Small Messages
Chapter 2
At round 7 the Solomon family headed over to the Kent farm, Martha had invited the family over for dinner. Denise didn't feel like cooking so she was more then happy to accept the invitation.
"So what do you think of that Clark boy?" Jess's dad asked.
"I think that he is a farm boy from Smallville." She didn't like that her dad was trying to turn every guy that she talked to into a potential threat.
"Look there is a sign right there, turn in that driveway." Jess's mom said, "Jess do you mind looking after Ben?"
"Sure." Jess looked over at Ben in his car set. Part of her missed it when her mom wouldn't leave her alone with Ben because now it seemed like all she did was watch her little brother.
Jess looked out the window and noticed they were pulling up to a yellow house with a barn not to far. She also noticed Clark and another boy playing basketball. Her father parked the car next to a red truck.
As they were getting out of the car Jonathon came out to greet them. "Clark our guests are here" he yelled as he walked over to us.
"Nice place you got here." Roy commented.
"Comes with living here all your life you get the lay of the land. Come on Martha is inside waiting for us."
"Is it ok if we walk around out here? Jess asked.
"Sure Clark is around here somewhere and as long as you guys don't wonder off too far." Jonathon said.
"No problem." She said taking Ben's hand. She watched the adults walking into the house. Jess could still here the sound of the basketball hitting the ground. She and Ben walked next to the fence, figuring it was the best way not to get lost.
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"Dude your dad just called shouldn't we head over. He knows that you heard him." Pete said as Clark threw him the ball.
"No I don't think that we need to. I already met them all. Not to mention that the parents will be so involved with themselves that they won't notice if we are there or not."
"So this has nothing to do with the girl that gave you the cold shoulder earlier today?" Clark had told him about the girl when he had arrived at the farm.
"Yes Pete that's why I don't want to listen to more talk about farming." Clark said sarcastically.
"Well I want to know if she is hot or not. She must be something to have gotten under your skin. Looks like someone is finally over Lana Lang or is this the new girl the one that you want to help you get over her."
"Lana and I agreed to be friends I don't need anyone to help me get over her. I would give her an 8 on a scale from one to ten." He lied he would give her a higher score then that but he didn't want Pete to now that he might like this girl. He didn't even know how he could like her it took him most of his life to admit that he had feelings for Lana.
"An 8 isn't that bad. Clark man if you are over Lana then everyone in the world is wrong about the world being round. Trillions of people can't be wrong. Now you can stay here and play by yourself or you can come with me as I meet the guests." Pete started to walk towards the front of the house he could hear Clark coming behind him.
"Hey Pete she is over by the fence." Clark said stopping Pete from heading into the house, "Looks like she is one babysitting duty."
"Cute." Pete said walking over. She looked up at the advancing boys, Pete waved and jogged over with Clark not to far behind.
"Hi" was all Jess said not know what else to say.
"Enjoying the farm?" Clark asked.
"Oh yeah I can't wait to get back and start one of my own." She got him to smile again. She didn't mean to but she was happy to see it. 'what is it about this guy' she thought. "Hi I'm Jess and this here is Ben" she said to Pete realizing that Clark wasn't going to introduce her to his friend.
"Clark sucks at introductions I'm Pete." He shot Clark a look and Clark ignored it.
"I know if it wasn't for his dad Clark would still be standing on my front lawn." Jess said gently punching Clark's arm. "So I asked Clark this earlier but I didn't get a good answer. Maybe you know more, what is there to do in this town?"
"Well we hangout at the Talon a lot. It's a coffee house that's owned by Lex Luther. But that's about it unless you enjoy watching cows graze." Pete told her.
"Wow that um…sucks. I thought the last town was bad." She sighed. How all they did was was hangout at a coffee house.
"I guess to an outsider it would suck but just think what it was like before we had the Talon. We had nothing to do." Pete said laughing at her reaction. "Well at least you met so of the coolest people in town."
"Pete you are not that cool. I can hear Chloe laughing at you if she heard you say that." Clark said ducking away from Pete's arm.
"Who is Chloe?" Jess asked the two boys that where now wrestling on the ground.
Clark was concentrating on not hurting Pete so he didn't hear her question.
Jess kneeled down to look at Ben "Do me a favor Ben when you get older don't act like those two. Ok?"
"Ok" Ben said still watching the two guys on the ground.
"Let's head back to mom and dad." Jess took Ben's hand and they started to walk back to the house. They were half way back to the house when she heard the guys get up and follow her.
"Hey sorry about that I guess we forgot that you were standing there." Clark told her as he caught up with her. Pete was a couple of paces behind.
"Clark started it." was all Pete had to say.
"That's good to know" she said rolling her eyes. "So who is Chloe?" she asked again.
"Chloe is one of our best friends, she runs the school newspaper. I'm sure she will find a place for you if you're into that type of thing." Pete offered.
"I'll keep that in mind."
"We were planning on meeting up with her at the Talon latter tonight if you want to join us." Clark asked. "We might even run into Lex. Pete doesn't like him but I think that he is a cool guy."
"What do you mean the billionaire Lex Luther? You hangout with a billionaire and all you do is hangout at a coffee house." She was a little stunned.
"Well when you say it that way it doesn't really make much sense." Clark grinned at her. "My dad isn't the biggest fan of the Luther's so that plays a big part in things."
"I guess I will have to ask my parents if I'm allowed to go. I don't think that there is all that much trouble I can get into in this town.