Ch.2- Middle School. Meet Zach (maybe. If you don't you'll meet him eventually). But who is he really?
Clark Kent is thirteen and in the seventh grade. So are Lana, and Chloe, and Pete. They live in a small town and you would think it was going to be a safe little town. But it was far from that, with all the meteor freaks. Clark doesn't yet know of his origin, but he knows of his powers. Secretly, he suspects the truth. And who wouldn't? But Lana, Lana knows the truth. Lana Lang is the last daughter of Krypton, a powerful sorceress, and a beautiful witch at only thirteen, and she knows it and loves it. She embraces it fully and she isn't scared.
"What's going on?" Lana asked, darkly and ominously because she loved to be mysterious. "Oh, there's a new kid. Apparently, his parents died," Chloe said. "Oh really?" Lana said wittily, hiding her tears and hiding besides a façade. BOTH of Lana's sets of parents were dead. It wasn't fair. "Apparently, he's only staying here temporarily. I think his name is…oh, heck. What a good reporter I am. I can't even remember the new kid's name!"
"I heard of him," Clark said. "The school pretty much left all of it in the dark. We're not really supposed to know anything about his past."
Clark, Chloe, and Lana are talking about the new kid, standing in the hallway during lunch-time because middle-school cafeterias are boring. A kid with jet black hair wearing a dark pear of sunglasses walks by. His head is down; his eyes pointed towards the ground. "I think that's him," Chloe whispered cautiously. He was wearing dark clothes and looked depressed and angry and afraid.
"You know what?" Lana said. "I saw my parents being killed. Too bad I don't know whose fault this is. Then I could be like the new kid. Whoever he is. Because apparently he watched them die and was too cowardly to do anything. He was only around five or six, people have said. Maybe seven. I really don't know; how could I? And there's no possible way I could possibly know any of the information I am saying, so tough tidily-winks. I guess I can just see into the future because I'm so powerful…"
Of course, Lana didn't really say that. How could she? Even Kryptonians can't see into the future. How could they, when it doesn't exist yet. Anything and everything after this exact moment during this exact moment remains unwritten and a blank mystery that one day will unfold.
Chloe suddenly remembers the new-kid's name.
"His name is Zach," she says, excited that she finally remembered.
"Does he have a last name?" Clark asked.
"Apparently, not," Chloe said, "At least, not one that he's telling us."