4 years ago … St. Xavier's Cafeteria
I just finish grabbing my pizza from the lunch line when Tessa pulls me toward a table.
"Clary meet everyone, everyone meet Clary." Tessa says
"Hi I'm Aline!" A girl with dark hair who looks as if she may be from Asian descent says
"I'm Helen, Aline's girlfriend." a girl with blonde hair says and smiles at me.
"Hello darling the names Magnus Bane, don't forget it." a guy with very sparkly spiked hair says to me.
"You've already meet me and Will." says Jem and another girl who looks to be a carbon copy of Will starts to speak.
"Hey I'm Cecily, Will's sister." she says there are then only two people who haven't introduced themselves.
"I'm Jessamine." says another girl with long blonde hair and I immediately know that I will get her and Helen mixed up.
"And in spirit of saving the best for last my name is Sebastian Verlac." says the last person at the table and I have to say that he is very attractive. He has black hair and dark brown eyes and you can tell he does some sort physical activity
from his muscles through his thin white tee. When I manage to speak again I simply say
"Nice to meet you all I'm Clary."
"Woah she's American!" Cecily says
"Cec," her brother scolds
"What? We have Britian, France, and Indonesia, but no American… it's exciting." she retorts
"Really Will it's okay." I say and he just scoffs.
"So biscuit tell us about yourself."
Present day… Morgenstern Foyer
Everyone just stares at Jace, then starts laughing at him.
"Yeah right and I am her uncle." Magnus manages to get out through laughter. Jace scoffs and leaves the room.
"Well mom, dad, Jon, this is my family. This is Tessa, Will, James or Jem as he prefers, Magnus, Aline, Helen, Jessamine, Cecily, and Sebastian." everyone waves as I point to them except Mag who bows.
"Well it's nice to meet you all but may I ask what are you doing here?" my dad asks
"As Clare-Bear said she is part of our family and if she has to be here that's where we are." Seb speaks
"Clare-Bear? I thought you hated that nickname Clary?" Jon asks
"Well I hated when you and Jace used it to pick on me, they use it as a pet name, therefore not offensive." I explain
"Well that was very sweet of you all but I am sure your parents are worried sick." my mom says sounding exasperated
"Oh Mrs. Morgenstern we are all eighteen, plus most of our parents really couldn't care less." Tessa says
"Really? For some reason I don't believe that." my mom says as if they had practiced it they all pulled out their I.D.'s and flashed them in my moms face. It took everything I had in me not to laugh as they did this.
"Anywho where are you guys staying?" I ask
"Oh Aline's mom bought us a house down the street." Helen explains
"Really?" I am so excited
"Yeah and we have an extra room." Tessa hints
"No absolutely not." my mom says
"Why not?" I ask "It's not like you cared for the past 4 years!"
"She has a point mom." my brother says finally something sensible coming from his mouth "You guys never even made an effort to go and see her or bring her back to see us." He continues
"If you don't let me leave i will file for Emancipation papers." I say, my mother gasps
"You won't survive 2 days alone." she says
"I survived four years on my own." I spit at her "Come on guys" I say we grab my bags and then leave.