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Kara leaned against the arm of the couch and put her feet on Alex’s lap. Winn threw popcorn at her from the other side of her sister.
“Dude. I can smell your feet from here.” He said while handing the bowl of popcorn to James who was sitting on the other couch with Lucy.
Alex wrinkled her nose and pushed Kara’s feet off. “How did your feet even get this stinky in the first place.”
Kara stuck her tongue out at Alex and folded her legs up. Winn selected play movie and the sound of the opening credits filled the small space of Kara’s living room.
It was Winn’s turn to pick the movie. Kara rolled her eyes when she saw what he had chosen. The Bee Movie.
“Again, Winn? Really?” Kara snorted, taking her phone out of her sweatpants pocket.
“Um? First of all, it’s a masterpiece. Second of all? It’s my turn to pick to movie, so…”
Kara grumbled and unlocked her phone. She hit the Instagram app and waited for the app to load. She looked up and squinted at James who was laughing at the movie.
“Why are you laughing.”
“It’s funny.” James looked at Kara and frowned.
“Um, sure…” Kara said and looked back down at her phone. Alex slapped her leg.
Kara let out a sigh and scrolled through her feed. She pressed down on Winn’s page.
“Winn?”
“Yes?” He looked at Kara after pausing the movie.
“I’m unliking all of your posts for making me watch this movie again.”
Kara ducked away from the bowl of popcorn that was thrown at her.
“Hey Winn, who’s the person who tagged you in this nerd convention thing.” Kara said, holding up her phone to show Winn.
Winn squinted at the phone. “That’s from the National City Tech Company meet-up.” He took the phone and looked down at the picture. “Oh! That’s Lena Luthor. She’s the CEO of L-Corp.”
“Really?”
“Yes really, Kara.” Winn handed her phone back and looked back at the movie.
“Ugh, let’s leave the Luthors out of our movie night.” Alex muttered.
Kara squinted at the picture and pressed down on the woman’s account. She felt the breath leave her lungs.
“What are you looking at?” She heard Alex whispered from next to her, nudging Kara’s leg and craning her neck to look at Kara’s phone.
“Nothing!” Kara yelped, flinging her phone across the room. She winced when she heard a crack.
Kara stared down at her cracked phone screen. She hadn’t been able to open her phone for the rest of movie night. Everyone had already left. She glared at the phone.
Lena Luthor.
She slowly reached for her phone and pressed the power button. Kara let out a relieved breath when the phone turned on. She unlocked the phone and stared at the woman’s account.
The account was private.
Kara slumped her shoulders and stared at the profile picture. A woman in glasses smiling at the camera over a cup of coffee.
Cute.
Kara gritted her teeth and hit the request follow button. She quickly pressed the power button, throwing the phone at the couch. It bounced off and hit the floor with another loud crack. Kara squeaked.
“Why did I just do that.” Kara whispered, wincing at herself. She let out a deep breath and got up quickly to pick up the phone. “I can’t afford this!”
Pretty girls are my only weakness, Kara thought clenching the phone in her hand.
Another crack. Kara scrunched up her face and shakily put her phone gently on the coffee table. The glass on the screen was falling out and the sides of the phone were bent.
“Looks like I’m stopping at the phone repair shop tomorrow...” Kare mumbled, staring at the wrecked phone.
Kara almost had a panic attack when she saw the price for a new phone.
“A-are you sure you can’t fix my other one??” She wheezed.
“Yes… The damage is irreparable.” The woman behind the counter sighed.
Kara let out a deep breath. Her bank account would be wiped out.
I need a phone though.
“I’ll take it.”
Kara sat down dejectedly at her desk. Her coffee was cold and her bank account was empty. Kara put her head down on the desk, forehead sharply hitting the table top. The sad part was that none of those things were new.
A loud knock sounded on her desk, propelling her to jerk upwards into a sitting position. It was Snapper.
“I’m not paying you to sleep, Danvers.”
“I- yes, of course not-”
Snapper sighed and walked back over to his office. “Just get me those photographs of Supergirl from Olsen. I need it for the publication.”
“Right. Of course.” Kara got up out of her seat and quickly walked over to James’s office across the floor, happy to have something to busy herself with.
Kara slumped back in her seat, packed lunch sitting in front of her. She sighed and took the tupperware containers out. Leftovers from two nights ago. Winn sat across from her with a deli sandwich in his hand.
Kara looked up sharply at him. His eyes widened.
“Uh-”
“Did you get that from Reubin’s?” Kara asked, eyeing the sandwich hungrily.
“Um- yes ?”
“I’ll never make fun of your movie night choice ever again if you trade lunches with me.” Kara said, clutching her rumbling stomach.
“I-”
“Please?”
“I- I’m sorry Kara. Mike bought this for me. I can’t just-”
“Ugh, really? Now is not the time for you two to be so cute- I’m hungry!”
“You’ve got food in front of you!”
Kara pouted at Winn. “It’s just leftovers.”
“Oh.” Winn said and then chuckled. “You can have the pickle I guess.”
“Nice!”
Kara leaned back in her chair. She stretched her neck and cracked her knuckles. The editing Snapper had assigned to her was finished. She looked up at the clock above the door. Ten minutes until five.
Ten minutes until she could leave.
Kara eyed the still wrapped phone box on her desk. She hadn't had time to unbox it. Snapper had assigned an interview across town right after her lunch break. And there was an emergency she had to answer as Supergirl.
Kara reached for the box and slid it across her desk towards herself. She slowly ripped the sealed box open. A shiny brand new phone was revealed. Kara gingerly picked it up and peeled the plastic wrapping off. She let out a breath.
Beautiful.
She turned the phone on and grinned when the screen powered on immediately.
Kara pocketed her phone after she set it up and got out of her chair. She stretched her legs and waved to Winn as she walked towards the elevator. Her phone buzzed in her pocket just as she stepped in.
Lena_Luth started following you.
Kara stared at the phone with wide eyes. She took a deep breath and put the phone back in her pocket.
Wait until you get home, Danvers. You got this.
Kara dropped her bag at the door and flopped onto her couch. She unlocked her phone and opened the Instagram app. She brought her finger up to press on Lena’s name. She took a steadying breath and pressed down.
Hundreds of photos on her profile came into view. Kara felt her face heat up.
A photo of Lena eating ice cream.
A photo of Lena with a couple of dogs.
A photo of Lena with a few more dogs.
Kara yelped and dropped her phone on her face when she saw a photo from a couple years back of Lena kissing a blonde woman. She winced and moved it off of her face. Kara looked down at her phone.
Her blood ran cold.
She had accidentally liked the picture of Lena kissing the blonde woman from two years ago.
Shit.
Kara quickly dialed Alex’s number.
“Who is this?”
“It’s Kara! I got a new phone-”
“Nice-”
“Not nice! Huge emergency! Code Purple-”
“Code Purple? You liked someone’s Instagram post from a couple years ago?”
“Yes- heck-” Kara’s phone buzzed with a notification. “One second Alex, I got a notification.”
“Okay…”
Kara pulled the phone off of her ear and swiped down on the notification tab.
Lena_Luth liked your photo.
Her phone buzzed again.
Lena_Luth liked your video.
And again.
Lena_Luth liked your photo.
Kara’s eyes widened in panic and she put the phone on her ear again.
“Alex?”
“What’s up?”
“She’s liking all of my posts back.” Kara heard another buzz from her phone.
“Who’s liking your posts?”
“Lena Luthor.”
Kara pulled the phone away from her ear to keep herself from being deafened by the volume of her sister’s voice.
“- A Luthor?! Really, Kara? Did you follow her last night?!” When Kara didn’t respond, Alex gasped, “ You totally did! Oh my god....”
“Listen! I have a good excuse!”
“What is it.” Alex deadpanned from the other side of the line.
“She’s really pretty, okay.”
Kara put her face in her hands. Lena had liked every picture she had posted during her very long conversation with Alex that consisted of Alex just telling her off for getting involved with a Luthor.
She looked down at her phone when it buzzed again. The Twitter icon flashed on the screen. Kara picked up the phone and squinted at the blurb of text.
@Lena_Luthor started following you.
Kara stumbled into the office. She had gotten a last minute text from Snapper to research local tech companies for the next spread. Kara leaned against a wall. One hour of sleep. That’s all she had gotten last night.
She blinked blearily at Snapper and handed him the stack of paper.
“Thanks Danvers, but change of plans.”
“What-”
“Sampson’s sick today so you’re taking reigns in the interview.” Snapped said, leafing through the stack of pages.
“What interview.”
“The one with the CEO of L-Corp. Lena Luthor.”
“Lena Luthor?” Kara’s mind flashed back to last night and Code Purple.
Snapper looked up at Kara and furrowed his eyebrows. “Is there a problem, Danvers?”
Kara yelped. “Nope! No- of course not- I’m on it!”
“The appointment’s in an hour across town.”
“Leaving now!”
Kara nervously wrung her hands while she said in the reception area of L-Corp. She took a couple of shaky breaths.
“Miss Luthor will see you now.” The receptionist said, snapping Kara from her nervous spiral.
“Ri-right yeah. Got it.”
“Her office is on floor twelve. It’s at the end of the hall.”
“Thank you.” Kara said, getting up and hitting the up button of the elevator. She shook her shoulders a bit to loosen up.
This was her first interview ever.
Kara knocked lightly on the glass door of the office in front of her. She could see Lena a her desk writing something down, paper spread over the entirety of the desk’s surface.
“Come in.”
Kara shivered at the sound of her voice and sprung into action. Lena Luthor was even more stunning in person than she was in pictures.
If that was even possible.
Lena stopped writing and looked up, smiling. She tilted her head at the sight of Kara walking over to sit in the chair in front of the desk.
“You’re not Mr. Sampson…” Lena stood up and reached over the desk to shake Kara’s hand before sitting down again.
“He’s out sick.” Kara said, nervously fiddling with the bottom of her sweater. “I’m Kara-”
“Kara Danvers.” Lena raised her eyebrow. “I know.”
Kara forgot to breathe for a second at the sound of her voice coming from the utter goddess in front of her. “I- Yeah- I’m a reporter with CatCo.”
Lena hummed and crossed one leg over the other. Kara’s eyes followed the movement. She quickly snapped out of it and pulled out a notebook and pen from her bag.
“Are you going to ask any hard hitting questions, Miss Danvers?” Lena said smiling at Kara
“Kara- please- and of course. CatCo has always been known for their hard hitting articles.”
Lena laughed. “Who knows, I feel like you might end up surprising me.” She stared at Kara for a second longer, eyes burning into Kara’s. “You look like someone who’s full of surprises.”
Kara laughed nervously and uncapped her pen.
“I think that’s all I need for the article.” Kara said, folding her notebook closed. She slipped it into her bag and slung it over her shoulder, getting up
“Well it was a pleasure speaking with you, Kara.” Lena said, getting out of her seat and walking to the other side. She took Kara’s hand and gently shook it. Her other hand found its way to Kara’s shoulder.
All of a sudden Kara felt light headed. The smell of Lena’s perfume suddenly surrounding her did not make it easier for her to remain standing.
“Yeah- first interview’s out of the way now-”
Shit.
“This is your first interview?” Lena asked, looking at Kara curiously.
Kara nodded.
“I wouldn’t have believed it until you said that.”
Kara let out a relieved sigh. “Really?”
“Mhm.” Lena said, walking Kara over to the elevator. “Well, I feel very special now. The soon to be great and famous reporter Kara Danvers’s first interview was with me.”
Kara smiled at Lena. “Thank you, that really means a lot.” She stepped into the open elevator doors.
They stood in silence for a few seconds. Kara's mind flashed back to the photo she had accidentally liked.
Don't say anything about the picture. Don't say anything about the picture. Don't say anything...
Lena smiled, folded her arms, and raised a hand to wave at Kara. As doors to the elevators began to close, Kara decided to do something stupid.
"Sorry I like that picture of you making out with that blonde lady from like two years ago I didn't know I would be interviewing you and I saw that you liked all of my pictures-!" The doors closed and the last thing Kara saw was Lena's wide eyes and panicked look.
Shit.
Kara put a hand on her reddening face.
Why did I just do that! Kara put her other hand on her face and groaned. She’s so much more attractive in real life.
Kara fell face first into her bed and yelled into the pillow. She hadn't been able to focus for the rest of the day. All she could think about was Lena's panicked face through the closing elevator doors.
"Why did you have to say something stupid!" Kara groaned, putting her arm on her forehead. She stopped grumbling when she heard her phone buzz from next to her. She blindly grabbed it from her bedside table and squinted at the screen.
@Lena_Luthor mentioned you in a tweet.
Kara swiped right on the notification and unlocked her phone.
@Lena_Luthor: Was interviewed today by one of the best upcoming reporters in National City! @kara_danvers !
A flood of follows and responses to the tweet filled her notifications all at once. Kara stared wide eyed at the tweet. She quickly liked and and retweeted it.