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High School and Chloe's Biggest fan

"This is cruel and unusual punishment," Cate complained.

"Punishment," Johnny snorted, "More like TORTURE!"

Clark sighed. The twins had been complaining the entire time that they had been at the school. Now, they were waiting outside the principal's office while she looked over their fake transcripts. Clark would have to thank Chloe for making the transcripts on such short notice. It clearly paid off to have a friend who could hack into any computer.

"Don't blame me for this," Clark told them, "This was your mother's idea."

"You're right," Caitlyn said, "But it doesn't seem very much like Mom, does it?"

"Yeah," Johnny said, "This is the same woman who let me skip school the day of a big test that I didn't study for."

"That's only because you were helping Dad all night when you were supposed to be studying," Cate pointed out, "Saving the world is a valid excuse for not studying."

Clark listened to the two talk about their mother more and more. Maybe there would be a big clue to who she was somewhere in the stories.

"Kent," the secretary called out.

The three of them got up and followed the secretary into the principal's office.

Clark inspected the office. There seemed to be a lot of degrees on the wall. Clark looked down at her name plate. It read:

Samantha Connors

Principal Connors was a middle aged woman with pale blond hair and a serious face. She seemed to look at all three Kents with disapproval.

"Hello, I am Principal Connors," she said, "You may address me as such or as Mrs. Connors."

"Hello Principal Connors," Clark said, "I'm Clark Kent and these are my cousins, Caitlyn and Jonathan."

"Ah, yes," Connors said without any interest, "I've been looking over the transcripts. Everything seems to be in order. However, I do see a lack of extracurricular activities."

"Um….we had after school jobs," Caitlyn said sharing a look with Clark.

"I see," Connors said looking hard at them.

"I'm sure they'll be able to join an activity or two while their here," Clark said.

"It's interesting that you would say that, Mr. Kent. I've been looking into your old file as well."

Clark paled. "M..my ..old..file?"

"Yes," she said, "I'm often interested in alumni when they come back to the school. You, like your cousins, had a lack of extracurricular activities."

Johnny snickered. "Really now?"

Clark cleared his throat. "I was on the school newspaper."

"And the football team for a while at least. You stopped suddenly for some reason." The principal said eyeing Clark suspiciously.

"I lost interest," he lied.

Cate decided that now would be a good time to intervene. "So, um, are we going to be enrolled into Smallville High?"
Connors snapped her head back towards Caitlyn. "Ah, yes. Here are your schedules."

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"Okay, was it me or did the rest of you find that woman very creepy?" Johnny asked.

"Definitely creepy," Cate agreed. Clark nodded.

Personally, Clark was reminded of Lex. The way the woman had dug into his past reminded him much of the billionaire. Especially after she questioned him.

"So," Clark said, "I'm guessing that you two don't go to school here."

"What was your first guess?" Johnny asked sarcastically.

Cate glared at her brother. "We go to school in Metropolis. That's where we all live. We visit the farm on holidays or long weekends."

"If I'm not there, then who takes care of the farm?" Clark asked.

"Grandma Martha," Johnny said, "She doesn't stay senator forever, you know."

Clark nodded. It made sense that his mom would want to return to the farm after her term as a senator. Just the other day, she had complained over the pone about the "hustle and bustle of Washington".

"Well, good luck," Clark told them, "I'd better head to work before Lois takes my job away from me."

"See you," the twins said together.

Both sighed as they headed to their next class.

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Lunch saved Johnny from a major head explosion as he headed to the cafeteria. Most of the people that he had met were friendly, but the generation gap was just too much for him to actually make friends with them. One guy had actually said "Awesomeness" to Johnny.

He grabbed a plate and sat down next to him sister.

"One thing that hasn't changed in seventeen years is the bad lunch food."

"I'll say," Cate said picking at something that looked like mashed potatoes.

"You know something that I never took for granted was…"

"Computers in every classroom," she said finishing his sentence.

"Yeah," Johnny said, "My hand feels like it's ready to fall off after taking notes on paper all day."

"I guess it's too expensive to have a computer for every student in school at this time period."

"High schools always have been cheap," he said shaking his head.

When the two of them were done eating, they still had extra time before their next class. So, they decided to walk around their temporarily new school. However, Johnny was being…well….Johnny.

"If I see one more poster with a crow on it, I'm going to go nuts!" he said dramatically.

"Too late for that," Cate mumbled.

"What?"

"Um…I said 'hey, what's that?'" she said pointing to a classroom across the hall.

Johnny looked at the door. It had a poster that read:

The Torch- News That Burns Off the Rack

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The twins walked into the classroom and saw another teenager there eating lunch. She was an average looking girl with light brown hair and blue eyes. Upon seeing the twins, she got up and tried to look professional.

"Is there anything that I can do for you?" she asked.

"What is this place?" Johnny asked as he looked around the room.

It was a small classroom with computers that looked a little old. Papers and other junk were cluttered around the room. But, the thing that got Johnny's attention was the giant collage of articles pasted to one of the walls.

"You guys must be new," she said standing up, "This is The Torch. The school newspaper. I'm Sarah Hartford, the editor."

"The Torch?" Caitlyn asked, "Da-Clark told us about this."

"Clark?" Sarah asked.

"Our cousin," Johnny explained, "I'm Johnny and this is my sister, Caitlyn."

"Clark was on The Torch's staff back in high school," Cate said, "What's this wall?"

Sarah smiled. "I call it The Sullivan Wall. You see, I was researching past articles when I found out all of this weird stuff that happened while the old editor, Chloe Sullivan, was here. It all was connected back to the meteor shower in the end, but it all stopped after the second meteor shower. Surprisingly, it was also about the time that Chloe graduated."

Johnny looked at all of the articles. "Wow," he said, "Hey! Look, Cate, it's Clark!"

"Let me see," she said.

Johnny pointed to one of the articles. In the far bottom corner was an article called: Lunch Menu Changed.

Cate laughed. "Wow! Chloe must have helped his writing a lot. This stuff is horrible!"

Sarah looked at the twins. "Does your cousin know Chloe Sullivan?"

"Yep," Johnny said, "they were best buds in high school. She encouraged him to apply at the Daily Planet, like her."

"She works for the Daily Planet!??!" Sarah exclaimed, "That's awesome!!"

"Well, not anymore," Cate explained, "But she operates her own company, though."

"Just as great!"

Sarah looked like she was going to burst with excitement. "Do you think I could interview her?! I could do a piece on how far even Smallville graduates can go."

"Sure," Caitlyn said, "I bet she would love that."

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For the rest of the day, the super teens hung out with Sarah in between classes and suffered through the horror of high school. Who knew that it would be so hard to live in a different time? Johnny would defiantly never shrug off another one of his father's "When I was your age," stories.

At the end of the day, the two were completely exhausted.

"So….much…homework," Johnny moaned.

"Too…many…tests…tomorrow," Cate joined in.

"Bye you guys," Sarah yelled out as she got into a blue SUV.

The twins waved weakly.

Suddenly, a familiar car pulled up next to them.

"Is that what I think it is?" Johnny asked.

"I think so," Caitlyn said shocked.

The car window rolled down to show a beautiful woman with brown hair and hazel eyes.

"Lois?" the twins said together.

"C'mon kids," She said, "Hop in!"

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