He took a few steps back and then started to run, several of the reporters followed him.
Maybe he could stumble and crash down the stairs? Soil his britches? Yes?
Lucy leaned over to Clark, “James now has his grounds for termination.”
What for?
“Oh, Clark. What are we going to do?” He heard her voice, inside his head. How was that possible? He glanced at Lucy.
*G* Looks like Lucy owns Lois another five.
“Hi, darling. I was just thinking about you. What’s up?”
“I hate it that you’re always right.”
Perry chuckled. “What am I right about this time?”
“That I am bad for him.”
Awwwww
“Lex won’t grant me a divorce,” she whispered. “If I proceed with the divorce decree, he’s going to add Clark as a co-plaintiff and accuse us both of infidelity, publicly.”
Huh. Can he do that?
“But you haven’t slept with Clark.”
Well, not publically. And not very often.
He promises if I drop the divorce and agree never to see Clark again or any other man for that matter, he’ll allow me my freedom to live and work where-ever I want.
So, girls would then be okay?
Lex’ll even stop trying to kidnap me and won’t smear Clark’s good name. I just have to stay married to Lex.”
When in doubt, the best lie was thinly veiled truth. “We met at Mid West U. Kansas State was playing Mid West and I’d taken a five hour bus ride there from the city with a friend of mine, Molly, who wanted to visit her boyfriend.”
Okay? Is that first story about Molly and Ryan?
Clark was quarterback for Kansas State. He played a good game; they won, I remember.
Did Clark and Lois? Did Clark cheat on Lana. And then dump Lois the next morning in his guilt? Did that cause Lois to be the Lois she is?
She went quiet, not wanting to remember what happened that night at Mid West. The loud screams, the drunk fans, the chaos, the crowds, the jostling, the music pumping out of the frat houses, the bright lights against the dark sky, the cold wind that made her shiver through her light jacket.
Eeeeeep! I don’t like where that’s heading!
Stumbled indeed, they were plastered drunk. Some of them had faces painted in Mid West colors and they were angry as hell that their team had not only lost to Kansas State, but also to Met U, the previous week. And she had been wearing her Met U sweatshirt. She had ran, but not fast enough. They had caught her and held her down in the bushes. She had screamed.
Eeeeeep! Eeeeeep! Eeeeeep! Eeeeeep! Eeeeeep! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!
And now as Ultra Woman, a man could never take that power away from her again.
Eeep?
It was time to take action and make her life her own again. She only had to figure out what it was she really wanted and how to get it.
*gulp*
Lois took a deep breath. “Yes. Do you still have my stuff from college or did you donate it somewhere?” She held her breath in anticipation.
Ooooh, she going to surprise Clark?
How in the world could she leave him now, when she had been searching for him all of her life?
*wew* and Eeep? Eep? Eeep?
Michael
