Living In Smallville

Chapter 14

Night has come and Jodie isn't able to sleep. She has been thinking about what happened today. How Chloe knew. How everyone in school will now go against her. She rolls over to the side and look at her alarm clock and sees that it's not that late. Jodie sits up and swings her feet out of bed.

"I guess I'll go out and get some air." She says to herself.

As she sneakily walks out of the room and downstairs, scanning the hallway for guards and Lex, she can see no one and walks from toe-to-heel.

She finally reach the entrance, and got out then stops to breathe in the fresh air. Then she walks around the mansion until she reach the garden where she lays down and look at the sky.

In the corner of her eye, Jodie can see a silhouette of a man, coming closer. She stands up, hoping it's Lex, but careful just in case it's an intruder.

"Who are you?" Jodie asks, then she can see him. It's the man who tied up Lex in a chair and called Jodie. She makes a run for it, but trips and sprain her ankle. He is right behind her and puts a handkerchief on her mouth with chlorine on it, she screams for help. Jodie tries to escape, but the man's grip is too strong. And sooner, her screams getting lower and lower, and then she's unconscious.

The next morning, Lex has noticed that Jodie isn't in her room. It's 6:30 in the morning and Jodie wouldn't be in school at that hour. He walks to the library and sits on the black love seat. He put his hand over his face.

"There's no sight of her, Mr. Luthor." The guard says, Lex stands up.

"You sure you've searched everywhere?"

"Yes, sir."

"Well, search harder!"

The guard nods and exits the room.

"Not again!!!" Lex yells, once he knows the guard is out of ear shot. He walks to his mini-bar and pours water into a glass, just to keep him sane. Then a memory of Jodie comes in his head, Lex smashes the glass to the ground.

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"Has anyone seen Jodie?" Chloe asks Clark, Pete and Lana in the Torch room.

"No," Clark replies. "Why?"

"Because she is meant to be here by now." Chloe says, putting her bag on her chair.

"Maybe she's running late." Pete suggests.

"She's never late, except that one time when Chloe scolded her." Lana says, looking at Chloe.

"Hey, I just asked her a simple quesetion and she gave me a lie." Chloe defends herself.

"What if that lie was the truth." Clark says, defending Jodie.

"I saw it with my own eyes, Clark!" Chloe yells. "Are you all literally going your own best friend who you've been friends with for years? And defending someone new?!"

Before anyone can say anything, the bell rings and they leave Chloe in the room.

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Jodie wakes up in a dark room all tied up in a chair. Her eyes are blindfolded and her ears are ringing.

"Hello?" she calls out.

"There's no reason to call out." Jodie hear someone say and she's sure that it's Oliver's voice across the room.

"Oliver?" she calls out again, breathing hard.

"Yep. Now, do you know why we're tied up and captured?" Oliver asks.

"No. . ." Jodie replies, now trying to set herself free.

"Shut up, both of you!" A man hisses and Jodie recognizes the voice.

"You again?!" She asks him, her heart beating faster and faster by the second.