Clark looked around the table. Dinner had been interesting so far. His Dad hadn't really said anything since he had come back downstairs other than to welcome his daughter home. Still Clark could tell he was not happy about the situation.

His Mom on the other hand was trying to make up for her husband's lack of hospitality. She had kept the conversation going, trying to steer it away from possible topics that might turn the dinner into the site of a yelling match.

Clark could tell Lex was uneasy even though he appeared to be his normal cool collected self. Someone else would have thought that Lex could care less about the current situation. Clark knew that wasn't true. Clark knew Lex wanted his father's approval. He always had. Now Clark understood that desire a little bit better.

Cecily kept shooting glances in the direction of her father. Clark figured like himself, she was waiting for him to start voicing his disapproval. They both knew that their father had no problem with sharing his opinions with people and they both knew what his opinion was on the current situation. The scowl on his face said it all. For some reason though he was keeping quiet.

From his spot at the table, Clark could see that Cecily kept resting her right hand on Lex's leg periodically. If something did go down, Clark had no doubt that Cecily would stand up for Lex. He could see it in her eyes. She wanted her father's approval but she didn't need it. He knew she would be staying with Lex no matter what their father said or did.

And that was why Clark had kept quiet ever since their father came into the diningroom. He had no desire to take sides. He didn't want to get stuck in between his sister and his father. He already butted heads enough with his father when it came to his friendship with Lex. Clark was sure that was why Cecily and Lex had kept their relationship from him.

Clark also had to admit to himself, that he had his own doubts about the relationship. Sure Lex was his friend but he also knew that Lex wasn't completely honest with him at times. That there were things in his past that were shady at best. There were times that Clark thought that maybe his Dad was right about Lex. That he was everything that everyone claimed the Luthors were but then Lex would go and do something totally against what everyone said. Like when he had gone up against his father about the closing of the Smallville plant.

"She probably just spent fours years of college getting a degree that she won't even use, now," Clark heard his Dad say bringing him out of my thoughts. Clark had no clue as to where that comment had come from as he hadn't been paying attention to the conversation.

"You mean like I did," Martha shot back.

This was not going well. So much for steering clear of topics that could cause arguments.

"I didn't mean that at all," Jonathan said quickly getting defensive.

"Dad, Martha please stop," Cecily said looking from one to the other. " I'm keeping my job with Triton Industries for now," she told them talking about the Metropolis based company she had worked with for the last year. " I was going to quit because the daily commute from Metropolis to Smallville would have been just to much. When I talked to Mr. Jamison about it though he didn't want to lose me and he's the one who suggested that I work from home for the most part and only go into Metropolis when needed."

"And your okay with that?" Jonathan asked looking at Lex. Clark knew his father was hoping to catch Lex off guard. That maybe he and Cecily hadn't talked about her working. The question didn't phase Lex though.

"If Cecily wants to keep working that is fine with me. It's her choice," Lex told him without saying what we all knew to be true. If she didn't want to, Cecily wouldn't have to work if she married Lex.

"Even though she'd be working for a rival."

"Triton Industries and LexCorp, or LuthorCorp for that matter, are not in direct competition with one another. Cecily working for them would not be a conflict of interest," Lex told my Dad. My Dad didn't look at all convinced. "I won't lie to you Mr. Kent, I hope that eventually Cecily will join me at LexCorp but again that is her decision to make."

A silence had fallen over the room. Clark desperately searched for something to say. Anything that would fill the silence. Nothing came to mind though.

"Dad, Lex and I have talked about this and other things at great length many times and not just since we got engaged. We know things aren't going to easy. Our relationship up to this point hasn't been and we're not expecting marriage to fix all the problems. However, we've both decided that this is what we want no matter what obstacles we have to face."

"I think you're making a mistake," Jonathan told her finally saying what we all knew he had been thinking.

"If it is then its my mistake to make."

"Then go ahead and make it but don't expect me to hang around and watch you make it. If you choose to throw your life away on the likes of him," he told her indicating Lex, who looked down at the table. "Go ahead and do it but I won't be at your graduation and I won't be at the wedding," he finished standing up.

"Dad don't make me chose between you and Lex."

"I'm not making you do anything," he told her.

"You're not being fair," Cecily told him and then turned to leave the room. Lex reached out to grab her arm but she pulled away from him. Cecily left the room and moments later we heard the front door slam behind her.

"Mr. Kent you're . . ." Lex started saying but Jonathan cut him off.

"I don't want to hear anything you have to say. Things were just fine until the Luthors came into this community and this family. Maybe you should figure out where you're not wanted," he said and then left the room heading upstairs.

"Lex, I'm so sorry," Martha said apologizing before leaving the room and going after my father, leaving Lex and me at the table.

"Well, that went well," Lex commented not sounding at all sincere. Clark wasn't at sure what to say. He felt like he was caught in between both sides- his parents vs. his sister and best friend. Although Clark really wasn't sure which side my mom was on. "I'm going to go see if I can find your sister," Lex said standing up and heading toward the front door.

Left alone in the dining room Clark started cleaning up. This whole night definitely could have gone better.

Lex stepped out onto the Kent's front porch and looked around for Cecily. Night had fallen but the full moon lit the night up enough to be able to see things. As he glanced in the direction of the cattle pasture he saw Cecily walking away from the house.

Lex hurried down the steps and started out after her. She had reached the pasture fence by the time he caught up with her.

"It's going to be okay," he whispered to her softly resting a hand on her shoulder. Cecily turned to face him and he could see the tears streaming down her face in the moonlight.

"I'm sorry Lex," she told him. As much as he tried to deny it, make it seem that people's opinion of him didn't matter to him, she knew him better. She knew he wanted change the image he had. The image that had been forced upon him by his family name. By the things that his father had done.

"It's not your fault," Lex told her wrapping his arms around her and pulling her close. He knew exactly what she meant. What she was thinking. "As long as you believe in me that is all I need," he told her as she rested her head on her shoulder.

"That wasn't how I wanted tonight to go," she said. She had hoped that somehow her father would be able to accept the idea of her and Lex. She hadn't wanted to have to choose between her father and Lex but it had come to that and she knew what her decision was. Deep down she had known what it was going to be since she had come to Smallville in search of Lex.

As different as they were, they were meant to be together. They completed each other. She couldn't imagine spending her life with anyone else. Lex was the other half of her soul. No matter what obstacles they would have to overcome she knew that to be true.

That was why she hadn't been able to stay away. Why despite her attempt to let him go, despite her attempts to convince herself that their worlds were two different to ever be compatible, despite the complications that loving him placed on her relationship with her father and with Clark that she couldn't stay away. Couldn't let him go.

There was a time that she would have laughed at that thought. Back before she only knew of him. The bald, rich arrogant kid who strutted around the halls of Metropolis University like he owned the place. Back then she had thought like her father. Would never have given Lex the time of day.

But then fate had forced her to spend time with him and the more time she spent with him the more she had seen of the real him. The part he kept hidden from the world. Underneath the spoiled rich kid mantle that Lex had taken up to protect himself was the person that she had fallen in love with. The kind, caring, generous and fiercely loyal person that was the complete opposite of the father whom he continuously tried to win approval from despite his denials of such. Lex wanted his father's approval. Wanted to feel worthy in his father's eyes just like everybody wanted. Knew the desire he had to feel like he was part of a real family. And she knew of the darkness that was in him. The darkness that he fought against everyday. The darkness that his father and other events in his life was trying to bring out. It scared her.

She couldn't help with everything. She couldn't change the way people saw him. She couldn't change the way Lionel Luthor felt about his son. However, she could be there for him. Give him the love that she felt for him. The love he so desperately searched for. The one thing that might counteract the darkness she saw in him. And she could provide for him the other thing that he desired. The desire to be a part of a real family. Together she and Lex could make their own family.

"You can tell your father that we can have the wedding as soon as he can get it arranged," she told Lex as she pulled away from him and wiped the tears from her eyes.

"Are you sure?" he asked her looking into her eyes as she nodded her head.

"My father has made his decision."

"So you're giving up on him?" Lex said confused. He knew what her family meant to her. He had been with her when she had lost her mother. Had helped her through that time. Knew how badly that had hurt her and how much important the Kent's had become to her after that. She had always loved her biological father and his family. Always felt a part of their family but Lex knew Cecily had been closer to her real mother. Had felt that Metropolis was her home. It was funny how time and fate could change ones opinion on what home was. He knew that from experience.

"No, I'm not giving up on him. I still hope that he will come around. That he will be at my graduation. At our wedding but I'm not going to wait on him to start living my life," Cecily told him. "Lex, I want to be with you. I belong with you. I've tried to fight it and I realized what a mistake that was. We've already loss seven months," she told him referring to the time they had been apart after she had broken up with him. "I don't want to lose anymore time."

"I'll let him know in the morning," Lex told her seeing that she had made up her mind and knowing he wouldn't be able to change it even if he had wanted to. "I'm going to head home. You coming or are you staying here?"

"I'll be over in a little bit. I want to at least talk to Clark if not to my parents before I leave."

"Okay," Lex told her. "I'll tell the guard to be expecting you," he told her leaning down and giving her a kiss.

After the kiss, the two walked back across the farm toward the driveway. After another quick kiss Lex got into his car and headed for his mansion as Cecily walked toward the house.