Admitting Impediments Part 21/?
I can barely believe it either...
Title: Admitting Impediments
Author: Kitkat
Section: Part 21/?
Section rating: Very tame, maybe a little sappy (oh, and het!alert)
Length: 404 words
Feedback would be adored
Previous parts can be found here
Clark didn’t call Christopher the day after the reception, or the day after that. He didn’t call Lex either, but Lex was too far away for Clark to say anything that needed to be said, so perhaps that was excusable.
Five days after the wedding Clark arrived home to the message light flashing on his answering machine. For a moment he knew it would be Lex’s voice on the tape. He wasn’t sure what the message would say, but he knew that it would somehow make the hollow feeling in his gut disappear.
It wasn’t Lex, it was Anna. He called her back.
“Hey, Anna, it’s Clark. I’m just returning your call.” Clark hoped he didn’t sound as awkward as he felt.
“Hi, Clark. Thanks for calling. How are you?”
“Very well, thanks. How are you?” Clark’s manners answered for him.
“Great thanks. I was wondering if you’d like to get a coffee with me.”
He took a deep breath and considered the offer. “Sure.”
“Are you busy tomorrow?” Anna sounded nervous, which made Clark feel more comfortable.
“I’m in classes until three, but I’m free after that.”
“That’s great. Do you know where Amici’s is?”
“Yeah,13th and Elm, right?” Clark wound the telephone cord around his finger as he spoke.
“That’s the one. I’ll meet you there about three?”
***
Coffee was easy.
Clark was late, mainly because his Poli Sci lecturer didn’t seem to think that students should have a life outside of the lecture theatre. Luckily, Anna didn’t seem to mind and they soon fell into comfortable conversation. Clark thought a girl who wasn’t concerned about him being fifteen minutes late for a date had definite potential - she’d even had a book, and had seemed perfectly content in her corner booth in the café.
When they went their separate ways Clark made sure to ask when he could see her again, and they agreed on a movie the next weekend.
The movie was easy too, and when Clark walked her back to her apartment it was easy to stoop down and brush a kiss across her mouth. It wasn’t explosive, like the thing at Lex’s wedding that Clark was trying not think about, and it wasn’t a slow burn, like the time he’d spent with Christopher, but it was comfortable, and the soft smile on Anna’s face just before she went inside left him feeling warm and a little less hollow.
Title: Admitting Impediments
Author: Kitkat
Section: Part 21/?
Section rating: Very tame, maybe a little sappy (oh, and het!alert)
Length: 404 words
Feedback would be adored
Previous parts can be found here
Clark didn’t call Christopher the day after the reception, or the day after that. He didn’t call Lex either, but Lex was too far away for Clark to say anything that needed to be said, so perhaps that was excusable.
Five days after the wedding Clark arrived home to the message light flashing on his answering machine. For a moment he knew it would be Lex’s voice on the tape. He wasn’t sure what the message would say, but he knew that it would somehow make the hollow feeling in his gut disappear.
It wasn’t Lex, it was Anna. He called her back.
“Hey, Anna, it’s Clark. I’m just returning your call.” Clark hoped he didn’t sound as awkward as he felt.
“Hi, Clark. Thanks for calling. How are you?”
“Very well, thanks. How are you?” Clark’s manners answered for him.
“Great thanks. I was wondering if you’d like to get a coffee with me.”
He took a deep breath and considered the offer. “Sure.”
“Are you busy tomorrow?” Anna sounded nervous, which made Clark feel more comfortable.
“I’m in classes until three, but I’m free after that.”
“That’s great. Do you know where Amici’s is?”
“Yeah,13th and Elm, right?” Clark wound the telephone cord around his finger as he spoke.
“That’s the one. I’ll meet you there about three?”
***
Coffee was easy.
Clark was late, mainly because his Poli Sci lecturer didn’t seem to think that students should have a life outside of the lecture theatre. Luckily, Anna didn’t seem to mind and they soon fell into comfortable conversation. Clark thought a girl who wasn’t concerned about him being fifteen minutes late for a date had definite potential - she’d even had a book, and had seemed perfectly content in her corner booth in the café.
When they went their separate ways Clark made sure to ask when he could see her again, and they agreed on a movie the next weekend.
The movie was easy too, and when Clark walked her back to her apartment it was easy to stoop down and brush a kiss across her mouth. It wasn’t explosive, like the thing at Lex’s wedding that Clark was trying not think about, and it wasn’t a slow burn, like the time he’d spent with Christopher, but it was comfortable, and the soft smile on Anna’s face just before she went inside left him feeling warm and a little less hollow.