I wanted this one to start out immediately, so without further delay...

Chapter Four: Learning By Heart
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Chloe smiled a genuine smile. Waking up in Lex's arms can do that to you... she thought.

"We both fell asleep during the movie and I wasn't sure what time Gabe was expecting you home, so I presumed the best thing to do was wake you up." Home...right! I forgot about that place...with Lana and my dad, and my dad! He wanted me home by 10:30! Chloe got a nervous look in her eyes that Lex immediately caught on to. "Chloe, what's wrong?" he asked.

She smiled uneasily and replied, "My dad's actually expecting me to be home by 10:30. What time is it now?"

"Uh..." he looked at his watch, "10:15. I guess we'd better get a move on it then." Chloe nodded. They both stood up from the couch and began walking toward the door. Lex suddenly stopped and looked at Chloe. "Chloe," he started. She stopped at the sound of his voice and turned to face him. "I really enjoyed spending time with you. I hope you had at least half as much fun as I did."

She smiled at his comment and replied, "Lex, I enjoyed myself too, and I hope that we will be able to do this again sometime."

"Oh believe me, we will," he said and winked at her.

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When Lex pulled his car in front of the Sullivan's house, she looked at the clock. It was blinking "10:28" in bright, blue numbers. So they pulled it off! It must have been the part where Lex was speeding the entire time, she chuckled lightly to herself.

He got out of the car and opened her door as well. Offering her his hand, he helped her out of the Porsche. There's that tingly feeling again! She looked up into Lex's eyes and saw the gentleness and compassion in them. She smiled whole-heartedly. In those few seconds she looked into his eyes, her heart learned so much about the Lex no one but Clark had met.

Her heart saw the sorrow left over from his mother's death; the embarrassment of his bald head as a teen; the sadness from his father's lack of a relationship; the resentment for being sent to Smallville; the pride of him making the best of it; but the most present emotion her heart saw was the happiness of being with someone he truly cared about.

But her heart didn't reveal these things to her head. The heart is a sensitive and secretive thing. It keeps certain information to itself and doesn't share it with the brain or the other more "sexual" parts of the body. It kept the important stuff locked inside. Eventually though, a person would come along with the key. Until then, it would be quiet. Now, her's was being quiet...but not for long.

"Thank you Lex for asking me to dinner. It was very considerate of you and I enjoyed every minute of it." Then, she stood up on her tip-toes and lightly kissed his cheek. She let go of his hands and said goodbye. Walking toward her front door, she looked back once more. He was standing there staring at her with an authentic grin on his face. When she had made it inside, he walked back to his car and got inside.

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Chloe giggled as soon as she made it inside and skipped up the staircase to Lana's room. She lightly tapped on the door, but loud enough to be heard. "Come in!" Lana greeted.

Chloe bounded into the room almost falling on top of Lana. "Chloe! Where have you been? Were you on a date? Was he cute? Do you like him? Does he have a brother?" Woah there, down girl. Not so many questions, I'm still remembering being in Lex's arms...

"The answers are: having dinner, yes, yes, yes, and no, respectively. And why would you wanna know if he had a brother?" Chloe asked.

"Duh! If a guy can make you this happy, I was hoping it was genetic. Then, maybe I could date his brother!"

"But what about Clark? I thought you liked him?"

Lana sighed. "Yeah, of course I like Clark. I always will. But even though I've heard he likes me, I can barely even tell! He never acts like he does! Hmph. It's not fair! I wanna meet someone like your mystery boy." She giggled. "And, who is the mystery boy?"

Chloe blushed a little, and replied "Uh...you are so gonna kill me, but you have to promise not to tell anyone okay?" She sat down on Lana's bed indian-style. She slid her hand through her hair before she continued. "Well, you know how I was talking to Lex at the Talon...?" she asked uneasily.

"OH MY GOSH! You are so joking! You like Lex?" Chloe slowly nodded to Lana's question. "That is so great! I knew he had to have a thing for you because every now and then I would catch him stealing a glance at you. But I didn't want to like jump to conclusions or anything and totally mess things up! But, Oh Chloe! I'm so happy for you!" She jumped at Chloe and gave her a hug.

"You know what happens now, don't you?"

Chloe developed a confused look on her face and responded, "Um, not really. What?"

"You have to tell me every single detail of the entire evening! I know it's going to take a long time, so you'd better get started girl! I can't wait!" Chloe smiled and began her exciting story of spending the evening with Lex Luthor, sexy billionaire of the year (ahem...century).

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Well...did I screw up the story? I hope not! Tell me what you think!!! Review! Oh and sorry that it's so much shorter than Lex's, but I thought that it's easier to understand girls more than it is to understand boys, so I went into more depth with his. But if you want, the next chapter can be more thoughts of Chloe's. But you have to review if thats what you want!