How's everyone's summa goin? I hope it's been fantastic.

Chapter Nine

"I'm coming!" I yell as I run to the front door. I open the door to find Isabelle. "Hi Izzy."

"Hey Clary, I have a voice invitation for you." She says.

"Okay?"

"I would like to invite the Clary Fray to my beautiful palace of mine or known as my house." She whispers the last part but continues. "Will you come over?"

"Uh, sure. When?"

"Now." She uttered.

"Oh okay. Let me grab a few things." I run up to my room to gather a few things quickly.

"So before we head to my house I'm ganna stop at Blockbuster. Have any movies you want to watch?" I think silently and immediately think of the perfect movie.

"Well I don't know if you would like it but I read this series and the movie just." I was cut off. The next thing I know she's screaming.

"PLEASE TELL ME YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT DIVERGENT. IF YOU ARE WE WERE MEANT TO BE FRIENDS!"

"Wait you like Divergent trilogies too?"

"Not like LOVE!" I have a feeling I'm going to have some really long-termed friends here and that just makes me even more excited.

"So I forgot to mention that we will be the only ones here tonight." Isabelle recollects.

"Cool, where is your family." I ask.

"Alec is with Magnus. My mom and dad went for a short trip and Jace is at a friends. He might be coming back home tonight but I'm pretty sure he won't." She finishes.

"Okay." Isabelle leads me to her bedroom. We walk past the photos and I can't help but mention them. "Is this your cousin or nephew because he is adorable."

Isabelle turns abruptly looking at the picture I'm pointing at. Her eyes start to get watery. "That is my baby brother." She states in a very heartbroken tone. "He died two years ago." She continues to walk to here room.

Well I feel like crap now. How was I supposed to know that? I follow her into her room and apologize to her.

"Oh it is okay. It's not like you knew. He was just the best little brother you could ever have but he was taken from this world to early." I want to ask how he died but that would be crossing the line.

"It was a complete accident. He didn't mean to hurt him. It tore him to pieces. He wanted to kill himself. It was just a very hard time. We never blamed him but he always blamed himself. He wouldn't touch his car for like six months. I just miss Max!" She crumbles to the floor. She sobs as quiet as someone can. But I am very confused. I say "shh it will be alright." I hold her for her comfort.

After a while she lifts her head and smiles sheepishly. "Who's he?" I ask gently.

"Jace. Jace and Max were going to go to the comic book store because Max loved them. But a drunk driver hit Max's side of the car. He died instantly but Jace had to sit in the car until help came. He wasn't even knocked out. He had to sit and watch Max. He blamed himself because he said he could have helped him. He didn't believe that he died instantly because he swears on his life that Max looked and him and said 'I love you Jace. Thank you.' That was the only time I have ever seen Jace cry. Sorry for the waterworks."

I try to take in everything she just told me. "It's fine." I whisper.

"So we definitely need to do something fun." I agree with her. We talk about doing several things. We agreed that we would save the movie for tonight. But for now we decide on going to Taki's for some ice cream.

On the ride there we laugh and sing along to music. We just try to stay in a positive mood. When we get to Taki's we both order a small cookie dough. We look around for somewhere to sit. We have the choice of a booth by a teenage couple making out or a group of what looks like college boys. We go for the booth by the college boys.

"So how long have you and Simon been dating?" I ask.

"Six months." Isabelle states with a smile. I'm about to answer when I feel someone spank me on my ass. I turn around quickly to find a guy with black hair.

"Excuse me. Do you have any manners you Neanderthal?" I hiss.

"Don't you remember we danced the other night?"

"Uh no. I would have only danced with a pedophile is I was out of my mind." I state with such fearsome.

"Well you danced with me at that club because I could never not recognize that red curly hair. But anyway we didn't get to do what we planned on doing because a golden freak attacked me." What? Golden freak? Wait…Jace.

"Oh yeah I was drunk out of my mind that night so that's why I danced with you. Also I would never ever touch you or even have sex with a dirty drunken slob like you." With that I walked toward the front door. Isabelle and I got in the car and drove away. It was quiet until we busted up laughing.

"Dirty drunken slob?" Isabelle questions.

"It's what I was thinking at the time."

"Well we should never think about that guy again." Isabelle offers.

"Sounds good." I say.

Anyone ever read the divergent series? Please review.