Chapter 2

Adam looked behind to face Clark's direction to see Lois Lane walk towards them with a quite surprising pace with a look of excitement on her face. But Adam's focus was immediately drawn to Chloe who was trying to keep up with Lois.

Chloe Sullivan in his eyes seemed to make his problems disappear he wasn't sure what this sensation was in the pit of his stomach. She had done a lot to help him adjust to his new life on earth but surprisingly also seemed to had helped him accessing some of his abilities.

He could now control his newly acquired heat vision by just thinking about her in his head. Clark had yet to explain how that worked all he would do is turn a shade of red and change the subject.

He returned from his train of thought to realize Lois was already by there table speaking very pleased with herself.

"Hey Smallville, Hey Junior" Lois spoke very cheerfully.

Adam grunted as he took the final amount of coffee in the cup. Clark had told Adam that Lois was prone to make nicknames for people but Adam didn't like the name Junior it made him feel like a child.

He nodded in her direction but noticed Chloe had finally caught up with her.

"Hey" she said cheerfully as she always did to both of them.

Chloe made sure that the she grabbed the seat next to Adam which Lois took a stern look to. But she couldn't hide her actual excellent mood she was in.

Adam then said saying the words low enough but saying them very out of context.

"You look very pretty today Chloe"

Chloe immediately blushed and smiled at him.

"Thanks"

Clark hung his head not because his brother didn't fully understand how embarrassing it was to be so open about his feelings for Chloe, but knowing that Lois was right there.

A finger pointed directly in Adams face making him jolt in his seat.

"Listen Junior…" Lois said in a protective tone directly to Adam.

"…stop sweet talking my baby cousin or I will use your face as my new tire tread."

"LOIS!!" Chloe she said completely shocked at her cousin's outburst.

Clark thought it would be the best that he would swoop in and defuse the situation.

"Lois why don't we go order a round of drinks for everyone?"

Lois kept her glare fixed on Adam who still looked at her bluntly as he first did when she walked in.

"Yeah sure" she said completely changing her tone back to cheerful one.

She stood up with Clark and began to head to the counter when she turned round and reiterated her threat.

"Keep those hands were I can see them mister"

Chloe just held her face in her hands shaking her head hiding how flushed she had gotten.

Adam looked at Clark who was trying not to laugh at the situation, it made a change that Clark was not the butt of Lois's jokes. While Lois and Clark were at the counter, Adam was staring at Chloe not understanding why she was hiding away in her hands.

"Is this part of socializing because Clark hasn't gone through this part" Adam asked in the same questionable tone which Chloe found so adorable.

When she looked up she realized that Adam was mimicking her exact same posture hiding his hands behind his face. Chloe laughed and moved his hands from his face.

"Have I upset Lois or is she always that angry" he said still not understanding Lois outburst at him.

She looked over to her cousin noticing she was still keeping a close eye on there every move.

"No Adam…Lois is just very over-protective when it comes to me especially when it comes to men"

"Why?" he replied, but Chloe delve into the bag she was carrying to change the subject.

At the counter Lois growled in annoyance.

"The nerve of Junior to hit on my baby cousin"

Clark was trying to calm her down even though he found it very funny to see Lois this irritated.

"Lois…he paid her a compliment nothing more"

Lois used her spoon and pointed at Clark's nose while she replied.

"Smallville, you still no nothing about chatting up girls yet do you, I mean all you know is to pine over La…" Lois immediately hit the brakes hard on her sentence.

Clark tried not to show much emotion but taking a stiff sip of his coffee was sure sign enough Lois had gone to far.

"Sorry Smallville…" she said trying to be as sincere as a Lane could be.
He glanced a smile and decided it was time to move on to something else.

"So are you going to tell me why you came into the talon surprisingly happy for a change?"

That brought a nice change of subject and a smile back on Lois's face.

"Ok, Ok guess who is coming to Metropolis to play live on Saturday night" she said very excited.

Clark hated guess who games but because it was Lois he always like to be a bit sarcastic.

"You're Dad?"

A punch right into the side of his arm which of course wouldn't hurt the man of steel but he still had to pretend and winced at the impact. She smiled at the site of that but then ignored his signature for pain and continued.

"No Farmboy, Whitesnake!!" she said with utmost joy but Clark hung his head.

"Oh dear god" Clark sighed in annoyance.

"Hey…" Lois replied crossing her arms with a dangerous glare.

"…If I remember right while I was living at the farm I heard you over a dozen occasions humming "Here I Go Again" while you were in the barn" she concluded smirking triuphently but she was as usual Clark would try and get the last word.

"That's because when my parents were out you would put there greatest hits on repeat and sing the songs at the top of your lungs"

"Come on Smallville, your not telling me you enjoyed it while you milked the cows and baled the hay and brooded in the barn" Lois said as she picked her sugar for her coffee and with a moment of silence from Clark she knew she had won this battle.

Slowly after accepting defeat Clark then decided to change his tactics.

"So I presume you had tickets for this event long before they went on sale."

"No actually…" Lois tone slightly changed which only Clark would only notice.

"…Oliver was planning on taking me along with Jimmy and Chloe he had the tickets ordered months ago, they just were delivered by post so he must of forgotten to cancel them" she said trying to hide her sadness through a weak smile.
Clark put a reassuring hand on her shoulder like he had done numerous times the past 3 months to help her get through the break-up from blond billionaire Oliver Queen.

However Lois looked at him with a new found flare of determination.

"Well now that me and Chloe are minus one, you are going as Oliver's replacement"

Clark smiled for a moment but then repeated her last statement through his head.

You are going as Oliver's replacement…

"Wait, What?" Clark stuttered.

"What do you mean what? Consider it a thank you for being a good friend" she said as more of a statement than anything else. But Clark still was trying to hide the blush flaring up in his cheeks.

"Lois…I mean me and you a concert don't you think…" Clark said hoping she would help him finish the sentence.

"Don't I think what?" she replied not helping him in anyway.

"Well…that people hypothetically of course…think that this would…be like…"

"Of for god sake Clark spit it out my Coffee is going to be able to apply for a driving license in a couple of seconds." Lois said sighing in annoyance.

"Like a date…" he said nervously which he immediately regretted as a belt of laughter came In response.

While this epic and embarrassing conversation was taking place, Chloe and Adam were also having there own conversation.

"So…Clark finally took my advice and brought you to the talon" she spoke as she messed with a plastic spoon that Adam had left in his empty cup.

"Yeah, its took some time but I have managed to control my main abilities without breaking things or setting them on fire." He said with a sly smile which Chloe giggled to.

Even there were these times over the past month were she would be with him and they would talk and he would make her laugh without even realizing he was being funny. But she knew in time he would learn those fundamentals of humanity and she would be with him every step of the way. Which reminded her of something that lay in her bag.

"Oh, I almost forgot…" she smiled at him making that feeling Adam got in his stomach return as she pulled a box with wrapping paper and a small red bow on the top and handed it to Adam.

"What is this?" he asked looking at it up and down.

"It's a present silly?" she replied with a smirk.

"But I haven't done anything" he said confused as he looked into her eyes and for a moment couldn't think of nothing else but his confused feelings were broken by her voice explaining.

"Adam you don't have to do something to get something in return…think of it as a well done for getting through a tough first month" she said putting her delicate hand on his shoulder and his tense frame relaxed under her soft touch. As he slowly examined it and began unwrapping it carefully to reveal another box with a lot of symbols and writing on it.

He then opened this box to reveal a small red rectangular object which he was unsure of.

"What is it?" he said studying the object with so much interest like a small boy would a Christmas present hoping that Chloe wouldn't be offended by him not knowing what this fascinating object was.

"Well Adam this is your new cell phone…" she said showing him as she slid the phone up to which it light up on contact revealing a picture of a beautiful summers day and descriptions of the time date as she explained.

"…with this we can talk to each other anytime…oh and you can talk to Clark and Lois and everyone to else just by a click of a button." She said watching his eyes look at the displays but also seeing how delicate he was with stroking the keys making sure he did not break them.

What Imagine what those hands would feel on my skin. A naughty thought quickly came to the front of her mind which she tried to block out but was having so much difficulty to do so.

"This is amazing Chloe…Thanks" he concluded by putting his hand on top of hers and smiling a similar Kent smile that sent tingles through her body.

They remained silent looking at each other as time seemed to slow down as there eyes never left there respected gazes.

Chloe was struggling to hold her emotions even she knew that he would probably not understand what these feelings were between them. But in that very moment as she felt the words she had wanted and needed to tell him beginning to slip through her lips.

"Adam…I think I'm…"

But a shrill of laughter from the counter ended that moment as they both blinked and time returned to the normal as they both looked over to see Lois bellowing out a huge belly laugh across the talon.

At the counter Clark looked very annoyed as Lois continued to wipe the tears from her eyes from laughing so much.

"Seriously Clark…" she said breathing heavily "…don't make me laugh like that again I swear I thought I had pulled my funny bone there" she said placing a hand on his shoulder as she continued.

"Imagine you and me on a date…wait I cant even imagine it" she said laughing out again.

"Lois…I'm not that bad you know" Clark whispered dejectedly.

Lois stopped laughing immediately as she realized that she actually may have hurt her favorite farmboys feelings.

"Sorry Smallville you are kind of cute in a dorky farmer john type of way…" she said and realized her hand was still on his shoulder and she reclaimed it back quickly.

"Thanks Lois from you that means a lot…" he replied sarcastically smiling and she knew that all was back to normal.

"But that still doesn't mean that your not going to that concert with me and Chloe which you are" Lois said re-crossing her arms to the famous Lane stance.

Clark thought for a moment until he looked over to the table to see Adam and Chloe in conversation and occasionally glancing awkwardly towards each other's direction and then it hit him.

"Lois that means you still have one more ticket free right?" he said with a Kent smile which seemed to be contagious around the Talon tonight.

"Yeah why?" she said worryingly.

"Well Lane I'll go with you and Chloe to the White snake concert…on one condition"

Lois let out a strong sigh as she asked.

"Why do I get the feeling I will regret this…"

TO BE CONTINUED