it kind of just occurred to me how funny it is that on their second meeting lex looked clark in the eye and said “we have a future and i don’t want anything to stand in the way of our friendship” and clark just went yeah okay sounds good to me and then this man proceeded to get too involved in his love life and tried to give his family money on multiple occasions and told him their friendship was gonna be the stuff of legends and tied his tie and shot a man to save his dad’s life and asked to live with him when he lost everything instead of with his girlfriend and dropped an absurd amount of money on bail bc clark asked and gave him access to caves that the linguist he hired said no one could have access to and made him his best man and came back from the dead and said “three months on a deserted island was almost worth it just to see the look on your face” and bought the deed to his family’s house so it wouldn’t foreclose and asked for nothing in return except to be a part of the family and came straight to clark when he was going out of his mind and under attack and needed a place to hide and kept his secret for three months while in a mental institution and screamed that clark was taken when he himself was literally being dragged to have his brain friend and let clark steal his car and return it and never call him out on it and pulled him out of a tank that was killing clark even tho he sold him out to his evil abusive dad and threw him a surprise party
and clark really walked into a room that was essentially a shrine to him and had the audacity to be shocked
