A/N: so my dad likes to put weird songs on my iPod and I like listening to my stuff shuffled so I came across 'Mr. Jones' by Counting Crows and I fell in love with the song. Then I listened to more of Counting Crows and I loved the whole band! Then I was thinking one night for more ideas for FFs and then it hit me. I listen to music at nite, all nite and 'Round Here' came on and I was struck with my idiocy of brilliance that only comes at night. So here are a few seriously fluffy oneshots of Gwevin based on songs on Counting Crows songs. All in Kevin's POV!

The centering and everything didn't work like i had hoped.... srry! i tried three times!

"Round Here"

Step out the front door like a ghost,
Into the fog where no one notices,
The contrast of white on white.

"Kevin, where are we going?" she asks as I pull away from the main suburbs of Bellwood. All the houses become fuzzy in the rearview mirror. Her eyes are illuminated by the headlights and I'm trying to remember where the road is and that I'm supposed to be driving. She just takes my breath away. With her near, my life is so much harder.

And in between the moon and you

I make a slight turn, letting the tire run over the sand. "You said you wanted to go to the beach," I mutter and put the car in park. It'd be fine, right? Her curfew was around nine or something. It was only eight. We had time.

Angels get a better view
Of the crumbling difference between wrong and right

Gwen was smiling like I'd never seen before. She was genuinely happy and truly carefree. As soon as we slow down, Gwen runs from the car and slams the door behind her. I couldn't care less what happened.

I walk in the air between the rain
Through myself and back again

I take a breath of the night air as I get out of the car, knowing that it was the most incredible thing I would ever experience. With Gwen like that, the world could have a crisis and I wouldn't care.

Where? I don't know

I could've stayed there all night with her and I never would've grown sick of watching her like that.

Maria says she's dying
Through the door I hear her crying

Gwen had taken her clothes off, down to her bikini. She was running along the beach, the moonbeams highlighting her hair. Her arms are out and she's spinning in circles on the beach. She's bound to fall in the ocean soon. It's only a matter of time…

Why? I don't know

The girl's smart, but why spin around pointlessly? I lay in the sand, feeling totally relaxed for the first time in a long time.

Round here,

We always stand up straight

Not being able to keep my eyes off of her for long, I look at her again.

Round here,

Something radiates

She's laughing. Loud and hard. The only kind that you can hear and feel and it's just contagious. I couldn't help the smile crossing my face and I lay back again, watching the stars hang in the night sky. They're just as carefree as we are tonight.

Maria came from Nashville with a suitcase in her hand
She said she'd like to meet a boy who looks like Elvis

I was able to relax, letting the tension run from me, to the sand, to the ocean, to beyond. Who cared?

And she walks along the edge of where the ocean meets the land

Just like she's walking on a wire in the circus

Gwen began to laugh harder. I figured she'd hurt herself at some point, but she was just so happy it was hard not to smile at nothing. I was grinning before I knew what was happening. The girl was still spinning on that beach before me. Her face turned upward to the moon.

She parks her car outside of my house
Takes her clothes off
Says she's close to understanding Jesus

I felt her presence near me again. "Kevin, you've got to come see this. It's incredible."

She knows she's more than just a little misunderstood

Not arguing, I get up and look out over the ocean where the lights dance on the water and look twice as good as they did to begin with. "I think I finally get it," she breaths and I feel myself shiver violently when her hand closes around mine.

She has trouble acting normal when she's nervous

"Come on." Gwen pulls me to my feet and drags me to where the ocean meets the sand. It runs along our toes and we stare at it aimlessly, achieving everything and nothing at all in the same moment of our lives.

Round here,

We're carving out our names

Her pulse was beating in my palm. "It's so funny," she says, laughing again.

Round here,

We all look the same

Our reflections were bubbling in the water, mine distinctly blue and black while hers was peach and red and green, melting in with the sea.

Round here,

We talk just like lions,
But we sacrifice like lambs

"I'm glad we didn't go to the beach earlier," she tells me before sliding back to rock on her heels. "Because we would've missed this." Then falling.

Round here,

She's slipping through my hands

I tried to catch her but she pushes me away and smiles when she hits the sand. "Kevin," her voice says, carrying through the air to sound like music. "I love this."

Sleeping children better run like the wind

Only finding the heart to return her grin, I return to my spot higher on the beach, not liking the water so close.

Out of the lightning dream

I find myself doubting the reality in this. It's too hard to believe. Gwen is never this happy. She never dances like she doesn't care. Her world revolves around thinking and doing and making something of life. That was our difference that constantly set us apart and put the strain between us.

Mama's little baby better get herself in
Out of the lightning

Then I feel Gwen collapse beside me, pressing herself close to my side for comfort and warmth. "Hey," she murmurs, burying her face in my chest. She lays like that for a while, just breathing.

She says "It's only in my head"

Just breathing.

She says "Shhhhh, I know it's only in my head."

I put my arm around her as she grins. I can feel it, not see it.

But the girl on the car in the parking lot
Says "Man you should try to take a shot.
Can't you see my walls are crumbling?"

"Kevin?" she asks and I nod in acknowledgement to my name. Gwen continues, "Do you wonder about stupid things sometimes?"

Then she looks up at the building
Says she's thinking of jumping,
She says she's tired of life,
She must be tired of something

I pull her a bit closer and kiss her hair, the way I know she likes it. She shudders and I can feel her growing cold beside me.

Round here,

She's always on my mind

"Thanks for bringing me to the beach," she whispers, her lips running across my cheek, the warmth spreading through my face. Some parts of this must be a dream, but they can't be. They're too pure, too incredible, too real.

Round here,

Hey man, got lots of time
Round here,

We're never sent to bed early,
and nobody makes us wait.

We laid there for a long time, just relaxing.

Round here,

We stay up very, very, very, very late

The darkness began to fade around us as I pull her closer to my chest and feel the heat flushing her cheeks a rosy color that I love. And I can't help the temptations I have to whisk her away and bring her back some other day so it can be just the two of us a bit longer.

I can't see nothing...

Nothing,

Round here

Her heart thrums against me and I can help but smile when I feel it and she's laughing again, but into me this time and it's muffled by my shirt and skin. Carefree, that's what we are. Nothing to worry about for the first time in a while.

Will you catch me if I'm falling?

"Gwen," I find the breath to murmur into her hair, drinking in every inch of this moment.

Will you catch me if I'm falling?

Her head moved just enough so that her eyes can meet mine and I can only stare into that emerald green, wanting her more than ever. Never can I find the words to say it. Never have I been this close to her. Never did I dream of this happening.

Will you catch me cause I'm falling down on you?

Her voice was strained when she said it.

I said I'm under the gun around here

She could say what I had never been able to.

I'm innocent I'm under the gun around here

Gwen knew my every weakness, my every darkness, my very soul, and she knew how I was only fighting myself.

And I can't see nothing

I could only dream of it.

Nothing round here

Those are the last words I decide to hear that night. Everything else after that just became a cold blur. "Kevin, I love you."

A/N: Good for the first one? Comment please!

~Sky