Chapter 166 - Lena Gone Away

Kara is now just arriving at Alura's school, and she knows that the next few minutes are going to be a bit difficult, as she is going to have to tell her daughter that Lena has gone away for a few days, which she knows Alura will be upset over.

Kara waits outside Alura's classroom for a few minutes, before the bell to signal the end of the day finally rings, and Alura and the other kids soon come out of the classroom.

"Mommy!" Alura says, with a smile, walking over to Kara and taking her in for a hug.

"Hey, baby." Kara smiles back, "Did you have a good day at school?"

"Yeah." Alura nods, "We learnt a bunch of different things!"

"That's great." Kara smiles, happily, "Come on, let's head home."

Alura nods her head, and then takes Kara's hand and the two begin to walk out of the school, and a few moments later, exit the school and start their walk back home to their penthouse.

"Will momma be home soon?" Alura eventually asks, about 5 minutes into their walk.

Kara flinches at Alura asking her this, before sighing.

"No." Kara says, "I'm sorry to tell you this, Alura, but momma has had to go away on some urgent business for a few days. So, for the next couple of days it will just be you and I."

Alura's face immediately drops at Kara saying this to her.

"Momma left without saying goodbye?" Alura asks, with a sad look on her face.

"Something just came up and she had to fly out and deal with it now, and couldn't leave it to the end of today so she could say goodbye this evening." Kara lies, "But momma has told me that she will call me later this evening, and you can then spend some time speaking with her on the phone."

"Okay." Alura says, but still in a bit of a sad voice.

"Don't worry baby, I'm sure momma will be home as soon as she can be. But until then, I'll make sure that the two of us have a bunch of fun together." Kara says, trying to cheer up her daughter.

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It is now later on in the evening, and Kara and Alura have got on with everything without Lena, with Kara making Alura her dinner, and entertaining her and everything. Kara's main goal has been to simply keep Alura as occupied as possible so she doesn't have to think about Lena not being there with them. Eventually though, the time hits 8PM, and Kara's phone rings.

"Hello?" Kara answers.

"It's me." Lena says.

"Oh, hi, Lena, it's good to hear your voice." Kara says.

"Can you pass me over to Alura." Lena says, in a firm voice.

Kara's heart, once more, hurts upon hearing Lena brush her off like that, and still be mad at her.

"Yeah... okay..." Kara says, in a dejected voice, "Let me just go get her. She went upstairs to go to the toilet."

Lena doesn't respond to Kara saying that.

Kara then walks up the stairs and heads into Alura's bedroom, where she sees that not only has Alura been to the bathroom, but she's got changed into her pyjamas also.

"Alura, I have momma on the phone here." Kara says.

"Gimme!" Alura says, quickly, reaching her hands out in a grabbing motion.

Kara can't help but lightly chuckle, and then proceeds to hand Alura the phone.

"Momma?" Alura says.

"Hello, darling." Lena replies.

"I'll..... give you two a moment.... Call me when you finish the call." Kara says to Alura, before leaving the room.

Kara then heads to her bedroom, where she waits for about 10 minutes while she hears Alura and Lena having a conversation in Alura's bedroom. Kara doesn't hear the conversation because she uses any of her super hearing though, just through regular hearing. Eventually, Kara notices that Alura and Lena finish talking.

"Mommy?" Alura calls out. "Yeah?" Kara replies, and walks out of her bedroom, where she sees Alura standing in the hallway, having obviously just left her bedroom.

"I've finished." Alura says, handing Kara back the phone.

Kara takes the phone from Alura, and she is once more dejected when she sees that the call has ended, clearly Lena hung up after she was done talking to Alura. It's another action that makes Kara's heart hurt.

"Oh... okay...." Kara says.

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The next day, Sam is working at L-Corp, and today, seeing as Lena has gone off on some 'Metropolis L-Corp business thing', she is left as the one in charge of the National City office, which in turn makes her essentially basically be in charge of most of L-Corp, seeing as the National City office is the company's head office. So, because of this, Sam really has a lot to do today, which has put her under a lot of pressure and stress. In fact, when Sam found out from Alex that Lena had flown off to Metropolis, because of Kara keeping the whole Lillian thing from her, the newly engaged CFO was pretty annoyed. Sam thought that was a horrid decision for Lena to make, just running away from her problems, instead of tackling them head on. It is something that Sam knows Lena has been doing for as long as she has known her. Sam had just thought that Lena had really worked on herself, and stopped doing that, but she can now see that she is wrong.

Usually when Lena does things like this, it mostly involves her isolating herself from other people, and refusing to be disturbed, with her assistant being the only one that has any open form of communication directly to her. In times when this has happened in the past, Sam has tried to talk to Lena, but her best friend has either ignored her, or got her assistant to say that they will speak sometime soon. So, Sam knows that her trying to speak to Lena, by calling or texting her right now, is going to be met with no response at all. But with all that said, Sam is annoyed at Lena for doing this this time, because while she may be annoyed at Kara, she has a daughter to consider now. Lena can't just go running off and away from her daughter, it's not fair on Alura.

Sam is eventually disturbed by a knock on her office door.

"Come in." Sam calls out.

A few moments later, Lena's assistant, Eve, walks in the room, as Eve has been working with Sam, and her own assistant today, to help make sure everything goes smoothly.

"Hey, Eve." Sam says, with a slight smile, "Is there something that I'm missing, or need to know?"

"No. I just thought I would let you know that your fiancé is here." Eve explains, "I'm sure you usually have some protocol as to how to go about doing this with your own assistant, but today we both agreed to take our lunch breaks on separate hours to make sure you have at least one of us available at all times. Your assistant is taking her lunch break now."

"Oh.... yeah...." Sam nods, "Thank you. Usually I just tell her to send Alex right in."

"Okay. I'll tell Miss Danvers to come into your office." Eve smiles.

Even then makes a move to leave Sam's office.

"Eve?" Sam calls out.

"Yes, Miss Arias?" Eve replies.