Clary:
The next couple weeks, Clary and Jace don't talk during chemistry unless they have to answer lab questions. And even then, they do the questions themselves.
It was very lonely. Clary had gotten used to his company. She missed his jokes. She even missed his arrogance.
The ding that informed the school that the office had an announcement went off and everyone looked up. The girls, especially, were excited, because they knew what the office was announcing. They were announcing nominations for the homecoming court.
"Good morning, Alicinate High!" Principal Aldertree said pretending to be excited, even though he was a guy, and guys don't really care about this crap. "It is time to announce the nominations to Homecoming!" Everyone except Clary, who could care less, cheered.
You see, for most high schools, they only nominated seniors for queen. But at Alicinate High, yes, you nominated seniors for homecoming queen, but they also had a homecoming princess for juniors.
"For homecoming princess, the nominees are Jessamine Lovelace, Isabelle Lightwood, Tessa Gray, and Sophie Collins!" Clary smiled and clapped her hands a little. Izzy will be very happy about that. Tessa and Sophie were really nice. Jessie might be a sour loser if someone won other than her, though.
"And now time for the nominees for Homecoming Queen!" Clary rolled her eyes again and zoned out. She found all this homecoming stuff ridiculous. It was just a dance, and a plastic tiara! She had no idea why Izzy cared about it so much.
"And for Homecoming King, the nominees are Raphael Santiago, Julian Blackthorn, James Carstairs, and Jace Lightwood!" Everyone cheered for Jace and, being the arrogant person he is, he bowed.
Isabelle:
"Vote for me for homecoming princess! Vote for me for homecoming princess!" Isabelle said to anyone who would listen.
They announced the nominees on Monday and now it was Thursday, and Isabelle was handing out lemonade at the entrance to the school while Maia and Clary stood next to her. Laughing.
"I can't believe you're actually handing out lemonade to get votes. I thought they only did that in those stupid Disney movies," Maia said gasping for breath.
"Well, at least Maryse made the lemonade. If Izzy had, the whole would've gotten poisoned and she definitely wouldn't have gotten any votes!" Maia and Clary started howling with laughter.
Izzy playfully glared at them. "Well what's your idea to get votes?"
"Um, I don't know. Maybe you could just let them vote for you based on your personality?" Clary said. Maia and Izzy stared at her blankly.
"That's not how it works Clary," Izzy told her.
Clary shrugged and continued reading her book, The Fault in Our Stars, which she's probably read at least 5 times.
"You could do what they did on the only episode I ever saw of Glee," Maia said. Izzy raised an eyebrow. "You can make cupcakes and put drugs in them," she snorted.
"Maia, they put the drugs in brownies. Not cupcakes," Clary corrected.
"No, no. It was cupcakes," Maia argued.
"Well that's not that bad an idea...," Izzy started.
"NO," Maia and Clary both said at once.
Clary:
"Hey, Si," Clary called at Simon during Art. It was the only class they had together, right before lunch.
"Yeah?" he asked.
"You wanna ask Izzy to homecoming right?" she asked.
Simon sighed. "Of course I do..."
"THEN WHY HAVEN'T YOU DONE IT?!" she demanded.
"I'm nervous..."
"It's not that hard. All you do is give her flowers and ask. That's all."
"Easy for you to say. You're not a guy. You don't have to ask. Us guys get nervous too!"
"Hey, how about you invite her over with us this afternoon. We are still hanging out, right?" she asked.
"Yeah, of course."
"Well, have Izzy join us. I don't think she has cheerleading today. We might even get a ride this way," Clary grinned mischievously. She hated riding the bus with a burning passion.
"I guess, but how do I ask?" Simon asked nervously.
"Like I said; get some flowers. How about you go to the store around the corner from your house that sells flowers while I keep Izzy busy at your house? Then you can give her the flowers and ask her to homecoming. I'll even help you if you freeze up," Clary added.
"I'm so lucky that you're my best friend," Simon sighed gratefully.
Clary smirked. "You owe me for this,"
Simon laughed. "Whatever, Fray."
The next day, after Simon had somewhat successfully asked Isabelle to homecoming, Izzy made a suggestion at lunch.
"We NEED to go dress shopping together!" she exclaimed.
"I dunno, that's not really my thing," Simon joked.
"No not you," Izzy said lightly hitting him on the shoulder. "I mean Clary and Maia and me!" Clary spit out her water.
"No way," she said immediately.
"Why not?" Izzy asked.
"I'm not even sure if I'm going to homecoming!" Clary exclaimed.
"YOU HAVE TO! You didn't even go last year, you just read some book the whole time. You have to go. Dances like homecoming are magical; you never know what's going to happen!" She winked.
"But I don't have a date!"
"You don't need one!"
Clary sighed in defeat. "Fine, fine. I'll go...,"
Izzy clapped her hands excitedly.
"I still don't want to go dress shopping though."
Izzy pouted. "Oh come on, Clary!"
"Actually, I'm with her on this one," Maia said.
"NO we have to! We haven't before! Mainly because freshman year I was sick right before so I had to get ready last minute. And sophomore year, Clary didn't even go to the dance and Maia made up some reason not to go shopping with me. We HAVE to this year! Please!" she begged.
"I hate dresses," Maia muttered.
"No you are not going to go to homecoming dressed like you have the last two years!" Izzy exclaimed, horrified. The last two years Maia wore leggings and a fancy-ish top. They didn't make her leave because she had already paid.
"UGH fine. I'll go, if she goes," Maia pointed to Clary.
"Please, please, please Clary!" Izzy begged.
"Fine, fine," Clary surrendered.
That Saturday they went to the mall.
"Hey I saw a cute dress while I was at J.C. Penny's the other day, so maybe we can go there," Clary suggested. Izzy looked horrified.
"You have so much to learn, Clary," Izzy commented.
"Thank you?"
"We're going to Von Maur," she said.
Maia choked on her Pepsi. "Von Maur?!" she exclaimed.
"Yes, is there a problem with that?" Izzy asked.
"Well Von Maur is E-X-P-E-N-S-I-V-E."
"Thanks for spelling the word out, Maia, I now know how to spell expensive," Clary teased.
"Yes it's expensive, but I have my mom's debit card," Izzy waved it in front of Clary and Maia's faces.
"Alright, whatever you say," Maia rolled her eyes.
When they entered Von Maur, Clary was taken aback. She had never been to one before, and it was posh. There was a piano player playing classical music, tons of makeup stations that sold Urban Decay products, perfume stations with products from Chanel, and more dresses than you could even imagine. Dress shopping itself was long and painful, but they pulled through. Clary ended up with a sleeveless, tiered black sheath dress, according to the tag. It had a small silver flower stopped around mid-thigh. Clary couldn't deny it; she loved it.
Izzy ended up with a lace sheath dress that had black lace on the front and back and thick black strips of fabric, with 3/4 sleeves. It also went to mid-thigh, and hugged Izzy's figure. Clary's dress did the same, well it would, if Clary had a figure. Which she didn't.
They were having a tricky time finding a dress for Maia, though. Most dresses Izzy picked Maia would immediately say "ABSOLUTELY NOT."
"How about this one?" Izzy asked, holding up a pretty royal blue dress. "It's Jessica Simpson!"
"Who is that?" Maia whispered to Clary.
"No idea," she whispered back. "Just smile and nod."
Maia did what Clary said and tried it on. She stepped out and Clary and Izzy both gasped.
"You look GORGEOUS!" Izzy exclaimed.
"It looks good on you!" Clary complimented.
"You MUST buy it!" Izzy told Maia.
"Should I?" Maia asked, sounding unsure.
"YES!" Clary and Izzy both exclaimed.
And then they had to buy shoes. Yet another long and painful process.
Clary and Maia ended up with similar shoes. The only difference really was that the heel on Maia's was a lot thicker, and easier to walk on.
Izzy, on the other hand, ended up with heels that had small black studs. They were extremely tall, 7 inches at least, and had ankle straps. Clary hadn't even known those existed!
The total for everything was almost $600.
"Don't sweat it, guys. My parents are rich, remember? My mom LOVES dances. She would've been disappointed if we hadn't gone all out."
It looked like Maia's eyes were about to pop out her head.
"Simon just buys whatever he sees first. Last year he bought a teal green suit jacket and a hot pink tie...," Clary muttered.
Carrying the garment bags for their dresses and the bags for their shoes, the three girls walked out of Von Maur teasing each other, looking forward to the big day.
City of High School more like City of Page Breaks
Or City of I Have No Idea Where This is Going and I'm Just Writing as I Go
Well that's a lie I do actually know where this is going. Mostly.
Next chapter is homecoming woo hoo!
And I just wanted to say: THANK YOU. Yes, you. For reading and reviewing and being so amazing and supportive. It just makes this so much more fun to write. I love you all. Seriously.
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Till next time,
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