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As Seen Through Lois' Eyes
by Rachel M.
Part 10

Most people would consider spending $27 bucks on chocolate is nuts (nuts, get it? yuk-yuk-yuk). But I needed to stock up on it in case I needed some later. I would just have to tell myself not to eat it all at once. I put all the chocolate bars in my desk drawer except for one. I scarfed it down and hope it would somehow calm my raging temper. I was sick of Mother fighting with us all the time. And I was sick of Lucy being such a 2-year-old. Why didn't she just stay and talk it over with Mother like I, as it seemed, the only mature person in the house, would do? I just didn't get it. But I guess that was the way life went. I learned to accept things they way they hit me. That doesn't mean I accepted them *completely.* If there was any way I could change things, I would. But you can't fix all of them....

"Lois!" Perry called to me from across the newsroom.
"Yeah, Chief?" I walked over to him and this other guy who was staring at me like he already owned me.
"I want you to meet Claude Fergoh. He's an exchange student from France. He's going to be working here for a while and I thought you two ought to know each other."
"Lois Lane." I extended a hand for him to shake, but instead he brought it to his lips and kissed it.
"Bonjour, Ms. Lane. Pleasure's all mine, I'm sure."
"Uhh...right." I was already caught up in his French charms. I checked myself and managed to come up with an excuse for a hasty departure "Sorry, but my computer's calling me." Claude laughed. He, for some reason, thought that was funny.
"So now the computers talk, do they?"
"Oh, no, I was just using an expression."
"Oh. So that's why I didn't hear anything." I turned around before he could say anything else.
By then Perry had realized I had a knack for writing. Once he saw my first article on the Annual Metropolis Dog Show he moved me up to the semi-exciting assignments. And once I had conquered that and proved my credibility, he moved me up to car, plane, bus, and space shuttle crashes. He wasn't planning on moving me up anymore after that, but I sneaked around under his nose and started taking things into my own hands. I had started investigative reporting without Perry even noticing. When I showed him my first story he was not too happy with me. He thought that it was too dangerous for a *woman* to go around sneaking into people's offices and homes. I told him I would have none of that, I could take care of myself. Once we had had a few heated debates, he caved in and let me do my own thing. I think he would've regretted it if he hadn't.
Claude and I developed a relationship over the years. Perry made us partners, much to my disagreement. The relationship was purely that until right before he had to leave. We started dating about a week before he left. One the night before his last one we were working on our last story together and we started making out pretty heavy. One thing led to another and the next morning I woke up and he and our story was gone. I picked up the newspaper on the way to work and was shocked at what I found in it. Our completed story was in the paper all right...but it was only under one name...Claude's. I was furious. I wanted to kick his butt so bad, but he was gone already, with one more story under his belt to make him even more famous in where he came from. It was completely unfair. I told Perry, and he understood, but he couldn't do anything about it except distribute a new morning edition, and he didn't want to do that unless it was a really bad mistake. He said he would put something about it in the next edition, but if he did, I don't think anyone hardly noticed.
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Part 10 is done and finished with now........what's next? More exciting episodes with Lois (and Clark!)
-Rachel :)

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