A/N: Hey readers! To start off I'm going to tell you some stuff about the main character in this story since she is an OC made by me. Just so you know some stuff about her when reading the story.

In this story, her name is Kaitlyn Fordman. As you can probably tell by her last name, she is related to Whitney Fordman (Lana's boyfriend from season 1). She is his cousin. She is about 5'2" so she's kinda short. She has long dirty blonde hair that is curly. She wears glasses and she dresses very similar to everyone else in Smallville. She works at the Beanery in Smallville and she is a senior at Smallville high, so she is a few years older than the other characters from the show, other than Whitney (who is the same age as her) and Lex.

Now that you know a bit about Kaitlyn, we can move onto the story. You will find out more about her as you read on. The story starts a little while into season 1 of Smallville. Other than major plot events for the show, this story kinda ignores the other stuff such as all the "mutants". So without further ado, we move onto the story! I hope you all enjoy it!

Kaitlyn looked up at the clock in her last class of the day. Only ten more minutes until her free period. She hoped she could get her homework done during that time, since she had to work tonight. Turning back to her history book, she tried to concentrate. Then she realized what had made her lose focus in the first place. In her book, she saw a stamp saying Donated by Luthorcorp. It seemed that everything in Smallville had the Luthorcorp stamp on it. She could never escape it, not even when she was away from everything Luthor-owned. Every time she closed her eyes, she could see his face. He was everywhere. Personally she had never met the guy, but his blue eyes haunted her thoughts constantly.

The bell ringing brought Kaitlyn out of her thoughts and she gathered her books. As she walked down the hallway, she remembered that she hadn't gotten her camera back from Clark Kent, so she decided to stop by the Torch to see if he was there. She needed to talk to Chloe anyways about her report on the senior class. She walked into the office, not paying attention to where she was going, and was stopped short when she ran into someone. The collision knocked her books out of her arms and onto to the floor.

"Oh, I'm so sorry. I didn't see you there!" Kaitlyn flustered as she bent over to pick up her books without stopping to look who she had run into.

"It's fine. No harm done," replied the man as he bent over to help her with her books.

When Kaitlyn looked up, she met the very same eyes she had been thinking about a few minutes ago. He smiled at her, handing her notebook to her.

"Thank you," she blurted out from her state of stunned silence.

"No problem. Lex Luthor, at your service."

Lex offered his hand to help her up, which she gladly took. It was the most wonderful five seconds ever, until it was interrupted.

"Kaitlyn! Oh my god, are you ok?" Chloe asked, walking up to the pair.

"I'm fine. Mr. Luthor here was just helping me after I so rudely ran into him."

Lex smirked and handed Kaitlyn her pencil, which had been forgotten on the floor.

"Please, call me Lex. Hey Chloe, have you seen Clark by any chance? I was looking for him before I met our friend here."

Kaitlyn blushed at Lex referring to her as a friend. This was incredibly embarrassing and she was just glad he didn't know how much.

"Actually, I was looking for Clark too. He still has my camera and I wanted to see if he had it."

Chloe raised her eyebrow at Kaitlyn's flushed face, but sensing her embarrassment, decided to file it away for further investigation.

"I haven't seen him since lunch. You could check the library."

"Ok thanks Chloe. It was nice to meet you Mr. Luthor," Kaitlyn said, flushing once again as she awkwardly moved away, waving at the man as she went.

"Seriously, call me Lex!" he called after her fast moving figure.

Chloe chuckled as she moved past Lex into the Torch office and sat down at her desk. Lex followed her in and took the seat next to her desk.

"I thought you were looking for Clark."

"I am, but I wanted to ask you about what just happened. Who was that?"

"That would be Kaitlyn Fordman. She's the senior informer/ reporter for the Torch."

"She seemed a bit flustered to me. Is she alright?"

"Oh yeah, that's just how she is sometimes. Especially when she's embarrassed about something. Now if you don't mind, not to be rude, but I have stuff to do."

"Alright, I can take a hint. Tell Clark, when you see him, to come see me when he can."

"Ok, will do Mr. Luthor." Chloe smirked as Lex walked away rolling his eyes.

Not finding Clark in the library, Kaitlyn went to her locker to put her books away. After closing her locker, she lightly banged her head on the surface, wishing she could go home and hide under her covers for the rest of her life. Looking out the window across from her locker, she noticed the silver car pulling out of the parking lot. She groaned and walked down the hall back towards the Torch. He was gone now, so it was safe to go back there. As she entered the room, she could feel Chloe watching her walk to the table across from her desk. Kaitlyn sat down and pulled out her math textbook to do her homework. After about five minutes, she couldn't take it anymore and, putting her pencil down, looked up at Chloe with irritation.

"What Chloe?"

Chloe raised an eyebrow at the tone of Kaitlyn's voice but her inner reporter couldn't let the issue go.

"What happened earlier?"

"Nothing! I came her looking for Clark and to do some homework and I wasn't paying attention to where I was going and ran into Lex."

"Hmm. Well, why were you so worked up about it?"

"I was embarrassed that I ran into the guy, ok? That's all!"

"Sure. Whatever you say, Kaitlyn."

"Mind your own business Chloe," Kaitlyn mumbled to herself as she returned to her homework.

After a little while, Kaitlyn felt her eyes begin to droop and she laid her head down to take a short nap before she went to work after school.

A/N: I just wanted to point out that Lex and Chloe have a bit more friend like relationship in this story then they do in the show, hence the friendly banter. I know this first chapter is short but I just want to get a start on it and see what people think. Please review and let me know what you think! Thanks everybody!