A/N : And on to Chapter 4.....

It was Monday morning and just 36 hours since that incident at Lex's mansion. I hadn't spoken to him or Clark since, I just didn't know what to say to either of them. I hardly slept at all Saturday night and Sunday night hadn't been much better.

By 7:30am on Monday I was in the empty halls of Smallville high. Me and the janitor were the only people around at that time of the morning. I headed straight to the Torch office. I figured sorting out the next issue of the Torch would take my mind of Clark and Lex.

It didn't work.

I just couldn't concentrate on anything else, and with the severe lack of sleep over the weekend, trying to work was useless. I desperately tried to concentrate on the screen in front of me, but to no avail. I must have fallen asleep.

I woke up to the feeling of a hand stroking my hair and a soft kiss on the back of my neck.

"Lex?" I stirred, before looking up into a familiar pair of eyes.

"Clark!" I jumped up in shock, almost knocking over the chair I had been sitting on.

"Hey, are you okay?" he asked me, softly. Like I could really tell him what was bothering me! 'Oh yeah, by the way, I kissed your best friend the other night and now I can't decide whether I like you or him better!'

"I think I must have been having a nightmare" I said, praying that he hadn't heard what I said before but he had.

"Oh, right, it's just I thought I heard you say Lex?" he said. Guilt washed over me and I felt sick.

"Were you having a nightmare about that night at Lex's house?" he continued, not knowing he had come up with the perfect excuse for me. I nodded. I couldn't find any words. I guess nodding made it feel like a smaller lie, since it was a smaller reply than actually saying yes. But then it wasn't really a lie anyway. I was dreaming about that night at Lex's but it wasn't so much a nightmare and it certainly wasn't the kind of dream Clark thought it was.

He put his arms around me and held me tight. It should have made me feel better, it used to, but right then, all I could think of was how different it felt when Lex held me. The bell rang for class and forced the hug to end, I wasn't sorry. The closer I was to Clark the guiltier I felt. I knew I had to sort all this out but I didn't know how. I didn't even know how I felt!

Clark and I walked uncomfortably hand in hand down the corridor. At least I was uncomfortable, Clark was fine. He had no idea what was going on in my head, and that was the start of a very trying day.

By the time the school day ended I was glad to escape. I went straight to the Talon and luckily, Clark had to go straight home from school to help his Dad on the farm so I was safe in the knowledge that I could be alone with my, somewhat scrambled, thoughts. I could just sit quietly, drink myself stupid on caffeine packed drinks and try to make sense of mess I called my life.

I was half way through my third cup of extra strong coffee inside an hour, and busy trying to weigh up the pros and cons of the men in my life when a voice broke my train of thought.

"Hi, is this seat taken?"

"Lex!" I half yelled, stunned to see him, and a little too high on caffeine to have complete self-control. He hovered over me, waiting for an answer to his question.

"Uh, no, please, sit" I stammered. He sat opposite me and did the worse thing he could possibly do, without knowing it. He smiled at me. Something gave way inside of me and I felt faint. It was so not like me to feel like that. I don't think I'd ever felt like that before, not even when Clark smiled at me and he was really special to me.

There was defiantly something about Lex that had an effect on me, I just didn't know what it was, or why it had taken so long to see it. Part of me wished I'd never seen it, because without meaning to I felt like I was cheating on Clark just by feeling the way I felt around Lex, but another part of me was glad I felt this way because, honestly, it felt pretty good!

Anyway, he smiled, I smiled and then my brain wen t into panic mode - what was I going to say to him?! My common sense kicked in just in time and told me to act as normal as possible.

"So, how are you?"

"Fine," he replied, simply.

"Good" I said quickly, before silence fell again and my panic returned. All I wanted to do was to be in his arms, to kiss him, to...

"Chloe,..."

I almost fell of my chair when he said my name.

"...can we go somewhere a little more private..." - private? Had he read my mind?!

"...to talk" - obviously not! 'But hey, maybe I could talk him round to my way of thinking' I thought, before I realised I didn't even know what I was thinking! I went anyway.

We walked out to his car and he opened the door for me, like the perfect gentleman, then we set off to the Luthor Mansion, where it had all started...

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