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A/N: Although it may seem like I don't like Helena, I don't know if I do. In addition, a roofy is a date- rape drug. No one knew how to spell it. Just to announce I am deeply thankful to the LL who made me do chapter 3 and patiently say with me until I got it right. In addition, who just announced to me no one reads these. Therefore, if u read my story just review to tell me you read the Author's Note, so I can throw it in her face. LL is my muse! Also I love everyone who reviewed. Thanks!
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Chapter 3 Behind Closed Doors ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Ana was laying upstairs in a spare bedroom where the butler had escorted her. Niki was snoring contently on a pillow while Ana just stared up at the ceiling thinking about the day's previous events. She was so deep in thought she almost didn't hear the faint rumble of her stomach. She had forgotten in the excitement of the day that she hadn't eaten since 4:30 when she left her apartment, so Ana decided that it would be best to go find the kitchen.
Ana walked down the big oak staircase that lead to Lex's office and went through the double doors, there she found Jacob the butler, who before Ana could even ask pointed down the hallway and said " take a left." Ana just smiled politely, people like that freak me out she thought.
As Ana walked down the long hallway she began to hope that Lex had told the help that another person was staying in the mansion. She figured he had when a plump gray haired woman grabbed her cheek and patted her stomach as she entered the kitchen.
" Awh, sugar don't they feed you where you come from? Awh don't worry I'll fix you up with something right away" Ana just smiled and watched as the woman busied herself around the kitchen.
"Look at me," the woman, said to Ana, "so impolite I am, my name's Sally sugar." Ana was about to say my name is Ana when Sally began to speak again.
"No need to tell me who you are sugar, your name is Ana baby. Lex already told me all about you. He also said all you would want to eat is a Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwich." Ana cringed at the memory of PB&J sandwiches.
"No, darling she will not while I am cooking in this house I said." Sally was opening and closing cabinets and taking out an assortments of things to cook with while she spoke, " plus I told him, that no-one while living under this house and having me as a cook is ever going to eat a peanut butter and jelly sandwich no sir.
"Here sugar," Sally, said motioning for Ana to sit down at the kitchen table, as Ana sat down Sally placed a plate of oatmeal cookies in front of her and a glass of milk. "Eat this while I fix you something good to eat for dinner. You eat chicken don't you honey." Before Ana could respond Sally began talking again. "Of course you like chicken, who don't like chicken, I ask you. Nobody, everyone likes chicken. Except those ninny piney vegetarians, I ask you how can someone not like meat. I understand their reasons for not wanting to eat meat and all but I just thank god," Sally said looking up at the ceiling, "I ain't their cook.
Ana laughed and started to eat the cookies in front of her, she tried to muffle the Mmmm that had escaped her mouth when she ate the first cookie but Sally caught on. "Them cookies are good ain't they, my grandma's own recipe. Lex ain't much of a cookie person but every once in a while, he'll come down her and say Sally make me some of those cookies. Come to think of it I think that's the only time Lex comes down to the kitchen." Sally said directing her attention back to chopping up vegetables. Ana laughed, that sounded just like Lex, unlike him Ana was always in the kitchen she had a passion for food.
Sally turned to Ana and smiled, you don't hear much of that sound in this house she thought, Sally always hoped someone would come in here and lighten the place up. "So, who are you Ms. Ana Romano? What's your story?" Sally poured the vegetables into a pot filled with boiling water.
Ana smiled, "Well what do you want to know? My name is Ana Romano I'm 20 years old, I have a degree in Business I own half of the Romano and Hallaway Stocks, and that's about it."
"Interesting," Sally said, "now tell me something I want to know. Come on sugar I can tell by looking at you that you are not all work and no play. First tell me about why you're here." Sally was now taking a piece of bread and furiously crumbling it up into a bowl.
"I don't really know why." Ana said and looked down at the cookie in her hand she suddenly felt guilty about her intentions and lying to Sally. Sally looked over at Ana; Sally had been a cook in three homes in the last 30 years and she knew what it meant when someone started to examine her cookies so she thought it would be best if she let it drop.
Sally took out the chicken from the fridge and an egg and Ana looked up. This woman memorized her, she liked Sally she decided she reminded Ana of a nanny she had when she was younger. "How long have you worked here," Ana asked.
Sally cracked an egg into the bowl with her crumbled up bread, added some spices, she then throw in a piece of chicken, and started to mix it up. "Well, since Lex was sent here, about a year and a half ago. I had been Lionel and Lily's cook before Lex was born, and then I moved back South to work down there. Then one day last year Lionel called me up and said Sally I need you to be my son's cook. Well the rest is history and here I stand." Sally was now putting the chicken in the oven she then stirred the vegetables. "You like rice sweetie?" Ana-nodded yes and Sally reached up into one of the cabinets and pulled out a box of rice. "Is Rice-a-Roni fine?"
Ana couldn't help it she was only human "Rice-a- Roni," Ana started and Sally joined in, "the San Francisco treat!" Ana and Sally started laughing hysterically.
"Nonny, Lex is coming over today." A little girl sits in front of a vanity laughing while an older woman stands behind her doing her hair and smiles.
"Really Anastasia, that's good are you excited?"
"Yup," the little girl smiles big and starts to rock in anticipation. "Nonny, I want to make him something, he's been sad coz he doesn't have no more hair."
"Any more hair Ana," the woman corrects.
The little girl scowls and then continues, "I told him I don't care that he's still Lexy but he got mad." The little girl frowns at the memory.
"Why don't you draw him a picture?" The woman suggests still combing the young child's long hair.
"No, Nonny." The little girl scowls. "I know what I'm going to do. I am going to make Lex laugh. He doesn't laugh anymore not since he lost his hair. Why did he lose his hair again Nonny?"
"Well Ana darling, there was an accident when he went to Smallville with his father remember he was in the hospital and you went and visited." Ana nodded her head. "Well that's how he lost his hair, no-one is really sure why though." Nonny says in a sweet caring voice.
"Oh," Ana says. "Want to know how I'm going to make him laugh?"
"Sure darling, what are you going to do?" Nonny begins to braid her hair in pigtails.
Ana thinks for a moment and looks down at her shoes suddenly she looks up and a disgusted look comes across her face when she sees her Nanny.
"No Nonny," Ana sternly says, "one long braid." Nonny and Ana shake their heads at each other. "I'm going to do something unexpected but I'm not going to tell you what just yet, you'll just have to wait and see."
"Here you go darling, a real meal." Sally said putting a plate in front of Ana.
Ana rubbed her head, I must have fallen asleep she thought. She picked up a fork and knife and bite into the chicken. "Oh My God," she blurted out "this is so good." Sally smiled and nodded.
"Well, darling I'm going home. I will see you in the morning. Jacob the butler will be here but the rest of the help will be gone. Goodnight." Ana looked up and waved and then went back to eating.
Lex was sick of answering questions. Helena was treating him as if she was a cop and he just committed murder. "How do you know her, why do you know her, how long have you known her?" Lex answered the same way to everyone of her questions, "Helena I really don't want to talk about it right now." She finally got the hint the 100th time he said it. Now she was sitting quietly in the front seat staring at her hands. Lex felt a pang of guilt looking at her sitting there. "How's work Helena?"
She smiled at him, "Well you know I'm not allowed to talk about my patents but." The rest of what she said didn't mater to him. Lex had learned at a very young age how to block people out, and that was exactly what he was doing. He watched the road and the speedometer to make sure he didn't go over 65. Helena hated when he drove fast, unlike Ana he thought. Helena was still talking and Lex just nodded his head and said uh huh. The highway was deserted he thought, really deserted he would love to open the car up but not with Helena in the passenger seat, she's not the adventures type he thought.
"Lex come on, you're driving like an old lady. Come on Grandma open this thing up lets see what its really made of" The girl takes a swig from the half empty bottle in her hand.
"Grandma huh," Lex speeds up the car to 95 mph, the girl next to him throws her hands up and screams then takes another large gulp, she then passes it to Lex. "Ana, when did you start drinking," he looks at the bottle "Jack Daniels."
"Well Grandma. I don't really know. Are you going to have any if not give it back to me!" Ana reaches in front of Lex's face causing him to swerve.
"Ana, I'm going to have an accident if you don't cut it out and if you call me Grandma one more time..." Lex glares at her then takes a sip of the JD, "Gross! Ana how do you drink this stuff?" he says choking.
"Same way I ate that dinner you attempted to cook, what was it again Charcoal Chicken, Grandpa?" Lex scowls. "I think we passed a cruiser."
"What?"
"I think I saw ." suddenly police sirens sound from behind them, "a cruiser."
"Shit, what do I do?" Lex said nervously.
"Umm, pull over, that's the smart thing to do. Dip-shit," she mumbles.
"Well sorry no-one has ever pulled me over before. I am a Luthor." Lex says in a matter a fact tone.
Lex pulls over the car, and Ana starts laughing hysterically. "Be quiet Ana," Lex snaps and looks at her pleadingly.
"Nah, Lex I got a hold of this you just sit there and look forward okay." Lex looks at her baffled and she just smiles and winks.
The cop walks over to Lex's side of the car, "Do you happen to know how fast you were driving back there son?" The cop says shinning the flashlight into the Lex's face; Lex just stares directly into the dark night.
"Sir," Ana said to the cop, "could you please come over here?" Ana smiles at the cop and he walks over to her side of the car. "Sir, that is my grandpa," she whispers, "he suffers from a dieses, you know the one were you look a lot younger then you really are it has been all over the news lately."
The cop not wanting to look stupid just shakes his head.
"Well, you see normally I don't let him drive but I felt so bad for him tonight. My grandma just died you see, and well I let him drive. I'm so sorry; I knew that this road was going to be deserted." Ana looks sadly up at the cop and bats her eyelashes, "I thought it would be okay I no that was my bad judgment and I won't do it again I'll even drive and you can watch me switch with him, just don't give us a ticket please. My folks will be so angry." Ana said this entire conversation in a hushed voice but Lex couldn't help but over hear it and he had to bite his lip to keep from bursting out laughing. The worst part out of this whole fraud he thought is that the cop was actually buying it.
"Alright, Miss I'll let you off, now go switch seats with him and I don't want to here anything about this again, alright?"
"Yes, sir I promise," Ana says smiling. The cop opens her door and she steps out and walks around the car. Ana grabs Lex's arm tightly and says sweetly, "Come on Grandpa I'm going to drive." Lex stands up and walks slowly to the other side of the car, while Ana sits down and buckles herself in. Lex finally sits down in the seat beside her and she flashes him a demonic stare. She slowly hits the gas and slowly drives down the uninhabited highway.
"I can't believe you just did that." Lex said interrupting Helena.
"What?" Helena says.
"Oh, I must have just been thinking out loud go on I was listening."
Helena looked at Lex skeptically, "Okay like I was saying it's quite the affair you know the OR doctor with the ER nurse. Well I heard."
Ana sat at the table holding her stomach she hadn't eaten that much since she was little. She began to cut up the small amount of chicken that remand on her plate and decided it would be best to go explore the mansion. She needed the exercise after eating that meal. First to take this chicken to Niki she thought. Ana walked upstairs to her bedroom, put the chicken on the floor for Niki, and went to explore. Ana decided that the best way to begin was to walk a different way then she had before. Ana walked down the hallway opening and closing doors, until she opened the double doors and walked into a study.
A middle- aged man is sitting at his desk surrounded by paper work. The man is frantically typing numbers into a calculator and writing them quickly down. A small girl with a long braid walks in and looks up at the man, the man so engulfed by his work that he doesn't notice. The small girl turns next to her, turns back around through the door, and grabs a small bald boy's hand. She walks the boy into the room and motions him to stay, she then walks over next to the desk, and taps the man on the leg. The man turns to her "Not now Ana," he says and looks up "Hello Lex, Ana go play."
The girl looks at Lex smiles and taps the man on the leg again "What Ana," the man says angrily.
"Dad can I have a Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwich please?" Ana says and looks up at her father.
Her father just stares at her speechless and picks her up; Lex is now lying on the floor in tears from laughing so hard. "You. You... You spoke. Ana you spoke. Ana spoke" he says in amazement and looks down at Lex. Ana just smiles and hops down off his lap, she then walks over to Lex and helps him up, "Come on," she says and walks out of the room.
"I don't believe you, for the last 5 years you have been saying how your first words to him were going to be moving and up lifting, and you were going to tell him the secrets of the world. But no you finally speak to him and you ask him for a peanut butter and jelly sandwich." Lex starts laughing again, "Why did you do that?"
Ana just smiles and wraps her arm around his shoulder, "A friend of mine needed a good laugh."
Ana rubbed her eyes; she was getting sick of walking down memory lane. She hadn't thought of that day in years & years, and today she had thought of it twice. Lex brought back to many memories she thought. She looked around the study she was in, and became extremely excited directly in front of her was her god, a liquor cabinet. "Screw exploring I need a vacation from this world," she said and grabbed an assortment of drinks.
Lex pulled up to Helena's house and put the car in park.
"Thank you Lex, the play was magnificent, and dinner was superb. You always seem to know the best places to go." Helena then leaned in and kissed Lex. "Do you want to come in?" Helena asked in between kisses. Oh yah, Lex thought.
Ana was lying upside on the bed the, room was covered with a variety of empty bottles. "Niki get off the ceiling right now," Ana yelled before toppling off the bed and onto her head.
"Oww," she said rubbing her head Niki ran over to Ana and began to lick her face, "good dog, a ceiling is no place for a dog. Like this mansion is no place for me." Ana stood up and wobbled over to the table where the last bottle sat, she picked up the bottle and went to wobble back over to the bed but fell. "Niki, be careful the floor moves." She said before cracking up laughing. Ana then took another mouthful of the vodka, and swallowed.
"Niki, I shouldn't have come you know that? Jill said not too but I came anyway and now I am sitting on the floor in a big empty mansion with you." She rubs the dog's head, "not that I care because you are great. But you're not Lex." Ana shakes her head "you're not Lex. Your lucky though Niki, because if you were Lex then I wouldn't be sitting with you. Man does he have a temper. "Shit," Ana said while trying to stand up finally after a few attempts she gets up. "I can't believe we yelled like that. Oh well."
Lex waited for Helena to walk into her house, and then he sped off towards the mansion. Ana and he were going to have a nice long talk when he got there. Lex pulled up into the driveway and stepped out of his car. Jacob greeted him at the door.
"Where is she?" Lex asked he was extremely irritated for having to cut his date short and he needed to blow off some steam. Lex walked upstairs and towards the room where Jacob said Ana was. He could see light peaking out through a crack in the door, he was about to knock when he recognized her voice saying, " Oh well," when he looked through the crack he could see her standing in the middle of the room holding a bottle and a collage of other bottles everywhere.
"He's going to hate me anyways Niki. You would too but you're just a doggie." She laughed and took another mouthful. "I'm going to hate myself too, I all ready do but a girl has got to do what a girl has got to do, or something on the lines of that. We have a dilemma though Niki," Ana said bringing her voice down from a shout to a regular tone. "He has a little girlfriend. A girlfriend," Ana's voice goes back up to the shout. "Hello, I'm Helena I am a doctor and a brunette bitch and I like to screw bald men worth millions." Ana said while attempting to impersonate Helena, however the only thing Ana did succeeded in doing was falling flat on her face.
Ana sat up and laughed and began to rant again "But I'm lucky that she's some brunette bitch she'll be easy to get rid of Lex is going to be the hard part. Lex doesn't really like her you can tell he has always been like that; he has a girl for everyday of the week. I'll be able to get rid of her in under a week." Ana looked down at Niki, "I am not jealous," she said before falling down on to her butt.
Lex did not know what to do, he actually found it quite amusing to see her like this, especially when she fell. He knew he should probably walk away but he was curious to hear what else she had to say. Any way it was his house and he was not really eavesdropping because she was screaming. In addition, he thought she is talking about Helena and me, but still Lex contemplated whether he should just leave.
"I'm not ready to do this yet Niki. Nope I am not I should have listened to Jill but I never do, and now I know it is too late. Why don't I leave you ask." Niki just sat on the floor looking confused at her owner, "I can't leave Niki I already did that I ran away to Russia. Yes, I ran across the world. Lex is a tricky man now; he has changed, a lot. He is not the same kid I left that night." Ana looked down at her feet, "He has changed it's kind of like Niki, he just grew up all of a sudden and realized that he wasn't harming anyone but himself. He has not changed all the way, though he still has his short fused temper. Besides that, he is great well from what I have seen so far. Going to Russia was the best thing I could have done." Niki started to lick Ana's hand, "No Niki I am not falling for him, I've done that already. Plus you know the plan, I am to make Lex fall head over heels for me and then I'm out, because even the player gets burned and that's what I'm here to prove. Anyways I know that there isn't a future with him and if there was I wouldn't want one." Ana looked down and shook her head.
Lex stood in the hallway in shock. He knew she was scheming something but he did not now it was anything like that. Ana had always amazed him with her plans and enthusiasm. However, he never thought he would be at the other end of one of her plans. "Shit," he said.
"Shh Niki," Ana whispered and walked over to the door and opened it the remaining way.
A girl walks out of the dorm room, her hair is all up, and she is wearing sweats. "Don't go in their Alex, she is mad at you." She says gently.
"What you mean Jill. I didn't do anything I just got back." A tall bald kid wearing a tee shirt and jeans says, while leaning against a wall.
"Well, maybe you should figure out what you did wrong before you go in there because she is upset with you." The girl says crossing her arms.
"Do you know what I did?"
"No, I don't she wouldn't tell me so obviously it was something serious."
"Anyway, I didn't do anything wrong I just got back. So I'm going in." Alex says while turning the knob.
"What ever, I warned you." Jill says walking away; I don't want to be here when this goes down she thinks.
"Don't you fucking knock?" A voice says from the back of the dorm room. The room's only light is that which is coming through the window.
"I saw Jill in the hall she let me in. What's wrong?" He asks looking for the light finally; he finds it and switches it on. As the light comes on a huge stuffed animal comes flying at his head.
"What the fuck," he yells ducking in time. "Ana what the fuck is wrong with you. Jill said you were angry with me?"
"Well obviously I am then so why don't you fucking leave, I mean that's what you are good at," Ana spat.
"What the hell are you talking about?"
Ana stands up from the windowsill where she was sitting, and puts the empty bottle on the desk and walks over to Lex until there is only a step between them. "What I am talking about is," Lex could smell the alcohol on her breath he knew that what ever he had done was pretty bad if she drank over it. Ana only drank when she wanted to escape, "how Sully put a roofy in my drink. I was lucky huh that I was not thirsty and gave my drink to Mike, now wasn't I. But what if I hadn't Lex?" Ana filled the gap that was between them, now Lex was pinned up against the wall. "What would have happened, because you weren't there were you? Do not play stupid you left with that brunette fucking slut and left me I saw you. You fucking promised you would not and you did. I could have fucking been rape you ass hole." Ana backs away and sits on the bed.
Lex had never seen her upset like this, not even at her mother's funeral. He had really screwed up. Lex walks over to her, "Ana I am so sorry." He goes to sit next to her and she stands up, and pushes him.
"Don't give me your worthless apologies Luthor. I am not a one night stand, I thought I was your friend and then I remembered Luthor's cant have friends can they."
Lex went to respond when she yelled, "Lex I do not want to fucking hear it get the fuck out of my room right now."
"Fine," Lex walked over to Ana and kissed on her check.
Ana slaps Lex across the face, as her eyes filled with tears.
Lex felt horrible, she never got this upset, and she was the least violent person he knew. "I am sorry." He said turning around to face her outside of the room.
"Fuck you," Ana said and slammed the door in Lex's face.
Suddenly Lex was back in his mansion standing in front of a wooden door that had been open moments ago.
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A/N: Although it may seem like I don't like Helena, I don't know if I do. In addition, a roofy is a date- rape drug. No one knew how to spell it. Just to announce I am deeply thankful to the LL who made me do chapter 3 and patiently say with me until I got it right. In addition, who just announced to me no one reads these. Therefore, if u read my story just review to tell me you read the Author's Note, so I can throw it in her face. LL is my muse! Also I love everyone who reviewed. Thanks!
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Chapter 3 Behind Closed Doors ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Ana was laying upstairs in a spare bedroom where the butler had escorted her. Niki was snoring contently on a pillow while Ana just stared up at the ceiling thinking about the day's previous events. She was so deep in thought she almost didn't hear the faint rumble of her stomach. She had forgotten in the excitement of the day that she hadn't eaten since 4:30 when she left her apartment, so Ana decided that it would be best to go find the kitchen.
Ana walked down the big oak staircase that lead to Lex's office and went through the double doors, there she found Jacob the butler, who before Ana could even ask pointed down the hallway and said " take a left." Ana just smiled politely, people like that freak me out she thought.
As Ana walked down the long hallway she began to hope that Lex had told the help that another person was staying in the mansion. She figured he had when a plump gray haired woman grabbed her cheek and patted her stomach as she entered the kitchen.
" Awh, sugar don't they feed you where you come from? Awh don't worry I'll fix you up with something right away" Ana just smiled and watched as the woman busied herself around the kitchen.
"Look at me," the woman, said to Ana, "so impolite I am, my name's Sally sugar." Ana was about to say my name is Ana when Sally began to speak again.
"No need to tell me who you are sugar, your name is Ana baby. Lex already told me all about you. He also said all you would want to eat is a Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwich." Ana cringed at the memory of PB&J sandwiches.
"No, darling she will not while I am cooking in this house I said." Sally was opening and closing cabinets and taking out an assortments of things to cook with while she spoke, " plus I told him, that no-one while living under this house and having me as a cook is ever going to eat a peanut butter and jelly sandwich no sir.
"Here sugar," Sally, said motioning for Ana to sit down at the kitchen table, as Ana sat down Sally placed a plate of oatmeal cookies in front of her and a glass of milk. "Eat this while I fix you something good to eat for dinner. You eat chicken don't you honey." Before Ana could respond Sally began talking again. "Of course you like chicken, who don't like chicken, I ask you. Nobody, everyone likes chicken. Except those ninny piney vegetarians, I ask you how can someone not like meat. I understand their reasons for not wanting to eat meat and all but I just thank god," Sally said looking up at the ceiling, "I ain't their cook.
Ana laughed and started to eat the cookies in front of her, she tried to muffle the Mmmm that had escaped her mouth when she ate the first cookie but Sally caught on. "Them cookies are good ain't they, my grandma's own recipe. Lex ain't much of a cookie person but every once in a while, he'll come down her and say Sally make me some of those cookies. Come to think of it I think that's the only time Lex comes down to the kitchen." Sally said directing her attention back to chopping up vegetables. Ana laughed, that sounded just like Lex, unlike him Ana was always in the kitchen she had a passion for food.
Sally turned to Ana and smiled, you don't hear much of that sound in this house she thought, Sally always hoped someone would come in here and lighten the place up. "So, who are you Ms. Ana Romano? What's your story?" Sally poured the vegetables into a pot filled with boiling water.
Ana smiled, "Well what do you want to know? My name is Ana Romano I'm 20 years old, I have a degree in Business I own half of the Romano and Hallaway Stocks, and that's about it."
"Interesting," Sally said, "now tell me something I want to know. Come on sugar I can tell by looking at you that you are not all work and no play. First tell me about why you're here." Sally was now taking a piece of bread and furiously crumbling it up into a bowl.
"I don't really know why." Ana said and looked down at the cookie in her hand she suddenly felt guilty about her intentions and lying to Sally. Sally looked over at Ana; Sally had been a cook in three homes in the last 30 years and she knew what it meant when someone started to examine her cookies so she thought it would be best if she let it drop.
Sally took out the chicken from the fridge and an egg and Ana looked up. This woman memorized her, she liked Sally she decided she reminded Ana of a nanny she had when she was younger. "How long have you worked here," Ana asked.
Sally cracked an egg into the bowl with her crumbled up bread, added some spices, she then throw in a piece of chicken, and started to mix it up. "Well, since Lex was sent here, about a year and a half ago. I had been Lionel and Lily's cook before Lex was born, and then I moved back South to work down there. Then one day last year Lionel called me up and said Sally I need you to be my son's cook. Well the rest is history and here I stand." Sally was now putting the chicken in the oven she then stirred the vegetables. "You like rice sweetie?" Ana-nodded yes and Sally reached up into one of the cabinets and pulled out a box of rice. "Is Rice-a-Roni fine?"
Ana couldn't help it she was only human "Rice-a- Roni," Ana started and Sally joined in, "the San Francisco treat!" Ana and Sally started laughing hysterically.
"Nonny, Lex is coming over today." A little girl sits in front of a vanity laughing while an older woman stands behind her doing her hair and smiles.
"Really Anastasia, that's good are you excited?"
"Yup," the little girl smiles big and starts to rock in anticipation. "Nonny, I want to make him something, he's been sad coz he doesn't have no more hair."
"Any more hair Ana," the woman corrects.
The little girl scowls and then continues, "I told him I don't care that he's still Lexy but he got mad." The little girl frowns at the memory.
"Why don't you draw him a picture?" The woman suggests still combing the young child's long hair.
"No, Nonny." The little girl scowls. "I know what I'm going to do. I am going to make Lex laugh. He doesn't laugh anymore not since he lost his hair. Why did he lose his hair again Nonny?"
"Well Ana darling, there was an accident when he went to Smallville with his father remember he was in the hospital and you went and visited." Ana nodded her head. "Well that's how he lost his hair, no-one is really sure why though." Nonny says in a sweet caring voice.
"Oh," Ana says. "Want to know how I'm going to make him laugh?"
"Sure darling, what are you going to do?" Nonny begins to braid her hair in pigtails.
Ana thinks for a moment and looks down at her shoes suddenly she looks up and a disgusted look comes across her face when she sees her Nanny.
"No Nonny," Ana sternly says, "one long braid." Nonny and Ana shake their heads at each other. "I'm going to do something unexpected but I'm not going to tell you what just yet, you'll just have to wait and see."
"Here you go darling, a real meal." Sally said putting a plate in front of Ana.
Ana rubbed her head, I must have fallen asleep she thought. She picked up a fork and knife and bite into the chicken. "Oh My God," she blurted out "this is so good." Sally smiled and nodded.
"Well, darling I'm going home. I will see you in the morning. Jacob the butler will be here but the rest of the help will be gone. Goodnight." Ana looked up and waved and then went back to eating.
Lex was sick of answering questions. Helena was treating him as if she was a cop and he just committed murder. "How do you know her, why do you know her, how long have you known her?" Lex answered the same way to everyone of her questions, "Helena I really don't want to talk about it right now." She finally got the hint the 100th time he said it. Now she was sitting quietly in the front seat staring at her hands. Lex felt a pang of guilt looking at her sitting there. "How's work Helena?"
She smiled at him, "Well you know I'm not allowed to talk about my patents but." The rest of what she said didn't mater to him. Lex had learned at a very young age how to block people out, and that was exactly what he was doing. He watched the road and the speedometer to make sure he didn't go over 65. Helena hated when he drove fast, unlike Ana he thought. Helena was still talking and Lex just nodded his head and said uh huh. The highway was deserted he thought, really deserted he would love to open the car up but not with Helena in the passenger seat, she's not the adventures type he thought.
"Lex come on, you're driving like an old lady. Come on Grandma open this thing up lets see what its really made of" The girl takes a swig from the half empty bottle in her hand.
"Grandma huh," Lex speeds up the car to 95 mph, the girl next to him throws her hands up and screams then takes another large gulp, she then passes it to Lex. "Ana, when did you start drinking," he looks at the bottle "Jack Daniels."
"Well Grandma. I don't really know. Are you going to have any if not give it back to me!" Ana reaches in front of Lex's face causing him to swerve.
"Ana, I'm going to have an accident if you don't cut it out and if you call me Grandma one more time..." Lex glares at her then takes a sip of the JD, "Gross! Ana how do you drink this stuff?" he says choking.
"Same way I ate that dinner you attempted to cook, what was it again Charcoal Chicken, Grandpa?" Lex scowls. "I think we passed a cruiser."
"What?"
"I think I saw ." suddenly police sirens sound from behind them, "a cruiser."
"Shit, what do I do?" Lex said nervously.
"Umm, pull over, that's the smart thing to do. Dip-shit," she mumbles.
"Well sorry no-one has ever pulled me over before. I am a Luthor." Lex says in a matter a fact tone.
Lex pulls over the car, and Ana starts laughing hysterically. "Be quiet Ana," Lex snaps and looks at her pleadingly.
"Nah, Lex I got a hold of this you just sit there and look forward okay." Lex looks at her baffled and she just smiles and winks.
The cop walks over to Lex's side of the car, "Do you happen to know how fast you were driving back there son?" The cop says shinning the flashlight into the Lex's face; Lex just stares directly into the dark night.
"Sir," Ana said to the cop, "could you please come over here?" Ana smiles at the cop and he walks over to her side of the car. "Sir, that is my grandpa," she whispers, "he suffers from a dieses, you know the one were you look a lot younger then you really are it has been all over the news lately."
The cop not wanting to look stupid just shakes his head.
"Well, you see normally I don't let him drive but I felt so bad for him tonight. My grandma just died you see, and well I let him drive. I'm so sorry; I knew that this road was going to be deserted." Ana looks sadly up at the cop and bats her eyelashes, "I thought it would be okay I no that was my bad judgment and I won't do it again I'll even drive and you can watch me switch with him, just don't give us a ticket please. My folks will be so angry." Ana said this entire conversation in a hushed voice but Lex couldn't help but over hear it and he had to bite his lip to keep from bursting out laughing. The worst part out of this whole fraud he thought is that the cop was actually buying it.
"Alright, Miss I'll let you off, now go switch seats with him and I don't want to here anything about this again, alright?"
"Yes, sir I promise," Ana says smiling. The cop opens her door and she steps out and walks around the car. Ana grabs Lex's arm tightly and says sweetly, "Come on Grandpa I'm going to drive." Lex stands up and walks slowly to the other side of the car, while Ana sits down and buckles herself in. Lex finally sits down in the seat beside her and she flashes him a demonic stare. She slowly hits the gas and slowly drives down the uninhabited highway.
"I can't believe you just did that." Lex said interrupting Helena.
"What?" Helena says.
"Oh, I must have just been thinking out loud go on I was listening."
Helena looked at Lex skeptically, "Okay like I was saying it's quite the affair you know the OR doctor with the ER nurse. Well I heard."
Ana sat at the table holding her stomach she hadn't eaten that much since she was little. She began to cut up the small amount of chicken that remand on her plate and decided it would be best to go explore the mansion. She needed the exercise after eating that meal. First to take this chicken to Niki she thought. Ana walked upstairs to her bedroom, put the chicken on the floor for Niki, and went to explore. Ana decided that the best way to begin was to walk a different way then she had before. Ana walked down the hallway opening and closing doors, until she opened the double doors and walked into a study.
A middle- aged man is sitting at his desk surrounded by paper work. The man is frantically typing numbers into a calculator and writing them quickly down. A small girl with a long braid walks in and looks up at the man, the man so engulfed by his work that he doesn't notice. The small girl turns next to her, turns back around through the door, and grabs a small bald boy's hand. She walks the boy into the room and motions him to stay, she then walks over next to the desk, and taps the man on the leg. The man turns to her "Not now Ana," he says and looks up "Hello Lex, Ana go play."
The girl looks at Lex smiles and taps the man on the leg again "What Ana," the man says angrily.
"Dad can I have a Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwich please?" Ana says and looks up at her father.
Her father just stares at her speechless and picks her up; Lex is now lying on the floor in tears from laughing so hard. "You. You... You spoke. Ana you spoke. Ana spoke" he says in amazement and looks down at Lex. Ana just smiles and hops down off his lap, she then walks over to Lex and helps him up, "Come on," she says and walks out of the room.
"I don't believe you, for the last 5 years you have been saying how your first words to him were going to be moving and up lifting, and you were going to tell him the secrets of the world. But no you finally speak to him and you ask him for a peanut butter and jelly sandwich." Lex starts laughing again, "Why did you do that?"
Ana just smiles and wraps her arm around his shoulder, "A friend of mine needed a good laugh."
Ana rubbed her eyes; she was getting sick of walking down memory lane. She hadn't thought of that day in years & years, and today she had thought of it twice. Lex brought back to many memories she thought. She looked around the study she was in, and became extremely excited directly in front of her was her god, a liquor cabinet. "Screw exploring I need a vacation from this world," she said and grabbed an assortment of drinks.
Lex pulled up to Helena's house and put the car in park.
"Thank you Lex, the play was magnificent, and dinner was superb. You always seem to know the best places to go." Helena then leaned in and kissed Lex. "Do you want to come in?" Helena asked in between kisses. Oh yah, Lex thought.
Ana was lying upside on the bed the, room was covered with a variety of empty bottles. "Niki get off the ceiling right now," Ana yelled before toppling off the bed and onto her head.
"Oww," she said rubbing her head Niki ran over to Ana and began to lick her face, "good dog, a ceiling is no place for a dog. Like this mansion is no place for me." Ana stood up and wobbled over to the table where the last bottle sat, she picked up the bottle and went to wobble back over to the bed but fell. "Niki, be careful the floor moves." She said before cracking up laughing. Ana then took another mouthful of the vodka, and swallowed.
"Niki, I shouldn't have come you know that? Jill said not too but I came anyway and now I am sitting on the floor in a big empty mansion with you." She rubs the dog's head, "not that I care because you are great. But you're not Lex." Ana shakes her head "you're not Lex. Your lucky though Niki, because if you were Lex then I wouldn't be sitting with you. Man does he have a temper. "Shit," Ana said while trying to stand up finally after a few attempts she gets up. "I can't believe we yelled like that. Oh well."
Lex waited for Helena to walk into her house, and then he sped off towards the mansion. Ana and he were going to have a nice long talk when he got there. Lex pulled up into the driveway and stepped out of his car. Jacob greeted him at the door.
"Where is she?" Lex asked he was extremely irritated for having to cut his date short and he needed to blow off some steam. Lex walked upstairs and towards the room where Jacob said Ana was. He could see light peaking out through a crack in the door, he was about to knock when he recognized her voice saying, " Oh well," when he looked through the crack he could see her standing in the middle of the room holding a bottle and a collage of other bottles everywhere.
"He's going to hate me anyways Niki. You would too but you're just a doggie." She laughed and took another mouthful. "I'm going to hate myself too, I all ready do but a girl has got to do what a girl has got to do, or something on the lines of that. We have a dilemma though Niki," Ana said bringing her voice down from a shout to a regular tone. "He has a little girlfriend. A girlfriend," Ana's voice goes back up to the shout. "Hello, I'm Helena I am a doctor and a brunette bitch and I like to screw bald men worth millions." Ana said while attempting to impersonate Helena, however the only thing Ana did succeeded in doing was falling flat on her face.
Ana sat up and laughed and began to rant again "But I'm lucky that she's some brunette bitch she'll be easy to get rid of Lex is going to be the hard part. Lex doesn't really like her you can tell he has always been like that; he has a girl for everyday of the week. I'll be able to get rid of her in under a week." Ana looked down at Niki, "I am not jealous," she said before falling down on to her butt.
Lex did not know what to do, he actually found it quite amusing to see her like this, especially when she fell. He knew he should probably walk away but he was curious to hear what else she had to say. Any way it was his house and he was not really eavesdropping because she was screaming. In addition, he thought she is talking about Helena and me, but still Lex contemplated whether he should just leave.
"I'm not ready to do this yet Niki. Nope I am not I should have listened to Jill but I never do, and now I know it is too late. Why don't I leave you ask." Niki just sat on the floor looking confused at her owner, "I can't leave Niki I already did that I ran away to Russia. Yes, I ran across the world. Lex is a tricky man now; he has changed, a lot. He is not the same kid I left that night." Ana looked down at her feet, "He has changed it's kind of like Niki, he just grew up all of a sudden and realized that he wasn't harming anyone but himself. He has not changed all the way, though he still has his short fused temper. Besides that, he is great well from what I have seen so far. Going to Russia was the best thing I could have done." Niki started to lick Ana's hand, "No Niki I am not falling for him, I've done that already. Plus you know the plan, I am to make Lex fall head over heels for me and then I'm out, because even the player gets burned and that's what I'm here to prove. Anyways I know that there isn't a future with him and if there was I wouldn't want one." Ana looked down and shook her head.
Lex stood in the hallway in shock. He knew she was scheming something but he did not now it was anything like that. Ana had always amazed him with her plans and enthusiasm. However, he never thought he would be at the other end of one of her plans. "Shit," he said.
"Shh Niki," Ana whispered and walked over to the door and opened it the remaining way.
A girl walks out of the dorm room, her hair is all up, and she is wearing sweats. "Don't go in their Alex, she is mad at you." She says gently.
"What you mean Jill. I didn't do anything I just got back." A tall bald kid wearing a tee shirt and jeans says, while leaning against a wall.
"Well, maybe you should figure out what you did wrong before you go in there because she is upset with you." The girl says crossing her arms.
"Do you know what I did?"
"No, I don't she wouldn't tell me so obviously it was something serious."
"Anyway, I didn't do anything wrong I just got back. So I'm going in." Alex says while turning the knob.
"What ever, I warned you." Jill says walking away; I don't want to be here when this goes down she thinks.
"Don't you fucking knock?" A voice says from the back of the dorm room. The room's only light is that which is coming through the window.
"I saw Jill in the hall she let me in. What's wrong?" He asks looking for the light finally; he finds it and switches it on. As the light comes on a huge stuffed animal comes flying at his head.
"What the fuck," he yells ducking in time. "Ana what the fuck is wrong with you. Jill said you were angry with me?"
"Well obviously I am then so why don't you fucking leave, I mean that's what you are good at," Ana spat.
"What the hell are you talking about?"
Ana stands up from the windowsill where she was sitting, and puts the empty bottle on the desk and walks over to Lex until there is only a step between them. "What I am talking about is," Lex could smell the alcohol on her breath he knew that what ever he had done was pretty bad if she drank over it. Ana only drank when she wanted to escape, "how Sully put a roofy in my drink. I was lucky huh that I was not thirsty and gave my drink to Mike, now wasn't I. But what if I hadn't Lex?" Ana filled the gap that was between them, now Lex was pinned up against the wall. "What would have happened, because you weren't there were you? Do not play stupid you left with that brunette fucking slut and left me I saw you. You fucking promised you would not and you did. I could have fucking been rape you ass hole." Ana backs away and sits on the bed.
Lex had never seen her upset like this, not even at her mother's funeral. He had really screwed up. Lex walks over to her, "Ana I am so sorry." He goes to sit next to her and she stands up, and pushes him.
"Don't give me your worthless apologies Luthor. I am not a one night stand, I thought I was your friend and then I remembered Luthor's cant have friends can they."
Lex went to respond when she yelled, "Lex I do not want to fucking hear it get the fuck out of my room right now."
"Fine," Lex walked over to Ana and kissed on her check.
Ana slaps Lex across the face, as her eyes filled with tears.
Lex felt horrible, she never got this upset, and she was the least violent person he knew. "I am sorry." He said turning around to face her outside of the room.
"Fuck you," Ana said and slammed the door in Lex's face.
Suddenly Lex was back in his mansion standing in front of a wooden door that had been open moments ago.
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