Crossing Worlds

Metamorphosis

After the dance, Lana found me in my room sitting on my bed looking at my wrists.

"Hey, didn't see you at the dance." She said and I smiled at her.

"Something came up." I told her hiding my hands under my blanket. "Congrats on winning homecoming queen." She smiled and pulled off her tiara.

"Thanks." She said smiling down at it. She turned and went for her room with me behind her. She placed the tiara in a drawer full of crowns, ribbons and trophies.

"Why don't you display those anymore?" I asked her.

"I don't know." She said. "Just didn't seem that important." She took a gold box off her bed and opened it. Butterflies flew out and we watched them fly around her room.

The next morning, I went to the farmer's market with Lana and Whitney, my wrists covered in bangles. I wasn't happy about having Whitney around me, but there wasn't much I could do about it either. When we got there, we walked around and talked until we came across the Kent's booth.

"All hail the Homecoming king and queen." Chloe said as we approached.

"Clark, I didn't see you at the dance last night." Lana noted.

"Oh, I was..." Clark looked at Whitney before answering. "A little tied up."

"You and Ash should have gone together." Lana noted. "She didn't make an appearance either."

"Hey. Congratulations. That was one heck of a game. I haven't seen an offense that good since I played." Mr. Kent said to Whitney.

"Thank you, Mr. Kent." Whitney beamed at the compliment.

"I'm going to get the rest of the boxes out of the trunk." Clark said.

"I'll help." Whitney said following Clark.

"Lana. Ashlee." Mr. Kent handed us each an apple.

"Thank you." Lana said smiling at him as I bit into the apple. Lana went to go look at a booth while I wandered in a different direction.

"Good to see you still in one piece." I turned to see Lex behind me.

"Hey, I didn't know you'd be here." I said.

"I just wanted to see what the community has to offer." He said smirking at me.

"Or you heard the Kent's have a booth." I suggested.

"It's my first week in this town and I just want to know all the local hangouts." He told me.

"Sure." I said, obviously not believing him.

"How's your wrists?" he asked.

"Fine." I answered going to another booth.

"Who did that to you?" he asked me and I shook my head.

"It's just a prank the jocks to around here." I told him.

"A prank that could have killed you and Clark." He reminded me. "Tell me who did it."

"Drop it." I told him. "It' done now."

"Ash, Whitney's ready to go." Lana called to me and I nodded to her.

"I'll be right there." I told her before turning back to Lex. "See you around."

It wasn't long after Whitney dropped us off that we heard he was in the hospital. He ran into a tree and his truck ended up exploding.

"Whitney's gonna be all right. He's got a couple of cuts and bruises but nothing serious." Mom told us and Lana breathed a sigh of relief.

"Does he know what happened?" Lana asked her.