Clark opened the door of his apartment getting the newspaper. It was routine for him to get it, every mourning. Just like he imagined it was for a lot of people. Clark didn't simply read the paper to because he wanted to know what was going on the world, although that was part of it. He read it because he wanted to know what was going on with her. Every mourning he read the Daily to read his best friend's Chloe Sullivian's article in it. In his mind he still called her his best friend, even though they haven't spoke in a month. These were one of the many time that he was grateful for the fact that she was a reporter for the greatest newspaper in the world. He could still know what was going on in Chloe's life. This seemed to be his only connection with Chloe lately. That in it's self was really sad. But he had to respect Chloe's wishes and if this is what it takes for Chloe to be happy then he would do it. He would do what ever it takes to make Chloe happy. He actually had to put physical effort in reminding himself not to routinely go see Chloe or to call her, or send her a text message, or an e-mail; since it always seemed so natural to stay in touch with Chloe. But she wanted them to work on both of their romantic relationships so that's what he was doing. He had taken even more of an effort to work on Lana's and his relationship. So he went out of his way to concoct these elaborate date for Lana. And when ever he had to leave to go save the day he told more information of what he was doing. He let her in his super hero life, mostly. Every now and then when he was called to help the justice league he had told Lana that he was working with this new group of heroes called the justice league. He even told her who they consisted of: Green Arrow, Impulse, Aqua man, and Cyborg. He just left out their secret identities. He explained to her that it wasn't his secret to tell. And she had accepted it. She seemed to be pretty happy with the way things were progressing. He had finally really let her in that is all she always wanted. And Lana is all Clark always wanted and yet there was something missing. Maybe it was the fact that Chloe wasn't in his life and he was missing her.

Every now and then he would walk near the Daily Planet or her apartment and he would be so tempted to use his super hearing and x-ray vision just to see how she was doing but he controlled himself. The one time he did slip up and x-rayed her apartment he had only seen the back of Chloe's head as she was making out with Jimmy.

Clark opened took off the blue plastic wrapping and read the head line of the paper, "The Justice League Saves City" by Chloe Sullivian. Clark's eye balls practically popped out of his sockets. He could not believe this. Chloe had promised him that she would always leave him out of the paper and now she put in the team that he was involved with. Struggling Clark continued to read the article. It had gone into detail how the Justice League had saved the city from a bomb. Clark realized she left some details out, especially the details that were involved with him. He thought he had a key part in saving the city and here she is praising everyone else on the team except for him. Chloe even named names by their code names except for Clark. Clark's mind swam. He didn't understand one why Chloe had not mentioned at least his code name Boy Scout and two how in the world she had gotten all of this information she wasn't there. He had though when she told him that she would no longer see him then she would give up her ties to super heroes as well. After all, all of their super hero activities they did together. Then it suddenly dawned on him, furious he sped away to star city.

Chloe sneaked into the editor's office. She examined the hall way to make sure the coast was clear. So she continued to slink into the office. The editor and chief had gone away to lunch at the same time every day. Chloe was very happy about that. This had been part of her routine during this time to sneak into her boss' office and go through the stories submitted for the next day. She had been doing this ever since Clark moved to metropolis and had made a more active effort in his super hero thing. Chloe was so proud of him for that. But it did cause her to work a little harder in protecting his secret. So she would sneak into her editors office to make sure the editor didn't see anything that would connect him to Clark. During this past month Chloe had treasured this opportunity to go through things and protect Clark's secret. It was also a way to see what Clark has been up to. Another way she kept tabs on Clark was by Oliver Queen he had kept Chloe updated on all of their interactions together ever since he had called her to get Clark's and her help on something and she told him what happened he had offered to keep contact and tell her about Clark. She was grateful for Ollie she really loved hearing about Clark and loved hearing that he was keeping up with his super hero thing.

Chloe was missing Clark like crazy but knew it was for the best. She had to stay away to protect his secret so Jimmy doesn't expect anything. And she realized she was getting in the way of his and Lana's relationship. She didn't want that. All she wanted was for him to be happy and if Lana made him happy then she would do what ever it took on her part to keep him happy.

The steel door to Oliver's office in star city swung open and Clark suddenly appeared what seemed to be out of thin air.

"Oh, don't bother knocking Clark of course you can come in." Oliver said as he arranged the papers that were blown off of his desk.

Clark angrily threw the Daily Planet on Oliver's desk.

Ollie looked at the head line, "The Justice League save City by Chloe Sullivian"

"Oh." Oliver said as he sat down.

"So do you have a problem with this or some thing?" Oliver asked sarcastically.

"How did Chloe know about this?"

"I told her." Oliver said nonchalantly.

"So you admit it."

"I'm not hiding it."

"So why didn't you tell me?"

"You didn't ask until now. Now can I ask you a question?"

Clark sat down staring at the paper.

"Ok."

"What bothers you more the fact that she left your name out of there or the fact that it was Chloe who wrote the article?"

Clark didn't answer.

"Look, Clark I've been waiting for the write moment to come forward and ever since Chloe helped us out that first time I knew she was the reporter to do it. She would reveal us with out revealing too much and protecting us at the same time."

"So is that why she left my name out of it."

"Probably, or it could be it might be awkward with you two not talking and all."

"I guess." Clark said in a sigh.

"Look, Clark may I make a suggestion that put us all out of our misery."

"What's that?" Clark tilted his head up desperate for a suggestion to help this pain go away.

"Dump Lana and get together with Chloe."