Part 7: The Male Intelligence


´Okay, I may have been a little presumptious.´

Lex watched from his booth in the Talon as Chloe joked with her new friends in the corner of the establishment. Ever since the paintbalmatch last week, she and the jocks had been inseperable. Where ever she went, Jarod, Jamie and Whitney couldn´t be far off. The Luthor hadn´t even gotten the chance to talk to her. And he wasn´t the only one feeling abandonned. Clark and Pete were sitting right beside him, also staring at the group longingly. The only time they spent together was during the few classes they shared. They couldn´t even approach her during the lunchbreaks, cuz she was always surrounded by the highschool footbalteam. It was bordering on ridiculous.

"So....," Clark stretched, trying to steer their attention in another direction. "Anyone do anything interesting?"



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"No, I´m being serious here!" Jamie defended himself, but the others just laughed harder.


"We believe you," Whitney said, slapping his friend heartily on the back and trying to keep a straight face. It didn´t work.

Jamie looked indignant. "But it´s true. Tell them, J-rod!"

Jarod just raised his hands in a defensive manner. "Hey, keep me outta this, man."

Sighing, Jamie gave up. "God, I hate you guys!"

"We love you too, honey," Ace shot back in a sickeningly sweet tone. Jarod had introduced the girl as his sister, and they´d been hanging out ever since. It seemed that they actually had a lot in common. They were both from Metropolis, liked the same music, had the same fashion-sense and shared their caffeine-obsession.

That whole week, she´d been altering her opiniens. She used to think jocks were the proof that evolution CAN go in reverse. However, all that changed after getting to know the three guys that were cramped into the booth with her. Yes, she always knew that Whitney was smarter than bait, but with Jamie.... She used to think that if you stood close enough to him, you could hear the ocean. But they actually turned out to be quite intelligent.

Glancing at the boys, she could just hear them exchange cheesy pick-up lines and rolled her eyes. Okay, they were as intelligent as a guy could get.

"I´m gonna go get myself a refill? Anyone else want anything?"

"Nah."

"Still good."

"No thanx."

Jarod immediately jumped up. "Lemme help you," he offered her, but Chloe pushed him back into his seat.

"I´m quite capable of getting a drink all by myself, thank you." With a grin, she strode over to the counter to order another latté.


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The three boys watched as Chloe made her way towards the counter. Clark and Pete were about to head over there as well, when Lex spoke up. "Do you think that´s such a good idea?"

The two teenagers gave him puzzled looks. "Why wouldn´t it be?" Pete questioned.

Lex tilted his head slightly at the two. "How do you think she´ll take to being cornered?"

"But we´re her best friends?" the farmboy said, now thoroughly confused.

Luthor shook his head in feigned frustration. "Eventually, she´ll get bored of those jocks and she's probably missing you already. Before you'll know it, she'll come running back." When they looked like they were about to say something, he quickly added. "On her own accord."

The boys just sat there in silence for a moment, before Clark began speaking again. "But can't we speed it up a little. I mean, lunch breaks just aren't the same without the Queen of Snark on a caffeine high." He appeared to be deep thought, before his young face lit up, a bright smile adorning it. "Why don't you go talk to her? You know, do that whole 'casual' thing you're so good at. You could slip some remarks into the conversation about us missing her, or something!"

A smirk tugged at the corners of Lex's mouth. 'Took him long enough,' he thought. But not wanting to appear too eager, he began with, "I don't think-"

"No, no! That's a great idea!" Pete amended.

"If you insist." Standing up, Lex tried not to grin as he made his way towards the counter, where Chloe stood waiting for her order.



~TBC~

She's alive! She's ALIVE!! Yes, yes, I am. I know that I haven't been showing any actual signs of life lately, but guess what…….

I'm BA-ACK

Thanx to the extroardinary, phenomenal and ingenious Sabby, who got me to continue this fic.