Returns

Love took a seat next to Evelyn. She was sitting on a bench at Smallville High. Today had been the beginning of their second semester of their Freshman year.. Right now, they were waiting for Lois to pick them up.

Love looked at Evelyn. She had her iPod on full blast and wasn't paying any attention to Love. Love rolled her eyes as she pulled off one of Evelyn's ear plugs. "You're going to ruin your ears if you have them on full blast."

Evelyn scoffed. "Your not my mom."

"Then I'll just tell Mom when we go home."

"And I should care because…?"

"Just don't do it Evelyn."

"Whatever." Evelyn stuck her headphones back in and continued ignoring Love.

Ever since middle school, Evelyn had changed so much. She seemed to be angry all the time and she was getting into so much trouble at school. Evelyn started hanging around the wrong crowd and it wasn't long before she started getting into more serious trouble.

Ella and Josh, their newest friend, saw them and joined them at the table. "Hello good people." Josh said as he waved.

Love laughed while Ella rolled her eyes. "Hello to you too, Josh."

Josh looked at Evelyn expectantly. "Am I going to get a hello from Evelyn?" he asked no one in particular.

Ella, who had known Evelyn the longest, hurt every time Evelyn would ignore them. She knew that Evelyn wasn't like this. "Evelyn, we're talking to you."

Evelyn looked up and glared at them. "What?" she asked, apparently annoyed.

"Wow, someone can retract their claws." Josh said as he took a sip of his soda.

Evelyn specified her glare towards him. "Why don't you go find some friends that are actually guys?"

"Why would I want to hang out with guys when I can hang out with three wonderful ladies?"

Love rolled her eyes, while Ella snickered. Evelyn continued her glaring.

"Evelyn!" someone yelled out.

Evelyn, along with everyone sitting at the table with her, looked up. "Meredith! What's up?"

Meredith joined them at the table. She was dressed in another one of her skimpy outfits. Her mini skirt was pointless, and her shirt did not cover her pierced belly button. She was a Junior who had a reputation in high school. She and Evelyn were best friends. "So there's going to be a party tonight at Kyle's house. Care to come?"

"Who exactly are you inviting?" Ella asked.

Meredith gave her an ugly look. "Definitely not you." she turned back to Evelyn. "So what do you say?"

"Do you even have to ask?" Evelyn exclaimed as she gathered her things.

"Wait, Evelyn. Did you forget that you're grounded? Mom said that you weren't allowed to go anywhere after school." Love interjected.

"Please, Love. Do you honestly think I'm going to listen to a word that she says?" Evelyn said with a scoff as she left with Meredith.

Love groaned. "Mom is going to kill her."

"Well, at least that'll save her from me." Ella muttered.

"Ella! How could you say something like that?" Love chastised.

"What? It's true! Ever since Middle School, Evelyn's changed completely."

"Ella has a point." Josh admitted. Josh never agreed with Ella. Those two were always at each other's necks!

Love frowned. She knew the real reason why Evelyn had changed so much. Clark had stopped coming. He wouldn't come anymore for anything. And the first time it happened was at Evelyn's eleventh birthday. Love had never heard Evelyn cry so much that night. "I guess."

"Why does she even hang out with Meredith? Everyone at school hates her." Ella continued fuming.

"And how did she even do it? I mean, she's a Freshman and Meredith's a Junior. That's like completely against Meredith's rules." Josh added.

"Evelyn's just…I don't know. A little different."

Josh scoffed. "Yeah a little different. She's a totally different person!"

"Look, could you guys just leave her alone for once? Evelyn's gone through a lot." Love finally said.

Ella stayed quiet, remembering what had happened to Evelyn and Love in second grade. Love didn't seem to have been seriously affected by it, by Evelyn had never really been the same. She was more withdrawn. She would only be truly herself whenever her or Love was around. When they had met Josh in fifth grade, it took a while for Evelyn to accept him. He had transferred from Coast City and was pretty much a beach bum, except his head wasn't full of air.

A horn honked and the three looked up. It was Josh's mom. Since Josh was living a few farms down the road from them, they carpooled. On the way, Evelyn and Love would be dropped off at their house.

Josh turned to Ella. "We'll see you later Ells."

"Josh, don't call me that!" Ella complained.

Josh smirked. "Whatever you say Ells!"

Love smiled. "I'll call you later. See you tomorrow!" Love said as her and Josh started walking towards the car.

"Hello, kids." Josh's mom said once they were both inside. Love was sitting in the front seat and Josh was in the back. "Where's Evelyn?"

"Uh, she went home with a friend, Mrs. Wilkinson."

"And that's fine with your mother?"

"Yeah." Love lied easily.

"Okay." she didn't really believe Love, but didn't want to press her anymore. "How was school?" she asked as she drove away.

Love opened the back door with the mail in her hands. She flipped through them once, hoping that there was a letter from Clark. No such luck today. Love sighed as she put the mail down on the bar.

Love could hear the bus pulling away and a few seconds later, Caleb was sitting in the kitchen. "I'm hungry, Love. Can you make me a snack?" Caleb decided to skip the formalities.

Love smiled. "What do you want for a snack?" she asked her five-year-old brother.

"Uh, can I have a sandwich?"

"You have to be a little more specific." Love said as she stuck her head in the fridge.

"Uh, one with pickles and jelly and mustard and bananas and some turkey!"

Love made a face as she could only imagine what that would taste like. "How about a normal peanut butter and jelly sandwich." Love started pulling out the necessary materials.

"When's Mommy coming home?" Caleb asked as he took a seat on the stool.

Love looked up at the wall clock. Lois would always try really hard to get home before five, but a lot of the times she would get home at seven or eight. "I don't know. She said that she was going to come home at five this time." it was already four thirty. Love doubted that Lois was going to come home on time.

"What about Daddy?" Caleb asked with an innocence that only a five year old could muster.

Love sighed. Every day after Caleb would ask when Mommy was coming home, he would ask about Daddy. Several times, when he asked the question around Evelyn, Evelyn would explode or storm out of the room, leaving a very confused Caleb. "I don't know." Love gave him the same answer that she always did.

"Where's Evelyn?"

"She's with a friend."

"Who?"

Why did Caleb have to ask so many questions! "Meredith."

Caleb scrunched up his nose. "I don't like her."

Love smiled. "Neither do I." she ruffled his black hair as she placed the sandwich in front of him. Love walked into the living room and turned on the TV. She started watching the news and pulled out her homework. She needed something to do to pass the time.

Evelyn was sitting in Kyle's backyard with Meredith and several other people that she didn't know. The party was crazy. Loud music was blaring from inside. Dishes were being shattered every five minutes. She was so glad that this wasn't her house. Lois would've thrown a fit. Especially if there were kids drinking and getting drunk, which was happening at that exact moment.

Meredith leaned her head against Evelyn's shoulder. "Come on Evelyn." she was slurring her words. "Just one little drink." Meredith handed Evelyn a bottle half way filled with beer.

Evelyn looked at it. She had never had taken a drink of beer before. And from the stories that she heard, she really didn't want to. "No thanks Meredith." Evelyn said as she pushed away the bottle.

Meredith began giggling. "Oh come on. It's not going to bite you."

Evelyn smiled with no humor. "I think that it is."

"Evelyn! Don't you want to forget about it all? Just throw it down the drain?"

Evelyn thought about home. Things were so tense there. It was like walking on eggshells. Evelyn knew that it was only like that whenever she was there. If she wasn't there, they were the perfect family. Of course as perfect as they could get with a single working mom. Dad was never going to come home. He left them. He may have said that he was going to come back, but it was a lie. He would always lie to them and nothing would change that. He was always going to be a liar. Evelyn knew that she was going to get into so much trouble if she got boozed. But she didn't care. Not anymore. "Give me some of that." Evelyn said as she grabbed the bottle out of Meredith's hand. She chugged a big gulp of it and winced at the burning taste it left in her throat.

Meredith let out a yell. "You go girl!"

Love grabbed her phone. It was seven and neither Lois nor Evelyn was back home. She sent Evelyn a text. 'Where are you? Mom's going to get upset if you're not here when she gets home.'

Caleb looked at Love. "Who are you talking to?"

"Evelyn."

"Is she coming home?"

"I don't know."

"What about Mommy?"

"Caleb, I don't know."

Love's phone croaked, letting her know she received a new message. Love opened her phone and read the message Evelyn sent. It looked like she had trouble writing the message because more letters were typed than necessary. It would've looked like gibberish to any other person. 'You can just tell "Mom" that I don't care what she says.'

"What did Evelyn say?" Caleb asked as he tried looking over to see what Evelyn had written. Even if he was able to see it, he wouldn't have been able to read anything.

"I'm home!" Lois called out as she stepped inside.

Love quickly shut her phone and stuffed it in her jeans pocket. "Hey, Mom."

Caleb had already gotten up and was now hugging Lois' legs. "Mommy!"

"Hey, Caleb." Lois put down her briefcase and picked him up. "How were you in school today?"

"Good."

Love came into the kitchen where Lois and Caleb were.

"Hello, Lovely." Lois hugged Love with her free arm. "Where's Evelyn?"

"Uh, she's with a friend."

"She's with Meredith again, Mommy! I don't like her."

"Is she really with Meredith?"

Love nodded meekly. "Yeah."

Lois set Caleb down. "I told her to come straight home. Did she forget that she was grounded?"

"I guess."

"Did you even remind her that she needed to come home? Or that she was grounded?"

"I tried to, but she insisted on leaving."

"You couldn't have stopped her?" Lois opened her briefcase and was scanning through some folders.

"What was I supposed to do? You know that she wasn't going to listen to me."

Lois groaned. She had a hard day at work today. Perry was on her case for getting into dangerous situation again last week. Richard was trying to get a date out of her again. She really didn't need to deal with any bad behavior right now. She grabbed the keys to her car.

"Where are you going?"

"I'm going to go get Evelyn."

"But Mom, you don't even know where she is." Love said. She hated seeing Evelyn in trouble, so she tried as much as she could to save her butt, even if Evelyn showed no gratitude for it.

"Love, I honestly don't care if I don't know where she is right now. I am going to hunt her down and drag her here if I have to."

Someone was at the door knocking. "Caleb, don't answer it!" Lois said, knowing exactly how Caleb was.

But it was too late. Caleb had already thrown the door open. Lois walked over to see who it was. Love took her chance and sped off to Kyle's house.

Evelyn's world was spinning. She saw double of everything and couldn't walk straight. She was definitely drunk.

"Evelyn, look at what they're doing to the statue!" Meredith exclaimed.

Evelyn looked to where Meredith's shaky hand was pointing. "What are you talking about Meredith?" her words came out slurred. "That's a cat!"

They both began laughing for no apparent reason. Evelyn heard a gust of wind behind her. She may have been drunk, but she knew exactly who it was. She turned around, careful not to fall over. "What do you want, Love?"

Love took one look at her and knew that Evelyn was drinking. "Are you drunk?"

"Well I'm certainly not high!" Evelyn laughed.

"I'm taking you home. Mom's back and she's really mad right now."

"I honestly don't care."

Love rolled her eyes. She grabbed onto Evelyn's arm and began dragging her out. Meredith laughed as she waved goodbye. "Ow, you're hurting me!"

Love didn't say anything until they were out of the house. "We are going to go home and you're not going to let Mom know that you're drunk." Love said. She didn't know how Evelyn would pull that off, but she was going to have to. Love picked up Evelyn and ran home, careful not to run too fast.

Love set Evelyn down when they were in front of the farm house. Evelyn held out both her arms to steady her spinning world. She ended up falling over. "Whoa, we should do that again!"

Love gave her a disgusted look. "You are so unbelievable." Love helped her up and started walking inside.

Once they were inside, they heard Caleb's excited voice. "…and then we get to take naps! And I always put my mat down next to my best friend, Robert!" Caleb heard the door open and he ran into the kitchen to see who it was. "Love! Evelyn! Look's who's back!"

Love saw the biggest smile on his face and wondered who could be back. She heard footsteps coming and Lois' laugh. Lois came in with the person that had returned right next to her.

Love's smile grew. "Daddy!" she let go of Evelyn and ran into Clark's arms. Evelyn had to grab onto the kitchen counter to keep her balance.

Clark hugged her tightly. "You look so beautiful, Love!" Clark set her down and took a good look at her.

"Well, well, well. If it isn't the father that abandoned his family." Evelyn said bitterly.

Clark looked at her. He couldn't believe that she had just said that. "Evelyn? What-"

Evelyn ignored him as she ran to the kitchen sink. She bent over and threw up.

a/n: i know, i said i wasn't going to post the sequal until two weeks had passed, but i really wanted to! i really hope you guys like this. read it, comment or review. oh and i'm still taking ideas for main villians. i think i know who i'm going to go with, but more ideas would be great.