He had to decide what he was going to do before summer ended. He was seriously considering switching over to Metropolis University but he still wasn't sure about his major. Chloe was trying to talk him into journalism like always and he didn't know if he enjoyed it because Chloe made it seem fun or because he liked it. Lois kept telling him to quit trying to avoid destiny and accept that agriculture was going to be his major and law enforcement his minor. He had been raised on a farm but he didn't find farm work challenging or fulfilling and though he liked to save people, he couldn't picture himself with a gun. His mom hadn't told him what she thought he should go into. She said he had to figure it out himself. He thought about politics. His mom and Lois seemed like they liked it okay. His dad had liked it. Maybe he should just try taking one of those career tests.
Life wasn't full of easy choices. It would only get harder when he had to choose who to spend the rest of his life with and then when he had children, they would depend on his decisions. This is assuming there is a woman out there for him or that he was able to have kids. Picking a major was only the beginning.
He was walking by the cave, when a 4-year-old girl came staggering out and carrying what must've been her 1-year-old baby brother.
When she saw him, she placed her brother down and began to walk toward him. She looked angry with her fists balled up and her bottom lip stuck out. She walked right up to him and kicked him in the shin.
He grabbed his leg. It's not that she had seriously injured him. He supposed most Earth adults felt this sort of pain when an Earth child kicked them but he was different. How could a little girl hurt him?
"I want Mommy!"
"Don't worry little girl. I'll find your mother. Believe me!" he said rubbing his leg, "where is she?"
"I don't know! We're lost!" she yelled in distress.
The baby began to cry, so Clark picked him up.
"This is all your fault!" said the little girl.
"My fault?"
"If you'd been watching us like Mommy said to, we wouldn't have touched the bad crystal, Daddy!"
Clark didn't know what to say. He just looked back and forth between the two children.
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