From now on I will take a verse from a song that I find that suits the chapter (inspired by rcs17, you should check out her stories).I do not own the song "When The Darkness Comes."

When your feeling lost
Don't leave my love
Hidden in the sun
For when the darkness comes

I do not own The Mortal Instruments, Cassandra Clare does.

I AM SO SORRY I DIDN'T POST SOONER! I know it has been over a week and I am ashamed of myself. The saddest part is I have no reason as to why I "disappeared." Please forgive me. Maybe I just came up with one! I had a social studies fair project to do (so ha)!

Well anyway, the usual blah,blah, blah. Please review, favorite, or follow. Thank you for reading. - zoey5211

Clary's POV

"What is wrong with you people? You always stare at random things in the room but you never say anything until I do something 'wrong'." I snapped at her while she continued to stare a something behind me. When she still did not seem to flinch I turned to see what was wrong.

I swiveled my body in my chair to see, a person holding a knife. I never expect him to turn into some crazed knife man, but these days if you stepped into someone's yard at the wrong hour you could get shot.

Still I could not believe my eyes, it was a quite boy from my other school named Sebastian. He almost never talked and when he actually did talk he stuttered to where almost no one could understand him.

We used to be best friends, that was before I changed my style and got a couple more piercings and a rocking attitude. He and I used to hang out and watch movies all day like complete geeks. All of a sudden one day I could not take all the small 'meaningless' rumors about me anymore so I went all on bad ass. I figured that way they couldn't mess with me.

I was right every time someone would even get close to making fun of me I would knock them down a notch.

"Hey Clary, did you miss me?" he asked in a crazed voice. I looked into his eyes and saw all the pain I had caused him. I stood up out of the chair and slowly walked over to him.

"Why are you doing this, it is not you?" I pleaded not for my sake but for his. If he hurt anyone he could go to jail, and it would all be my fault. I would not be able to live with myself if he went to jail because of me.

"You left me, Clary. Alone to be picked on, then you all together left me with no one." he voice was getting softer as he said it.

"I am so sorry, I never meant to hurt you. I simply could not take it anymore, I was just so tired of being pushed around by everyone. The bast idea I could come up with was to change myself and my attitude." I explained to him trying to calm him down.

"Now look at me here, holding a knife in my hands at your new school probably jacking up your thought process about me." he explained I could here the guilt in his pleading voice. "And if you would have ever loved me."

I stood there in shock. Was Sebastian my ex-best friend of eight years confessing he loved me?

"Clary, I will leave and turn myself in. I am so sorry to have ever bothered you or your" he looked over my shoulder at Mrs. Keller sitting in her office chair. "Teacher who refuses to blink."

I smiled even though he was standing there holding a knife in his hands, looking completely confused and helpless. I picked up the pace of my walk towards him and stopped about a yard away from him.

"I will leave and go to the jail, but I need to say one thing to you and your principal first. Clary I will always have a place for you in my heart, you are the one who will be able to choose what you do with that one space. And to you Mrs..." he paused waiting for her to say her name.

"Mrs. Keller. That is my name." she said her voice a bit shaken.

"Mrs. Keller , I apologize from the bottom of my heart for interrupting your school. Also for being a danger to your students."

"Sebastian, please put the knife down." I asked him. He slowly bent over careful not to scare the principal in the desk even more than he already had. "May I please talk to you, to try to understand what the hell is going on!"

I didn't realize my voice was picking up until I realized I was shouting at him. Out of the corner of my eye I saw Mrs. Keller flinch and Sebastian did the same.

"Look, I am really sorry for yelling, it is just that I never imagined that you would come back holding a weapon in your hand at my new school." I paused to catch my breath, that I never realized I was holding. "Also I never even thought that I was hurting you the way I was."

I realized that my I-don't-give-a-damn attitude was caving in on me and I had to do something about that right after I was done trying to make sure my ex-best friend didn't hurt anyone. What kind of world do I live in these days?

I walked the yard that was in between us and closed the space. I looked up at him with pleading eyes, practically begging him to forgive me for what I did to him. At first he wouldn't look down at me back after I started to pull away thinking he wasn't going to accept my apology, but he pulled me in tighter.

My head hardly came up to his shoulder because he was incredibly tall and I was of course the exact opposite. I looked up at him once again and this time he looked down at me, his eyes forgiving and full of pity. I rested my head on his chest and his chin found it's way to the top of my head.

I felt something cold and wet land on my hair. I gently took my head off his chest in time to see him swatting away a tear from his cheek.

"I missed you so Clary I beg of you never shut me out again, I promise to be a better friend to you." he said. By the time he finished saying that his eyes were were very wet and finally the tears spilled over.

"No Sebastian, don't apologize. I was the one who was an awful friend, just shutting you out when you were in need the most of a friend at that time." I finished. Still I did not shed a tear but my throat felt tight, like I needed to cry, but my body wouldn't let me.

We stood there for what felt like hours, just holding onto each other. I felt something watery run down my cheek for what felt like the first time in ages. I was crying. What was happening to me? Was I becoming weak?

Soon they were tears of joy, finally seeing what it felt like to truly trust someone and to be able to let your emotions just pour out and not have to hold them in any longer.

Simon's POV

I stood up as the bell rang and walked out the door and to my locker. Well, that was interesting Clary still wasn't back from the principle's office yet.I grabbed the rest of the books I would need for my next class quickly so I would be able to go to the office to check on Clary when she came out.

I walked to the hall that the office was in. The office door was open but there was a boy who looked my age but he was taller than Clary and me. I looked over the side of his left arm and saw the Mrs. Keller's face looking terrified.

I motioned my hands in an 'okay' motion to see if she was fine and she didn't move. What was wrong with her? Why wouldn't she move? Did she know the boy who was standing in front of Clary?

She finally tore her gaze from my eyes and put them back on the boy who was now being schooled, by Clary, for something. I couldn't hear what they were saying because I was out of earshot.

When I saw Clary's face she looked sorrowful and pained by something. Her mouth was moving so rapidly even if I was close enough to hear her, I probably wouldn't understand what she was saying either way.

I took a couple of steps forward trying to understand what they were saying. I heard the boy say,

"I missed you so much Clary I beg of you never shut me out again, I promise to be a better friend to you." he said. By the time he finished saying that his eyes were very wet and finally a couple of tears were spilling out of his eyes.

"No Sebastian, don't apologize. I was the one who was an awful friend, just shutting you out when you were in need the most of a friend at that time." Clary said to, who I now knew the name of, Sebastian.

Clary closed the space from in between the two of themselves and hugged him like he was some sort of long-lost friend. Something sparkled on the floor, and my eyes saw it. I looked down to see a knife at Sebastian's feet.

I wanted to yell for Clary to look down at the knife, but something inside myself she already knew it was there. Tears were now streaming down Clary's cheeks but she didn't seem to notice until one landed on Sebastian's shirt next to her head. For some odd and unknown reason she smiled like she was happy that she was crying. God, her smile is gorgeous. Where the hell did that come from, Lewis? It is official, I am going crazy.

Focus, Lewis! A boy your age has a knife in the school, and is now hugging the only friend that you have.

As I tried to piece everything that was happening in the world right now, something was becoming painfully clear to me.

My friend was working with a criminal. Wait no, she was not just working with him. She too, was a criminal.

Clary's POV

"Miss Fray, can you please explain to me as to why there is a criminal in my office and you are hugging him?" Mrs. Keller asked. Surprisingly she didn't sound angry,confused, or nervous. She just sounded, calm.

"I'm sorry what did you say? Because the last time I checked you weren't even going consider telling me that there was a man holding a knife behind my back!" I screamed at her. I took a deep breath and prepared myself to speak again. "Now is there anything else you would like to ask me?"

Okay, the last statement might have been unneeded , but she had pissed me off. It was either get sarcastic, break down again, or flick her off. I decided the first one would be the easiest one to go with, considering the issue we seemed to be having at the moment.

"Clary, no need to defend me or get sarcastic. Your principle is right, I have no right to do this sort of thing to you or your school." Sebastian tried to sooth me and explain to me at the same time.

Just then I turned and saw Simon behind Sebastian. I stood in horror as I looked out the window. There had to be at least thirty cop cars out side the school doors. The police were just standing outside their cars holding the guns pointed at Sebastian.

"Uh, Mrs. Keller?" I asked her.

"What do you need?" she asked me.

"Did you call the police?" I asked frantically.

"No, why?"

"Because there are at least thirty cop cars out there, with guns." I said quickly.

"Well tell them to come in. I should have a story ready by then." she smiled at me. Was the lady crazy?

"What do you mean you should have a story ready by then?" I asked getting antsy.

"You will find out soon enough. Just go along with me. Did you know I happened to have taken acting classes in college?" she asked brightly.

Thank you for reading, I promise to post faster next time.