"I.. I'm.. well ..I've been better." He managed to squeak out under the circumstance that Lois had given him.
"I just wanted to check, I mean this couldn't have been the best week of your life." she stated mentally kicking herself the entire time for stopping herself form prying and making him go into at least a little bit more detail. The gut had lost his dad and he didn't want to open up or talk about it at all, he just kept it all bottled up, one day it was all going to come out all at once. And Lois Lane was going to be there and the one he spilled it all to when that day happened, she would make sure of it.
The day is never going to come, the day that Lois becomes a therapist or at the very least a good listener, but she had lost her mother, given the fact that she was only six years old at the time, but at least she knew what it was like, the feelings may not have been identical but it might have been pretty close.
"Yeah, your right, it wasn't but I'll be ok."
Well I hope so, I wouldn't want everything to happen to my favorite farmboy."She said unaware of how that really sounded,
"I'm your favorite farmboy now, huh?"He said fully aware of how that sounded, but willing to pass it off as a joke.
"Don't let it go to your head, sorry to say it. …Well no I'm not but you are just about the only farmboy I have met in my entire life. So it isn't that hard to be number one when you're the only competitor."
" I guess you're right but I still am pretty darn cool if I do say so my self."
"Yeah, I might have agreed with you until you said that, I mean it's alright for someone who's twenty six years old to swear once in a while."
"Aww fiddlesticks!" he said with mock immaturity.
"Now right there you sound like some little four year old who just got beat at candy land at preschool."
"I do not!" he declared coming out more as a whine as her intended.
'Yes you do or pretty soon it's gonna be Lois Lane four, Clark Kent with a big fat zero." she said knowing sooner or later she would be right again and keep running up the score.
"Fine" he huffed out, finally fed up with loosing.
"Back to the subject I was trying to talk about before we got off on this random tangent. Do you want to talk about what's happened or just hang out?" she asked him, once again already knowing the answer.
"I vote for just hanging out." he decided sounding a little bit more eager than he intended.
The two of them decided just to hang out. They plopped down on the couch and popped in a movie. Lois spread out along the couch resting her feet on Clark knowing he wouldn't mind a bit which he really didn't. The movie they picked was one that they both loved, but even when watching a movie you love, if you get tired, you will fall asleep, which they both did.
The feeling in the air always seems to pass. You can gain or frantically search for closure, either way you will find it eventually. Things change, everyone's lives change and the way things can happen change. But who knows, friendships can be formed in the process or ones that already exist can be strengthened more than you could ever know, and that is what happened.
Fin.
