Unfortunately his friends had other plans, following him to his locker Pete asked, "Clark man, what are ya up to tonight?"
Clark swallowed hard, "Umm…Not much Pete, you know the usual, homework, chores, supper, possibly even a little stargazing. Why?"
"We were gonna go catch a movie and well you know you're invited." Chloe said, "We were planning on mentioning it to you and then not asking you to go but we thought heck that would be rude." Chloe smiled her mock innocent smile and questioned, "You wanna blow off your exciting plans and come with?"
"Sorry Chlo I can't, the cows won't milk themselves." He knew the excuse was lame but he couldn't help repeating the same thing his father had told him the last time he wanted to blow off his chores. Hoping that they would just tease him about it instead of questioning why he was so eager to do his chores.
"Yes Mr. Kent Sir!" Chloe exclaimed sarcastically.
"Jeeze Clark you're starting to sound like your Dad." Pete remarked.
Clark was about to comment back when Lana Lang joined them. "Hey guys what's going on?"
"Hey Lana not much we were just inviting Mr. Kent here to a movie but ya know the cows won't feed themselves so he has respectably declined," Chloe shot Clark another innocent look before turning back to Lana and asking, "You wanna come with, it'll be lots of fun?"
Lana thought about it for a minute before answering, "Well I have to work at the Talon till eight but if you guys don't mind going after that I would love to go." She gave them all a hopeful smile.
"Sure Lana we'll catch the nine o'clock show," Pete stated as Clark's stomach made a loud gurgling noise.
"Well we better go before Clark here wastes away to nothing." Chloe said sarcastically, patting Clark's stomach.
Clark blushed bright red he hated when his stomach growled and reminded himself to eat before picking Lex up tonight so his stomach didn't decide to embarrass him. "Yeah I'm starving I'm gonna go get a seat in the cafeteria, talk to you later Lana, you guys coming with me?" He motioned to Chloe and Pete.
Nodding they said their goodbyes to Lana and headed down the hall to the already packed cafeteria, luckily no one had taken their usual seat and they sat down to eat their lunch.
After lunch Science and Math passed quickly for Clark whose head was filled with thoughts of Lex instead of Isotopes and Algebra. Before he knew it the bell had rung and he was on the bus heading home.