Epilogue
Lana stood in the middle of the Kent driveway. The sun was softly setting behind the barn and the gentle rayssetthe house aglow. She stood still, her arms folded across her chest. Sheonce had a future on this land. A future with Clark, her husband. They had finally gotten married but Lex had destroyed her happily ever after. She wished she could sleep soundly at night knowing that bastard was behind bars but without Clark by her side she couldn't sleep. Not after four years.
Chloe and Pete had set her down a few nights ago. When she saw their wedding bands it put another crack in her heart. She didn't havethe heart to be Chloe's maid of honor. She had known she wouldn't have been able to be happy at her best friends wedding but she had still gone. And she had cried the entire time.
Now she stood on the farm taking her friends advice and saying goodbye. Saying goodbye to her happilyy ever after, her dreams of having a family on this farm, cooking pies and letting them cool in the window. She was saying goodbye to Clark.
She still wore her wedding ring and she always would. Clark was her soul mate. Her one true love. Nothing would change that. No one would. Their love went beyond where it was now. She would look into his blue eyes again. She had faith she would survive. She already had for four years.
Tears slipped from her eyes and landed in the dust at her feet. Her breath caught in her throat as she remembered all the times she had rushed through the kitchen door to see him. The time she had come to the farm and seen the barn door shot up and how her heart had broken when she thought he was dead. The times they would fall asleep on the couch while watching a movie. When she would watch him working on his fathers truck and how he'd hit his head on the hood when she'd surprise him.
All of that was in the past. A past she wished she could relive. To stop all those tragic events that happened to them. But in the end she knew it made their love stronger. Proved that they were meant to be. And if Clark were here, he would argue that point to her. He had fought for their love. Proved to her that they were meant to be. And when she had opened her heart and fully let him into her life she had lost him.
She turned back to her jeep and got in. One day she would be strong enough to move into the farm. Like Clark had wished. She started her car and gripped her steering wheel. She could see him walking out of the barn with a rag in his hands wiping off the grease from the tractor. A huge smile on his face when he saw her. She wiped the tears from her eyes and the image from the past. She pulled the jeep around and headed down the driveway and back onto the main road. Back to her apartment that held similar and just as painful memories.