"What?" Clark asked shocked.

Then he continued, "You have got to be kidding me."

" Clark. I'm serious. Just here me out ok. Lately I've been feeling..."

"Lana, this isn't about you. It's between Jimmy and Chloe."

"No, it's about all four of us. And in particularly it's about you and Chloe."

Clark was about to protest again but Lana tarried on, "Look you and Chloe have grown into this amazing pair. You're two best friends that have your own special world that it seems like no one can be a part of. For the longest time all I wanted was for you to let me in. And even now that I know your secret I am still out of the loop. And I am sure Jimmy feels the same way if not more so since he doesn't know your secret."

"Lana..." Clark said then Lana interrupted again,

"Look, Clark, I know you care a lot about Chloe. And if you really want her to be happy with someone else then..." Lana paused for moment and then looked at Clark's injured expression.

" Clark, any relationship with out honesty is doomed to fail. And since Chloe is always going to lie for you , you've doomed her from having an open, honest, and healthy relationship with anyone."

Clark stepped back a bit, this last part hit him hard. He never wanted to doom Chloe. He wanted her to be happy he really did.

"I didn't totally doom her I mean, she and Jimmy were fine before..."

"Oh, come on, Clark are you telling me that your secret has never caused a rift between Jimmy and Chloe before?"

Clark couldn't deny it, it has. But when it did he had fixed it and Chloe and Jimmy got back together. He had to fix this too. All he wanted was for Chloe to be happy. But then it hit him. If he gave her permission to tell Jimmy, then they wouldn't have their own little secret anymore. They really wouldn't be hiding it from anyone, anymore, besides the general public. After he told Lana he was afraid things would change between him and Chloe and no matter how hard he tried keep their previous relationship the same, it had changed, and everything around them were trying to pull Chloe and him apart.

"You're right Lana, my secret has caused a rift between them before. But this is not your descion to make, I need to talk to Chloe."

"Of course." Lana said.

Chloe sat on the table leaning her elbow on the fine black linen table cloth and stared at the two carefully set plates and fine silver ware. Chloe sighed at the silver candle holders in thet middle of the table with wax melted close to the bottom. This did not make Chloe feel any better. It looked like Lana had a speacil evening planned with Clark and Chloe was off at the movies with him instead. No wonder Lana blew up on her. Chloe was starving but she couldn't bear to eat the meal that Lana had planned for Clark and her. So she sat there hunched over, her head leaning onto her hand. Chloe could not believe her night. Things were starting to look up with Clark. They finally had gotten a chance to spend some quality time together and what does she get for just having some fun with best friend? She gets yelled at by her other best friend and caught by her boyfriend. When she tried to brush off what he heard Lana and her talk about, she could tell that couldn't completely believe her. She didn't know what to do. She would die before revealing Clark's secret. She would always protect it, no matter what.

Clark came into the dinning room by himself Chloe scooted her self up.

"So what's the verdict?"

"What do you mean?" Clark said nonchalantly as he took a seat.

"I know you and Lana were talking about me, so what did you talk about?"

"Well, Lana wants me to give you permission to go ahead and tell Jimmy everything about me?"

Chloe jumped up startled, "What? Everything as in..."

"As in my alien heritage."

" Clark don't you think that is a little drastic? You don't agree with her do you?"

Clark sat silent for a moment, Chloe waited for his answer with bated breath.

"I don't know. She told me that I doomed you from having a healthy relationship with anyone. Is that true? Did I doom you?"

Chloe grazed a hand on her damp cheek and said, " Clark, I'm not doomed. I mean is a doctor doomed when he can't tell his wive all of his paitents details?"

"I guess not Chloe, but this is different. This is effecting Jimmy's and your relationship. I don't want to doom you. So if you really feel like you can trust Jimmy then I can trust him."

" Clark, no." Chloe said folding her arms.

"I told you that I would never tell anyone your secret."

"I know that Chloe but I just want to see you happy and if Jimmy is who makes you happy then I don't want to be a roadblock to that happiness."

Chloe was touched she gave him a smile and then she said, " Clark I appreciate the gesture. It's good to know that you want to make me happy, but Jimmy is an ambitious photo journalist and you two aren't exactly the best of friends. Clark it took us a long time for us to get where we are today. It took me some hard lessons of seeing my curiosity getting the best of me and straightens out my priorities to put my friends first. Jimmy's great and if I ask him to look the other way I'm pretty sure he would do it, but...I'm not a hundred percent certain."

"So what are you going to do?"

Chloe breathed out, "Maybe I over-reacted about Jimmy knowing something is up. I mean I did explain it to him. That should be the end of it."

Clark nodded weakily.

"Yeah, maybe."

Then Chloe sighed and reluctantly spoke, " Clark, did you and Lana have plans tonight?"

"What? No, I don't think so…" Then he looked at the table, and said, "Oh, no."

"You told Lana you were just meeting me, right?"

"Um…I figured it was implied."

" Clark, did you give Lana a reason to think there was something between us?"

"Look, I didn't think so, but she just told me that maybe I did because I don't tell her every detail of my life, well in particularly my super hero life."

" Clark, maybe it's best if you keep me out of it, for a while." Chloe said sadness expressed through out her face.

"What do you mean?" Clark asked in fear.

"I mean maybe we should stay away from each other. Concentrate on our significant others just for a little while, until we fix things." Chloe said tears embedded with in her eyes.