Clark was shocked when he felt Chloe grasp her fingers around the ring and pull it off, he never saw that coming. Clark felt all of the energy leaving him and he closed his eyes and when he reopened him he looked to see Chloe standing away from him. She looked gorgeous and she took Clark's breath away. He tried to form words and talk but he was to taken back by Chloe and her actions, more importantly his actions. Clark finally made it to a standing position and he just looked at Chloe, he had heard what she had said but still didn't think he could do it. "Chloe I can't go home with you, I left so I wouldn't hurt anyone anymore and they all could live happy lives. Please give me the ring back." He started to step towards her with his hand open to try and get the ring back.
Chloe again stepped away from Clark, she knew he could get the ring from her if he tried. She had to put it somewhere where he wouldn't be able to go, she thought quick and figured she had no option. She brought her fist up and then stuck the ring down her top, she knew Clark was far too modest to even think of touching her there. She smiled as she thought it was quite the brilliant idea and looked back to Clark. "Clark you may have intended to make peoples lives better when you left but you didn't. They are more hurt by you leaving then they were by the things you think you did before you left. They aren't living happy lives, they are miserable searching and missing you. But if you want the ring that bad you can come and get it, you know where it is." Chloe again was quite happy with herself, she left him between a rock and a hard place.
Clark watched as Chloe took the ring and placed it down her top, he had to stop dead in his tracks. There was no way he was going to go down his best friends top jus to get that ring that made him do things he never liked anyways. It just gave him an excuse to be rude and have no inhibitions for his actions. He listened to her and wanted badly not to believe her but he knew it was true, he had seen it on his secret trips home but chose to ignore it. He thought that eventually they would give up and forget him and move on with their lives, as he was trying to do with himself. Clark didn't know what to do, he wanted to go home yes but he was afraid of facing everyone. "Chloe, look I know people were probably hurt by my leaving but just give it time and they will move on and get over me, I am not that great of a person. I don't deserve the love you all give me." Clark bowed his head and walked back towards the door of his apartment, he didn't know what he was going to do but he would figure something out.
Chloe listened as Clark was making up yet another excuse not to come home with her, she wasn't taking no for an answer. She watched as he started for the door, she ran and jumped in front of him and blocked the door from him. It was odd being this close to him again, she grabbed his face and made him look at her. "Clark, people weren't probably hurt, they were hurt. You just up and left us all, we miss you Clark. You are right in saying you aren't that great of a person, because you are an amazing person. You have saved so many peoples lives Clark, how can you say you are anything less than great. None of us will move on Clark, at least I know I will never move on without you. You deserve every once of love you get from people because you give that much and more back. Why can't you see how amazing you are and how much you mean to everyone, to me?" Chloe was now just letting out everything, she no longer cared he needed to know these things. She knew she was crying and she didn't care, there was no way she would be able to hold her tears back if she let her feelings flow free. She just stared at his eyes and searched them waiting for a response.
Clark didn't expect to see Chloe in front of him as he walked towards the door, he was glad she grabbed his head to look at her because with his head bowed all he was looking at was Chloe's cleavage. He listened to her and felt her pain and sorrow and hated himself even more because he knew he was the cause of it all. He saw her eyes get glossy and he watched as the tears fall from her eyes and stain her beautiful face. He tried his best to hold back his own tears, he hated watching her cry she never did and he knew that when she did she was deeply hurt. Clark secretly hated Chloe for being able to be so open and free with her emotions and feelings right now. He wanted nothing more than to lean down and kiss her and tell her everything was going to be ok, but he wasn't sure it was. "Chloe, please stop crying I hate to see you like this and worse I hate knowing I did it to you." He had nothing else to say so he stopped talking and whipped the tears from her face and waited to hear her response.
Chloe listened and waited for more from him but when he didn't give her more stupid excuses she took this as her cue to talk again. She lowered her hands from her face and grabbed his hands with hers, "Clark, then don't do it anymore. Just come home and leave this place it isn't you." Chloe just searched his eyes again and was trying hard to keep her focus. "Listen Clark, I know you are meant for greater things than Smallville. You aren't meant to live your life there, but right now isn't your time to leave it. You have to help me get through high school and come to college with me her in Metropolis and major in journalism with me. Then you can leave, but not now, you have so many people back home that care too much about you for you to just walk out of their lives this early. I know this is horrible timing but Clark I love you and could never get through my life knowing you are here and just ignoring your family and friends." Chloe was out of more excuses for him to come home, she had never meant to say she loved him while trying to convince him to come home but she did. She had to let him know she still had those feelings for him, she always would though and she believed that to be a curse right now. She hoped that he was kinda getting her hint that she knew his secret.
Clark listened to Chloe's confession, he was shocked to hear her say she still loved him. He would be lying if he didn't admit it made his heart skip a beat knowing she felt the same way. But she didn't know he felt that way, he told her he still had feelings for her earlier but not that he was madly in love with her. He was a little worried by the weird hints she seemed to be dropping, did she know? He had to know if she did, but how to ask his best friend, love of his life, if she knew he was an alien. "Hey Chloe you didn't know I was an alien that came to Earth in the meteor shower back those many years ago? Yeah I figured you did, I mean it is you Chloe, you know everything weird in Smallville." Ha, what was he thinking, he wasn't sure he was angry that she knew but more happy because of all people he had always wanted to tell Chloe. He knew his parents worried about her putting him on the wall of weird and making him into a story but he knew she would never do that. Finally after a minute or two of dead silence he worked up the courage to ask her, "Chloe what exactly are you hinting at? Do you know something you care to share with me?" Clark was nervous for her answer but he needed to know.
Chloe watched his eyes as he processed everything, she could see the wheels turning in his head. She wanted to know what was going on in that head of his, but as usual he was being all secretive and hiding things. After a few minutes of her dieing for him to make words to form a sentence he spoke and asked her what she had expected. Chloe knew she had to tell him she knew, she couldn't lie to him. She was just afraid he would think she found out by digging into his life again. She didn't want him to think that. "Umm well yeah I do, Clark I know about your secret, ya know how you really aren't from around here."
-x-So I don't know I am trying to make it into a Chlark but I am having trouble getting them to the point where they should get together, suggestions are welcome! Well hope you guys enjoy and don't for get to review!