4.

The Mack family was sitting around the dinner table, having their first official meal in their new home.

"I met the neighbours today."

"And are they your typical farm bred family?" George Mack asked. Alex rolled her eyes at her father. He was always so caught up in molecules and chemical compounds that he didn't realize what he had said.

"Don't roll your eyes at me Alex." George said with a smile taking a bite of his wife's famous casserole. "How was school?"

"Very - interesting?"

"She met a boy." Alex looked at her mother quickly. She was sure that she was glaring.

"I did not!" Then she thought about how that sounded. "Well, I did meet one, but he's just my chemistry partner."

Her dad's face lit up. "Chemistry hmm?"

Barbara looked at her husband and winked. "They have Chemistry together."

"It's nothing like that."

"Methinks the lady doth protest too much."

"Since when do you quote Shakespeare, Mom?"

"I'm just saying that sometimes your heart tells you one thing, and your brain tells you something else."

"Annie told me that once." Alex smiled as the phone rang. "That's Annie!" She jumped up and grabbed the phone.

"So much for a nice dinner." Barbara said throwing her hands up in the air.

"Hello?" Alex questioned while shooting her mother a look that could have made titans fall.

"Alex?"

"Annie!" Then she covered the mouth piece. "Excuse me." She said and sprinted up the stairs.

"Alex, what's wrong? You sounded worried in your message." Came Annie's worried voice from California.

Making sure that her door was closed, she spoke softly. "It didn't work."

"I don't understand. What didn't work? Alex you're not making sense."

"The antidote. It didn't work."

"They came back?" Annie was in her dorm, this Alex knew, and couldn't talk openly about it.

"Yeah, today. What should I do Annie?"

"Don't do anything to disrupt them. Don't tell our parents anything, they'll just panic."

"Are you sure?"

"Absolutely. So are there any cute boys in Kansas?"

Alex laughed. "You'll just have to find out when you come for Christmas."

"Fine. Do you have a boyfriend yet?"

"Annie! I've only been here for one day!"

"So that's a yes?" Annie's voice smiled on the other end.

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Chloe was sitting in an overstuffed chair in the library of the Luthor Mansion. Lex was on the phone with some important business associate. Since their relationship was a secret, she had to be quiet while he was on the phone. She took a pen and scribbled 'Food' on a piece of paper and waved it in front of him. He nodded, and she kissed his forehead softly, before leaving the room.

She was puttering around the kitchen making a sandwich. She hadn't eaten since lunch, and was famished.

Suddenly strong arms wrapped themselves around her waist. "Hungry?" She leaned into the touch.

"You have no idea." She said turning around in his arms. She kissed him deeply. Squeezing his butt softly she looked him in his eyes. "Now make me a sandwich." She smiled.