Chapter 1: Getting There

Clary POV

I punch the punching bag. I make it swing. I punch it again, I make it swing. This goes on for about….oh, 20 minutes. I then go to the target, I throw the dagger, it hits right in the middle of the target. I smile. I've improved a lot in my training. I mean a lot. Like, I can easily take down Alec and Izzy. I threw myself into training, i was still apart of the family, i was still social, i just started to take my training very seriously. Izzy and I have gotten very close, as in sisters separated at birth close. Alec and I, we have become very close also. We consider each other family. Simon is doing well with recovering his memories, he only has to recover a few more from his childhood. Jace and I, you can ask anyone we are inseparable. He is also SO protective. I walk out of the training room. I walk into the kitchen only to find Jace and Izzy fighting over a spatula while Alec and Simon are trying to hold in their laughter. " Izzy give me the spatula, you're not cooking, you will kill us all!" I hear Jace yell. "Jace I will not kill you, just let me try, oh look, see Clary's here, she'll help me, won't you Clary?" They both look at me. I sweat even more than I was from training. " Uhhh, I guess." I mumble. "YES!" Izzy shouts. She then launches toward me, grabs my hand and yanks me into the kitchen.

2 HOURS LATER

I walk into the dining room and look at everyone who has gathered. Mom, Luke, Maryse, Alec, Magnus, Jace, Simon, Maia, and Jordan. ( A/N: Jordan is still alive ) I smile as Izzy and I walk into the room holding a couple more sides that were prepared. We set them down and I take my place between Iz and Jace. About halfway through the dinner, that was eerily calm and quiet, Maryse looks at Izzy and I and says, " Girls! This is delicious!" We smile as we get several yeses or nods from everyone else. Finally, I can't take the silence anymore, " ok, whats going on? Everyone has been really quiet and calm, and for this group, that means something is wrong." I see everyone look up and smile at eachother and then me. "What?" I ask.

"Well we were talking and we decided that we should go to your old apartment and recover anything that may have been destroyed or lost," Jace said.

"What? That still hasn't been cleaned up?"

"We got a call from the Clave and they said it still hasn't been cleaned, so we volunteered."

"Why?"

"Because we knew that if we didn't, they would send someone else to and we didn't think that you would like someone rummaging through your stuff."

"Oh ok, let's go tomorrow?" I ask.

"YES!" everyone shouts.

I jump, "why so anxious?" i ask.

"It's just we don't really know what your mundane life was like, so we want to see." Izzy says smiling.

"You guys are so weird." I say, shaking my head.

We finish dinner and watch The Proposal with Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds. I love this movie! After we get done we all say goodnight and go to our rooms with our partners. As I fall asleep I feel something, happiness, I love this feeling. it feels like nothing could go wrong. I'm laying in bed and I soon fall asleep in Jace's arms.

Hey guys? My name is Elli Locke, pronounced like Ellie Lock. I just wanted to say thank you for reading and giving my story a chance. This is my first story and I hope you guys like it. I am hoping to make the chapters long as I go and to impress you guys and to give you what you want in the story. Sorry if you don't like this chapter, it was kinda slow. I just needed to start it off. I am at the point where I have so many ideas, my fingers can't move fast enough to get it all down. I am going to try to publish every week. Thanks again!

-Elli Locke