter come in? Is he between us now? The middle ground that we're going to fight over?

Carter Buckley; a man I admired, liked, toasted friendship to.

He smiles at my wife and it means something, my wife smiles at him and it means something too. I'm not being suspicious, I'm not, something's the matter, I know.

This is wrong, so wrong.

You swore to love me, you're sworn to me.

Please don't do this.

Sandy

Verse Two

It's always been you Summer.

You and me.

Not Zach, perfect, plastic, water-polo-playing, comic-book-reading, understanding, undemanding, easy-going boyfriend extraordinaire.

He's perfect but he's plastic. He can't love you the way I do.

Zach and Summer.

That's not how it's meant to be.

It can't be, if it was, what would I do?

You need someone to argue with, someone to threaten with rage-blackouts for a legitimate reason, someone to make you laugh, to laugh at, someone who isn't so artificial, someone who has loved you since forever, someone…well…me.

Just me.

Seth

-

Who is he?

Stranger.

It was always been the two of us.

Sandy and Kirsten Cohen.

Kirsten and Sandy Cohen.

The Cohen's; Sandy and Kirsten.

Kirsten Cohen, that's you.

That's how it's meant to be.

It's perfect that way.

We're perfect that way. OK maybe not perfect, but pretty damn close to it.

This is our life, our marriage, there's no part in it for him.

What are you thinking? What's wrong? It's always been us.

Always me and you.

Not him, not Carter, Cohen.

Sandy Cohen who loves you, loves you.

Sandy

Chorus line

So much in love and not with me.

Twenty years I've carried you in my heart while you've had twenty years of love with someone else.

Twenty years without you and only now you break my heart.

No, I broke my own.

Leaving loving you and breaking my heart by not saying goodbye.

Twenty years running, loving you, heart breaking because you'd never know.

Meeting you now and still loving you, heart broken by your love, the love that isn't mine.

Leaving again, loving you but knowing it has to be done, breaking my already broken heart.

Guess I'll love you forever. But you don't need to know.

Rebecca

Verse Three

You two, that's more than a high-school romance.

Ours wasn't a romance was it? You never felt that did you?

I said I loved you, you said it too. I don't think we thought about the words.

We always knew what was coming; school, parties, the inevitable, phoney 'I love you's'.

The golden couple of Harbour High.

That's what I remember. The golden moments.

The banalities, the fights, the tears, I forget.

You two; the beautiful, messed-up social queen and the tough kid from Chino, that's something different.

But in your case that's something special.

I'm glad for you, but I'm glad I'm not there to see it.

Luke

Verse Four

I never had everything, I never pretended to.

I was just me, just Ryan.

I'm not like them, not like Luke, I don't have all that.

But you know, I fall for you every day. I fall hardest when you ask. I fall fastest when it all goes wrong. I fall to do anything for you. I would fall beneath your feet.

I'd never hurt you, not like he did. I wouldn't, couldn't do anything to bring you down. I would never ever do something that would make you so down you almost die.

You're tumbling down, let me save you.

Ryan

Chorus line

You left, once, twice, you left again.

You lied, you left, you said you loved me.

So why am I alone?

Broken hearted.

You're with her, I know.

I don't know anything any more.

Should I be crying? Drinking? Feeling numb?
I don't know whether you love her.

Love her more than a memory, more than you love me.

Don't know whether my heart should be breaking.

Kirsten

Verse Five

I love you Kirsten. He says he loves you too but he can't love you like I do.

I love you more than life, you are my life.

I would do anything for you, anything.

Don't believe what he tells you, he's only here for the ride.

I would die for you Kirsten.

Would he?

No.

Here's my heart, take it. Do what you will.

You have my heart, you've always had it.

I love you Kirsten, come home, come back to me.

Sandy

Verse Six


So I hear your plans for the summer, Summer.

Italy; sunshine, sunflower field, seductive sundresses, Zach in his Speedos! (Excuse me while I choke) Sites, cities, spaghetti, statues, and perhaps a little s…

No! Not going to think about it.

Stop Seth stop!

OK, excruciatingly painful visual image diverted!

But for me it'll be another summer without Summer.

And seriously, that kind of summer ain't that great.

So, Italy huh?

So what?

He's still Zach.

He could never love you as much as I do.

Some guy has loved you since third grade, some guy remembers the squirrel you fed, some guy remembers the 'Mermaid' poem, some guy remembers the name of your toy horse, some guy loved you all the time you ignored him and didn't even know his name and didn't care if he existed, some guy thought about you every single day of last summer, some guy saw your name in the clouds, your face in the waves and your voice in the wind as he sailed, some guy doesn't know who he is if he doesn't love Summer Roberts.

If some guy loves you that much, how can Zach be enough?

You know who that guy is Summer.

Seth

- - - - -

So he's young and handsome and into you

So what?

Some guy loves you.

Some guy was young and handsome once.

Some guy is still into you.

That guy is me

I love you Kirsten, I always have, I always will.

I am I enough? Is my love enough?

Twenty years of love, is that enough? Twenty years Kirsten.

Twenty minutes isn't enough.

That isn't love.

Have you had enough of this kind of love? Our love?

Twenty years isn't long enough to love you, forever isn't long enough to love you.

I'll love you forever, is that enough?

Sandy

Verse Seven


It's nonsense to try but I have been. I admit it.

You're so much in love it was foolish to try.

I'm a fool to think I could erase twenty years, I was wrong to even try, you're hers not mine.

She's yours, not me.

Nothing I can do, nothing I can say. I haven't got something, anything to hold you to me, to make you mine again.

I left you.

But you're still my love.

What a twisted cliché.

Rebecca



Chorus line


I need help. I need to stop thinking about you.

Correction, I need to stop thinking about you and Zach. Thinking about you never hurt this much before and god knows I should know. Guess I know what it means to have a broken heart.

It's just so wrong.

But I can't say anything, I can't let you know what I'm thinking, feeling. I've got to be you friend. And I hate it. I need to be more.

I love you but I can't.

Can't do this. Can't love you. Can't be your friend. Can't get over you. Can't help being heart broken.

Music, Captain Oates and Ryan; mechanics for my broken heart.

They don't seem to be working, or perhaps I just don't want them to, I don't even want to try.

Seth


Verse Five Repeat

He. Loves. Me.

He loves me, not you.

He loved you, yes.

L-O-V-E-D

He still loves you in a way. You were his first love; he's always going to love you for that. Always. I have to make peace with that.

I'm his wife.

That's for you to make peace with, or not.

But he loves me and how ever much he loves you he's not going to sacrifice everything for you, not our life, our family, our marriage, not me, not himself.

True I won't let him if he tries, but he won't do it.

He would never sacrifice himself for you.

Not any more.

Kirsten

The End