2.14 - Rush

Chloe and Clark stop by the Talon to get coffee and talk about where he might go to college (we already know that Chloe is going back to her home town of Metropolis togo to Met U in thefall.). Clark talks about going to Miami (he checked it out in Run with Bart, and it's a set up for Aqua.) While they are there, her cousin on duty is robbed and doesn't remember it. Clark rushes outside to confront the robber who zaps Clark - erasing all his memories (and we see a still from every episode in the series thus far.) Chloe comes running out of the Talon to check on him, and Clark looks up at her confused. "Clark who?"

Chloe and Pete go to a rave in the Kawatchi caves; Pete is worried about them and the paintings, Chloe is sure everything is going to be fine.  When they get inside, they notice people acting abnormally - Chloe's dorky chemistry partner tried to make out with her and then jumped to his death (a Clark and Superman riffs); Pete gets bitten by one of the worms in the cave.

The next day, Chloe finds out from Lana that Lana and Clark are going on a date when she asked Lana to go shopping with her and talk about what happened to her chemistry partner; Chloe tells her to go for it, not to let her "be [Lana's] excuse."  Later that day, when she asks Clark if he has plans for the weekend he dodges her question.  Clark brings up that Pete skipped school and helping out on the memorial issue; Chloe points out that her chemistry partner had a small puncture wound in the back of his neck as did two Smallville Community College students. 

Chloe and Clark attend a party out at Crater Lake where Chloe makes the first reference to Lois in the whole series: "Just because I don't have raven hair and the initials L.L. doesn't mean that guys don't find me attractive, Clark." Of course, given Lana's looks in the series, it has a double play to Clark's official love interest on the show as well. 

When Clark is not happy about Chloe's choice in possible boyfriends, Pete tries to hook Chloe and Clark up. Clark is right to worry; Sean Kelvin is bad for her and is the first in a line of bad relationships for Chloe in the series. Chloe makes a crack about being a Crash Test Dummy (a reference to their Superman Song, no doubt) for their dating skills and tells both of them to treat her better. The three of them run into Sean later that day where he blows Chloe off because she's putting the paper to bed; she comments how once Clark hooks up with Lana, there is no "luck left for the rest of us."