Cold Fusion

Songs to listen to while reading this chapter:

Cool Kids – Echosmith

This Is Gospel – Panic! At The Disco

Ignorance – Paramore

I do not own any rights to characters, all rights belong to Cassandra Clare. I do not own any rights to any companies, books or films mentioned in this fanfiction.

I have added another unofficial character into this fanfiction, that will not appear that often. I have named him Seth Prescott.

Clary's POV

"Ughhhhhh.."I drawl out, the day is dragging on, and I can't be bothered anymore.

"Come on Clary, just a couple more lessons then we could go back to your place. Then eat loads of ice cream. I'll get your favourite. Cookie Dough." Isabelle tempts me. "We could even watch something on Netflix." She persuades me.

"Alright, but you're buying. My last class have He Who Must Not Be Named in it." I look at her dead serious, but she just bursts out laughing. Considering she's my only friend that's a girl, and considering that I only have two friends. Simon was more understanding of my hatred for Jace than Izzy. I must have went the same colour as my hair. Which isn't the dullest colour of red.

"Oh, honey," she said after she calmed down a little "Jace isn't all that bad. He-he, well. He's hot, and you need a man in your life now that Seth broke up with you. Why don't you just get with him? I mean he could get you in with them." She said nodding in the direction of the popular kids.

I look over and there Jace is, the centre of attention as always. I couldn't lie, he was pretty damn good looking, and if I was one of his groupies. I would be fawning all over him as well. But no, I wasn't so I wouldn't be doing that any time soon. I didn't have time for anymore relationships at the moment. Seth brought my grades down, thank god it's only the start of the year. I see Jace looking at me, straight into my eyes with his lovely molten gold ones of his, then he looks away, Laughing again.

I felt the table move and I dragged my attention away from Jace and it stupid, idiotic crowd. I see Simon sitting with Izzy, they're so cute and nervous around each other. I know they like each other, but they don't seem to see it between them.

"I'm heading off to study hall, I have to catch up with homework." I say rolling my eyes. They laugh, saying a 'bye' and 'see ya'. I mumble bye back to them.

'Aw crap.' I suddenly thought. 'I have to walk past them to get to study hall.' I mentally kick the crap out of myself. I continue to walk and keep my head up high.

I hear a wolf whistle, I turn and glare at where it comes from and, what a surprise it's coming from Jace. Who now have a devilish smirk on his face.

"What's up Poppy?" He says with a wink and what seems like a genuine smile. I blush, making him smirk a little. "See you in Physics... Sweet pea." Winking once more, I feel my cheeks going crimson

I just roll my eyes in return, he calls me 'Poppy' because of my apparent 'poppy red hair', which I know for a fact is inaccurate. It maybe close to poppy red, but not close enough for my liking. But even so, when he calls me it, I get my stomach doing somersaults. Even though I hate him, I swear it.

I continue off to study hall, holding my books closer to my chest, so my heart doesn't burst out from my chest.

Jace POV

I sit and laugh at a joke Alec told me, with Aline and Kaelie running their hands up a thigh each, it really was difficult to concentrate on what Alec was saying to me.

"... So anyway, Magnus is picking us up from school. Is that cool with you Jace?" Alec says, quite loudly but I was a bit, shall we say, preoccupied.

"Hmm? What?" I say shaking my head to control myself.

Alec lets out an exasperated sigh. "I said Magnus is picking us up from school, is that cool?" He says looking into my eyes to keep my attention.

"Yeah, I guess it is. Just... Please no romantic stuff. I don't do third-wheeling, as you know." I laugh, I turn to Aline and whisper into her ear. "Aline.. wanna ditch?" I purr slightly, knowing my accent drove her wild.

"As in the rest of the day?" She whispers into my ear and pulls back slightly trying to look sexy, but instead just looks incredibly constipated.

"No, just next class, I can't miss Physics honey.." I purr softly, nibbling her ear softly.

"Why?" She whines, sounding like a dying cat.

"'Cause it's only the start of the year and I'm already failing.."

"And this has nothing to do with her?" Aline nods in the direction that Clary always sits in.

I look at Aline. "It has nothing to do with that. I promise" Alec looks at me and raises a brow, but says nothing. It pains me to call Clary that, I mean since I came to this school, she's done me no harm at all, plus she was one of the most beautiful girls I had ever seen in my life.

I catch Clary's emerald eyes with my own eyes. Her red hair cascading in lovely curls down her back. I like to call her Poppy, mainly to annoy her, but also because of her hair. It's the reddest I've ever seen. She's looking over with Alec's sister, Isabelle. Clary's eyes were captivating, I had to look away before I got to caught up in them.

I hear the others laughing, so I do the same. Just to pretend that I was listening. Out of the corner of my eye, I see Clary coming towards our table.

'Now is your chance to get her attention.' I wolf whistle at her, causing Aline and Kaelie to burst out laughing, but it gets her attention. She turns around and glares at me, her emerald eyes darkening. I smirk as she glares.

"What's up Poppy?" I say with a wink and a smile, causing her cheeks to go pink. She rolls her eyes at me, causing me to smirk once again. "See you in Physics... Sweet pea." I wink again, causing her to blush furiously, which makes my stomach do somersaults.

She hurries off and I'm left with two hot, but not hot enough girls.

Alec looks over to his sister and sighs. "I do wish she would leave those losers and come back to us. I mean like, we're a team. This isn't right. At all." He looks so disappointed in her as if it pains him to even see her with another group. I sigh and look over myself. She's sitting with some random guy loser, talking about Biology, I know this because of the textbook sitting in front of them. They look like a couple and I know that hurts Alec more because Isabelle and I were meant to be the 'it-couple' of the school.

Even though I don't think of her in that way. Which is difficult for Alec to understand.