When the pair woke up the next morning, they were in a completely different position. Lex was lying on his stomach on the right side of the bed and his hand rested just below Chloe's breast, her shirt was rolled up to reveal her stomach, and his fingers were linked with hers. He could only deduct that at some point of the night, he had rolled over her to get to his rightful side of the bed. Chloe realised this too. "Oh my god." She pulled their hands away from her body, but due to the uncomfortable position the handcuffs created, they didn't get far. But Lex noticed she didn't let his hand go.

"So.no luck with the cuffs, huh?" she said feeling the awkwardness of the situation.

"No. Not really." He lied.

"So, how do we do this?" Chloe asked, letting go of his hand and running the free hand through her hair trying to get rid of the bed hair.

"Do what?"

"I need to brush my teeth, have a shower and get changed. None of which I want you looking in on. And then there's the fact that I have school."

"It's Saturday, Chloe."

"Oh."

Lex picked up the hair pin again. It was time to end it. Not that he wasn't having fun, but she was starting to panic. "Let's give this another go." 'Take your time, Lex, or she'll get suspicious.' He told himself.

Chloe watched as Lex fiddled for a few minutes, before hearing the sound of a click from within the lock. The cuffs sprung free and they both rubbed their wrists.

"So."

"So."

They both looked at each other. They were both still sitting on the bed next to each other. Lex leaned in, never one to waste an opportunity, and kissed her softly. Chloe was quick to respond, she wrapped her arms around him and he lowered her until she was lying on the bed. Gentle pressure was applied to Chloe's lips until she opened her mouth to Lex's tongue. When he pulled away for a breath he sat up and said, "I wanted to do that since last night."

Chloe smiled and sat up. "Me too." Chloe looked around her. "So, um, breakfast?"

Lex nodded, happy, yet frustrated she didn't want to dwell on what just happened. "I think the staff should be back, lets see what we can do."

Later that day, Chloe's father had shown up early and taken her home. "So, was staying with Lex as bad as you thought it would be?" Gabe asked when they got home.

Chloe gave her father some of the suit cases and begun to walk to her room contemplating all the different ways to answer that simple question. Lex had asked her not to say anything about the robbery to anyone, he would deal with it. She had asked him not to say anything about the kiss, Pete hated him enough already, Chloe didn't want to add to it. So she settled with: "It was okay." And a swift change of subject. "How was New York?"

Her father laughed. "You don't truly appreciate the country until you have been to NY. It's messy, dirty and the air is barely breathable compared to Smallville."

"Good to know you had a good time!" Chloe laughed.

They had reached her room and Chloe sighed. It was nothing compared to the one at Lex's. She was right, her room was more homey, it had all her Linkin Park, Good Charlotte and PJ Harvey posters as well as her journalism awards, but it didn't smell right. She sat on her bed after her dad left and frowned. She knew she would have trouble sleeping, her bed didn't smell like her, she had washed the sheets the day she'd left and it didn't help that the last bed she slept on smelt of Lex and his aftershave. She could practically see her crush on Clark drowning in a lake.

Chloe sighed again when she realised that she had only 4 bags.