A/N: Originally a oneshot that just wouldn't stop sprouting sequels, The Sounds Kinda Nice series is now being reposted as a freshly edited and somewhat lengthened chapter story to make it easier to navigate. Enjoy!

Disclaimer: These characters don't belong to me. Not sure of the details of who exactly they do belong to (the writers, company, etc) but definitely not me. I'm just playing with them, hoping pretty please not to get sued.

Sounds Kinda Nice

"Ugh!" Lois grunted in disgust as she tossed the magazine she'd been flicking through away. "Who even comes up with those stupid things?"

"What?" Chloe asked her cousin as she looked up from her textbook.

"Those stupid couples' nicknames," Lois explained to her, "You know how they blend their names together?"

"Yeah, so?" Chloe asked, trying not to laugh as she recognised one of Lois's rants developing.

"They just all sound so..." Lois grappled for the appropriate descriptor, "Stupid!"

Chloe raised an eyebrow and waited for Lois to continue. She didn't have to wait long.

"I mean, really, Brangelina? It sounds like a breakfast cereal... or a really weird sandwich!"

Yup, Chloe thought, This is definitely a trademark 'Lois rant'.

Meanwhile, Lois was continuing to systematically ridicule all the celebrity couple monikers.

"... Beniffer? What is that? Benji the Drug-Sniffing Dog's stripper nickname?"

Chloe burst into laughter, interrupting Lois's tirade.

What?" Lois asked her, pausing in her irritated pacing.

"You just got me thinking... you know, about other couples and the name-blending thing?" Chloe struggled to continue without cracking up again, "Well, Chloe and Jimmy gives you 'Chimmy'."

Lois gave Chloe a blank look, obviously not getting the joke.

"Chim-chimmery, chim-chimmery, chim-chim-chiroo?"Chloe added, half-singing, half-asking.

"Mary Poppins?" Lois grinned, "Your relationship reminds you of a Mary Poppins song?"

Chloe was unable to reply; she was laughing so hard that her textbook looked ready to fall off her knees.

"Lois and Oliver is Loliver," Lois said, scrunching up her nose, "Why does that remind me of cod-liver oil?"

"Well, if that's too hard to swallow, we could always call you guys 'Lollie' for short," Chloe told her with a remarkably straight face. Lois grimaced at the cutesy nickname.

"Oh ha-ha," she said, "Chloe, I think you better step away from the puns before you hurt yourself."

What had begun as Lois trying to amuse herself whilst Chloe was studying somehow degenerated into Chloe and Lois rolling around the floor in fits of laughter for almost an hour.

"Hey Chloe," Lois said when she had recovered from her latest bout of chuckling, "How about Clark and Lana? Lark?"

"Clana!" Chloe declared in a high-pitched voice, "Like Nah-nah nah-nah-nah!"

"You realise how immature you just sounded?" Lois laughed.

"Exactly!"

"Oh!" Lois realised the joke with a laugh; thinking of all the 'dramas' Clark and Lana had had before their break-up.

"Okay," Lois told Chloe, "I've gotta leave before I bust a spleen or something."

Lois stood, clutching her sides and turned towards Chloe's door.

"Oh wait," Chloe had got up and was leaning against the door, "I've got one more."

Lois stood outside the door and waited for Chloe to continue.

"What do you think of 'Clois'? Chloe asked.

'That one actually sounds kinda nice" Lois said after a pause, "Who's that?"

Chloe's reply was to dart past Lois out of the room. She slammed the door closed and burst into uncontrollable laughter as she leaned heavily on the wall next to her door.

"Huh?" Lois asked the empty room, confused by her cousin's reaction. Clois... Lois thought, Lois and...

"CLARK?!" Lois's incredulous voice rang out through the entire dorm, only serving to fuel Chloe's laughter.