A/N: Thank you again to everyone reading. I hope you all are doing well. Are you celebrating Halloween? I am. I am making my costume still. Time is ticking. Have a great day my fanfiction friends.

Chapter 7

Chloe POV

I pretty much spent the whole day sleeping. After spending all night up with Clark and before that having the fight with Pete, I was spent. I fell asleep around 6am and then woke up at noon. I am still feeling sleepy, but I am so anxious for my date with Clark tonight that I really can't sleep anymore.

Since sleep is evading me I decide to work on some leads I have for an article I am working on. First I grab a quick shower and put on some jeans and a v-neck shirt. Just something to lounge around in until I have to get ready for tonight. I get some coffee and go over to my computer and power it up. I open my email and open the encrypted documents I sent to myself and start researching some more on the brown outs Metropolis has been seeing as of late. Brown outs are not that uncommon, but lately they have all been happening at weird times and all around different research labs. I just want to look into it. Then I see on TOP NEWS section of the web page I am on that Clark is on it. Well it is Clark, but it looks more like a robber doing good. I smile to myself. There Clark is dressed up jeans and long sleeve t-shirt, but with a ski mask over his face. He is being called "The Masked Avenger", which seriously cracks me up. I start laughing at the article and the nonsense they are saying about him and then I start reading the comments on the article.

Comments-

TheGrim: This guy is scary. I don't like that he just runs into danger and does all this crap. Seems to me that he is after something.

Cheeeeester: I wish I could do half of that.

CityDweller: Brown nose.

SinfullySinthia: Look at that body. I hope I am in danger very soon and MR. MASK is there to help me.

MetroBALL: Is this really news. Some loony putting himself in danger. Let's just ignore him and hopefully he will just go away.

There were more comments, but all them said more or less the same thing in different variations. I wonder if Clark has seen this yet. Probably not. If he is lucky, he is still sleeping. I glance at the time on my computer and see it is 5:30. Well that took up some time, but not enough. I shut my laptop and then go over to my couch and plop down. I flip on the television, but nothing is on. Figures. I turn on my Netflix and start a movie I have seen a hundred times and find myself nodding off.

I awake to a knocking on the door. I jump up quickly and fall over my coffee table. I fall over it and land on the other side. Really knocking my shin into it.

"CHLOE?!"

"I am fine Clark." I say from the floor, rubbing my leg.

"What's going on?" Clark asks a little more calm on the other side of the door.

I get up and limp over to the door. I glance out of the peep hole, just in case, and I see Clark. I open the door and Clark looks at my state. I then look down at myself. I am completely crumpled and I can only imagine what my hair must look like. No makeup, no nice clothes, and looking horrid.

"Did you forget we had a date tonight?" Clark asks looking awkward.

"No." I say trying to straighten myself by pushing my clothes down and then trying to push my hand threw my hair. My hand then gets caught in a tangle and I have to rip my hand out of my hair.

Clark smiles at me. "Fall asleep?"

"Yeah." I say guiltily. I glance over at my clock and it is 7:45. "You are 15 minutes early, so I could have been ready."

"Sure."

Then I realize he is still just standing outside of my door. "Come in, come in. Sorry about the mess." I say pointing towards the coffee table where all my magazines and coasters are in the floor. "You startled me and I fell over my table."

"Are you okay?" Clark asks and turns right back into me. Not realizing I was so close he almost runs me over. He grabs my upper arms to keep my from falling again.

There is this charged moment between us and I reply. "Yeah...Fine. Just a bump on the shin." I breath out.

He glances down at my leg and then smiles. "Yeah it looks like it is good. Going to bruise probably, but nothing is broken."

His joke stops the moment. "Don't just look through my clothes." I smile.

"I make no promises." Clark says smiling back.

"So what should I wear on this date tonight?" I look at what Clark is wearing for the first time tonight. Clark is wearing dark blue jeans, blue button down dress shirt and then just a jacket.

"Just casual tonight. Nothing fancy." Clark replies.

"Okay. I will just run up to my room and get ready real quick and then be back down. Me being late isn't going to make us late for anything is it?" I ask worried that I am ruining his date.

"No. Whatever time will be fine." Clark assures.

I run up to my room. I leave the jeans on that I put on this morning, but it is chilly outside so I put on a green long sleeve t-shirt. I put on some tennis shoes and then brush out my hair and put just a little bit of makeup on. I am done with everything within half a hour. I go back downstairs and Clark is just waiting on the couch, but I notice he has picked up all the stuff I knocked into the floor.

"Thanks for picking that stuff up for me. Is this okay?" I ask looking down at my clothes.

"You look wonderful and that will be perfect."

Clark and I head out. I lock up when we get outside and then we start walking down the side walk.

"Do you mind walking tonight?" Clark asks.

"No, walking will be fine."

"Good." Clark says smiling down at me.

We walk for a while and he reaches over and takes my hand. I see him watching my face to see if this is okay and it really is okay. I enjoy the feel of Clark being close and just knowing he is there with me is nice.

"So where are we going?" I ask curiously.

"To the fair." Clark answers.

"Really?" I say kind of excited. "I haven't been to a fair since I was probably a sophomore in high school."

"Yeah I figured it had been a while for you too. I am in the same boat. I saw them putting it up yesterday and thought it would be a fun time." Clark explains.

I can see the lights getting brighter. The closer we get the more I am getting excited. We go into the park area that they have the fair/carnival set up and Clark pays for our admission in. We start by going on a couple of the smaller rides. It is really fun and both of laugh the whole time. The lines aren't that bad either, because of the late hour, most of the people are leaving with their kids. After riding on the rides we play a couple of the games and have some cotton candy. Clark wins me a stuffed moose by knocking down some tin cans with a ball. I win him a harmonica at the duck pond.

"You want a corn dog?" Clark asks looking over at the food vendor.

"Yes. I am starving."

I sit down on the picnic table and Clark goes over to get us some food. Clark walks over to me and sets me down a corn dog and a coke. He then places a huge thing of butterfly potatoes with cheese on it between us to share.

After we finish eating, Clark picks up all our trash and throws it away in the nearest garbage can.

"So you want to do one more thing before we head out of here?" Clark asks me.

"What do you have in mind? I am not sure I can do the Stomach Twister again."

"Would you ride the Ferris Wheel with me?"

"Yeah. That would be perfect."

We go over to the Ferris Wheel and get right on. We are put into the seat and the bar comes down over us. I am not too afraid of heights and Clark isn't either, but it was nice just sitting with him and looking over Metropolis. On the third pass around we get stopped close to the top.

"The town looks so peaceful." I murmur mostly to myself.

"It really has been peaceful all night, which is nice for me." Clark says back.

"It is beautiful up here."

"Yeah it is." Clark agrees and I look over at him and he is just staring at me. I can't help but to blush.

"Cheese ball." I say to him.

I turn my head to look back over the side. Then I feel Clark's hand on my cheek and he gently pulls my face back so I am looking at him. Then he leans down and places a gentle kiss on my lips. It is so sweet and perfect. When Clark and I pull apart I look at him and smile and he is looking back at me smiling back.

When we get off the Ferris Wheel we leave the fair. On the walk home Clark drapes his jacket over my shoulders and I lean into him and hold hands.

We get back to my doorstep and Clark walks me to my door. I kiss him this time. I realize I am not tensing with Clark and it is such a relief.

"See you later Chloe." Clark says. "Goodnight."

"Goodnight Clark." I say back and head into my house.