She spent the next two hours standing at the edge of the lake with her new friend. Sara had been well prepared for her nighttime outing. In her backpack she had a whole assortment of things ranging from blankets, flash lights, sodas, a ton of snacks and even a small radio. Kara had learned a lot about her new friend. Apparently she and her family had moved here just a month ago from a place called Starling City . Her parents had done it because they got worried after her sister Laurel got into trouble with some kind of a Queen? and nearly ended in jail. Kara didn't bother pushing for details because it was obvious that this was a topic that still frustrated Sara
Kara had never met anyone quite as excitable as Sara. On Krypton being composed and disciplined was considered a high virtue. Sara was the opposite of all of this. She was almost vibrating from energy, she was constantly gesticulating wildly and more often then not she would change her mind in the middle of a sentence having thought of something much more interesting.
Apparently Sara loved exploring and loved talking about it. She had been sneaking out at night ever since they moved here and exploring the whole area. She even had made a map with all the cool stuff. She was excited that that Kara had managed to find the lake by herself because this was in her top five and that obviously meant that Kara had good taste? And she was even more excited to learn about Krypton. Kara's throat went almost dry from al the time she spent describing her home city and answering all of Sara's endless questions. She was surprised to find out that talking about Krypton was not as painful as she thought it would be. It actually felt good to talk about it, to share the memories of her home.
Even though sunrise was fast approaching Kara didn't want to leave. For the first time since she had arrived at this planet she felt comfortable. Normal. But Sara seemed to be aware of the time as well
" Balls. I gotta go back before dad checks up on me. He will be mad if he finds out I snuck out again. You live in the Danvers farm right? I mapped it a week ago. Can I come visit you this afternoon?"
Kara nearly panicked at the thought of having to explain to the Danvers that she spend half of the night outside
"Don't worry silly. I won't say anything about tonight" giggled Sara having noticed her panic
"So can I come?"
"I would love that" answered Kara with a smile again
Kara literally floated back to her room and spend what was left of the night sleeping peacefully for the first time in weeks .She woke up at nearly ten o'clock. Unusually late for her insomniac self which of course meant that she found a worried Eliza standing in the kitchen with a huge pile of pancakes
"Kara. You are awake!" she said smiling but obviously worried "Are you ok? "
"Yeah. I was just tired"
"There are a few medicaments that could be modified to work for your metabolism and help with your sleep issue. We will need to run some tests but I think that Jermiah and I could…"
"Eliza thank you but I am fine. I just felt like sleeping in" Kara tried to give one of her fake smiles to show that it was ok. She appreciated that Eliza was concerned about her but she hated when people treated her as if she was made out of glass
"Of course honey. But maybe we can…" Eliza was interrupted by a loud ringing at the door. She looked curiously at who could possibly be coming at this time and that's when the doorbell rang again and again until it became one long and rather screeching sound
Eliza hurried to the door to check out who could be annoying them like this. Usually the kids in the region did such kind of pranks only on Halloween. Kara meanwhile used her X-Ray vision to look through the kitchen wall and see….Sara. She was dressed in a bright pink oversized summer dress combined with a snapback and she believed those were called doc marten boots if Alex's magazines were correct. And of course her ever trusty backpack. Her face was lit up with pure glee as she kept pressing the buzzer over and over…while tapping her foot to a melody apparently only she could hear. Kara nearly choked on her pancakes. She was supposed to come here in the afternoon. Kara had yet to figure out how to explain her new friend!
Eliza finally made it to the door and she seemed perplexed at seeing the small blonde girl
"Hello?" she could hear her foster mother ask curiously "Can I help you?"
"I am here for your daughter"
"….excuse me?"
"I heard you have a daughter my age so I thought I could come over to hang. Hey are those pancakes I smell? Cool"
She could see Sara sneaking past Eliza who didn't seem to know what hit her and before she knew it she didn't need to use her X-Ray vision anymore because Sara was already in the kitchen. Giving her an exaggerated wink Sara plopped herself down on the table and grabbed a pancake with her bare hands
"Hey. I am Sara nice to meet you"
"Ehh hi. I am Kara. Nice to meet you too" answered Kara nervously
"Excuse me…Sara do your parents know where you are ?" asked Eliza who was frick…freaking out
"Sure. My dad keeps a close eye on me. This is the Danvers farm right? Although you don't actually seem to farm anything which is weird. My father thought that you might be producing drugs since it's weird for scientist to live like this but he checked you out and he thinks you are ok"
"What?" asked a completely confused Eliza
"My frober s a mop" Sara tried to speak while chewing on a huge piece of pancake which resulted in her starting to choke and Eliza freaking out even more as she patted Sara's back and gave her a glass of water" Thanks! So as I was saying my father is a cop so he thinks you are cool and I can hang out here. Oh I like your glasses." she said looking at Eliza's reading glasses "I have a pair as well although mine are against the sun. Look how cool they are"
She reached into her pockets (Kara had never seen a dress with pockets till now) and pulled out a huge pair of sunglasses that covered nearly half of her face
"Aren't they awesome? I look like an alien" Eliza nearly choked at that part while Sara grinned at Kara " Well like a Roswell alien. Not like an Alien alien you know? How cool was Ripley? I love her."
"I haven't really seen that movie" said an awkward Kara. When she found out about human movies Kara had been quite interested in seeing how they depicted aliens but Alien was one of the movies Eliza had vetoed hard.
"Oh cool we can have a movie night!" Sara quickly finished her third pancake " so what are we doing now"
"Look young lady…while I appreciate your enthusiasm and I will definitely talk to your parents about perhaps arranging some kind of a of play date …"
"Hey we are not five. It's a hangout"
."….hangout. Kara has a lot of chores to do and …."
"No problem. I can help with chores. I do them all the time. Sometimes I even do my sisters's chores when she bribes me with her dessert"
"…and she has some studying to do….'
"…..awesome. I am behind on my summer reading. We an do it together"
Eliza stood frozen as she was clearly trying to figure out how to get rid of the girl but even her brilliant mind seemed to come blank
"Maybe I can do my chores later" Kara interrupted the tense moment "I would love to hang out "
Eliza seemed very hesitant. Kara knew exactly why. It was the same reason why they worked with her everyday and why they didn't let her attend all the clubs Alex had during the summer. They were afraid she might accidentally hurt another child with her powers
"It will be ok. We can go play with Alex's PlayStation"
Eliza seemed relieved at this and nodded. Kara grabbed Sara by the hand and led her upstairs to Alex's room. She wasn't technically supposed to be here. Quickly switching on the music box…stereo so that Eliza couldn't hear them Kara fell on Alex's bed and exiled loudly
"Wow that was close. I thought you were coming this afternoon"
"I couldn't wait! I was so excited. I have our entire day planned!" said Sara as she jumped on Alex's bed and started bouncing
"You do?" asked a curious Kara. Most of her days were planned by Eliza and Jermiah and they mostly included lessons on Earth culture and lessons on controlling her powers
"Well first " she said as she jumped off the bed and started pulling out random stuff out of her backpack "I brought you some awesome food. I figured that if you have missed on potstickers you must have missed out on a lot of other stuff as well. Look jalapeno poppers! They are awesome. Then I will show you my awesome map of all the stuff around here. You could barely see it in the dark yesterday. Then you can teach me your language. Then we can…
"Wait you want to learn my language?" said a curious Kara
"Of course. You are my friend and you already speak my language. It only makes sense for me to learn yours. Besides how cool is it to learn an alien language. Wait do you have a language? Are you telepathic? Can you read my mind? I am thinking of a number between one and hundred. What is it?
"Forty two "answered Kara immediately
"Whoa" said Sara her eyes going huge "You can read minds. This is amazing"
Kara giggled and pointed to the huge poster Alex had on the wall that said 42
"Oh…smart" said Sara
"But I do have laser vision…." seeing Sara nearly explode with excitement at the news she quickly added " but I can't quite control it yet so I don't want to burn the house down….it's made of wood of all things"
"All right. We can start with the food while you tell me what houses were made off on your planet "said Sara as she joined Kara on the bed with a notebook in hand ready to mark down all the important stuff she would want to learn more about later