Chapter 2: Meeting Main Characters
"....and the guy can't remember anything, and another one's missing," a short, plump, red haired employee of Luther Corp. tells his very important boss, Lex Luther.
"So why are you telling me?" Lex asks, in his very nice voice.
"Well, I thought that you should know, since it is very unusual."
"I've had my share of unusual things, but this doesn't equal up to them. So it's not that big of a deal. Look into it if you want to," Lex says, "matter of fact" like.
"Yes sir," the employee says, disappointed.
"Clark, your cousin's going to come here this weekend," Martha Kent says to her "adopted" son, casually starting to slice some tomatoes that she was preparing very early for their dinner that night.
"Which cousin?" Clark says, trying to remember one of them that might be coming. He then digs into his pancake that's sitting there before him just begging him to eat it.
"Amber," Martha says, missing her finger with the knife within an inch. And then, when she looks up at Clark, seeing no sign of recognition on his face, she says, "her mother disappeared two years ago, and her father died when she was three."
"Oh, yeah, her," he says, not really interested, looking at the piece of pancake on his face that he's about to stuff into his face.
"Uh huh. We tried to get a hold of her after her mother's funeral, your Dad's sister, and have been ever since. We could never reach her, but finally we have, and we invited her over."
"Oh, that's nice," Clark says. Then he puts his fork down andglances at the clock hanging crookedly on the wall from the last time he got thrown by an unnatural being (it had happened to be against the house), and he realizes that he's late for school.
So he runs out the door after quickly giving his mother a kiss, then running super fast like he usually has to, to make it to school. His mother just smiles and goes back to her chopping, paying a little more attention now that she wasn't thinking of Amber.
Putting on her new work outfit, Amber turns to the mirror in her room, giving herself a good luck before she had to head to work. She notes all of her features, loving herself and her looks. (A little bit of a big head.) She starts at her head, noting her nice cheekbones, her green eyes, her perfectly shaped red lips, and her long black hair. She actually skips the rest of her body because she knows that its skinny and curvy, and good enough. (If she dares to look at it, she gets picky and finds all these spots of fat, and well, yeah...)
Then before she leaves she grabs her necklace. It was a beautifully carved, green stone hanging on a fine metal wire. It was a present from her mother, right before she passed away. Her mother had gotten it from a store in Smallville, and claimed that it had special powers, and Amber didn't disagree. She had never really seen anything happen, but sometimes when she wore it she felt stronger, exactly at the right moments.
She then leaves after grabbing "her" suitcase, and heads to the Luther Corp. building in Metropolis.