I, Chloe: Sequel to I, Lana.
My full name is Chloe Allison Sullivan. I always hated the named Chloe, It was so akward.. but hey, so am I.
I guess you can tell by my wardrobe I'm not small-town material. Thats because I'm a big city girl.
I was born in Metropolis. I lived in an apartment with my mom, dad and cousin Lois Lane (who is 2 years older than me).
I had the squeakiest voice as a child.. it was soo weird. I have an old tape of me saying "My name is Chloe and I'm 5" I resemble the voice of that cheerleader character on "Daria". Another one which always cracks me up to watch is one of me and Lois when I was about 3 or 4. The camera pans on us and she blows a raspberry at it. "Hey! stop it!" I squeak as she laughs at me. I was a cute kid, I'll admit.
I really don't like to talk about my childhood... It was fine until the arguing.
I always wanted to be just like my mom.. she was so... graceful....
She was a big city girl herself, and she wanted to be an actress. Her name was Caroline and she was amazing.
When I was 5, I'd never see her again. She just took off, out of the blue. I can still remember that day... I walked down stairs where Lois and my father were.
"Daddy" I asked "Can I go to the theater with mommy today?"
Lois stood up quietly and walked out of the room, My dad, who was making waffles (Which were burned to a crisp, I might add) looked at me and said.
"Chlo, We need to talk"
I couldn't understand it.. I just couldn't! I thought if I was good.. if I cleaned my room and did all my chores it would convince her to come back.. Then I got scared.. If mom left me Daddy might too.. She I worked so hard to be the 'perfect child'. Until dad sat me down and told me...
"You don't have to work hard to impress me.. I'm never going to leave you, Chloe"
That comforted me so much. I entered school that year, and cried many times during "Bring your mommy to class day" I wonder where she is sometimes... If she wonders about me... but then I just try to forget about it.
Growing up with a man was a little unusual, atleast I had Lois, who was older for advice.
You see, Lois parents had moved to Topeka and Lois refused to go with them, even at 2.. So she was left in the care of my father. She always was stubborn like that.. I think thats where I get my stubbornness from!
I loved to write, when I was 7 I won the "Short story award" in Richard Hills Elementary school, beating out all the 5th graders! The teachers called my dad and told him..
"Chloe is very talented, she has an amazing gift for writing... Has she ever considered journalism?"
Dad thought about it "Just think, my daughter! Star journalist of the Daily Planet!"
The other kids weren't as encouraging... I had long blonde hair, two large teeth (with about 3 baby teeth missing) and dressed like a 27-year-old because of the sophisticated style of Lois's hand-me-downs!
"She's so weird" Angela Kran, the most popular girl in 3rd grade said "Why can't she be normal?"
The boys were just as bad... I was definitely the outcast of elementary...
"You don't need to be like them, Chloe" Lois would tell me when I cried about it "One day they are all gonna be fat and stuff and you are gonna be a famous writer... they are gonna want your autograph!"
I would laugh and agree with her.
I continued to write and submit them to the school's literary magazine "Excitement!". At the 5th grade graduation I won the "Most outstanding student award"
"Who cares?" sneered Angela, the same one from 3rd grade "I have cheerleading and pageant awards"
"Angela" I replied "When your fat and I'm a famous writer we'll talk about who has the better awards!"
I still laugh today about me dissing the most popular girl in elementary school!
That summer before Jr. High, I grew up a lot... an I mean a lot!
One day I was in the bathroom and... well, you can guess what happened next.
"Daddy!" I called "I need Lois! Where is she?!"
She spent over an hour teaching me how to insert a tampon... I'm happy I didn't have to face that with a guy.. One of the benefits of having a girl cousin.
Plus there were ugly bumps on my face.. my first bout with acne at 11!
6th grade I was, as I put it, 'all grown up!'. I was really starting to grow into myself, I had all my teeth now. I still wasn't the most popular girl in school (but that did not bother me at all!)
Lois's parents moved back to Metropolis and asked her to move back with them. We had a tearful goodbye even though she was just 15 minutes away! It was weird not having a girl around anymore...
I wrote some more and won some more awards including::
"Young writers of Kansas-1999"
"Metropolis most promising young writer- 1999"
and
"Franklin Middle school writer of the year- 7th grade"
Then dad broke devastating news to me.. I was just starting 8th grade...
"I got a job a Luthorcorp!" He said "We are moving to Smallville!"
Where?! I have never even heard of that! I cried and cried.
"Please don't make me leave Metropolis! Please don't make me leave the city for that hicktown!!"
But he convinced me of how much money he would make and how much better it could be in Smallville.
So I packed, had yet another tearful goodbye with Lois and said goodbye to the wonderful city for some population 200 town!
My first day of Smallville Middle School I was entering 8th grade.. I was 13 years old and totally not looking forward to a school with only 450 people in it!
When I got out of the car the first thing I saw were a few girls wearing the shirt that read "Smallville Middle School cheerleaders" They had gold pom poms and were doing a cheer that went like this-
"We will beat them! We will win! Go Jr. Crows! We are the champions!"
Not very creative... There was one girl in particular.. I was just drawn to her.. She was Asian looking and her hair was in a ponytail
"We are the jr. crows!" She yelled and did a high kick "Go crows go!"
"You go girl!" One said "Show your spirit, Lana!"
Lana.. the name fit her perfectly.. very mysterious and like she was hiding something.. I decided to ignore her.. she was probably just another Angela Kran... Then I saw him!
My future best friend.. Geez, he was gorgeous... he was eating a pastry and had some of the cream on his chin.. He was laughing with my other future best friend.
"Hey, You must be the new girl!" He smiled at me
My heart did a backflip "Yeah. I'm Chloe Sullivan!"
"Clark Kent" He said "And this is Pete Ross"
"Hi" I smiled "Oh, and Clark.. you have a little bit on your chin.."
I motioned to him and he quickly wiped the pastry cream off embarrassed
"Great first impression, man" Pete joked, then he turned to me "We have been chosen to show you around the school"
So I followed them.. we got to were the cheerleaders were practicing.
"Who is that Hawaiian girl?" I asked
"Hawaiian? I don't think she's Hawaiian" Pete said "Anyway, thats Lana Lang.. shes in 8th grade with us and she is ultra popular.. head cheerleader and stuff... She's dating a high school junior!"
"Ew!" I said "Really?"
"Whitney Fordman" Clark told me "He is the star of the football team"
At lunch I waited for Clark and Pete...
"Gosh, this is so cool" I heard
I turned around to see Lana playing with my faux-fur bookbag
"It's faux, right?" She asked
"Yes, of course.. I'm in PETA"
"You are the new girl, right? My name is Lana Lang"
"I'm Chloe Sullivan.... So is it really true you are dating a high school junior..?"
Lana laughed "Yes, his name is Whitney Fordman and he is great.... I've known him since I was 5 and we have been dating since I was 11... Chloe, would you ever consider cheerleading? We are 3 girls short and could use some more people!"
I shook my head "I don't cheer... I write, so no"
Lana smiled understandably "Wow, thats great good luck with your writing and all.. I'm sure you write great!"
"Good luck with your cheerleading, Lana"
She smiled at me "I'll talk to you later"
Clark and Pete joined me next.
"I see you have talked to the queen bee of Smallville middle school" Pete said
"Yeah.. she is actually kind of sweet....."
Cark and I walked home from school that day.. He had told me he lived on a farm and I just needed to see it for myself.. It just seemed so cool!
"Wow" I said as I saw it "This is amazing..."
"It's just a farm" He laughed
We walked up the stars to his loft.
"Clark" I said
He turned around "What?"
I moved in and kissed him on the lips...we kissed for a few seconds...
"Woah" his voice cracked "Why did you do that?"
I smiled at him "I know you've been thinking about that all day so I decided to get it out of the way and be friends"
It was a first kiss for both of us..
During 8th grade Clark, Pete and I all became best friends.. Three Musketeers!... I was aware of Clark's crush on Lana but I was hoping that maybe he would notice me... In the 8th grade notables I won "Most likely to succeed" which was pretty cool.
As I entered high school I decided to make a change... I cut my mid-back- length hair to a cute bob.
"Chloe!" Pete said as he saw me "You look amazing!"
Only a freshman, I was offered editor of the school newspaper.. And I loved hitting a nerve.. I was on my way to being a journalist!
I started a wall called "The Wall of weird", All of the weird stuff that had happened since the meteor shower.. including the magazine cover on Lana Lang.
I was aware of Pete's crush on me... but there were never really sparks... and besides... I had eyes for only Clark Kent, which I now see as a foolish thing.. but when you're 14, you don't know any better!
Lana and I never talked since that first day of 8th grade but I noticed her.. she was.. perfect! Star cheerleader, Homecoming Queen... I didn't admit it to anyone.. but I dreamed about what it would be like to be her... To have Clark long for me.. to have other girls want to be me...
Then she quit cheerleading... and her popularity dropped like a ton of bricks! And we became... well, friends!
Lana joined our little circle and became our new best friend... Clark loved that... I was a bit iffy.. Lana was great but it was hard to get Clark's attention with her always around! Lana was still dating Whitney.. but the romance was rocky... they broke up and got back together constantly. He gave her a lot of drama.
I became victims to lots of guys my freshman year that I barely knew who to trust... it seemed like if they liked me... they would want to kill me!
Then, at the end of the year something I had been waiting for happened.. Clark asked me to the spring formal!
The evening was magical... It was all I had been waiting for all year. Just as we were moving for a kiss an announcement was made.. there was a tornado warning in southern Smallville.... Where Lana was dropping off her boyfriend who was entering the Marines. Needless to say, Clark dropped me to save Lana... It was a matter of life or death.. so I tried not to take it to personally. I told Clark we should stay friends.. as my heart broke in two.
That summer I interned at the Daily Planet.. it was great..so amazing.. It totally took my mind off Smallville..
Returning was weird.. I tried to let everything be normal until one day I found Lana in the Torch office looking up emancipation rules. Nell asked her to move to Metropolis. .but she couldn't leave her friends, school and coffee shop.
Then I did the unthinkable... I asked her to move in with me!
I don't know why I did it.. I guess I felt bad for Lana, having to move away and all.. Or I missed living with a girl since my cousin moved out...
Or maybe it was deeper than that... I wanted to know Lana.. the real Lana.. see her without the mask she put on everyday.. See what was really going on in that head of hers.
She was so thankful... We've had a lot of fights.. it was inevitable... but we are best friends and 'sisters'.
I've had to be there for her a lot of times... I never had any idea how sad and confused she was.. she seemed to have it all. She was beautiful, smart, successful and half the school was in love with her.... but it was never enough for her. I first noticed her crying at night the 2nd night. I really saw a new side of her.. stopped looking at her as a goddess and saw a regular pained girl.
One day I found out that Clark was ill, very very ill. He could have died. I remember sitting next to him on the couch, pouring out my heart. Telling him how much I love him and that I'm the girl of his dreams.
"Lana" he said softly, in delirium
As my heart broke in two... He loved her.. not me...
I decided to give up on him.. He was my best friend.. and that all he'd ever be.
Throughout the last few months a lot of stuff happened that would take hours to fill the rest of these pages with.. stuff tat has tested my relationship with Clark and Lana..
As I write this now Clark had just forgiven me for teaming up with Lionel Luthor to investigate him.. a mistake I regret with all my heart.. Lana and I are great.. no conflicts.
It's been a long, strange trip and I know it was only get stranger... but I'll tell you one thing... As strange as it's been and is gonna be... I wouldn't change a thing.
My full name is Chloe Allison Sullivan. I always hated the named Chloe, It was so akward.. but hey, so am I.
I guess you can tell by my wardrobe I'm not small-town material. Thats because I'm a big city girl.
I was born in Metropolis. I lived in an apartment with my mom, dad and cousin Lois Lane (who is 2 years older than me).
I had the squeakiest voice as a child.. it was soo weird. I have an old tape of me saying "My name is Chloe and I'm 5" I resemble the voice of that cheerleader character on "Daria". Another one which always cracks me up to watch is one of me and Lois when I was about 3 or 4. The camera pans on us and she blows a raspberry at it. "Hey! stop it!" I squeak as she laughs at me. I was a cute kid, I'll admit.
I really don't like to talk about my childhood... It was fine until the arguing.
I always wanted to be just like my mom.. she was so... graceful....
She was a big city girl herself, and she wanted to be an actress. Her name was Caroline and she was amazing.
When I was 5, I'd never see her again. She just took off, out of the blue. I can still remember that day... I walked down stairs where Lois and my father were.
"Daddy" I asked "Can I go to the theater with mommy today?"
Lois stood up quietly and walked out of the room, My dad, who was making waffles (Which were burned to a crisp, I might add) looked at me and said.
"Chlo, We need to talk"
I couldn't understand it.. I just couldn't! I thought if I was good.. if I cleaned my room and did all my chores it would convince her to come back.. Then I got scared.. If mom left me Daddy might too.. She I worked so hard to be the 'perfect child'. Until dad sat me down and told me...
"You don't have to work hard to impress me.. I'm never going to leave you, Chloe"
That comforted me so much. I entered school that year, and cried many times during "Bring your mommy to class day" I wonder where she is sometimes... If she wonders about me... but then I just try to forget about it.
Growing up with a man was a little unusual, atleast I had Lois, who was older for advice.
You see, Lois parents had moved to Topeka and Lois refused to go with them, even at 2.. So she was left in the care of my father. She always was stubborn like that.. I think thats where I get my stubbornness from!
I loved to write, when I was 7 I won the "Short story award" in Richard Hills Elementary school, beating out all the 5th graders! The teachers called my dad and told him..
"Chloe is very talented, she has an amazing gift for writing... Has she ever considered journalism?"
Dad thought about it "Just think, my daughter! Star journalist of the Daily Planet!"
The other kids weren't as encouraging... I had long blonde hair, two large teeth (with about 3 baby teeth missing) and dressed like a 27-year-old because of the sophisticated style of Lois's hand-me-downs!
"She's so weird" Angela Kran, the most popular girl in 3rd grade said "Why can't she be normal?"
The boys were just as bad... I was definitely the outcast of elementary...
"You don't need to be like them, Chloe" Lois would tell me when I cried about it "One day they are all gonna be fat and stuff and you are gonna be a famous writer... they are gonna want your autograph!"
I would laugh and agree with her.
I continued to write and submit them to the school's literary magazine "Excitement!". At the 5th grade graduation I won the "Most outstanding student award"
"Who cares?" sneered Angela, the same one from 3rd grade "I have cheerleading and pageant awards"
"Angela" I replied "When your fat and I'm a famous writer we'll talk about who has the better awards!"
I still laugh today about me dissing the most popular girl in elementary school!
That summer before Jr. High, I grew up a lot... an I mean a lot!
One day I was in the bathroom and... well, you can guess what happened next.
"Daddy!" I called "I need Lois! Where is she?!"
She spent over an hour teaching me how to insert a tampon... I'm happy I didn't have to face that with a guy.. One of the benefits of having a girl cousin.
Plus there were ugly bumps on my face.. my first bout with acne at 11!
6th grade I was, as I put it, 'all grown up!'. I was really starting to grow into myself, I had all my teeth now. I still wasn't the most popular girl in school (but that did not bother me at all!)
Lois's parents moved back to Metropolis and asked her to move back with them. We had a tearful goodbye even though she was just 15 minutes away! It was weird not having a girl around anymore...
I wrote some more and won some more awards including::
"Young writers of Kansas-1999"
"Metropolis most promising young writer- 1999"
and
"Franklin Middle school writer of the year- 7th grade"
Then dad broke devastating news to me.. I was just starting 8th grade...
"I got a job a Luthorcorp!" He said "We are moving to Smallville!"
Where?! I have never even heard of that! I cried and cried.
"Please don't make me leave Metropolis! Please don't make me leave the city for that hicktown!!"
But he convinced me of how much money he would make and how much better it could be in Smallville.
So I packed, had yet another tearful goodbye with Lois and said goodbye to the wonderful city for some population 200 town!
My first day of Smallville Middle School I was entering 8th grade.. I was 13 years old and totally not looking forward to a school with only 450 people in it!
When I got out of the car the first thing I saw were a few girls wearing the shirt that read "Smallville Middle School cheerleaders" They had gold pom poms and were doing a cheer that went like this-
"We will beat them! We will win! Go Jr. Crows! We are the champions!"
Not very creative... There was one girl in particular.. I was just drawn to her.. She was Asian looking and her hair was in a ponytail
"We are the jr. crows!" She yelled and did a high kick "Go crows go!"
"You go girl!" One said "Show your spirit, Lana!"
Lana.. the name fit her perfectly.. very mysterious and like she was hiding something.. I decided to ignore her.. she was probably just another Angela Kran... Then I saw him!
My future best friend.. Geez, he was gorgeous... he was eating a pastry and had some of the cream on his chin.. He was laughing with my other future best friend.
"Hey, You must be the new girl!" He smiled at me
My heart did a backflip "Yeah. I'm Chloe Sullivan!"
"Clark Kent" He said "And this is Pete Ross"
"Hi" I smiled "Oh, and Clark.. you have a little bit on your chin.."
I motioned to him and he quickly wiped the pastry cream off embarrassed
"Great first impression, man" Pete joked, then he turned to me "We have been chosen to show you around the school"
So I followed them.. we got to were the cheerleaders were practicing.
"Who is that Hawaiian girl?" I asked
"Hawaiian? I don't think she's Hawaiian" Pete said "Anyway, thats Lana Lang.. shes in 8th grade with us and she is ultra popular.. head cheerleader and stuff... She's dating a high school junior!"
"Ew!" I said "Really?"
"Whitney Fordman" Clark told me "He is the star of the football team"
At lunch I waited for Clark and Pete...
"Gosh, this is so cool" I heard
I turned around to see Lana playing with my faux-fur bookbag
"It's faux, right?" She asked
"Yes, of course.. I'm in PETA"
"You are the new girl, right? My name is Lana Lang"
"I'm Chloe Sullivan.... So is it really true you are dating a high school junior..?"
Lana laughed "Yes, his name is Whitney Fordman and he is great.... I've known him since I was 5 and we have been dating since I was 11... Chloe, would you ever consider cheerleading? We are 3 girls short and could use some more people!"
I shook my head "I don't cheer... I write, so no"
Lana smiled understandably "Wow, thats great good luck with your writing and all.. I'm sure you write great!"
"Good luck with your cheerleading, Lana"
She smiled at me "I'll talk to you later"
Clark and Pete joined me next.
"I see you have talked to the queen bee of Smallville middle school" Pete said
"Yeah.. she is actually kind of sweet....."
Cark and I walked home from school that day.. He had told me he lived on a farm and I just needed to see it for myself.. It just seemed so cool!
"Wow" I said as I saw it "This is amazing..."
"It's just a farm" He laughed
We walked up the stars to his loft.
"Clark" I said
He turned around "What?"
I moved in and kissed him on the lips...we kissed for a few seconds...
"Woah" his voice cracked "Why did you do that?"
I smiled at him "I know you've been thinking about that all day so I decided to get it out of the way and be friends"
It was a first kiss for both of us..
During 8th grade Clark, Pete and I all became best friends.. Three Musketeers!... I was aware of Clark's crush on Lana but I was hoping that maybe he would notice me... In the 8th grade notables I won "Most likely to succeed" which was pretty cool.
As I entered high school I decided to make a change... I cut my mid-back- length hair to a cute bob.
"Chloe!" Pete said as he saw me "You look amazing!"
Only a freshman, I was offered editor of the school newspaper.. And I loved hitting a nerve.. I was on my way to being a journalist!
I started a wall called "The Wall of weird", All of the weird stuff that had happened since the meteor shower.. including the magazine cover on Lana Lang.
I was aware of Pete's crush on me... but there were never really sparks... and besides... I had eyes for only Clark Kent, which I now see as a foolish thing.. but when you're 14, you don't know any better!
Lana and I never talked since that first day of 8th grade but I noticed her.. she was.. perfect! Star cheerleader, Homecoming Queen... I didn't admit it to anyone.. but I dreamed about what it would be like to be her... To have Clark long for me.. to have other girls want to be me...
Then she quit cheerleading... and her popularity dropped like a ton of bricks! And we became... well, friends!
Lana joined our little circle and became our new best friend... Clark loved that... I was a bit iffy.. Lana was great but it was hard to get Clark's attention with her always around! Lana was still dating Whitney.. but the romance was rocky... they broke up and got back together constantly. He gave her a lot of drama.
I became victims to lots of guys my freshman year that I barely knew who to trust... it seemed like if they liked me... they would want to kill me!
Then, at the end of the year something I had been waiting for happened.. Clark asked me to the spring formal!
The evening was magical... It was all I had been waiting for all year. Just as we were moving for a kiss an announcement was made.. there was a tornado warning in southern Smallville.... Where Lana was dropping off her boyfriend who was entering the Marines. Needless to say, Clark dropped me to save Lana... It was a matter of life or death.. so I tried not to take it to personally. I told Clark we should stay friends.. as my heart broke in two.
That summer I interned at the Daily Planet.. it was great..so amazing.. It totally took my mind off Smallville..
Returning was weird.. I tried to let everything be normal until one day I found Lana in the Torch office looking up emancipation rules. Nell asked her to move to Metropolis. .but she couldn't leave her friends, school and coffee shop.
Then I did the unthinkable... I asked her to move in with me!
I don't know why I did it.. I guess I felt bad for Lana, having to move away and all.. Or I missed living with a girl since my cousin moved out...
Or maybe it was deeper than that... I wanted to know Lana.. the real Lana.. see her without the mask she put on everyday.. See what was really going on in that head of hers.
She was so thankful... We've had a lot of fights.. it was inevitable... but we are best friends and 'sisters'.
I've had to be there for her a lot of times... I never had any idea how sad and confused she was.. she seemed to have it all. She was beautiful, smart, successful and half the school was in love with her.... but it was never enough for her. I first noticed her crying at night the 2nd night. I really saw a new side of her.. stopped looking at her as a goddess and saw a regular pained girl.
One day I found out that Clark was ill, very very ill. He could have died. I remember sitting next to him on the couch, pouring out my heart. Telling him how much I love him and that I'm the girl of his dreams.
"Lana" he said softly, in delirium
As my heart broke in two... He loved her.. not me...
I decided to give up on him.. He was my best friend.. and that all he'd ever be.
Throughout the last few months a lot of stuff happened that would take hours to fill the rest of these pages with.. stuff tat has tested my relationship with Clark and Lana..
As I write this now Clark had just forgiven me for teaming up with Lionel Luthor to investigate him.. a mistake I regret with all my heart.. Lana and I are great.. no conflicts.
It's been a long, strange trip and I know it was only get stranger... but I'll tell you one thing... As strange as it's been and is gonna be... I wouldn't change a thing.