Disclamer: I do not own any character or anything from the Mortal Instuments, they of course all belong to Cassandra Clare.
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Clary was hypnotized by the golden boy. She had a feeling she never had before. Suddenly she felt a pinch on her arm and she finally tore her eyes away to look at Simon with a confused and dazed expression on her face. "Ouch, what was that for?" "I been talking to you and you didn't notice because you were ogling boys, so I had to snap you out of it." Simon was grinning at her and Clary felt a blush creep up her neck. Before she got a chance to defend herself, Izzie jumped in, " I totally get it Clary, Alec has some really hot friends. Why didn't I notice that before I got a boyfriend?" she mock-pouted at Simon and sighed, "but I guess it can be helped now, I'll just have to endure and close my eyes and pretend you're someone else!" "Oh yeah?" Simon reached out for her and started tickling her. Izzie started laughing and one thing led to another and they started kissing.
Clary looked away, she felt kind of awkward. She got eye contact with a girl standing close by. The girl took pity on her and came over.
"Hi there, I'm Maia, we haven't meet before, have we?" Maia had a big smile on her face. Her teeth looked extra white set of against her caramel colored skin. She looked casual chic in her green shorts and her army shirts.
"No I don't think so. I'm Clary, and the guy sucking face over there is my friend Simon."
"Nice to meet you. I go to college with Alec and the rest of the people here, do you know anybody else here or don't you want me to introduce you around?"
"Uhm, it's okay, I don't really need a big introduction, I'm just here to meet Izzie…" Clary trailed off feeling silly. The girl looked at her with an overbearing air and took her hand and pulled her over to the group of girls lying in the deck chairs by the pool.
"Hey ladies! This here is Clary. Clary this is Aline, Kaelie, Tessa and Jessie." Clary looked the girls over. They were all so mature and beautiful. Clary felt a little out of place with her wild red hair. Tessa send Clary a warm smile and Clary felt better. Tessa was what Clary always thought of as a typical English rose. She was tall, almost as pale as Clary, with beautiful grey eyes and dark brown hair. She was wearing a pale pink summer dress.
Jessie looked her over and apparently decided she wasn't worth her time because she just sighed and closed her eyes again.
The Asian looking girl with the long straight black hair called Alina, scooted forward on her seat causing her red skirt to slide up. "Nice to meet you. I don't know if Maia told you, but we all go to the same college. But it's really random how we got to know each other. Mostly it's because of who's dating who. "
"Yeah, like my boyfriend is roommate with Alec, so I got to know him too, and my roommate is Alina, who's related to Magnus, who's now dating Alec." Kaelie said with a smile. Clary was a little confused because she barely knew any of these names and people, but she was thankful that they were being friendly.
She considered asking them about the blond guy, who she couldn't help but be aware of out of the corner of her eye. She didn't make it that far because the game apparently ended and the guys flooded up on the deck where they pulled of their shirts and jumped in the pool. Clary was afraid she was going to start drooling because WAUW! Goldenboy looked even better without a shirt on.
"Sorry about that." Simon was standing next to her again looking a little sheepishly but also a little smug. Clearly he enjoyed that Izzie was finally so open about their relationship.
"No you're not, but it's okay – I forgive you! It gave me a chance to meet some of the people here."
"Wow, Clarissa Fray meeting new people – AND liking it! Who would have guessed?" Simon was grinning at her.
Clary rolled her eyes, she wasn't that bad at meeting new people, she just really liked the people she already knew, which was the main reason she had been so nervous to meet Isabelle. Her eyes landed again on the hot guy and she couldn't help but think that she didn't mind getting to know him better, preferably in a place where it was just the two of them and where he was wearing even less clothes than he were at the moment. Seeing him wet, with water dripping down his body, his shorts hanging dangerously low on his hips…
Suddenly she saw something that totally ruined the fantasy; she saw the long-legged, busty blonde Kaelie being pulled into an embrace by goldenboy and then they started kissing. Clary felt utterly disappointed even though it wasn't really surprising that a guy that good-looking would have a girlfriend.
Clary tore her eyes away and started checking out the other guys. So far she hadn't really notice them. In the corner of the pool two guys were making out, so Clary quickly moved past them. She did notice though that one of them had the same hair color as Izzie and since he obviously had a boyfriend he was probably Alec.
In the other end of the pool a few boys were playing a ballgame with the girls who by then had join them in the water. Besides the goldenboy there was three other guys. By the door there was three other guys leaving with Tessa and Jessie. Tessa caught Clary's eyes and smiled and waved before they all left.
Izzie caught Clary's hand. "Come on, let's get in our bikinis and get in the pool," she smiled at Clary and turned to Simon and said, "you can change in the guest bathroom right in the hallway, 'kay?"
Clary had finally been introduced to Alec and to his boyfriend Magnus. They were both really nice, though Alec kept looking at Simon in a not entirely friendly way, and it was clear that Simon was getting nervous. He kept trying to make more space between him and Izzie, and Izzie just kept pressing herself closer, obviously aware of Simon's discomfort and fear. She apparently liked teasing both Simon and her brother, because every time she kissed Simon or got closer to him Alec sent them a disapproving look.
After they had talked a while the ballgame ended and a few of the guys came over to say hello. Clary learned that the goldenboy's name was Jace and he was childhood friends with one of the guys, Sebastian, who was rooming with the other guy, Jonathan. Both of the guys she very interested in talking with Clary, especially Sebastian. She didn't get to talk with Jace because Kaelie, Alina, Maia and a guy, named Jordan, were fooling around and splashing water on each other.
The water splashing spread and they all ended up joining, more or less willingly. Clary was laughingly backing away from Sebastian, who was slowly getting closer with a smirk on his face. Suddenly there was someone who pulled Sebastian under and saved her. When the savior got up from under the water, Clary saw that it was Jace aka goldenboy. He grinned at her and Clary felt her heart skip a beat. Wow he was beautiful!
"There you go, we don't want mean Sebastian scaring of the pretty girls by drowning them. I'm Jace by the way, who are you?"
Clary couldn't get a word out of her mouth, she was just staring at Jace. He started looking at her as if she was weird and Clary felt herself starting to blush. She finally manage to say something, sadly it was what she was thinking. "You're hot! Uhm I mean... I'm hot, I mean... it's uhm.. warm and uhm… I'm Clary?!"
(Okay, so not a lot happened, but stick with me it's coming!)