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Martha and Jonathan pull up in front of Lana's house and run out of the car, Jonathan pounds on the door as though hoping he could stall them or something.
"It's Mom and Dad." Clark tells Crystal
"Uh oh. I'll get it." Crystal gets up and opens the door.
"Crystal!" Martha exclaims
"Did you two…..?" Jonathan asks
Crystal opens the door wider and Jonathan and Martha see Clark and Lana standing in the background looking worried.
"I'm sorry we didn't have a choice." Crystal tells them
"Crys, open the door." Jonathan says
Crystal goes to unlock it. "Wait." She stops "How mad are you two?"
"Crystal, unlock it now." Martha sighs
"So is that very mad or…..?"
"Crys-"
"OK, OK I can take a hint." Crystal unlocks the door.
"So the strongest man in the world is scared of his parents?" Lana jokes softly
"You better believe it." Clark smiles gripping her hand
"Sit down all of you." Jonathan instructs
"Mr. Kent, I swear I won't ever say anything to anyone, I understand the seriousness of this." Lana says before he says anything else.
"I'm glad you do, it just seems that my children don't understand the seriousness of it."
"Dad that's not fair" Crystal jumps in standing up
"Crystal sit down."
"No, you have to listen, yea so Clark is different in this major way, but he's still a person and he has feelings and all that, you can't expect him not to say anything to anyone ever."
"What about you? Does that mean you'll never ever tell anyone?" Martha asks
"This isn't about me." Crystal replies softly "You have to see this from Clark's point of view."
"And you have to see this from our point of view." Jonathan tells her
"What's done is done, we can't erase that past, and if we could I would do it all over again." Clark says jumping into the conversation. "I have no regrets."
"Jonathan they're right, what's done is done, we'll make it through this we always do."
"Yea I guess we will." Jonathan replies rubbing his head. "You all understand you can never tell anyone else right?"
"Yes." They all agree
"Good, then we'll see you two for dinner tonight." Jonathan and Martha get up and leave.
"Is that why you disappear so much?" Lana asks "Cause you're always helping someone?"
Clark smiles and nods
"Looks like I need to correct a few pages in my diary…..but then that may be a bad idea huh? Putting it into writing?" Lana smiles "Well at least I know it wasn't me."
"It was always about you. I wanted to spend every moment I could with you and I always kept getting interrupted" Clark says putting his arms around her.
"It's good to know." Lana answers happily
"I've got to go." Crystal gets up "Don't worry I'm not going to spread the news or anything." She smiles weakly and leaves Lana's house
"I'm still worried about her. She's so attached to her past, and she can't move on." Lana tells Clark
"I am too, but she'll deal with it in her own way. For now it's just us." Clark smiles leaning in for a kiss
Lana smiles and kisses him back. "You're bad Clark Kent."
"You have on idea." Clark says kissing her again.
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Crystal looks up at the gates leading to the Luther mansion. She presses the button and it allows her to enter. The door opens and she steps into the house, giving her coat to the guy who answered the door.
"Crystal? To what do I owe the pleasure?" Lex asks greeting her. "Can I get you something to drink?"
"No thanks. I- I was in the neighborhood"
"It's a long way off from your house." Lex replies
"Yea I know." Crystal looks down
"Did you get a ride out here? We didn't have plans did we, because I don't remember-"
"No, I took the bus, it stops fairly close to here." Crystal cuts in "Sorry I didn't mean to just barge in like this, I should probably-"
Lex grabs her hand and softly pulls her closer to him. "Your welcome here anytime." He smiles softly
Crystal smiles a half smile in return "I'm sorry I'm such a mess."
"Don't think twice about it." Lex assures her, seeing that she is he changes the subject "It's been a while since I've seen or heard from you."
"A lot of has been going on, with my family" Crystal takes a deep breath "I had to go to Tom's house today." Lex cringes slightly at the mention of Tom's name. "He left some things for me, I left it all there though, except for a tape he left me. He talked about our past and well it was hard to hear his voice, he sounded so different. I'm sorry you don't want to be hearing this."
"Hey, anything that concerns you, concerns me. And it's ok to feel scred or upset especially with something like this."
"His funeral is tomorrow."
"I'll be there."
"You're so good to me." Crystal smiles wiping her eyes
"Only the best for you. I don't know if it's rushing it, but I wanted to know if you would like to go out the night after the funeral. I know it's soon but-"
"I would like too" Crystal accepts remembering Tom's advice for her to move on.
"Great, how about a ride home then? I don't want you taking the bus."
"All right thanks, you have no idea what you mean to me."
"The same goes for you." Lex smiles "Come on let's go."
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"Thanks for the ride." Crystal leans over and kisses Lex before getting out of the car.
"I'll see you tomorrow." Lex tells her
"All right" She replies softly
"I'm not going to let you go through this alone, we're in this together." Lex assures her and she smiles and she shuts the door. Lex waits for her to get into her house and he pulls away.
"Was that Lex?" Clark asks when Crystal gets inside
"You scared me!" Crystal exclaims
"Sorry."
"I didn't tell him Clark, don't worry."
Clark smiles "Where did you get that idea?"
"From your face maybe." Crystal smiles
"So, are you ready for tomorrow? I mean…"
"I'll manage somehow. I always do." Crystal answers "I can't dwell in the past, he's gone."
"I'm glad you found Lex, that you have someone you care about."
"Yea me too." Crystal smiles weakly and goes up to her room.
"Hey Clark." Martha walks in with Jonathan
"Hey." Clark replies looking down.
"Don't beat yourself up over it, his death couldn't of been helped and just imagine if he had hurt more people, or even your sister." Jonathan says
"She looks so happy, then it's gone in a second. It follows her everywhere." Clark tells them
"Clark, I know your worried, but it will pass in time, I've heard you telling Lana countless times to give it time. Take your own advice." Martha says softly
"What about you two? I mean how does it make you feel seeing her go through this."
"Helpless." Jonathan says sitting down. "I watch her everyday, trying to act like she's fine, when she isn't. She wont talk about it to us, but I am glad she talks to you and Lana even Lex about it."
"We want her to talk, that's how she'll get better, and she is willing to talk to you. So just listen, and that's what we'll do if she comes to us." Martha adds
"So that's it? Listen?" Clark asks
"Unfortunately there's no superpower to heal a torn heart." Jonathan says.
"Yea." Clark sighs. "I'm going to go to bed. I need to get sleep."
"That's a good idea." Martha nods watching Clark leave. "Both of them are hurting so much, and Lana you can see it in her face too."
"It's not easy for any of them but at least they're in it together."
"You're right. Well we've got a big day ahead of us tomorrow." Martha says
"And we're leaving the day after"
"Do you think it's a good idea?" Martha asks
"I think it may give them all the time and space they need to work this out." Jonathan assures her "Don't worry, it'll be fine."
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Crystal leans over and shuts off her alarm when it went off, she had been awake for over an hour already. She got up slowly and showered. She felt dizzy and nauseous as she starts to get dressed. She pulled on a long black sweater over her black dress. She put on some make-up but skipped the mascara, she'd be wiping it off soon anyway. She looks up when she hears a knock. Lana comes in and sits on Crystal's bed, Lana's in similar attire. Lana doesn't say anything and waits for Crystal as she pulls her shoes on.
When they go downstairs Crystal sees Nel, Lex, her parents and Clark already there. They all get into their cars and go to the funeral home.
When they walk inside, Lana grips onto Crystal hand and brings her over to Tom's casket. "Want me to leave?" Lana whispers
Crystal shakes her head "No."
"You don't have to go over there."
"Yea I do." Crystal whispers
Lex and Clark take a seat in the back, Clark notices Whitney along with a few of some of the other guys from the team approaching the casket. All of them trying to keep their cool.
The Kents, and Nel were talking to some of Tom's family, who looked distraught in another room.
"Hi Lana, Crystal." Whitney says in a hushed voice as they neared the front of the line of people paying their respects.
Crystal eyes widened when she saw Tom, she scrunched her eyes shut "I can't do…" She trailed off as her knees start to buckle underneath her.
Whitney grabs hold of her and steadies her, he and Lana walk Crystal outside.
"I'm sorry" Crystal apologizes as she sits down on a bench.
"Don't worry about it, didn't really want to be in there anyway." Whitney smiles
"None of us do." Lana adds "Thanks for your help Whitney."
"No problem, actually I wanted to tell you that I have on hard feelings. I understand your breaking up with me. I want to stay friends though, I know it probably wont happen but I at least wanted to part on good terms or better terms then we had parted on last time."
"That would be nice." Lana says and gives Whitney a hug before he left them alone.
"That was big of him." Crystal says glancing at Lana. "Are you all right?"
"I think, that sometimes I have it harder then you do. Whitney is still around it's like I could go back to him at anytime." Lana says tearing up
"Do you want to?"
"No."
"We're going to make it past this right?"
"At least we're in this together." Lana smiles
"Every day, we get another chance." Crystal says "We have to look at the road we're going to walk on, instead of the road already traveled."
"You're right, but it's easier"
"said then done I know." Crystal smiles
Lana laughs "Not everything has changed."
"No, I mean I'm sure Chloe will want to cover this in the paper and add it"
"to the wall of weird? I know I saw it. Well at least I wont be alone on it." Lana smiles
"That's what best friends are for."
"So do you want to go back inside?" Lana asks
"No. I've said good-bye. It's time to move on."
"Yea, me too." Lana agrees.
Clark and Lex stand back in the shadows they had went to look for them when they noticed their absence, they heard the entire conversation. "Looks like things are going to start looking up." Clark smiles
"That they do." Lex agrees, looking at Crystal.
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"Where's the tickets?" Martha yells to Jonathan
"In the drawer on the left." Jonathan yells back. "Where's my suit?"
"Packed. I packed it this morning." Martha replies
"You're going somewhere?" Crystal asks joined by Clark the next morning.
"You're father's brother is having an adults only family reunion. You two will be on your own for a few days." Martha says searching the drawer. "Jonathan I can't find the-"
"Here." Clark grabs them out of another drawer.
Martha laughs "Thank you Clark. I hope you guys don't mind us leaving and telling you on such short notice."
"Don't worry about it." Crystal assures her "We'll be fine."
"Good, cause we leave in a few hours. OK so I left money on the table, the phone numbers you'll need on in the top right drawer on the counter and don't do anything you both know is wrong ok? "Martha asks in a rush
"Go pack, we wont do anything wrong. Everything will be great." Clark replies
"OK, good, well I need to finish packing." Martha hurries off.
Clark and Crystal laugh when she's gone. "She looks frantic!" Crystal exclaims laughing.
"Dad sounds the same." Clark answers "This is great we got the house to ourselves."
"I know, I can't believe it!" Crystal smiles
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"It looks like your parents are in a rush." Lex says stepping into Crystal's doorway.
"Did you just get here? Yea they're going away for the weekend, my uncle is having some family reunion thing but the invitation wasn't extended to Clark and I."
"What a shame."
"Actually I think we lucked out."
"How long are they going to be gone?"
"Two days maybe three depends." Crystal shrugs "Where are we going tonight?"
"That would be a surprise."
"That's not fair."
"Life. Isn't fair." Lex says sitting on her bed and pulling her close.
"My parents are still here you know." Crystal smiles
"Not for long." Lex grins
"Clark! Crystal! We're leaving." Jonathan yells
"I'll be right back, I have to say good-bye." Crystal gets up.
"I'll be waiting." Lex smiles
Lex looks around Crystal's room and spotted a tape recorder on her night stand, he realizes it must contain the tape from Tom in it. Lex rewinds it and plays it back. He looks confused and thoughtful when it's over. He places it back on the nightstand. "What are you hiding Clark Kent?" As Lex looks as the Kents pull out of their driveway
Crystal stands wide-eyed in the doorway, she steps back and takes a deep breath and opens the door all the way smiling. "Hey there, we've got the house to ourselves now."
"Perfect." Lex makes his way over to Crystal and kisses her. "Are you all right?"
"Never better." Crystal replies softly her heart pounding, she momentarily forgot about Lex hearing the tape, as she gets lost in the moment.
All right to be continued….lol I'm cruel, I'm making you wait for another chapter but it will be up soon I promise. Please R&R
Martha and Jonathan pull up in front of Lana's house and run out of the car, Jonathan pounds on the door as though hoping he could stall them or something.
"It's Mom and Dad." Clark tells Crystal
"Uh oh. I'll get it." Crystal gets up and opens the door.
"Crystal!" Martha exclaims
"Did you two…..?" Jonathan asks
Crystal opens the door wider and Jonathan and Martha see Clark and Lana standing in the background looking worried.
"I'm sorry we didn't have a choice." Crystal tells them
"Crys, open the door." Jonathan says
Crystal goes to unlock it. "Wait." She stops "How mad are you two?"
"Crystal, unlock it now." Martha sighs
"So is that very mad or…..?"
"Crys-"
"OK, OK I can take a hint." Crystal unlocks the door.
"So the strongest man in the world is scared of his parents?" Lana jokes softly
"You better believe it." Clark smiles gripping her hand
"Sit down all of you." Jonathan instructs
"Mr. Kent, I swear I won't ever say anything to anyone, I understand the seriousness of this." Lana says before he says anything else.
"I'm glad you do, it just seems that my children don't understand the seriousness of it."
"Dad that's not fair" Crystal jumps in standing up
"Crystal sit down."
"No, you have to listen, yea so Clark is different in this major way, but he's still a person and he has feelings and all that, you can't expect him not to say anything to anyone ever."
"What about you? Does that mean you'll never ever tell anyone?" Martha asks
"This isn't about me." Crystal replies softly "You have to see this from Clark's point of view."
"And you have to see this from our point of view." Jonathan tells her
"What's done is done, we can't erase that past, and if we could I would do it all over again." Clark says jumping into the conversation. "I have no regrets."
"Jonathan they're right, what's done is done, we'll make it through this we always do."
"Yea I guess we will." Jonathan replies rubbing his head. "You all understand you can never tell anyone else right?"
"Yes." They all agree
"Good, then we'll see you two for dinner tonight." Jonathan and Martha get up and leave.
"Is that why you disappear so much?" Lana asks "Cause you're always helping someone?"
Clark smiles and nods
"Looks like I need to correct a few pages in my diary…..but then that may be a bad idea huh? Putting it into writing?" Lana smiles "Well at least I know it wasn't me."
"It was always about you. I wanted to spend every moment I could with you and I always kept getting interrupted" Clark says putting his arms around her.
"It's good to know." Lana answers happily
"I've got to go." Crystal gets up "Don't worry I'm not going to spread the news or anything." She smiles weakly and leaves Lana's house
"I'm still worried about her. She's so attached to her past, and she can't move on." Lana tells Clark
"I am too, but she'll deal with it in her own way. For now it's just us." Clark smiles leaning in for a kiss
Lana smiles and kisses him back. "You're bad Clark Kent."
"You have on idea." Clark says kissing her again.
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Crystal looks up at the gates leading to the Luther mansion. She presses the button and it allows her to enter. The door opens and she steps into the house, giving her coat to the guy who answered the door.
"Crystal? To what do I owe the pleasure?" Lex asks greeting her. "Can I get you something to drink?"
"No thanks. I- I was in the neighborhood"
"It's a long way off from your house." Lex replies
"Yea I know." Crystal looks down
"Did you get a ride out here? We didn't have plans did we, because I don't remember-"
"No, I took the bus, it stops fairly close to here." Crystal cuts in "Sorry I didn't mean to just barge in like this, I should probably-"
Lex grabs her hand and softly pulls her closer to him. "Your welcome here anytime." He smiles softly
Crystal smiles a half smile in return "I'm sorry I'm such a mess."
"Don't think twice about it." Lex assures her, seeing that she is he changes the subject "It's been a while since I've seen or heard from you."
"A lot of has been going on, with my family" Crystal takes a deep breath "I had to go to Tom's house today." Lex cringes slightly at the mention of Tom's name. "He left some things for me, I left it all there though, except for a tape he left me. He talked about our past and well it was hard to hear his voice, he sounded so different. I'm sorry you don't want to be hearing this."
"Hey, anything that concerns you, concerns me. And it's ok to feel scred or upset especially with something like this."
"His funeral is tomorrow."
"I'll be there."
"You're so good to me." Crystal smiles wiping her eyes
"Only the best for you. I don't know if it's rushing it, but I wanted to know if you would like to go out the night after the funeral. I know it's soon but-"
"I would like too" Crystal accepts remembering Tom's advice for her to move on.
"Great, how about a ride home then? I don't want you taking the bus."
"All right thanks, you have no idea what you mean to me."
"The same goes for you." Lex smiles "Come on let's go."
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"Thanks for the ride." Crystal leans over and kisses Lex before getting out of the car.
"I'll see you tomorrow." Lex tells her
"All right" She replies softly
"I'm not going to let you go through this alone, we're in this together." Lex assures her and she smiles and she shuts the door. Lex waits for her to get into her house and he pulls away.
"Was that Lex?" Clark asks when Crystal gets inside
"You scared me!" Crystal exclaims
"Sorry."
"I didn't tell him Clark, don't worry."
Clark smiles "Where did you get that idea?"
"From your face maybe." Crystal smiles
"So, are you ready for tomorrow? I mean…"
"I'll manage somehow. I always do." Crystal answers "I can't dwell in the past, he's gone."
"I'm glad you found Lex, that you have someone you care about."
"Yea me too." Crystal smiles weakly and goes up to her room.
"Hey Clark." Martha walks in with Jonathan
"Hey." Clark replies looking down.
"Don't beat yourself up over it, his death couldn't of been helped and just imagine if he had hurt more people, or even your sister." Jonathan says
"She looks so happy, then it's gone in a second. It follows her everywhere." Clark tells them
"Clark, I know your worried, but it will pass in time, I've heard you telling Lana countless times to give it time. Take your own advice." Martha says softly
"What about you two? I mean how does it make you feel seeing her go through this."
"Helpless." Jonathan says sitting down. "I watch her everyday, trying to act like she's fine, when she isn't. She wont talk about it to us, but I am glad she talks to you and Lana even Lex about it."
"We want her to talk, that's how she'll get better, and she is willing to talk to you. So just listen, and that's what we'll do if she comes to us." Martha adds
"So that's it? Listen?" Clark asks
"Unfortunately there's no superpower to heal a torn heart." Jonathan says.
"Yea." Clark sighs. "I'm going to go to bed. I need to get sleep."
"That's a good idea." Martha nods watching Clark leave. "Both of them are hurting so much, and Lana you can see it in her face too."
"It's not easy for any of them but at least they're in it together."
"You're right. Well we've got a big day ahead of us tomorrow." Martha says
"And we're leaving the day after"
"Do you think it's a good idea?" Martha asks
"I think it may give them all the time and space they need to work this out." Jonathan assures her "Don't worry, it'll be fine."
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Crystal leans over and shuts off her alarm when it went off, she had been awake for over an hour already. She got up slowly and showered. She felt dizzy and nauseous as she starts to get dressed. She pulled on a long black sweater over her black dress. She put on some make-up but skipped the mascara, she'd be wiping it off soon anyway. She looks up when she hears a knock. Lana comes in and sits on Crystal's bed, Lana's in similar attire. Lana doesn't say anything and waits for Crystal as she pulls her shoes on.
When they go downstairs Crystal sees Nel, Lex, her parents and Clark already there. They all get into their cars and go to the funeral home.
When they walk inside, Lana grips onto Crystal hand and brings her over to Tom's casket. "Want me to leave?" Lana whispers
Crystal shakes her head "No."
"You don't have to go over there."
"Yea I do." Crystal whispers
Lex and Clark take a seat in the back, Clark notices Whitney along with a few of some of the other guys from the team approaching the casket. All of them trying to keep their cool.
The Kents, and Nel were talking to some of Tom's family, who looked distraught in another room.
"Hi Lana, Crystal." Whitney says in a hushed voice as they neared the front of the line of people paying their respects.
Crystal eyes widened when she saw Tom, she scrunched her eyes shut "I can't do…" She trailed off as her knees start to buckle underneath her.
Whitney grabs hold of her and steadies her, he and Lana walk Crystal outside.
"I'm sorry" Crystal apologizes as she sits down on a bench.
"Don't worry about it, didn't really want to be in there anyway." Whitney smiles
"None of us do." Lana adds "Thanks for your help Whitney."
"No problem, actually I wanted to tell you that I have on hard feelings. I understand your breaking up with me. I want to stay friends though, I know it probably wont happen but I at least wanted to part on good terms or better terms then we had parted on last time."
"That would be nice." Lana says and gives Whitney a hug before he left them alone.
"That was big of him." Crystal says glancing at Lana. "Are you all right?"
"I think, that sometimes I have it harder then you do. Whitney is still around it's like I could go back to him at anytime." Lana says tearing up
"Do you want to?"
"No."
"We're going to make it past this right?"
"At least we're in this together." Lana smiles
"Every day, we get another chance." Crystal says "We have to look at the road we're going to walk on, instead of the road already traveled."
"You're right, but it's easier"
"said then done I know." Crystal smiles
Lana laughs "Not everything has changed."
"No, I mean I'm sure Chloe will want to cover this in the paper and add it"
"to the wall of weird? I know I saw it. Well at least I wont be alone on it." Lana smiles
"That's what best friends are for."
"So do you want to go back inside?" Lana asks
"No. I've said good-bye. It's time to move on."
"Yea, me too." Lana agrees.
Clark and Lex stand back in the shadows they had went to look for them when they noticed their absence, they heard the entire conversation. "Looks like things are going to start looking up." Clark smiles
"That they do." Lex agrees, looking at Crystal.
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"Where's the tickets?" Martha yells to Jonathan
"In the drawer on the left." Jonathan yells back. "Where's my suit?"
"Packed. I packed it this morning." Martha replies
"You're going somewhere?" Crystal asks joined by Clark the next morning.
"You're father's brother is having an adults only family reunion. You two will be on your own for a few days." Martha says searching the drawer. "Jonathan I can't find the-"
"Here." Clark grabs them out of another drawer.
Martha laughs "Thank you Clark. I hope you guys don't mind us leaving and telling you on such short notice."
"Don't worry about it." Crystal assures her "We'll be fine."
"Good, cause we leave in a few hours. OK so I left money on the table, the phone numbers you'll need on in the top right drawer on the counter and don't do anything you both know is wrong ok? "Martha asks in a rush
"Go pack, we wont do anything wrong. Everything will be great." Clark replies
"OK, good, well I need to finish packing." Martha hurries off.
Clark and Crystal laugh when she's gone. "She looks frantic!" Crystal exclaims laughing.
"Dad sounds the same." Clark answers "This is great we got the house to ourselves."
"I know, I can't believe it!" Crystal smiles
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"It looks like your parents are in a rush." Lex says stepping into Crystal's doorway.
"Did you just get here? Yea they're going away for the weekend, my uncle is having some family reunion thing but the invitation wasn't extended to Clark and I."
"What a shame."
"Actually I think we lucked out."
"How long are they going to be gone?"
"Two days maybe three depends." Crystal shrugs "Where are we going tonight?"
"That would be a surprise."
"That's not fair."
"Life. Isn't fair." Lex says sitting on her bed and pulling her close.
"My parents are still here you know." Crystal smiles
"Not for long." Lex grins
"Clark! Crystal! We're leaving." Jonathan yells
"I'll be right back, I have to say good-bye." Crystal gets up.
"I'll be waiting." Lex smiles
Lex looks around Crystal's room and spotted a tape recorder on her night stand, he realizes it must contain the tape from Tom in it. Lex rewinds it and plays it back. He looks confused and thoughtful when it's over. He places it back on the nightstand. "What are you hiding Clark Kent?" As Lex looks as the Kents pull out of their driveway
Crystal stands wide-eyed in the doorway, she steps back and takes a deep breath and opens the door all the way smiling. "Hey there, we've got the house to ourselves now."
"Perfect." Lex makes his way over to Crystal and kisses her. "Are you all right?"
"Never better." Crystal replies softly her heart pounding, she momentarily forgot about Lex hearing the tape, as she gets lost in the moment.
All right to be continued….lol I'm cruel, I'm making you wait for another chapter but it will be up soon I promise. Please R&R