I Got You

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Chapter 3, Every Time

Clark was standing in his loft like he normally did almost every day. He looked through his telescope trying to see if Lana was on the porch… She was in fact. Standing leading over the rail looking out at the field and the sky. Clark kept a close watch on her. Her hair wiped in the wind. She was so beautiful in his eyes. Clark heard something moving around in the barn.

"Hello?" Clark called.

He didn't see anyone and know one answered back. Clark looked down at the ground from the window the loft displayed. Pushing his telescope out of the way he started to leap to the ground from his barn. With great ease he landed. It felt like nothing.

"Wow… I haven't tried that before," he thought to himself.

Chloe was walking up the barn steps expecting to see Clark. To her surprise he wasn't in sight. She went to his telescope assuming he was outside. Chloe perfectly saw Lana's house.

"Huh… no wonder why he spends so much time up here. I should have guessed," she said almost disappointed in Clark.

Looking through the telescope again she saw Clark talking to Lana, which made her upset.

"Hey Lana!" Clark said while walking towards her.

She had a blanket sprawled out on the yellow hay while reading a book. She put her focus away from the book and onto Clark…

"Hey, Clark… How did you know I was here?" she asked interested to hear his answer.

"Oh I didn't… I was just taking a walk since it's so beautiful outside. I found something more beautiful right in front of me…" He said with a grin.

Lana gave a shy smile towards him as she blushed.

"You're to good to me Clark…"

"What are you reading?" he asked.

"Oh, a really good non-fiction story called, "A Separate Peace," written by John Knowles."

"Sounds interesting!" Clark stated.

"It is." Lana said with a smile. "Come sit with me on the blanket. There is plenty of room…"

"Why did you come out here to read?" Clark asked.

"For the same reason you came out here for a walk," she said with a little giggle.

Clark came and sat down next to her on the wool blanket lying on the hay. The wind was very soothing and the sky was a beautiful light blue. As they sat on the blanket Clark inched towards Lana… He was trying to get even closer to her. The movement didn't go unnoticed. She looked down from her book slowly watching him move closer to her. He didn't notice she was looking at him. Clark sat on his back with his arms lying behind him holding his upper body upward. Lana chose to tempt Clark. She moved positions. She turned her whole body around so her head was resting on Clark's hard muscles of his stomach. Clark tried not to flinch. He had a weird look on his face of excitement. Lana took her book down from her face and looked up at Clark from her resting position. She moved her head around making a cozy spot for her head to rest while reading.

"You ok Clark?" Lana said with a grin.

"F-f-Fine," he said slowly.

Lana smile. She put her bookmark on the page that she stopped at and closed the book, placing it by her feet.

Still resting on his stomach she said, "thanks for coming to keep me company."

"No problem, anytime for you Lana…" Clark said lovingly.

The wind picked up and the surrounding hay, they were seating on, started to blow with the wind. A clump of hay flew to Clark's face and into his hair. Lana gave a hug laugh as his face was engulfed with hay. Some of which was still being blown around by the wind. Lana got up from her lying position and sat up looking at Clark as he sat there stunned. He tried to get most of it off of his face. Lana still laughing and Clark soon joined in.

"Oh… Poor Clark!" Lana said sarcastically. Picking the little pieces off of his hair.

"How did I know that was bound to happen?" Clark said with a shy grin.

He shook his head side to side to get the remaining hay parts out from his hair. Lana's horse that wasn't tied up to anything; came over to Clark and started to nibble on his hair. Lana mouth dropped open with a smile. Her hand moved to her mouth in disbelief. Her long flowing baby blue dress wiped around in the wind. She grabbed her horse by the rains and led her over to a post to tie her up for the moment.

"I'm so sorry Clark!" Lana said while dying to keep the laughter in.

Little giggles came from her, but she quickly stopped trying to be sympathetic to him…

"Hey, stuff happens," he said while trying not to act to embarrassed.

"I guess I better go before all the plagues of Egypt come upon me. Clark said while looking down.

Lana's hand went to Clark's face to pick it up from its sagging position.

"Nonsense… just because you had a little misfortune doesn't mean you have to leave," Lana stated while trying to maintain a straight face.

Mean while Chloe is watching all of this from afar in Clark's barn with is telescope. She had a dissatisfied look as she watched them…

"Clark do you want to come in and get cleaned up?"

"I guess… I just hope I don't smell like horse!" Clark grinned.

They both got up from the blanket dusting them selves off. Grabbing the blanket and book they headed to Lana's house. After wiping him self down with a towel and spraying some stuff on himself, he headed to the living room where Lana was waiting.

"Since I got enough bad things happen to me down here, do you want to go to my loft?" Clark asked hopeful.

"Sure, why not?" They started to walk to the outside headed to Clark's loft.

Chloe noticed their sudden change of direction and panicked.

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