Chapter Three Part Two- Rules of the School:

People often say that High School is the best time of your life, for most that saying is true but to Lois it was more or less like a living nightmare full of familiar faces that often despised her exposes on the football cheerleading scandal and the fact that some of the baseball players were juicing up with kryptonite to gain that extra buzz when they hit a home run.

But being a Lane meant that you never gave up when you just started and in order to get back onto the Met U campus, she would have to brave the halls of Smallville High just one more time.

The bright yellow banner sporting the red letters WELCOME BACK hung above the school entrance while the students flocked inside or hung out near the flag pole conversing about summer events.

Lois and Chloe jumped out of the car she had been using since the General took away the SUV that she crashed into the corn fields the day she was reunited with Clark.

"You know how many people would kill to go back to high school and do relive their glory days?" Chloe asks turning to face her cousin who just slung her bag over her shoulder and stared at her spunky little cousin.

"I'd rather be hanging from a helicopter above the Daily Planet…" Lois responds with sarcasm which just caused Chloe to wrap her arms around her arm brat cousin and smile.

"It'll be just like the old days when the Sullivan-Lane duo would expose the truth and get the headline." Chloe says great enthusiasm that caused Lois to crack with a smile.

"As long as you promise not to stick me with the fluff stories like a kitten stuck in a tree, I want the raw gritty stories that will expose the ugly truth of the world." Lois says while growing more into what she wanted in a story, Chloe couldn't help but chuckle while Lois went off into her own little world.

The loud ringing of the school bell caused the army brat to snap out of her reporter fueled rant and laugh beside her cousin, "I didn't mean to go into Lois Land…"

Chloe and Lois began walking towards the main doors, "We all have our own little worlds but its going to be great having you here. First stop the Torch then onwards to Met U were we'll get an internship at the Daily Planet then become Pulitzer prize winning journalists with handsome boyfriends to accompany us to the awards ceremony."

Lois just laughed, "You've been thinking about this for a long time, haven't you?"

The spunky blonde reporter and her cousin just laughed and continued onwards through the halls of Smallville High unaware of what the future would bring them.

Meanwhile across the main halls of Smallville High, Clark Kent strolled down that stairs with his backpack slung over his shoulder and the blue shirt clung to his muscles giving several of the female student body something to gawk at surprisingly since Clark was considered a geek during his freshman and sophomore years of high school.

It was always his dream to play the sport his dad admired so much and it hurt to think that he was restricted of playing this and many other types of sports due to his unique heritage, but it was a new year full of possibilities that Clark was willing to take advantage of.

His attention however went from the poster reading: FOOTBALL TRYOUTS towards the sounds of whistling and inappropriate whispers coming from several of the boys as he turned to see the beautiful headed towards him with a soft smile.

"Hi, Clark" the girl says with a friendly voice, one that brought memory towards the girl's identity.

It took him a couple of seconds to process this new information before turning back to the girl asking, "Abby?"

She smiled at the confusion written on his face while she popped open her locker still sporting that same smile, "Its actually Abigail now."

Clark's eyes shifted in an up and down motion almost as if double checking to see if this was in fact the same girl that the popular kids called SCABBY ABBY, "I almost didn't recognize you for second…what happened?"

Abby looked at him while she replied, "A year of recovery during the summer and a whole knew outlook on life I guess, but with any luck this old locker will be the only thing that stays the same this year."

He responded with a friendly smile that only grew when he caught sight of Lois and Chloe walking down the halls chatting until Chloe noticed Abby and immediately voiced it to her cousin.

"Either Abby spent an entire summer at a silicon farm or I'm shopping at the wrong makeup counter"

Lois turned to look at Abby then turned back to her cousin confused, "What is she like 17? That's like messing with the batter before the cookies are even baked."

Once the cousins made it to their lockers, Chloe popped open her locker and responded to her cousins earlier remark, "In today's society, people judge for all the wrong reasons and put pressure on those who don't have the image that other project. Besides, its her body and if it makes her feel better then its none of our business…right?"

Lois stopped twisting in her combination to stare at her cousin, "I'm stunned that Miss Letter-to-the editor doesn't find it distressing that a girl would get nipped and tucked to transform into a plastic pod person-"

Just then Clark appeared next to them and cut into Lois's conversation, "I think she looks kind of…hot."

The Sullivan-Lane duo just turned at him silent until Lois replied back to the farm boy sarcastically, "What a shocker." she begins to lean against her locker with her gaze shifting between Clark and Chloe, "That's the problem with high school, everyone is hiding who they really are and trying to be something that they're not. Its all a façade."

Clark and Chloe gave each other a look before the spunky blonde reporter smirked with her reply, "Looks like you just found your story."

Lois looked at her cousins shocked and was prepared to respond when the bell cut her off signaling for Chloe to shut her locker door and prepare to head to class with Clark right behind her who for a brief minute turned around to flash a small smile her way along with a shrug.

The army brat couldn't help but smirk as she chased after them saying, "If I do it then I'll write it my way, no one coming in to save the day…" she looks directly at Clark who looks at her acting stunned.

"I cant help it if you guys have a knack for getting into trouble." Clark says in his defense only to have Lois tap him on the shoulder and head off to the first class of a new school year full of new adventures and possible new love interest as well.

TBC…

I completely forgot about the love interest by time I finished the story lol just consider it wishful thinking on Clark's part. So no need to worry :)