The Night Is Still Young

"Clark, hey," Chloe said and walked into The Torch headquarters. She saw Luna and Kelsy staring at the Wall Of Weird and Clark just watching them. "What's going on?"

"When you called me, we'd just gotten to the front door. Ever since we've arrive in here, they've been staring. I have a strong suspicion they're reading every article," Clark said with a sigh. Suddenly Luna turned around.

"This Lana?" she asked and pointed to Lana's infamous Time cover picture. Chloe nodded.

"You must be Luna then? And this is?"

"Kelsy White," the girl said and turned around. "Pretty interesting pinboard you have," she noticed.

"What's going on in her mind is worse," Clark said with a wide smile. "You two finished now?" Kelsy shrugged and Luna nodded. "Where are the forms, Chloe?"

"Uh, lemme just find them here," the blonde said and began rummaging through her stuff. "What are you guys up too tonight?"

"We have got to find a club," Luna said desperately. "I very much doubt that Talon place is a major party hangout."

"Not really, no. But we're too young to hang out in clubs," Chloe said and pulled the forms out. She looked them over and counted how many there were and handed them to Clark. Luna glanced at Kelsy and then smiled back at Chloe.

"We'll go to bed at six then," she said with a smirk that was not at all reassuring. Chloe laughed.

"Determined much."

"Quite," Kelsy answered. "Luna wanna party, Luna go ta party. And Kelsy'll come too cause it's fun."

"Clark can be quite the party boy," Chloe said with a smile towards Clark. "Maybe he can look after you."

"Yeah!" Luna said. "Wouldn't mind coming into a club with that under my arm." Clark glared at Chloe and then turned to Luna.

"I don't think you guys should go out. Smallville, despite being a small town, can get dangerous sometimes. Clubs aren't always the safest places."

"I laugh in the face of danger," Kelsy said. "Ha! Hahaha!" Luna rolled her eyes and then sighed.

"No. Sure, we'll sit and watch TV then."

"My ass!" Luna said to herself and laughed. She was sitting on the spare bed Lana had in the back of her room above the Talon. She glanced around the corner to see if Lana could hear her, but her cousin had retreated to the bathroom.

"Here's the plan, Kelsy" she muttered to herself. "I looked up a club on the map and it's just outside town. Other side from when we came in. I'll meet you there almost to eight. No running!"

"Did you say something?" Lana asked and came into Luna's little area. Luna shook her head and smiled. "You alright here?"

"Yeah. I'm fine. But maybe if we put up some curtains or something. No offence or anything, but I really like my privacy. Maybe nail some lead to the walls," Luna added with a smirk and after a confused look from Lana she laughed it off.

"I hope you're not angry, but it's just we've got school tomorrow. Maybe next weekend, if you guys stay that late," Lana said hoping greatly that there was nothing happening next week.

"I'll remember that," Luna said with a smirk and Lana sighed.

"See you tomorrow," she said and then moved over to her area of the room. Luna smirked and pulled her bag out from under her bed.

"Watch out Smallville, here comes Luna Lang," she muttered to herself.

"Where are you going all dressed up like that?" Clark asked. He was standing on the last step and watching Kelsy stuff a few things into her bag. Kelsy looked up with eyes wide open.

"Wait a moment," she said and continued to stare at him. Clark watched but soon he got confused. He opened his mouth but she was quicker. "Sorry, don't have anything but the truth. Sneaking out to go to a club." Clark examined her club outfit. Unlike her t-shirt over long sleeve combo that she had worn during the day, she was now wearing a tight red belly cut shirt, tight leather pants and black gloves with the fingers cut off. Her blonde hair (that she had accented with a bright green streak) was puffed up and, Clark dare not tell her this, made her head look bigger than it should be. She had her made up done so that her eyes were the first thing you looked and that he did, looking straight into her bright green eyes.

"We've already told you not to go," he said and came down from the stairs. He walked into the living room and she stuffed something that looked like a block of metal into her pocket.

"What're you gonna do, farm boy? Stop me?"

"If I have to."

"Pretty fast."

"So am I."

"Can pack quit a punch."

"I can take it."

"Then I'll just have to take you with," she said with a smirk and walked towards the door. Clark moved in her way.

"You're not going," he insisted.

"Pretty rough with a girl you don't know," she said and took a step back. She glared at him for a moment and then her expression softened. "Look Clark, I'm a big city girl, I can't go to bed at eight on the weekend."

"School tomorrow."

"Generally have a twelve o'clock curfew for then. But I'm trying to tell you something here. I swear if I go bored, I go crazy. You can ask Luna tomorrow, but please, let me go out tonight. I have to!" she almost whined. Clark watched and then his expression to softened.

"I'm not going to let you go to a club. You're underage."

"But…"

"We can go for a horse ride or something," he suggested. Kelsy glared at him but then something in her stomach bounced. She wouldn't admit it under oath but the cheesy romanticness of it all… seemed kind of appealing to her. "Okay?" She sighed deeply to try and make her change of heart seem a hard thing to do and then nodded.

"Sure, let's go ride a horse."

Well, this is gonna be interesting. I thought she was going to the club with Luna… Poor girl will suffer… And what's this with Kelsy and Clark's romantic horse ride… Hey, wait a minute…

The description of Kelsy is the for Honey grins The one for Luna is in the next chapter.