(A/N:hey ya'll i'm back. quick huh? ok heres my question...wut the heck does TBC mean? i need to know! hope you all like my story! thanks for the reviews!)

KorieHonshu: Thank you so much! I hope this chap lives up to your expectations!

Kit Merlot: Thank you, i wanted them to be unconciously attracted to eachother. However that might change in this chap, at least for one of them.

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Chloe

I walked into the Torch office and sat down at my computer. I was supposed to be writing an article about how the cheerleaders were having a fund raiser to buy new uniforms and how that probably shouldn't be top priority of the fund raiser. But all I could think about was Clark. How he'd almost gotten killed. I don't know what I would have done if Clark were gone. He was my best friend. But he was more than that. I loved him. It had started about two years ago when I realized I was starting to care what he thought of me. I was spending a ton of time on my hair and dressing in more fitted clothes just to see if i could catch his eye. But it hadn't worked. He was too blinded by his love for Lana to even notice me. He was just so perfect. He was nice and caring and strong and sensitive and not to mention really really hott(A/N:he is!).

"Chloe? Chloe? Earth to Chloe?"

"Huh? What? Clark!" I felt heat rising to my cheeks, embarassed at what I had been thinking.

"What was on your mind Chloe? I was trying to break into your trance for like five minutes." He looked sort of worried and sort of amused.

"Oh nothing Clark. I was just thinking about my article."

"You haven't written anything."

"Huh?" He had caught me.

"That's because I...I was on the phone." I hope he believes that.

"With who?" Shit! Who?...ummm...? I just spat out the first name that popped into my head.

"Lex Luthor." Damn Chloe why'd you say that? Why Lex? Why not your dad or Pete? Now he can check your story! I know, I know!

"Oh? Why?" He obviously didn't believe me.

"Oh, at the interview he asked me if I could show him around town and I said yes. I called to tell him that I needed to re-schedule because of this deadline. We're going tomorrow." Oh Chloe this is spinning way out of control.

"Oh well ok then. Hey come by my house around seven and I'll show him the loft."

"Ok great! See you then!" He walked out and I collapsed onto my chair. Great Chloe how are you gonna pull this off? I have no idea. I shut off the computer and drove home in a daze.

I sat by the phone thinking. Should I call him? It would be awkward and wierd and just odd. And what would I say? That I lied to Clark and I need his help to cover up the fact that I like Clark? I could just tell Clark I like him. NO! That would be harder than calling up Lex and telling him I think his bald head is sexy. Whoa! Wait hold up a sec! Where did that come from? His bald head is sexy?(A/N:it is!) I have no idea. Somewhere during this argument with myself I had unconciously picked up the phone and dialed Lex'z number. I had no clue when my dad had put him on speed dial. I guess that's because he's his boss but anway. It was ringing. I debated hanging up but then he answered.

"Lex." He said it as if I had better be calling for a damn good reason.

"Mr. Luthor...umm...hi...this is Chloe Sullivan." Oh great Chloe! You have said one sentence and already totally embarassed yourself!

"Ms. Sullivan." he said smoothly, not breaking stride.

"Yea, I'm calling because I need your help." Wow Chloe you sound pathetic. Oh shut up already!

"Help? With what would you possibly need my help Ms. Sullivan?"

"It's about Clark."

"Clark? What about him?" Oh, geeze here it comes. The bitter truth.

"I lied to him today. I had been sitting in my Torch office thinking about him and he walked in and I panicked. I told him I hadn't written anything for my article because I had been talking to you on the phone. I told him you asked me to show you around town and he said to come by his place and so I need you to do that, please." Now this had taken me all of twenty seconds to say. And now I just waited. I don't know for what. For him to laugh at me I guess. But he didn't.

"Okay I believe I can be of service after all. When is this all supposed to happen?" I took a breath to argue with him but then stopped. Yes? He said yes?

"So you'll do it?"

"Sure, I do need to be shown around town. We could even go for coffee."

"Yes, great! Thank you so much! I'd love to go for coffee! Thank you! This is happening tomorrow, I'll pick you up around six ok?"

"Six? But that's dinner time. How about you come over at five thirty and we can have dinner and then you can show me around?" I froze. Was Lex Luthor asking me to dinner? Was he serious?

"Yeah that would be great. I'd love too."

"Great! I'll see you tomorrow at five thirty. Good-night Ms. Sullivan."

"Yeah great! Night Mr. Luthor." And I hung up. I sat there for about five minutes in total shock. Tomorrow I was having dinner with one of Metropolis' most eligible billionare. Oh my god.

Lex

I was sitting behind my desk in my chair in my mansion looking at my computer. And tomorrow, just like tonight, I would be here again. After another dinner alone, another night alone in this empty mansion. A thought crossed my mind. Call Chloe. And I thought to myself, are you insane? Chloe is the daughter of your new plant manager and she is a sophmore in high school. Not college, high school. She is sixteen years old and you are twenty two. That is just wrong and not to mention illegal. And then the phone rang. Who would call me now? I was busy thinking about something important. I checked the caller I.D. I didn't recognize the number. I picked it up.

"Lex."

"Mr. Luthor...umm...hi...this is Chloe Sullivan." She sounded flustered, I was amazed.

"Ms. Sullivan." I was amazed at how calm and collected I sounded. In fact my heart was beating so hard I was surprised she didn't hear it.

"Yea, I'm calling because I need your help." My help? With what? She seemed like such a self-reliant person.

"Help? With what would you possibly need my help Ms. Sullivan?"

"It's about Clark." Clark Kent? Oh no. This couldn't be good.

"Clark? What about him?"

"I lied to him today. I had been sitting in my Torch office thinking about him and he walked in and I panicked. I told him I hadn't written anything for my article because I had been talking to you on the phone. I told him you asked me to show you around town and he said to come by his place and so I need you to do that, please." Oh wow. Could I do that? I was going to spend more time alone in my mansion pretending to be busy and now I would get to spend that time with an amazing girl. Hard decision.

"Okay I believe I can be of service after all. When is this all supposed to happen?"

"So you'll do it?" She sounded surprised.

"Sure, I do need to be shown around town. We could even go for coffee." We could go for coffee? Why did you say that? So it would take longer I guess.

"Yes, great! Thank you so much! I'd love to go for coffee! Thank you! This is happening tomorrow, I'll pick you up around six ok?" Six, that was when I'd be eating.

"Six? But that's dinner time. How about you come over at five thirty and we can have dinner and then you can show me around?" What the hell did I just do? I just invited this girl to dinner at my mansion. This is crazy.

"Yeah that would be great. I'd love too." She would love to? Oh man this day just keeps getting better.

"Great! I'll see you tomorrow at five thirty. Good-night Ms. Sullivan."

"Yeah great! Night Mr. Luthor."

I hung up the phone and sat there. I was having dinner with Chloe Sullivan tomorrow. So why is this so important to you? I don't know. It proves someone actually can stand being around me. Sure that's the reason you asked her to dinner. Yeah right Lex. It is! Or is it? I am having dinner with the one woman to ever make me nervous. The woman I am now thinking about constantly. And she's sixteen! Oh my god.

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