Chapter 4

Jace's P.O.V

I could see them sitting there anyone could with that red hair sticking out like a sore thumb. She sat there beside Will of all people and to make matters worse she was smiling and laughing with him. I narrowed my eyes and took a deep breath because it was only a matter of time before Clary would be crossed off from the list of girls to sleep with. There was no way she could ever resist me, no one could and I couldn't blame them. I looked back to Aline who was sitting beside me close enough so that she was almost on my lap. I smirked and she gave me a smile as she placed her hand on my arm. I could tell that this girl wanted me bad just like every other girl that I met and if she wanted me who was I to deny her that right; there was more than enough Jace to go around.

Simon's P.O.V

"Do you want to hang out after school?" Clary asked me as her eyes followed Will as he walked away.

"I thought you were going to the gym after school?" I asked slightly annoyed that her eyes were on Will.

"Well I was but considering you're my best friend I think I could skip the gym today so we could hang out." She said with a smile on her face.

I looked away from her "… I think you should go to the gym today." I told her avoiding her green eyes.

"Oh I understand." She said with disappointment thick in her voice. It took all of my will power not to break down right there and tell her the reason I didn't want to hang out. But I promised her I wouldn't tell anyone about us yet and that included Clary.

"Yeah maybe we can hang out another time?" I asked hesitantly.

"Yeah of course." She said with a smile on her face that didn't quite reach her eyes.

Clarys P.O.V

I gave Simon a smile but it felt force, why didn't he want to hang out? Did I do something wrong? Maybe it was because I ditched him at lunch and hung out at Will. Maybe Will had been right about Simon having a crush on me. No I thought to myself if he felt that way he would have told me by now.

"Well I gotta go now. I'll see you around." Simon said with an almost guilty look on his face. I gave him a nod and smiled at him before I turned around and started walking away. I walked through the halls that were now deserted since the bell had just rang signaling class had just begun. But I was in no rush it's not like I was going to miss anything important. I had just turned the corner when I saw Jace and Will talking to each other but luckily they were too interested in their conversation to notice me. It was weird to see the two of them standing near each other. Jace was golden like the sun and had a carefree arrogance to him but Will was dark and dangerous and had this cold distant look in his eye.

"You better not pull the same shit here as you did back in California." Will said in a dangerous voice.

Jace rolled his eyes and smirked "Wow Will why don't you just have fun for once in your life?"

"I do have fun." Said Will through clenched teeth.

"You know I have some big plans for this school and it's not too late to join if you want." Jace said.

"What do you plan on doing Jace?" Will asked carefully.

Jace shrugged as he leaned against a locker. "Oh you know… this and that."

"Jace." Will said in a warning voice.

"Ok I'll give you a hint. When I'm done you're going to wish that you had joined me." Jace began walking away but then he turned back and looked at Will "Oh yeah, I almost forgot it also involves a certain red head."

Will watched as Jace walked away before muttering "Fuck."

Will turned around and his eyes grew wide as his eyes locked with mine. "How long have you been standing there?"

I shifted nervously "Long enough." I said trying to avoid the question.

"You weren't supposed to hear that." He said. I just nodded not knowing what to say.

I cleared my throat and gathered up my courage "I was actually looking for you."

"Oh?" He said with an eyebrow raised.

"Yeah I umm…can I see your phone?" I asked basically blurting out the question. I mentally groaned I sounded like an idiot what am I doing.

"Umm… sure?" he said as he handed me his phone.

I took it and looked at his back ground for a moment it was a picture of Will, Jace and some other guy I didn't know on a beach. "Who's this in the picture?" I asked pointing to the guy I didn't recognize.

Will shifted and looked away from me "That's me, Jace and my friend Jem."

"You guys look pretty close in this picture." I commented.

"Yeah we were back then." He answered.

"What happened?" I asked but regretted it as soon as I said it.

"Life happened." He replied unable to keep the bitterness out of his voice.

I nodded and looked down at his phone and added my number and texted myself. "So I'm guessing you knew Jace before you moved here."

He gave a small laugh "Yea I guess you could say that. He's my brother."

I gave a small gasp "He's your brother?" Will nodded. I handed him his phone back still shocked that they were brothers considering they looked nothing alike.

Will looked down at his phone before looking back to me. "So what did you do with my phone?"

I gave him a smile. "That's for me to know and for you to find out." And then I walked away leaving Will alone.