Chapter One
Lex came over and sat next to Chloe. They were on the Luthor land behind the huge mansion; sitting on the grass on top of the hill. Chloe liked it here it was her favorite place to sit. Lex wasn't sure how long they had been friends for all he knew was that he like being around Chloe. He looked over at her intensely and smiled.
"What is it Lex?" Chloe looked over at him seeing the look he was giving her.
"Nothing." Lex turned his head away his face blushing at the fact that he had gotten caught.
"You are lying." Chloe told him
"If I tell you, you have to promise not to tell anyone else." Lex looked over at her.
"I promise Lex now tell me." Chloe was always curious and she knew that Lex had kept things from her she was glad that he was at least sharing one.
"I love you." Lex looked over at her and smiled his dorky smile.
"How can you love me Lex you're too young." Chloe looked over at him they were both too young to be thinking about love.
"How can I not love you, you are beautiful, smart, and you can put up with me."
"Lex we are still too young to be thinking about love."
"Then I can wait for you however long it takes." Lex smirked at her.
"Well it is going to be awhile Lex. Let's go for a swim before our parents come to get us."
"Okay."
Lex and Chloe ran down the hill down to the lake. Chloe dived in first looking up at Lex her eyes sparkling and she was laughing. Lex went in after her splashing water and laughing too. They tackled each other and had races. Lex never lost in anything except when he went against Chloe in swimming races. They played in the water for an hour until Chloe saw her dad and Lex's mom coming over to them.
"Come on you two it's time to go." Gabe told them both.
Chloe raced out of the water and grabbed her dad's leg. "Do we really have to go? I want to stay longer."
"Yes we have to go mommy is already in the car waiting for us." Gabe picked up his daughter not caring that she was getting him soaked.
"Come on Lex you have to say goodbye to Chloe." Lily called him.
Lex got out of the lake and went over to his mom she lead him over the field until they reached Gabe's car. Lex went over and gave Chloe a hug. "See you tomorrow?" Lex smiled at her.
"Only if dad let's me." Chloe smiled back at him.
Gabe opened up the car door. "Come on Chloe." Chloe climbed into the car waving goodbye to Lex. Gabe looked at Lily "I still don't think this is right."
"I don't either but you know how he is." Lily placed her hand on Lex and said her goodbyes. Lex watched as the car pulled away little did he know that it would be the last time he would see Chloe.
Lex woke up from his dream he always remembered it he wouldn't let his mind forget it. He had loved someone else besides his mother and she was gone. Neither of them had known what was going to happen. He had tried to find her once he got older but he hadn't found her. He didn't even know the real reason why she had left and he wanted to know. His father had told him that Chloe had moved away and his mother had avoided the subject when he had asked her. He rolled over and looked at the clock it was one in the morning he had to be up by five, he hated when he woke up early he could never fall back to sleep.
So he swung his legs off the bed and got his suit that he had left on the chair. He went into the bathroom and took a shower. He wondered if Chloe was still around and if she remembered him at all. He had never thought about someone as much as he thought about Chloe. His heart beat faster whenever he thought about Chloe. Lex got dressed and he went downstairs. Lex went on his computer and started to look for her again whenever he had the dream he would look for her.
Even though nothing had found her he had yet to give up hope. His search went on for hours and then he turned it off once he had to get going to his meeting. Lex packed up his lap top and put it into his briefcase. Then he headed off to Metropolis for another boring meeting.
After the meeting was over Lex left the building and went out to get some coffee to ease his headache. He went into the nearest coffee shop where he would always go to get coffee; he ordered his regular and sat down at a table. Lex read the newspaper not really sure why it just kept his mind busy. Once he had finished his cup of coffee he went up to get another one to go. When he was walking out he bumped into someone. "I'm sorry." Lex told her as he looked at her face. She looked so familiar with her wavy blonde hair and bright green eyes. "Do I know you?"
"I don't think so." Her eyes were looking over him trying to find any familiar aspect of him.
"What's you're name?"
"Sara, Sara Evans." She looked up at him she didn't know why he was so curious she was sure if she had been anyone else he wouldn't have of asked.
Lex looked at the woman, but somehow he couldn't get the nagging feeling that he knew her. He couldn't stop staring going over every feature. "Why do you keep looking at me like that?" Her eyes looked up at him.
"I don't know. Do you mind if we talk or something?" Lex knew that somehow he couldn't let her just walk away.
"If it will ease you're mind that you don't know me than sure." Sara went over to the table and sat down. Lex followed her sitting on the other side. "You're Lex right?"
"Yeah sorry I didn't tell you that before." Lex had hardly ever felt so dazed before.
"It's okay I guess I can see that you are looking for something?"
"Someone to be exact."
"Do I look like this person or something?"
"I'm not sure you see the person I am looking for, well I haven't seen her since I was ten."
"And how old was this person?" Sara couldn't believe that he saw something in her since it had obviously been thirteen years since he had last laid eyes on the person.
"She was seven I know it's been a long time but I can't seem to let this go you just remind me of her in some way."
"Well I don't mind talking to you if it will help. You seem nice. I really have to go though I have to get to work. Here I will give you my number." Sara jotted down her number and handed it to him she smiled and then she started to leave.
"Where do you work?" Lex asked her suddenly
"I work for the paper I'm a journalist." Sara looked back at him and gave him a last smile as she went out the door.
"Journalist." Lex said under his breath.
"So what do you want to be when you grow up?" Lex asked Chloe
"I want to be a journalist. Mom says that I will make a good one and dad says that I can do anything I want to and he will always be proud of me. What do you want to be?"
"I have to run my dad's business I don't really get a choice." Lex told her as he picked a daisy from the ground.
"That isn't true you can chose to be whatever you want I'm sure that your mom would understand."
"She would but she is no match for my father. He always gets the final say in things." Lex went over to Chloe and put the daisy in her hair.
"Thank you Lex." Chloe smiled at him
"I know how much you like them daisies are your favorite flower."
Lex came back to reality and he looked after the woman that he had just met and he knew that he couldn't let her go. He wasn't sure why or even if she had anything to do with Chloe but he had to keep tabs on her.
Lex got up from the table and decided that he would stay in the penthouse tonight so after Sara was done with work he could talk to her. He got into his Porsche and drove to the large empty penthouse. He took the elevator and entered into the living room and plopped down on the couch exhausted from his boring meeting. Lex hadn't even thought to ask Sara what time she got done with work, he had no idea when to call her, worse than that he had no idea what to talk to her about. He closed his eyes what if he was wrong about this women what if he wanted her to be Chloe so much that he was just imagining things.
Lex tried to call Sara at five and she didn't answer he left a message with his phone number asking her to call him back. He didn't feel like guessing when she would get home. An hour later he got a call back from Sara.
"Mr. Luthor sorry I never told you what time I got back from work." Sara told him she didn't want to upset him.
"It's okay and please call me Lex Mr. Luthor is my father." Lex talked in a calm voice knowing that she was a bit nervous.
"Alright Lex I don't know what you want to talk about." Sara honestly didn't know why he had even bothered talking to her she didn't know the person he was talking about and she doubted that she was that person.
"Well the only memories I have are from my childhood of Chloe. What childhood memories do you have?" Lex didn't know if this was a good idea anymore maybe she wasn't Chloe.
"I don't have any childhood memories. When I was eight I hit my head and lost all of my memory from my childhood." She couldn't even remember falling down the stairs like her father had said that she had.
"You can't remember anything?" Lex was surprised he didn't think that amnesia happened to kids very often.
"No my doctor said that I can go to a hypno therapists to get my memories back but therapists freak me out."
"You not the least bit curious what happened to you when you were a child?"
"My dad filled me and showed me pictures but there weren't very many." Sara remembered her dad being hesitant about her childhood.
"How come?"
"My mom went away when I was little and I don't think he wanted to remember. He never told me this but I think that he ruined the other pictures that had my mom in them."
"Where did your mom go?" Lex was curious now he knew that there might be a slight possibility that this could be Chloe. He knew that Moria was showing signs of insanity and if she had gone away to a mental hospital then he knew this could be Chloe."
"I don't know dad never said."
"You haven't asked him?" Lex knew that he would want to know if his mom went somewhere and left him but he knew that his mom had died.
"I can't my dad passed away when I was 17 I have been living on my own ever since." The pain of losing her father was still there in her voice she could tell because she felt the pain in her heart.
"I'm sorry I didn't know."
"How could you know? I've only met you today."
"As far as you know we have only met once." Lex wasn't about to give up hope yet.
"Lex I'm not this girl you're looking for alright when are you going to figure that out?"
"As soon as I have proof to prove that you aren't Chloe. Can we meet maybe at your house or something?"
"I don't think you want to meet here we can meet at the coffee house tomorrow though. I just want to prove to you that I'm not Chloe."
"You are going to have a hard time proving that unless you go and get your childhood memories back." Lex wished that she would just accept that she needed to know her childhood. He needed to know if he was in her childhood or if he should continue looking for someone else.
"Lex it's going to take you a long time of convincing me of going to get hypno therapy."
"Well then I guess that we are going to be talking for a long time." Lex knew that he couldn't let her go not yet not until he was absolutely sure that she wasn't Chloe.
"You are going to get sick of me sooner or later. I have some work to do I will see you tomorrow Lex same time as yesterday." Sara hung up the phone and looked at her tiny apartment. It wasn't home but it was a roof over her head and it was the only thing that she could afford.
Chloe looked over at Lex he was reading the book his father had told him to read. She wished that Lionel didn't make Lex do things that he didn't want to. She would always come here and occupy him while her mom was talking with Lionel. Chloe walked into the room still unnoticed by Lex. She sat beside him and that was when he finally realized that she was there. He closed his book and looked at her.
"Is it boring?" Chloe asked him pointing to the book
"Yeah it is extremely boring." Lex placed the book on the couch.
"Can we go to the garden?" Chloe loved the garden because she loved all the flowers that they had there.
"Sure I don't think my mom would mind."
Lex and Chloe went out of the mansion and raced into the garden. "I beat you." Chloe told him in a mocking tone.
"It was a tie." Lex told her defensively there was no way he was going to get beat by a girl.
"Alright have it your way then. You just don't want to admit you got beat by a girl." Chloe walked over to the garden and watched as the gardeners pulled weeds. "Why does your dad hire people to do the work?"
"Because he has enough money to but sometimes my mom works out here she likes flowers too."
"My mom let's me help her in our garden."
"My mom tries to make my dad spend time with me he never will though he is always busy with work and I just get in the way."
"How come he doesn't let you come over to my house?"
"I don't know I hate my father and I think he hates me."
"You shouldn't hate him Lex he is your dad maybe that is why he doesn't spend a lot of time with you because he thinks that you don't like him."
"You don't know my father very well Chloe." Lex lay down in the grass and looked up at the sky.
"Do you think he will ever get better Lex?" Chloe lay down next to him and looked up at the sky too wondering what he found so fascinating.
"I don't think so but at least I have you." Lex rolled over on his side and looked at her. "You understand me better than anyone. Don't go anywhere okay?"
"I won't Lex." Chloe smiled over at him turning to face him.
Lex woke up again from another dream his heart had been filled with joy during it but now the joy he had felt was gone. He had to find Chloe he needed her. The life in him had died the day that Chloe left. He wanted to feel happy again and laugh even if they were only friends he didn't care he just needed Chloe. He knew that he would have to find a way to get Sara to go to the therapist he needed to make sure that she wasn't Chloe or that she was.