A/N: Ok, the title of this beautiful chappie is brought to you by the movie "Hook", lol if you've seen it you know what this is referring to.... WAHOO GRAD WEEKEND!!! sorry about that... just way to excited... I know it's short.. but I'll make it up to you i promise... but it's my secret as to how... :P

Undecided

By S. Ann Smith

Chapter nine: Thimbles and Buttons

"I should wear a bell?" Lex asked raising his eyebrow questioningly.

"Wow, Lex, that's such a good idea!" Chloe said laughing as Lex gave her a unintelligible blank stare. "Well, you do keep sneaking up on me." She said in her defence. It was true.

"I'll wear a bell if you buy one for me." His voice was low and steady as he inched towards her slowly.

"If you give me money, I'll buy one for you." She stated regaining her composure, as she stepped back, away from him. He was too close to her again, and it made her, for a lack of a better word: uneasy.

Although she'd never admit it aloud, he made her heart beat faster, and her knees go weak. But uneasy was a weak word. She loved hanging around him, and enjoyed the company and verbal judo that is Lex Luthor. But he purposely made her uneasy.

"If I had a dollar for every time I've heard that..."

"You'd what? She rose her eyebrow mimicking him. "Be a billionaire - oh wait, hold the press!" She put her hand up in the air as if she was signalling something.

"Har Har, your witty sarcasm is slaying me. Wouldn't I be the one buying the bell then?"

"And you'd be doing me a favour." Chloe said looking into his silvery blue orbs.

"You're right, that doesn't fall into the Luthor hand book for proper technique." Lex said starting to pace around the office as if he was seriously pondering something. "What about if I buy you a bell?" He asked humour dancing in his eyes.

"No, that won't do Mr. Luthor." She strung his last name out slowly.

"It's Lex." He said softly returning to the spot he had vacated minutes before.

"I know," She replied, her voice as soft, if not softer, than his.

"Just making sure you knew." He said once again inching closer to her. This time she didn't move away. Not that she wanted to. She found herself transfixed in place, basking in the warmth that was emanating from his intensely focused eyes.

When he leaned down to kiss her, she couldn't form any rational thought. The only thought that her usually apt brain could think of was that she was kissing Lex Luthor!

Kissing her was like heaven. It was better than his morning double espresso and definitely better than everything else in his life at this moment.

Now that he had kissed her, the ball was in her court. It was up to her to make him stop or the better alternative from his perspective, let him move farther.

She didn't push him away; she was asking him to move further. Chloe's hands were wrapped around his neck and he liked it.

Lex gently ran his tongue along the delicate crease of her lips. He was a little shocked when they opened readily for him. Grabbing her hips and pulling her closer to him, Lex snaked his tongue into her mouth.

Lips that eloquently swung verbal judo moves at him, and had told off his father were now brushing against his own in soft fluttering motions. Her soft tongue rocked against his in a way that Lex would have never imagined it could. But even when he imagined kissing Chloe all those lonely late nights he sat up in his silk sheets, they could have never prepared him for Chloe Sullivan.

This same Chloe Sullivan, daughter of his plant manager, the perky, coffee-drinking teen that was friends with his best friend. She was now his. All he had to do now was make sure she knew it.