Hey guys! So I'm back with a new story! I am going on a bit of a hiatus after I post this, but I'll be back with a regular updating schedule next year!

Disclaimer: I do not own the characters in this story.

Clarissa Fray bit down on her lower lip, eyebrows pulling together in concentration as she stared down at the drawing in front of her. It was in charcoal, and that was one of her favourite mediums, although what she was working on wasn't something that she was planning on using in her portfolio. The art professor she had for this course, Dorothea Rollins, was pretty relaxed with how they worked. She had had Madame Dorothea last year as well, and so she had already built up a rapport with her, and she was a bit more relaxed about what Clary and her friend, Lydia Branwell, did in class.

Which meant that while a couple of the first years who had to be combined with Clary and the other second years had to be completely focused on their work and sticking to their curriculum, Clary and Lydia had their headphones in and were getting side tracked on some drawings that they had started in their free time.

That was especially good since it was Friday, and it was already two in the afternoon. Clary got to the point where she had started skipping most of her lessons on Friday's, but she made a point to come to this one because it wasn't as though there was much expected. Lydia was actually high, covering it up really badly with a pair of big sunglasses and attempting not to fall off her stool, and Clary was leaning over and poking her in the ribs every twenty minutes or so to make sure she wasn't falling asleep.

Her phone vibrated in her pocket, and she pulled it out to see a text from her roommate and best friend, Simon Lewis, asking her to pick up some cupcakes from the adorable little store that was on her way home. He must have been having a bad day, because the cupcakes cost about seven dollars each, and Simon was stingy as hell when it came to his money.

"Lydia," Clary hissed as she caught Lydia almost tipping sideways off her stool, her hand almost smearing across the charcoal sketch in front of her.

"Yeah! I'm awake! I'm having a fucking lovely afternoon!" Lydia's voice perked up, her jerking upward and looking around. Clary snorted and glanced around to see if anyone had heard the blonde's reaction. Lydia frowned when she saw it was just Clary staring at her, and raised an eyebrow behind the fly eyed sunglasses. "What's going on?"

"You wanna bail? I'm done here, and Simon wants cupcakes," she said.

"Ooh, Sprinkle Palace cupcakes?" Lydia grinned.

"Sprinkle Palace cupcakes," Clary confirmed.

"Fuck yeah," Lydia slid off her stool, running her fingers through her long, blonde hair and shaking it over her shoulder and starting to pack up her art supplies. Clary did the same, and then the two of them were slipping out the back of the studio. Clary and Simon had been friends and also living together long enough that they had exchanged their spare debit cards with each other for times like this.

The University was busy, students laughing and walking around, a lot of them with books, some with laptops, a ridiculous amount with Starbucks coffee cups in hand. It was all pretty cliched and kind of awesome.

Clary loved it.

She loved everything about it.

She loved the freedom that came with being here, even though her parents were never over-bearing or restrictive as she grew up. She loved living with her best friend, who she got sick of sometimes and fought with on a semi-weekly basis, but didn't regret moving in with him. She loved her classes and being around people who got her love for sketching, and painting, and making things come to life on the paper or canvas in front of her. She loved the new friends she had made and surrounded herself with. She loved the girls and boys that she had fooled around with as she experimented and had fun. She loved getting drunk on Saturday nights and riding out the hangover by getting high and stuffing her face with greasy food. She loved the dinners she would have with Simon and Lydia and Raphael Santiago of ramen and cheap wine because they were too broke to afford anything else. And she loved how the grumpy, hot guy who owned one of the popular student bars in town and lived a few blocks away from her and Simon didn't glare at her all the time anymore.

Life was pretty damn good.

"I think I'm gonna buy the whole store," Lydia said decidedly. "I hardly have any money until our allowance comes through next Tuesday, but I think I'm gonna spend every last cent on cupcakes."

"That's sounds like a totally mature and responsible use of money," Clary replied wryly.

"I definitely think so," Lydia grinned widely, leaning in to smush a kiss against Clary's cheek as they linked arms together and walked off campus. Clary and Simon's apartment building was five blocks away from campus, just far enough away that they were outside the student housing zone, but close enough that they didn't need to use public or private transport to get to and from University. Sprinkle Palace was popular with everyone who knew where it was hidden behind a bookstore and a little international grocery store, and most of the cupcakes had been sold by the time the girls had got there, as the time edged on three-thirty.

"Me first!" Lydia shoved her hip into Clary's side, pushing in front of her. The red head rolled her eyes and laughed, looking over the glass cabinet in front of her. Luckily enough there were still a couple of Jaffa As flavoured cupcakes there, which were Simon's favourite. He had asked her to get a Mousse-A-Licious as well, which was Raphael's favourite, so undoubtedly he was at their apartment as well. "Can I get two Bloody Berry's?" Lydia asked. "And can I also get a couple of slices of the passionfruit fudge? And also some of the boysenberry ripple fudge? Oh, and also one of the Coco-Crazy cupcakes?" Clary rolled her eyes and smothered a laugh.

"And can I please get two of the Jaffa As, two of the Mousse-A-Licious and one of the Lemonator's?" Clary added, speaking over Lydia's shoulder. As the girl behind the counter was gathering up their food, Clary turned to her friend. "Shit, you got the munchies, girl."

"Maybe just a little," Lydia giggled.

"You got enough of that stuff to share with me when we get home?" Clary wiggled her eyebrows.

"Nope," Lydia cringed. "Sorry, I smoked the rest of my stash." They fell quiet for a moment as they accepted their cupcakes and fudge, and paid for their food, and then left the store. "Anyway, why would you want my bud when you get that premium shit from lover boy?" Clary rolled her eyes at the nickname.

"Don't call him that," was all she said, and Lydia shrugged. Lydia's cravings were clearly getting the better of her, because she wasn't even going to wait the five minute walk back to Clary and Simon's apartment before pulling the first cupcake out of the back and sinking her teeth into it with an orgasmic moan.

"Holy shit," she groaned, closing her eyes and her steps getting a little unbalanced. Clary quickly hooked her arm around her friends waist to get her walking in a straight line again. "Holy shit, I forget how good these are. And then you have the first bite and it's just so. fucking. good." Clary laughed and glanced over at her friend, who know had pink and red icing gathered at the corners of her mouths. Clary reached over licked at one corner, the side closest to her, and Lydia laughed, turning her face so that their lips met for a brief moment before they were both giggling and pulling apart.

"Come on," Clary urged. "We need to get home or else Simon will throw a hissy fit." Lydia nodded, trying to shove more of the cupcake into her mouth as they picked up the pace. They reached their apartment building and took the stairs to the third floor because the the elevator was temperamental, and after getting stuck in it for a fourth time, the group had decided that they weren't going to risk it again. The apartment building definitely wasn't the flashest option around, but it was still nice, and Simon and Clary were lucky that they had been able to make enough money on their gap year to be able to afford their own place. A lot of University students had to live at home, or in houses or apartments with five or six other people, or in the shitty, run down holes that hardly had any hot water and were barely big enough to turn around in. Because Simon and Clary had taken a year to work their asses off before applying to University, they had been able to save so that they had a nice place, and she was glad for that.

"We're here, mother fuckers!" Lydia crowed as Clary unlocked the front door and the two girls walked inside.

"Fucking finally!" Simon huffed and got up from the overstuffed couch in the lounge and loped over to them, holding out his hand for the bag of cupcakes. Clary handed them over, proffering her cheek for her welcoming home kiss. Raphael was slouched in one of the armchairs, and Lydia skipped over to him, sitting on his lap and slinging an arm around his shoulders.

"Thank God you're here," Raphael groaned. "I was going crazy—I swear this guy actually enjoys studying."

"I do enjoy studying," Simon made a face at his friend. "I'm taking a degree in something I like so yeah, I like learning about it."

"Dude, it's Math," Raphael cringed as he was handed his cupcake and he bit into it. "This is heaven." Lydia finally took off her sunglasses, now that they were away from the public and no one was going to stare at her bloodshot eyes. She was coming down from her high now, and Clary could see that she was getting a little sleepy. Simon's accounting work sheets and thick books were spread across the coffee table, and Raphael's contribution was obvious—the two bottles of beer on the ground.

"Tell me we're going out tonight!" Clary announced as she pulled out the Lemonator cupcake and then collapsed onto the couch, snuggling up next to Simon when he leaned back into the cushions.

"I've got a date with Maureen," Simon mumbled, knowing the reaction from everyone in the room before it even happened.

"Oh, come on!"

"No—not Maureen!"

"Why?!"

"You don't even like her that much?!"

"She's so annoying!"

"And she stares at you like she has a shrine of you in her basement!"

"Okay, okay, come on," Simon glanced around them with a warning look, although there was really no heat behind the look. "She's nice."

"She's weird," Clary grunted. "And she thinks that me and you are sleeping together! She gets all jealous and weird whenever I'm around."

"To be fair, we did sleep together," Simon pointed out.

"Yeah, when we were fifteen! To get rid of our virginity's! It doesn't even count!" Clary protested. Raphael snorted through a mouthful of his cupcake.

"That's cold, Clare. Real cold," he pointed a finger over at her. "Taking that away from a man like that."

"You're just jealous coz you're the only one in this room who hasn't slept with her," Lydia poked him in the side. Raphael just rolled his eyes, but didn't say anything else. "Anyway! Apart from Simon being all boring and shit, what about the three of us? We could give Mags a call? Go out to MJ's?"

"Sounds good," Clary nodded enthusiastically.

"And we can totally stare at your lover boy if there's no hot guys there," Lydia laughed as she leaned forward in Raphael's lap. "He's always there on a Friday night."

Alright! So, my recommendations this time...Songwise, the ones I've had on repeat are; Somebody New, by Cedric Gervais. Fucking loooove it, my husband hates it, but I play it loud as hell when I'm the only one in the car. Haha. First Time by Kygo and Ellie Goulding, this one is cute and sweet, makes me think back to being a teenager. Then there's Easy by Sky Ferreira, which is just beautiful, from the movie Baby Driver, and the last one is Too Much To Ask by Niall Horan, which is just so pretty.

Movie wise, I've recently seen Kingsmen 2, which was fucking great, although my favourite character...*quietly sobs in corner*. Also It, which was great as well, the kids were all so fucking brilliant in that movie, and I have to admit, I ship Reddie. I think they're absolutely adorable. Bill Skarsgard did an amazing job. And then tomorrow, I'll be seeing Thor: Ragnorok! It looks amazing, so fingers crossed.

And then in the TV show area, I've just started watching The Gifted, which is pretty good so far. Also binged the second season of Shooter, which I've really enjoyed, and I hope that there's more! Another one is Wynonna Earp, which took me a while to get into, but I love it now. Wynonna and Waverly are just fucking amazing. And then there's just the general shows that I've been keeping up with, like How To Get Away With Murder, Gotham and NCIS: Los Angeles, all of which are great.

So! Let me know what you guys think of the chapter, let me know if you guys have any prompts or songs you want me to write about (any of the fandoms I'm in, check my profile, and keep in mind I will try to write them, but can't guarantee all of them) and absolutely recommend any songs, movies, tv shows or fics to me!

There's a preview of the next chapter for a review... xxx