Chapter 13
Clark and Phoebe drove around town just talking for hours. Phoebe didn't know so much time had passed until they noticed the sun was coming up.
"That's Chloe's car at Pete's." Clark said as they drove by a blue farm house.
"Do you think she spent the night there?" Phoebe asked. "I don't know it looks like." Clark said.
"Would that be a bad thing? I sensed that Pete was having trouble…" Phoebe stopped because Clark was giving her a look.
"I told you sometimes I feel what other people feel. And I could feel what Pete felt when I was around him today." Phoebe said.
"Can you do that with everyone?" Clark asked.
"You want to know if I can read you. I can most of the time." Phoebe said.
"I knew a telapath once." Clark whispered.
"Even Lex?" Clark asked arching an eyebrow.
"Yep. I'm all feelings all the time." Phoebe said.
"Must be tough. I got the whole super hearing thing which is pretty annoying I can't imagine feeling what everyone else is feeling." Clark said.
"Super hearing. Super strength. And super speed. What else you got that's super." Phoebe asked cocking an eyebrow. Clark blushed
. "I can see through things too." Clark admitted.
"X-ray vision?" Phoebe asked intrigued.
They had discussed his powers earlier but he hadn't mentioned these.
"You don't believe me." Clark said.
"Who's the Empath here?" Phoebe said. Clark smiled at her.
"Okay prove it. What color is my bra?" Phoebe said.
Clark looked at her shocked for a moment.
"It's black Phoebe I totally saw the strap. You are wearing a tank top you know." He told her.
"Okay what kind of underwear am I wearing?" Phoebe said.
"You are not going to let this go are you?" Clark said.
"No." Phoebe said grinning from ear to ear.
"Fine." Clark said as he lowered his eyes and focused in on Phoebe's lap.
Then he looked back up at her. "Pink." He said.
"With this little white ribbon on the front. I think they're thongs." Clark told her.
Phoebe was gaping at him in shock.
"Any more brain busters?" Clark asked.
"If you really want to know what your friends are doing I suggest we turn back and you use your X-ray vision to find out." Phoebe said.
"What if they are doing something I don't want to see?" Clark asked.
Phoebe shrugged.
"It's a total invasion of privacy." Clark said as he turned the truck around and headed back to Pete's house.
"They probably fell asleep watching a movie or something." Clark said as he pulled up in the drive way.
Pete's car, Chloe's beetle and Pete's dad's truck were all parked in various places in drive way but Clark didn't see Pete's mom's SUV.
Clark dug in his pocket for his phone.
"I'm gonna call him and see if they want to go over to Lex's." Clark said opening his flip phone and pressing a button.
Pete answered on like the fifth ring.
"Hello." Pete said sounding like he had been asleep.
"Hey man. I just wanted to see if you and Chloe want to go to Lex's this morning." Clark asked.
"How in the hell do you know Chloe's here?" Pete asked.
"I'm in the driveway. And since you brought it up. Did she spend the night?" Clark asked.
"It's too early in the damn morning for the inquisition." Pete replied.
"Hold on a sec." Pete said.
He could hear Chloe mumble something. He didn't bother using his super hearing to catch it.
"You want to go over to Lex's with Clark?" Clark heard Pete asked her.
"Yeah sure." He heard Chloe reply.
"We're coming down just give us a few minutes,"
"Take all the time you need." Clark said with a smirk.
"Tell Clark I heard that. Don't make me have to come out there and make me break my foot off in his ass." Chloe said loud enough for Clark to hear with out his super hearing.
"Bye guys see ya in a few." Clark said hanging up. "So are they coming?" Phoebe asked. "Yeah they are on their way down now." Clark said.
Ten minutes later Pete and Chloe came out of the house. Chloe was the first one to walk over to the Jag.
"Sweet ride." Chloe said leaning into the driver's side window.
"Hey Phoebe." She said waving.
"Hey." Phoebe said back.
Pete came over next.
"Maybe I should have asked you what you did last night." Pete said and Clark blushed Phoebe took his hand.
"You guys riding with us or you going in your car?" Clark asked.
"I'll drive." Chloe said as she turned and headed over to her car.
"She always has to be the one doing everything." Pete said.
"I bet." Clark said.
Chloe scowled at them as she opened the driver's side door. "Don't make me come over there Clark." Chloe said.
"You need to put your woman in check." Clark said stuttering a little.
He knew if any of his friends could kick his ass it would be Chloe.
"You put her in check." Pete said.
"She's your woman." Clark told him.
Chloe honked the horn. "Damn woman. I can't talk to nobody for you over there honking the horn." Pete grumbled as he started over to Chloe's car.
When they got to Lex's a member of his staff directed them to the dining room where Chris, Lana, and Lex were sitting around the table with an insane amount of food. Clark, Phoebe, Chloe, and Pete burst out laughing at the sight of them.
Lana looked like she had what Clark thought was a dead cat on her head. Lex had something red around his mouth Clark hoped it was strawberry jam. Chris had pancake batter on various parts of his face. And they were all in various states of undress. The guys were both shirt less and Lana wore a partially see through camisole and not much else. Clark wondered what they had been up to last night.
He looked at Phoebe and he knew she was thinking the same thing.
"Hey!" Chris shouted with a mouth full of food.
"You guys hungry? There's more than enough for everyone." Chris said.
"Your cook sure laid out a spread." Pete said as he pulled out a chair and sat down in it.
"Actually Chris made breakfast this morning." Lex said.
Clark pulled out a chair and motioned for Phoebe to sit.
Chloe was still standing watching with Clark with abject envy.
She stood behind Pete who was already eating and cleared her throat loudly. Pete ignored her until Lana kicked him under the table.
"Shit. What you do that for?" Pete asked finally.
Lana scowled at him. Clark tried not to laugh when he pointed to Chloe who was by then seething.
Pete looked at her and said, "What? She ain't nobody."
Chloe huffed and smacked Pete upside the head. She pulled out her own chair. Clark and everyone at the table who were not Pete and Chloe burst out laughing.
Once the laugher died down Pete asked Lana, "So, how are you and your Seabiscuit feeling this morning?" He asked just as politely as he knew how.
"What?" She asked having no idea what he meant.
"That thing on your head." Pete said.
Clark looked like he was trying not to laugh. Phoebe clamped a hand over her mouth. Lex was smirking. Chris had his mouth hanging open in shock and Chloe burst out laughing.
Lana grabbed a sliver serving tray andused it asa mirror. Her hair was a disaster.
She felt her cheeks glow red and then she realized how funny she looked and laughed with the others, "Why didn't you tell me my hair was looking this bad?" She asked Chris.
He shrugged his shoulders and said, "I thought it was sexy."
Lana rolled her eyes and snorted.
Chris made slightly obscene gestures at her and blew kisses. Lana notice how Phoebe leaned in to whisper something to Clark and Lex shook his head. Pete and Chloe were eating too hard to notice anything.
Phoebe knew something had happened between Chris and Lana. She didn't need to be an empath to know that. Pete and Chloe were hilarious. She had been laughing to hard to really eat. She took a bite of pancakes. They were really good.
"These are really good. You are your mother's son you made these from scratch didn't you?" Phoebe asked. Chris nodded.
"Lex couldn't find the pancake mix." Chris told her.
"I told you I don't cook I rarely go into the kitchen. How am I supposed to know where Maureen keeps the pancake mix?" Lex said.
"You could have at least checked the cupboards." Chris said.
Phoebe enjoyed the way they argued like and old married couple.
"Maybe I would have if you wouldn't have had me bent over for half the morning…" Lex stopped in mid sentence because everyone was looking at him.
"That sentence started out in a different place than it ended up." He offered blushing a little.
Phoebe glanced over at Chris who was blushing as well.
She wondered if she was mistaken or was there sparkage between those two. She didn't know what to think Chris was all over the freaking place. Flirting with Lana flirting with Lex. She could never get a read on him any ways.