The first love

Just the day after all that, Martha asked Clark to sit next to her in the sofa after the babies get asleep...
"What's the matter, mum?"
"I want to tell you something, sweetheart..."
"Of course, but, you're making me worried..."
"Well, it's nothing important... just that I can't continue with this lie..."
"Which lie, mum?"
"Clark, Lionel and me didn't meet each other the day you come to our lives... we'd known each other for years...

It was when Martha started the university. She lived in Metropolis with her parents in a big mansion. She had ever gone to a girls collage, now she was going to start to study laws.
One day, in the university library, she sit down next a boy. This boy followed her when she went out the library.
"Excuse me" said the boy, but Martha didn't listen to him "Hey! redhead!!" Then Martha turned round.
"Is it me?"
"Yes... excuse me but... you have forgoten your notebook..."
"Oh! thank you! You're so nice... Thank you very much!!" and she smiled, and the boy felt in love of that smile. "I'm..."
"Martha Kent... first course" he said "there's your name in the notebook..." he smiled too.
"And you are..."
"Lionel Luthor... last course"
"Nice to meet you" both said. They rest silence for few minuts, 'till she said that she had a class, and left.

Two days later, they met again in the library. Lionel had been sitting in the same table the two days, waiting to fing her again.
"Hi! what are you doing here?" he asked.
"Well... it's a library, so I supose I've came to study..." she laught... he loved her when she did that. "And... what are you doing?"
"Waiting for you..." silence.
"Really? Have I forgotten anything else last day?"
"No, no... you hadn't... but I do had... I forgot to ask you to go out this friday..." he asked.
"Is it a date?"
"It depence... do you want to go on a date with me?"
"Why not? Ok, it's fine... where do we meet?"

On friday night they met in front of the cinema. They went to see a film, a romantic film, and they they went to have a drink... and dance. And they danced... 'till it sound a slow song, and they danced toghether, and the song finished, and he wanted to kiss her, but finally he didn't do it.
Then, when he took her at home...
"You know something... I almost kissed you when we were dancing..."
"and why you didn't do it?"
" 'cause I didn't want you to leave me..."
"I wouldn't had left you..." she smiled and he kissed her...

Martha and Lionel had more dates after that... they were really in love... but the university exames arrived, and they had to rest their relationship some weeks. Was then when Martha knows Jonathan. She was in love with Lionel, but she find that farmer nice too. She didn't wanted to play a double game, but she went out with Jonathan twice. But they hadn't already kissed.
The spring arrived, and there was a party in the university. Jonathan knew that Martha had a boyfriend, so he didn't asked her to go with him, what he did ask was to let him dance with her once. They dance one song, but Lionel get jealous and went to seperate them...
"Ok, that was enough, your dance have finished..." said, trying to be politly, to Jonathan.
"I'm sorry, but the song haven't finished" answered Jonathan.
"She's mine." said Lionel holding Martha's wrist.
"Lionel you're hurting me..." said Martha, but Lionel didn't listen to her suplics, and he didn't leave her, so...
"Release her!" shouted Jonathan, and he took Lionel a punch.
"You're dead!" shouted Lionel, and he run toward the other man, but Jonathan moved, and Lionel felt on the floor. He stood up...
"Martha, let's go home..." said. But Martha didn't move "Martha?"
"I... I prefer... I prefer to stay here. You must go alone..." said, while Jonathan put his arm on her shoulders...
"Ok, I understand... be happy with the farmer..."

Martha didn't see Lionel for many time. He went to study to europe... But she neither saw Jonathan for months... utill a day that they met on the cinema. Each one was with his own friends, but they finished that night toghether...

...
Clark rest in silence for some minutes...
"does it mean that you really don't love daddy?"
"No!! of course not!! I really love Jonathan, I really love your dad, Clark... he was the man of my life... with him I spent the best years of my life... seeing you growing up. I don't want you to think I didn't love him, because I did... I love Jonathan Kent more than my own life... it's just that... Lionel always had a piece of my heart... can you understand that?"
"I think so..."

"I have told Clark the truth of us... that we already knew each other the meteor's day..."
"And what did he say?" asked Lionel.
"Firstly he said nothing... then he asked me if I had loved Jonathan?"
"What's a silly question! Everybody knows that the Kent's where the couple who were more fall in love of each other in the world..." and he laught. And seeing that Martha rest in silence, he said "Weren't you?"
"Well... that's what everybody thought of us... but you know better than anyone else that it's not really true..."
"Oh Martha! we had seen each other during those years, but that don't mean you hadn't love him... because you know that you do..."
...

The first meteor rain day... Martha and Jonathan were going home with a little boy in Martha's arms, when they found Lionel Luthor in the road. They stop.
"Please, help me, my son..." shouted him. He hadn't already realised about who were his helpers. When he did "Martha? Martha Clark?"
"You know I'm Martha Kent, now. How do you do?" she said, politly...

"Sure. Fine. Too many time without seeing you, how do you do you?"

When they had to do Clark's adoption, was Martha who went to asked Lionel for help. And Lionel did it with just one condition... go on a date with his ex-girlfriend...

The date with Lionel arrived. Jonathan wasn't really happy, but he knew that having a baby was his wife wish... Martha looked really beutiful (like ever). Lionel took her with his limousine and went to a very expensive restaurant, where Lionel had booked a private room. All was perfect.
"You know Marta? ... I had been thinking on you over this time. I had been remembering that day which we split up, and I didn't like the idea of not seeing you any more... and when we found each other on the road, I felt really happy..."
"Really? But you had got married..."
"I had, but Lilian was just a woman in my life... you have always been THE woman of my life..." he smiled, and Martha tried to hide her smile...
"You... you still being in my heart, Lionel, but I'm married, now... I'm really happy married, and I can't... I don't want to leave Jonathan... I love him..."
"And don't you love me?"
"Yes. No. hhhh... I... I love my husband. And now I'm going to start a familly with him. And I really want to do it."
"Ok. I understand. I only want you to be happy. But I will ever be next to you, because if you have any problem, I want you to come and ask me for help..."

...

Nowadays
"And you never let me alone..." said Martha to Lionel.
"And I will still next to you for ever... and ever... watching how our babies grow up..." and they hold their hands... .. .

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