Clark drives towards the farm. When he walks in the door, his parents are sitting at the table.

"Clark, your home." Jonathon glares at him.

"Yeah." Clark says. Time to get it over with, he thinks and sighs.

"Sophie's parents called yesterday." Martha tells Clark.

"You said Lex was taking you." His dad says.

"Lex couldn't make it so he gave me both tickets. I decided to take Sophie and I knew you would over-react and say no, so I didn't tell you." Clark explains.

"You lied to us, Clark." Jonathon tells him.

"Because nothing would have happened." Clark says.

"After all we taught you, you went away for a weekend with a girl?" His mom asks.

"Nothing happened!" Clark insists.

"That's beside the point. We trusted you, and you went behind our back." Jonathon tells him.

Clark drops his head. Dun Dun Dun, what's the sentence going to be?

"Just grounding you isn't going to be enough. I don't want you seeing Sophie outside of school for at least a week." Jonathon tells Clark.

"What! How can you do this? Give me extra chores, ground me. But don't punish her!" Clark shouts, or pleads.

"This is the only way it'll get through to you. I have work to do." He says and walks out the door. Martha sees Clark's expression.

"Oh hunny, it's not that bad." She tries to comfort him.

"Yeah it is. I'm the only one she has around here." He tells her and walks upstairs.

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Clark comes back down for dinner and his dad is on the couch, watching a news story on the TV. "Spectators at Eldora Speedway in Rossbury, Ohio had a scare last night as the race car driven by Craig Thompson literally broke the wall down. Amazingly, this young man shown here in the video barely dodged the car and crumbling wall." The reporter says. They go to an interview of the driver.

"The accelerator stuck and I lost complete control of the car, crashing in to the wall. In all of my years of racing, I have never seen a car break the wall like that and bounce away. That young man is lucky to be alive." Craig tells the camera.

"Clark, why didn't you tell us?" His dad asks.

"You never gave me the chance." Clark says.

"So are you lucky? Or did you have a hand in stopping that car?" Jonathon asks.

"I waited as long as I could and tried to push it away as I dodged it. I did it so fast that nobody saw." Clark explains.

"I think those spectators behind you are more lucky." Jonathon says.

"So, you're not mad at me?" Clark asks, biting his lip.

"Of course not, son." He says and gives Clark a hug. "If you weren't there, those people would have died. I'm a little concerned that anybody saw you, but there's nothing we can do."

"Lex set it up so that I met one of the sprint car drivers, Jake Fareless. Lex is friends with his brother, John, that works as his engineer." Clark tells him.

"Yeah, Lex has contacts everywhere, doesn't he?" Jonathon replies.

"Jake let me take his sprint car around for a few laps. I never had so much fun." Clark says with a smile.

"Oh yeah? I bet it was." His dad agrees.

"I think I'd like to try racing a car. I keep having these dreams that I'm on the pace lap of the Daytona 500." Clark tells him.

"I think I would be very proud if my son raced in the Daytona 500." Jonathon says with a smile and pats Clark's shoulder.

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