A/N : Hey, I'm back. Apologies for lack of update. I am so sorry that I am posting 2 chapters at once! Thanx to all the wonderful peops who reviewed ; Sky Brooks, NickyJean, C*h*e*r*r*i*e*s, Gemini, Dark Phoenix II, Merrie, Cassie.

Now, what secrets are going to be revealed now that Clark and Lana have come to visit Chloe and Lex?

Well, if you keep reading, you'll find out!

(Disclaimer : see chapter 1)

"So, how do you feel?" Clark asked, taking a seat on a chair between the beds of his two friends.

"Fine" Chloe said, quickly.

"Yeah, fine" Lex said similarly.

Neither of them would look at each other now, but Clark barely noticed he had been so freaked out when both of his friends had ended up in hospital due to the Nicodemus and he was just so relived he and Lana had managed to find the plant and help to save them.

"We were just talking about the Nicodemus" Lex continued, daring to bring the subject up, much to Chloe's annoyance and embarrassment. It had just occurred to her that although it was embarrassing for her to have to tell Lex what he did, she had yet to find out how she had behaved. Part of her said 'don't ask, you don't want to know' but if she didn't find out she would spend an eternity wondering what she'd said and done.

"Clark, I didn't do anything embarrassing after the Nicodemus got me, did I?"

Clark looked at her briefly and then at Lex and back at Chloe.

"Well, no" he said slowly, as Lex and Lana paid great attention, both curious to know what had happened too.

"Don't lie to me Kent, I've known you too long and I know when you're lying to me" Chloe said firmly. She wasn't sure why she was pressing the point. If Clark didn't want to tell her in front of the others it must have been something pretty embarrassing that she did but her curiosity just got the better of her. It was the downside to being a good reporter - sometimes you can be too curios for your own good.

"Well, you were just kind of angry and you were yelling about....stuff" he told her.

"Stuff? What kind of stuff? Important stuff? Spit it out Clark!" Chloe was getting annoyed now.

"Well, you were mad about me leaving you at the dance and you got really wound up about it and then..." Clark looked everywhere in the room except at the three people who's eyes were upon him, "then you said that it didn't matter because we were better off as friends and besides you were in love with someone else" he finished quickly.

Chloe felt sick. If she had really admitted to being in love there is only one name she could have said. She had loved Clark, at least she thought she had, but after the dance and the storm she'd started to like someone else. She'd never really considered that she loved him but the Nicodemus made people do things and say things that they normally wouldn't have the guts to say, but did she say who she thought she would have said?

"Clark, was I specific? I mean did I actually say who I was in love with?"

Lex, for one, did not want to hear the answer to this one. He didn't know who Chloe was in love with but he knew he was in love with her and if Chloe was already in love with someone else, not only did he stand even less chance of being with her but after what he'd said when he was under the influence of the Nicodemus, he had probably freaked her out totally and lost her as a friend as well.

Chloe couldn't look at Clark or Lex, Lex couldn't look at Chloe and Clark didn't want to look at anyone as he answered Chloe's question. Lana was paying attention and wondering what Clark's answer would be but her mind was not truly on the conversation. She couldn't stop wondering about Clark and what he'd said to her when they were out fetching the flower. She was going to have to find out whether he meant what he said or not, but unlike some, she was going to discuss her heart in private.

Clark finally gave Chloe a straight answer.

"You said you were in love with Lex"

Chloe blushed a deep crimson and felt as if she wanted the floor to swallow her. It was bad enough having to tell Lex what he'd done but to find out what she'd done, and in front of him, she honestly thought she was going to throw up. She had never been so embarrassed and humiliated in her life. She knew all three people in the room were watching her. She considered hiding under the bedclothes but figured there was no need to add to the humiliation.

"Maybe we should go" Lana said quietly, tugging at Clarks arm. She had two reasons, one was that she thought Chloe and Lex should have some time alone and the second reason was that she wanted to be alone with Clark.

"Oh, yeah" Clark said, understanding, he stood up and walked with Lana to the door.

"We'll be back later, okay?" he said to Lex.

"Okay" he answered, "and thanks"

"For what?" Clark looked confused.

"More than you know" Lex answered with a smile. Clark had no idea what Lex meant by that, but he smiled back and left the room with Lana. What Lex had meant was tat now he knew Chloe felt the same about him as he felt about her. As complicated as a relationship between the two might be, he at least felt like he had some sort of chance with her.

"So, are you going to talk to me?" he asked Chloe's back as she had turned over in her bed.

"No" she said, flatly.

"Come on Chloe, we both made fools of ourselves, you've got nothing to be embarrassed about" he told her, but she didn't answer and she didn't move. Even if what Lex had said to her when he was 'infected' was true, which she doubted, she was still highly embarrassed about her feelings for Lex being announced in front of him and Lana by Clark! She refused to speak to Lex, at least until she got her face to go back to it's normal shade and even then she had no idea what she was going to say to him.

Meanwhile, Lana had something she definitely wanted to talk to Clark about.

"Clark, did the Nicodemus spray you?" she said quickly, as soon as they had left Lex and Chloe's room.

"Of course not" Clark laughed, "if it had I wouldn't be standing here now, I'd be in there" he gestured back to the room, "with those two, being highly embarrassed about something I'd said that I shouldn't"

"But what if you had?" Lana asked, but Clark had no idea what she meant.

"You mean, what if I'd have got sprayed?" he guessed.

"Well, yes, but what if, what would you have done if you had have been sprayed?" Lana wasn't really sure what she was trying to say and Clark certainly hadn't got a clue.

"Lana, what is all this about?" he asked her.

She closed her eyes and just said what she wanted to know.

"Clark, do you love me?"

A/N : Don't worry, this is not a cliffhanger because I've posted the next chapter too...