Chloe woke up at three in the afternoon and stumbled her way into the bathroom. She took a quick shower, got dressed, put on her dark eye makeup that brought out those gorgeous eyes, and then went out to the living room. She wasn't really surprised when she saw Clark Kent asleep on her couch. Once she told him all about Charlie she had a feeling that he would want to stay and try to protect her. She picked up her leather coat from a chair in the corner and slid it on. She slowly approached Clark who had fallen asleep sitting up. Chloe lightly shook his shoulder. He slowly woke up and gave Chloe one of those dopey farm boy smiles that made her knees go weak. She was surprised that after all these years he still had that same affect on her.
"Clark you fell asleep sitting up." She chuckled.
"Yeah looks like I did. I was waiting to see if our friend Charlie was going to stop by."
"Clark that was sweet of you but really I'm fine. Don't you think that you should be getting back to Metropolis? I bet as we are speaking right now a woman is getting mugged and a bank is getting robbed."
Clark pulled Chloe down onto the couch next to him and said, "Chloe I haven't seen you in six years. The only person I want to be with right now is you."
Chloe knew that he was being sincere. She stood up from the couch and walked over to the front door.
"Hey where are you going?" Clark asked, standing up.
"I have got to get to work. You can come if you want." She said walking out of the apartment.
Clark quickly followed after her. There was no way he was going to pass up the chance to spend time with Chloe.
As they walked down the sketchy city street Clark noticed how many men were staring at Chloe as she passed by them. For some reason unknown Clark didn't like this at all but he had to admit a few times he did catch himself staring at Chloe and smiling. She just seemed to effortlessly blend into the rhythm of the city. She turned down a small dark alley and walked through a back door into a very unattractive kitchen of a bar. Clark followed after her and they walked through the swinging doors into the bar. At this hour of the day only alcoholics and depressed businessmen would be tossing back a few rounds. The bartender nodded his head towards Chloe, acknowledging her. Chloe went behind the bar and Clark sat down on a stool in front of her. A middle aged man who smelled of whiskey and buffalo wings sat down next to Chloe and slapped a few crumpled dollars onto the bar, indicating that he wanted another few shots of whiskey. Chloe lined up a few shot glasses on the bar and poured them full of the man's poison of choice. After he downed two of them and drunkenly smiled at Chloe and she sweetly smiled back.
"So what do you say about today Chloe?" The drunken man slurred out.
"No Frank I will not marry you today but come back tomorrow and try your luck again."
The drunken man Frank drank the last of his shots and got up off the stool to leave. He looked at Clark and slung his arm around his shoulder.
"You got to be careful of this one son. She's sure is beautiful but she will break your heart every damn time." Frank said hiccupping in Clark's face. He winked at Chloe and then staggered away.
Chloe stopped wiping down the bar when she noticed that Clark was staring at her.
"What?" She asked.
"So Frank has had his eye on you huh?" He teased.
"Clark Frank is a veteran alcoholic who is completely harmless. He asks me to marry him every single day when he sees me."
"And you shoot the poor guy down every time."
"Who knows Clark if my knight and shining armor doesn't come soon I might take up old Frank on his offer."
Clark was about to say something to Chloe about her last comment when Chloe's boss came up behind her and interrupted him."
"Hey Blondie you don't have to work tonight." Her boss told her.
"Really? But why I mean I just got hereā¦"
Her boss cut her off and said, "Look I can see you got a new friend here with you so take the day off and spend some time with him. Besides the four o' clock drunk rush should be here any minute and I couldn't let a pretty young thing like you handle them all. It would be like throwing a person with a freshly cut leg to the sharks."
"Thanks Rick but really it's ok and I have handled the drunk rush many times by myself in the past." Chloe replied confidently.
"Come on kid just skip out now. No one will ever know." He said winking at her.
Chloe shot him a grin and kissed him on the cheek.
"Thanks Rick you're the best."
"Hey that's what they all say kid."
Chloe walked over from behind the counter towards Clark and took him by the hand. Once they were outside she looked up and down the streets and then at Clark.
" Hey that was nice off you boss Chloe." Clark said.
"Yeah he's a sweet guy. So Clark the night is extremely young. Anything you want to do we can do." Chloe said putting her arm around Clark's shoulder.
Clark raised his eyebrow and said, "Well I'm knew to the city, what do you usually do for fun around here?"
"Well lets see shall we there's clubs, bars, bars and oh yeah more bars."
"I'm not exactly the bar or club type of guy. What do you say we go back to your place and just watch a movie or something."
"Clark we are both young energetic people and you want to go sit inside and watch a movie."
"I'll tell you what if we go back to your place and watch a movie we can go out anywhere you want after that."
"Ok Kent you got yourself a deal." She said as she shook hands with him.
They walked back to her apartment and when they got inside she looked the door behind them. After 15 minutes of channel surfing Clark had finally settled on an old black and white movie. They had been sitting and watching it in silence for almost and hour when Chloe caught Clark staring at her.
"Why do you keep doing that?" She asked him.
"Doing what?" He said, completely aware that he had been staring at her for the full hour and not watching the movie.
"I keep on catching you staring at me Clark. Do I have something gross on my face that you're not telling me about?"
"There is nothing gross on your face Chloe trust me. I just keep on staring you because you're beautiful. You can't blame a guy for that."
"Real smooth Kent, real smooth."
Chloe turned her attention back to the movie but Clark quickly leaned over and placed a soft kiss on her lips. Chloe was a little surprised at first but she welcomed him as he began to kiss her even harder. The movie was soon forgotten and they were quickly lost in each other. They were both so caught up in each other that neither one of them noticed Charlie and his group of friends standing at the door.
"Hey Chloe." Charlie said angrily.
Chloe pushed Clark off of her and a horrible feeling of terror and shock filled her body.
"Sorry did I interrupt anything?" Charlie asked as his three friends came into the
Apartment fully and closed the door.
DUN! DUN! DUN! I will try and update the next chapter soon. I hope you all liked this one.
