You know I'm getting so sick of being reincarnated all the time. Let's see which fool has me for their child. I hope I will turn out to be a guy this time. I hate to be a girl all the time.
It seems that I have been reincarnated into the world of Superman or at least the Smallville show. I never really watched all the episodes. Most of it was too cheesy and ridiculous and I hated Clark Kent's character. I hate Superman generally. He's the good guy and I've always been the villainess of every reincarnation. We're bound to be enemies in the future. However, I won't be his nemesis. Lex Luthor is. I actually liked the guy. Sure his character is secretive and villain-like but at the end of the day, Lex Luthor is a good person. He is just misunderstood and he lets himself be misunderstood. Foolish guy, but at least he is the better of the two fools.
Being surrounded by teenagers all day long makes me so bored. It's the same kind of song all over again. Teenagers: raging hormones, believing that they are invincible while also being cowards all the same. Ugh, I hope time speeds up. It feels like I've been fifteen since forever.
"Lucinda! Hurry up!", my brother Clark yelled.
"I'm coming", I said as I rushed down in my cheerleading uniform.
Yes, I had entered the most popular groups of school. Cheerleaders. Don't be naive. I don't like cheerleading it is just a means of me to gain some power. Of course, I was also expected to have a boyfriend too. However, no boy will ever be able to satisfy my needs. Besides they will only cry once I'm done stripping off everything of them. By everything I MEAN EVERYTHING. All that would be left of them is an empty void.
I got inside the truck as Clark began to drive while Jonathan (father) waved goodbye while warning me again not to get close to boys. FOOL. They are the ones who should run away from me.
We arrived at the school where we met up with Chloe and Pete. Pete, as usual, patted my black-hair which I had put up into a ponytail with a hair tie that had my cheerleading squad's colour. I slapped his hand away, telling him once again that touching a woman's precious hair without permission is forbidden. Pete just replied something about me being feisty while Chloe was busy speaking with Clark.
"See you losers", I said while heading towards my cheerleading practice.
A guy yelled out my name as he told me that I looked hot as always. I told him that I now before giving him the middle finger as I passed him by. His friends laughed as he got stung by the tiny Queen Bee.
Once I came to the cheerleading practice I was hugged by Lana Lang. I didn't hug her back. Frankly, I didn't like her but there were too many benefits to be her friend for me to turn down her affections and gain the whole school's ire for that. Whitney soon turned up and surprised Lana with a hug. I simply raised an eyebrow to that action before I went to do some warm-ups.
Later I sat and ate with Clark as he is my brother. I may be harsh on him but he was still family even if he was an alien. Because of me Clark and his friends at least managed to not get bullied like the rest of the pathetic losers in this school.
"Hey, Lucinda", Lana approached our table, ignored Chloe and Pete, and I could see Clark getting weak in front of her. Her necklace was obviously his weakness. She, of course, became guilty when he made that foolish expression. "So, the squad felt that we needed more practice before the big game. Perhaps you could stay-".
"I can't. Clark leaves directly after school and I have to go with him", I simply said while Clark's eyes grew.
"Lucinda it's alright you can stay. I'll pick you up after practice".
"Really? And waste gas?", I snorted. "How about this. Clark stays with me until practice is over. He can hang out with the brutes during their training while we train".
"Sounds like a good idea", Lana said and went back to her boyfriend.
"Keep staring and you'll go blind Clark", he turned his head back.
"Oh, shit. Maybe I should stay behind too", Pete looked excited.
"Go ahead, why not try joining the team too while you have the chance", I simply suggested. He was a nerd but I was also aware of his sports skills. The team could have use for him if only they hadn't deemed him a nerd.
"Father, wouldn't allow me", Clark said solemnly.
"I can obviously see why. Clark you are not like those brutes and if you join you will only become jerks like them", Chloe said and pointed at the guys who laughed annoyingly loud.
"Brutes yes. Jerks yes. But tell me Chloe does being prejudiced get you closer to become a journalist. I think not", I said while earning her glare. Her problem was that she always thought that she was right and had the right to dig into people's shit. A journalist complex I guess. The search for the truth makes her become a bitch. And I respect bitches.
Clark and Pete stayed over the late practice and began to hang out with some of the other football members. Whitney obviously didn't like him and made sure his friends wouldn't get close to them. Coach seemed to adore Clark, well he is strong and paid some interest in Pete enough for them to be able to join the team. Meanwhile, I could see Lana get distracted from time to time as she looked at Clark.
"Take a picture it will last longer", I told her as the rest of the squad chuckled.
He bright red face told me to shut up. Everyone in the squad already knew about her feelings for Clark. Besides no one really liked Whitney at all. Lana simply felt sorry about the attention seeking guy and indebted to his family. That's why she even went out with him in the first place.
"You only live once Lana. Take my advice", I simply said before shouting at a girl that she was doing the wrong move for the sixth time.
"I don't know, Lucinda. I'm with Whitney and I don't want to hurt him. We've been through so much".
"Lana", I sighed. "When it comes to a loved triangle everyone gets hurt. Besides you've been in love with Clark since you were like three. Stop being such a pussy and get your man before someone else does", I gazed at Chloe. "I don't like Chloe Sullivan and she is simply friends with Clark. But did you know that friendship can turn into love? And if he chooses her over you I will be standing there and applaud her. Because at least she has guts to go for the things that she truly wants. That is what is gonna make you the loser in the end".
Jonathan was mad when he found about Clark joining the football team because of his cheating powers. I didn't think it was a cheat. In fact, if you didn't use your powers they might as well be useless. After having a heated discussion and debate with him Jonathan finally showed Clark why he shouldn't. He showed Clark the spaceship he arrived in. Clark looked so betrayed… well, brother dear someday you gotta learn that everyone keeps secrets.
I approached him in the loft at the barn.
"You know, Clark. Jon and Martha might not be your biological parents. But they have raised you with love and care and completely ignored the fact that you are an alien. I know that you deserved to know the truth about your past. But we don't know who your parents are. The planet that you come from might have been destroyed and you are the last survivor of it. And that makes it all more worthwhile for you to still keep living here. Dad and Mom love you with all their hearts. If you leave us it is understandable but…", I put my arms around his waist. "Stay for my sake. You're my brother and I don't want to lose a sibling as much as dad and mom don't want to lose their son".
Clark turned around and hugged me as I felt his tears on top of my head.
The next day Clark stayed for practice while I was walking home. Of course, there had been some guy who tried to offer me a ride but I preferred to walk. After being a bitch to them long enough they finally gave up on me and left. I was looking at my pocket mirror while fixing my make-up. I heard a car driving fast towards me. It seemed like the drive couldn't see me so I cautiously moved but not fast enough because the driver swerved. I jumped up and made a somersault over the car as it hit the rails of Loeb Bridge and fell into Elbow River. Of course, the man wasn't alright and I felt bad enough to not let him die. I dived in and broke the glass window with my knife as I took him out of them and called 911 before starting CPR. It was obviously Lex Luthor who I was breathing air into right now. The bald man was practically the only bald person in this town. He breathed out water just before the ambulance arrived. His eyes were hazy and I told him that he would be alright now. Meanwhile, I explained everything I knew about the accident before I left sneakily away from the scene as the police arrived. I didn't want my knife to be confiscated and besides I don't want the police on my ass believing I was going to kill someone with it.
When I got home I was dry enough to make my parents believe that nothing happened. Unfortunately my make-up made them think that I had my heart broken or something and Martha started to give me advice on love. Two painful hours of advice that I didn't care about. However I didn't want to worry them either so I didn't really tell them what truly happened.
Later that evening I caught Clark looking outside the window of the barn. He was probably looking at a distance. He also didn't seem to notice me so he was indeed probably spying on Lana Lang. Only she could catch him off guard. I simply stood and watched him for ten minutes before he finally turned away and then saw me.
"You scared me".
I went to sit next to Clark as I leaned against him.
"So what position did you get?".
"Quarterback".
"Of course. It suits you. Now the team has another football star", Clark stroked my head and I felt a smile on him. "You know, don't hate him too much. Whitney is actually far less unfortunate than you are".
"What do you mean?".
"Whitney may seem to have everything but it is all pretence. His parents favour his younger brother so he has always needed to compete for attention. What better way to do it than to become the football star. Even if it seems that he has friends on the outside none of them truly is there with him because of simply Whitney. He doesn't have any friends. The only thing that keeps him together is Lana. However…", I looked at him and put my hand on his cheek. "She never had eyes for him in the first place. That's why he is so desperate to humiliate you, Clark. He is jealous and most of all. He doesn't want to lose Lana who keeps his world from falling apart".
Clark and I simply gazed into each other's eyes.
"Why are you telling me this?".
"Because I want you to take Lana from him. Whitney is my friend no matter how much of an insufferable idiot he has become. I want him to become independent and grow. So Clark please if you hold love for Lana do her a favour and finally have the courage to let love blossom between you two".
"She doesn't-".
"But she does! She has since she was three years old. However because of your reaction whenever she comes near she has simply become discouraged as years passed by. Clark you only live once. Make sure there are no regrets".
The next day I stole Lana's necklace an isolated the meteorite inside a glass capsule before putting it back inside the necklace. I tested it and Clark didn't seem to have a reaction.
I saw Lana looking through her stuff for her necklace.
"Are you looking for this?", I dangled it in front of her.
"Thank you. Where did you find it?".
"You dropped it during the interruption at the training. I simply found it and intended to return it back to you, however. It seemed that I was held up by a lot of people today".
"Well, I can imagine that. You are after all the head of the school council and the school's best problem solver", I smiled as she brought up my merits.
"Oh, by the way, Lana. Clark forgot his mathematics book. Could you hand it to him before he drives home? I have an after-school meeting to go to".
"Sure", she beamed so sweetly. How naive.
I went to the student council room. It looked a lot better this recent year. The reason would be because of me. There was a kitchen. A round table. There were landscape paintings that I had drawn during my first year and one won some state competition. The principal's office was just next to us so he could hear what we were saying.
"Ok, let's begin the meeting".
Like always we began with everyone reporting everything that had happened this past week. Then we began to take up one problem after another. I talked with the students responsible for being in charge of the food cafeteria and they suggested that we would have a vegetarian week. I approved of that. Then there was the student in charge of the school's choir who told me that they need some money for the entry ticket to a choir competition. I told him that we would go back to the topic later and see what students in charge of finances, in other words, our budget could make out of it. It seemed that there wouldn't be enough money for the choir so that students in charge of finances recommended the choir to raise some money on their own. Of course, I couldn't simply leave the choir just like that. There was money to gain from winning the competition. And I told the choir that we could make some exception if we get seventy percent of the money that they would win. If they won. I was certain that they would. I also brought up that the Wayne Enterprise of Gotham would donate portable computers. The principal was already aware of it and that's why he had been grinning like an idiot. I told the student council that from now on our school would use computers to write on except for when there were exams. The Wayne company would donate hundreds of computers. Enough for every student in high school to have one. I also told them that we would also hire the technical students to be in charge of the school's own webpage.
I ended the meeting with a brief summary and then we all went on with our lives.
"Hey, Lucinda", Whitney's insufferable idiot brother approached me. The head of the financial consultation was annoying as fuck. "How did you-".
"Easy. Quid pro quo".
"What did you give the WayneCorp in exchange for the computers?".
"Just some new ideas".
"What kind of?".
"Gotham had a recent outbreak of disease caused by some criminal. The Wayne Medical had no way of a cure for that. I recognized the disease and I simply gave them the recipe of a medical cure that saved tons of lives. Because of the WayneCorp became the saviour and also gained more trust and profit. I also made contact lenses for Bruce Wayne. It allows him to gain some incredible supervision".
Eric Fordman stood quietly in the hallway as my high heels continued to move towards the exist where Jonathan waited for me along with the coach as they shared some pretty embarrassing memories of their time in school.
A few days later Clark had to leave early for practice so I had to take the bus to school instead. As I waited a car pulled up and my eyebrows rose. The person came out of the car with a bouquet of roses.
"You must be Lucinda Kent, am I right?", he said.
"Took you long enough to find out it was me who saved you".
"Well it isn't easy if you don't know the name of your saviour", I smiled at that. "Here", he handed the bouquet. "As a thank you gift", I accepted it of course.
"Hmm, I believe that you owe me more than a bunch of flowers", I cheekily looked at him while holding the the flowers near me.
"Fine, how would you like for me to pay my debt?", he looked amused.
I stretched out my hands to him.
"By becoming my friend".
He raised one eyebrow before shaking my hand.
"Only if if you become mine", then he brought it to his lips and kissed my knuckles.
"Of course. Mr. Luthor", I answered. "Then as a favour I would like for you to drive me to school".
"Shall be done miss Kent".
"Call me Lucinda", he nodded.
"The you can call me Lex", and I nodded.
I knew this friendship will be the start of lots and lots of benefits meanwhile I kept an eye of Clark's heroic activities.