Re: AWA: Journey of Discovery (SV,XO,Mature,UC)AN pg10 9/5/10
Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2010 10:38 am
Note: Thank you all for the great feedback. Sorry this wasn’t out when I promised. I was having a lot of trouble with the last section of this chapter. It was not coming together. But I finally figured it out and I wrote the last half of this chapter very quickly. Hope you all enjoy.
Warning: A few naughty words come out of Liz’s mouth.
Chapter 29
Crashdown Backroom
Liz stood at the foot of the stairs with Clark. She had to go to school but it gave her an ache in her chest to be separated from the boy in front of her.
Clark caressed her cheek marveling at the softness beneath his palm. He could hear Liz’s father pacing back and forth behind the door that separated them from Jeff. Mr. Parker didn’t want him following Liz downstairs to say goodbye. He just wanted Liz to leave for school.
However Liz stood her ground, telling her father that they could say goodbye, that wasn’t against the rules.
“Are you free for lunch today?” Clark questioned not taking his eyes off her.
“Wide open.” She drawled out. If he was able to come to lunch with her that would mean less time apart. Right then she didn’t think she’d make it five minutes let alone five hours.
Clark smiled and kissed her sweetly. “I’ll see you at lunch then.”
“Mm.” Liz agreed. “Just don’t let my Dad know you’re meeting me. He’ll freak and demand he chaperone.” She whispered.
“Don’t worry. I’ll make sure no one chaperone’s us.” He promised. He’d get more than three minutes alone with her if he had to tie up the Parker’s and his parent’s to do it.
“Liz!” Jeff’s voice rang out slicing rudely through the teen’s private moment. “Time to go.”
Liz fought the angry retort on the tip of her tongue. Instead she simply said. “Ok Dad.”
“Lunch.” Giving her something to look forward to for her two classes that morning. Clark told her kissing her once more before releasing her face from between his warm palms.
“Bye.” She sucked her bottom lip between her teeth and pushed away from the brick wall behind her. “Bye Dad.” She yelled out. Better let him know that she was leaving.
She could almost hear the sigh of relief that she was listening to him. “See you this afternoon honey.” He called back.
Clark watched her leave the Crashdown and he didn’t stop staring at the door until it shut behind her. Lunch. All he had to do was wait till lunch. He could wait that long…right?
~*~*~*~
Liz leaned against the building for a moment catching her breath. She felt a smirk creeping onto her face; she wondered how Clark would escape the watchful gaze of their parents. No matter what he had to do, she knew he would be there at lunch.
Liz jogged, at human speed, through the side alley. She almost made it past the Crashdown front doors when Maria’s voice called out to her. She hasn’t seen her friend since the mall. Hmm, Liz could hardly believe what had happened in such a short amount of time.
“Glad I caught you.” Maria breathed out. “Are we ok?”
“Of course. Why wouldn’t we be?” Liz questioned, confused as to why they would be anything but ok.
Maria took a deep breath. “Since you and Clark did the wild monkey dance yesterday and I promised I would look after you. I feel like I let you down.” She played with the straps of her apron with nervous energy.
Liz immediately gathered Maria into a hug. “Honey its ok. No one, even tenacious you, could have stopped Clark and me. If you had tried you could…probably would have been actually, hurt a lot. On the off chance we hadn’t have hurt you we would have taken each other on whatever surface was available in front of everyone in the food court. It’s ok. I promise it’s ok. I’m sorry me asking you to help me not sleep with Clark caused you so much guilt.”
Maria returned her hug and didn’t let go when she told Liz. “I just know how much you didn’t want your first time to be because of some alien mojo.”
“I love you for trying to make sure I didn’t have an alien first time experience but there is so much I have to tell you about what happened.”
The two friends let go. “We’ll have a girl’s night in the next couple of nights. What kind of ice cream do you want?”
Liz thought on it for a moment. Normally she requested vanilla. Today she craved something different. “How about Double Chocolate Mocha?”
Maria showed her shock at her choice of frozen dairy product but didn’t comment. “You got it. One Double Chocolate Mocha and whatever the heck I want.” She smirked.
“Ok, I gotta get to class—“ She was about to tell Maria she’d see and talk to her later but she was interrupted by Kyle rushing, again at normal speed, out of the alley. “What’s up?”
“I’m going with you to class.” Kyle held up his hand to stop her from objecting. “I’m your protector now. It’s my job to make sure you’re safe.”
Although she could take care of herself, Liz nodded. It’d be pointless to argue with him. He wouldn’t leave her alone unless she was with Clark. “Ok. This is going to be an interesting day. We’ll see you later Ria.” She waved and took Kyle’s hand and zoomed off to another alley, this one near the school.
“Ok, whoa. Head rush.” Kyle grabbed his head waiting for the ground to stop spinning.
“Sorry, that’ll take a few times to get used to.” Liz told him.
Kyle gave her a thumb up. “I’m getting that impression.” Finally after thirty seconds his world was still again. “All right, I’m ready to rock.” The two leave the alley and make their way to school.
~*~*~*~
“This is wrong.”
Liz stopped and looked to her friend. “What is?”
“Being at school…this early…during summer. Just wrong.” Kyle commented. Surprised he wasn’t breaking out into hives.
Liz laughed and nudged him with her shoulder. “Oh come on Kyle, it’s not that bad.”
“That’s easy for you to say. You’re a freak, you actually like school.”
“Thanks?” Liz shook her head and the two walked into the school.
Kyle smirked. “Oh come on Liz.” He teased. “You know you’re weird. Not just because of the…” He stopped mid sentence when he spotted Max making a bee line toward them. “Don’t look now. Boy King is on his way over.”
“Ugh, great.” She took a deep breath and prepared for the same old crap that Max threw her way whenever he wanted to talk.
“Liz.” Max smiled, although the two Kryptonians could tell it was strained.
She wasn’t going to play the name game with him anymore. Before when he would say her name she’d reply with his, it used to be fun and something they did; now it just annoyed her. “Yes?”
“Can we talk?” Max stared pointedly at Kyle. “Alone?”
“Can we talk? Sure. Alone? No.” She could feel Livara itching to get away from the boy in front of her. It was odd how she didn’t have the same reaction to Kyle or Alex. She’d have to ask Jim about that later.
Max lost a bit of his smile. “Why not? Don’t you trust me?”
“Not really, no.” Liz admitted.
“Guess you really have changed. You use to trust me no matter what.” Max accused.
Liz tilted her head in irritation. “A lot of things have happened since then, which you seem to conveniently forget. And what do you mean by, ‘guess you really have changed’?”
“I saw you.”
Kyle perked up at that statement. “Saw her?”
Max didn’t spare Kyle a single glance. He kept his eyes directed at Liz. “Yes, I saw you and that guy you were with at the restaurant. I was out on the balcony when you slept with him.” He hissed.
“Max?!” Isabel spoke out in surprise. Standing next to the tall blonde was a much shorter blonde, Tess, which made Max cringe that she had to witness this confrontation. “What are you doing?” He clearly hadn’t been listening to a single word she said after he told her about Liz and her new boyfriend.
“Yes, Max. What’s this about?” Tess questioned. Please, let this whole conversation be about something else entirely, she silently pleaded.
“Well Tess apparently you’re former husband here has been busy watching…um, no let me rephrase that, been busy stalking me.” Liz snapped.
“I was not stalking. I needed to talk to you so I went up…”
“Try using a phone, it’s a wonderful invention.” Kyle mumbled sarcastically. Guess he would have to keep a much closer eye on Evans. He didn’t like that Max saw a personal, private moment between Liz and Clark.
“Stay out of this Kyle.” Max bellowed.
“Don’t talk to him that way. He’s right.” She defended him. “So you saw me and Clark.”
“Is that his name?” Max grumbled.
Liz cleared her throat with obvious annoyance. “Yes it is. Did you get a good view of the moment?” God, it made her feel dirty to know that someone watched them together. Those moments were private and to know Max was there on her balcony for who knew how long. She shivered at the thought. Who knows what he might have seen.
“I didn’t see it all but I saw enough to be disgusted. We were together for months and we never once had sex, you would push me away long before we ever got to that point but this new guy has been here for a few days and you’re banging him.” Max spat out.
Liz scoffed. “This is ridiculous. You are not my boyfriend Max Evans; you aren’t even my friend so you have no say in who I ‘bang’. If I wanted to go out on Main Street, strip all my clothes off, lay down in the middle of the road with my legs spread yelling out free pussy, come fuck it you wouldn’t be able to do or say anything about it.” She ground out angrily.
“Colorful girl.” A refined voice spoke from behind her.
Whirling around Liz’s eyes got wide at the adult standing at the entrance. “Um, I’m sorry you had to hear that. This is a conversation that got out of hand.”
The man, who wore a very nice tailored grey suit, raised a hand in acceptance. “It’s quite all right Ms. Parker. The language is nothing I haven’t heard before.”
Kyle immediately moved in front of Liz. “How did you know her name?” What did he want and would this be his first test as Liz’s protector?
“You must be the new one.” With, who he assumed were three of the Royal Four hybrids because of the energy they gave off, he decided not to use the word ‘protector’ in front of them. “It’s all right young man I’m not here to harm her. In fact you were let in on my arriving.”
“Wait a minute. You mean you’re…” He didn’t know if he should say the man’s name while Max, Isabel, and Tess were in attendance. Liz’s biological mother had mentioned he would arrive and to trust him.
“Kyle?” Liz prodded.
“I was going to mention this to you last night but obviously you were kind of…attached to Clark.”
Liz blushed and nodded. “Yea, I wasn’t really up for conversation.”
“Exactly but to make a really long story short, he’s a friend, trust me.” Although Kyle said he was a friend he still didn’t take his gaze off the well dressed man.
“Ok, I trust you.” There wasn’t a question of Kyle’s loyalty; however, she still wanted to know who the man was. “But who is he?”
“Ms. Parker, my name is Khivar.”
TBC
Warning: A few naughty words come out of Liz’s mouth.
Chapter 29
Crashdown Backroom
Liz stood at the foot of the stairs with Clark. She had to go to school but it gave her an ache in her chest to be separated from the boy in front of her.
Clark caressed her cheek marveling at the softness beneath his palm. He could hear Liz’s father pacing back and forth behind the door that separated them from Jeff. Mr. Parker didn’t want him following Liz downstairs to say goodbye. He just wanted Liz to leave for school.
However Liz stood her ground, telling her father that they could say goodbye, that wasn’t against the rules.
“Are you free for lunch today?” Clark questioned not taking his eyes off her.
“Wide open.” She drawled out. If he was able to come to lunch with her that would mean less time apart. Right then she didn’t think she’d make it five minutes let alone five hours.
Clark smiled and kissed her sweetly. “I’ll see you at lunch then.”
“Mm.” Liz agreed. “Just don’t let my Dad know you’re meeting me. He’ll freak and demand he chaperone.” She whispered.
“Don’t worry. I’ll make sure no one chaperone’s us.” He promised. He’d get more than three minutes alone with her if he had to tie up the Parker’s and his parent’s to do it.
“Liz!” Jeff’s voice rang out slicing rudely through the teen’s private moment. “Time to go.”
Liz fought the angry retort on the tip of her tongue. Instead she simply said. “Ok Dad.”
“Lunch.” Giving her something to look forward to for her two classes that morning. Clark told her kissing her once more before releasing her face from between his warm palms.
“Bye.” She sucked her bottom lip between her teeth and pushed away from the brick wall behind her. “Bye Dad.” She yelled out. Better let him know that she was leaving.
She could almost hear the sigh of relief that she was listening to him. “See you this afternoon honey.” He called back.
Clark watched her leave the Crashdown and he didn’t stop staring at the door until it shut behind her. Lunch. All he had to do was wait till lunch. He could wait that long…right?
~*~*~*~
Liz leaned against the building for a moment catching her breath. She felt a smirk creeping onto her face; she wondered how Clark would escape the watchful gaze of their parents. No matter what he had to do, she knew he would be there at lunch.
Liz jogged, at human speed, through the side alley. She almost made it past the Crashdown front doors when Maria’s voice called out to her. She hasn’t seen her friend since the mall. Hmm, Liz could hardly believe what had happened in such a short amount of time.
“Glad I caught you.” Maria breathed out. “Are we ok?”
“Of course. Why wouldn’t we be?” Liz questioned, confused as to why they would be anything but ok.
Maria took a deep breath. “Since you and Clark did the wild monkey dance yesterday and I promised I would look after you. I feel like I let you down.” She played with the straps of her apron with nervous energy.
Liz immediately gathered Maria into a hug. “Honey its ok. No one, even tenacious you, could have stopped Clark and me. If you had tried you could…probably would have been actually, hurt a lot. On the off chance we hadn’t have hurt you we would have taken each other on whatever surface was available in front of everyone in the food court. It’s ok. I promise it’s ok. I’m sorry me asking you to help me not sleep with Clark caused you so much guilt.”
Maria returned her hug and didn’t let go when she told Liz. “I just know how much you didn’t want your first time to be because of some alien mojo.”
“I love you for trying to make sure I didn’t have an alien first time experience but there is so much I have to tell you about what happened.”
The two friends let go. “We’ll have a girl’s night in the next couple of nights. What kind of ice cream do you want?”
Liz thought on it for a moment. Normally she requested vanilla. Today she craved something different. “How about Double Chocolate Mocha?”
Maria showed her shock at her choice of frozen dairy product but didn’t comment. “You got it. One Double Chocolate Mocha and whatever the heck I want.” She smirked.
“Ok, I gotta get to class—“ She was about to tell Maria she’d see and talk to her later but she was interrupted by Kyle rushing, again at normal speed, out of the alley. “What’s up?”
“I’m going with you to class.” Kyle held up his hand to stop her from objecting. “I’m your protector now. It’s my job to make sure you’re safe.”
Although she could take care of herself, Liz nodded. It’d be pointless to argue with him. He wouldn’t leave her alone unless she was with Clark. “Ok. This is going to be an interesting day. We’ll see you later Ria.” She waved and took Kyle’s hand and zoomed off to another alley, this one near the school.
“Ok, whoa. Head rush.” Kyle grabbed his head waiting for the ground to stop spinning.
“Sorry, that’ll take a few times to get used to.” Liz told him.
Kyle gave her a thumb up. “I’m getting that impression.” Finally after thirty seconds his world was still again. “All right, I’m ready to rock.” The two leave the alley and make their way to school.
~*~*~*~
“This is wrong.”
Liz stopped and looked to her friend. “What is?”
“Being at school…this early…during summer. Just wrong.” Kyle commented. Surprised he wasn’t breaking out into hives.
Liz laughed and nudged him with her shoulder. “Oh come on Kyle, it’s not that bad.”
“That’s easy for you to say. You’re a freak, you actually like school.”
“Thanks?” Liz shook her head and the two walked into the school.
Kyle smirked. “Oh come on Liz.” He teased. “You know you’re weird. Not just because of the…” He stopped mid sentence when he spotted Max making a bee line toward them. “Don’t look now. Boy King is on his way over.”
“Ugh, great.” She took a deep breath and prepared for the same old crap that Max threw her way whenever he wanted to talk.
“Liz.” Max smiled, although the two Kryptonians could tell it was strained.
She wasn’t going to play the name game with him anymore. Before when he would say her name she’d reply with his, it used to be fun and something they did; now it just annoyed her. “Yes?”
“Can we talk?” Max stared pointedly at Kyle. “Alone?”
“Can we talk? Sure. Alone? No.” She could feel Livara itching to get away from the boy in front of her. It was odd how she didn’t have the same reaction to Kyle or Alex. She’d have to ask Jim about that later.
Max lost a bit of his smile. “Why not? Don’t you trust me?”
“Not really, no.” Liz admitted.
“Guess you really have changed. You use to trust me no matter what.” Max accused.
Liz tilted her head in irritation. “A lot of things have happened since then, which you seem to conveniently forget. And what do you mean by, ‘guess you really have changed’?”
“I saw you.”
Kyle perked up at that statement. “Saw her?”
Max didn’t spare Kyle a single glance. He kept his eyes directed at Liz. “Yes, I saw you and that guy you were with at the restaurant. I was out on the balcony when you slept with him.” He hissed.
“Max?!” Isabel spoke out in surprise. Standing next to the tall blonde was a much shorter blonde, Tess, which made Max cringe that she had to witness this confrontation. “What are you doing?” He clearly hadn’t been listening to a single word she said after he told her about Liz and her new boyfriend.
“Yes, Max. What’s this about?” Tess questioned. Please, let this whole conversation be about something else entirely, she silently pleaded.
“Well Tess apparently you’re former husband here has been busy watching…um, no let me rephrase that, been busy stalking me.” Liz snapped.
“I was not stalking. I needed to talk to you so I went up…”
“Try using a phone, it’s a wonderful invention.” Kyle mumbled sarcastically. Guess he would have to keep a much closer eye on Evans. He didn’t like that Max saw a personal, private moment between Liz and Clark.
“Stay out of this Kyle.” Max bellowed.
“Don’t talk to him that way. He’s right.” She defended him. “So you saw me and Clark.”
“Is that his name?” Max grumbled.
Liz cleared her throat with obvious annoyance. “Yes it is. Did you get a good view of the moment?” God, it made her feel dirty to know that someone watched them together. Those moments were private and to know Max was there on her balcony for who knew how long. She shivered at the thought. Who knows what he might have seen.
“I didn’t see it all but I saw enough to be disgusted. We were together for months and we never once had sex, you would push me away long before we ever got to that point but this new guy has been here for a few days and you’re banging him.” Max spat out.
Liz scoffed. “This is ridiculous. You are not my boyfriend Max Evans; you aren’t even my friend so you have no say in who I ‘bang’. If I wanted to go out on Main Street, strip all my clothes off, lay down in the middle of the road with my legs spread yelling out free pussy, come fuck it you wouldn’t be able to do or say anything about it.” She ground out angrily.
“Colorful girl.” A refined voice spoke from behind her.
Whirling around Liz’s eyes got wide at the adult standing at the entrance. “Um, I’m sorry you had to hear that. This is a conversation that got out of hand.”
The man, who wore a very nice tailored grey suit, raised a hand in acceptance. “It’s quite all right Ms. Parker. The language is nothing I haven’t heard before.”
Kyle immediately moved in front of Liz. “How did you know her name?” What did he want and would this be his first test as Liz’s protector?
“You must be the new one.” With, who he assumed were three of the Royal Four hybrids because of the energy they gave off, he decided not to use the word ‘protector’ in front of them. “It’s all right young man I’m not here to harm her. In fact you were let in on my arriving.”
“Wait a minute. You mean you’re…” He didn’t know if he should say the man’s name while Max, Isabel, and Tess were in attendance. Liz’s biological mother had mentioned he would arrive and to trust him.
“Kyle?” Liz prodded.
“I was going to mention this to you last night but obviously you were kind of…attached to Clark.”
Liz blushed and nodded. “Yea, I wasn’t really up for conversation.”
“Exactly but to make a really long story short, he’s a friend, trust me.” Although Kyle said he was a friend he still didn’t take his gaze off the well dressed man.
“Ok, I trust you.” There wasn’t a question of Kyle’s loyalty; however, she still wanted to know who the man was. “But who is he?”
“Ms. Parker, my name is Khivar.”
TBC