Part 1B
Ch. 5 (Lana's POV)
Lana stood in front of her closet wearing her black-silk bathrobe. Tonight was the football game. Lana still couldn't believe the outfit she had worn last night. And why had she been hitting on Lex, of all people? Lana knew how red kryptonite affected her, but it couldn't create what didn't exist somewhere hidden in her subconscious. It released the crazy and wild in her. But Lana knew who she was in love with….she knew who she had always been in love with; the one she had always been secretly in love with.
But then who was she going to the football game for? Jason, her boyfriend, and the coach? Or Clark, mystery-man, and the star-player? She couldn't let Jason know that she was still in love with Clark Kent….at least not yet. Truthfully, she was afraid to tell Jason the truth, because even though Jason didn't know her secret, he knew her weakness:
(Flashback: Lana stood in the caves, staring at the symbols that spoke of her past and of her destiny. Her auburn hair was tied back in a pony-tail, which was unusual for her. It was dark and misty in the caves tonight, and the symbols resonated with a mystical aura. As she was staring at the kryptonian writing, her cell-phone rung. "Hello," she answered the phone. Jason was on the other end. He asked Lana to meet him in an ally in Metropolis. Lana thought it was all out and way too much, but she decided, why not. Why not listen to what he had to say. (It had been before she had realized that she was still in love with Clark) "I'm not that far from there right now. I can meet you there in about five minutes", Lana had said to Jason on the phone.
Lana super-sped to the ally in metropolis to meet with Jason. But what Jason didn't get a chance to ask Lana what he had planned to ask her. The ally was filled with meteor rocks, and as soon as Lana got there, she started to feel nauseous and her veins felt like they were burning; melting. She felt like a million knives were jabbing into her. Right as she was about to collapse, Jason caught her. "What's wrong Lana? Are you alright?" he had asked panickly. "The meteor rocks," Lana said in between struggled breaths. "I'm allergic to them. They could kill me." Lana struggled to keep her eyes open. "Please…." Lana said, "Hurry; get me out of here….") (end of flashback)
Lana sighed and put on a pair of faded blue-jeans and a loosely-fitting black T-shirt. She had missed the bus, so she super-sped to school. She walked in to her first class right as the bell was ringing. Close call, she thought to herself. All through the day she wondered what was so important about tonight's football game. But she felt like something was going to happen. She felt like she was drawn to the game, that nature was pulling her to be there. She felt the force tugging on her; she just couldn't grasp why nor whom for.
At lunch, Lana sat with Chloe and her other friends. Chloe seemed preoccupied about something, but Lana couldn't tell what. But Chloe didn't seem like herself. She had dark circles under her eyes and the usual bounce in her smile just wasn't there. She still looked like Chloe, but faded. "What's wrong, Chloe?" Lana asked. After a couple seconds of silence, Chloe asked, "Is it that obvious I'm upset?" "What happened?" Lana asked. "Let's say," Chloe began in a sad monotone, "that I found out that someone I knew wasn't what I thought." "Let me guess…" Lana said, "We're talking about Clark." "I found out his secret….I think," Chloe said. "Don't tell me," Lana said, "I want to wait for him to tell me himself." "He probably won't," Chloe said, "but then again, of course, you're Lana Lang, so he might." "What do you mean? Come 'on, be fair, Chloe," Lana said. "You know he's always been in love with you, Lana," Chloe said, "and he didn't tell me. I saw." For a minute or two awkward silence lingered in the air, and then to avoid it, the two best friends changed the subject to avoid conflict.
The bell rang, ending the lunch period. Lana sat through the last two periods of the school day, dreading the football game for some reason she didn't know. In Biology, the last class of the day, Lana sat behind Clark. Instead of paying attention to the lecture, she found herself dreaming about Clark, and wishing he was like her so they could be together. She hated how secrets always tore them apart. And besides, Biology was about the biology of Earth-creatures. Lana was a Kryptonian creature….one-of-a-kind; the last one alive. She feared that because of the truth, she was destined to be alone forever. She knew that she couldn't truly get close to anyone without revealing who-what-she really was. Is. And she couldn't, because she knew it would endanger them. Either that, or they'd think she was a freak and hate her. She was Smallville's fairy-princess, but secretly, she felt like a freak.