Chapter Two

A Friend in Need…..

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"Are you sure?" I asked the landlady again, feigning shock. "I mean, there may have been a mix-up….."

"Look, I don't have any more rooms and you did not call for one. Now, good-bye." She shut the door in my face and a small grin forms on my face. Perfect. I had mimicked my mother's voice (which wasn't hard considering everyone thinks I sound like her), and told the landlady to cancel the room 'I' had ordered for my daughter. I turned around and began walking slowly downstairs where Clark was.

The small grin became a very sullen frown. Clark came up to me and smiled sadly. "I heard the conversation. I'm so sorry." I nodded and looked up at him. He was so cute when he's in the sympathy mode. His eyes became filled with real sadness that it was overwhelming.

Why can't Lois see that? Or is she oblivious to everything?

I give him a small smile and then my sullen frown came back. "I have nowhere else to go so I'm practically homeless." We had come out of the building and began walking on the sidewalk. "You know, when my father told me that real life would hit hard, I never knew it would be this hard." I was walking towards my car when I noticed Clark wasn't behind me. I turned to look at him. He was in deep thought.

Finally! I thought the idea would never come to him. "Clark, what's wrong?" He turned to me and began smiling.

"I think I know where you can stay."

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We walked inside the Talon and toward the counter where Lana was cleaning. Great, another Lana scene. Just what we need. Although I'm dreading another kiss to be passed between these two, I remain calm. "Hey, Lana." Clark smiled and drew Lana into a kiss. I rolled my eyes and looked the other way.

Why are they torturing me?

Lana remembers that I'm still there and breaks the kiss. She smiles apologetically at me and I plaster a smile on my face, signaling her to excuse it. SHE WISHES!

"So, what's up?" Lana asked and went back to cleaning the counter. Clark is still in dream-land, staring at Lana so I take over.

"I need a place to stay and somehow, Clark dragged me here. Clark, why did you take me here?" I turn to him. He's still staring at Lana! What the hell! Lana looks up at him and starts blushing. I inwardly groan. Do not tell me I am seeing LanaClark action! Eww! "Clark?" I call at him. "Clark!" I shout. He looks at me.

"Yeah, what's up?" He asked. Stay, calm, Shauna. Remember, Lois and Clark will come….eventually. I drew out a long sigh.

"Can you please tell me why you dragged my butt in here?" I say, a little harshly. Well, he deserved it. He displayed LanaClark action. He had to pay.

"Oh, yeah. Um, Lana do you have an extra room. Shauna's homeless." Lana smiled at me and nodded her head.

"Yeah, I do. Its one next to Lois' own. You okay with that?" Of course I was okay with that! I needed the 'loving Clark' details from Lois after we got close and it would be even better if we were living close. Thank you Lana, thank you so much.

"Of course that would be okay." I said out loud. "I have my stuff in the car. Clark, could you help me with it?" Clark nodded and went outside for them. I turned to Lana. "Lana, I'm gonna ask you a big favour. Do you know any place where there are job offerings? I need some money to actually pay the rent."

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Lana, Clark and I put in the last boxes of my stuff into the apartment. After Lana gave me the keys, she and Clark excused themselves. I rolled my eyes again. Obviously off to do some major making out.

Why did I say that like I was accepting it?

Like I said. Ew.

And, it would be great to get Clark off my hands. I needed to deal with Chloe. She was the only person who had complete access of everything that was Clark and Lois. We needed to settle a deal. I looked at my watch. It was already six. Chloe had said that she and Lois were going to visit Chloe's father. They might come back around seven. I smiled. And that would be the perfect time to ambush Chloe and get the deal through the logic part of her brain.

And I knew that would be very hard.

I put my book down once I heard Lois and Chloe's voices. They were coming upstairs and I opened the door of my apartment to see them. They finally reached the last step and they didn't notice me because they were laughing. I cleared my throat loudly and they stopped and turned to look at me, surprised. I smile pleasantly.

"Lana gave me a place to stay." They nodded their heads and Lois opened the door of her apartment. "Hey, Chloe, can I talk to you for a sec?" Chloe looked at Lois who shrugged and made her way inside my apartment. I quickly close the door.

"Yeah, what's up?" She asked. No running around the bush, Shauna. Just give her the real deal.

"Lois likes Clark, doesn't she?" Chloe's jaw dropped when she heard that statement and a smile came tugging to my lips. "Well, answer the question." I say trying my best not to laugh.

"You're out of your mind." Chloe said. But I knew she was lying. She walked towards the door. "And I'm going to go now." I sighed. This was not how it was supposed to go.

"Wait, wait!" I shout out before she can turn the door handle. "What I meant to say is that Clark likes Lois." I correct. "I may have gotten it mixed-up…."

"Okay, where we you when Clark was giving Lois nasty words when I told you about her? Or when Clark dreaded the fact that Lois was coming?" She cut me off. "Clark likes Lana, not Lois. Those two are happy and they have not waited to five years for another person to rip them apart." My eyebrows shoot up in a shocked expression at Chloe's angry behaviour.

"Wow, I thought you of all people would be glad I suggested something like that." I said calmly. She opened her eyes in absolute anger and charged toward me. Whoa, this is getting good.

"How dare you come up here, not having known me for more than a day, and start making crazy assumptions about me!" Chloe retorted. I put up my hands in fake surrender.

"Okay, fine. So, you are over Clark, and you don't mind Lana with Clark," she looked up at me and I saw obvious interest. "But would the LoisClark scene disturb you?"

"No, it would not!" She answered immediately.

"So, why won't you want them together? I think there is a connection between them and it's stronger than Lana's connection with Clark could ever be. I mean, they are the perfect couple, the It couple. But don't you think it's a little too perfect? A little too stereotypical?"

"It might be," Chloe answered cautiously.

"So, that's why I want Lois to be with Clark. And I want you to help me." I looked up into her face, pleadingly.

Chloe shook her head. "Look, I know that I'm over Clark, I know that I'm not jealous of Lana and hell, I know that the whole LoisClark scene might scare me but not disturb me. So, I don't have to prove it to you by accepting your offer." She turned and for the second time, walked towards the door.

I rolled my eyes. I didn't ant to do this but desperate times come for desperate measures. She's about to turn the knob…. "Lois will never find real happiness if we don't do this." Yes, I had to draw out the sappy version. Gah! I hate the sappy version!

Silence. The sugar sweetness of that sap was beginning to lodge I my brain….she better say something. She turned towards me, tears brimming in her eyes. "I just don't want Lois to get hurt like I did." And with that she quickly opened and closed the door.

I sighed and plopped down on my couch. I didn't want to hurt Chloe; I just wanted to crack her. Nothing short of a small injury. I can be so evil when I want something. Now she won't accept it.

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The next morning, I grab a cup of hot coffee from Lois, say high to Lana and slip into one of the seats. I take out the morning newspaper (AN not Shauna: I forgot Smallville newspaper's name, someone care to tell me?) and began to read the headline news article. Suddenly, I heard a small noise behind me. I turn around to see Chloe looking straight at Lois, who was refilling coffee cups, then at me.

"What is it?" I said softly. I knew what she wanted to tell me. You really thought my little act yesterday was one of hopelessness? Here's a little fact about me:

I refuse to give up.

"Um…." Chloe slipped into the seat in front of me and I folded my newspaper so that there weren't any distractions. I wanted her to get my full attention when she told me the beautiful statement. Chloe sighed and turned to look at Lois again. She turned back around and I waited patiently for her to continue. "I'll do it." She whispered.

There it was.

My lips twisted into a smile. "What did you say?" I asked. She glared at me and rolled her eyes.

"I have too much logic and very…illogical reasons that Lois and Clark could go together. But this is extremely hard to do and I thought you needed all the help you could get to actually make this work. So, I took pity on you and decided that…."

"Cutting all that crap: you want to help me because you know deep down inside their guts, they like each other." I came out of the seat and slapped a big hug on her. She seemed surprised but after a while she hugged me back too.

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