-All Come True -
With the feeling of having his heart pounded to the floor, Clark lifted himself off of his knees and began walking to the Talon doors. He wasn't about to let her go that easily. He had to get his last word in. Clark turned around to face Lana strait on and looked strait in her eyes. "Lana, I just told you something about me, that no one else knows. Now I want you to be completely truthful with yourself, and choose who you want to be with. But you have to keep this between us."
Clark didn't even give her time to respond, he just walked out the doors and began walking down Main St. As soon as he turned off of the populated road he picked up to super speed to get home as quickly as he could.
Meanwhile, Lana was still sitting on the couch. She hadn't moved a muscle since Clark had walked out. She didn't know why she had told him to leave in the first place. Lana knew that all she really wanted to do was call Clark her own. He had just given her the chance to, and all she did was make him leave. And after all, she did bring this onto herself. She always asked Clark to open up to her, he finally did, and she wasn't ready for it.
She had finally decided to just sleep on her decision. As she walked into her 2nd floor apartment in the Talon, she was drawn back when she saw that Jason had beaten her back home. But to her advantage, he hadn't heard anything about Clark being that he was already asleep.
She climbed up onto the bed next to him, and nudged his shoulder. He woke quickly, and turned in surprise of seeing Lana. She had told him that she would be in Metropolis with Nell, so that she wouldn't deal with Jason's suspicions of her and Clark being alone.
" Lana, what are you doing here? I thought you were going to be in Metropolis."
" Jason, we need to talk."
Being unsure what Lana could possibly want to talk to him about, Jason simply obliged and sat up .The out into the dark living room/ kitchen and sat at the small coffee table that matched the table downstairs. Worried what Lana might tell him, he kept his eyes on her, searching her face for any revealing emotions.
" Have you been crying Lana?"
She had remembered that she didn't rid the evidential tears, and quickly wiped them away before taking Jason's hands.
"Jason, am I really the one you want to spend the rest of your life with?"
"Of course you are, why would you think different?" Jason managed to say after she had made the remark that had caught his attention.
Trying to cover up her actions, Lana let out a sight laugh and said "sorry, long drive from Metropolis must've made me a little woozy."
Jason was skeptical about her comments, but went along with it anyway. " Ok, lets just go to bed. After tonight, it's only two more days until you become my wife."
The next two days, Clark stayed up in his loft and talked to no one. He couldn't understand what he had done. All Clark had wanted was to be closer to Lana, and he had managed to ruin that to. He didn't know if he should go to the wedding, but in all of his thoughts, he still managed to think of how he ruined it all and that he didn't know if he could live without her.
The day of the wedding was here, and Lana could do nothing but place a façade of happiness over her true feelings. She couldn't take her mind off of Clark. And she had realized that she didn't want to. Lana really had wanted to be with Clark, but she felt she was locked in the engagement out of guilt. Just like she had in the relationship with Whitney. She couldn't hurt Jason, not after all he had done for her.
Clark tried going over all his reasons for not attending the wedding, but they had all come back to him wanting Lana to be happy, whether or not that meant she would be with him.
The wedding's layout was beautiful. Everything was all in white, and Chloe had been the Maid Of Honor. The piano rang out in a beautiful tune, and Lana began walking to the alter. She was so elegant, and beautiful. It seemed as if everyone was in ah of her. Clark deliberately sat on the isle so he could have the best look at Lana. He drifted off in his thought of her dropping her flowers and taking hand, and running away with him. By the time he had snapped back into reality, Lana was only a few feet from him. Staring strait into his eyes, he could tell that she was still confused. But what he didn't know was that she was confused about who to be with, not about what he had told her only two nights ago.
She walked past him and he followed with his eyes. She stepped up and took Jason's hands. He felt his heart sink a little bit more.
Objections were asked of, and Clark sat in his seat biting off his tongue. For some reason he knew that Lana was making a mistake by marrying Jason, but he also knew that the mistake was hers to make. Lana and Clark had made eyes contact once or twice, but nothing was done by either of them.
"Lana Lang, do you take Jason Teague to be your lawfully wedded husband?"
This would be the moment all of Clark's questions would be answered. Listening and watching intently, all of Clark's wished had come true in that moment.
There was a long pause at the alter as Lana looked down, and then back up at Jason. She wasn't crying but she had sounded sincere with her words. The only motion of Lana shaking her head slightly was watched by everyone.
"I can't do it."