Chloe hugged her legs even closer to her chest and looked down at her feet to avoid Clark's gaze. She took a deep breath and prepared to tell the story of her downward spiral.

"I came to New York six years ago. That was the biggest mistake of my life." Chloe said sadly.

"But I though that you got offered this great internship, an even better one then you got offered back in Metropolis." Clark interjected.

"I did and it was great in the beginning. Things couldn't have been going more perfectly and then I met Charlie."

"Yeah I haven't met him face to face yet but I already hate him." Clark said as his anger began to rise.

"He wasn't always like that Clark, well not in the beginning anyway. I met Charlie six years ago at the paper I was working at. He was a friend of my supervisor, well actually he was his drug dealer but I didn't find that out until later. When I first met him he was just so handsome and smart. He kind of reminded me of you." Chloe said, blushing.

"How could a dirt bag like that remind you of me?"

"Because Clark he was really nice guy and he was fun to be with and he made me feel less alone and nervous about being in this city all alone."

"Chloe you have no problem with city life. I mean you did grow up in Metropolis."

"Clark New York is so different from Metropolis. And besides it's not like we have Superman here to protect everyone." She said giving him a small smile.

"So what happened to you to make you end up in a place like this?"

"Charlie got in trouble with the police and since I was connected to him I lost my internship. They said they couldn't have someone associated with that type of stuff working for them. It would give them a bad image. So I lost that and then things started to get really bad with Charlie. He completely changed. It's like he turned into a completely different person. He started to hit me and treat me like crap. I tried so many times to get away from him but it's no use. Because I lost my internship I had to get this crappy little job at some run down little bar just to get by from week to week."

"Chloe you could have gone to your father for help you even could have come to me."

"Clark it's my life and my problems and I am handling things and besides how could I have ever come to you for help when you're in Metropolis ridding the world of all evil. Listen I'm tired so I'm going to go to bed and it was really nice to see you again but you should probably leave."

Chloe got up off of the couch and went into the bedroom. Clark watched her go and couldn't believe what he had just heard. This wasn't like his beautiful smart best friend at all. She was always strong and would never let anyone know what she was really feeling. There was no way that Clark was going to just leave her now. When she woke up in the morning he would be right there waiting for her.

In the next chapter Chloe and Clark will get out into the city and she will show him what her life is really like. I will try and update soon but you know it's Mothers Day so we'll see.