Chapter 6

Clark's Day

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Clark's POV

I ran into the Torch just as the bell rang.

"Punctual Clark Kent strikes again." I heard Chloe say though she didn't look up from her computer.

"Sorry Chloe, I had to walk Lana to class." I told her with a smile knowing that would make her look up.

"Why? Did Whitney break his-- WHAT HAPPENED CLARK?!!" She practically screamed as she saw my face.

"What? Oh you mean my face?" I asked sarcastically.

"No, I mean the fact that you're wearing a new shirt. YES You're face!" Chloe retorted now looking very upset.

I then told Chloe about the night before. By the time I was done telling her I swear her eyes were as big as a UFO.

"Oh my God Clark! Do you think he'll try anything worse to try and get Lana back?" She asked worry very obvious on her face.

I sighed, "I don't know. Right now Lana and I are happy with each other and that's all that matters to me. Whitney will have to kill me before I let him take Lana away from me."

Chloe nodded as she sat back down and started typing on her computer again. "Yeah well don't say that too loud or he may take you up on that offer." she said glancing at me with a very serious look on her face.

"Don't worry Chloe, I'm not gonna let him have that opportunity." I told her as I turned on the computer to start my Current Events article for that months' newspaper.

"Oh shoot!" Chloe said all of the sudden.

"What is it?" I asked as I typed out the club announcements.

"I forgot to interview the basketball coach about the teams' plan for state and now I don't have anytime to go interview him before the end of the day. I still need to finish this article and it's gonna take the rest of the period to just finish this." She said obviously heading towards what I like to call "Chloe Meltdown Mode."

"Hey Chloe, don't freak, I'll go do the interview for you. I'm done with my part of the paper anyways so I need something to do for the rest of the period." I say as I stuff my notebook back into my backpack.

She looked at me with her huge grin and her whole face lit up. "Clark you are such a lifesaver. OK, I already wrote down the questions so it shouldn't be too difficult." she said as she handed me her interview notebook. "And please don't take the whole period. We do have a deadline Clark." She reminded me as I headed for the door.

I turned to her smiling. "Chloe, I may be late to most things but have I ever missed a deadline?"

She sat there and thought for a second. "No I guess not. Sorry Clark but you know I go into freak out mode for the whole week before deadline." She said with a sad smile. I knew she didn't like doing it but when she did enter her "freak out mode" it made me feel she would be a great reporter someday.

"It's not a problem Chlo. Besides, it amuses me." I said with a smile. As I shut the door I heard her stress ball hit the door. I smiled because I knew that ball was meant to hit me. 'Gotta love that Sullivan' I thought as I headed to the gym.

20 minutes later

"Well thanks for taking the time out to do the interview Coach." I said as I put Chloe's notebook in my backpack.

"Not a problem Kent. Anything for The Talon." Coach said with a big smile on his face.

"Well, I better get this back to Chloe so we can get the paper in today." I said as I waved bye to Coach and headed out the door.

I got out to the gym when all of the sudden someone pushed me onto the floor. When I fell my lip split back open. I could tell because there was now blood on the floor. Suddenly I felt myself being picked up by my arms. When I got a chance to look I saw two of the football team, one on each side of me, carrying me out of the gym. I didn't dare ask what was going on. That would probably just get me a punch in the stomach. When we got to the doors I saw a third team member standing there waiting to open the door. When he did I wasn't that surprised to see who was waiting outside on the blacktop.

"I told you this wasn't over Kent." Whitney said as his teammates threw me on the ground.

"Whitney, can't you just let it go?" I asked as I stood up.

"Hmm, let me think about that." He said as he looked like he was seriously thinking about it for a second. "No way Kent!" He practically yelled at me before punching me in the face.

As he punched me I could tell that my cheek was already bruised because when he hit it, it hurt like hell. I tried fighting back but I was still weak from the night before. I got in a few good punches before Whitney punched me in the stomach making me double over in pain. When I did I felt him punch the back of my neck making by body collapse. Whitney took advantage of this and started kicking me in the stomach and back. Then he suddenly stopped. I brought my head up from the concrete wondering what happened. Then I looked where Whitney was staring and saw the football coach standing there. The look on his face was obviously pissed off.

"Fordman, Kent, principal's office now." He said never changing his expression.

I stood up, coughing from getting the wind knocked out of me, and followed Whitney and the coach to the principal's office.

"Sit here for a few minutes." the coach told me and Whitney as he knocked on the principals' door and went in. As I sat there I wondered what kind of punishment we would get. Before I could imagine anything too horrible the coach came back out of the office.

"OK boys, the principal want to see you both at the same time. And Fordman, I will talk to you today at practice about this understand?" The coach said as we stood up and headed into the office. Whitney didn't say anything, he just nodded and walked into the office.

"Take a seat boys, I'll be with you in a minute." The principal said as he finished typing something on his computer. When he finished typing he turned his chair to look at us. "OK boys, I'm gonna ask to hear both side of your stories and then I'll make a decision understand?" He asked.

We both nodded to let him know we understood. He turned to me and said "Kent, why don't we start with you? I noticed when you came in this morning you looked pretty beat up. So why don't you tell me what happened starting with last night.

I looked as Whitney a little uneasy before I explained what had happened from last night up to when the coach found me and Whitney outside. When I finished telling him everything he just sighed, and dropped and shook his head. Then he looked up at Whitney and asked him "Whitney is this true?"

Whitney opened his mouth to say something but then shut it and just nodded his head. The principal sat back in his chair and rubbed his forehead as he thought about what to do next. After a few minutes he leaned back forward putting his forearms on the desk, took a deep breath and looked at the both of us.

"Well boys, as you know, as the principal I have to punish you both for fighting on school grounds. So Clark, I'm giving you 2 weeks of in school suspension and 2 weeks of community service. You will serve the suspension first. Then when those 2 weeks are up you will start your community service understand?" he said.

I nodded my head knowing that even if I wanted to argue it would be futile.

After I nodded he looked at Whitney.

"Whitney, I'm afraid I'm going to have to make your punishment more severe than Clarks' because of the fact that you started both of the fights. You will also be serving 2 weeks of in school suspension followed by 2 weeks of community service. I also have to suspend you from the rest of the football games and we will have to revoke the scholarship that you got. Do you understand?" he asked.

Whitney hung his head as he slowly nodded. I couldn't help but feel sorry for him right now. His whole future just went down the drain.

"OK boys, you can head back to class now. Come back at the end of the day and I'll give you the papers for your suspensions and community service."

I nodded as we stood up. The principal went back to what he was typing on the computer as we opened the door and left. I wanted to tell Whitney I was sorry to hear about the scholarship but he left the office before I could say anything. I just sighed and ran back to the Talon office before the period ended and I got the wrath of Chloe added to all of this.

I walked in and handed Chloe her notebook. She barely looked up as she took it from me. "Thank you Clark, you're like my own personal superman." She said as she opened the sports file on her computer.

"Not a problem Chloe." I said as I sat down in front of my computer. I closed my eyes and just sat there as I listened to her frantic typing. After about 10 minutes I noticed the typing had stopped. I opened my eyes to see her clicking on things. 'She must be finishing the outline of the paper.' I thought as I looked at the clock. There were 5 minutes left in this period. We we're gonna make the deadline. Just barely, but we we're still gonna make it. I decided to tell Chloe we only had 5 minutes, knowing the reaction was gonna be good. She always freaked when I told her we had less than 10 minutes left in the deadline.

I was just about to say something when her face lit up and she smiled as she clicked 'SEND' on her computer. She then sat back in her chair and let out a huge sigh. She then looked at the clock and her grin got bigger. Yeah it freaked her out when I told her we had 5 minutes but she felt like she was on top of the world when she had a last minute deadline. Yet another reason I could see her being a great reporter one day. The bell rang and I got out of the room before she had a chance to see my new cuts and bruises.

I walked fast to my next period. Government was my least favorite subject this semester. About half way through the class my chest started to hurt. I figured it was probably just from the exhaustion of getting my butt kicked twice so I ignored it. About 5 minutes later the pain got alot worse. I decided I would go see the nurse and make sure everything was fine. So I raised my hand and asked the teacher if I could be excused. He nodded and gave me the hall pass as I walked up to him and out to the nurses office. I just hoped and prayed that it wasn't anything to worry about. My parents we're already worried about Mike. The last thing they needed was for something to be wrong with me. I knocked on the nurses door.

"Come on in." I heard her say.

I opened the door and walked in, still hoping everything would be ok.

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