Chapter Six: A New Friend

October 13th, 2000

"So are you showing that new girl around or what?" Pete Ross asked as he and his best friend Clark walked through the halls of Smallville Middle School.

"Supposedly, I have no idea when she's getting here," he muttered. He looked over towards the main office, where he was supposed to report and smiled, "guess I'll see you at lunch," stated Clark.

"Later man," Pete said heading to his own class before he was late for first period. Clark entered the office and was met by the secretary.

"Excellent your one time for once Kent, Clark this is Miss Chloe Sullivan, Chloe this is Clark Kent," the girl looked at him, she had shoulder length blonde hair, she was skinny, even for an eighth grader she seemed to have all the right curves. 'where did that come from?' Clark wondered at the thought. Normally Lana was the girl he looked at, but he couldn't deny that Chloe Sullivan was beautiful.

"Hi," Clark greeted, holding out his hand.

"Where can I get a copy of The Planet I don't want to lose touch with civilization," she stated looking around the school, as though nervous.

"Um, well there are a few places, this isn't the place, but I guess I could show you after school..."

"Great," stated Chloe. Clark shook his head and headed out of the office, beginning the tour of the school, Chloe didn't catch much of it, that he was sure of, she was constantly asking questions.

"So where do you live?" She asked, unsure where small town people would live. She and her dad owned a house just outside of Smallville.

"I live on a farm about twenty minutes outside of town," Chloe's eyes grew wide.

"Really!? Wow, that's cool! Can I come over!? I've never actually seen a farm before!" she stated Clark had to bite back his laughter at the thought of never seeing a farm. He couldn't imagine living anywhere else but on a farm.

"There's not much too it, it's just me, my parents, and my brothers and sisters," he explained.

"Wow! How many do you have? I don't have any siblings, my mom..." she stopped almost instantly, as though suddenly deciding that was the right topic to discuss.

"Well, um I have two brothers and two sisters, all younger than me, you're welcome to come over I guess," Clark said quietly shrugging.

The rest of the day went by quickly, Clark continued showing Chloe around, who still seemed in awe and yet disappointed by all that was there. Clark rode the bus home, and Chloe followed, they got off at a stop and she looked around.

"You kinda live in the middle of nowhere," stated Chloe. Clark chuckled.

"That's the point, can't be a farmer if you don't have area to grow," stated Clark with a smile.

"You're a geek aren't you?" She asked.

"Uh, well I suppose that would depend on your definition of a geek, but yeah in some ways," explained Clark. Chloe watched as they walked into the front yard. She could see a basketball hoop, a barn, a tractor, pens for pigs, horses, chickens and other various animals. There was a dog trotting across the yard towards the barn, and a beautiful yellow house.

"Wow," she whispered.

"Oh you're gonna love this," Clark took her hand, without even thinking and hurried through the barn up the stairs to his "Fortress of Solitude", where he had placed his telescope he got the Christmas before last.

"Wow," she whispered. He smiled as he pointed out the window and started naming off parts of the beautiful landscape. Suddenly Chloe kissed him. Clark was taken totally by surprised, but quickly found, for his first kiss; he liked it, a lot. He soon found himself kissing back. Suddenly she pulled away.

"Sorry, I know you've been thinking about that all day, so I figured we'd get it out of the way and be friends," she explained. Clark shook his head, this girl confused him to no end, but yet he found her strangely attractive and funny.

"Uh, okay, hey did you want to stay for dinner, you could meet the family?" He said grinning.

"Uh, sure," she said smiling.