Chloe had been laying around doing nothing the whole morning. Pete was going someplace or other with one of his many girlfriends, and Lana had just left in a hurry. Chloe decided to go see Clark. 'Who knows?' she thought, 'Maybe if I ask really nice he'll take me for another run!'

Chloe took a little known shortcut to the Kents farm because she was so excited. She arrived at the house to find that Lana had just pulled up also. To her surprise, and horror, she saw Clark coming around the barn. He was floating. Apparently Lana had seen this too, because Chloe heard a small gasp and Lana went limp in her seat. Chloe jumped out of her car, and ran to check on Lana, who had fainted.

During all this Clark had been attempting to land, but was so freaked out that he dropped ten feet to the ground, sending up a big cloud of dust. He righted himself and ran over to where Chloe was trying to wake Lana, unsuccessfully.

"Clark!" Chloe said when he got there, "Clark, you were...you were flying!"

"Yeah, I know, I had floated above my bed once before, but I fell when I woke up. This morning, my Mom came in, and I was floating again, and I started falling, but I thought 'UP UP UP!!!'" at this, Clark rose a foot off the ground, startling Chloe and himself. "Whoops!" Clark's feet lowered towards the ground, but after a couple inches he just dropped and smiled sheepishly. "I still need to work on my landings," he explained.

Chloe just stared at him,"Okay then..."

Lana woke up and looked around trying to remember where she was. She saw Clark, her eyes widened, and she desperately scrambled to the farthest side of the car from him. "You...you were..." Lana tried.

Clark reached his hand towards her but she scrunched herself up against the car door. Clark pulled his hand back. "Lana, I...I would never hurt you..." Clark said, devastated.

"Don't touch me!" she yelled, "What [i]are[/i] you?!?!" she said. Before he could answer, she continued, " I thought you said you weren't affected by the meteors! I didn't think you would go so low as to flat-out [i]lie[/i] to me!"

"Lana, I wasn't infected by the meteors!" Clark said.

Chloe could see the hurt in Clark's eyes. "Lana you really should just listen to him," Chloe told her.

Lana glared at them both, hesitating. Finally, she said, "Fine. I'll listen, but don't expect it to make me feel any nicer about you lying to me."

Clark looked slightly less upset. "We need to go somewhere...else...how about the loft, okay?" He reached out his hand to help Lana up, but she quickly exited the car through the door opposite Clark.

They all walked up to Clark's loft and Lana, still scared, sat as far away from Clark as she could get.

Lana looked at Clark expectantly, and he began talking. "Um, okay, the first thing you need to believe me about, is that I am [b]not[/b] a meteor freak, okay? I'm an...the meteors came with me when I landed on...on Earth." Lana's eyes grew scared, then angry. "Lana, I'm sorry, but let me finish. It was...my parents-my birthparents sent me here in a small spacecraft when I was a baby. They- my planet...it exploded right after I left it. The Kryptonite" Lana gave Clark a confused look, "That's what the meteors are called, they're rocks...pieces of my planet. They hid my ship from radar when I came down."

Lana did then what Clark feared worst. "You-you killed my parents!" she yelled.

Clark was hit hard by that statement. He looked at Lana, clearly angry. She could have sworn she saw his eyes flash red. He gave Chloe an apologetic look. He stood up and ran past as a blur. Both girls jumped up and ran to the loft window. all they could see was the swaying cornstalks as Clark ran through them.