I suppose I should start from the beginning, but I don't really know when that is. Should I start from telling you about my life or the day Simon told me he was dating the Isabelle Lightwood?

I guess I'll start somewhere in between.

Clary Fray sipped her drink slowly. She wondered where Simon was, but all thoughts of him disappeared when she laid eyes on him. Jace Wayland's head was tipped back, his eyes in slits as he danced with the girl in front of him. She
/had blonde hair that flowed down her back with light curls. Jace's head tipped forward and he ran his lips against her neck and his hands down her sides.

She couldn't help but stare, she wanted to draw him. His cheekbones, his jawline and his eyes. His golden eyes. She wanted to run her fingers through his silky hair. Clary's breath caught when she noticed he was staring back at her.

He was smirking, and continued his assault on the girl's neck. The girl tipped her head back against Jace's shoulder, trying to give him more room. Clary dropped her eyes to her cup and chugged the rest of the liquid.

She stood up from her seat on the couch and moved through the crowd, trying to get as far away from Jace's eyes as she could.

Clary went to the kitchen to get another beer and found Simon talking to Isabelle Lightwood. She decided to ignorehim and lethim have his time with her, he must have been ecstatic that she actually acknowledged his presence.

"Hey Biscuit." Clary turned around tosee Magnus Bane. He hung out with Alec Lightwood but he also talked to Clary during art and math class. She smiled at him and offered him a drink and he shook his head.

"We were going to playa game upstairs if

you and your friend wanted to come." Clary didn't let herself think about theconsequences as she said yes. She pointed to Simon talking to Isabelle. Magnus walked over to the two and tapped Isabelle's shoulder.

She smiled and nodded before pulling Simon after her out of the kitchen. Magnus ushered Clary up the stairs and into an almost second living room. There were far less people than there were downstairs. Clary sat in the circle beside Magnus.

She was pretty buzzed at this point and felt like she could take on the world but at the same time like she wanted to pass out.

"Okay the game goes like this:" Magnus's voice demanded everyone's attention and Clary let her hair cover her face as she felt eyes on her too.

"You either do a dare, or strip." He finished simply. "Dares cannot get anyone killed or sentto jail."

He looked over to Clary and asked her if she was finished with her beer, when she chugged the rest down and she handed it to him she heard some whistles. Her cheeks stained red. He set the bottle in the middle of the circle.

"Everyone spins,who ever the bottle lands on has to do the dare that the spinner tells them to or strips one piece of clothing." He paused for a second. "Oh and you cannot dare a person to take off clothing." He added quickly and spun it.

It landed on Simon, who seemed too wound up in Isabelle to be paying much attention. "Rat boy." Magnus whispered to get his attention, earning a playful elbow from Clary.

His eyes bugged out and he stared at Magnus. "Since you seem too preoccupiedwiththe lovely Isabelle Lightwood, maybe you should just kiss her." Simon's jaw fell a little but then he seemed to get a determined look in his eye as
he lightly pulled Isabelle's lips to his own.

Clary's jaw dropped at her best friend's action. He always seemed to be the safe one. She kneeled in front of the bottle and spun it, watching with anticipation at who it would land on.

It landed on the blonde girl that she saw Jace Waylanddancing with. She bit her lip thinking about what she should tell the girl to do. "Hm I dare you to slap the guy you want to screw most in the room."

Clary sat back on her heels and looked away as the girl took off her top. She noticed all guys, except Magnusand Alec, were staring at the girl. She saw Isabelle hit Simon's chest and smiled.

The boy beside her, Sebastian Verlac, spun the bottle and Clary held her breath as it landed on her. He turned to her with a grin. "I dare you let whoever the bottle lands on next take body shots off of you." Clary felt heat flood her cheeks.

She couldn't strip she realized, she hadn't worn a bra with this top, it was a very revealing bralet. Sebastian spun the bottle once again and she prayed it wouldn't be someone that would embarrass her too much.

She cursed her prayers whenshe saw it landed on Jace. She met his eyes and saw his smirk. Clary took off her shirt, mumbling some very bad words when she heard hoots.

She laid down and let Sebastian place the salt on her stomach and alime in her mouth. They handed Jace the shot glass.

It all occurred very slowly. She closed her eyes when she felt Jace's tongue flat against her stomach, licking up the salt. She felt the lime disappear from her lips and she breathed out in relief.

She shot up and put her shirt back on

sat back in her place beside Magnus, her heart was racing so fast it could have won a gold medal. Being that close to him felt like the Earth was quaking beneath her. It felt like every ounce or sexual tension she felt but knew he didn't was ,
/she needed to get laid.

The game continued, some people had stripped, others did seven minutes in heaven while many people just did really stupid stuff that only drunk teenagers would tell each other to do.

This one girl, Maia, spun the bottle and it landedon Simon. Shedared him to say the one thing he would never say if she hadn't dared him to. He turned to Isabelle. "Will you go out with me?" Clary watched as Isabelle jumped into his
arms screaming yes. Clary was confused, didn't they just meet tonight?

Next was Jace's turn to spin and it landed on Aline Penhallow. She grinned and he dared her to give him a lap dance. She did it happily. Clary watched for a moment in disgust, but turned to see Simon staring at her.

He had known about her dumbcrushon the boy and he looked worried. She shrugged at him and whispered to Magnus that she was going to get another beer.

Clary headed downstairs through the bodies, feeling many people bump into her and she excused herself.

She felt someone grab her arm and she twisted around to see Sebastian. "Hey." She couldn't hear him but she read his lips. "Do you wantto dance?"She thought he said and she nodded. He pulled her into the middle of the bodies and began
to dance.

She felt him pull her closer when a slow song came on. She wrapped her arms around his neck and his hands dropped to her waist. Clary took this time to really look at him.

His eyes were incredibly dark, and his hair matched. His pale skinseemedeven paler with his dark features. She felt all the booze she had been drinking hit her as she leaned her head on his shoulder. It felt... nice?

But it didn't last long when she saw Simon come running downstairs, his eyebrows furrowed and herammedinto people to get to her. He didn't give her a chance to ask what was going on when he began pulling her out of the sea of
people and outside, into his car.

It all felt like a dream to Clary when she woke up the next morning. Her head ached slightly but she hadn't been drunk enough to give her a ear-splitting headache. She remembered crawling up her window and throwing herself onto her

bed. It was the day before Junior year started. Why had she thought going to a party before school started was a good idea?

She didn't put much work into looking nice for her first day. She wore nice clothes but left her hair and just put on some mascara.

She wore light wash skinnyjeans that were ripped at the knees, along with a white t-shirt andher faux leather jacketthat had a hoodie inside. She wore her converse as well.

She grabbed her book bag and jogged downstairs. Simon was in her driveway, and seemed to be about to send her a text when she jumped into his car. "I'm surprised Isabelle Lightwood isn't in here." Clary teased him and he

blushed. "You know, your girlfriend."

"I'm meeting her at school. She rides with her brotherseveryday." Clary nodded thinking back to Alec Lightwood,and Jace Wayland, her adopted brother.

"We'll be sitting with them at lunch from now on by the way." Simon added, trying to play it off likeit meant nothing.

"What?!" Clary screeched. Simon turned on the music and blasted it. She pouted to herself and looked out the window.