Rated: K
Growing up, Chloe had always envied her cousin's worldly ways. She'd been almost everywhere it was worth going, and a few places more that weren't. She was the one the adults had always left in charge of the other kids, because they knew that she had a talent for ordering people around and a knack for making people want to follow her. Lois, as the older cousin, had learned everything first. She'd taught Chloe how to climb trees, how to dance, how to double dutch, sent her letters from Aruba, and Germany, and Brazil.
So it was with some amazement that she'd found herself years later, with Lois looking at her, frayed and too vulnerable, that she realized that it was she who was going to have to teach Lois one of life's most important lessons: how to be open in a relationship. She wasn't an expert, by any means, but at least she didn't run screaming away from emotional commitment like Lois did.
She had no idea how she was going to go about getting Lois to admit her feelings for Clark, but she knew that until she did, she was going to have to watch Lois twitch every time his name came up, and really, it wasn't doing wonders for her nerves either.