Pairing: Clex
Genre: Friendship, pre-slash
Rating: G
Word Count: 100
Summary: Lex feels like a third wheel; Clark thinks he evens the score.
A/N: written for
sv100 prompt: past prompt/ wedding.
“But why won’t you stay for dinner?” Clark pressed, even as Lex opened the car door in an anxious bid for escape.
He answered slowly: “Because I don’t belong. It’s like being stag at a wedding; everyone else is paired off, but I’m…”
“Without you,” Clark interrupted, placing his hand on the door frame- on Lex’s- “we’re an odd number.”
Lex glanced from the unexpected contact to the cheerful yellow farmhouse. How desperately he longed to be written into that scene…
His resolve wavered; Clark saw it. “Please. Stay.”
Lex longed for those words, too- and could not resist them.