Clary's P.O.V
The rest of my day was pretty much the same thing, get to class late, then having to introduce for the five hundredth time. I was sick of hearing my own voice.
Luckily right before lunch I had Art class, that was something I knew I would excel in. I walked into the classroom (late again no surprise) and for once the teacher didn't make me introduce myself. Instead he just said,
"Oh, are you the new student?"
I nodded
"Great, find an empty spot and sit down." Then he went back to his own painting. I looked around not sure where to go, so I just sat at a random table, and low and behold there was the good looking boy from math class. What was his name again...
"Hi I'm Rose!" A girl sitting across from me said bubbly (we were sitting in groups of fours).
"Um, hi I'm Clary." I said awkwardly, I didn't really know how to interact with other people.
"Cool!" Rose said "Is that short for anything?"
"It's short for Clarissa." Someone interrupted before I could. It was that cute boy.
The other girl sitting in our group started talking, "Do you two know each other?" She asked.
"Uh, yeah he's in my math class." I informed them.
"Oh, awesome!" Rose shouted, a couple of people turned to look at us.
Before I could make this situation more awkward, I pulled out my sketch book and started adding on to a previous drawing, that I did not remember starting. It was a drawing of two boys one with dark hair, and the other with light.
"Your really good." The cute boy from math class observed.
"Thanks."
"Who, are they?"
I looked up from my drawing, and knit my eyebrows together,
"To be honest I really don't know, I think it's just two random people."
He nodded his head and went back to his own drawings. For the rest of class we all worked in silence. Then the bell rang for lunch, Rose stood up,
"Clary, do you have anyone to sit with?"
I shook my head,
"Well, then you can sit with us." She pointed to the other girl, and the boy from math class.
The other girl looked like she was going to object, but instead just groaned, not wanting to get into a fight with Rose.
"C'mon guys she's not that bad." Well thanks.
"Jeff?" That's what his name was Jeff.
"It's ok with me if it's ok with Darcie." I guess he meant the other girl.
Rose turned to look at Darcie,
"Please." She gave her puppy eyes.
"Do, what you want, you were going to do it anyway." Then she turned and started walking out the door.
Rose put an arm around my shoulder, and whispered,
"I was, but I didn't want her to know that." Obviously she didn't do a very good job with the whole whispering thing because Jeff heard her and laughed.
He had a nice laugh.
...
At lunch Rose introduced me to their other friends. There was Andy, he seemed nice and was very loud. I found out he was dating Darcie, I had to admit they were kind of cute together. And then there was Derek, He was a huge book worm, and kept to himself. But I caught Rose making eyes at him.
After lunch I had gym (Yay), then it was Science and I went home.
I took the bus home and so did Jeff so we sat together. And we started talking about stuff like anime, and TV shows, it turned out he was as big of a nerd as I was. It felt like time had one by so fast, when the bus driver pulled over to my stop.
I said goodbye to Jeff and went inside.
When I opened the door my parents were at the table huddled over talking about something,
"Has there been sightings?" My mom said,
"Not, that she knows."
"I hope we did the right thing."
My dad then took my mom's hand and squeezed it, "We did."
That was the time I decided to make them know I was home, I stepped into the kitchen and grabbed an apple.
"What, were you guys talking about?" I asked biting into my apple.
"It's none of your business." My mom answered, she stood up.
"How was school today?"
I rolled my eyes, "Normal"
"Did you make any friends?"
I took another bite of the apple, "Mom, I'm 16 I think I am capable of making friends."
She nodded her head and looked sort of relived at my words,
"That's good to hear."
The phone rang,
Both my parents jumped to get it but I was the closest,
"Hello" I said
The person on the other end didn't say anything for a couple of seconds before answering.
"Clarissa?"
"Um, yeah who is this."
"No one, can I speak to one of your parents please?" The woman on the other end said,
"Sure." I handed the phone over to my dad who was the closest, he took the phone and made a gesture that said go to the other room.
I did but I was still weirded out by the whole thing, but I went into my room and worked on my drawing.
As I was in the middle of the work I heard my parents talking in hushed voices about something, and with each word I got a little more paranoid.
...
The next day I was sitting with my friends and relayed the story to them,
"It was so weird, they've never kept a secret from me before."
Rose the helpful person she was gave me a theory,
"Maybe your parents are secretly kick butt monster killing beings, and they're not telling you for your own good."
I laughed, "Thanks Rose I'm sure that's what it is." She laughed, "Well I'm just trying to help."
Darcie and Andy then joined us,
"Have you heard, Faith Kelly is throwing a party tonight, and she's invited everyone in the school." Andy announced to us.
Darcie then started,
"We said we would go, but the thing is we need you guys to come to."
"I don't know." Rose said, "I'm not the party type."
"Oh C'mon it sounds like fun." Jeff defended.
"Yeah, I'll go." I said, I needed to live my life what's the harm in going to a party.
We all then stared at Rose waiting for her answer, finally she gave in
"Fine, fine I'll go, but we only stay for a little while."
We all cheered for her, then it all went normal again.
...
"But mom all my friends are going."
"Yeah well your friends didn't get into a car accident." My mom pointed out,
"Mom, that's not fair."
"I don't care, I don't want you to go."
I rubbed my forehead,
"Mom, I promise I won't drink, or get into a car with a drunk driver if that makes you feel better."
She sighed,
"That's not what Im worried about."
"So your saying I can drink?"
She gave me an unamused look,
"Do, you really think that's what I mean't?"
I put my hands into a begging position,
"Please can I go?"
She sighed, then didn't say anything for a little bit,
"Fine, you can go, but you can't stay to late, only until 11:30, got it?"
I nodded my head,
"Good, now have a good time and be safe." She said walking out of the room.
I rolled my eyes and got ready to go.
...
We got there at nine, but the party was already full in swing. There were people everywhere, if there wasn't so many I could appreciate how really big the house was. But I made a comment anyway,
"This is a huge house." I told Jeff,
"Yeah the Kelly's are rich, the dad's an agent and the mom's a celebrity chef."
I whistled,
"Yeah I know, its disgusting."
Rose then grabbed my hand,
"C'mon lets dance."
Now normally going onto a crowded dance floor filled with sweaty bodies grinding on each other wasn't my cup of tea, but tonight I made an exception for my friends sake.
We danced for a little while, Then Faith herself made an announcement, She was dressed in one of the most provocative outfits known to man, She was wearing sparkly bikini top and a skirt that could be mistaken for a belt. All the boy's couldn't take their eyes off of her including Andy who got slapped by his girlfriend.
"Ok everyone." she said in a high pitch cheery voice, "I would just like to thank you all for coming here, I really appreciate it."
I rolled my eyes not buying it,
"I just wanted everyone to know the food and drinks are here, so come and get it."
I didn't even really hear what she was saying because everyone made a beeline to the food, It was terrifying."
"C'mon let's go outside." Jeff whispered in my ear, we went outside which was now empty because everyone had evacuated for the food.
"So, Clary I never got to ask you this before but where did you move from?"
"We moved from New York."
"Ohh, that's cool."
"Yeah."
"Do you miss it there?" He asked.
"Sometimes, but I did't have many friends, so theres not much to miss."
"No wonder your so awkward around people."
I blushed, "You noticed that, huh?"
He took my hand,
"Yeah I did, but it's kind of obvious."
I laughed, "I guess your right."
He laughed too but then he went quiet,
"Clary is it ok if I ask you a personal question?"
I nodded my head,
"Have, you ever had a boyfriend?"
I was taken aback by his words,
"Umm, no I haven't even really been on a date."
I knew I was blushing it was painfully obvious. He went quiet for a couple seconds then did something crazy.
He kissed me.
Hey extra long chapter for you guy's.
You will probably hate me for this chapter but I'm doing it for a reason. Also you may have noticed that there relationship progressed really really fast, well theres an explanation for that too. You see I want to make Jeff the ultimate boyfriend like someone you would see in a cliche romance movie. So he's going to do a lot of things like that.
But I think you guys should be proud of me this is my longest chapter yet I hope you guys like it. I understand if you hate it but hey what can I do? ;)
Hope you enjoyed,
Ciao, wonderful readers
Sarah
