Hi Sara!
Lois always claims that bowling isn't her game, but somehow, she always manages to win when Clark is around. Of course, Clark would probably say the same about himself.
“You’d think Franklin Stern owns the bowling alley or something with all the bowling events he makes us do!”
No, he’s just really into tall white plastic figures.
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”What? It’s boring, Clark, and you know I don’t like bowling.”
Their banter is great. Just got done watching HiM, so this feels really well captured.
"Yeah...whoever gets the highest score wins."
Umm…that’s how it works anyway?
"What do I win?" "I said whoever wins!" he laughed
"Okay, fine. And when I win..." she said as he opened the door for her, his hand sliding down to her lower back, "...you have to...cook me a fancy dinner.” ”W-what?”
And she’ll even let him bring the candles.
She would have bet on the fact that he'd wanted to kiss her, if she were the betting kind... She was. She was exactly the betting kind, and usually, she was fiercely determined to be the winner of said bet. And right now in this moment, as Clark seemed to be stealing glances at her and smiling that illegal smile...she had never wanted to win so badly.
That’s one if those sucker bets where the loser never even wants to win, huh?
The close-up view of his muscles as picked up the heavy ball...
/Psst/ “as he picked”
Edit: too late...(comes from waiting with posting FDK...)
the man had a seriously unfair advantage over her when she had this...vantage point, directly behind him.
Aww, I think the pheromones would have a far more…profound and insistent effect on her now than they had a year ago.
Five? Not a terribly strong start, not one to be smiling like that for.
CLARK: I win if she wins. All good with operation Stealth Date.
"Believe it or not, Lois, I've been planning my menu this entire game."
See? Poor guys totally distracted from the game.
Those are really great fun. You do realize this series is turning more and more into an episodic story than a series of 824 word vignettes, right? I’m just saying, you me need to finish this story sometime down the line and also start a new series of vignettes to actually match the homework assignment
Which in no way, shape, or form would result in more fun ficlets to be read and such considerations to not influence this reader’s thinking while writing FDK.
Michael
PS:
I'm too fixated on the mental image of standing behind Clark as he's bowling with perfect form.
This certainly is a trope some authors are happy to tick off in their boxes to satisfy a avid reader
Recommend asking on Discord for details.
And as for "why bowling"...Maybe because it's Thanksgiving-season and bowling has a Turkey in it? Too much Flintstones or Al Bundy? Because it's the total opposite of what Lois considers sophisticated? Because there's no chance of running into Lex's zombie while at bowling? Because resurrlexted Lex as a head has smooth, round, and shiny as a bowling ball?
