Dear Readers,
For those of you who have read my other three stories, I'm terribly sorry. I have completely lost all inspiration for writing those stories. Therefore, I am willing to hand over each story to a willing author to continue to make them come alive (Though I still want you to give me credit for what I was able to pull through and the general idea. Lol). Anyway, just message me or review on this new story I am starting (Include which story you would like to continue and how many chapters you will commit to it), and I will choose among the willing participants! I really hope some will give their time to finish the stories I have begun.

Love you all,
etrainx3 (Erin)

Aside from all that above, I am really excited to start a new story! Hopefully I can keep up the inspiration for this one, but if you review, I bet I can pull tons of chapters through. ;)

Disclaimer: Cassandra Clare has all the credit for the beautiful ideas and characters of The Mortal Instruments.

Chapter 1: It's a Beautiful Life for Us

My mind and body raced with adrenaline as a flipped, tossed, and flew myself over the balance beams hanging just below the training room's ceiling. Just weeks ago I was afraid to drop to the floor with a bungee cord, now I risked the chance of a few broken bones just letting myself go where it wants. After a few more flips, a launched myself at the ground and landed with a summersault. I took off my earphones blaring my favorite music, and gathered up some daggers for target practice.

I threw one. I hear the soft whoosh as it flew through the air. I grinned when it dug into the center of the bulls-eye on the target. Every time I succeeded in my shadowhunter training, I had one golden-haired boy to thank. Jace was my main trainer, which meant he pushed me harder and trained me longer than anyone else. Jace was also my boyfriend, which meant he hugged me tighter, kissed me sweeter, and made me laugh louder than anyone else did (I would hope…).

Though today he wasn't able to come and train me. Something about meeting with the Luke and the head of the vampire coven to discuss matters which he would "tell me later." But he wasn't hesitant to tell me that I could train alone today. He was always up-front with my training.

I threw another dagger, landing its point right next to the first. One more and I was done.

Sweat covered my body, head to toe. All I wore today was a dark green sports bra and Nike shorts. My hair was pulled back in its usual "training" hairdo, a ponytail, but I could feel the sweat dripping off my neck. Shower. With that final thought, I gathered my towel and water bottle and headed back towards my room.

As I made it down the hallway, a low whistle stopped me in my tracks. I turned to look and saw Jace leaning against his door frame, dressed in his usual black attire.

"Damn, Clary," Jace grinned as he started towards me, "You make me regret having to miss training with you. Why do you never wear that to our usual training sessions?" He folded his hands around my waist.

I smiled and wrapped my arms around his neck, "Well, for one, it would be too distracting towards the trainer." I winked, "You know how it is with him, I think he's trying to get with me…"

Jace laughed, "Oh yeah…I think he is too."

Finally, he reached his head down to lay his lips on mine. Our mouths molded together, almost as if they were made to fit. The kiss started out slow and soft, but Jace deepened it until he ran his tongue along my lower lip and…

"Ahem…" A voice echoed a few feet away.

Isabelle. I started to look up from Jace to see her, but he didn't approve apparently. His hold on me tightened around the waist with one hand, and with the other he cupped my face to deepen the kiss even more.

"Okay, ew," Isabelle whined from the sidelines, "I'm sure the PDA is all fun for you guys on the inside, but on the outside it's down-right nasty. You know, bedrooms are a pretty awesome place to suck each other's faces off…"

Jace finally retaliated and released his hold on me, keeping one of my hands in his, "What do you want, Isabelle?" His face had a mixture of annoyance, from interrupting our kiss, and love for his adopted sister. My cheeks reddened and I bit my lower lip.

Isabelle's hand was on her hip and she was wearing an apron, "Well, I just wanted you to try my new dish!"

Jace gasped and whispered under his breath, "Hell no." With my hand still in his, he quickly scurried us away towards my room.

The only thing I heard before Jace slammed my door shut was Izzy shouting, "Rude! Fine! I'll get Alec and Magnus!"

I shook my head, "Good luck with that."

Jace chuckled and spread himself out on my bed.

"I need a shower now Jace," I peaked at him and saw him smirking.

"I'll help then!" He motioned like he was about to get up, but he knew what I would say. No thanks. Our relationship had gotten pretty serious, but I don't think I was ready for that kind of serious.

All I did though was role my eyes, push him back down on the bed, and head into my bathroom to take my much-needed shower.

After twenty minutes of lathering, rinsing, and repeating, I finally rapped a towel around me and went back into my room to see Jace napping. I quickly changed into skinny jeans and a t-shirt and saw his peaceful face awaken.

"You look so peaceful when you're asleep," I cooed and climbed up next to him on my bed.

Jace's arm slithered around me and pulled me closer, "As opposed to when I'm awake? Do I look violent or disturbed when I'm awake?" He smirked, and I punched him in the shoulder.

"How do you come up with such witty remarks on such short notice?"

"Why Clary, it's because I'm awesome. And perfect." He winked.

I rolled my eyes, peaked at the clock, and saw it was only ten-thirty in the morning. "So what are we going to do today?"

He sighed, "I think everyone can use some food that hasn't been created under the hands of Isabelle. Correct?"

I nodded.

"How about Taki's? I haven't eaten at all today." His hunger reminded me of the meeting earlier, giving him no time for breakfast.

"Sure. What when on at the meeting earlier anyway?"

"Same old, same old. The head vampire wanted to let us know that there were a few revener demons running amuck in the area."

"A few? As in…?" I looked at him in surprise. There haven't been many demons around for about two weeks, and now they are back?

"Maybe a hundred or so. More or less." He shrugged and checked the time.

"A hundred?" I gasped and tightened my grasp on his t-shirt, "We need to get out there and get rid of them and…"

"Clary! Chill out!" He pulled me tighter into his embrace, "We can deal with the situation later, but can we please get some food? I'm sure you wouldn't want me dying of starvation. I mean, where would you be without me?" Jace smirked.

I rolled my eyes again, forgetting instantly about the demons. "I would probably be with Simon…"

Jace pulled me into a passionate kiss before I could finish, "Ugh! Don't remind me that the bloodsucker had a chance at you. You're welcome by the way for taking you away from that."

I laughed and pulled him away from the bed with me.

With Isabelle, Alec, and Magnus, we headed off towards Taki's to meet Simon and get some food. For now, all of us were laughing and carrying on, absolutely oblivious as to what would happen in about two hours.

Okay, Okay, I know it was extremely short, but it's 1 AM in the morning right now, and I am extremely tired. See! They match! ;)

Please review, review, review! Give me inspiration! Give me ideas! I will love you for them!

Love,

Erin