Hi, thanks to anyone still reading this story. I had these two chapters (actually is one chapter split in two) written a month ago, but my fiancé needed a computer to take to work, so I offered mine. I had it back a couple days ago and I had forgotten about the unpublished chapter. I split this chapter because I wanted the actual break up to be alone in one chapter.

I don't really like this chapter, because I realized my range of language (calling it something) is too limited to express my thoughts. Anyway, here it is.

Chapter 3: Break Up (part 1).

Lois knocked on the door and waited for someone to open. Last night, she had dinner with Oliver, after returning from a three day trip to Dallas, where her father was stationed. Lois felt the need to get out of Metropolis after her break up, and the only plausible excuse for getting out of town was a lightning visit to the General. He never knew about her and Clark's relationship, considering she was waiting for the relationship to be more solid and stable; and after letting that out of the telephone conversations, it was absolutely unnecessary for her to tell him about her break up, so the times they got together was spent mostly in small talk about work, army and newspaper.

Last night, Oliver took her straight from the airport to a new fancy restaurant she didn't remember the name. It felt really weird. She noticed a pretty obvious change in Oliver's attitude, it was almost like the blonde billionaire was hitting on her. But her mind was out of there all evening, no matter how many times he flashed his perfect smile, the one that three years ago could make her weak in the knees. Now, her only reaction was to fight the urge to slap him.

She waited a couple minutes before knocking again, this time a little stronger, but then, she heard some movement inside, like the sound of slippers sliding over the floor. It didn't take long for her cousin to open, greeting her with a big smile on her face.

"Lois!" The surprise was written all over Chloe's face, but it looked like a good surprise anyway. "Oh my god, it's nice to see you. What are you doing here? It's not that I don't enjoy your visit, but 9 o'clock on a Saturday, the morning after returning from an interstate trip is kind of weird, don't you think?" Chloe`s hair was damp, like she just had gotten out of the shower and had a weird expression on her face, that Lois noticed right away.

"Am I interrupting something? You look like you were expecting someone else' company. Hope I'm not interrupting any plan of yours."

The blonde girl shook her head and motioned Lois to sit down. "No, I really wasn't expecting anyone, but you were the last person I expected to show up this early today. You've never been a morning person Lo, and you know it pretty well, and considering last night you had a romantic dinner with the blond prince of Metropolis, I pictured you doing something more interesting in a much nicer place. I assume you two got back together, aren't you? Now that Clark is out of the way I mean." The comment got out a little blunter than she intended. She knew her cousin and her best friend had been dating for a little more than a month, and had broken up only a few days ago. But there was something really odd about it. As far as she knew, Lois and Clark were getting along perfectly together and they weren't having any kind of problem. In fact, Clark had been happier than... any other time she could remember; not to mention her cousin looked like Cinderella after getting her glass slipper back. And suddenly, abruptly, it ended. Just like that. Lois dumped Clark and it was all she knew. It felt very abrupt and very wrong actually, but it wasn't her business. The farmer didn't tell her any details, but he looked totally devastated when he told her the bad news, so, after hearing she was going out with Ollie, it wasn't really far fetched to assume Lois had dumped Clark to get back with him.

"First of all, Oliver and I aren't back. It was supposed to be a friendly dinner, but it seems like something got lost in translation and I found myself ambushed in a romantic restaurant with Oliver smiling at me and saying some cheesy lines. Anyway, I don't want to talk about that. Second, I assume Clark told you about our recent break up." Chloe nodded. "I'd like to know exactly what Clark told you about it. Please."

"Lo, all Clark told me was that you and he were no longer together. He didn't explain. But after seeing how bad he looked, I was almost sure you had dumped him. It was the logical answer to me. Now I'm starting to think otherwise though. Could you tell me what happened, so we can be on the same page?" Lois stood up and took her coat off. She began pacing back and forth like trying to find the best way to tell her cousin the whole thing.

"Well, I don't even know where to start, so I'm gonna start at the beginning, ok?"

"Ok, Lo. Take your time."

"At first, when I arrived to Smallville for the first time, when you were supposed to be six feet under, I never thought I could stay here for too long. It was different than any place I had been in my entire life and to be absolutely honest, I didn't like it, not at all. Probably if you hadn't faked your death I would have never come here. Anyway, I did come and for a number of reasons I ended up staying."

"Lois, don't you think you are going way too back into the past to begin your story?" Chloe chuckled, but stopped when she saw the sad and serious expression on her cousin's face. "Sorry, please go on."

"The thing is, when I met Clark for the first time, the same happened to me. I never thought I could have any kind of romantic feelings for him. I knew you were in love with the guy since like you were little kids and couldn't understand why. I'll just say he wasn't my type, not at all. You know the kind of guys I used to fall for when I was a teenager, and for me, Clark was like the exact opposite." Of course Chloe knew about that. Lois told her that same thing back in the days. She used to think Clark was dull, boring and the most uninteresting person she had ever met. Of course she changed her mind, but it took a long time.

"But as time went on, I learned to know him better and I found out he's the most honourable, good hearted, caring man I had ever known. But besides that, I learned he's the kind of guy who holds on to love, even when his love belongs with a woman who doesn't deserve him". A lot of memories came to Chloe's mind. Clark and Lana being the starring duo in all of them.

"Yeah, tell me about it". Chloe sighed. She was over her feelings for Clark long ago, but remembering all the pain she felt around them was not a nice thing to do.

"And when we started working together I began having all this feelings, you know. And of course I tried to ignore them. I mean, how can you deal with having feeling for someone you never thought you could? I chalked them up to loneliness, to being close working each day on top of each other, to anything but real feelings. I was in denial". It was a once in a lifetime occasion, Lois talking about her feelings. She was absolutely out of her element.

"You never told me anything about it. I guess I always knew, but I couldn't be 100% sure. It was a little too obvious. I saw you two pretty close at my wedding, but after everything that happened after, I never even brought that up." She had seen the almost kiss, the one that Lana ruined, but even then she never thought that there could be something more than physical attraction. After all, Clark was indeed a handsome man.

"Of course I couldn't tell you. You would have laughed at my face, and with a good reason."

"Well, you may be right about that." Of course it would have been funny. Just like that memorable Valentine's Day.

"But this year, it felt like everything changed. Clark started acting different around me. And all this sort of special moments started between us and it was like we finally were on the same page, like we could really move forward together. It wasn't easy at first, but after a couple failed attempts, we could finally go on a date and the rest is history."

"You two looked really happy, especially Clark. I saw him like that only a couple times when he was with Lana, and it was usually the calm before the storm, it never lasted too long".

"Being with him felt right, like it was meant to be, you know. I know it must sound corny, but it did felt that way. Like for the first time I was part of something special, meaningful. I thought maybe he was the one, you know."

"Being honest, when I first knew you two were together, boyfriend and girlfriend; I never thought you could last too long. Like you said, Clark was never your type and I always pictured you settling down with a guy like Oliver Queen, that's why it made so much sense to me when he told me he was going to ask you out." Lois's eyes looked at the verge of tears, but Chloe's voice brought her back.

"What happened, Lois? Why are you two no longer together?"

"He dumped me".

Reposted after fixing some grammar errors.