Ferrari's Restaurant

As they arrived outside the restaurant, Clark rushed around the cab to open the door for the three girls. Diana and Chloe both thanked Clark while Lois, as usual, called him a boy scout an didn't thank him at all. "Yea Clark," he thought "she really has the hots for you, that's why she constantly makes you feel like the size of a peanut. Why do I even bother trying?"

"Smallville!" he heard Lois shout, "you just gonna' sit there and daydream or are you gonna' come inside and eat." Clark sighed and headed in.

As they got their table, Clark still being the gentleman, pulled out Chloe and Diana's chairs and they gratefully accepted, Lois, however, slapped his hand away and sat down herself. Clark was officially pissed now, "For Christ sake Lois, can't you ever accept help from someone!"

"Sure I can," she smiled "just not you."

As Clark was about to flip the table over, Diana put a hand on his shoulder, "Come on guys, lets just enjoy the evening without World War III occurring."

"Yeah guys, stop acting like this all the time, it's getting old." Chloe agreed.

"Fine!" Lois yelled. But Clark was still mesmerized by Diana's hand on his shoulder. He quickly glanced at Lois, who was looking down, and back at Diana and smiled. "If Lois don't feel the same, fine, I can deal with that." he thought. But inside he knew it wouldn't be so easy.

But he figured if she wanted to be a jerk, so could he.

"So Diana," Clark began "tell us a little bit about yourself."

"Well," she began "I live on an island called Themyscira, on the Bermuda Triangle (she left out that her mother was queen there, there were no men, and she had powers). I am 19 years old, about 5'9, I love to swim, hunt occasionally, read, play music, and just watch the sunrise and set all day along the beach. I also like to keep in shape." Clark smiled at her.

"What about you Clark?" Diana asked.

"Well, I am also nineteen years old, and about 6'3. I grew up on a farm in Smallville where my parents adopted me (he also left out his Kryptonian heritage and powers). I love to read, look at the stars through my telescope, listen to music, and..."

"And play hero!" Lois interrupted, trying to break Diana and Clark's fixations on each other.

Diana looked confused. "Oh yeah," Lois began "Clark here is your everyday, average hero. Always brooding and whining, looking as if he has the wait of the world on his shoulders when his only real problem is that he can't get over this girl Lana."

Chloe interrupted, knowing that Clark's problems were way beyond that, "Shutup Lois!"

But Clark was infuriated, Lois didn't know him, so what gave her the right to throw out accusations like that. "Who the hell do you tink you are!" Clark screamed, startling the entire restaurant, including Lois. "You don't know me at all, we're not even friends. And here you are throwing out accusations like you know me! Well, Lois, why don't you go to a school that you'll stay in for a while. Or better yet, find a place where you're wanted at all, not just a school, then come back and talk to me!" Clark's saw red.

After apologizing to Diana and Chloe, he stormed out of the restaurant, found a rooftop and just sat their thinking.

Lois looked as if she was about to cry. She had never seen Clark like that before, so angry and hateful. She was beginning to think she took things a little too far. After apologizing to Diana and Chloe, she walked out of the restaurant, and took a cab back to the Met U dorms.

"Good job Lois," she thought "real great way to show Clark you care, insulting him, and assuming his brooding was about Lana. Real smooth you idiot!" But Lois was really hurt about what Clark had said about finding a place where she was wanted, after not finding that with her father, she thought she found it at the Kent's, including Clark.

Clark was less sympathetic. "If she wants to act like that, FINE! I can be a immature little brat too!" Although he was hurting bad about what he had said, he promised himself that he wouldn't apologize, he had his own wounds to lick first. And he decided that he should take a stab at Diana, she was everything Lois wasn't, and Clark thought (thought begin the key word) that was exactly what he wanted.

Clark returned the dorm and walked over to Chloe and Diana. "Look guys, I am very sorry about how I behaved in the restaurant. It was unacceptable and I can understand if you are mad at me or something like that."

They both smiled at him and accepted your apology. He then took Diana to the side and asked her a question. "Hey Diana, I was wondering if you would like to go out with me sometime, not like a date or anything, just to get to know each other better. But I can understand if you don't, after tonight" He looked at her with a hopeful expression and she smiled.

"Aww. Look at that face, how could I say no?" she though. "Sure Clark, I'd love to go out on a date with you." she confirmed for him, making his smile grow.

But, unknown to them, Lois was just about to walk in and apologize to Clark when she heard the whole thing, she quickly ran back down the steps of the dorm, with tears threatening to fall. "This is your fault!" she chided herself. "You pushed away the man you love," she confirmed to herself "and he didn't come back begging for a last chance. Now you'll have to live with the fact that he thinks you're an immature little bitch! And I don't think I can do it." She then began to sob, not trying to hold back.

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