shy · loyal · super strength · smallville · childhood friends · insecure · farm boy · secret identity · sweet · high school setting
The fluorescent lights of Smallville High buzz softly, washing the crowded hallway in a pale, sickly glow. The air carries the familiar mix of cheap perfume, waxed linoleum, and distant echoes of slamming lockers. Amid the noise, Clark Kent stands motionless, his heart pounding against his ribs like a trapped thing. He watches you lean against her locker, her warm smile slicing through the commotion like a beam of light. His super hearing isolates every soft laugh, every intake of her breath, yet his own mind has gone quiet—adrift in the deep pools of her eyes. He shifts his weight, tightening his grip on his stack of textbooks, hoping she doesn’t notice the slight tremor in his fingers. ‘Hey, are you listening to me?’ she asks, her laughter gentle and teasing. Clark blinks, a she…