A/N- To all Smallville fans: In like, EVERY episode of Smallville, Chloe or someone says something like "It's SMALLVILLE, after all!" after something supernatural happens. So I give credit to the makers of Smallville, Alfred Gough and Miles Millar because in this chapter, it's gonna be "It's TREEGAP, after all!"

Chapter 16: It's Treegap, after all!

Elizabeth Prescott sat on the ground next to her grandmother Winnie Foster's tombstone, waiting for her boyfriend, Charlie to arrive. They had promised to meet here. She stared at what was written, and smiled. Her grandmother had had such a happy life...

"Yo!" a voice said.

Liz turned around. She smiled. It was Charlie.

"So, I talked to a few townspeople about the history of this grave. This wasn't the original location, was it?"

"Nope. It was actually where that old tree was located. But they said for some miraculous reason, the tree grew back, and they had to move the grave somewhere else.

"Yeah, and then they noticed that water began to form."

Did this ecstasy ingredient help trees grow back too? Liz thought.

"Yeah, sort of 'The Twilight Zone', don't you think?"

Charlie grinned. "Hey, it's Treegap, after all!"

Liz laughed, then kissed Charlie on the cheek. It had been two weeks since she had last seen Jesse, and now she was pretty used to Charlie being around. Besides, school was starting in a few days, and she would be too busy sending early applications to Yale and her back-up schools, Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, and Brown. She would also be studying for tests and exams and what-not. Beaumont was a hard school, but it was only for the smartest, richest kids. While most kids took their SAT's in their senior year at Treegap Public School, the Beaumont kids took them in their junior year, and some over-over-achievers took them their sophomore year.

"So, what do you want to do today?" Charlie asked sweetly. His sandy-brown hair was shining so brightly in the sun...it was so sexy...

Liz shrugged. "What do you want to do?"

"We can rent a suite at that local hotel..."

Liz knew where this was going. "I don't think so," she said apologetically. "Let's just hang out at the mall or something."

Charlie looked utterly disappointed. "Okay, I guess..."

"Sorry," Liz apologized again.

"Naw, it's okay. If you wanna go steady, it's fine with me."

"Thanks!" Liz beamed, and then kissed Charlie.

Charlie kissed her back, giving her a nice, decent moderate kiss. "Come on, we better go." he whispered.

Liz giggled, and kissed Charlie again, this time, hungrily. Soon, they were making out, right in front of Winnie's Foster's grave, nearby the old Tuck tree. And behind the tree, Jesse Tuck watched as another man stole his love's heart. Jesse realized how much he truly did love Liz, but knew she had now found someone else. Tonight, after Liz went home, he would go climb up to Liz' bedroom window and he would tell her. He would tell her that he was to leave Treegap ever, and for her to have a nice life. And that would be sincere, not the kind a broken hearted teenager would tell his ex-girlfriend after seeing her with another guy, although that was definitely the case for Jesse.

"I love you, Liz" Jesse heard Charlie say.

Please don't love him back, Jesse thought desperately.

"I love you too, Charlie" Liz said.

Damn!

"Come on, let's go."

"Okay."

Jesse watched his love walk away with her new boyfriend, hand in hand. He felt the same way he had felt when he had come to see Winnie's grave for the first time. He knew it wasn't too late to try to win back Liz' heart, but he had promised his family that he would go with them on their next journey. As much as Jesse loved Liz, he didn't love her as much as he loved his family. Jesse Tuck too, in a way, was just any ordinary seventeen-year-old boy.