What's up everyone, I'm back, and I am so pumped to be finishing my favorite thing to write, the gym scenes, and even more specifically, the dodgeball scenes! This is going to be a lot of fun, and I think I might actually put a new point of view in… but no promises! Enjoy!
Clary:
Everyone knew what we would be doing in gym. The balls scattered in the middle of the gym didn't leave much to your imagination. We would be playing dodgeball.
The fun part wasn't that though. The fun part was what people didn't know about the game they were about to be playing. And what they didn't know was that the two new kids, even the "goth", were good at this type of thing.
It sounded like a some dumb fanfiction cliche as I thought about it in my head, but our father had been training us for this out whole lives. Well, not dodgeball specifically, since that would be strange, but physical activities.
See, we had a rather large family. Lots of siblings. But there was only even our father, and he wasn't always around to help us when something would happen, so we had to be taught how to do things for ourselves.
We were basically an army in our home. We would be prepared for attack at all times, and that came with a lot of expectations. We had to be in top shape, we had to have our swords and weapons polished at all times, our armor had to be on and clean unless we were sleeping, and of course, we had to be amazing at what we did. And what we did was fighting.
Not to brag, but if you called us the greatest fighters you wouldn't be wrong. Or at least, you wouldn't be all wrong.
Cause we had this horrid rivalry with our extended family that seemed to have been going on since the beginning of time.
You see, our oldest sibling, and our dad's favorite wanted something that dad didn't, so they got in a huge fight over it, and long story short Lucy got disowned and cast away from our home. Now, Lucy's children and my other siblings and I were in a war of a sorts.
So yes, we are the greatest fighters, but so are they. You understand the problem. The whole thing reminded me of this horrible fanfiction I had read a while back called It Isn't As Simple As Black and White.
"Clary! Jonathon! Since the two of you are new and don't know who is good and bad at this game, you will be team captains!" Coach Julian called out, using Jon's full name.
I groaned. Being on the opposite team from Jon was always pointless, since it just ended up being the two of us against each other in the end.
Jon went to the other side of gym, and Coach Emma told me to take the first pick. Now, I wouldn't call myself a feminist, but I also believed that girl's were good at traditionally male things a lot. That being said, I also wasnt an idiot, so I knew that I wanted more boys on my team.
"You," I called, pointing to a boy who looked very athletic. He walked over beside me, smirking like Jon did, and I had to admit to myself that I hadn't only picked him because he looked athletic. He also looked like Adonis.
His skin was tanned from time in the sun, and his physique was like Jon's but it was so much hotter on someone who wasnt my brother. The thing that was the most striking about him though was his eyes. They were golden. He was ordinary, unlike me and my family, but his eyes were just so…. Ugh! Perfect. And his hair too was perfect, the same stunning gold as his eyes. It looked like something spun on Rumpelstiltskin's wheel.
"Name's Jace," the boy whispered in my ear, and only my incredible will-power kept me from shivering and blushing.
"Clary. Don't be horrible," I responded, using the sass that has knocked over the first domino that lead to Jon and I moving.
While Jace and I's little exchange had been going on, Jon had picked one of the only other girl's in the class who even held a candle up to my beauty. I rolled my eyes, seeing that he was already flirting with her. This was exactly why my team usually won. I thought with my head, not my lower regions.
Jace pointed out a boy who I had also had my eye on towards the back of the crowd with raven hair and piercing blue eyes. He was still attractive, but he was definitely homosexual. It was one of the special traits those in my family could sense, the things that made someone who they were.
"Alec," Jace whispered to me, providing the boy's name for me.
"Alec!" I called out, and the boy smiled and began walking over. While Jon made his next pick, another pretty girl (*insert my eye roll*) I learned that Alec was Jace's adopted brother, and that last year he was on the varsity soccer and lacrosse teams, which was impressive for a sophomore, and it also meant that he would be on the same teams as Jon when he tried out.
Jon and I continued to go back and forth picking people for our teams until they were equally numbered. My team was definitely going to win though, because half of my brother's team was girl's who had a big ass.
We lined up on the blue lines at opposite ends of the gym and waited for Coach Emma to blow her whistle.
The whistle blew and immediately we were running to the line. Jon and I got their first, grabbing one ball each and sprinting back. I had made it halfway back across my teams half of the gym and there were still some people from Jon's team who were just picking up balls. I aimed at one of them, Kaelie I think, and let the ball go, hard and straight. The ball made contact and just like that, my team was already winning.
While I had been doing that, the rest of my team had been at work too. Just under a minute into the game and my team had gotten out four of Jon's team, with only one of ours out. And the one who got out from my team had been my last pick.
Up until now Jon had been trying to get his team in order, and now he was actually playing, which meant my team would start being picked off.
I caught Jon's eye and we smirked at each other. Let the game begin.
Sorry there wasnt a new point of view but I never promised! There will be one more part of the gym scene, so bear with me a little longer. Got some more backstory in here, and feel free to take some guesses at who you think Jon and Clary's family is! Leave a review please! Till next time! Bye!
