Clark stopped the VCR and went to open the door.
So he's watching the video Cat gave him. I wonder what it is, excatly.
“Lois!” he said in shock. What was she doing there? “Is everything all right?”
Lois: Does something have to be wrong for me to come to your place?
“Thanks,” she said, entering. “I just would feel better if I… um… didn’t… uh… have to…”
Lois: Readers, remember this is just a cover to my true goal, investigation Clark.
PR: Anything you say Lois.
Lois: I am not scared. Not at all. I just want to advance my investigation, and this was the perfect cover. That is all that is going on.
“You’re always welcome, Lois. You know that,”
Clark: You would be welcome if no one had threatened you at all.
Actually, he was pleased that she trusted him enough to come to him in her hour of need,
PR: True her with your secret.
Clark: What's the point, I will be leaving in about two months.
She brushed aside her reasons for being there with a wave of her hand.
Lois: If I admit Tevino called, I will look too much like a wimp.
“Whatcha doing?” she asked, changing the topic. “I thought I heard music.”
Clark blushed. “Nothing.”
I think he would be better off just admitting what he is doing. It just looks suspicious to deny it.
“Okay, I was watching a movie,”
PR: Wis move Clark, Lois would find out anyway.
he said, picking up the box the movie Cat had given him earlier as part of her ‘Earth cultural enrichment program’ she had put him on, and hid it behind his back. Apparently, he had made some horrendous faux pas regarding a well-known movie star during one of their conversations, and she deemed it important to keep his cover persona secure. Part and parcel to ‘fitting in here on Earth’, Cat had told him. Some of the films made in his dimension were the same here, but others were not.
Lois is not going to give up until he shows her what he is doing.
she used his full name.
I can’t believe you’re lying to me,” Lois said, setting her hands on her hips. “Again.”
PR: I said this was a bad idea.
Lois paled and her jaw dropped. “Is it a…?” she started saying and then glanced surreptitiously at the television.
He is going to have to tell her all about it.
His eyes widened. “Goodness! I hope not,” he said, contemplating the box. “She said it was about a theft, a court case.” He shook his head, unable to figure out where Cat had come up with that description of this movie. Five minutes in, and he already doubted the validity of Cat’s statement. With a shrug, he tossed Lois the box.
Well, at least he has made the wise decision now. He should have just told her what he was doing at the start.
Lois set the box down on the coffee table and joined him in the kitchen. “I’m glad it isn’t a porno.”
I figured that was Lois' first assumption.
“Italian,” she said, and Clark could feel a blush creep up his cheeks.
Oh, please, please, don’t ask for the famous pasta I made that night Superman broke up with you, he begged her with his mind.
I was more thinking she was subconsciously trying to send him a message that she wanted an Italian man.
Lois: That thought never crossed my mind. I in no way contemplated it, not at all.
He had stayed at her place the night before. They had come to his apartment that morning to shower. She had asked to stay over at his place tonight. They had just touched on the topic of pornography, and if she mentioned pasta, there was no way he could possibly make it two more months, let alone two minutes, without kissing her. He should never have kissed her fingers the night before when he had visited her apartment as Superman. He gulped.
Just kiss the girl Clark, she will be OK with it.
“How about we order some pizza and ‘educate’ you on Marilyn?”
Clark: If it is hands on education.
Lois: What?
Clark: I mean, that sounds good to me.
Lois suggested, setting her hand on his chest for a moment. “It’s the perfect movie to get our mind off things.”
Clark: Not the things my mind is on right now.
Clark glanced down at where her hand had seared his chest with its heat. His mind would be stuck on ‘things’ for the foreseeable future. For the first time in his life, he wished that Lois were mad at him again. Her anger was much easier to deal with than her friendship.
I don;t think he will make it through two months.
