Lois shot Clark a dirty look when she realized he was staring at her. Again. It seemed as though every time she looked up, he was glancing in her direction. At first, she'd found it somewhat flattering, but now... now she was getting tired of whatever little game it was that he was playing. Lois wished he'd just come up and say it - whatever he had on his mind.
Hmmmm, yes - reminds me of all those years when he'd show her that he was interested, only to show her that he wasn't interested....
Knowing that no amount of wishful thinking could change Clark Kent into someone more like... oh, say Superman... Lois went back to work on her article.
"Lois Lane," she said into the receiver, sounding slightly annoyed.
I like this, how we so easily take out our bad mood on others.
"Please... Call me Bruce. And the pleasure is all mine, Lois."
Lois blushed, though she wasn't sure why.
I don't want Lois to fall for Bruce,
of course, but I can't help it - I like it that she blushes!
"How about over dinner? I'm staying at the former Lexor Hotel – the penthouse suite. If you're free tonight, of course?"
Lois blushed even more and shot yet another glance in Clark's direction.
Welcome to my suite - oy! No wonder that she blushes. Of course, I'd send a few rotten cyber tomatoes your way if you'd let her - well, you know what I mean, Lara....
"Tonight is fine. I'm free tonight," she said, finally. She stopped just short of adding that she was free every night and probably would be until the end of time.
So funny! So sad!
What had he really hoped to find in there anyway, he wondered? A rule that said "Thou shalt not make a move on Superman's love interest" – honestly? Nevertheless, it would be a cold day in hell before he let this billionaire run away with his girl.
"Look, I don't know what's gotten into you," she told them, "but I'm not a prize to be won. I'm flattered by the attention, but trust me, this isn't the sort of attention I want to be getting. Honestly! Have you any idea how it looked? You don't have to worry, though, your secret is safe with me. As long as you promise never to put on a display like that again."
Go, Lois!
"And you," she said, turning her attention to Bruce. "You owe me that interview. And I won't let you off the hook about that, you can be certain of it. This said, you can forget about dinner. Tonight or any other night, for that matter. I wasn't into that whole rich playboy thing you've got going, but add that to the whole 'dark and disturbed' and, well... I'm sorry, but you're definitely not my type, Bruce."
Ow! She's blunt, isn't she?
"Oh no, you don't," she told Clark. "He's leaving. I'm not nearly done with you, buster!"
Hehe...
"You should keep an eye out for trouble," Lois told him in a low voice, making sure no one in the newsroom could hear, "because Superman's going to be otherwise occupied for a while."
HAHAHAHA!!!
"I never lied to you, Lois," he said, carefully. "I just made up certain facts to keep you from finding out about... certain other facts."
Razz to the power of razz!!!
Lois raised an eyebrow. "People on this planet call that lying."
That's telling him!!!!
But part of her knew that he wouldn't have lied to her unless there was absolutely no other way around it – he just wasn't like that and she knew it.
Oh yes, there
was a way around it! He was just being a coward. But then, nobody's perfect.
And another part of her just wished he would finally ask her out. He'd gotten all bent out of shape at the thought of someone else going out with her and that could only mean one thing.
Now you're beginning to see the light, girl!
I'm not mad."
"You're... not?" He looked at her with an air of disbelief. "I was kind of expecting you'd want to chop me up into little pieces... Very little pieces."
"That wouldn't be my first choice, no. Besides, it would make it pretty hard to go out with you, then," Lois told him, hoping that he'd get a clue, once and for all.
Love this bit of dialogue!
"Go out..." he repeated, his voice trailing off as he considered what she'd just said. He cleared his throat and went on, "You mean there's a chance you'd say yes if I asked you out?"
figured it out! Dense molecular structure of the brain, I know, I know....
"Does that mean you'd go out with him?"
"Definitely. As a matter of fact, it so happens I'm free tonight."
Yes, because she just cancelled her appointment with Batman!
"Not anymore," he whispered as he leaned in to kiss her.
And he finally got it!
Wow, what a funny story, Lara! Egad, when I'm thinking of Superman and Batman, fighting it out over Lois like two super stags live on national television... and then resuming the same fight as Clark Kent and Bruce Wayne in the newsroom of the Daily Planet... You know what? There are some peacocks in the
Pildammsparken (the Willow Pond Park) very close to where I live, and in spring the males get excited and make bellowing sounds to try to impress their females. On the other side of Pildammsparken there is a football stadium, and once I heard two slightly drunk young guys on their way through Pildammsparken to a match, laughing and shouting and making all kinds of testosterone-heavy sounds as they looked forward with glee to the game. Guess what? One peacock heard the sounds the guys were making and identified them as challenges issued by other males. So the peacock answered, bellowing back at them! And not only that, but the
guys recognized what the peacock was doing, and they roared and bellowed back at him! And the guys and the peacock kept it up for several minutes, showing each other which of them had the biggest balls, I suppose!
Haha! So funny, Lara!
Ann
