Day 67:
Fifty-three days later, after working all day, Lois called Oliver and invited him to have dinner at the flat which she and Chloe shared; Chloe and Jimmy, who had recently married, were out with Clark and Lana, who had married about a year before. Lois was very glad that Chloe and Jimmy were out, as she really wanted to spend the night with Oliver; she thought that she was falling in love with him, but she was too afraid to tell him.
Meanwhile, in Oliver's flat, Oliver and Clark were talking, then Oliver asked, "How did you know when you loved Lana?"
"I just knew; I knew that she was the one." Replied his friend, before asking. "Oliver, what's this about?"
Oliver looked down at his hands, then whispered, "I think I'm in love with Lois, but I don't want to tell her."
Confused. Clark sat down and asked, "Why is that?"
Throwing down a pen on the table, Oliver replied, "Clark, you're one of Lois's best friends. I can't tell her because-because I don't want to scare her off."
"So this has nothing to do with the fact that you're the Green Arrow and you haven't told her?" Clark asked and Oliver's silence was the answer to that question. "Oliver, I told Lana when I asked her to marry me and she took it well, and if I know Lois as well as I think I do, she'll take it as well as Lana did-maybe better. You can't be with someone, be in love with them, and not tell them who you really are, because that will ruin the relationship-trust me, I pushed Lana away so many times, because of my secret."
There was a silence, then Oliver confessed, "Since my parents died, I've been so careful about not letting people get close to me, because I'm afraid they'll die, or leave me." His eyes met with Clark's and he asked, "Can you understand that?"
Clark nodded. "Yeah, I can. I had the same fear after my dad died-I even pushed my mum away, and Chloe and Lana and Lois, because I was afraid that I'd loose them, like I lost Dad." He sighed, then added, "Lois has lost a parent, like me, if you tell her that, she'll understand and I'm quite sure that she's in love with you, too."
Once Oliver was at Lois's flat, he suggested that they watched a film and snuggled. They did so and when the film had finished, Lois suddenly whispered, "I love you, Ollie."
Their eyes met and he replied, "I love you too, Lois." He kissed her and she kissed him back, with equal passion and love.
After their kiss ended, Oliver insisted. "I don't want to pressure you into anything, Lois."
"You're not pressuring me into doing anything, Oliver, I love you." She replied and they kissed again, with the knowledge that they loved the other more than they could express with words.