Chapter 8 : Mundies at Parties

Clare POV

I stared in growing horror as the mundane began walking closer to ou. This is ridiculous, I thought. I had successfully sent hundreds of demons, to their hellish home realm without breaking sweat, but here I was fretting about some stupid defenceless mundane boy? It's not as if I was attracted to him *cue vomiting* more like I had seen before. Still it was weird seeing a Mundie boy at a Downworlder party.

"Clare? Clllaaaaaaaaryyy." I snapped my head around and saw a concerned looking Izzy.

"What?" I said innocently.

"Is something wrong?" she asked.

"No, everything"s totally fine…" I said, glancing back to the boy.

"Yeah, totally…" Jace said, staring at me weirdly, " Come on, lets go find Magnus and ask for a tracking spell. The runes we tried didn't work," he said. I shook my head.

"Already asked. Nothing," I said absent - mindedley, glancing back to the boy who was gradually getting closer. Izzy saw my glance and stared in the direction. Her eyes narrowed.

"What's a Mundie doing at this party?" she said loudly, before I could stop her. Jace turned around and pinned his eyes on the boy as well. His brow furrowed, and he pressed lips together and tilted them downwards. By now the boy was a metre from us, obviously fairly uncomfortable as he was aware of the fact that he wasn't wanted here.

"Err…hi. I'm Simon…Simon-" he began. Lewis. Simon Lewis. His head snapped around to me.

"What?" Oh crap, did I say that aloud?

"Nothing…" I mumbled, and Izzy stared unbelievingly at me.

"Well, I'm Simon, Simon Lewis," he continued, scratching the back of his head awkwardly. How the fudge did I know that? This was getting freaky as

"And I was wondering…Why the heck are these…things…have…" he paused. Izzy stared at him with a hint of amusement. His eyes dropped to the ground.

"Don't worry. You won't believe me anyway," he said, sounding horribly defeated and turned and started towards the door. I felt a strange feeling rise up within my chest…a strange sort of panic. Somewhere I heard Jace saying some dismissive offensive comment.

"Wait." I heard a loud voice saying, causing Simon to turn around in surprise. Oh wait…that voice was mine.

"What were you saying? About…whatever you were talking about?" Jeez, what the heck was wrong with me? What the fudge was so special about this mundane boy…normally I would have making sarcastic comments about how weird that was with Jace, and then make an offhand comment about a Mundie boy to Maryse when we got back to the Institute, and then forget about it later.

"Well, thing is I've got a weird feeling that me and you guys are the only…humans here?" seeing our sudden shock he hurried on, "Like there are these people with tails…and some people had these fangs…" He could see the Downworlders? How on earth….?

"Don't worry Mundie. You're wrong about that…" Jace said, flashing his trademark cocky grin, recovering from the shock faster than us. Simon looked relieved

"Oh thank the lords, I was really freaked out about that-"

"You're the only human. We aren't. Well, not completely human anyway," Jace said evilly. And here I thought golden boy was being nice for once… Haha. Yeah right. That will be the day I dress up in a nursing outfit and bow to his every need. But I must admit it was fairly amusing, no matter how mean, when his face turned into chalk and backed away, staring at us as if we would suddenly sprout wings or something. Which is probably what he expected us to do. Izzy hit Jace on the shoulder, giving him a stern chastising look, but you could see the smile struggling to escape her lips.

"Don't worry," she said confidingly, glaring at Jace's amused grin, and my silent laughter, " We're not vampires or anything. We're human, just not your type of human." His face coloured a bit more, but he still looked like he had seen death on a stick.

"Yeah. Because that totally boost the self esteem," he muttered.

"Don't worry. It's not supposed to," Jace said arrogantly. Ignoring him, I looked at Izzy. We have to get him to the Institute," I said. She nodded.

"Right, of course," she said, and began marching to the door, a hand gripped on Simon's arm. He glanced up in shock.

"Wh…where are you taking me?" he said, his voice two octaves higher than it should have been. Jace smirked.

"We're taking you to our den so we can eat you alive," he said, strolling after them, me in tow.

"But I have friends here! They'll be pissed when they find out I left!" he said. Oh crap. The mundane had friends? I glanced where he was beckoning and saw, indeed, three mundane boys trying to flirt with some kelpies. They seemed more mundane, probably unable to see through the glamour. Then I saw Magnus waltzing toward the group.

"Don't worry," I said confidently ,"They won't remember a thing." He looked genuinely terrified at that, "Don't worry, we're not going to brainwash them or anything," I said reassuringly. Simon nodded, and glanced away. Jace, who was probably feeling extremely annoying today, added an after comment.

"Well we aren't. But he will," he said, adding just the right amount of maniacal flair in his eyes to scare him. You know, I've always wondered how he does that… As we left the party I turned around once more, and saw Magnus staring at me from the back of the hall. Talk about creepy… Then I turned around and followed Jace, Izzy and Simon back to the Institute.

Sorry for the shortish chapter! Will make up for it next chapter! Promise! :)

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