First of all I want to say thank you to all who had offered me their help!
Sorry for not updating sooner, it was a rough week.
Chapter 5 – I got a new friend
Clary's POV
It had been a month since the 'little incident' with Jace happened.
Right after Biology (when I had chilled out and recovered from Chemistry class, ugh, I hate Chemistry) I went to find him, so I could apologize. I felt bad for acting like that. (Althought he might deserved it.) I found out that we had P.E together.
I was planning to apologize him there. What I didn't think about were my idiotic brother and bunch of cheereleaders who were surrounding him.
It looked like he was too busy with flirting with all those cheerleaders whose brains were the size of a nut. (A/N: If you like interesting facts, here's one. My Biology teacher said that the biggest genius in the world had/have a small brain.=That's probably why they say that we girls are smarter then boys. We had smaller brains. :) Which brings on the question, can this be an insult?) After watching him for a moment, I had decided that he wasn't worth my apology. I spun around and went to the other end of the Gym.
The month went normally fine (although, I think I cought Jace staring at me several times), until today. I was chatting with Simon, when somebody behind me said, "Hey, Clarissa."
I turned to face that person. It was Jace. I frowned.
"Don't call me Clarissa."
"But it's your name. And I think that it's a beautiful name." He said and gave me a seductive smile.
"Right now I think that you are irritating, but do you hear me call you that?" I shot back.
"Actually, yeah. Right now." he smiled smugly and walked away.
The only thing I could do was sitting there like an idiot, staring at the place where he stood and opening and closing my mouth like a fish. What just happened?
"Clary? Are you okay?" Simon asked.
I shooked my head slightly. "Yeah. Yeah, I'm fine."
"O-kay." Simon said awkwardly.
To change the subject I asked, "Did you hear the news? About the new student, I mean."
"Oh, yeah. Erik said that it's a girl. He saw her going to the secretariat. He also said that she had and I'm only quoting 'a rockin' bod'."
It wasn't a surprise that Erik would notice this things.
The bell rang and Mrs Hall walked in.
"Good morning, class. Before we start let's make a list of people who think that school is poitless," she said while taking out a paper and a pen. "So, who's missing?"
When she wrote down all missing students we began our lesson. We were starting the renaissance and humanism.
"Does anybody now anything about it? Where it is from? Any famous people from this period?" She looked around then pointed at Jasmine.
"It's from..." she began.
"Okay, I will give you a hint. Pope." But Jasmine looked lost.
"Shoes." Still nothing.
"The capital city is Rome." Aaaand nothing. She has got to be kidding. How many hints does she need to say the country's name?
"Italy. Fine. Let's pretend that you said that. Do you know any famous people? Any artist or a writer?" She then took out a picture with La Gioconda on it. "Do you know who portraited this?"
She looked at it blankly.
Mrs Hall sighed. "Leonardo..."
"DiCaprio!" Jasmine blurted. We laughed at that.
"Somebody here was watching Titanic lately, am I right, Jasmine?" Mrs Hall said. Jasmine just blushed. "Well, next time you should watch Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. You then won't know just one famous artist but even four of them from this period." We all laughed again.
That's when somebody knocked at the door. Mrs Hall went to open the door.
"Good morning... Mrs Hall?" someone said. It was a female voice.
"Yes, that's me. How can I help you?"
"I'm the new student, Maia. Maia Roberts. I'm sorry for being late. I was in the principal's office."
"Oh, so you're Maia. Please, come in."
In came a really pretty girl, no wonder that Erik noticed her. Maia Roberts has light brown skin, dark brown eyes, and curly, brown-gold hair. She smiled at us, little uncomfortable from the attention.
I heard Simon gasped. I glanced at him. He looked stunned. Well to be fair it looked like almost every guy in this room was. I looked back and saw Jace; instead of watching Maia, he was looking straight at me. When he saw me looking at him, he shot me a smile. (I'm not going to lie, I blushed. Slightly.)
Before I turned back I saw something that interested me. It was Isabelle. She was glaring at Simon. If glances could kill, Simon would be dead by now.
Simon did said something about they being lab partners. Hmmm... interesting. Could Isabelle Lightwood possibly be... jealous right now?
But than Mrs Hall said, "Class, this is Maia Roberts, for now on she is going to be attending our school," Than she turned to Maia. "Do you need a tour, Maia?"
"Yes."
Mrs Hall loked around, then looked at me. "Clary? Won't you mind giving Maia a tour."
"Not at all, Mrs Hall."
"Well then, go sit next to Clary." Mrs Hall pointed at the empty place on my left.
Maia sat down and smiled at me. "Hi."
"Hi." I said back.
"Can I see your schedule?" I asked Maia when we were in the hall.
"Here." she handled me her schedule.
"Hmm... We have Literature, Geography and P.E. together. Oh, and History, too. And Music and Chemistry with Simon." I told her.
"Who's Simon?" she asked.
"I am," Simon said. "Hi. I'm Clary's best friend."
Maia smiled at him. "Hi. Nice to meet you." she said and looked at him curiously.
"Let's go Maia. We have History next." I said to her. Then I turned to Simon and said, "See you at lunch." And dragged Maia to our History class.
"Let's see... whom to invate for a little testing. I'm guessing that it's useless to ask if there is a volunteer, right?" Mrs Green asked. Silent. "That what I thought. Hmm, let's see, today is 12 October. 1+2=3+10=13. What a lucky number."
She looked into the list of students. "And 13 is... Charlotte."
I stopped to listen, opened my sketchbook and began to draw.
"What are you drawing?" Maia, who was sitting next to me, asked.
"Umm. Nothing. I'm just sketching something when I'm bored."
"Oh," was her only reply. Than, "Would you like to talk to me instead. I'm bored too."
"About what?"
"Well, about anything exept clothes," she said. I smiled, I'm beginning to like this girl.
When we talked, I started to like her more and more. I find out that Maia is sarcastic and quite humorous. Also she likes to play video and computer games. (Simon is going to love her for that.) And we both have annoying brothers. Well, actually I have. Her brother died in a hit-and-run. From what she told me about him, with a digusted tone, I guess he was a psychopath.
At the end of class Maia and I were already friends.
Admit it who thought, from the title, that Clary's new friend is going to be Jace? :D
Don't worry there will be Clace as soon as possible. The only condition is... (drum roll, please)... to patiently wait! (Do I sound cheesy? If yes, don't mind me, and if not then... don't mind me either. I'm a girl and little crazy. What a bad combination.)
See you later!
