Hi Amanda!
are we getting any more Kerth challenges this year?
No, but if someone posts a challenge and you respond, it will be eligible for the Best Challenge Response Kerth
This story is set toward the end of Lois’ junior year in high school, with Clark completing his senior year, ages 17 and 18, respectively. Not going to give away anymore in the note. Hope you enjoy!
Well, this sounds like Clark’s first flight. Hmm… no not Clark’s first flight although we might get to see him taking Lois to the skies once he feels confident he won’t drop her when she snuggles her lithe body against him.
“I’m not going.”
Clark held the phone between his ear and his shoulder as he finished hanging his laundry in the closet. “Come on, Lois,” he said. “It’s your Junior Prom. You –”
Ooooh, bad memories?
“Exactly,” Lois’ voice cut in. “It’s my Junior Prom. There’s another one next year. I’ll go then.”
“I don’t have a date,” Lois said flippantly.
Oh, did her Smallville boyfriend forget to ask her out?
“You could have had a date,” Clark argued. “You told me no less than three guys asked you.”
Yes, but none she met while square dancing.
You could have specified that you were only going as friends.
He does realize he’s talking about teenage boys, right? Only interested in one thing but scared senseless of the girl at the same time.
I took Rachael. No one assumed we were more than friends.”
Her father owns a gun and is in charge of deciding who to arrest as a criminal.
They act all cool about it until they get you alone in the hall outside the bathrooms and then they try to convince you to head upstairs to a room their older cousin, Barty, reserved for them for the night.”
Yes, but if she does say yes, it will likely be over before the boy gets the door open.
Clark blinked at the oddly specific example. “… I take it this has happened to you before.”
“Mark got a swift kick to the groin and I caught a taxi home. Hardly the Night to Remember they advertised.”
I’m sure he remembered it.
HENDERSON: That’s funny. Normally they seal juvenile records, but it looks like this Lane woman has such a record that they decided to make it part of her adult record. Then again, I don’t think that particular piece of work really should have fathered children anyway.
You aren’t going with Mark.”
“I’m not going at all.”
Yes, this time the boy she’s going won’t try anything with her.
LOIS: Hence my staying home.
Do your make-up and your hair and whatever else you would normally do to get ready.
CAT: Shave above the knee.
Then… look at yourself in the mirror and if you still really don’t want to go, then don’t.”
He could almost see her rolling her eyes as she paused before answering him. “That’s just silly, Clark. I already know I don’t want to go.”
He might appear behind her in the mirror, all tuxxed up.
He needed to figure out a way to trigger it.
He needs to find his happy thought!
CLARK: Lois, getting dressed!
And then gravity worked the way it always did and he began to plummet back towards the Earth.
. I’ll have to fill those in later, he thought as he continued soaring upwards.
UFO leaving craters and crop circles.
He ought to have hit the ground again by now.
See above mention of Lois.
Just how long did girls take to do their hair and make-up anyway?
He could get dinner in Paris…
I thought the prom was last weekend?”
Uuuu… East Coast...
“Lois?” his mom blinked, clearly confused. “She’s in Metropolis, honey. How are you going to get there?”
He’s an alien. He’ll manage.
Duh!
Getting ready for a dance she wasn’t even planning to attend was not anywhere near as simple as Clark had made it out to be.
She’s cute how she’s trying to not get into it and then, she’s fully into it!
She heard the doorbell ring downstairs and vaguely wondered who it might be. Not for her certainly.
A delivery from Wine Rack?
he was going to receive more than Mark Milton got away with.
How can you get more than that?
He flew private.
There’s now a wanted poster with the FBI for air piracy.
“What do you say, Miss Lane? Will you accompany me to the prom?”
Lois couldn’t stop her blush as she nodded. “I’d love to.”
Awwwwwwwwww
Another very fine entry. The dresscription was great. Learned a new word (“tea-length”)
Michael
