I wake up to the sound of my alarm clock and shut it off with a groan, why did school have to start so early?
I get out of bed and walk to the bathroom for a shower. Once finished I went to my closet and put on some white denim shorts, a burgundy shirt and beige sandals.
I walk to my bed and gently shake Max's shoulder, he jumps up and scrambles away, when he see's its just me he crawls over and hugs me.
We sit there for a few minutes, not saying anything to each other. When he lets go I ask him what's wrong, he replies, "I just can't believe that you took me in, I'm so happy that you did." I smile and hug him, "I'm happy that we took you in too"
Once dressed in a pair of jeans, gray shirt and black sneakers I take him downstairs and make breakfast for the two of us. After a while Jon comes down with dad, and join us.
"Jonathan you will go to school but Clary, you're coming with me and max to the elementary school next to your high school to register him, after that I will be taking your car to work so you and max will need to go home with John." Dad tells us placing all the dishes in the dishwasher. We nod and head outside. I take max with me in my car while dad goes with Jon.
When we arrive I park my car in the elementary so dad can get to it easily.
We enter the building and head to the main office and register max and give the principle my number incase anything happens. The middle aged woman at the desk told me that I could take max to class now, so I say bye to dad and walk towards Max's new class.
When I'm about to knock I notice that he was not with me and see him at the end of the hall, I walk over to him and crouch down to be eye level with him "What's wrong max?".
He looks at me with fear and sadness in his eyes, a stray tear falling onto his cheek. I wipe it away as he speaks "What if they don't like me? What if they make fun of me because I don't have a proper family?" I sigh as I hear him speaking and take him by his shoulders "Max they are not going to make fun of you, and if they do you could always go to the principle and they'll call me. Ok?"
He nods and gives me a hug, after a minute or so he lets go so I grab his hand and walk him towards the classroom.
I knock on the door before opening it, max instantly hides behind me.
"Good morning sir" I say to the teacher, "My name is Clary Morgenstern, and this little guy here is max" I pull him forward gently so the class could get a good look at him but he turns around and buries his face in my shirt.
I talk to the teacher for a few minutes, and tell him that the principle has my number incase anything happens before giving Max a kiss and exiting the building towards my school.
I take a seat at my usual table at lunch, along with Jon, Simon, Izzy, Magus, Alec, Maia and Jordan. Jace is sitting in the center of the cafeteria with the "Popular's". He keeps sneaking glances at our table, but I guessed that he's doing it to keep an eye out on Izzy and Alec.
Jon tells us a corny joke so I throw a ketchup covered French fry and laugh when it hits him square in the face.
We sit talking for a while, but then Jace slides into the seat next to mine and steals one of my French fries "HEY" I yell making a grab for it. He simply just keeps me away with his arm and throws it into his mouth smirking at me.
I do the most adult thing I possibly could and stick my tongue out at him, but the prick just laughs. "Why so angry shortcake?" my eyebrows raise at this "Shortcake?" He gives a light chuckle and steals another fry "Yes shortcake, I'm calling you that because you are a lot like strawberry shortcake with your height and your fiery red hair" I hit his arm and steal back the French fry he was trying to take from me and popped it into my mouth.
I look across the table at Izzy after hearing her cough and see her smiling while rolling her eyes at us. "You guys are so.." She's interrupted when the doors of the cafeteria are burst open, a small figure with black hair runs into the room. He stops for a moment looking around, his face is streaked with tears and his Grey eyes are red and puffy. He catches sight of me and runs over to my table jumping onto my lap "CLARY!"
I hold him in my lap for a moment before noticing that the whole cafeteria's staring. I make the quick decision to get up and take him to the hallway. He clings to my neck as we walk, and for some odd reason Jace was following us. I place Max on the floor by my locker and pull out some tissues. It takes a few minutes but I finally calm him down enough do drink some water. Once he's finished he crawls back onto my lap and rests his head on my shoulder.
"What happened max?" I ask while Jace takes a seat to my right, something I'm still confused about, "We were in music class when the teacher asked me to introduce myself, so I went up and told them that my name is max, and that I was born in the first of august 2009 (Sorry if this isn't accurate and he is in the first grade) and stopped talking, the teacher asked to talk more but I didn't, so she asked about my parents. I told them that my mom died and that I have you now, but this one kid started making fun of me so I came here" he said sniffling, burying his face further into my neck.
I rub his back for a bit, but then Jace suddenly kneels in front of us, his hand over mine on max's back, "Don't listen to them little guy, They don't know what they're talking about", he looks up and Jace freezes for a moment, but then swiftly covers it up with a comforting smile, "Who are you?" Max asks looking at Jace as if he were the most fascinating thing he's seen in his life, "I'm Jace Herondale.." "Herondale?" I quickly interrupt, "Shouldn't your name be Lightwood like Alec and Izzy?"
I could see that I had struck a nerve because his face became slightly more guarded, but still soft because max was still here "That's a story for another time. Now why don't you tell me your name?" he says directing the question to max, "I can't keep calling you little guy now can I?"
Max shakes his head and wipes his eyes "My name is Max"
"Max what?", he looks scared for a moment, probably not sure what his last name should be so I decide to step in, "Morgenstern, Max Morgenstern"
He looks up at me and smiles so brightly I wondered if his face was gonna fall off. He threw his arms around my neck, giving me a hug with all his little strength, and keeps on thanking me.
The bell rings signaling the end of lunch so I call Max's school and ask them if I could keep him with me for the rest of the day and tell them that I want to speak to the young boy and his parents tomorrow. When he gives me the ok I grab my books and take Max with me to music class. When we arrive there John makes sure that he's ok before pulling me to the side.
"What happened to him?" "This one kid made fun of him because he doesn't have parents, but don't worry he's fine now, I'm gonna talk to the other boy's parents tomorrow" John nods his head and we head back to our seats.
When we get there the group, especially Izzy, bombard me with questions about max, "His name is max and he's six years old. I found him yesterday alone on the streets so I decided to take him in" They all nod their heads and Izzy attacks max, pinching his cheeks and giving him kisses, Max just sits there blushing.
When the bell rings me and the gang (Izzy, Simon, Magnus, Alec, Maia, Jordan, John, and surprisingly Jace) walk towards the locker room.
I let John take max with him before going to my gym locker and changing. When I come out I see John, Alec, Magnus, Jordan, Maia, Izzy, Simon and once again Jace are at the bleachers with max.
I walk towards them and take a seat Between Simon and Jace. Max crawls onto my lap and I hold him as we talk. After a while the coach comes in and tells us that were playing dodge ball today. I leave max on the bleachers, making sure he's fine with it, and walk towards the middle of the gym with the rest of the class.
I look around me and take a good look at my team, the majority of the team is my friends, which was good, and two people I didn't know.
On the opposing team is all the populars, Jace included. I decide that I would do my best to get him and Seelie Queen out of the game.
After half an hour of playing the only people who are left are me, Jon, Jace and a popular called Sebastian.
I throw a ball at Sebastian when he isn't paying attention and it hits him on his arm. He glares at me before going to his group on the bleachers.
I hear a loud SMACK and look to the side to see that Jace had hit Jon, so now it's just the two of us. He throws a ball but I grab it and throw it at him, hitting him square on the chest.
I smile in victory and cheer with the rest of my team. When we finish cheering the coach tells us that its time to go and change.
.I'm the last one in the gym because I offered to put all the balls away and let max go ahead with John, and the coach was more than happy about that.
I had just locked the equipment door when I feel someone grab my arm and drag me to a hidden alcove, pushing me against the wall with their body.
"Listen here pip-squeak" I hear the voice of Sebastian Verlac growl in my ear. "I don't like it when I lose, especially to a weakling like you. So you'd better watch your back from now on"
He bites my neck and I scream out. I'm cut mid scream by his hand covering my mouth. When he's done there's blood trickling down my neck, "This was just a warning" He growls before pushing me roughly against the wall, "And if you tell anyone about this, that little runt of yours is gonna get it" With that final sentence he leaves.
Oh no, I think while pushing myself up, what am I going to do?
I push myself up into a standing position and stagger into the locker, when I look into the mirror I see that my hair is wilder than usual, and that there's blood on the right side of my neck. I quickly grab a napkin and clean up my neck, thankful when I see that the wound isn't too obvious. I grab my stuff and head to John car. He looks up when he hears me coming and gives me a frown "What took you so long?" I think for a moment then give a quick reply "The coach wanted to thank me after I put all the stuff away" He nods his head and motions me to get inside the car, max is already sitting in the backseat.
The drive home was silent, and I'm now in the spare room to the left of mine helping my dad and John fix it up for Max. We learned that he used to love reading comic books he'd find in the trash so we decided to buy him some comics and manga and to theme his room on them. When were finished we call him over and to say that he is ecstatic would be an under statement, he jumped around the room checking everything from the comics to the games and to the computer he had in there. He gave us all hugs, me the longest, and ran straight for the comics.
At around Five I decide to go to the supermarket to get some pop tarts. I walk a couple blocks, four to be exact. And stop in front of an ally to answer my phone, "Hello?" "Well hello to you short cake" I internally groan, why is Jace calling me? "What do you want a Jace?" "You wound me my dear clary, I was calling to check up on dear old max, how is the little guy?" "He's doing fine, we got him some comics and he went crazy over them" "That sounds nice" "It is, I'm sorry but I need to go, see you at school tomorrow" "Alright shortcake, see you tomorrow" I hang up the phone and put it away in my bag. I raise my head up when I hear footsteps, when I look around I don't see any one so I begin walking away from the ally when a hand grabs my waist and another one clamps my mouth shut. I'm dragged to the end of the ally and am pushed against the wall, "Hello again sun shine" I look up into the eyes of Sebastian, and fear instantly hits me, "What do you want Sebastian?" I ask struggling against his hold, he laughs at my attempts tightening his grip on me, "Isn't obvious? I want revenge! And I am gonna get it" He punches me in my stomach and I double over, when I do he pushes me to the ground and places his face next to my ears, "Tomorrow you are going to go on a date with me, If you don't I'll be sure to pay little pathetic Max a visit, understand?" I repeatedly nod my head, making sure he knew that I was agreeing so he wouldn't go after max, "Good, pick you up at seven" he places a kiss to my neck, on the spot where my wound is and swiftly stands up, giving me a wink before leaving.
I lay there for a moment, trying to process what just happened, "I am going on a date with Sebastian Verlac!" I am instantly filled with dread, what am I gonna tell dad and John?
And here is chapter 2. I really enjoyed rewriting this and I can't wait to see how i end up writing this story cause I'm not sure about its plan yet, I know very professional of me. Now you all must know my story "They're little bambinos" And how it was a fail both times I've posted it, so I'm planning on deleting both versions "They will be saved on my laptop" and create a new one, but not now because I'm working on this story.
Today I decided on another question and it is:
If you were a guy (If you were originally a girl) would you wear briefs or boxers? And if you were to be a girl (If you were originally a guy) Would you wear a sports bra or a regular bra?
My answer: considering I'm a girl and would be turned into a guy, I would choose boxers.
Until next time, Love ya'll.
