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Lena is late, as always, being the CEO of one of the biggest corporation in the country, if it’s not of the world, tends to be time consuming. She speeds up her pace in the busy street near Lcorp’s building. Waiting for her is her long-term friend, her only friend, jack. It’s been a month since the last time she saw him. It was back in Metropolis, before she became CEO before she was forced to drop her lab coat, her simple life and everything she used to cherish. Because her brother, Lex, the former CEO of Lcorp, previously Luthor Corp, was arrested because of his weapon trade with shadowy people.
The youngest heiress had split her time since then between trying to prove her worth to the board members of her family business and redeem the image of it in public opinion.
Today is the first time she allowed herself to do something else than working or sleeping. She can't wait to catch up with jack and life in general. She just hopes she didn’t screw her friendship to much the day she decides to move Lcorp’s headquarter from Metropolis to National City for a fresh start.
With her phone in her hand, her work never really stops, she made her way in the crowed restaurant to the back table, away from the prying eyes and near the kitchen. She spots jack and puts a hand on his shoulder to surprise him. He jumps, a little startle by the touch before catching himself. He looks good with his three-day beard, he has some kind of sparks in his eyes and he seems happy. Lena feels a pang in her gut like jealousy, she doesn’t know why. She wishes the best for her friend. He gets up and gives her a hug.
“Hey beautiful” he takes a step back and looks at her “you look awful”
“Hey handsome, thank you, you are glowing though”
“Thank you, I’m really happy to see you”
They take a sit and the waiter brings them the menu before disappearing into the kitchen. They scan the menu without saying a word, falling in their old habits and enjoying each other presence. Jack, putting down his menu is the first to break the silence.
“So how have you been?” Lena looks at him, puts her menu down and sighed “that bad?”
“Well you know the usual. That’s not easy to come after the most hated man in the country. I have to deal with peoples distrust in every aspect of my life, even if I don’t have a life anymore. Enough of my self-pity, tell me what about you? What‘s made you this… happy?”
“ Come on, I’m sure it’s not that bad,” Lena frowns and jack chooses to not push the subject “ I made a major breakthrough in my research and I’ll publish an article about that in a science magazine, I can’t wait, so yeah, I’m really happy”
“I’m happy for you, let’s celebrate. And about your personal life?”
“I can’t hide anything from you right”
“No just spill it”
“OK I met someone, she work with me at the lab” Lena listened jack telling her about his newfound love. She is happy for him, he deserves it but she can't shake the nagging feeling of everybody around her moving forward and she is left in a side way.
They keep talking throughout almost one hour of eating and enjoying catching up. Just after placing their desserts order Jack excused himself. She heard a detonation, quickly followed by screams and thick smoke coming from the kitchen. People start running and screaming around her and Lena couldn’t find jack, she crawled on the floor and tried to find her way to the exit. She feel the heat of the fire in her back, she can’t breath and her eyes burn because of the smoke.
She thinks that she is being punished for being jealous of her friends' happiness, or maybe it is the payback for her brothers' sin. She doesn’t know how long she has been laying there, the last thing she feels is strong arms carrying her whilst everything went black.