AN: It's so good to read your reviews they really do help me to keep on writing. I'm going to try my hardest to do a chapter each week, but I still have school and life to keep track of, so I won't make any promises. I saw a review saying that the way I'm doing my pov changes is confusing and I'm just going to write the name of the person I'm doing the point of view in and that way it'll be clear. Here's chapter 2…
Clary's POV
We stopped at a small place that read Takis in big letters. It looked really old and ugly from the outside and I wasn't really sure why this rich kid with one of the most expensive cars I've been in would take me here.
"Jace I'm glad that you're doing all this and no offense, but this place is kind of a dump."
"Red I don't think it's fair that you're being so judgemental you haven't even tasted the food."
"I thought that we were only getting coffee?" I asked him giving him a look.
"I'm offering to buy you food, should you really be complaining?"
"You promised that we were going to get back in time before first period was over. This is my first day of school and I'm already hated by pretty much everyone and I don't want my teacher's to hate me too."
"Look, Red nobody hates you. You're just the new girl and for some reason everyone just has something against the new kid."
"Except for you?" I asked attempting to raise my eyebrow and failing.
"I guess I have a thing for girls that make me hot." He said smirking at me.
"Next time I'll spill an ice coffee on you." I said while Jace and I got out of the car.
We walked inside, but it didn't look any nicer on the inside than on the outside. I looked around and realized that most of the customers were wearing uniforms just like Jace. The one place that I thought was going to give me some time away from the students at the school was filled with them. A beautiful girl with long black hair and blue eyes started to walk towards us and I was glad that I was with Jace who basically distracted anyone from taking notice of me.
"Hey Isabelle." Jace said smiling at the girl.
"Hey, Jace. Where's Alec?" The blue eyed girl asked Jace.
"I kind of didn't tell him that we were going to be here."
"You didn't tell Alec, but you told the new girl to join you?"
"Excuse my sister, this is just her extremely impolite way of asking for your name. Which is-
"Clary Morgen-" I stopped myself before saying my last name. Everyone knew who I was because of my last name, but if they didn't know my last name then maybe they wouldn't know… "Clary Fray."
"Ok… anyways I heard that you don't want to go to Kaelie's party? Why?"
"Look, Izzy I owe Clary a coffee, so we can talk about this later."
"No we can talk about it while you're buying us both a coffee."
"Why can't you just make one of your boyfriends buy you one?"
"You're right I'm sorry for ruining your date with the new girl." She looked over at me and whispered to Jace, "You could do better."
"Ignore my sister she can be a real bitch when she gets jealous."
"Don't worry Jace, I think it'd be better if I just left."I said giving a small smile to both of them.
I started to walk out when I felt a hand go on my shoulder. I turned around and saw Isabelle standing there and she walked me outside.
"Look I'm sorry for what I said, but we need to talk."
"Ok sure." I said pulling my arm away from her grip.
"I know who you are Clary and I don't blame you for anything your dad did, but you don't know Kaelie like I do. If she knows who you are and she sees you with Jace then she'll destroy you and make your world a living hell. You seem like a nice girl, so I don't want you to get hurt."
"I'm supposed to believe that you said all those things inside because you're trying to be nice and save me from Kaelie. Who is I'm assuming Jace's girlfriend?"
"Look I'll prove it to you I'll give you a ride to the school and you know what how about you come to that party I was talking about."
"I don't think that would be a good idea. I've never really been to a party and I'm not sure that I want to go to one."
"C'mon it'll be fun. I can let you borrow some clothes and I can do your makeup and your hair. I'm not taking no for an answer, unless you have other plans on a friday night than you're coming."
"Then I guess I'm coming." I said and she smiled at me.
"Are you two ok?" Jace asked while he walked outside.
"Yeah we're fine. I was about to give Clary a ride back to school."
"I thought I was going to take you back to the school. What about the coffee I owe you?" Jace said looking at me.
Isabelle opened her mouth to answer, but I stopped her and said, "I didn't want to be a bother and Isabelle said she was going back to the school, so she offered to take me back. The whole coffee thing is fine as long as you don't run into more of my coffee."
"I don't know the idea is very tempting." Jace said, but he didn't sound convinced.
"C'mon Clary I'm parked on this side." Isabelle said tugging at my arm.
We walked away from Jace before he said anything else. I didn't know why I was going along with what this girl wanted me to do. Why would I care about one girl that threatened me? I was only hanging out with Jace because he invited me and he was being nice to me. I guess I overestimated how much people knew who I was. The only problem is that if Kaelie did ever find out who I was then she would probably let everyone know.
I only walked through those front doors and into the main office because I thought that I could get into art school. How could I do that if everyone at this school hated me? Then again not everyone here hated me. I mean Isabelle didn't look like she was trying to hurt me even after she said all that while we were in Takis. I actually kind of trusted that Isabelle was trying to help me even if she did it by being rude to me, the only person I didn't trust was being sincere was Jace. Jace was actually being nice to me and it isn't like a teacher or security guard because it isn't his job. It was like he didn't know who the Morgenstern family was like he didn't care who they were.
"How did you know?" I asked while we got into Isabelle's car.
"How did I know what?"
"That I was Clary Morgenstern?"
"Besides how obvious you made it when you said the first 6 letters of Morgen- Fray and my mom told me that the daughter of Valentine Morgenstern was going to be in my school." She put her hair behind her ears and slowly got out of the driveway, "And after that she pretty much told me everything up to your blood type."
"Your mom seems nice."
"Yeah you should meet her some time, she'd love you." she said and I felt myself giggle, "Weird, I thought the daughter of a murderer would be incapable of laughter."
"Yeah I thought so too."
"You know for what it's worth I'm glad you came to our school. As much as I love my friends and this school it was getting boring we needed some excitement."
"I'm glad my psychopath of a dad managed to do some good."
"I don't mean to get all personal, but where is your dad?"
"He's in the bahamas working on his tan." I said and at first we were both laughing at the idea, but once we stopped laughing the tension grew between us, "I don't know he got really angry and usually when he does that he sends me to stay a couple of days with one of his minions. Except this time he sent me here with some guy named Hodge Starkweather. He later explained in a letter that because he was accused of killing over 300 people I shouldn't be around him just in case they publicized me too. I guess it didn't really matter anyways."
"What about your mom?"
"Well, from what I've heard from my babysitter, which is a terrible source, my mom was going to leave me on the streets, but when my dad found out about me he turned out to be a hero and he had offered her to stay in our house, but she ran away when she realized she wasn't strong enough to be a mom." There was a small silence between us then I said, "I should've told you this before, but I'm like 90% sure that my babysitter had a thing for my dad and over half of the things I said are probably made up."
"Well, what do you know is 100% true?"
"Her name was Jocelyn and she's a girl."
"Do you have any pictures of her?"
"No, but I'm pretty sure that she had hair like me only because my dad's hair is a really white blonde and his hair is no where close to curly."
"Lucky for you, you look nothing like your dad and you don't have to deal with being recognized more often than you want. You know it wouldn't be a terrible idea to tell people that your name is Clary Fray. I mean if I didn't know who you were than I would've definitely believed you."
"Wait wasn't everyone at your school informed that I was going to be coming?"
"If they did that then everyone and their mother would've rioted, no offense. They only told employees, so that you'd feel safe and my dad is the assistant principal. Only problem was that my mom doesn't know the meaning of self control, so after she started telling almost everyone about you we thought that you were screwed. If it wasn't for the fact that you look nothing like your dad then everyone would've probably known who you were."
Then it was all just in my head. I had made myself paranoid at the idea that everyone knew who I was and everyone hated me, but it was only in my head. After walking into the school I thought that everyone was glaring at me. It's good to know that even though my mom hated me she still saved me from being hated.
Izzy parked at the school and fortunately for us, we weren't the only students outside which probably meant it was the end of first period, "What's your next class?" Isabelle asked me.
"I think I have a drawing class with Luke Garroway."
"I have him too, he's pretty cool and for a teacher who's been here over for over 10 years he's kind of hot."
"Do you know who Magnus is?"
"Yeah he used to be my teacher."
"How old is he?"
"He's barely 24 and I know what you're thinking, but the Banes are very well respected and they're one of the richest families in New York. If one of them were to say that they want the principal's job then you say yes with a smile on your face."
"That's probably what they thought when they accepted me in the school, except instead of respect they feel fear."
"Clary that's not true, have you met the principal, she doesn't have feelings and if she does it's going to take more than fear to show them."
"I guess you're right and do you by chance know how they choose which kids get to come to this school?"
"Well you have to get a recommendation letter from an employee in the school then the assistant principal or the principal principal have to ok it."
"That's weird I met the principal and she didn't try to hide the fact that she hates me. If it wasn't for Jace she would've probably called the cops on me because I wasn't in class."
"Yeah Jace really knows how to turn on the charm."
We walked out of the car and I followed Isabelle as we walked back inside of the school. The security guard from before waved at me and I smiled back. Nobody thought it was weird that there were students leaving and entering the school that's what saved us from any questioning looks.
This time walking into the school was different. This time nobody was staring at me. This time I didn't want to hold my head down because I was afraid. This time I felt like going to this school wouldn't be so bad.
Jace POV
"Damnit Isabelle, answer me." I whispered under my breath staring at my phone screen.
I had sent her so many texts and I even called her, but she hasn't answered. I knew Isabelle was never rude to a stranger unless she didn't think that she was being rude. Then again I've known Isabelle for years and I'm used to her various personality traits, but Clary? She was nowhere close to knowing Isabelle like I do and she doesn't know this school like I do. I didn't want to see what would happen to a girl like her in a school like this.
Why did I care? She was only the new girl and that's all she was ever going to be. I couldn't make it anything more than that without hurting her or me. I had hated the fact that Valentine had enough power and money to hide while everyone else was trying to figure out where he is. Then again not everyone knew about Clary and even though I hated Valentine, I couldn't make myself hate Clary for something that wasn't her fault, but I couldn't be her friend. If I was her friend I would only make unnecessary problems in her life.
I walked out of Takis with the coffee I had ordered for Clary while she was still here.
I started to walk out when I heard someone call out my name from behind me, "Hey Jace, where are you going?"
I turned around to see Sebastian Verlac smiling at me and although half the time that I was talking with him I wanted to punch him in the face, I smiled back.
"Why is everyone saying that you don't want to go to Kaelie's party and that you've been hanging out with the new girl?"
"I'm shocked it took longer than an hour for the whole school to know."
"Give us some credit I mean this wasn't as big as the pregnancy that happened with that coach and one of his players."
"I was just being nice to her and if not going to the party is such a big deal than I'll just go to the stupid party."
"Well I don't really care about the party, but the new girl is kind of hot and I don't want to get in the middle of anything that might be going on between you guys."
I felt my voice hesitate, but I still answered him casually, "She's not really my type, but she is pretty hot."
"Maybe you can be my wingman and talk to her about me. You can take her to Kaelie's party and she and I can you know talk."
"Look man I've got to get back to school. I kind of told Isabelle that I'd go back to hang out with Alec." I said walking away from him.
I had told myself that I wanted to hurt her. I told myself that I was going to get revenge on her for what her dad did, but I couldn't blame her. I should've told Sebastian that I was into her, it's not like it'd be a lie. I was interested in her and there was something about her that made me want to get to know her more. Sebastian was one of the worst players in the school and he was probably going to cause more pain to her than I would be capable of. It's not like I had to worry about her going to the party, she didn't even know about it. I couldn't hurt her, I didn't want to hurt her, and I wasn't going to let anyone else hurt her.
AN: I know that I haven't updated in awhile, but I haven't had a lot of time to write this chapter. I swear that I'll try my best to finish the next chapter before Sunday, but no promises. Hope you guys enjoyed this chapter, please review what you thought and please give me advice if you have any. I take any kind of criticism, it helps me write better and makes this story more enjoyable.
