"Clary! You need to get up now! Do you want to be late for your first day of school?" yells my brother Jonathon.

First day of school. Uhggg! I start my first day of school at Shadow High School today. I don't know why my mom is even bothering to put my in school today, I mean it's friday! I used to live with my dad in California, but he got into a car accident and was killed instantly. So I just moved in with my mom and brother, Jonathon. Oh and lets not forget my mothers new husband, Luke. Don't get me wrong, I love my mom, Luke and Jonathon, but I miss my dad so much.

I am broken out of my thoughts by a pillow coming down on my head. Jonathon.

"Clary! You have 45 minutes to get ready for school! Get up!" yells my brother. How stupid is he? It only takes me twenty minutes to get ready!

I get up and scowl at Jon. He leaves my room so I walk over to my closet and pull out my ripped jean shorts, my white shirt that has a black heart on it and my light gray converse.

I go into the bathroom that is attached to my room and put on a light amount of mascara, and curl my hair into perfect ringlets. I look in the mirror and see the same girl I have been for many years.

I am about to leave the room when I remember. I run over to my dresser and put on one of the most important things to me. My father gave me a ring that said 'Nobody Can Hurt Me Without My Permission' My father gave it to me when I had gone to a new school and many guys fell for me, I still don't know what they saw in me, but I was stupid enough to fall for one and three months later he broke my heart into many different pieces. It hurt, but when my father gave me the ring, it reminded me, that I didn't have to let it hurt, that I could make the pain go away by myself. I had been scared I was going to lose it, so I put it on a chain and made it a necklace.

I grab my favorite bookbag/purse and head downstairs to find Jon isn't even down here yet. I go into the kitchen and my mom is making eggs, so I sit down. When I first came to the house, I was so lost, literally. The house is huge! It is a six bedroom, five bathroom house, with 3 extra rooms that aren't bedrooms or living rooms and has three floors.

I am about to start talking to my mom when Luke comes in and throws me some keys. I grab them and look at the and see that they are my motorcycle keys from California.

"Oh my God! I love you guys! How did you get my bike back? I thought you said we couldn't get it over here!" I exclaim.

"We wanted to surprise you. Now you can drive your bike to school and you won't be stuck in a car with Jon and a bunch of his friends." says Luke.

I jump up and hug them both. By the time I am done thanking them, the eggs are done so I sit down and eat as Jon comes down the stairs.

"Clary, come on. Pete is going to be here any minute to pick us up and we are the last to get picked up." Jon says will putting on a jacket.

"Jon, I'm not riding with you. I'm driving my motor bike to school." I say. Jon looks over at me when I come into the living room where he is and I hold up my keys and jingle them in his face.

"Well you still have to leave now if you want to get there on time and get your schedule."

We leave the house and I am putting on my helmet when a white honda pulls up and Jon gets inside. I start my bike and take off to school.

When I get to school and find a parking space, I get off my bike and take off my helmet. Jon walks over to me with his friends trailing behind him. I see some of them checking me out.

Not again. I think to my self.

"Okay, come on. I will take you to the office to get your stuff, then show you to your locker, but them I have to go, okay?" Asks Jon, "Oh, and the guys here will be all over you, but if any of them go to far I want you to tell me and I will beat the living-" I cut him off.

"Jon, I think I can take care of myself, after all, I am a black belt in karate. And I was top student in self defense."

Jon chukles then tells me to follow him and I do. He takes me to the office to get my stuff. Jon is a year older than me but we are in the same grade because I skipped 9th grade.

I get my schedule and find Jon and I have all the same classes except Math, Art, and Health. My first class is English.

Jon takes me to my locker which is right across from his, turns out I have a locker right on a corner so my only locker neighbor is one of Jons friends, David.

Jon comes to take me to our first class and he whispers in my ear, "David has a crush on you." I smirk at that and turn to find David watching us retreat so I wink at him and right before I turn away he blushes. "You are going to be the death of him, you know that right?"

I am about to say something snarky but we arrive at the class room. We approach the teacher who has gray hair.

"Hello Mr. Starkweather. This is my sister, she's new here." Jon says.

Mr. Starkweather turns to the class and says, "Class, this is Clarissa Fairchild. She is new here. She is a year younger than all of you, but she skipped 9th grade. Please treat her with respect. Please tell us a little about your self."

"Umm, well, I prefer to be called Clary, I am from Idris California, and I am a black belt in karate." I say. Jon turns to me and smirks.

"Now Clary, I know you have more to tell about yourself than that." Jon says.

"Yes, but I am going to leave it to all of them to find out for themselves." I say back.

"Okay, Clary, you may have a seat back there." Mr. Starkweather says and points to a seat in the back of the room next to the window.

I nod and head back to the seat, but someone makes the mistake to smack my ass. I spin around and grab the hand quickly, then twist the boys arm and he falls to the ground crying in pain.

"I would also prefer you leave me ass alone. Got it? Anybody else want to make a move?" I say to the rest of the class while Jon is cracking up laughing. Nobody says anything. "That's what I thought." I walk the rest of the way to my seat without any interuptions.

I plop down in my seat and watch the boy who smack my rear end leave the room to go to the nurses office. Mr. Starkweather turns to the board and starts talking about an assignment we have to do about a book of your choice, but I tune out soon and start doodling on my paper. Then I feel a vibration in my pocket. I pull out my phone to find a text from Jon. (Atalics:Jon, Bold: Clary)

You know, Jace is going to kill you if you broke Sebastians arm or something.

Who's Jace? And whoever he is, I will kill his ass before he lays a hand on me, cuz chances are I probably did break the kids hand. Or maybe I broke his arm. All I know is that I heard a bone snapping.

Jace is the kid next to you. He's the football teams quarterback. But even though he's one of my best friends, I would enjoy watching you beat him to a pulp. He's the school player.

I look to my left to see a boy with blonde hair. He is good looking and all, but I don't think he's all that great.

That bastard? Wow. I din't think you would be friends with him, but whatever. Well, no worries, he won't touch me unless he wants his balls cut off.

Nice. I think you are the only girl who doesn't like him. But, sometimes I don't know if you even are a girl...

I am about to text back, but I am interupted by someone tapping on my shoulder. By habit or reflex, I don't know which one, I grab the hand and put my foot behind the persons leg and pull back to make the person fall to the floor. When I look, the person is Jace.

The whole class is looking at us but most are laughing their heads off, including Jon. I sigh and look back at Jace.

"What do you want?" I ask/demand.

"Mr. Starkweather said we could work with partners on the assignment." Jace says, getting up from the floor.

"And what do I have to do with this?" I ask. Oh how I love dragging things on.

"I was going to see if you wanted to be my partner. But first I want to know why the hell you knocked me to the floor!"

"Reflex. Or maybe it was habit. I don't know. Probably both."

Jace huffs. "So are you going to be my partner or not? Make up your mind because I have a crowd of girls who would die to be my partner." I suddenly get an idea.

"Well, hmm, I'll get back to you about that. I will give you my answer at the end of the day. Meet me in the parking lot." I say. This will be fun.

"Really? The end of the day? I kind of need your answer now so I can get back to my crowd of adoring girls." The bell rings right after he says this.

I smirk, while I get my books together. "Tough luck. If you want to be my partner you will have to wait. And if you don't want to wait, I'm sure there is someone willing to wait for my answer." Then I walk off to my locker. My next class in P.E. Thank god!

~Jaces POV~

My little, hot, redhead just left me there, shocked. I leave the room and my friend, Nick, runs up to me.

"Jace, have you seen the new chick? She's hot! I heard she broke Sebatians arm. But my question is, how does a little girl like her break a big guy like Sebatians arm?"

Nick and I are heading P.E. class. Which Clary also has with us.

"Seb smacked her ass when she walked by him and she grabbed his arm and twisted it like it was nothing. But she has P.E. with us so I am kinda anxious to see what her other skills are."

After we change into our P.E. clothes, we walk into the gymnasium to find Clary talking to her brother/my best friend, Simon, Maia, Magnus, and surprisingly, my brother Alec and sister Izzy.

Clary is wearing a gray T-shirt that says 'Save The Wild Things' and a pair of black short-shorts that say 'LOVE' on the butt, her hair is up in a messy bun. And she looks hot! I mean, hotter than she did in English.

"Okay class. Today we are playing a game of soccer. Girls against guys. Get with your teams, you have five minutes to discuss strategy! GO!" Yells Mr. Aldertree. Ohhh how fun this will be!

I look to Clary and see she has this wild smirk on her face, then I look at Jonathon to see he is wearing a horrified look. After we form into our team, we start discussing.

"So, this will be an easy win. We don't even have to discuss stradegy. As far as I know, none of those girls made it onto the school soccer team. This will be fun." I say. Jon looks at me and starts shaking his head.

"Yeah. For them! Clary kicks ass at soccer, we are pretty much screwed!" Jon states.

"She can't be that good." I counter.

"Thats where your wrong, Wayland. She got 1st in state in California."

"Yeah, in California, we aren't in California." I say.

"You didn't let me finish. She got 1st in state, then she got 3rd in nationals. So, we are screwed!" Jon finishes. My mouth drops open. 3rd in nationals? Who the hell is this girl?

We spend so much time arguing, we didn't even talk stradegy.

We start the game, and Clary bypasses us all with in about 10 seconds and make a goal in the first twelve seconds of the game. This goes on for the rest of the time. By the time its over, the girls won, 38 to 4.

~At Lunch~

I walk over to where Jon is sitting. Along with our other friends, Jordan, Nick, Connor, Jake, Sebastian, Pete, David, and Alec. Oh and let's not forget Magnus! When I reach the table Jon looks at me.

"You." he says.

"Me?" I ask

"You are coming to my house tonight. Along with Nick, Jordan, and Seb." Jon says.

"Umm, okay. So, am I riding home with you guys? Or am I following you?"

"You can ride with us. Since Clary doesn't ride home with me, we have room." Jon says.

"Wait Clary doesn't ride with you? Does she walk or something?" I ask.

"No, she drives."

"Your sister has a car of her own?" I ask in confusion.

"Of sorts. She drives a motorcycle our dad bought her." Jon says. Woah! Clary drives a motorcycle? "CLARY! OVER HERE!" Jon yells across the cafeteria. "Oh, I hope you don't mind her sitting with us. All the kids shes met are her age but in 10th grade so she has nobody to sit with."

Everybody says it's fine, really quickly. Clary sits down next to Jon.

"Hey Jon. How's life?" Clary asks.

"Just fine. Clary, this is Jordan, Nick, Connor, Jake, and Pete. Of course, you have already met Alec, Magnus, Jace, David, and Sebatian."

Clary looks around the table then looks at Sebastian and says, "Hey, sorry about your arm. I wasn't in a good mood this morning and it didn't really help when you smacked my ass." Seb nods.

"Anyway, Jace, Jordan, Sebastian, and Nick are coming over to the house tonight." Jon says to Clary.

"Yeah, okay, whatever, just stay out of my room please. Or I will kick your asses."

Ohhh, how tonight will be interesting!