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Chapter Two:
Lana continued to stare at Chloe.
"What? The guy is a total fox. Anyone with a discernible amount of oestrogen in their body has to have had similar thoughts about the man!" Chloe grinned at Lana who was now staring at her open-mouthed. "That is, excluding you of course. We all know that you're too hung up on a certain dumb farm boy to notice anyone else. Even if the most gorgeously sexy man in Smallville were to dance naked in front of you, you'd simply ask him to move over as he was obstructing your view of Clark!"
"That's not true! I admit that whilst I may have feelings for Clark, I have noticed that Lex is an attractive man. An attractive man who is not only my boss but also your dad's!!!" She raised her eyebrows at Chloe "Not only that, he's 5 years older than you and a billionaire to boot!"
"In other words...Chloe, you haven't got a flying snowball's chance in hell with him. Don't think I don't know that. I'm a teenager whom high school boys don't even find attractive, let alone a real man." She sighed. Of course she knew that there was no chance for her and Lex - it just didn't help to have Lana come right out and say it like that.
"That's not true Chloe you're very attractive!" Lana patted Chloe's arm soothingly.
"Um Lana, I thought we'd already discussed this. I don't lean that way!" She gave Lana a small grin, trying to lighten her own mood.
As the two girls chuckled, a sharp noise made them look towards the front of the store. There, with his nose pressed up against the glass was Clark, peering in at them with a concerned look on his face.
"Oh just fucking peachy. Look Lana, here's your own personal knight in shining flannel to saving you from my corrupting influence! It's the perfect opportunity for him to practice his Jonathan Kent - like morality orations. "
"Shit! What's he doing here?" Chloe raised an eyebrow at her. "What? It's not like I have to have him around every minute of the day!" Chloe just raised her eyebrow even further. "Oh shut up!"
"OK ten bucks says that you let Clark in before ten minutes are up."
"Your on!" Lana attempted to shake Chloe's hand but neither was coordinated enough at this point to manage the action successfully. "Clark piss off!" Lana yelled towards the front door.
"Lana! Chloe! Are you all right? What's going on?" Clark started banging on the front door. "Lana! Why is the Talon closed?" He peered inside again and saw what appeared to be the two girls lying on the floor. Beginning to get worried he knocked harder. "Are you two all right? Do you need help? Just let me in!"
Chloe turned her head to look at Lana. "You better go talk to him before he breaks down the door trying to save you."
Lana sighed. "But I'm comfable here. I don't wanna get up! You go!"
"Get fucked! He's your imaginary boyfriend! I'm not movin!" Chloe folded her arms across her chest with a determined look on her face. "'Sides you've gotta earn your ten bucks girl. Make the bugger piss off, he's getting annoying."
Lana slowly made a move to stand up. After several attempts she succeeded, though somewhat unsteadily. Reaching down to Chloe she pulled the other girl's hand, trying to get her to stand up. "'f I'm gettin up den you are too!" She said whilst tugging at Chloe's arm. Chloe strove to ignore Lana's insistent pulling but eventually gave in.
"Fine. The sooner he goes, the sooner I get to be comfable again!" Lurching to her feet, she followed Lana across the room to the door, chugging on the bottle of scotch as she went.
"Goway Clark. Az you can see we're fine. Now bugger off!" Lana told him not altogether coherently.
Clark look taken aback at Lana's words. Something was definitely wrong with this picture and he was going to find out what! He noticed that Chloe was standing behind Lana with a silly grin on her face. Clark opened his mouth to ask her what was going on when he saw her take a swig from a large bottle that he hadn't noticed her holding. "Chloe! That's whiskey!" He exclaimed in a shocked voice.
"Ding, ding, ding. The boy's a bona fide genius!" Chloe retorted.
"Just open the door so that I can help you two get home. I can't believe that your drunk! Lana I would have expected better from you. This is your place of work! I can't believe you closed the Talon early to get drunk!"
"Oh fuck, he's switched into all out Jonathan mode! Notice he expects better from you Lana but with me it's no surprise?" Chloe grinned at him. "Am I a baaad girl Clark?" She asked pouting and looking down at her feet seeming for all the world like a chastened schoolgirl. That is, if one had not noticed the mischievous gleam in her eye. "Maybe we will have to let you in. Coz bad girl's need spankin!" Lana giggled at the blush that Chloe's teasing has caused to spread across Clark's face. "Will you spank me Clark? Coz I been very naughty!!!"
"I thought there was someone else you'd rather have spank you!" Lana simpered, turning to look at Chloe. At Lana's sly reference to Lex, Chloe's eyes glazed over and a satisfied smirk appeared on her face.
"Mmm" she moaned "now that is one delectable thought." She looked up at Clark and grinned once again. "Bye Clark. Seems your not needed at all!" With that, she pulled the blinds on the door, shutting Clark off from view.
Clark stood for a moment in shock. He could not believe that they had refused to let him in! What on earth was he going to do now? Obviously, with his powers he would have easily been able to break down the door. However, that would mean a lot of uncomfortable questions. Questions not only from the two girls inside, who in their inebriated state may not notice his extraordinary actions, but also from Lex who would invariably want to know why Clark had vandalised his business.
"Of course" Clark thought suddenly. "Lex! He would have a key and be able to get in!" All he would have to do is go to the mansion and get Lex to give him the key. Hmm hopefully he'd be able to persuade Lex to help him get the two girls home as well. Heading toward his truck, Clark shook his head. Gee that was going to be fun! At least they wouldn't have to deal with explaining everything to Gabe, who was currently on a business trip.
Inside the Talon, Lana watched as Chloe staggered back towards the counter, then began moving around behind it, obviously searching for something. "Lana where's the phone?"
"Whatcha doin Chlo?" Lana tried to follow Chloe's path across to the counter but the bar stools kept jumping in her way, impeding her mision.
"Well seeing as I asked where the phone was, I thought I'd make a cup a coffee with it! Honestly, what do you usually do with a phone?!" Chloe shook her head and proceeded to take the lid off a sugar bowl and stick her nose in. Upon finding that the phone was not actually hiding in the sugar bowl, she looked extremely disgruntled, as though the phone failing to materialise was a personal affront.
"Yeah, but who you callin?" Lana asked, pointing to the phone that was sitting on the counter next to Chloe's elbow.
Chloe glared at the phone. "How'd it get there?" She muttered in a somewhat bemused tone. Then looking up at Lana she grinned. "I'm gonna call Sexy Lexy. I've been a naughty girl and I need to be spanked!" She picked up the receiver then stared at it for a second. "Oh shit. I need one of those numbery things. Have you got one?"
"'Course I got one! It's the same as yours. I live at your place 'member?"
Chloe scrunched up her face in confusion. "What's Lex doing at my place?"
"How'd you know he's at your place?"
"You just said he was!" Chloe nearly dropped the phone as she gestured wildly towards Lana.
"No I didn't. You asked what my phone number was!" Lana pointed her finger at Chloe accusingly, almost taking out Chloe's eye in the process. Chloe crinkled her face in concentration.
"What's your phone numbery thing got to do with Lex?"
"I don't know!" Lana declared with exasperation. She sat down on a stool and laid her head in her hands. "What're we talkin 'bout anyway?...I think I need another drink." She grabbed the whiskey bottle that Chloe had left on the counter nearby, and took a large gulp before shuddering. "Erg. That stuff's horrid!"
"I don't know what your talkin 'bout, but I wanna call Lex." She stopped for a second and bit her lip."Can't remember why though."
"Spankin!" Lana offered.
"Ooh that's right!" Again Chloe chewed on her bottom lip in thought. "I know!" She screamed suddenly, making Lana fall off her stool. "I'll ring the oprate-, oprartat-, person who lives in the phone! They know what the numbery thing is!" Chloe placed the receiver to her ear and listened for a moment. "The person that lives in the phone's humming at me! Listen!" She held the phone up to Lana's ear.
"That's not the person in the phone. That's the tone in the phone." Lana announced decidedly, nodding her head with conviction.
"Where's the person then?" Chloe put the phone back to her own ear, upside down. "HELLO! Hello? Person in the phone I wanna speak to Lex!" She yelled into the earpiece. Then, becoming entangled in the phone cord, Chloe fell with a resounding crash to the floor. In the resulting scuffle the phone line became disconnected. "Humph! Stupid bloody cord tried to strangle me!" Putting the receiver back to her ear she sighed dejectedly "Now the phone's gone and made itself all deaded!"
Lana peered over the top of the counter at Chloe lying on the floor. "I wanna dance!" She exclaimed.
"What's that got to do with the price of fish?" Chloe asked as she struggled to her feet.
"What's the price of fish got to do with anything?" Lana replied with a confused look on her face.
Chloe shrugged. "I'm hungry" she stated.
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