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P.S. Make sure to read the A/N at the bottom, it's very important.

"You'd better get out of here, if you know what's good for you, little girl." Aaaand boom went that idea.

"Is that a threat? And my name isn't little girl, it's Clary. As you well know." She couldn't believe that she was stuck with this for the next few days.

"Be that as it may red, you'd still leave if you knew what was good for you." He hadn't answered her question. And now she was annoyed. Her name was Clary!

"My name is Clary," she hissed as they turned down another corridor, "I won't say it again and would you stop threatening me. Why would I leave?"

"A pixie like you will never last in this school" he said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. It was the tone of his voice that set her off.

"Is it impossible for you to go one sentence without insulting me?" She demanded, infuriated at the twitch of his lips as he held back a laugh at her annoyed state. "And I think you'll find that I'm resilient" she added.

"To answer your question Ariel, yes it would be." He was laughing.

"Well you're no Greek God either Goldielocks" She was beyond pissed that she had to spend her time with something like him. Yes something.

"You're right, I'm better. Thanks for acknowledging it" Oh God! He had an ego the size of France.

"Wow! I don't think I've ever met someone so blindsided by their ego. Tell me how do you fit though doors with it?"

"I don't have to. The doors move out of the way for me"

"Delusional and crazy. Just my luck" Clary muttered under her breath.

"I'm not crazy, everyone else is simply too stupid to recognise my brilliance. Anyways we're getting off track, if you want to know why this school will destroy you, you're about to find out," the sudden grimness in his tone set alarm bells ringing in her head. It was all she could do to stare at him as he opened the door they'd stopped in front of, her stomach churning, "Welcome to Shadowhunter High and Ave Ateque Vale"

The classroom was designed like every other classroom in America. It had a table at the top and desks filing the centre in rows like every other classroom in America. The walls were full of posters and the board at the top was filled with writing like every other classroom in America. It was was the students that filled it however that made it unlike every other classroom in America. They sat in six groups in six different parts of the room and most groups were glaring at another group. The teacher wasn't there yet and even though Clary had just arrived in the school even she could tell that the hostility went a long way beyond the walls of Room 47. It was more like several opposing sides of war, if she was being honest.

"What happened in here to make everyone so tense?" She whispered to Jace as everyone suddenly stopped glaring at each other and stared up at her. The room was so silent you could hear a pin drop.

"Nothing in particular, it's usually like this here" he shrugged.

"Seriously? It looks like the room is about to erupt into battle" there was no way a school was this hostile.

"That's because everybody hates someone else. Take the rich kids for example they hate the jocks and cheerleaders, like actually detest them and the feeling goes both ways" he explained pointing to two groups in each corner who were each staring at the other as if imaging their violent downfalls. Really if Clary were to compare the groups to anything the rich kids would be vampires and the jocks would be werewolves.

"What so its a high school feud. How bad could it be?" She asked, he was probably taking it way too seriously.

"Last year a fight broke out at the dance. Half the school ended up in casualty" he sounded serious but she still didn't believe him.

"As if" she scoffed. He looked at her sharply.

"I'm telling the the truth. My arm was broken in three places" he informed, stunning her into silence. Everyone was still staring at them, taking her in. She looked around the class, aside from the two afore mentioned groups there were four more in the room. If she were to take a guess she'd say two were the drama group and the green lovers group, the kind that protested for the environment and made it into a riot when things didn't go to plan. There were two more groups in the centre of the room that everyone was avoiding and subtly glaring at. The two groups were openly glaring at each other. Out of everyone in the room it was those two who looked most ready to jump into a fight with the other at a moments notice. There were two seats between them. Of course it was just her luck that it was those two seats that Jace led her two. He sat down beside a girl, who looked like the girl from the photo in the principles office earlier. She heard him call her 'Aline' but wasn't paying attention to the rest of what they said. She was too busy observing the two groups she now sat between. If the attitude of everyone else on the room was anything to go by it was these two groups who ran the school. Remembering what Izzy said back in the office the group Jace sat with was probably the Student Council, which only left the other group. She turned to study the closest one of them who sat next to her. He had black hair and when he turned to look at her she noticed that his eyes were pitch black. Something about him gave her the shivers, though maybe it was just the eyes. After fully taking her in he finally spoke.

"Hi. I'm Sebastian"

So I'm sorry it took me so long to update but I sort of wrote myself into a corner in the last chapter and it took me a while to figure out where to go from there. Then school started last week and I've been caught up in homework all week and if this week has been anything to go by I'm going to be very busy this year especially with study for the leaving cert in June so I'm not sure how regularly I will be able to update. I will try update at least every two weeks but once everything starts up again it's going to get hectic. Just apologizing in advance if I leave it unupdated for a while.

On another note thanks to everyone who followed/favourited/reviewed on the last chapter. It means so much to me and to AlesiaJ89 I couldn't agree more, I hope this chapter answered your question. Your review gave me the kick I needed to get on with this chapter.

So after that long A/N (sorry about that btw) please remember to follow/favourite/review. it will really make my day. Until next time:)

Liz399

(P.S. Who else is counting down the hours to Empire of Storms? I'm going straight to town after school Tuesday to get it. CAN'T WAIT!)