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.
