A/N: Wow I feel like I've been hit by the idea faery again...This is a really fun chapter.... I laughed while writing it... enjoy...
Masquerading
By S. Ann Smith
Chapter three: A Game of Charades
It was an excruciating three days later, still no word from Lana or Pete, and no call from Bruce. All of which led Chloe to were she was standing now. Although completely surrounded by her friends, excluding a certain billionaire-with-hair, and a certain married couple she knew, of course.
Now, from the obscure gestures that the bald billionaire before her was making, she could assume that 'it' was... "A baseball game!" she shouted victoriously.
"Yes!" Lex exclaimed with a smirk. They were playing team Charades, and, as Chloe had rolled her eyes and secretly scoffed about, it was the corny 'couples' game. Lois, of course had planned it, her and Clark, against Chloe and Lex-who had insisted on coming along after lunch that day. That is when he in the neighbourhood of the Daily Planet office building and seemed to just be passing by Chloe, Lois and Clark while they were eating lunch.
Her minor out burst led to Lex wrapping his arm around Chloe's shoulders as she sat back down on her seat. She looked at him slightly confused, as he pulled her closer to him.
Lois and Clark both shot Chloe looks of mixed origins. Lois' look was that of sheer excitement-like a football player's team mates would to a leading touchdown scorer, while Clark's was that of worry and slight confusion.
Chloe picked up a card. Lex tried to peek but she quickly stood up causing him to evidently fall over. There was only one word printed on her card, and she had hoped it was a different word. It was one word that could stir emotions in her at the mere mention of it.
LOVE, the word was mocking her in her hands. It just sat there, more or less, looking up at her with those four letters.
How could she do this without making a minor mockery of herself in front of these people? She thought to herself. Ah Ha! She had it. She triuphantly glanced at Lex.
She did a mimick that Clark had immediately recognized. Lex recognized it soon after. It was Clark's puppy-dog-drooling-at-the-sight-of-food look that he got when he was mooning after Lana in High School. (Her actions evidently recieved a "Hey! No fair!" from Clark.)
"Love!" Lex jumped up laughing. Clark was beet red beside Lois.
"I'd recognize that look anywhere!" Lex said with a beaming toothy smile, as they sat down on the couch again.
So that was how the game went, Lex and Chloe winning 10-2, because Clark was horrible at giving clues, and guessing-even if he was a genious in his own right and he was a bumbling buffoon around any raven haired girl with the initials L. L. She thought with a smile.
After the game, Chloe and Lois said good bye to Lex and Clark-Lex gave Chloe a very very unchaste kiss compared to Clark's little peck.
"So?" Lois asked sitting down roughly on the couch where Lex had been sitting just minutes before.
"So?" Chloe was genuinely confuzzled by the expression she was recieving from Lois.
"Come on! Spill the beans! How long have you and Lex Luthor been seeing eachother?"
"What?! I'm not seeing Lex." She denied quickly. Too quickly it seemed to Lois. Chloe knew this from the look she was recieving at that moment. "I'm not. Or at least I think I'm not." She said trying to get a different look from her cousin.
"And of course he just kissed you like that, and had his arm around you because you are such good friends." Chloe tried to defend herself but the words were stuck in her throat by Lois' sarcastic tone.
"Personally, I don't know what goes on inside the head of a Luthor, so I don't think I could answer that." She smiled. Lois smiled too.
They spent a noisless hour watching re-runs of 'Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous' on Much More Music, before a cell phone rang, snapping them both from their stupors.
"'yello? Chlo' it's for you." Lois said after turning quite pale.
"Hello?"
"Chloe?"
"Mr. Wayne?"
"Are you willing to take me up on that offer?"
"Which one is that?" She asked, knowing very well why he was calling.
"The dinner."
"Ah yes."
"Are you free tomorrow night?"
"Yes." She smiled broadly.
"I'll come pick you up at seven then?"
"Alright." Her smile didn't falter even slightly.
"See you then," Bruce answered.
"Yeah."
"Bye."
"Bye." She hung up the phone cautiously.
"What was that all about? Why is Bruce Wayne phoning you and why are you smiling like that?" Lois asked curiously.
"I have a date with him." She smiled widely.
"You WHAT?!?!" Lois almost yelled she was so excited. "I've been wanting to get an interview with both Wayne and Luthor and not only do you get both interviews you also get dates from them? You are so damn lucky."
"I guess I am."
The computer beeped. Chloe rushed over to it, Lana must have emailed her. She decided, sitting down.
'Chloe, Pete says hi... No, I don't remeber anything strange about 'being clark's damsel in distress', but I can assure you that, Pete on the other hand is being very secretive about that.
'Miss you lots. Lana'
TBC
