Chapter 144 - Lena Wakes

Kara wakes up the following morning, and the first thing she does is look at Lena, to check on her. However, as soon as Kara looks at Lena, she is a bit saddened to see that her fiancé is still in a deep sleep. A part of Kara had hoped that maybe Lena would be awake, so they could talk. Or at least so Kara could tell if Lena is going to be mentally okay once she is awake.

Kara proceeds to simply look at Lena for the next couple of minutes, before she finally rolls over on the bed, and then has a look at her phone on the night stand. This is when Kara realises that it is still pretty early in the morning, only 6AM. Kara usually doesn't really need much sleep anyway, because of her Kryptonian DNA, but over the last year that hasn't been the case, because she has enjoyed sleeping with Lena so much, so she has slept longer. However, Kara thinks that right now her body is just too stressed, and worried about Lena, to allow her to relax and do that.

Kara sighs once she is out of bed, and then walks into her bathroom, going about her morning business, before then heading out of the bedroom, and walking along the corridor. As Kara walks along the corridor, she first pokes her head into one of the bedrooms where she can tell there are two adult heartbeats coming from. After doing this, Kara sees Alex and Sam, both wrapped up in each other, fast asleep. Kara then closes the door to the room and walks further along the hallway, eventually arriving at the room Alura and Ruby were sleeping in last night. Kara then pokes her head in that room also, and she sees that Alura and Ruby are still sleeping just like they were last night, cuddling each other closely, with Ruby even snoring lightly. Upon seeing the sight again, Kara can't help but grow a small smile on her face.

Kara then takes a few moments to simply look at Alura and Ruby sleeping, and after a little while, she makes her way downstairs, and gets herself some food. Right now, Kara knows that the best distraction she can give herself, until other people wake up, is to just eat a bunch of food. So, this is exactly what Kara does, stuffing her face with a bunch of bowls of cereal, before then finally deciding to make a bunch of pancakes, which she thinks everyone will be able to eat once they wake.

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It is now a few hours later, and Kara is sitting on one of the couches in the living room, watching the news on TV, not really paying attention to it. Over the last few hours, other than eating, Kara has been completely restless, just worrying so much about Lena, and hating that she has no one else who is awake to at least keep her company.

"Morning, Kara..." Sam says, coming walking into the kitchen area, followed by Alex.

"Hey..." Kara says, with a forced smile, as she turns to look at Alex and Sam.

"God... how much did you have to eat?" Alex asks, looking at the mess of several plates, and a few bowls, in the kitchen, which wasn't there the previous night.

"Uhhh.... a lot...." Kara says, a bit awkwardly, "I just got a bit fidgety..... so I occupied myself by eating."

"Of course you did." Alex says, rolling her eyes.

Alex and Sam then both make their way over to the living room area of the penthouse, and this time Alex decides to take a seat next to Kara, getting herself into a position where she rests her legs on her sister's lap.

"Hey! You know there was a free couch over there!" Kara pouts.

"I know. But this way we can have some sister bonding time." Alex replies, with a smirk.

"I know what you are doing Alex." Kara says, after a few moments of just looking at Alex.

"Really? Is it working?" Alex asks, still with a smirk on her face.

"Not really." Kara replies.

"I guess I'll just have to stay like this for a while then." Alex says, stretching herself out, making a show of the fact that she's comfortable.

"Whatever." Kara mutters.

Sam now takes a seat on the other couch, having watched both Kara and Alex interact, with a smirk on her face.

"Did you make pancakes?" Sam asks, after sniffing slightly.

"Uhhh.... yeah.... But that was at like.... 6:30...... I did originally intend to make some for everyone..... But you all slept so long that I ate them all." Kara explains.

Alex chuckles.

"And how many pancakes did you eat exactly?" Alex asks.

"Uhhh.... I don't know.... maybe like..... 50...." Kara replies, awkwardly.

"God.... Kara..." Sam says, "You are so lucky you're Kryptonian...."

"Yeah. You can imagine how I felt growing up with her. I was just like most other teenage girls, being all self-conscious about my body, and body image, and having to be careful what I ate. But then this one here, she could eat whatever she wanted, and still be all thin and have muscles and a six pack and whatever." Alex says.

"That didn't stop you from taking advantage of my ability to eat!" Kara huffs.

Sam now grows a confused expression on her face, while Alex grows an awkward look on her own face.

"What is she talking about, Alex?" Sam asks.

"Uhhh... nothing..." Alex lies.

"Ohh.... you just lied to your girlfriend. Smooth." Kara smirks.

Alex slaps Kara's side at her sister saying that.

"Alex, what was Kara talking about?" Sam now asks, with a bit of an unamused look on her face, "If you don't answer, I'm sure Kara will?"

"Yeah, I will." Kara says, with a smirk.

"Okay. Fine!" Alex huffs, and then turns to look at Sam, "So.... there was like a fare..... in Midvale.... and it had all sorts of stupid things.... like normal fares or carnivals do...... And anyway..... at the time I was 18...... just about to leave for college once the summer was up...... and I then found out that there was a eating contest at the fare.... and...... that the winner would get a $200 prize...... I knew Kara could do it..... because it was just a spicy chicken eating contest.... and spice doesn't affect Kara like it does us.... So, I knew she could handle more food than anyone, and deal with any amount of spice......" Alex explains.

"Yeah.... Okay.... that sounds pretty standard." Sam nods.

"Anyway..... I told Kara about it..... and explained the rules..... It wasn't just who could eat the most..... There were points for eating the most and that was weighed against how spicy the chicken was. So, the spiciest chicken wing, or whatever, was like 5 points, and the least spicy was 1 point." Alex says, "Kara entered and she won. However, I was the one that signed her up, as Kara couldn't do it herself as she wasn't 18, and it was a contest that had cash winnings, so I received the prize money........ and I told Kara that the prize was only $100......."

"Alex! Did you seriously cheat your sister out of $100?" Sam says, surprised.

"Yeah.... Well, I thought I should have got half because I was the one that helped Kara enter the contest!" Alex replies, with a bit of a pout.

"So, what happened when Kara obviously eventually found out?" Sam asks.

Alex now turns to look at Kara, and smiles at her, before then turning back to Sam.