CHAPTER 3
LOCATION: HIGHWAY LEADING TO METROPOLIS
TIME: 11:37 PM
WARNING: SOME MILD LANGUAGE AND DESCRIPTION OF BLOOD

As Lana drove away, she started to cry. She loved Clark, and she always had. But Clark wasn't fulfilling her needs. What Lana needed was love. Everyone in her life had left her at some point. Everyone except two people: Chloe, her best friend & roommate and Lex, who was only there for money problems. Lana had never thought of herself and Lex being romantically involved. I mean, she could never love a man like him, right? He had betrayed everyone around him. Even Lana had been betrayed at the beginning of the summer, when Lex didn't trust that Lana didn't have one of the stones of knowledge. He had snatched her purse and looked almost insane. It had scared Lana, and after that she had thought of never seeing Lex again. It made her so outraged. Lana sighed. She was so confused.
Instead of continuing to Metropolis, Lana turned around and headed back towards Smallville. She went to the Smallville graveyard. She didn't know what to do. When she was younger, she knew exactly what to do in situations like this: talk to her parents. So, that is what she decided to do. Lana's parents had been dead for years. They had been killed in the first meteor shower that had destructed Smallville in the 1980's. Lana was 3 when they were killed. In one moment, her mom had been waving to her. In the next, her mom and her dad were gone. It was the worst day of Lana's life. After that moment, she was photographed for Time magazine. Since then, through out her childhood she was known as "that little girl with the fairy princess costume, on the cover of Time magazine." Throughout her life she had tried to shed the image of the frightened, helpless little girl. But the truth was, she was still just as scared about the road ahead of her inside. It scared her so, so much.
Lana had visited her parents often as she grew up, but as she grew older and older, she went there less and less until finally she didn't go at all. In fact, Clark had come a few times with her. That was when she first fell in love with him. He had been so kind to her, and didn't treat her like everyone else. With him, he could tell that Lana was really loved. And that made Lana's heart flutter. Lana approached their graves. "Hi mom, hi dad." Said Lana quietly. "Listen, I am sorry I haven't been to visit you for a while." Lana smiled slightly. "Okay, so I haven't been here for a LONG time. But I need your advice." Lana sighed and got down on her knees. She walked over to a nearby rose bush, and used nail clippers from her purse to cut one of the stems with a flower on it. She kissed it softly, and laid it in front of their graves. Lana waited for a few minutes, hoping that she would get an answer. But, she didn't get one. Frustrated, Lana hit the tombstone. It hurt her hand, and a few trickles of blood fell to the soil. Lana started to cry. No Lana, She thought to herself. Don't cry, Don't DAMN CRY! Lana screamed at herself. She burst into tears and buried her head into her sleeves. Lana was tired, and laid down next to the grave. She fell asleep almost as soon as she hit the ground.