Lexie sat across from Simon at Java Jones, waiting for Clary to return from her interview with the Brooklyn Academy of Art. The two waited anxiously, both hoping that Clary will have good news to share. Lexie wanted this for her twin sister so bad, and she knew that their best friend Simon wanted this for Clary just as much as she did.
The three of them had been best friends for as long as they all could remember. They grew up together. Although, Simon and Clary were much closer than Lexie was to Simon, mostly because her feelings towards him were much more than just friends. But she knew that he was in love with Clary, which is why she has never expressed her true feeling towards him. There was no doubt in Lexie's mind that the feeling wouldn't be reciprocated, and she knew that telling him could risk their friendship, which she refused to lose.
Lexie took a long drink from her latte, not even noticing that the cup was shaking in her hands. "My palms are sweating so much." She told Simon, before setting it down on the table.
"She'll get in. I mean she has to, right?" Simon spoke nervously, attempting to calm her down.
She looked up at him and smiled, "Right." Lexie confirmed, hoping that they were correct. The sound of someone entering the coffee shop immediately caught their attention, as their head snapped in the direction of Clary, as she approached them with a disappointed look on her face. "No, Clary." Lexie mumbled as she ran up and pulled her into an embrace for support, thinking that Clary hadn't gotten accepted like they all hoped.
"Give me the professors names and I will end them." Simon spoke up, from the table they were sitting at. The twins turned to face him, and raised their eyebrows at his choice in words. "You know, with a scathing email to the dean."
Clary shook her head and handed him her letter from them. "Don't bother." She said sitting across from him as well, next to Lexie.
Simon unfolded the letter and looked up at Clary in disbelief. "What? Sad face, really? Well played. Well played."
Lexie sped over to Simon, peering over his shoulder to see what it read as Simon and Clary fist bumped each other. CONGRATULATIONS. "Clary this is amazing!" Lexie squealed, as she rushed towards her sister and pulled her into a side hide. "I can't believe you tricked us though." She said, before sitting back down into her chair.
"I can't believe you fell for it." Clary laughed. "You're my twin you should know when I'm lying."
"Well I didn't think that you'd lie to me." Lexie joked, continuing the banter between the two sisters. They were practically identical, aside from the fact that Clary's hair was a bright orange, while Lexie's hair was light brown. If the two shared the same hair color, it'd be nearly impossible to tell the difference between them.
"You know it's weird. They kind of liked my assigned work, but they flipped out over the drawings for our graphic novel." Clary told Simon, who seemed extremely proud of himself after learning this new information.
"You're welcome." He pointed at her proudly, with a small grin on his face.
"Today is going to go down in history as the greatest 18th birthday we've ever had." Lexie exclaimed, after taking another sip from her latte that was now starting to get cold.
"Exactly. Which is why we're celebrating tonight. Yes, with Maureen, after our show." Simon told the twins, which made them really excited. Especially Lexie, who hadn't gone out and had some fun in what seemed like forever. She usually spent her nights sketching in her note book. But, Lexie didn't want to pursue art like her sister did, it was more of a hobby than a passion.
"Absolutely." Lexie agreed, as their new order of lattes and biscottis arrived.
Clary looked up at Simon with mischievous eyes and Lexie knew exactly what she was about to say. "So, what's the deal with you and Maureen?" This question caught Lexie's attention, causing her to shift in place uncomfortably. Lexie had been working on getting over her feelings for her best friend ever since she realized he was in love with her sister, but she couldn't help but be a little jealous at the thought of him with Maureen.
Simon shook his head in denial. "What deal? No deal." He informed them, but he could tell by the looks on their faces that they weren't buying it. "We sing together."
"Si, she's totally been crushing on you." Lexie said, while trying to hide the envy in her voice as she spoke.
Simon turned to Clary for confirmation and received a nod from her in response. "What? No." He stammered, taken back by all this new information. The last thing he wanted right now was for Clary to think he had a potential thing with a girl other than her, which was also what Lexie was thinking. Except instead of Clary, it was her.
"Simon how can someone as smart and perceptive as you not notice that the person sitting right there is in love with you?" Clary asked, endearingly.
"I guarantee you I'm not the only smart, perceptive person to make that mistake." Simon told her, clearly referring to Clary not realizing that he was in love with her.
Lexie stayed quiet, not wanting to risk saying something that could damage her relationship with her best friend. Although, she couldn't help but notice the way her sister was looking down at the table. Lexie followed her gaze to the drawing of a biscotti on the table. The twins shared a look, both not understanding how the drawing got there.
"That's a latte." Simon said, noticing the weird look on Clary's face as well. However, he didn't notice what she was actually looking at.
Clary looked up, with a confused expression on her face. "But I could've sworn I had a biscotti."
"Yeah, I'm pretty sure you did." Lexie agreed, feeling weird about the strange situation. It was like her biscotti had been magically replaced by a drawing, without anybody actually eating or drawing it.
"Maybe you ate it really fast and didn't even notice." Simon suggested, trying to bring logic to the situation. "Happens to me all the time. When I'm happy. When I'm sad." This got a positive reaction out of both girls as they giggled simultaneously.
"Here sis, have mine." Lexie insisted, as she handed her biscotti over to her twin. "I'm not that hungry anyways."
Clary smiled brightly at her sister, as she placed the biscotti down on the table where her other one used to be. "Thank you."
"You know what?" Simon said, causing both twins to focus their attention on him. "Here's to Clary getting in, and here's to my two best friend's birthday." He continued, raising his mug in the air. "L'chaim."
"L'chaim." The twins repeated, as the three clinked their mugs together. They all took a sip from their lattes with bright smiles on their faces. However, Lexie and Clary's expressions soon changed back to confusion once they looked back down, where Clary's new biscotti was once again replaced by a drawing of one instead.
The two girls entered their home/shop, both laughing as they reminisced on old memories from when they were little. "That was my favorite dress and you ruined it by spilling paint all over it!" Lexie said, pretending to still be hurt over the incident that happened years ago. The two shared another laugh, before making their way over to Dot.
"Hey Dot." The two said at the same time, which they had been doing for as long as they could speak. "How's the future looking?" Clary asked, as they stand across from Dot, who was looking over her tarot cards.
"Not as good as yours." Dot said, as she looked over the cards that were resting on the table in between them. "The tarot cards tell me you got into the advanced program."
"And by tarot cards, you mean Simon's twitter account?" Clary questioned, even though they all knew the answer.
"Okay, I follow him." Dot confessed, as if it was some big secret. The three girls let out a few laughs before dot continues. "Turns out predicting the future with tarot cards is very complicated." She said, flipping over a tarot card with a gold chalice on it. "But, I do see birthday presents in your guy's future."
Tori and Clary's face lit up, both eager to see what Dot got them. "You shouldn't have." Lexie said, as Dot placed two bags on the table for them.
"Tori this is yours. And, this is Clary's." Dot told them, pushing the bags towards the twin it belonged to. "Open them!" She said anxiously, not wanting to wait any longer to see their reactions. Clary's opened hers first, which was a lace black top. Lexie then opened hers to reveal a black tank top that was slightly cropped and had cuts in the sides. Both girls were visibly pleased with their gifts, and the fact that they now had something to wear tonight.
"Wow." Clary and Lexie said together, as they continued to admire their gift from Dot.
"Yeah, you might want to keep that on the DL, cause your moms my boss and I don't want her to flip out." Dot told them, causing Lexie to giggle because their mom really would flip out if she saw these.
Clary held it up, continuing to praise the shirt in her hands. "Yeah, but that's how I know it's cool." She said, and Lexie nodded in agreement.
"That's true." Lexie chimed in, as she folded her shirt back up and placed it back inside the bag. "You are way better at gift giving than magically predicting the future." She teased, causing the three girls to chuckle once again.
Dot shrugged, "Nothing magical about it. I just buy the things I wanna wear." Lexie and Clary pulled her into a hug, both very appreciative of her gifts to them. "Happy birthday guys." She said, smiling into their embrace.
"Thank you." The sisters said at the same time, again.
The three then pulled apart, all smiling brightly at one another. "I love you both, but you have got to stop doing that." Dot told them, referring to how they always said the same thing at the same time, which creeped most people out.
"Love you too." The twins said in unison, but on purpose this time so they could get a reaction out of Dot. Although, they noticed that Dot was acting kind of strange, as if there was a weight on her shoulders.
"Hey Dot, are you okay?" Lexie asked, expressing her concerns the minute she noticed something was up.
Dot paused for a moment, like she was thinking about what to say next. "Yeah." She said chuckling, causing the twins to relax a little. "Yeah, happy birthday. Go up and see your mom." Dot instructed them, keeping a smile plastered onto her face.
Clary and Lexie smiled brightly, before grabbing their bags and making their way upstairs to see their mother.
"Mom!" Lexie called out, to make their presence in the room known. "Did you hear the news?" She asked, referring to Clary getting into the advanced art program.
"You did it! Yay!" Their mother cheered, as she rested the box she was carrying down on the table in front of her.
Clary gave her a look as they made their way over to their mom. "You also follow Simon?" She suspected. The twins set their bags down beside the couch, preparing themselves for the hug they assumed they were about to receive.
Their assumptions were proven correctly when their mom pulled both of the girls into a warm embrace, since she was happy to see them. "He only has 92 followers. He needs the retweets." Their mother said, laughing as she tightened the embrace. "Congratulations." She directed towards the eldest twin, Clary.
Clary chuckled into the hug. "Thank you." She told their mother, Jocelyn. All three separated from each other as their mom turned around to grab something. "Hashtag stalked mom." Clary teased, right before two gift boxes were being presented in front of her's and Lexie's faces.
"Happy birthday." Jocelyn said, as she handed the green one to Clary and the blue one to Lexie.
Lexie and Clary both smiled radiantly, as the three of them sat down on the couch. Lexie was the first to open her gift. She pulled out an engraved silver wand with a crystal at the end. Once Clary opened her gift, they realized they both got the same thing.
"It's called a stele." Jocelyn explained, taken noticed of the confused looks on the girl's faces.
They were both extremely grateful, but neither knew what it was. "Is it like some type of paper weight?" Lexie asked, twisting it around in her hands as she inspected it.
"It's much more then than that. It's ancient." Their mother told them, as both girls continued to look over their steles. "I want you to have them." She continued. "It's a family heirloom."
"They Fray's have heirlooms?" Clary questioned, assuming they didn't have any because as far as they knew, they didn't have any relatives.
Their mother nodded. "A few."
"Hey, I sketched something just like this this morning." Lexie announced, pointing to one of the engraved symbols on the stele.
"Yeah, me too." Clary spoke up, and the two shared an intrigued glance. Both unsure how they thought to draw the same thing. "We must've seen it around the house or something." She said, trying to search for some logic behind this unusual coincidence.
However, Jocelyn had a concerned look on her face. "Girls, I need to-"
Clary's phone starts to ring from a text message before their mom can finish her sentence. "Simon." Clary said to Lexie, after reading the message he sent her. "He's on his way over." Lexie nodded, and the two stood up so they could go get ready.
"We need to talk." Their mother said, desperately wanting to finish the conversation they were about to have.
Lexie felt bad for leaving their mom, but they couldn't miss Simon's performance. "Mom, we can't right now. We're going to see Champagne Enema tonight." She explained, hoping that their mom would understand. She noticed the vague look on their mother's face. "It's Simon's new band name. Him and Maureen are gonna take us out after too, for our birthday."
"But it's your guy's 18th birthday, and uh everything's gonna change for you girls." Jocelyn exhaled deeply, really not fond of the idea of her two daughters being out all night.
"Mom, we've had the talk." Clary smiled, grabbing her sisters hand so they could head upstairs to their room. "We're good." She said, hoping it would make their mother feel at ease.
"We need to have a much different and more important talk." Jocelyn continued, as she pulled the two girls back once they started to turn so they could go to their room.
"Mom." Lexie said in a soothing voice. Her and her mom had always been extremely close, so she knew she could get through to her. "We will talk, over breakfast in the morning. We promise." Lexie leaned forward and kissed her moms forehead, "We love you."
Jocelyn looked defeated as she watched her two daughters start to walk away, holding their gifts in their hands. "Thanks for the heirloom." Clary called out, holding up the box with the stele inside. Yet, both girls didn't understand how serious their mother was being, and how much their lives were about to change.
Clary and Lexie were playing by a lake, trying to reach out and catch a frog that was resting on a lily pad. As Lexie leaned forward to catch it, the water started to rumble. Suddenly, a demon came out of the water and tried to attack the two sisters. Jocelyn quickly made her way to the girls and fought off the water demon before it hurt her daughters.
"Come on." Jocelyn said to the girls, as they made their way over to Magnus Bane's house. After banging on the door an pleading with Magnus to help her, he led them inside his home.
The two secured the girls in two chairs beside each other. "Mom?" Clary whimpered, followed by Lexie doing the same.
"Shhh, girls it's okay." Jocelyn told them, trying to calm the two down. "It's for the best." She insured them.
Though, Magnus didn't seem to agree with Jocelyn's actions. "You're not protecting them. You're deceiving them."
"For as long as possible." Jocelyn said, determined to keep them as far away from the shadow world for as long as possible.
"I've already had to give these girls fake memories because you asked me to, and now you want me to take some away?"
"Hey, we promised never to discuss that part of our past. As far as everyone knows, I raised Alexis and I intend on keeping it that way."
"They won't be children forever, Jocelyn." He reminded her.
Jocelyn shook her, keeping her mind set on wiping their memories. "For now, I don't want them to be apart of our world."
"Mom, I don't wanna do this." Lexie told her mom, frightened and confused by everything that was happening.
"Please, take their memories." Jocelyn pleaded to Magnus. There was no way she was going to allow her daughters to be apart of this world at such a young age. She didn't want them to grow up in their world.
Magnus looked hesitant, but went along with Jocelyn's plea. He started with Clary, by holding the blue fog by her forehead to take her memories. He then proceeded to do the same to Lexie. Deep down he knew this wasn't right, yet he felt like he needed to do this for Jocelyn.
Lexie finished curling the last piece of her long brown locks, in the bathroom. After, she applying a mauve lipstick and made her way into her and Clary's room. "How do I look?" She asked her twin, as she spun around in a circle. Lexie was wearing the top Dot had given her, with ripped black jeans. She stopped in front of their full length mirror to admire the shirt, before grabbing her navy blue sweater and zipping it over the shirt so her mom wouldn't see.
"Amazing!" Clary clapped, jealous of how gorgeous her sister looked. "And me?" She asked Lexie, copying the same twirl she previously did.
"Amazing." Lexie complimented, grabbing her stele in one hand and her sisters hand in the other. Clary grabbed her stele as well and they both tucked them into their sweater pockets. Neither really understood why they were bringing their stele, but it just felt right to them. "Let's go." Lexie said, as the two made their way downstairs with their arms linked.
"Hey, Luke." Clary and Lexie greeted him in unison, once they noticed he was over. "What's up?" Clary asked, as the sisters detached from one another to join their mother and Luke in the kitchen.
Luke broke his attention from Jocelyn and turned to face the girls. "Hey girls. Incredible drawings." He said, after glancing down at both of their sketchbooks on the counter, with ruins drawn all over them.
"Thanks." The twins said at the same time, causing them both to laugh since they've finally realized how often they do it.
"And, I got you these." Luke said pulling out two boxes of spray paint, one for each of the girls. "Spray paint."
Clary immediately looked over the box and smiled. "Oh, they're perfect." She told Luke.
"Maybe I'll go paint up the city with these." Lexie joked, as she picked up one of the cans and pointed it at Luke, only to tease him.
Luke let out a soft chuckle and raised an eyebrow at Lexie. "Now, if you do that then I'm going to have to arrest you." He informed Lexie, keeping a straight face even though they both were only joking. "You too Clary."
"The paint is for Simon's van." Clary said to Luke, before turning to their mother. "We're insisting he rename the band."
Jocelyn let out a sigh in relief. "Oh, yes please."
Luke's attention averted to the stele sticking out of Lexie's pocket, and soon realized that Clary had hers as well. "Did your mom talk to you girls about those?" Luke asked, acting just as serious as their mother did with them earlier.
Lexie pulled hers out and held onto it tightly. "Yeah, we talked about them. They're beautiful." She said, looking the stele over one last time, before tucking it back into her pocket.
Luke's face remained serious though, keeping eye contact with both of the girls. "Lexie and Clary, you're 18 now and-"
"What is with you guys?" Clary asked, bewildered by the fact that they keep bringing this up. "We're turning 18, not heading off on some epic journey."
"But you guys are!" Simon called out, as he walked in and stood in between Clary and Lexie. "See, we are going to Lombardi's to celebrate your birthday after our gig." He announced, as both girls looked up at him and smiled brightly.
Jocelyn still looked nervous and continued to try and convince the girls to stay home, or not go out too late. "You should come back here after." Their mother suggested, hoping that the three would accept the offer. "The city's not that safe right now."
"Mom, we'll be okay." Lexie insured her. "Thanks you though." She said, as the girls grabbed the spray paint and the three best friends started to head out.
"But we will take a rain check." Simon told Jocelyn, just before stopping in his tracks. Lexie and Clary looked at him, confused as to why he was stopping. "Wait." He said, and turned to face Jocelyn. "Do I smell chicken cacciatore?" Simon asked, letting his hunger get the best of him.
"Simon, your gig." Clary reminded him, as she started to pull his arm back towards the exit.
Simon and Luke made small talk about his singing as the girls went over and hugged their mom goodbye. Jocelyn held onto the girls tightly, as if it might be their last time embracing one another. "I can't breath." Lexie choked out.
"Breakfast, us three, tomorrow." She told her daughters to ensure that they wouldn't forget. "Promise?"
"Promise." They said in unison, thinking that their mom would finally let them go, but she continued to hold onto them tightly.
Both girls started repeating the word mom, hoping that it would catch her attention so she'd finally let them go. "Mom, you have to let us go. We're biologically and legally an adult." Clary told her, playing the adult card now that they were 18.
"Yeah." Their mother sighed, as she finally released her daughters. "That's what I'm afraid of." She mumbled, while running her fingers through Lexie's hair.
"Shall we?" Clary asked, linking her arm with Lexie's. The two turned to Simon, who took Clary's spray paint for her.
"Yes." He responded, just before Clary detached from Lexie and hopped on Simon's back. The three then exited the house, with Clary on Simon's back and Lexie following close behind.
"I just don't understand what she's trying to protect us from. I spend all day in my room or at a coffee shop, and Clary's always in an art studio. Our lives couldn't be more mundane." Lexie ranted to the four of them on top of Simon's van. "Plus, we don't even know much from when she was young." She continued, speaking for both her and Clary, who nodded in agreement.
"Just do what I do and get all the dirt from your relatives." Maureen suggested.
"Well we would if we could, but she doesn't have any." Clary shrugged.
Lexie nodded, "Yeah, and our dad died before we were born." She added in.
Maureen was taken back by what they were saying, them having no family seemed suspicious to her. "So you have no one? No uncles? Aunts? Third cousins twice removed?" Every time she would list someone though Clary or Lexie would shake their heads.
"Just us three." Lexie said, holding onto her sisters hand.
Simon added in a few comments about the number of chairs there were for their family every seder - since preschool. But, it didn't shake the look on Maureen's face, who thought that this was extremely bizarre. "You guys don't think that's a little suspicious? You not knowing anything about your family? Your mom could be hiding some deep dark secret."
Lexie can't contain a slight giggle after hearing the last part. "Maureen trust me, our mom couldn't conceal anything from me and Clary."
"It's impossible." Clary said, completely agreeing with her sister. Their mom could never keep something from them.
Clary and Lexie sat down next to each other during Simon's gig. Lexie couldn't help but be mesmerized by Simon's voice, which certainly wasn't helping her get over him like she planned on doing. However, Simon's eyes stayed locked on Clary's during the entire performance, which didn't go unnoticed for Lexie. She envied her sister for Simon being in love with her, and yet Clary didn't even know it.
After their performance, the four walked back to Simon's van that was parked outside of Pandemonium. "So, you went on stage tonight as Champagne Enema." Clary said, which was followed by all of them huffing out a laugh at the name.
"What were we thinking right?" Maureen asked in disbelief.
"But now we're Rock Solid Panda." Simon announced proudly, and him and Maureen celebrated over the name.
"Definitely better than Champagne Enema." Lexie said, leaning against the van.
Clary reached into the van and pulled out the spray paint they had gotten from Luke earlier. "Rock Solid Panda, coming up. I'm feeling inspired." She told the group as she made her way over to the side of the van. "C'mon sis!" She called out to Lexie, who quickly followed behind her.
"Hey, what's that tag you added?" Simon asked Lexie, who looked had a confused expression on her face. Clary wrote out the band name, but Lexie painted the same symbol she had been drawing all day.
Clary took notice of the symbol on the van and looked over at her twin, hoping to find some explanation. "I don't know. I keep drawing this symbol though, even when I don't mean to." Lexie shrugged.
"That's the same one I've been drawing." Clary said. The two girls stared at each other, knowing that there was no coincidence behind them continuing to draw this symbol that they've never seen before, until today.
"You know they have confirmed cases of people waking up in the morning speaking French, and they never even studied the language." Maureen told them, but to Clary and Lexie this was different. It was different because the same thing was happening to both of them. They stayed at the side of the van, keeping their eyes locked on the symbol as Maureen and Simon went over to the trunk.
Clary's focus broke once she felt somebody bump into her. "Hey, can you watch where you're going?" She asked him, clearly frustrated with him since he didn't even apologize.
Lexie looked over and saw that Clary was talking to this guy with blonde hair, who was covered in tattoos. "At least apologize." Lexie added in, wanting to help defend her sister against this jerk.
"You can both see me?" He asked the girls, taken back by how they could see through his glammor.
"Yeah, that's kind of the point, but you obviously didn't see me." Clary shot back at him.
Lexie sighed, and grabbed her sisters arm. "Let's just go, he's not worth it." She suggested, while shooting the mysterious guy a annoyed look.
"You two have the sight." He stated, seeming almost agitated by this discovery.
Clary couldn't help let out a short laugh, "Wait, the what?"
"How can I not know who you two are?" He questioned, switching his glance between both girls.
"Really? Has that line ever worked?" Lexie asked, thinking that he was hitting on them.
Before he could respond, another guy called out for him. "Jace!" They heard his friend yell, which caught the blonde guy's attention. He kept his eyes on the two girls, with a confused expression, before running into Pandemonium to meet his friend.
Clary and Lexie turned towards Maureen and Simon, who were looking at the twins strangely. "Can you believe that blonde dude?" Clary asked them, in disbelief after the encounter her and Lexie just had with him.
"You mean the imaginary dude you guys were talking to?" Simon asked, raising his eyebrow at his two best friends.
Lexie and Clary both looked shocked, "What do you mean imaginary? Look, he's running into the club." Lexie pointed towards Jace, but Maureen and Simon still didn't see him.
"Lexie, there's no one there." Maureen informed her, but Lexie refused to believe it. Her and Clary both just had a conversation with this dude, there's no way it was all in their head.
"The guy covered in tats, like-" Lexie stammered.
"What guy are you two talking about?" Simon asked them, not understanding anything that they were talking about.
Clary looked between the two, shocked because she assumed that they were just joking around with them. "You guys seriously don't see him?"
"No." Simon stated bluntly, starring at his two best friends like they losing their minds.
"Guys, please stop making us feel like we're insane." Lexie begged, secretly still hoping that they weren't being serious and they actually saw the guy who bumped into Clary.
Maureen was quick to respond, "Could you stop acting that way?"
"What was in your guy's lattes?" Simon asked, genuinely concerned for the twins, thinking that they might've been drugged.
Instead of responding Clary started to take off her sweater, revealing the shirt Dot had given to her earlier. Lexie took note of what Clary was doing and did the same, also revealing the shirt she had received from Dot. The twins looked at each other once more, before starting to head inside the club.
"Wait, where are you going?" Simon called out to the twins, after catching their sweaters as they tossed them over to him.
Lexie turned her body slightly, so she was able to make eye contact with Simon. "To get answers." She told him, before spinning on her heels to catch up with Clary. They heard Simon yell to them about their fake ID's, but they didn't care. They were both determined to get some answers.
Lexie and Clary entered Pandemonium side by side with Maureen and Simon entering behind them. They both started to scan the club for the blonde guy they encountered outside, and Lexie quickly caught sight of him heading towards a restricted area of the club. "There." She mumbled, loud enough for Clary to hear.
"I'm gonna go fail at getting us some birthday drinks." Simon announced to their group.
"I'm gonna go with you." Maureen told him, before grabbing his hand and heading over to the side.
The twins didn't turn around once though, they were both to focused on keeping their eyes on the blonde dude. Both Lexie and Clary could hear their best friend calling out to them, but chose to ignore him as they started to follow Jace. Once he had gone behind the closed curtains, they needed to figure out how they were going to get in there so they could talk to him. Lexie looked around the club trying to come up with an idea, but Clary had already thought of one first. She had gone over to a random guy who also was entering the blocked off space and latched onto his arm.
"Somebody works out." Clary said to the man, pretending to admire his arms when she was really motioning for her sister to come over.
Lexie quickly made her way over to the guys open arm, latching onto it as well. "Cool contacts."
Once inside they both let go of his arm, and stood close by the entrance. They decided to wait to go over to Jace, since he seemed to be having an intimate conversation with a dark haired women in a purple dress. Lexie used this time to observe her surrounding, which included a women in white latex dancing for a group of men and another guy leaning against the wall, watching everything unfold.
"Watch out!" Clary screamed, suddenly. Lexie turned and saw her sister push the women away from Jace, who was holding a glowing sword in his hands.
"Clary!" Lexie yelled, feeling frightened for her sister, who had just gotten herself into a bad situation. She wanted to run ahead and grab her, but she felt frozen in place once she saw that the women in the purple dress was now transforming into some kind of monster.
"Careful!" Jace shouted, pushing Clary back and sending her sliding across the floor. He looked back at her to make sure she was okay, before killing the monster that Clary had just saved.
Lexie ran over to her sisters side, kneeling down next to her. "Oh my god Clary, are you okay?" She asked, as she watched a fight begin to unfold in front of them. The girl who was once dancing for all the men was now killing them, with a bracelet that turned into a whip.
Jace turned to face the girls, and extended his hand out to Clary. "Are you hurt?" He asked her, probably feeling guilty for shoving her the way that he did. Clary nodded in response and Lexie just stood next to her in silence, unsure what to say or how to react.
Seconds after Jace had gone over and helped Clary up, another man started to attack him from behind. He dropped his sword on the couch in front of him accidentally, but continued to fight the guy off without a weapon. Clary stepped froward and picked up the sword off the couch, her and Lexie observed the sword as it immediately started to glow once Clary picked it up.
Both girls were distracted by the glowing blade and didn't notice a demon come up from behind Lexie, who grabbed her and threw her a few feet. Lexie hit the ground hard, and could hear the demon star starting to make his way over to here. Unfortunately, Clary was distracted by Jace who was also fighting off a demon, which Clary eventually helped kill. Lexie looked up in horror, as the demon slowly made it's way over to her. She felt speechless and hopeless, thinking that she was about to die. Suddenly, the guy decimated into orange, black, and yellow shards, meaning that he had just been killed. Lexie looked up at who had saved her, which was the raven haired guy that she saw leaning up against the wall earlier.
Lexie gasped, still in shock after witnessing so much. She opened her mouth to thank him, but never got the chance because he had already gone back to helping Jace fight off the others. Once again, Lexie felt glued to the ground as she stayed down, believing that she was safer there than she would be if she got back up and instead watched as Jace and the guy who saved her finished off the last guy.
"Lexie!" Clary yelled, running over to her. "We're leaving, c'mon!" She informed her, grabbing her hand and lifting her up to her feet. Lexie and her ran out of Pandemonium as fast as they could, refusing to look back. They could hear Simon trying to get their attention, but didn't stop running. They couldn't describe what they just saw, it was all so surreal and none of it made sense to them.
The twin sisters jumped into a taxi the second they got outside. "Drive." Lexie and Clary said in unison, desperate to flea the scene.
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