Ha! This is a great story! the perfect way to answer a challenge. Lois and Clark sharing an intimate moment without being too intimate.
For the first time, Clark paused to take in his new surroundings. He had to admit, Lois was right. The apartment was done almost exclusively in white and beige tones, with little to no color to break up the space. He knew it had been done specifically to make it seem like the small Manhattan studio apartment was bigger than it actually was, but even the bright, cheery, neutral shades of paint didn't make it feel homey at all. Only a couple of pieces of abstract art held any color in them, and those were angry splashes of black in random patterns on the canvas. Clark's own mother had been into modern art for a time, but he had never understood the appeal of it. He shook his head slightly at the framed artwork and turned to the small kitchen area.
Yup, this describes hotel rooms the world over. But a tiny, cramped studio? Really? We are both from the tri-state area, is the NYPD witness protection program so tight they stick a couple of well-known reporters in such quarters? I can just imagine the story Lois would write about that when she gets back to Metropolis!
The discussion about sleep-overs was a window into young Lois and Clark's lives before things got too real.
My only complaint was Lois very callous treatment of the policewoman Marissa. As Clark said she was only doing her job. Even in the end when Lois demanded bagels for breakfast in the morning it didn't come across as funny, not in the slightest. Sorry.
Keep writing DC! Keep battling onward!!!
