For over a month, Scotty's words and the picture of Lex holding a bundle that he'd claimed was his baby brother had haunted him. Maybe this was what changed everything. Maybe this was what made Lex…evil. It was a scary thought and one he'd wrestled with quietly for a long time on his own. Normally, he would have had Cassie or Tim or even Bart ( Read more... )

There were some days when Kon wasn't exactly sure what he was doing, helping Jack run a swim class when there weren't enough students to really tax one person. Then again, helping Jack was definitely fun. He was a cool kind of guy and every chance that Kon had to go swimming, he'd take. Especially since it meant that actually got to use those ( Read more... )

( With the loss of a mutual friend, a tear in a friendship begins to heal. )

Nothing had gone right. In fact, everything that could go wrong, as the proverbial saying went, did go very definitely wrong. He'd hurt Bart in ways that he didn't even want to think about. He'd told Tim that he had a thing for him. And oh god, Cassie. He didn't even want to think about what he'd done to Cassie. In short, he'd screwed up his ( Read more... )

He couldn't help the fruit he'd picked. Well, actually, he could help that he'd picked a banana over, say, an apple or an orange, but bananas were a good source of...something. He couldn't remember what right then. Mostly, though, he was eating it to see the reactions of people as he ate it. Especially since he wasn't known for one who liked ( Read more... )

Tonight was fun. Tonight was beyond fun. Music and dancing and beads and what he'd dubbed 'happy juice'. The world might have been spinning a little, but that didn't matter. It was still a good night. Except he still hadn't found Tim. Tim was his best friend and Kon still wasn't sure that he'd come to the party.
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There was absolutely no reason that he should feel like this. None. Just because everyone else was getting all sorts of people from back home and he had Clark and Luthor. Lois, too, but she didn't remember him. He had Bart and Tim and Cassie and things should have been easy, but he still felt like there were things that he was being left out of. He ( Read more... )

He wasn't sure what he was doing. Cassie was off doing...something. Someone. No, he didn't want to think about that. He was just having fun. He was just surfing. Just riding the waves. It didn't matter that it was dark. There was a party up on the beach, so that was light enough to see. Eventually, he'd join the party and things would be ( Read more... )

The couch, a handful of pills, and a glass of juice. Kon threw back the pills and took a large swallow of juice, thankful that he'd finally found a way to the Compound after his 'shortcut'. He closed his eyes and slumped against the couch, his mind going back to conversations he'd had the last few weeks. One in particular stood out. Dairine and ( Read more... )

Early evening, or maybe late, since it was dark, and Kon was freaking out about a few simple facts. 1- His best friends were girls and 2 - the girl he was supposed to go on a date with was a boy. He didn't want his best friends as girls because it would force him to think about Bart kissing him or his distraction when he and Tim had played Rock ( Read more... )