Hello to all! :-h Thanks so much to those reviews. I'm sorry if I won't be updating regularly after this chapter because school's about to start for me, and I'm only allowed to use the computer on weekends. ha ha ha. I'm gonna comment on some of the reviews before the chapter. Yes, Arabella is based on the book Blue Blood. Her powers are a combination of Edward Cullen (twilight saga) and Schuyler Van Alen (Blue Blood). And for the grammar part, well, my mom's a language teacher so I was raised to be careful about my grammar and writing. lol. Here's chapter 7!

Disclaimer: I don't own TMI or any TMI characters. They belong to Ms. Cassandra Clare.


"Read and control minds?" Clary squeaked. Simon nodded. Their reaction was just as expected. None of them had ever heard of vampires having special abilities so this was their first time encountering a person like Arabella.

"Wait, so you mean, you're half vampire and you can read and control our heads?" Jace clarified. "Well, she's a lucky one." He said to no one in particular. Arabella laughed.

"I guess I am." She said giving Jace a look that made Clary feel sick. She wasn't like the girls at her old school – with the fake tans, and too much lip gloss – Clary knew Arabella knew she was pretty. And like Isabelle, she uses her beauty to get whatever she wants. A flip of her waist length brunette hair or the batting of her long lashes gets her whatever she desires. Right now, she wanted Jace.

Clary grabbed Jace's hand and pulled him to her. Stepping back, Jace put his arm around Clary's waist and kissed the top of her head. Clary couldn't help it: She gave a smirk and almost laughed when she saw Arabella scowl. Oh it's on.

Alec cleared his throat. "Well, Arabella, I'm Alexander Lightwood, Alec for short. This is my sister Isabelle, Izzy," He gestured to Isabelle who was still in Simon's arms, "My boyfriend, Magnus Bane, High warlock of Brooklyn."

"Charmante." He said while giving a bow. Arabella whirled on Alec with an incredulous expression : "You're gay?" Alec shrugged. "Yeah, so?" Arabella just shook her head.

Magnus scoffed and put an arm around Alec's shoulders. Leaning close, he whispered something in Alec's ear which – to everyone's surprise – made him blush so hard, he almost looked like Clary's hair. This time it was Simon who talked. "Get a room you two!" He half shouted. Magnus smirked and dropped his hand from Alec's shoulder. Simon cleared his throat and continued the introduction. "That's Clarissa Morgenstern," but after the look on Clary's face told him to backtrack, "but she prefers Clary Fairchild. That's her boyfriend, Alec's and Isabelle's adoptive brother, Jace Herondale – called – Lightwood." Jace grinned and waved his hand. Arabella gave a dazzling smile in return.

"Nice to meet you. All of you in fact." She said, looking at everyone. "I guess I should explain about myself more. My full name is Arabella Cassandra Bliss. People call me Arabella, but only my mother called me Bella. As Simon said, I am a half blood, I am still, by a small part, human. My father was a vampire from England. He came to America and fell in love with my human mother. My mother's family disapproved of their relationship so they ran away to Italy. There they got married, but they never had children, thinking it was impossible. But they decided to try." Arabella paused, shuddering. Her eyes were distant with memories of her wretched childhood. "My mother became pregnant with me. But something was wrong while she was pregnant. The fetus that was me was draining her of life, slowly. My father hated me even before I was born. He said to just let me go, get an abortion. 'I'll do anything. Just get rid of the monster inside you.' Those were his words. Even if I was in my mother's uterus, I could already hear his hatred for his own daughter, his own flesh and blood." Arabella inhaled deeply, her eyes grew darker. Clary suddenly felt guilty. Getting angry at Arabella for wanting Jace when she actually had the worse childhood was really pathetic.

Arabella continued after wiping her eyes on her light blue long sleeved sweater. "I'm really sorry for getting emotional like this. It's just hard for me to remember how it felt. Anyway, mother's pregnancy was very short because of my being half vampire. Even if my father was close to doing the abortion on her himself, he controlled himself because he "loved" her. So mother remained pregnant for about 5 months. Then on a wintry night in January – January five to be exact – I was born. My birth wasn't spoken about in the house back in Volterra. It hurt my father to talk about it, and it still hurts me to talk about how I killed the only woman who ever loved me. But you have to know," Arabella pleaded with her eyes to the group who was frozen with her words. "You have to know how I came to be. So on the night of the fifth of January, I was born. All I could remember was feeling a strange disturbance in the uterus which awoke me. From a distance I heard my mother scream and fall. Father shouted that the placenta must have detached. It was a shouting match like no other. Mother screamed for him to get me out of her, but not before she arched her back in pain. Then I felt the sudden urge to start tearing my way out. I used everything I had. My hands, my feet my own teeth – yes I already had teeth – Anything to get out of my mother." Arabella choked off as the dark – haired girl, Isabelle, ask in a whisper. "Arabella, how could you? Your own mother…"

"It wasn't my fault! I didn't know any better." Arabella said with force. To Isabelle's horror, she started to cry. "I didn't know that my wanting to get out, my savagery, killed her. I remember my father picking me up and holding me as if I were monster. And yes, I was. When he handed me to my mother, I felt tears drip on my body. 'Her name shall be Arabella Cassandra Bliss.' She said while stroking my face. 'I love you, my baby, my Bella.' With those words she died. My cries did no help. Ever since that day, father had resented me. I would hear him cry and wail in his room from the pain of losing her. I tried to comfort him. I would walk up to his room and walk over to him. 'Daddy?' but he would just push me away. 'Get out! Don't you ever come in here without my permission. Do you understand?' He would shout at me and I would nod my head. He even resorted to physically hurting me. He would whip me, hit me, and it hurt, but not as much as his words. 'DO YOU UNDERSTAND?' He thundered and backhanded me across my jaw. Because he was a vampire, he had that unholy strength of the damned. I would fly across the room and hit the wall sometimes. 'Because of you, your mother's dead. You should never have been born. You're a monster Arabella. A bloody monster. Nothing good you do will ever change the dirty blood that runs within you.'"

Arabella suddenly grew fierce. "But I wasn't a weak little girl. I fought back, verbally since I was no where near as strong as my father. 'Yes, you're right, father. I do have dirty blood. The blood the came from you! Mother was the only one who ever loved me. She loved you too. I try to love you, but I can see it's no use. You make fun of my emotions, you call me weak. But that's only because you can't feel anything. You will never, never, feel love. You're not worth these feelings.' But the strength that took me to say that only came sixteen years after my mother's death, exactly on my 16th birthday. I ran away after that. And I've been wandering around ever since." At this, Arabella gave a small smile and a choked laugh. "I never regretted the decision to leave. I had a better life. I gained friends as I explored Europe. I decided to come to America, and see what my other left behind. I tracked her family and discovered that my mother's family actually belonged to a coven called "Blue Bloods." My mother didn't join because the vampire blood skips every other generation. When I met the Committee, I discovered that only I was a half blood because my father was did not belong to this coven. The parents of the others all belonged to the Committee. They still welcomed me with open arms though. We were vacationing in Italy, not far from where I used to live, when I met Simon over here." Arabella laughed and gave Simon a playful shove. Simon grinned sheepishly and continued the story for her.

"I was hunting in some forest back in Italy. There was this gazelle I saw so I pounced for it. But before I could, another person came out and almost got the gazelle, if I hadn't collided with her." Simon and Arabella laughed. Simon rubbed his forehead, as if he had hit something with it. "That was some jump, Arabella." He mock glared at her. Arabella just stuck her tongue out. "Whatever, Simon. I wasn't the one cussing so loud that made the nuns who were hiking shout "Oh my god!" then start praying the rosary at 100 miles per hour." At this point everyone was laughing so hard at Simon's expense.

"Okay, okay, ha ha. I get it. Now can we go? I want to go home." Simon whined. Clary laughed. "Sure Simon, go on home to your momma." This soon set off a whole round of laughter. Jace chuckled and said: "Well, we can discuss the problem later. In the meantime, let's head home." He put his arm around Clary's waist and turned them around. Alec and Magnus followed after them. Isabelle smiled at Arabella and walked closer. "I'm sorry."

Arabella smiled. "It's okay." She and Isabelle laughed. Simon grinned. Isabelle took one look at Arabella and exclaimed. "Are those designer clothes?"

Arabella laughed and sighed. "Yes but they're all splattered with mud. I don't have anywhere to stay tonight." Arabella looked at the bag she brought that contained her clothes. Simon looked as if he were coming up with an idea. Suddenly he snapped his hands. "Why don't you stay at the Institute? You're half human; Isabelle can just bring you there. Right, Izzy?" He asked while looking with hopeful eyes at Isabelle. She smiled. "Of course. We'll have tons of fun. You could take the room next to mine or you could sleep in my room…" She picked up Arabella's bag and grabbed her hand. "Bye Simon!" They both called at the same time. Sharing a look they both laughed. Izzy blew Simon a kiss and he waved back at them before heading off in the opposite direction.


A/N: Now you guys know Arabella. I gave her Cassandra as a middle name because it sounded nice. Arabella Cassandra Bliss. pretty name. :)) Anyways, I will say a temporary bye bye cause I'll be gone. School's fault! argh. Keep reviewing okay? THANK YOU. love yah!

-Lexa.