A/N I do not own the mortal instruments. This chapter is in Clarys point of veiw. Some characters maybe ooc.
I sit at my desk and stare at my most recent drawing. It sucked. I rip it up and scrunch it into a ball before chucking it across my room. I get up and drag myself downstairs; I could hear voices in the kitchen and slowly open the door to see who's here. I see my brother Jonathon turn his head to look at me, I walk in. Great. All his mates are round. There's Alec Lightwood, my best friend Izzy's brother, Sebastian Verlac, who I get on with, Magnus Bane, Alec's boyfriend, Who is alright but can sometimes get on my nerves, Jordan Kyle, who is my other best friend Maia's boyfriend, we got on well. And then there was Jace. Izzy and Alec's adopted brother. Every girl who sees him falls instantly in love, yet he ignores most of them. I didn't fall in love. I saw past his angel-like looks and I hate him, he's SO full of himself. He looks up at me and grins, flicking his hair and looking at me through those ridiculously gold eyes. I glare at him.
"There are other people in the room you know." He says gesturing towards the others. I look round at them and they wave to me. I give a quick smile before turning to my brother.
"Why are all your friends here?"
He shrugs. "You know planning for tomorrow." I stare at him before remembering. It's his birthday tomorrow and his friends and he are going clubbing.
"How long are they gonna be here?" I ask.
"I dunno." He says. I hope they go soon. Izzy and Maia are coming at five and they're sleeping over. I invited them because mum and dad are on a trip. I love having the house to myself and my friends but if they're here it won't be any fun. I look up and shrug. Everyone's sitting in awkward silence at the breakfast bar except John who's leaning on the work surface. I see a plate of cookies in front of Jace. There's one left. I look at Jace then back down to the cookies then back up at Jace. He grins and leans back. Casually reaching for the last cookie. I dash forward, grabbing for it but he gets there first. I look at him.
"I think I deserve the last cookie." I announce staring at it in his hands.
"Oh really? What have you done to deserve it?" He asks, eyebrows raised. I fold my arms.
"Well I haven't had one." I say.
"And? Why should I give it to you?" He asks waving the cookie in my face. I have an urge to grab for it but I ignore it. I put my unfold my arms.
"Because you're a gentleman." I say sarcastically.
"Maybe I am. But you're no lady. All you ever do is glare at me." He says raising the cookie towards his mouth. I can't help but glare at him.
"and there you go again. Glaring at me." He says. He waves the cookie to the side of his face. Alec elbows him and the the cookie falls to the floor. I see his eyes widen and he scrambles to get off the stool. I pounce for the cookie but a hand grabs it. I look up. John.
"Joining the fight are we?" I hear Jace ask from behind me.
"Nah. This things been all over the floor and in Jaces hand for ages. Just do rock paper scissors." John says. I turn to face Jace.
"Rock. Paper. Scissors." We chant. Both rocks. We try again. Both scissors. We go to do it again but John cuts us off.
"urg. I give up." He says and tosses the cookie in the bin. My mouth falls open.
"John." I hiss in disbelief. I really wanted that cookie. Jace just laughs.
"you do know I would've let you have it. I didn't really want it, I was just annoying you. Blame your brother." Jace says. The doorbell rings and I rush to get it. I open the door and Izzy's standing in front of me, with her overnight bag.
"Hello!" She says cheerfully.
"Hi." I grumble. She steps in.
"Come in here quick, I just need to get something then we'll go upstairs." I say to her, she nods and follows me into the kitchen. I see six faces grinning up at me as I walk in. I look around and notice a plate full of cookies. My mouth falls open.
"There were more of them?" I say.
"Yes another pack." John grins.
"And you didn't think to tell me that?" I say, still shocked. He just grins more.
"I knew Jace was enjoying it." He says. I turn and run out the room absolutely furious.
"Wait-Clary?" I hear Jace say. I turn around.
"What?" I say bitterly.
"Cookie?" Jace says offering the plate. I grab the whole plate and head out the room.
I sit in my room with the girls. Izzy begged Maia to paint her nails and Maia had finally agreed. They sit on Izzy's sleeping bag. A look of concentration was spread across Maia's face as she carefully painted. Izzy watched intensely. I look at them before heading out of my room to listen to what the boys were doing. I peered down the stairs. I can see through the open living room door all of them sprawled out around the tv playing fifa 13. I roll my eyes.
"What ya looking at?" I hear someone say. I jump out my skin and have to grab onto the banisters to prevent myself from tumbling down the stairs.
"Jace! Why are you here and not it there playing Xbox?" I ask annoyed.
"We can't all play you know. And I get bored just watching other people play. There's no one like myself." He flashes a grin at me.
"Clearly they like watching" I say frowning at Sebastian looking like he was pulling his hair out. Jace chuckled.
"What are you doing out here anyway?" I ask Jace.
"Well, don't tell the guys, but I don't wanna play fifa anymore and there's no getting them off of it. So I'm turning the houses power off." He explained. I look at him confused. Then the lights go out. I hear a moan from all the boys.
"Jace!" I say in utter shock. I hear a door opening.
"Clary, what's going on?" I hear Maia ask. I am about to answer.
"Power cut." I hear Jace say.
"Oh." I hear Izzy and Maia say.
"Don't come any closer or you might fall down the stairs and on top of me." I say. I hear the boys come out the living room.
"Urg, Jace? Is that you? There's been a power cut." I hear John say.
"Well actually-" I begin but then the light flickers back on. I turn to look at Jace who quickly lowered his hands from the power box without anyone but me noticing. I roll my eyes. Izzy and Maia come out.
"So, what do you wanna do now? We can't go back to fifa as Clary and her friends are joining us and girls don't like fifa." Jace explains acting annoyed. All the boys tut.
"Well we could play truth or dare." Izzy suggests. That is a bad idea. A very bad idea. I'm about to protest when Jace says.
"That's a great idea." I look at him in disbelief. Then I look at John who shrugs and says
"We have nothing better to do." I turn to look at Izzy. This is all her fault. She grins evilly and begins to drag me downstairs.
We are all seated either on the sofa or a beanbag. I am squished on the sofa between Izzy and Maia, with Jace opposite me.
"Jace." John begins, "truth or dare?"
"Dare."
"Try to fit this in your mouth all at once." John says and holds out a cupcake. Jace looks at it before grabbing it and stuffing it in his mouth. He stands there for a while the cake just hanging out his mouth. He tried to close it but cake crumbs splatter over the floor. I see his mouth slowly open and close trying to eat it. After a while he pulls it out.
"That's impossible." He declared looking at the bits of cake.
"Pussy." I mutter. He hears.
"Alright Clary. I assume you pick dare because truth is for pussys, so I dare you to run down the street and shout Jace is amazing and hot I want to marry him but he Is way way way out of my league." Jace says. I feel everyone's eyes on me.
"there's no way I'm doing that. Its eleven o clock. Most of the street are asleep, ill wake them up and they'll think I'm drunk and-" I am cut off
"ok, I get the idea. Well you have to remove a piece of clothing." Jace says. I see everyone's mouths fall open. I look down at myself in my pyjama shorts and vest top. It's not as simple as just taking off my shoes or jacket - I'm barefoot. I look around at everyone. They are all in shock except Jace who is grinning evilly. I look outside and think of the baby that lives across the road with his parents – is it worth waking them up?
"Pussy." Jace teases. I glare at him before taking my top off, at least I had a bra on. Everyone's mouth fall even further, Jace included.
"Right I think it's time Clary got to bed." John declares before leading me out the room. Izzy and Maia follow.
"We're carrying on in the morning. Only Jace and Clary got a go." I hear Magnus say. The other murmur in agreement.
I wake up to Maia poking me.
"What?" I moan.
"I'm hungry, let's go get breakfast" Izzy says. I get up, feeling hungry.
"Yeah let's go." I say and head down stairs. I hear Maia and Izzy whispering behind me. Im to tired and hungry to care. I walk into the kitchen.
"Morning Clary." John says not looking up from the toaster. I grumble in reply and sit at the table with the other boys.
"Clary, look up a sec." Alec says. I look at him. He stares at my forehead. Then everyone stares at my forehead. Jace is the first to say anything.
"Wow Clary, you could have told me." He grins. I look at him confused but then get distracted by a squeal from the door. Izzy's hunched over laughing and Maia is standing in shock.
"Izzy! Your so mean! You just let her walk in there with it." Maia says clearly trying not to laugh.
"What?" I ask really confused.
"Clary, what's on your forehead?" I hear John say from beside me. I look over to the mirror by the table. I approach it and look closely.
'I love Jace, he is hot' is written messily across my forehead. My mouth falls open. I spin to look at Izzy and Maia. Maia quickly points to Izzy who looks up at me before collapsing on the floor laughing. I rub at it before heading to the sink to splash water on my face. It's not coming off. I stubbornly go and take my seat at the table and fold my arms. I stare in front of me until John puts some toast in front of me. I stuff it in my mouth.
"Clary! We have guests." John says scolding me. I look at him and shrug. I take a while before I can bring myself to look at everyone else. They are eating silently. Sebastian pushes his plate away .
"Right carrying him on from last night. Jace. Pick truth." Sebastian says looking at Jace. Jace looked up from his plate.
"Truth?" Jace asks. Sebastian grins evilly.
"Who were you dreaming about last night." Sebastian says. All the guys looked up grinning at Jace who went extremely pale.
"What do you mean?" Jace stutters.
"You know what I mean. You woke us all up with your moaning and groaning and you had the biggest grin ever." Alec says. Jace looks like he's about to faint.
"Come on Jace, who was your naughty dream about?" John whispers in his ear teasingly.
"I can't remember my dream last night" Jace said obviously lying.
"I think it was that girl from the film, you know the one Jace said was sexy." Magnus declared. All the guys nodded in agreement. Jace looked relieved.
"Yes. It was her." Jace said a little who quickly. "John, truth or dare?"
"Dare." John said as if it was obvious.
"Clary, come with me, you know where everything is in this house." Jace announced picking up his orange juice and a teaspoon off Alec's plate and heads over to the work surface. He places the cup down and I get up and walk over to him not knowing what he was up to.
"Right, I'm going to make a little….. potion with Clary's help and then John here has to drink it. Clary start passing me stuff to add." Jace says. I pass him the tomato ketchup with he adds to the remaining orange juice in the cup and stirs it with the teaspoon, I squirt vinegar madly in the mixture while Jace carry's on stirring, I ponder for a moment before adding some butter and some of Alec's left over scrambled egg.
Soon the 'potion' has some toothpaste, shampoo, milk, three sugar cubes, baking soda, salt, coco-pops, golden syrup and some cinnamon sprinkled on top.
"Are we finished?" Jace asks.
"No. We should warm it up." I say looking at a lump of butter floating. I put it in the microwave for thirty seconds. It comes out bubbling. I take the spoon and stir it a little before handing it to Jace who passes it to John, who for the whole time been sitting at the breakfast bar, his face getting more and more disgusted. He looked at the yellowish mixture in horror. I didn't blame him. There where bits of scrambled egg floating on top with loads of white balls at the bottom, where all the chocolate had come off the coco-pops, you could see a little bit of toothpaste smudged against the edge of the cup.
"Go on John. Down ALL of it." Jace said pushing it closer to him. John sniffed it and for a minute it looked like he was going to throw up.
"Come on John, you haven't even had any yet!" I said. That's when he picked it up and downed it. He looked up. I shoved a bowl in front of his face not wanting him to throw all it back up over me. Jace looked at me in horror.
"He actually drank it" Jace said. I burst into laughter and so did everyone's in the room. Except John and… Izzy. She was far too busy making heart gestures with her hands and looking at me and Jace through it. I scowl at her. I hear John retching.
After ten minutes of retching John recovers.
"Never again." He says shaking.
I walk out and squeeze in the car.
"Clarys in, let's go." Jace says. We were all bundled into the car (me and the guys) and it was extremely squished. I was squished by the window and Jace. It was uncomfortable.
"Guys I have an announcement." Alec said from the front seat. "I know who Jace was dreaming about.
"What?" Jace went pale again.
"He had another dream when we went out clubbing, you guys were all passed out in the living room and when I went in Jace was moaning and wriggling and saying her name" Alec said. Jace went from white to red.
"Alec ,please." Jace begged.
"So its defiantly a girl." Magnus said.
"Yep. But I'm not mean enough to tell" Alec said.
"Ow, please tell Alec, it's only me, I won't tell a soul." I beg, really wanting to tease Jace about it. Alec grinned at Jace before shaking his head. I crossed my arms and leant back.
"Please Jace?" I say doing puppy dog eyes. He looks away, now extremely red and shakes his head.
"Come on Clary stop pestering poor Jace about his dirty dreams" John said.
"We're here anyway." Alec says opening the door. I look out the window at my school and see Izzy waving at me. I grin and open the door. Almost falling out with Jaces weight on top of me.
"Sorry Clary." He says before catching up with Alec. I see them talking and Jace begging. Alec grins at me over Jaces shoulder.
Maths. I hate maths.
"Clary, you are on the back table in the corner there." The teacher says pointing. I take my seat and doodle while she tells everyone else their seats. Izzy's diagonally across the room from me at the front. Maia's at the back but in the opposite corner, she is casually leaning back on her chair and flirting with Jordan. She's so lucky. Alec is at the table in front of me, next to some guy I don't know. Only those four are in my class. I look at the empty seat next to me and shove my pencil case over to the spare table and spread out enjoying the space.
"Right today we will be learning about Trail and Improvement. To start off with, try your best on this question. I read it off the board. X squared plus 20 times X=100, what is X? I have no idea. That's when Jace walks in.
"Sorry I'm late. There was a mix up." He explained to the teacher. She smiles at him.
"Well it is the first day back and we are just getting settled. You are supposed to be at the back next to Clarissa." My mouth drops open. I should have known this was going to happen. Alec, Jace and Izzy are all grinning, Maia is looking sympathetic. I groan and move all my stuff onto my side of the desk and sit as far away from the other chair as possible, pressed up against the wall. Jace makes his way over.
"Hello Clarissa." Jace teases. He dumps his bag under the table and I roll my eyes.
"Does anyone know what X is yet?" The teacher asks. Everyone looks at her blankly. She sighs and turns to the board and drones on about it. I doodle for a while but then Alec leans back on his chair and drops a note on Jaces table. I peer across at it. 'When you gonna tell popcorn you're having dreams about her.' 'Popcorn?' Jace scribbles back. 'The nickname I made up for the girly in your dirty dreams. You know so no one knows who we're talking about' He writes. 'I'm never gonna tell her she'll murder me' Jace says. Wow. Now I really wanna know. I lean over and grab the piece of paper. 'Tell me who popcorn is' I scribble and put the note in front of Jace. Both Alec and Jace lean over to read what I put.
"Alec Lightwood, face the front." The teacher says. Then she notices the paper on our table. "Pass me that. You three should know better than to write notes." She says eyeing the paper. We all look at the paper but make no effort to pass it to her. She rushes over and grabs it off Jaces desk. We watch her face as she reads it.
"Seriously? Your using your maths lesson to discuss popcorn and Jaces inappropriate dreams." She says, I hear Izzy snort and teacher sends her a look that shuts her up. "You three are coming back during your break time for detention." She snaps screwing up the piece of paper and chucking in the bin. I smirked at how wired this must sound to the rest of the class. Alec's smirking too. Jace is bright red.
I walk out the maths classroom with Jace and Alec behind me. Maia, Izzy, Jordan, John, Magnus and Sebastian are all waiting outside the room.
"Seriously Clary? First lesson and you had a detention already?" John says. I shrug.
"Technically it was the boys fault." I say.
"No, change that to Alec's fault." Jace says. John rolls his eyes. I grin.
"You're so lucky where you get to sit Clary, in the corner cozy with my two brothers." Izzy jokes.
"Seriously? Your two brothers that got me in detention." I say. Izzy shrugged and we all began to walk to the lunch hall.
I dump my bag by Izzys in the Lightwood family homes hallway. There house is massive. I follow Izzy into their kitchen. Izzy pulls out a tub.
"Do you want some ice cream?" Izzy says getting out a massive spoon and scooping blobs into bowls. I nod while Maia says "Yes please" politely. She slides two bowls along the work surface which I catch and begin eating.
"Have you seen the new guy?" Izzy asks while mixing her ice-cream in with some chocolate chips.
"No." Me and Maia say at the same time.
"Oh, he's like geeky but super cute." Izzy explains. Before we could say anything Izzy said
"Stay away from him, he's mine." She said. We laughed.
"Don't worry, I have a boyfriend remember?" Maia says.
"Geeky doesn't sound like my type." I say.
"Then what is your type?" Izzy asks curiously.
"Yeah, Clary, is there anyone you have your eye on?" Maia says. They stare at me and I shake my head. Maia looks down disappointed.
"You're boring." She mumbles.
"Well, you may not have your eye on someone, but someone's got an eye on you." Izzy says grinning.
"Yeah like half the boys at school." Maia says. I frown at her.
"Well yeah, half of them like her, but someone else does too, someone close to us." Izzy says mysteriously.
"Who?" I say confused.
"Jace" Izzy whispers.
"What?!" Me and Maia say sat the same time.
"Speak of the devil." Izzy says peering out the window where you could see Alec and Jace approaching the door. We hear the door open and two boys enter the kitchen. We all turn to stare at them. Alec yawns and snatched Izzys bowl of ice cream and began shoving it down his throat. Izzys to busy watching Jace to care. Jace trudged in and collapsed next to me.
"Hey Clary." He says.
"Hi…" I say. He notices Maia.
"Hi." He says awkwardly to her. Poor him. We're all staring at him.
"Should we watch a movie?" I say breaking the silence and looking at Izzy. She shrugged.
"Ok." She says and stands up. I stand up. Maia stands up. Jace stands up. We look at him.
"Can I watch it with you?" Jace asks awkwardly. We all look at Izzy.
"No Jace it's a girly movie." Izzy says.
"I don't mind. What movie is it?" Jace asks. Izzy goes to reply then frowns.
"Barbie?" Maia suggests. We all look at her.
" No? Um…." Maia trails off.
"Look Jace we need some girl time to talk about girl stuff. Like periods. Maia has been having a lot of trouble lately and we need to talk in a non-boy environment." I lie.
"Yes um… I have had extra… blood… and… I was… worried?" Maia says.
"Aww, poor thing, let's go discuss it." Izzy says and drags me and Maia out the room leaving a disgusted Jace and Alec.
We were in Izzy's room watching 17 again as it was on tv. Soon the adverts came on. I zoned out. Izzy and Maia went to get more popcorn. I thought about Jace. There was no way we fancied me, Izzy must have made a mistake. I mean I was no not pretty, like Maia or beautiful, like Izzy or even sexy like the both of them. Whereas Jace… he was all muscly and handsome with golden eyes and hair… he could get anyone he wanted.
"Clarrreeeeeeeeee" Izzy sang. I zoned back in and she was right in front of my face. I jumped back. She grinned.
"Who were ya thinking about?" She asked smiling evilly.
"Nothing." I said boldly.
"Oh come onnnn, Clary, don't give us that shit. You had the dreamiest look in your eyes." Maia said from beside her, she was also grinning.
"I think Clary here is in lurve." Izzy teases. I blush thinking about Jace. If Izzy knew that's who I was thinking about she would scream and try and set us up or something.
"Ohmigosh! Izzy she's blushing! Izzy she's in love!" Maia screamed. Izzy screamed.
"Clarys in love, Clarys in love, Clarys in love" They chanted. Izzy opened her bedroom door and ran down stairs. We heard her scream.
"GUYS GUESS WHAT? CLARYS IN LOVE!" We heard her shout. We ran down stairs where she was chanting again. Jace and Alec looked at me as I ran in. I blushed.
"Seriously Izzy?" Maia said. Izzy grinned.
"So who's the lucky guy Clary?" Izzy asks. The look in her eye is scary.
"Wait so… you scream the house down that Clarys in love and you don't even know who it is? How do you even know she in love?" Jace asks.
"Ooooooooooh she dreamiest look in her eye and we were like, Are you in love Clary and she BLUSHED!" Izzy explained. I'm a bit worried about her. It looks like someone told a little kid that all their dreams would come true. She looked so excited. I sigh. Jace grins.
"So who is the lucky guy then?" Jace says leaning in close to my face.
"I'll tell you if you tell me who you've been dreaming about." I say leaning closer. Jaces grin widens. He reaches up and pulls something out of my hair.
"I've been dreaming about popcorn" He says holding up a piece of popcorn which he had just taken out my hair. I frowned. Oh yeah, me Iz and Maia had a popcorn fight. That explains the popcorn in my hair.
"Yeah but what's her name?" I say staring into Jaces eyes. They narrow.
"I can't tell you." Jace says. I become aware about just how close me and Jaces faces are. And remembered that there were other people in here. I pull back.
"Why can't you tell me?" I say folding my arms.
"You'd kill me" Jace said, also folding his arms.
"You tell everyone else. Everyone in your gang knows." I say.
"Except John." Alec says adds. I glare at him.
"What? Just giving you a clue. You and John don't know. You'd both murder him. Think Clary Think." Alec says. I think. Nope nothing.
"It's not… John is it? You're not having gay dreams are you? Or is it my mum? We'd both kill you for dreaming of my mum." I say thinking. Jace lets out a cold laugh.
"No, Clary it's not John, or you're mum. It's you."
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