Resistant • Jonathan Kent

ii. Normal Teenagers

"If you have super-speed, why do you even bother with driving?" Jon asked and Tiana was sitting in the passenger seat of her normal-sized truck that Jon was preparing to drive as the practice test of a sort. "Your speed replenishes itself as long as you keep up with running, eating and drinking. So, why do you bother driving?"

"In case I find myself without my powers again." Tiana stated and she was buckling up her seatbelt. "Come on, Jon. You asked for my help, because you are sick of your mom constantly nitpicking everything right? So get your seatbelt on, put on the indicator and drive." She said and he was looking at her, before she nodded encouragingly and he was buckling his seatbelt.

"Are you sure about this?" Jon asked and Tiana turned her head to look at him.

"If you ask me that question one more time Jonathan Kent, I swear..." Tiana said and he laughed.

"All right, all right! Okay!" He said and she was laughing at his reaction, before she was serious as he was driving.

"Take it easy on the gas, please." Most of Tiana's remarks were gentle reminders to take it easy on the speed, since they were driving through the small town in a truck that seemed as big as a barn some days.

After Jon hadn't killed anyone with the truck and Tiana hadn't been forced to superspeed around to save anybody from him, she decided that he wasn't going to be a terrible driver after all. Despite his mother's constant nitpicking and worrying, she thought that he was going to do all right. He would do a lot better though, if Lois got out of his way and let him practice with people other than her.

Tiana was immediately headed for the fridge as she was extremely low on food and drinks yet again, her speedster-modified wristwatch was beeping almost nonstop at her and she glanced at it, before she was pressing the button to shut off the alarm and was beginning to eat everything in sight.

"Orange and apple juice delivery." Clark was practically singing as he walked through the door with Jon on his heels and he was holding three cases of the aforementioned drinks. "Drink your fill, kid." He said as Tiana grinned, before she was ripping one of the cases open and she drank them quickly. "I bet you'd win a bunch of eating and chugging contests." Clark noted as Tiana's alarm had finally stopped beeping and she was burping loudly at the sudden intake of juice and food. "Oh, that's disgusting." Clark said as Jon laughed.

"You have a speedster in the house, Mr. Kent," Mateo walked into the house and Jon jumped in surprise, having not expected Mateo Cortez to suddenly just keep appearing at the most random of times. "Who eats more than your entire family combined for a single meal. How did you not expect that?" Mateo said as he was tossing something at Tiana, who caught the massive bucket of rocky road ice cream and Tiana was digging into it quickly.

"I was just hoping that I wouldn't have to hear the disgusting burping from right next to her again." Clark said and Tiana stared at him, before she was eating the ice cream faster. "I have got to get back to work, you three. Behave." He ordered them quickly and Tiana was mockingly saluted him, before Clark was disappearing in a gust of wind that nearly knocked Mateo over.

"So... Monopoly?" Mateo asked simply, holding up the classic board game and Tiana grinned.

"I call the Dog! Hey, I called it." Tiana said almost twenty minutes later as they were still snatching at the main game pieces, despite Tiana easily being able to set up a monopoly board in less than ten seconds flat. "Hey, I called the dog... Mateo!" She said and she was snatching it out of his hand.

"Mateo Juanita Cortez." She had done it, she used his full name that he hated to hear after he had tried to steal it back from her and finally, Mateo relented after seeing how annoyed she was about it and he took the racecar, while Jon claimed the cat as his own token.

Right when they were finally getting started, Jordan walked in and Tiana groaned immediately as he wanted to play as well. Tiana sped around the board and set it up quickly for four people, and the game had finally begun.

By the time that the adults were coming home from work at the end of the day, Tiana was winning for the third time in a row and both Jordan and Mateo were playfully complaining about her cheating, while Jon was simply laughing at Tiana's winning dance in her seat and she was grinning from ear to ear.

"Chinese food, anyone?" Clark asked, holding up the containers and Tiana sped over, quickly stacking up the ones that she wanted and disappearing back into her seat at the table. "Are you going to share any of that? With anybody here?" He asked and by then, Tiana was already digging into the food, before she was looking up at him instantly like a little kid who was caught with her hand in the cookie jar.

"I will pay you back for it." She immediately said, somehow speaking around the massive mouthful of food that she had in her mouth and Clark sighed, before he was giving out the other four containers and he was going to get more.

"Are you eating more than usual, or am I going crazy?" Jordan asked and within ten minutes judging by her watch, Tiana had practically inhaled twenty containers of Chinese food that she had taken for herself and then, another half a container between Jon's leftovers. "Because that seems like an obscene amount of food, even for you."

"I have been a lot more hungry, recently." Tiana noted as she was shrugging. "But that isn't unusual, my appetite tends to change with the seasons. And also, my extracurricular activities always affect my calorie-intake as well."

"We will only know that it's a problem, when you start to puke it all back up again." Jordan added and Tiana kicked him in the shin. "Ow!" Jordan complained and she was glaring across the coffee table at him. "What? I mean, it isn't like you're eating for more than one..." Tiana kicked him again. "Ow! Mom, tell her to stop kicking me!"

"Tiana?" Lois questioned and Tiana sighed.

"Then tell your younger son to stop insulting me." Tiana retorted and Lois was quickly turning around to look at them both.

"Jordan stop insulting Tiana. And Tiana, stop taking every single fricking comment from him so personally." Lois ordered and Tiana groaned, before she was disappearing in a flash of lightning to get away from everybody else for a while.