Hi Barbara!
Good Night, Lois – Peter Pan
We’re getting more prominent names now!
The phone rings and I know it’s Lois. Ever since I gave her my phone number, we’ve been talking on a regular basis, almost every other night.
Let’s just hope he’ll not be accompanying her to her junior prom.
CLARK: Lois asked me to be a chaperone.
force a smile on my face, hoping it will make it all the way into my voice.
/squints/
When she speaks again, she sounds worried. “Are you okay?”
Oops, I guess she could hear me squint.
“Sure.”
Apparently, I’m not at all convincing. “Is it Lana?”
Lana’s fine. He even had to beat her off with a stick.
I rub the bridge of my nose. How is she so perceptive?
/Starts off on very long list/
She reserved tickets for the movies, which of course I am supposed to buy. It didn’t ever occur to her that I might not want to go.
LANA: Life’s too short to bother with other people’s interests.
Still, she’s not the reason I’m in a foul mood.
Gotten used to it by now, huh?
The last thing I want is to burden Lois with my problems. But she’s also the one person I can talk to. Suddenly, there’s a huge lump in my throat.
“I wasn’t able to save them,” I whisper.
Awwwwww…poor dear!
And this time it wasn’t even that I couldn’t have gotten there in time.
Oh? People around?
But that would have meant revealing myself.”
See? It’s why you always carry a potato sack to pull over your head and body. You look just like debris with arms and legs then. Also, did I already mention ‘poor dear’?
In the seven years we’ve known each other, this kid has grown into my best friend, my confident and I wouldn’t know what to do without her.
Thanks for the timeline update!
But the truth is that I’m the one who’s terrified of being pegged as a monster.
Clark needs a hug!
“Not if you help them,” she says quietly. “I wrote about you in school, you know? We wrote an essay on who was our hero.
I wonder if her teachers worry about too much imagination. And what her prospective employer might say when she submits writing samples.
PERRY: Now this is very creative writing. Good structuring. Grammar and spelling need some work; I guess Ralph can get you started there. But, and that’s important, little darling, here at the Planet we only publish true stories, not fiction like they do at the National Whisper.
CLARK:
“What if people didn’t know it was you doing all these things? What if you turned yourself into a fantasy? Like you did to save me?”
But he got to be back home before midnight.
Also:
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YODA: Truly wonderful, the mind of a child is.
John M. Barrie never told us how that’s supposed to work anyway.
Isn’t the ‘happy thought’ panon?
But then I realize what she means. “You think a costume would work?”
It does for Batman.
Lois chuckles. “Depends on the costume, I’d say. If you’re wearing a leopard skin and green tights nobody’s going to look at your face.”
Miss Lane!
You’re not allowed to pick Peter Pan, anyway, because he belongs to me,” she says cheerfully.
Oh boy.
On to the next part!
Michael
