A/N: CHAOTICLY CHOCOTASTIC......*coughcough* right... sry 4 the lateness... and is anybody even reading this one?? Oh well... I hate to admit it but I could have done better on this fic....... so you're only missing just a bit,.....
Valentines Day
By S. Ann Smith
Chapter two: Chocolate
She sat down on the couch beside him, trying to be very patient while she was waiting for her answer. She was very bad at being patient. It took too much pretending.
She was debating smacking him on the top of his arrogantly sexy bald head, while she sipped her coffee waiting for him to answer.
Lex waited excrutiatingly long to say anything at all. He seemed to enjoy her suffering.
"Why do you hate Valentines Day Chloe?" She looked up, slightly taken aback from the forwardness of the question. Her surprised hazel eyes met the intense blue of his. She was also shocked that he actually used her first name.
"I don't hate it. It's just that... It just sucks, you know- wait, no you don't." She looked down at her coffee cup, realizing that she wasn't talking to someone of the singles department, but to someone who probably has never spent a holiday single in his adolescent to adult life.
"Why does it suck?" He asked, his voice full of sincerity.
"Everybody has somebody, or is doing something special, and I'm-" her voice couldn't finnish the sentance without complete and total sorrow-not an option when you're talking to a billionaire playboy.
"And you're?"
"Alone." she said quietly looking back down to her coffee cup. "With only my coffee on Valentines day." She sighed.
It was a pitiful thing to tell Lex Luthor, of all people, but coffee wasn't so bad to spend the entire month of February with. Her mind tried to reason with her heart. She had a very stubborn heart.
"That's....it?" he looked at her as if being with coffee for a day was one of the seven deadly sins. She nodded.
"Unless some mysterious Prince Charming decides to sweep em off my feet, coffee will just have to do." She smirked. "What about you and..Helen?" she asked.
"I don't know yet." he said quietly. "I wish I had your perspective." he looked at her.
"Coffee?" She was shocked. Why would Lex Luthor-sexy billionaire- want to spend Valentines Day alone if he had someone to spend it with?
"Coffee is simple, yet unique. I don't have to buy it expensive things for it to appreciate me, All I have ot do is drink it and it's happy."
"And it makes you happy." she said. "Especially after seven cups."
"How many have you had?" he looded at he worried. "I don't have to take you to the hospital or anything-do I?"
"I've only had like...ten." she smiled. "Give or take like seven."
"Chloe!" she jumped at the surprise dissappointment in his voice, and the sexy way he just yelled her name....
"Why are you complaining? You're getting richer off of my addiction. Just think- you're a dealer." She smiled, satisfied.
"Great, that's all I need." he smiled back at her. Chloe was shocked. This was the most honestly happy smile she hada seen grace the gorgeous face of Lex Luthor. "Just think of the headlines- 'Lex Luthor- caffine dealer' hystarically a best seller. my net worth might drop a few millions, but if it's worth it."
"Then you can buy me another cup." she grinned at him. "'Cause I'm broke."
When he returned, with two extra huge coffees, Chloe asked lex a very serious question. Or atleast it was very serious in her highly caffinated brain.
"Do you hate Chocolate?" He choked a bit on his coffee before seriously looking at her.
"Why?Do you?" His serious look dissolved into a devilish grin.
"No," she sid quickly-too quickly. shit! she looked down to her coffee cup. The dark brown coffee gave her an idea. "Why don't you turn the factory into a chocolate factory?"
"Not my beloved Shit Factory! Why would I do a thing like that?" He asked false shock. "Besides, I don't need to convert the factory when I can buy Hershey's." She opende her mouth in false shock.
"No not Hershey's!" she sipped her coffee, trying vainly not to laugh, or choke on her coffee. The latter happened when Lex's soft hand stroked the side of her face.
She lowered her coffee, and turned to look at him. He had already discarded his coffee cup on the table, was now cautiously taking her's away.
Chloe sat frozen, unable to move. and avoiding the urge to jump up and down. Okay maybe the seventeen cups of coffee wasn't such a bad idea. He kissed her softly, his hand placed on her cheek. She could have sworn there was fireworks going off somewhere, but that would be if her mind was actually working. Which it wasn't.
When they pulled apart, they were both breathing heavily, and the looks on each other's faces mirrored those of complete surprise, and possibly passion. Lex passed Chloe her coffee, and she reached into her purse and gave him a small Valentines Chocolate -Hershey's on the label. They both laughed a bit, and talked for what seemed like forever.
Three days later, it was Valentines Day, and Chloe found a dozon red roses waiting for her in the Torch office.
Dear Chloe, I mean Coffee,
Just something to let you know
that you don't have to be alone
with coffee on Valentines,
Love Hersheys (Your
Prince Charming-in-waiting)