"That would be great! I'd love to go," Her smile showed her enthusiasm, but it faltered, "But I don't have any dresses, I wasn't planning on going any where special while in Smallville."

"Don't agonize; I'll get you a dress."

"Then it wouldn't be fun." Crystal mock pouted.

"How so?" Lex was genuinely confused.

"Because you get to see the dress. I need to make a dramatic entrance, for you anyway."

"Oh," Lex chuckled, "Well then, we'll go into that dress store over there," Lex pointed out the window and across the street to a modern dress store, "I'll try my hardest to keep my prying eyes off you," he teased rather seductively.

Crystal brightened into another smile, grabbed her keys, locked the studio door behind them and drug Lex across the street.

"Now, just mill around or something. Try not to get a glimpse of what I'm going to wear, okay?"

Lex nodded, "Get anything you want, okay?" He never took his eyes from hers.

She smiled and lost herself in the rows of prom dresses, Sunday dresses and salsa dresses.

Lex found a chair near the dressing room and found comfort there. He thought of Crystal, he liked her; she was someone who did want they wanted, when they wanted. Hell, she even got him to dance in the middle of the morning, swing dance! Okay, so she had an effect on him, his defenses where down when she was around but he liked the effect she had on him. It made him feel.free, in a sense. Yet he had to throw in the factor that he had only known her about twenty four hours.

Lex was digging through his thoughts until he felt himself being pulled from his chair and into the dressing room.

"I thought you didn't want me to see you before the ball." Lex questioned as she pushed him down into another chair.

"You won't."

"Too bad," he muttered with a smirk.

"You're just here to keep me company." With that she slipped behind a curtain and began to undress.

First, she slipped into white, slim dress that went to the floor and beyond, that had no straps. 'Too inflexible,' Crystal thought as she smoothed the fabric over her belly. Next came a black, sultry looking thing. "Too sexy," she thought out loud.

Lex heard and replied, "How can anything be too sexy?"

"Well," she said slowly, and opened the curtain quickly, "Wouldn't somebody in the right sense think this dress is too sexy?"

"Prove it," Lex said with a smirk.

"Mmm," she hummed slowly. Crystal strutted over to the sitting Lex and straddled his lap, did a quick grind and bit his ear attentively.

A noticeable shiver ran through Lex, thickening the intense sexual tension between them.

She whispered in his ear, "Told you." Crystal gracefully exited his lap.

Crystal had already entered the dressing room and closed the curtain once Lex opened his eyes and spoke with thickness, "I don't think it was the dress."

Crystal just giggled within her confines of the curtains.

"Are you decent?" Lex exited the comfort of the waiting chair.

"Nope."

"Good." Crystal looked into the mirror and saw Lex had entered.

There she stood, in dark green lacey undergarment on bottom and matching strapless bra. Her golden hair braided messily down her back with many strands escaping and framing her face. Her beautifully fit, honey-colored skin exposed from head to toe.

Lex came up right behind her, placing his lips right above her shoulder, barely even touching. He felt so warm being so close. Crystal wanted more.

She leaned back into him as he wrapped his arms around her waist.

"I don't think it was the dress," Lex mumbled, again, against her skin.

Crystal turned in his arms so she was facing him. She analyzed his facial features: blue eyes, long nose with a narrow face, unforgiving pout and an unadorned scalp. Lex moved in slowly, and closely.

Their lips barely touched - very brief contact. Too displeasing. They came back together, fervently and overpoweringly.

Lex pushed her against the cool mirror with passion as she delve her tongue into his mouth, caressing his.

"Excuse me miss, I found a dress you may consider." A store clerk called from the other side of the curtain, ceasing the kiss.

Crystal slid an arm out of the curtain and received a dress which she quickly concealed behind her back and turned to Lex who had eyes dark with desire.

"You can't see this dress."

"And why not?" Lex teased, moving in closer to Crystal.

"It's 'the one,'" she announced, grabbed him by the back of his neck and kiss him on the cheek before cajoling him out of the dressing room so that she could try on the dress.

Staring into the mirror with the perfect dress on, Crystal heard Lex ask, "So why did you come to Smallville?"

She began slipping off the dress, "I came here just to celebrate Aunt Martha's birthday, due to the fact that I haven't been out here for six years and that Aunt Martha is the only aunt that I have."

"Hmm," Lex hummed as he digested the information quickly, "So six years, huh?"

"Yup."

Lex tried not to sound suspicious and inquisitive, "So how old were you when you last came out here?"

"Um," she had to think for a quick second, "Fifteen. And Clark was so cute at nine. Last trip here.we raced from the barn to Lana's house and back, which was about five hundred yards--there and back. Clark was beating me of course," Crystal put slid into her swing skirt that was on the floor, "But by the time we made it to Lana's, Lana was outside watering some flowers with Nell and Clark completely tripped by the time he reached the gate," Crystal was laughing as she pictured the accident in her head, "And I got the lead, and won."

Crystal stepped out from behind the curtain in her swing clothing.

"Clumsy Clark," Lex commented with an ever-present smile.

"Well.let's buy the dress, which of course you're not aloud to see, then.let's see where the rest of the day takes us."

"Let's," Lex smirked and led her out of the dressing room.