Lois, Clark and Jimmy arrived at their hotel late that night checked in and received their room access cards. Lois would have her own room, whereas Clark and Jimmy shared one. But coincidentally, their rooms were beside each other. They walked through the hotel with their luggage, Lois found her room first, inserted her access card and entered the room.
"Would you boys like to come in?" asked Lois.
Clark and Jimmy looked at each other. "Sure," they answered. Lois' room looked spacious and cozy, in the middle of the room was a queen-sized bed and opposite of it was a dressing table. The best part of her room was the balcony. It had a beautiful view of the city.
"It's lovely, plus there's a balcony with a beautiful view," said Lois with delight as she dropped her luggage and ran towards the balcony and enjoyed the cool breeze and the stunning sight of the city. Clark and Jimmy, with a quick glance towards each other, decided to join Lois. As they walked towards the balcony, Jimmy spotted two bottles of champagne in a bucket of ice on the dressing table.
"Look, there's two bottles of champagne," said Jimmy, pointing out where the champagne was.
Lois walked out from the balcony and headed towards the dressing table to have a look at the bottles. She held the bottles in her hand and spotted something with them.
"Look, there's a note," said Lois.
"Who is it from?" asked Clark curiously.
"It's from Perry," replied Lois confused.
"What does it say?"
Lois showed them the note and it read:
Lois, Clark and Jimmy,
Here's something to start your stay off right. I hope you guys enjoy yourselves.
Perry White"I know that it's late, but do you guys want to stay and have a glass of champagne?" asked Lois grinning.
"Sure," replied Clark and Jimmy excitedly.
Lois gave them two empty glasses and tried to open the bottle with a corkscrew.
"Here, let me help you with that," Clark volunteered.
"Thanks," said Lois handing the bottle to Clark.
Clark took the bottle, and with his back turned to the others, used his strength to easily pop the cork out. Unfortunately, the force of Clark opening the bottle caused the champagne to flow up and out. He then joined the others out on the balcony.
"Here let me get that," said Lois as she grabbed a towel and gave it to Clark to wipe up the bottle and the overflowing champagne.
"Why didn't you used the corkscrew?" asked Lois annoyingly.
"This is another trick to open it, besides we're not drinking wine," replied Clark sarcastically.
"Well..."
"Okay, let's drink shall we?" asked Jimmy, holding up his glass to receive some of the champagne.
"Sure," answered Lois and Clark smirking each other.
Clark and Lois grabbed their respective glasses and Clark poured the champagne into each of their glasses.
"To The Daily Planet," toasted Lois raising her glass.
"To The Daily Planet," said Clark and Jimmy as all three of them clinked their glasses and drank their champagne.
"Wow, it sure is beautiful out here," said Jimmy as he felt the cool breeze. He then went inside the room and rummaged through his bag for his camera.
Meanwhile, Lois and Clark remained on the balcony, drinking their champagne and enjoyed the view. Lois glanced up at the sky that was lit by a half moon, as if waiting for something to happen. Clark knew what she was waiting for and the only person that she hoped for was none other than Superman.
"He won't be here," said Clark looking up towards the dark sky.
"How do you know?" Lois asked.
"Because you have two guys here to protect you," replied Clark with a grin.
"You're still jealous of him, aren't you?" asked Lois with a smirk.
"No," replied Clark returning the smirk. They then stood in silence smiling at each other. Clark actually looks kind of handsome dressed up like that, all casual like compared to his regular suit and tie, thought Lois.
"I found it!" said Jimmy joyfully as he walked back outside and began to snap some pictures. "C'mon let's take a group shot."
Lois, Clark and Jimmy took plenty of pictures that night. They sat on the bench on the balcony sipping their champagne talking and laughing throughout the night.
"I remember the last time I spent a night at a hotel was with you, Lois," said Clark trying to recall that day.
"Yeah, but that was because Perry asked us to write that article about that honeymoon scam in Niagara Falls."
"I thought you didn't remember?"
"I didn't, until someone told me but it's funny because I couldn't recall anything from that day."
"Yeah?"
"What happened to you Clark? What did you do for the past five years?"
"Yeah, Clark you haven't talked much about it since you returned," wondered Jimmy curiously.
"I was confused during that time, I didn't know for sure if journalism was my calling so I decided to head back to Smallville and help my mom run the farm for a while," answered Clark as he took another sip from his glass.
Clark continued to talk about his life experiences since he was away. Lois and Jimmy watched Clark intensely, and listened to every detail attentively. After they spent almost the entire night chatting, they decided to go to bed and have a bright start in the morning.
At 9.00 am, the threesome met down in the lobby to grab some breakfast. If it wasn't for last night, they would've woke up earlier. They walked through a restaurant and sat at an empty table in the corner.
"I need to use the bathroom, could you help me order Clark?" asked Lois.
"Sure, what do want?" replied Clark.
"I'll have some pancakes and..."
"...freshly squeezed orange juice?" continued Clark with a grin.
"Oh, Clark you remembered, but I'll have a cup of coffee instead of the juice," replied Lois, surprised that Clark remembered that as she made her way to the bathroom.
After breakfast, they did a little shopping spree. Unfortunately for Clark and Jimmy they had to go along with it because of Lois. While they were walking along various streets in the city, Jimmy took pictures of various buildings and monuments.