Chapter 3:

Two hours passed and Clark and Lana were still sleeping on the couch. Their position barely changed, Clark's head no longer rested on her head and one legs was of the couch and on the floor. Lana's head was resting on Clark's chest making it move up and down with his every breath. Clark began to wake as his eyes slowly fluttered open. Once he was wide away he looked around a bit before remembering that he was on the couch napping with Lana. He smiled and looked down to see her sound asleep. She must have had a hard night as well He said to himself. Naturally he began to run his fingers through her air. This is fun

As he lay there, he realized that the days with Lana was the happiest he had been in a long time. It was only 2 and a half days a go since they met but she made a complete impact on him. The very first time he met her, her flirting and the fact that she never judged him smote him. Their second meet was only minutes away, where he put his fears aside and danced with her all night long. He couldn't stop thinking about her, not even a waking second, in class he even found himself writing her name all over his notebook. Then this morning he took her to breakfast, where they talked, flirted and laughed with one another. Now he was sleeping with her…not that sleeping together but catching zzz's sleeping together. IT WAS GREAT and SHE WAS GREAT.

Clark continued to think to himself and Lana began to wake up soon feeling his soft hand running through her hair. "Mmm, having fun?"

He snapped out of his thoughts once he heard her sweet voice. "Yep…you know what's funny? A week ago, I would have never believed this moment."

She smiled and began to make circles with her finger on his chest. "I wouldn't have believed it either."

"Why is that?"

"I don't know…I just wouldn't believe I would meet someone so soon or someone like you."

He nodded. "You said that someone hurt you before…do you mind me asking who?"

She sighed and sat up causing him to sit up too. She adjusted herself on the couch and turned to face him, she looked at him deeply. "Are you sure you want to know?" This was a can of worms that she didn't really want to open, put she felt like she should be open with him so that he would be open with her.

"Yes." He said softly. Lana nodded and took a deep breath. " Just after I finished boarding school, I met this guy named Jason Teague. He was an American, funny and very sweet. Things with us started to get serious so I moved in with him once I started college." She looked at Clark to make sure he was still paying attention and his beautiful green orbs were looking on attentively.

She continued "As we lived together I started to see a change in him. He was hardly at home saying that he was on a search for a stone, he became even more secretive and demanding. Sometimes he would be angry for no apparent reason, we would argue a lot and sometimes he begged me to have sex with him. I would always turn him down and then he would leave in a rage.

"One night he came home drunk…" She closed her eyes feeling tears coming to her eyes. "One night he came home drunk and he started to kiss me and touch me in places. I told him to stop but he wouldn't listen, I kicked and I screamed but that only seemed to make him mad. He punched and slapped me, he told me he would stop hitting me if I was quiet so I st…stopped." Lana began to cry now; it was like she could see the whole thing replaying over in her head. "And he raped me." She cried even harder once Clark embraced her into his arms. "I'm so sorry." He whispered. "I'm so sorry."

How Horrible he thought to himself. As he held her he felt a tear of his own roll down his cheek, at that moment he pitied her. What a sick bastard You have what's coming to you Clark said again to himself.

After a long cry, she slowly pulled away from him and giggled a bit. "Sorry, I'm a big cry baby."

"No you're not. It's for good for you to cry. It makes you feel better"

She nodded.

"Do you cry?" Lana asked. Clark took his thumb and delicately wiped the wetness under her eyes away.

"Sometimes…you made me want to, just now. Lana I'm so sorry but I want you to know if this continues I would never force you into anything."

She nodded knowingly before pointing to his shirt. "I guess I have a thing for ruining shirts." He looked over to his shoulder and, there was a huge wet stain from the shoulder part of the plaid shirt down to the chest area. Clark began to laugh and so did she. "Two ruined shirts in one day…Ms. Lang I think I should stay away from you." She pouted.

"Awww, I." was just plotting a way to ruin your other shirts too She pretended to be anger and he laughed at it. "You should take up acting…I'll be right back with a CLEAN shirt." Clark got up and walked into his room.

Clark got up and walked into his room. He closed he door and leaned up against it She was raped he couldn't believe it, it was a total shock. Her relationship experience with Jason was ten times worse than his and Lois's. He saw her in a new light along with beautiful, upbeat, smart and outgoing she was strong. Clark couldn't imagine what she could have felt like after that situation, but he admired the strength she had to keep her life intact.

He found one of his black tee and threw it on. He came back out to the living room to see her raiding the refrigerator. He walked over and leaned against the small counter, which was right next to her fridge, she was bending over slightly and he couldn't help but check her out. Wow

She groaned and closed the fridge door. "You have no food in there." She reported sadly.

Clark couldn't help but laugh. "You had 8 pancakes about 3 hours ago!"

"Yeah well, I threw it up…so I'm hungry again." She grabbed her stomach to emphasize.

"Since there is nothing in here, how about we order Pizza?" She is really costing me money he said to himself, but he didn't really mind, it was time to spend it anyway. Clark was the type to save and save.

"How about Chinese?" She suggested instead.

"Sure. What do you want?"

"Umm. Fried rice with orange chicken. What are you going to get?"

"The same thing you're having, a lot comes in the box so we can share."

"Ok." She shrugged and sat on the couch while he went to ordered the food. Moments passed and Clark came back and sat next to her. "Did you order it?"

"Yep…Can I ask you a question?"

"Sure go ahead, we'll watch TV afterwards ok?"

He nodded. "How did you deal with it?" Lana knew exactly what he was asking but before she could answer Kerry, Jerry and a couple of girls came raucously through the door. "Hey Clark…I see you're still with that Lana babe. I told you man." Jeff said proudly before grabbing a beer from the refrigerator and plopped down next to them.

Clark became a little annoyed. "Can you not call her babe and don't you see we are trying to talk here?"

"Woah man, don't have a bitch fit, just lighten up. But I'm sure Lana over here can take care of that for you."

He took a sip of his beer and invited one of the girls to sit on his lap. Clark really wanted to punch Jeff at the moment but refrained only because Lana was around. Clark gave her an apologetically look, hoping that she would forgive him for his friends behavior. Momentarily Kerry and his girl of the moment joined them on the couch basically forcing Clark and Lana to get up due to the lack of space. The others did even seem to care, Jeff and his girl of the moment began to make out while Kerry and his watched football game on the TV.

Lana now officially hated Jeff, first he was a jerk and secondly he was suppose to be dating Chloe and now he was in a major lip lock with some whore. I can't wait to tell Chloe.

Clark sighed. "How about we go in my bedroom? We could finish talking and once the food comes we can watch a movie on my laptop."

"Let's go." She gave Jeff one last hate stare before walking off with Clark.

"I'm sorry about them. I really am, but they can be cool times."

"It's ok…I'll have to see that cool thing for myself."

She walked in and sat on his bed and Clark stared at her awkwardly not knowing if he should sit or not. "You know I don't bite…well not this early in the relationship." She smiled at him and patted bed gesturing for him to sit next to her.

He hesitated for a second but eventually joined her. "Sorry its not often I have a beautiful girl sitting on my bed."

She smiled at his complement. "You're going to have to get use to it, buddy." She turned to him and saw that he was staring at her deeply and she returned the intense gaze. I could get lost in his eyes She thought to herself as her eyes drift lower to his mouth. She studied every curve and every detail, she imagined how good his lips would feel up against her skin and lips. Her eyes gazed at his tone shaped face, his strong jaw line, Adam's apple, wild dark hair and even his nose everything about him was perfect. Clark felt the same about her, she was perfect, angel from heaven, and gift from God. Realizing that he was gazing at her so longingly, he quickly averted his eyes and Lana was quite disappointed.

"You never got to tell me how you dealt with it?"

She nodded. "Therapy, a lot of therapy…all through college the counselor help me plus I had a personal physiologist as well. They were the ones who helped me to move on and to find peace with him."

"Where is he now?"

"In prison, my father made sure of that." She took a pillow from the head of his bed and laid back. "Your bed is really comfortable."

"Thanks. I built the frame." He joined her, and looked up at his glow in the dark plastic stars although they did not glow.

"Really? I guess you are very good with your hands."

"Very."

They both became silent once they realized how sexual that sounded. Lana broke the silence with giggles finding the situation very funny.

"What's so funny?" It was like her giggling was contagious and Clark began to laugh as well. "I'll give you something to laugh about." Clark began to tickle her making her laugh even harder, she squirmed and kicked playfully.

"Stop." She managed to say between giggles.

"No." he continued to tickle her even more, and she laughed even louder. Lana tried to grab hold of his hands but they were to quick and strong for her to get a hold of, so she straddled him stopping the tickling immediately. His laughing stopped and so did hers things suddenly came intense. Clark held her by her waist and her hands were firmly on his chest. Not a word was said as she drew closer to him, hoping to eventually capture his lips. Clark felt paralyzed every where, he couldn't and wouldn't move her, his mind was telling his NO but his body was tell him something different.

She was inches away from his lips but came to a complete stop when she heard Kerry knocking on the door. "Your Chinese food is here."

"I'll get it." Lana quickly got off of him and allowed Clark to answer the door.

"Your Chinese is here." Kerry stated before winking at Clark. He had a pretty good idea of what was going on in Clark's bedroom, so did the rest of the crew. Clark tried to ignore Kerry's winks and the others stare as he walked up to the door and paid for the food.

Jeff tried to say something to Clark but he gave him on of those I-will-kill-you stares causing Jeff to remain silent. Clark walked to the kitchen and took 2 plastic plates from the cupboard before walking back into the room. "Food's here!" He grinned. There is definitely tension in this room He said to himself.

Lana gave a weak smiled still very uncomfortable about what almost happened. "Great…where are we going to eat?" Clark looked around for a little, thinking of someplace good.

"I got it. Get up." She obeyed and took the food out of his hands, freeing him up to do whatever he need. He took the blanket from his bed and laid it on the floor, next he took his laptop off of his computer desk and rested it on the floor where the blanket was placed. "Sit."

Lana smiled and took a seat on the blanket while her back leaned on the bed. "What movie are we going to watch?"

"Your choice, I have Van Helsing, Triple X, Tomb Raider, James Bonds movies, Casablanca, Dial M for murder, Psycho, and Cheaper by the Dozen."

"I loved Cheaper by the Dozen Charley was my favorite, He is super hot."

"We are definitely not watching that one."

"Why not?" She whined.

"So you can pine over some guy…I don't think so." He shook his head. No Way He thought.

"Jealous are we?" She smiled.

"No, I'm just protecting my feelings."

"Ok Mr. Jealous." She teased. "How about Psycho, I haven't seen that movie in ages."

"Ok…if you get scared know that I'm here to protect you." He got the Dvd from his collection and popped it in. He took his place next to her and they began to watch the movie while eating their Chinese food. Lana wasn't afraid at all but grabbed on to his arm every time someone would get murdered just touch him. Clark even did the yawn and stretch tactic bringing her closer to him which they both liked a lot. The movie finally finished and Clark couldn't help but feel a little bummed out when she left his arms.

"Did you like it?" He asked stilling sitting on the blanket while Lana cleaned up.

"Yep. Not scary at all."

He nodded. "Do you need any help cleaning up?"

"No, I got it." She took all the trash and threw it away in the kitchen bin. When she came back the blanket was no longer on the floor but back on the bed where it belonged.

Clark became a little sad figuring that is was time for her to leave. He had to go to work and she had class. "I had a great time."

"Me too, thanks a lot. I guess I should be going now."

He walked up to where she was standing and held her hand. "Call me when you get in."

"I will." Awkward Silence

Make a move, Clark He begged himself. I know you want to Lana continued to look up at him, waiting for him to do something. Slowly, he came closer and closer toward her until their lips finally touched sending a shock through Lana system. She tried to take in the kiss as much as she can allowing his tongue to roar around the inner walls of her mouth. Lana felt his hands wrap around her waist drawing her even closer to him as their lips and tongue explored each other for the first time. Clark really didn't want to let go, it felt so good to be kissed again, it felt so good to kiss someone again but he did pull apart. He opened his eyes to see her with as much passion he had for her. He smiled briefly and removed his arms from around her waist.

"Bye." She said faintly His lips are wonderful, he is wonderful…I hope he marries me. Lana said to herself.

Clark cleared his throat. "Bye."

She turned and walked out of his bedroom. He wanted to scream with happiness up instead he dived on his bed and closed his eyes hoping to remember the kiss in every detail.