I was randomly browsing the HP archives when I came across a fic called Ten Little Things by Jess.91. It was simply amazing and inspired me to do my own. So here we go: ten little things you knew, didn't know, or always guessed about the Clique characters. The Pretty Committee's and soccer boys' thoughts will go in order of the books. Other characters will be random.

I've only written up about four of these, so if you have a character to suggest, I'll do it. (:

Massie

1. It was very simple—Claire didn't understand. She didn't know the pressures that came with being Kendra and William Block's daughter. She didn't understand that Massie had a near-flawless reputation to uphold, something she had spent years trying to achieve by scaring her classmates into respect.

Claire would never understand that she was like a shiny new toy to her peers. The boys were going to talk about her, the girls were going to take her style into consideration and maybe, just maybe, the Pretty Committee would drop Massie like a hot potato for spunky little Claire.

She was a threat, and in true alpha style, the threat had to be destroyed.

(Never once did it occur to Massie that Claire was the fifth piece.)

2. When Massie was very young, she and her family had been vacationing in the Hamptons, like always. It was during her mother's legendary White Party that Massie's favourite teddy bear had been blown off the terrace by a particularly strong gust of wind. Massie had silently watched as the little yellow bear had spiraled through the air before landing in an undeveloped, marshy plot of land to the east of the estate. Massie had immediately pitched a fit, demanding that all of her mother's and father's friends go outside to look for her dear stuffed bear. When a slightly tipsy Kendra had refused, Massie had let out a scream that made the whole house go silent. Kendra sobered up and snapped at Massie, telling her to shut up and stop embarrassing the family.

Since that moment, Massie had been careful to avoid public humiliation, whether at her cost or at the cost of her family. This was probably why she took her crush on Cam Fisher into such careful consideration.

3. There was a definite change in the air, a feeling that something terrible, something inevitable was going to happen. Massie slowly began to recognize that the iron-strong ties that held the Pretty Committee together were now paper-thin. Massie decided to blame Claire, because she couldn't have done anything wrong…could she? Alicia had brought this on herself by cheating in the contest, right? This was all part of that retarded karma thing Kristen kept harping on about, correct?

4. After Alicia's betrayal, after watching both Kristen and Dylan walk right on over to the dark side, the whole thing had become a game. Massie didn't know who she could trust anymore, so she played the Pretty Committee like the Game of Life. Those first few months of the new semester, Massie only knew two things: she trusted Claire completely, which was why they had grown so close, and that Nina was the enemy. Nina was a threat. Nina had to be destroyed.

5. In all her years, Massie would never, ever forget Lake Placid. She'd never forget the whimsical feeling of Derrington's lips on hers, or the wholehearted laughs she had shared with the MUCK girls. Massie would always regard Lake Placid with reverence, because she saw it as the last place that the Pretty Committee had been truly together and truly happy in. Even if Claire and Alicia were fighting.

6. Losing the part of Molly in Dial L for Loser to Claire was the third time she had lost in her entire life. The first was when she had discovered that Chris Abeley was actually Fawn's, the second was when Alicia had cheated in the design contest, and now this. Massie had been right all along: Claire wasn't a friend, an ally, she was still a threat, the enemy.

Sometimes, though, Massie would look back on the audition and realize that it was rather stupid of her to think that Molly should be portrayed as confident when she was supposed to be, well, a loser.

7. After losing the bomb shelter to the soccer boys, Massie would sometimes think, what if I hadn't gone straight to Derrick's bedroom to look for the key? What if I had just gone down to the basement with him like he wanted me to?

But the more Massie thinks on it, the more she realizes that things would have gone exactly the same. And that there was absolutely no way that she would have gone down to the basement with Derrick, because Massie had a drive to win.

8. Being with the Pretty Committee felt even more like a game in the short time between winning the key and school ending. She jeopardized the Pretty Committee's whole social future just for a few hours spent in front of a TV, learning about the "secret" inner workings of the soccer boys' minds. And for what? A bomb shelter that turned into a locker room and a handful of boys that had become turned off by them? It only taught Massie not to be grateful for anything, ever.

9. In the barren landscape her little world had become, Dempsey Solomon was a beacon of hope. Her knight in shining armor. Because if reinventing herself didn't work, then at least Massie had Dempsey as a backup plan. And no protest-loving LBR was going to stop that.

10. It was very simple: Massie Block was in denial. Deep, deep denial. And once again, she began to think that it was all Claire's fault, because everything was perfect until Claire had come along, and Claire was the only one who wasn't complaining.

Thankfully, Massie realized that blaming Claire was a weak cop-out, not to mention ridiculous.

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