After school gets out, Clark runs straight home. He wants to try and avoid seeing Chloe and Lois. That way he won't have to admit to Chloe that she was right.
Clark opens the front door of the house and walks in to the kitchen with a slight smile. Martha, hearing his footsteps turns around from the counter and notices his smile.
"Clark, I haven't seen you smile since… well, in awhile." She comments.
"Yeah. Chloe said something and I realized how I was acting." Clark says.
"I knew going to school would help."
"That wasn't why I went. I went because I was tired of sitting in bed all day." He tells her and sets his backpack by the stairs.
"Oh well, you went. That's all that matters." She says.
"I've also decided to take Lex's tickets. Is it alright if I take the truck to tell him?" Clark asks.
"Sure." Martha agrees and turns back to what she was doing.
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Clark opens the door to Lex's office and walks in. Lex is at his desk typing at his laptop. He sees Clark and shuts the screen of his laptop, getting up from his chair.
"Clark, good to see that you made it out of the house." He greets him.
"Yeah, I got up this morning and went to school. I guess it worked, I feel better now." Clark tells him.
"I had a feeling I would be seeing you soon." Lex says.
"I was wondering if those tickets were still available. Are they?" Clark asks.
"Of course. Let me just get them for you." Lex goes over to his desk and gets the envelope containing the tickets.
"Thank you so much, Lex. There was one more thing… no, forget it." Clark says and quickly changes his mind.
"Were friends, Clark." Lex tells him. "What is it? I'll do anything within reason."
"I was checking out Homestead-Miami Speedway when I was at the Torch and I found out they have a smaller track the local drivers use Saturday night. I need to get my car there before tomorrow night if I want to race." Clark tells Lex.
"So, you want me to ship your car out to Miami?" Lex asks.
"Yeah. Your already doing so much for me already, I hate to ask." Clark says.
"Don't worry about it, Clark. Lexcorp has a cargo plane that could easily transport your racecar to Miami. Just say the word, and it's done."
"Alright, thanks so much. Let me just check with Todd, the actual owner of the car, and I will call you." Clark tells him.
"Ok, I'm glad I can help." Lex says and Clark hurries out the door.
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Clark pulls the truck up the driveway to Todd's house. He stops in front of the garage where the car is, and gets out. Todd hears his truck and walks out of the garage with a wrench in his hands.
"Hey, Clark! What brings you out here?" He asks.
"An opportunity was brought to me, and I wanted to run it by you." Clark tells him and starts looking at the car, walking around it.
"Oh yeah, what's that?" Todd asks.
"My friend, Lex gave me two tickets to the nascar race down in Miami this weekend. There is also a small half mile track just outside the main track, I was thinking we could take the car down there." Clark explains.
Todd laughs. "You want us to drive the car across the country by tomorrow? Even if we had the money to do that, we probably have less than twenty-four hours before qualifying."
"This is Lex Luthor were talking about. He can get us and the car there by morning." Clark smiles.
"Then what are we waiting for? Lets get this car to Miami!" Todd says excitedly.
"Alright, let me call him." Clark says and dials Lex's number on his cell phone.
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Lex set everything up and Clark and Todd are unloading the car from the trailer to put on the plane. They get the car into the cargo plane along with all the extra parts and tools needed for a race night.
Lex also set it up so that Clark and Todd fly there in his private jet instead of with the car. Lex took another jet to Italy. Clark was surprised to learn that Lex had more than one jet, but after all, Lex is one of the richest men in the world.
Once there in the air, Clark and Todd sit back on the leather couches.
"I can't believe how nice this is, I've never been in a plane this nice." Todd comments.
"Yeah, it is nice." Clark agrees. "The only other time I have, was when Lex flew me to Eldora to see the dirt track races there."
"Eldora, pretty nice. Those tickets aren't easy to find."
"Yeah, first time I got to drive a 600 horsepower sprint car too." Clark smiles.
"Amazing what connections that man has. Must be nice to have a friend that rich that can afford these kinds of gifts." Todd says.
"Actually, unlike what many people think… I don't enjoy taking the easy way with money. I would rather do things for myself. If I asked Lex, I could be racing in nascar right now. But I'd rather like to think that my talent got me there, instead of my money or friends." Clark tells him.
"Yeah, there is nothing like the satisfaction of getting they're yourself. I can understand that." Todd agrees.
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A/N: I hope these last few chapters haven't been too boring for some of you. I think I'm going to delay bringing Lois back in for a few more chapters, as this whole race weekend will be taking up a few chapters.
By the way, I'll be spelling nascar driver's names wrong on purpose. This is supposed to be a fiction story. If any of you are familiar with Nascar, you'll know what driver it is.
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