Author's Note: Thanks for the reviews. I wanted to get this chapter out sooner but I was bombarded by ideas for other stories. But here is the 22nd installment of the epic adventure Witch Hunt.
Chapter 16
Lex was still reeling from the kiss at the red light. He couldn't believe Chris was getting to him like this. He was totally open. There was no other word to describe how he felt. Usually Lex had a keen eye for detail but when he was around Chris the only details he was noticing were the details of his body.
He had an excellent memory too. He kept wondering was there something he was forgetting but he shrugged it off. After twenty minutes of searching for two parking spaces side by side. Lex finally parked beside Pete.
Lex hated the Metropolis Mall for the obvious reasons but Giorgio his favorite tailor (the one that did not fondle his package at every fitting) had relocated.
Chris' hand was gripping his thigh as he leaned over and whispered, "I've been hard every since you kissed me."
Lex groaned at the degree of sensuality in Chris' voice. He wanted to take him right then. But Lana was his girl he couldn't do that to her.
"Aren't you going to wake up Sleeping Booty in the backseat?" Lex asked.
Chris blushed at the mention of Lana.
Lana woke up when she felt the car come to a stop. She heard Lex call her sleeping booty and she couldn't help but reply back. She sat up straight to find out her back didn't feel any better it only hurt worse.
She groaned audibly both men in the front seat turned to look at her.
"Lana are you alright?" Chris asked. "I'm fine my back hurts a little." Lana said. Saying that it hurt a little was the understatement of a century.
"Do you think you can move?" Lex asked with genuine concern in his eyes a rarity for him.
"I think so." Lana said.
Chris got out of the car pulled the seat up and helped her out.
"Thanks."
"Let me take a look at that. I know I have the tendency to blow backs out but this is ridiculous." Chris said and he was lifting up the back of her shirt before she could answer.
Chris made a shocked noise but told her nothing.
Lex was out of the car a few seconds later inspecting it as well.
"You blow backs out?" Lex snorted. Lana didn't have to look at him to know he was smirking like the devil himself.
"Did the two of you by any chance have sex on someone's headstone?" Lex asked.
"No." Chris said.
"I got thrown into one last night though." Lana said.
"I won't inquire about your kinky four play. But you have a bruise on your back with the date of birth and the date of death for some guy named Charles." Lex said.
"I have some pills in my dash that will make you feel fine and dandy in a few minutes." Lex said.
"You might not want to do that." Chris said.
"Why not she's obviously in pain and the others have gone on with out us." Lex said digging through the dash.
"Yeah why not?" Lana said feeling gypped she was always willing to try a new drug.
"Because. Because I said so okay. I have a pretty good idea what kind of pills you have in there Lex. You shouldn't give out powerful muscle relaxers to a minor." Chris said.
"Chris, I think you've got me all wrong. I don't have powerful muscle relaxers I have the X that I give out to my employees at Halloween. I would never pull something as low and underhanded like give a teenage girl muscle relaxers ." Lex said sounding hurt.
Chris and Lana laughed.
"Actually it's Aspirin with Codeine in it. But if you're looking for drugs you won't find any in my car." Lex said.
Lana pouted.
"Here." Lex said handing her the pills.
"But I don't have anything to drink with them." Lana said.
"Did you think I would forget about that?" Lex asked handing her a sliver flask.
She took it and Chris raised an eyebrow at it's questionable contents. She opened it and took a sip taking her pills.
"Vodka." She said a second after swallowing.
Lex hit a button his keys and the top went up and the doors locked.
"Come on we need to catch up with the others" Lex said.
The others were easier to spot than Chris expected. They were all standing in a big cluster near the entrance gaping at something. Chris walked directly behind Phoebe.
"What ya doing?" He asked.
She jumped and turned around.
"Chris! You scared me." She said.
"What's going on?" Chris asked.
"They're setting up for a live T.V. show but they won't tell us which one it is. Chloe is over there trying to get the truth out of one of the crew members and Pete is making sure she doesn't get arrested." Clark explained.
"Oh." Chris and Lana said at the same time. Chris looked over at Lex who was smirking.
Phoebe turned around too.
"You know what's going on." She said.
"Yes. I know. I have an interview today. With Ryan Seacrest to talk about the benefit tonight." Lex explained.
"Oh that sounds cool." Phoebe said.
"If you guys hurry and find something to wear tonight I can make arrangements for you to be in the On Air studio audience." Lex said.
"We'll go get Chloe and we'll go on to Samantha's Boutique." Lana said and she and Phoebe left to go pry Chloe away from her newest story. Pete returned to where the guys were.
"Let's head up to Giorgio's then." Lex said.
Chris listened as Lex filled Pete in on the situation.
"That's dope." Pete replied. They took the escalator up to the second level.
Phoebe didn't know how Chloe and Lana had managed to talk her into buy them dakeris at the Dakeri Shack which was conveniently located next to Samantha's Boutique. So Phoebe ended up browsing the racks with a strawberry dakeri. There were worse things. She saw several dresses she liked and before she knew it she had spent an hour and a half trying them on.
Lana, Chloe, and the shop girl gave rave reviews about the little black dress. It was strapless and mid thigh length in the front but in the back there was a ruffled train. It would look excellent with her black Minolo Blaniks. Lana chose a form fitting white dress it was very elegant except for the sheer places on both sides. Chloe, who Phoebe had always thought was a little odd chose a sea foam green eighties nightmare of a dress with black polka dots on it.
"No." Chris said about the hundredth tuxedo he had tried on.
He had tried on white, classic black, the ugly powder blue one, he had tried on nearly every style in the store. "I'm itching like a bastard." Chris said blatantly scratching himself. Lex who was standing in front of him laughed and shook his head.
"What?" Chris asked.
"I think I have an idea." Lex said.
"Simon." He called.
Lex's 20 something assistant poked his head through the curtain of the dressing room, "Yes Mr. Luthor." Simon said nervously.
"For the thousandth time call me Lex." Lex said.
"Excuse me a second Chris," Lex said stepping out of the dressing room to talk to Simon. Chris wasn't even trying to listen to their conversation although later when Lex returned with a grin on his face he realized he should have.
"Don't worry about the tux. I've got something better for you." Lex said.
"Oh no. I hope you didn't get me like a cummerbund and a g- string." Chris said.
"No I got you something you'll like to wear to the benefit. Not something I would like you to wear later." Lex said cocking one of his barely there eyebrows.
Chris blushed at the out and out suggestion.
Lex had already sent Simon to a sport bar in the mall called Wings and Things to get them some beer. Lex didn't drink any he was taking occasional sips from his flask. About the time that Pete and Clark had picked out what they were going to wear. Simon, Lex's green eyed 20 something assistant returned with some bags from various stores like Buckle and Abercrombie and Fitch.
Lex and Simon had to chase Chris and make him go back into the dressing room. He didn't want to try on anything else. But when he saw what Lex and Simon had for him his opinion changed in a second. They had an exact replica of what Usher wore in the Yeah video. The Don Johnson white blazer the jeans, the striped shirt. The shoes, the trucker hat, and the jewelry.
Upon seeing the clothes Chris jumped straddled Lex.
"I love you man." Chris said hugging Lex tightly.
Simon retreated from the dressing room a second later. Chris went from gratitude to lust in two seconds flat and the next thing he knew he was making out with Lex.