AN/ Hey guys! Thanks to all the people who reviewed it was most appreciated. Aren't you glad that I brought Clark back to the last chapter? I know I am. So thank to xotaybabyx, winthjo, and Joshuabr for reviewing it was much appreciated. And here's the next chapter!

Chapter 8

It's time you know the TRUTH

"What did Clark want?" Lana asked.

Chloe had gotten Pete's text message and they were heading to the loft.

"I guess just to talk and catch up on what's been going on for the last two months." Chloe replied.

"Oh." Lana said with a little disappointment in her voice. Neither Lana nor Chloe would say it but they were hoping that this visit would come with the unveiling of Clark's secret. Little did they know what would happen that night.

Pete had already arrived at Clark's loft and had just gotten the summery of Clark's educational summer.

" Well," he said when Clark finished, "at least you don't have to go to collage for a second education this will be you third." The joke was weak and he knew it. He was so nervous. Clark was actually going to tell Lana and Chloe the truth! But what he was worried about was their reaction. He remembered his and cringed at the memory.

"Hey," Clark said when Pete started pacing, "shouldn't I be the one who's nervous? After all I'm the one who's going to be doing the talking."

"Are you sure you want to go through with this?" Pete asked.

"Yes I'm sure, and aren't you the one who suggested telling them?" Clark replied.

"I'm just worried about how they'll react." Pete said voicing his concern.

Clark didn't have any time to say anything else. A second later he herd Chloe's car drive up and within seconds the girls were in the loft.

" Hey, guys," Chloe, said.

When she looked at her friends she couldn't help but notice how awkward they were acting. Pete looked nervous witch was totally out of his character.

"Pete, are you ok?" Chloe asked.

" Sure I'm ok." Pete replied a little fast.

"Ok." Lana said breaking the silence that was forming, "Clark, Pete said on the phone that you wanted to talk about something, what was it?"

All Clark could think was it was now or never, no turning back. "You, obviously already know that there's been something that I've been keeping from you. And because of that you've been hurt over and over again and all I gave you was a lame excuse or apology. But it's time you know the truth."

Lana and Chloe couldn't believe it Clark was finally going to open up!

He continued, "I'm not from around here."

All Chloe could think was, 'that was a little vague', and in spite of her having the blood of a reported flowing through her veins she couldn't make a connection.

"You mean you're not from Kansas?" Chloe asked.

"What he means is that he's not from any of the seven continents on this planet, or, from any of the nine planets in this solar system." Pete said in reply to Clark's vague confession when he found he could speak again.

Ice-cold chills of shock ran through Lana and Chloe's veins.

Lana was the first to speak.

"Clark are you telling me that you aren't human?" Lana asked slightly nervous.

By this time fear had engulfed Clark and he was avoiding all eye contact.

"Yes," He replied.

Neither one of the girls could believe what they were hearing! Clark Kent was an alien? But he was more humane than all of them! They both kept wondering if this was some kind of prank, but what reason would Clark have to do something like that to them? And if what he was saying was true, what other secret could be so dangerous as Clark make his out to be? EVERYTHING else seamed to dull in comparison.

Although not one of them had made a reply, Clark continued. "I'm from a planet called Krypton, it imploded when I was little and I'm the only survivor." And here came the bombshell. "And I came in the meteor shower. I didn't even know I wasn't human until freshman year when Lex ran me over at sixty mph and I didn't die. That's when my parents told me everything. All that time, fifteen years of my life I thought I was just different. And when they told me, I wanted to tell you so bad but my parents said it was too dangerous. I ended up telling Pete three years ago when he found my spaceship, and that was only because I was going to lose him as a friend. And then I thought you would reject me if you knew the truth, so I kept hiding it until now."

"Clark, we're your friends," Chloe said, "and even though I'm a little weirded out right now, I'm not going to reject you. What kind of friend would I be if I did?"

Everything was falling into place. The strange things that happened in this town. The cave finally made since even though she didn't have all the facts yet. Lana's reaction was a little different though. She still wanted to be Clark's friend but she was going to need more time to adjust to the news than Chloe. She needed to leave.

" Pete, could you give me a ride home?" Lana asked.