Chapter 2: What Clark got Himself Into

"So wait, let me get this straight" started Chloe, "You two...aren't" They shook their heads in unison. Chloe sat back into the leather chair. "Oh man, Pete so owes me $10."

"You and Pete bet that I was gay?" Clark looked hurt.

"Of course not, we would never do that."

"But then-" he started

"We always knew you were gay Clark. The moment you traded your flannel and denim for leather pants and fishnet shirts we kinda figured it out."

"Oh" Clark thought he had hidden it better than that. "But then what were you betting on?"

"That you and Lex were getting it on at the mansion."

Lex looked thoughtfully at Clark and then made a strange face at Chloe.

"What?"

Lex closed his eyes and grimaced. Chloe got the hint.

"You didn't." Lex nodded. "In this chair?" Again with the nod. "Eeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwww" Chloe let out as she jumped off the chair. She was about to sit in another chair when he made the same face. "Here to? What about that one" nodding "and there" more nodding. "Is there nowhere in this house that you two HAVEN'T been???"

"There is one place..." Clark said.

"Where." Chloe said matter-of-factly. She really didn't have time for this, she had work to do.

"In the bed." Finished Lex.

"Why does that fail to surprise me?" Asked Chloe, with a blank look on her face. "Can we get on with this interview, Mr. Luthor, or do I have to stare at Clark's naked ass all day."

Dammit dammit dammit. She said to herself. She had always liked Clark. And even when she knew he was gay, she couldn't help liking him. Because, maybe they were wrong, and he wasn't really gay. But he was. She had a crush on a gay guy. It sounded a lot more pathetic when she said it that way. It's not so bad, she thought. But some part of her had always hopped that maybe he wasn't gay, and maybe adolescence was changing his style. Now she had to face up to the truth that Clark was officially off the female market, and somewhere inside her, she didn't want to realise that. Not now, not with the prom coming up. Now who would she take?

Dammit, the one thing she had going in her life is gay. So much for being organised. Oh well, she could have already asked him only to find out that he is gay. "Hey Clark, will you go to the prom with me?" "I cant I'm taking Lex" "Why" "Cuz I'm gay, Chloe, duh" She would have felt really stupid then. But then again-

"Ummm, Chloe, are we getting this interview started now or what?" Lex brought her out of her illusion, and she saw that both men were dressed, and they were sitting, with her, cross-legged on the bed. "Ok, shoot. What do you want to know?"