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Clary was staring down at her hands as the cab pulled up at the two storied apartment. Jace had offered to come and pick her up, but in all honesty, she was still deciding if she was going to actually make an appearence at this party. But who was she kidding? She wasn't going to pass up a chance to see Jace. She had spent almost half a day deciding to what to wear, before finally going for something simple but still kind of sexy; a pair of leather mini shorts and a loose, v-neck white shirt, that was slightly see through, so showed a faint outline of her best black, lacy bra.

"Miss?" The cab driver looked over his shoulder at her and she blinked.

"Oh, sorry," she smiled quickly at him and handed over her fare, before getting out of the car. Clary walked up to the door and knocked twice, stepping back to wait for someone to answer, fidgeting with the hem of her shirt nervously. The door swung open a moment later, someone she had never seen before standing in the doorway.

"You must be our little Clary!" He cried, reaching forward and hugging her tight, kissing her on both cheeks.

"Um, yeah?" She raised an eyebrow questioningly.

"I'm Magnus, Magnus Bane," he smiled broadly at her, giving her a cheeky wink. Clary took a moment to appreciate the man; he was gorgeous, but very clearly didn't play for her team. His slanted, dark eyes were rimmed in more eye liner than Clary had ever dared to wear herself, and he was wearing a pair of tight black jeans and a light purple, almost silver, silk shirt, that was rolled to his elbows. "Come on in, then." Clary followed Magnus inside, where they walked past the door that lead to Jace's apartment, and then past the stairway leading upstairs to where Alec and Isabelle lived, to a doorway that lead outside. There was a small backyard, which was more outside tiling and a picnic table than actual garden. About ten people were there, most of them already looking drunk and some with suspiciously red eyes.

"Clary!" Isabelle rushed over and hugged Clary, leaning a lot of her weight onto the smaller girl and Clary let out an awkward laugh as she adjusted herself to hold the older girl.

"Hey, Izzy," she said, putting an arm around the girls waist as she almost tripped over.

"Do you want a drink?" Without waiting for an answer, she called over to her brother, who was sitting next to a small cooler. "Alec? Can we get a Black Ice?"

"Oh, I'm fine—"

"Clary," Jace's voice cut her off, appearing behind her, grinning widely. He slung an arm over her shoulder and the looked over her head to Isabelle. "Shit, Iz, you already fucked?"

"Dude, that's some strong kush," Isabelle laughed, pointing over to the picnic table where a bong was sitting in the center. Alec came over with a bottle of smirnoff, and snapped the lid off, handing it over to Clary. "Okay, babe; let's get you introduced to everyone. Everyone!" She shouted, looking out over the small gathering. "This Clary, Jace's friend—" Clary glowed pink when Isabelle shot a knowing look over at the tall blonde, who just rolled his eyes. "So you've already met us and Magnus, this is Aline—" a pretty Asian girl with delicate, almost elvin features which was disrupted by a stud in her nose and a ring in her lip. "And Jordan—" a stunning, tanned skinned boy with tattoos up his arms. "Maia—" a pretty, petite girl with a chest that Clary was already jealous of, who smiled brightly at her. "Matt—" a blonde, who sent her a smirk before going back to his conversation. "And Sebastian." It was the guy from the other day; clearly Isabelle had taken some time to actually remember his name by now.

"Come on, did you want a cup for your drink?" Jace asked her.

"Oh, it's fine, I don't mind just drinking from the bottle," Clary replied, not wanting to be an imposition.

"C'mon, babe," Jace grinned, hooking his arm around her neck and tugging her toward the door. "I'll get you a cup." Clary followed him inside and up the stairs.

"Holy shit," she raised her eyebrows as they went into the kitchen of the Lightwood siblings. There were bottles of alcohol spread over the counter, as well as mixers, and a plastic bag filled with a bag of ice was melting in the sink. "You guys don't go halfway."

"What's the point of having fun halfway?" Jace shrugged as he got a plastic cup from the stack on the table. He took the smirnoff Black Ice from her and tipped most of it into the cup before handing it back. Clary sipped from it politely, only swallowing a small mouthful of liquid, and looked around. He watched her, and when her eyes came back to meet his, he smirked. "I'm glad you came."

"Yeah," she murmured, her cheeks warming under the intensity of his stare. He closed the gap between them and cupped her jaw, tilting her face up to him. For a moment, Clary thought that he was going to kiss her, but then there was a thud and then Maia appeared, only her head coming around the corner of the stairs railing.

"You okay, Maia?" Jace laughed, pulling away from Clary and going over to help the smaller girl up. Maia lifted herself unsteadily, using Jace as a balancing pillar and then nodded at him.

"Just peachy. I was coming up to get the shot glasses and the vodka. This girl has a bit to catch up on," Maia shot a grin over at Clary who smiled back weakly. Jace took Clary's hand and lead her back downstairs, leaving Maia to gather the things up in the kitchen. The sun had already set, but the backyard was lit up from the lights inside the house, and the two outdoor lamps set up near the picnic table. Jace pulled Clary after him as he took a seat at the at the picnic table and tugged her down after him. Izzy floated over occasionally, between make out sessions with Sebastian that made Clary extremely uncomfortable to witness, bringing her drinks or asking how she was. Maia sat down next to her at one point, urging her to take three shots, one after the other, and Clary's eyes burned from the liquid. Jace laughed and squeezed her hip. She wasn't much of a drinker in the first place and everyone's facial features were beginning to blur together.

"Guys!" Aline announced sometime after midnight. "Guys, I think we need to play a game!"

"Because clearly we're twelvies," Maia muttered, drawing a laugh from everyone.

"You guys can all laugh and joke, but at the end of the day, who doesn't love 'I Never'?" Aline smirked. She swung her legs over, so that she was no longer straddling the picnic tables seat, but facing outwards. "Come on—everyone bring their seats in." Everyone grumbled under their breaths but moved their chairs in closer, Jace and Clary moving around to the other side of the picnic table so that they were part of the lopsided circle. "Who goes first?"

"Why don't you, since you're dragging us into this shit?" Jordan piped up.

"With pleasure!" Aline replied, earning grins from Jace and Isabelle. "Never have I ever..." she smirked around the circle. "Taken it up the ass." Maia, Magnus, Isabelle and Alec all drank from their cups. Clary blinked in surprise, her cheeks bright red at the blatant honesty of the people around her that were pretty much strangers. She was especially surprised by Alec, but then him and Magnus were sitting so close their thighs were almost overlapping, and he seemed to be getting a little more affectionate the drunker he became. Clearly there was something going on between them that she wasn't aware of, and no one else seemed surprise.

"Of course you have, Izzy," Jace smirked over his tumbler of whiskey. "You're such a slut."

"Am not!" Isabelle shot back, although she didn't appear too insulted by the comment. "You're next."

"Okay..." Jace pursed his lips and then grinned directly back at his friend. "Never have I ever gone down on someone at school."

"Shit," Isabelle muttered, drawing laughs from the group. She took a drink from her cup, along with Aline, Jordan and Magnus.

"Come on, your turn, Clary," Aline encouraged, everyone's eyes falling on her.

"Um..." Clary winced as she looked around the circle. She had not had enough to drink for this; despite feeling sluggish she didn't quite feel ready to bare her innocent little soul to them.

"Okay, skip Red!" Alec called out, surprisingly coming to her rescue. "Maia, you're up!"

"Never have I ever had a threesome!" She announced. Everyone except Alec and Clary drank to that one, and she tried not to let her mind going into overdrive as she felt Jace move to put his cup to his lips next to her. Halfway around the circle, Isabelle announced that Clary had to do three shots, given she was so innocent she was probably going to sober up. Clary had tried to convince her otherwise, given the shots she had already done with Maia, but Isabelle was persistent, coming over and practically forcing them down her throat. She was sufficiently drunk as they started around the circle again. She was leaning hard against Jace, and he was more than happy to put his arm around her, his hand underneath the hem of her shirt and rubbing against her skin lightly.

She decided that she liked all of Jace's friends, except Sebastian, who no-one seemed to really know because he was only there for Isabelle. The statements remained sexual, and for most of them, Clary didn't drink, but she was grateful for that, because she wasn't a big drinker in the first place. Isabelle had moved onto Sebastian's lap, and Maia onto Jordan's, and occasionally the couples would become so involved in each other that someone would throw a drink at them. What surprised Clary was when they pulled away and laughed, and then Isabelle and Maia leaned in to each other, fingers enclosing in one anothers hair and started kissing.

"Look at her face!" Aline cried out, pointing at Clary, who was staring in astonishment. "Ohmigod—you've never kissed a girl, have you?!"

"Well, it's not something...No?" Clary mumbled, suddenly feeling very much younger and attempting to hide her face in Jace's shirt. Isabelle giggled, pulling away from Maia and tilting her head at Clary.

"It's almost better than making out with boys," she grinned. "Girls taste better, and their lips are softer."

"Hey!" Sebastian nudged her, but his face clearly said that he didn't mind Isabelle and Maia's show.

"You're such a sweetie," Jace grinned, nuzzling into her neck and kissing her softly. "So innocent."

"Fine!" Clary announced, fueled by alcohol and the atmosphere. "I'll kiss a girl!" Jace pulled back and raised an eyebrow at her in surprise.

"Yes!" Maia yelled out. "Little Red has fire!"

"I want to kiss her!" Aline stuck her hand up, putting down her drink, tipping it over on the picnic table. Jace jumped out of the way as the liquid fell over the side, shaking his head at her drunkenness even though he wasn't much better. "Seriously, Clary, your lips are perfect." Clary flushed, and then shrugged, feeling surprisingly relaxed at the thought of kissing a girl in front of these people she guessed were kind of her friends now. Aline stood up from where she was sitting on the other side of Jace and came over to Clary, straddling her thighs and smiling at the red head. She reached her hands up to frame her face, pushing back the strands of red hair that had fallen from her ponytail, and pushing them behind her ears. Jace was watching intently, his arm still around her waist, but Clary's eyes were only on Aline, flicking between her dark eyes and then her pink lips. "Just relax," Aline whispered as she dipped her head closer to Clary's.

"I am..." she murmured as Aline's lips brushed over hers once. The other girl tongue flicked out over Clary's lower lip, before pushing past her lips and her teeth and flicking around her mouth. Clary opened her mouth wider, letting Aline guide her movements, as though kissing for the first time. When they pulled away, Clary realized that Jace's hand was squeezing her tighter, and everyone was cheering.

"We'll make a bad girl out of you yet, babe," Isabelle grinned, getting up from Sebastian's lap and coming over with a shot of tequila. Clary grinned back as Aline moved to sit down on the seat next to her, and then took the shot from Isabelle. "Bottoms up," Isabelle tapped her glass against Clary's and then the two girls threw back the drinks.

Since updating last time, two things that have made my life all happy are; Sam Smith! Went to his concert last week (as you would know if I'm friends with you on Facebook). He was absolutely incredible, he had such an insane voice live. And he had the cutest smile; the kind that makes you want to pinch his cheeks when he does it. Haha. And the other thing is that I've seen the new Avengers movie! Whoop whoop! Seen twice in the first weekend it came out because me and my man are a little obsessed wth Marvel. The only thing I would change is the whole romance between Natasha and Bruce. Just no. It's awkward as hell. I am a total BlackHawke supporter, or even BlackCap. I think Jeremy Renner is gorgeous, and would be all for them being together in the movies.

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