Hi! I'm starting my 1st fanfic, let me know if it's bad, give me tons of feedback, advice, anything. Thanks to my beta 21bdunk who is my FANGIRL buddy. This first chapter isn't to interesting, is just to set the scene and such, ya know. It WILL get better, I swear, I just didn't really know how to set the scene. Well I'll shut up and let you read, enjoy!
Prologue
I look around and see a couple walking down Central Park. I smile and look at my sketchbook and start to draw. My hand glides across the paper as the image starts to form. They are holding hands walking down the path through the middle of the park next to a fountain. The girl has ink-like black hair and is gorgeous, she is everything that ever girl wants to be without trying. The boy is almost the opposite, he is cute, but in a nerdy way. He has glasses and he almost looks like my childhood friend-
"Simon?!" I ask and his head whips towards me. The girl just looks from me to Simon and back to me with confusion lacing her expression. Simon just looks at me for a second and I will him to remember. His eyes light up with recognition just as the girls phone starts to ring. She and Simon both look down at it and the girl smiles. She answers the call and Simon looks back at me with a smile.
"Clary!?" He asks, bewildered "is it really you?"
I nod at him enthusiastically, "Simon!" I exclaim " I haven't seen you in forever! I missed you so much!" I smile brightly at my childhood friend. "You should come over! Mom and Luke would love to see you!" If they ever come home...
He looks over at the girl-his girlfriend most likely, they were holding hands- and then back at me. "Maybe tomorrow?" He asks uncertainly "sorry, Clary it's just I've been kind of busy and this is the first time in a while I've been able to go on a date with Izzy and-"
"It's ok," I tell him with a laugh " I'm not going to disappear" he looks at me with relief and smiles just as Izzy hangs up the phone. She tells Simon something and he nods and she walks towards me with a glint in her eyes.
"I'm Isabelle, Simons girlfriend. Who are you?" I open my mouth to answer and she cuts me off. "You know what? I'll just ask, is my boyfriend cheating on me with you?"
I gape at her and Simon gags and looks at her like he is choking.
"Ew Iz! No, just no!" I agree with Simon wholeheartedly, "We were best friends from when we met in kindergarten till we were 17! We just haven't seen eachother in over 3 years!" And I nod.
"Oh" Izzy says, "good, I'm not really in the mood to kick both of your asses." I laugh and Simon looks at me seriously.
"She isn't joking. Don't get on her bad side. I'm serious, the results will not be pretty." He says and I look at Izzy with caution as she glares at Simon and he looks at her with fear apparent in his eyes.
Izzy looks back at me and shoots me an award winning smile and says "Call me Izzy. We are going to be best friends." She gasps "We can go shopping!" I don't hang out with girls much of you can't tell, and I can't wait to have a girl to talk fashion and boys with." Simon looks at her when she says the last part and she shrugs. "Well we should continue on our date, have Simon text you my number and we can hang out sometimes." I nod and they walk away, Wow. I think, and then I get back to finishing my drawing.
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Once I finish my art assignment I walk downstairs to get some food because, duh, I love food. I open the fridge and see there in hardly anything I can snack on. That means I actually have to make food. I am debating on what to make when I get a great idea...
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"Thanks Jon! These are the best pancakes ever!" I tell him. He tiredly rolls his eyes.
"Can I go back to bed? It's 2 in the morning!" He exclaims and I nod, even though he is basically already running back to his room. I roll my eyes boys I think so lazy.
**Flashback:
I creep up the stairs, careful not to wake Jon and ruin my plan. Or spill the bucket of water I have, and ruin my plan. I open Jon's bedroom door and look around. It. Is. An. Absolute. Mess! I mean I understand that he is a boy, but really! There is dirty laundry and dishes and all sorts of gross stuff scattered across the room. I creep over to his bed. And dump the bucket of water all over him and his blue bed sheets. He bolts upright and starts sputtering, wiping the water out of his eyes. He looks over at me and I grin mischeviously.
"Clarissa. Adele. Fray. What time is it?" He says, barely containing his rage.
"12:50" I reply, smiling sweetly.
"And what do you want?" He asks me angrily.
I pretend to think for a moment then I start walking away and shrug "huh, I
guess I forgot..." I walk out the door and I hear him lay back onto his bed and sigh so I run in and tackle him.
"I want pancakes!" I sing happily and he groans.
"God, you are so immature" he whispers and I glare at him" if I make you pancakes will you leave me alone?"
"Yep." I say. He groans and walks toward the kitchen and I happily follow him.
**End of flashback
Once I finish my pancakes I go upstairs, change, and finally, full of pancakes, go to sleep.
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I wake up to a dinging sound, an alarm clock? But it's Saturday! I gab my phone realizing that it's a phone call I look at the caller id and see is an unknown number but I decide to answer it anyway, it has to be important, it's 8 in the morning. On a Saturday. Who is up at this ungodly hour!?
"Hello?" I say groggily.
"Clary?" A voice I don't recognize says.
"Yea?" I say.
"It's Izzy!" So that's who it is...
"Why are you up this early?"
"Cause you're coming to my house for a sleepover in 20 minutes." I snort, she says it like I don't have a choice.
"What if I don't want to have a sleepover." I say smartly.
"Too bad. I'll text you my address" She says.
"Okay then... I'll see you soon."
"Bye"
"Bye?"
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I knock on the door to Izzy's house and gape. Her house is huge! It's practically a mansion! I am preparing to knock when the door swings open and I come face to face with a mans chest. A mans bare chest. My eyes widen and I look up to the mans face and the first word that pops into my head is "golden" and that's cause he is. He has gold hair and eyes and skin. He looks like an angel as he grins down at me. He looks almost perfect. I study his face and see he has a chip in his incisor. Ok, not quite perfect, but pretty dang close. I look into his gold eyes and I have a strange urge to draw him.
"Well," he says, " I'm used to girls chasing me, but stalking me? This is a first." I gape at him, and suddenly he doesn't seem too much like an angel
"Bitch" I call him with a glare and he winks at me just as Izzy comes down the stairs.
"I see you've met Jace..." She says with a grin.
Later we are sitting in Izzy's room and she gets an "amazing idea" she insists that I have to follow her downstairs and she won't tell me why. We walk out of her room, which is pink and has an adjoining bathroom, just like all of the other has no available surface that is not covered by makeup products. It's crazy, how does one girl need so much makeup? We walk into the hallway which consists of a few paintings, I think a couple were actually painted by my mother. There are 6 doorways, on the left is Izzy's room and 2 guest bedrooms and Alec's and haves are on the right.
I've figured out that Alec is Izzy's biological brother and looks just like her. Izzy thinks that Alec is gay and has a secret boyfriend but she doesn't know for sure. Jace was adopted when he was ten and he is obviously attractive, but he knows it which makes him much less attractive. Izzy told me he is a player and uses girls then throws them away because he is just like that. He apparently had a rough past but that is still no excuse to act the way he does.
We walk past the stairway and I to a room that I am assuming is some sort of storage room. You can tell that Izzy is the only one who uses it, there is clothes everywhere. Everywhere, I tell you. She grabs something and ushers me back into her room. I look at her, confused and she grins.
"Put this on." She tells me, and I take what she has.
"Umm... What is this?" I ask her because it looks like a round price of fabric. How am I supposed to put it on? It somewhat resembles some sort of leg warmer.
"It's a dress, Duh!" She says, like it's supposed to be obvious. I walk into the bathroom and slip it on. It's a strapless black dress and goes about 5 inches down my thigh, nothing like I usually wear. I walk into Izzy's room, and she smiles.
"Perfect!" She says.
I don't think that-"
"Now, makeup!" She interrupts and I groan.
1 hour later
"There. Perfect!" Izzy says to me. She turns me toward the mirror and tells me to look at my reflection. I gape at the stranger staring back at me. She has wide green eyes outlined in brown eyeliner. She has bright red lips and beautiful skin.
"Wow. Izzy, you can work magic with that stuff. I've never looked this pretty." I tell her.
"Not pretty, your gorgeous!" Heat rushes into my cheeks but the makeup covers my blush. She even managed to tame my fiery hair! It tumbles down to my waits in casual but beautiful waves. I look toward Izzy, and I thought I looked nice, Izzy was absolutely stunning. She has a red dress that goes down to mid thigh and spaghetti straps. She has her hair down and straightened. She has mascara, black eyeliner and bright red lipstick, like mine.
"We're going clubbing with Jace and Alec!" Izzy exclaims. I groan, why with them? Well Alec I'm fine with but Jace, no.
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We walk down the stairs and Jace and Alec look at us, annoyed that we took so long. Izzy catches the look and shrugs, "Beauty takes time boys, as you can see, just look at dear Clarissa!" I glare at her and she giggles- giggles this girl is crazy. I don't know why I like her so much, we are like polar opposites. I survey the boys' outfits and conclude that Izzy has outdone herself with our outfits. A lot.
Alec is wearing a pair of jeans with holes in the knees and a dark grey t-shirt(it's Alec what do you expect?) Jace is wearing dark jeans and a navy blue t-shirt. He put no effort into his outfit, but still manages to look stunningly gorgeous, how does he do it? I realize I've been staring at him a bit to long when he says-
"I know I'm stunningly attractive, but could you stop staring? It's making me uncomfortable." I glare and clench my fists to hold myself back from going and slapping that arrogant smirk right off his face.
"Why does he have to come? I'm sure there will be plenty of asshats at the club already, we don't have to add to that number!" I whine at Izzy, and Jace looks at me with mock offense.
"Ouch sweetheart. But everyone knows that you want-" he starts but thankfully, Izzy interrupts him there.
"Ok kids, let's keep it pg." she says, looking at Jace accusingly while he looks annoyed. He mumbles and ok and we head to the new club Pandemonium.
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The bouncer ushers us in after barely glancing at our ID's. "Well I guess that was easy." Izzy says. I nod in agreement, I haven't been to many clubs but they always seem to interrogate you before they let you in. I guess that's one of the reasons this one is so popular. We walk into the club and I am instantly overwhelmed by the swarm of bodies dancing to the music.
ok so this obviously isn't the best, but it'll get better blah blah blah, what I said in the first A/N and can someone PM or review and tell me where the line break button is? I can't find it, haha.
