Chapter 9

"The meteor rocks came here when I came here" Clark replied "It makes me feel like it is my fault that weird things happen to people"

"I'm sorry you feel that way, now turn right when you can" Sophie said after they had taken the left turning, "It's at the bottom of that road"

Sophie turned her head towards Clark and started wondering what he had meant by his powers, did the meteors change him before he had landed?

"But I actually meant what do you mean about powers?" Sophie asked curiously, before adding "we're here" at the sight of the lake

Clark got out of the pick-up truck and super-sped round to open the door for Sophie

"Whoa, what was that?" Sophie asked

"Oh That?" Clark replied "That's just my super speed, it is nothing really, and I do it all the time"

"You can actually zoom around that fast?" Sophie asked after she climbed out, intrigued

"Well, I can go faster that that actually" Clark replied before he checked to make sure nobody was looking, and super sped to the lake front

"Whoa!" Sophie exclaimed in disbelief "So that's what you meant by powers"

"Actually" Clark said, watching himself twiddling his thumbs, "I can do more than that"

Clark super sped to the truck and locked it, then made sure nobody was spying on them using his x-ray vision. As soon as he was certain they were safe, he picked Sophie up in his arms and super sped over to the side of the lake before setting her down.

"Whoa, how did you manage to lift me?" Sophie asked

"Super Strength" Clark replied before sting down next to her

Sophie soon found herself staring at Clark's torso, wondering how big his muscles must be because of his super strength. She soon realised that Clark was calling her name and returned to reality.

"Sophie!" Clark shouted, putting his hand on her shoulder and getting worried. Sophie soon shook her head to help bring her back to reality.

"Sophie, are you ok?" Clark asked, his hand still on her shoulder, which he soon realised, and moved it. "I saw you looking at my chest and you wouldn't respond to your name"

"Yea" Sophie replied trying to stand up and not fall down from the woozy feeling she just got when she looked at him into his dreamy eyes.

Sophie immediately heard her stomach growl, and judging by the look on his face, Clark had too

"Did you hear that?" Sophie immediately asked

"Yea" Clark replied, fiddling with his thumbs yet again, before looking up "Super hearing"

Clark smiled and caused Sophie to laugh, as she thought Clark was a nice guy, but she couldn't risk revealing her true self.

"So what do you fancy then, you can have anything" Clark asked "What about some of my mum's popular muffins from the talon with a nice Chinese or something?"

"The only ready-cooked food around here are burgers and stuff, but they are half way to Metropolis" Sophie replied

"I could go and get them in a matter of minutes unless you want them fresh from the butchers" Clark replied

"Ok, but how will we cook them?" Sophie asked

"You will find out in about five minutes" Clark replied before zooming off to get muffins from the Talon, hoping that Lana was not there. Seconds later Clark arrived at the Talon, and the first person he saw was Lana.

"Clark" Lana shouted, walking towards him.

Clark ran out of the Talon so fast that Clark had arrived at his house before Lana had even got out from behind the counter.

"Mum!" Clark shouted

"Hey son, where's Sophie?" Jonathan asked

"She's in the pick-up at the Talon" Clark lied, he had not told his parents that he had told Sophie "I went in to get some of Mum's muffins, but Lana was in there"

Martha walked over to Clark and Jonathan

"No need to worry, sweetie" Martha said, pointing at the kitchen table "I just made some fresh ones; you can take some of them"

"Thanks mom" Clark said before kissing his mom on the cheek, grabbing four muffins and a baking tray and speeding out of the door. Seconds later Clark arrived at the butchers where he got four fresh beef burgers and four plain rolls. When he got outside, he made sure the coast was clear, and then ran back to where Sophie was waiting. Only five minutes had passed

Clark put down the baking tray and put the burgers on it cooking them with his heat vision, after he said "Bon Appétit"