"I can't believe you still have those dried up flowers and that you're letting them flake off all over your keyboard." A masculine voice said from behind Chloe.

"I love these flowers. I'm waiting until I can press them. And I have a keyboard vacuum thing, you know that." Chloe replied, swinging around.

"I still can't believe I did that." The voice replied.

"Why not? I was only surprised to find that you'd been hiding it for so long."

"The hardest thing in the world is telling the girl you love that you like her."

"I would have expected you to just.be blunt. You never struck me as the type to hesitate."

"Chloe, you do realize that you weren't even legal at the time, right?"

"I know, but I always thought.never mind." Chloe said, turning back to concentrate on her article.

"You thought I was a Playboy billionaire and that age wouldn't matter." The voice finished for Chloe.

"Yes. It was the report instincts, and the rumors.and I was only sixteen at the time."

"But you believe I'm utterly and completely in love with you now?"

"Since the infamous and rumored to be cold hearted Lex Luthor just confessed to being in love with someone who refused to sleep with him, I am convinced." Chloe replied.

"I can't decide if I want to take that as a compliment or an insult." Lex retorted.

Chloe spun her chair around, popped out of it, put her hands on either side of Lex's face, and brought it to hers, their lips connecting almost immediately.

"Maybe I should get offended more often." Lex said, pulling away.

"I was having fun here." Chloe pouted as she puckered up again.

"Chloe, wait until we're married."

"What?!"

"What I MEANT was, let's save the heavy stuff for.when you're ready to take it further, because I might not be able to help myself."

"Marriage is a good time."

"I know."

"I know you know. Thanks for remembering."

"True love waits, right?" Lex replied, plucking a white rose from the vase on Chloe's desk.

"Let's hope it doesn't wait as long as you did to tell me you loved me." Chloe responded.

~end