Title : Some Things You Might Not Have Known About The Core Four
Author : Helen C.
Rating : PG-13
Summary : Title says it all.
Disclaimer : The characters and the universe were created and are owned by Josh Schwartz. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.
Huge thanks to
joey51 for beta'ing this!
Thing #3
Seth kissed Ryan once.
He was drunk.
And, and… and Summer had spent the evening teasing him at the party, and then she had gotten a call from Marissa and suddenly she was gone, leaving Seth alone with Ryan, and…
Well.
Seth kissed Ryan.
Ryan was talking, and Seth.
Kissed.
Him.
Full on the lips.
But thankfully with no tongue involved.
He didn't think Ryan would have forgiven that.
So anyway, right after the, well, kiss, Ryan froze.
Seth froze too.
They stood frozen, both stuck in this perfect, "Oh shit," moment.
Ryan took a step back, his face remarkably blank, even for him.
He said, "I hope this isn't your way of shutting me up."
He didn't sound pissed, but he didn't sound amused either.
And Seth doubled over and threw up, missing Ryan's feet, but not his own.
Okay.
He probably deserved that.
"Nice," Ryan said.
And he dragged Seth back to the car, made him sit in the back with all the windows open, and drove them home without saying a word.
Once home, he half-dragged, half-carried an apologetic Seth to his room.
"Let's just… forget about that," Ryan said before leaving.
Forgetting about it sounded good to Seth.
It appealed to his highly developed sense of… whatever.
Yeah, denial and repression were definitely in order here.
So, Seth used his well-honed skills of denial and repression, and hoped that one day, he'd be able to look Ryan in the eyes again.
A/N. Once upon a time,
muchtvs wrote a Seth-kisses-a-far-from-receptive-Ryan one-shot. I wasn't trying to steal the idea from her, but this kind of insisted on being written. So, many thanks to much for allowing me to post this variation on the same theme, and if you want to read her excellent fic,
you can find it here. Thing #4