You guys didn't review much on the last chapter I'm pouting right now, but I love you guys so this is the next one…
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A week has passed since Jem, Will, Tessa visited. Things have been usual again and my relationship with Jace is going fine, I guess. I haven't seen my parent from the day I first come here and I was pretty much shock when I saw my mom in the dining room on Monday morning.
"Clarissa! What a pleasant surprise." My mom gets up from her seat and hugs me tight. "When did you come?"
I hug her back and smile at her. "A week ago mom." My mom looks slightly confuse but she smiles anyway.
"Now that you're here, you have to sit next to me and tell me your stories in Alicante High." I sit next to her and eat my toast first before I start telling her all the things that have happened this past year to me.
She gasps when I get to the Sebastian part, and she hugs me before letting me continue the story. Then I tell her all about Jace. His atmosphere that always makes me comfortable around him. His jokes, his attention to me, I tell my mom literally everything about him. I didn't realize I was smiling widely when I tell my mom about Jace. She nods approvingly before standing up.
"Well, I hope he doesn't break your heart. If he does, I'll be here for you. I need to work now Clary. Bye." She kisses my forehead and leaves the dining room.
I grin triumphantly and run outside and I hit my brother on the way. I fall to the floor; he chuckles and helps me to get up.
"Need help sissy?" He gives his hand to me, and I grab it. I get up and clean all the dust in my jeans.
"Shut up, will you?" I retort back, grinning. He grins back and puts his arms around my shoulder. "You're coming with me Clare-Bear. No buts." I sigh and follow him to his car. I sit in the passenger seat while he climbs to the driver seat.
"So how's your relationship with Jace?" he asks, eyes still on the road.
"…Good I guess?" It's better than good actually. Jace has taken me to various dates all week. Everyday it gets better and better, especially the greenhouse date. The best date ever this far.
"Just reminding you, if he hurts you, I'll beat him into pieces. I'll always be there for you, sissy." I chuckles at his words. He nearly says the same thing as mom.
"What? You don't like me sis?" He fakes pout and looks at me in the eyes.
"Look at the road Jonathan. No, it's not that. Mom says the same thing like you. Well minus the beating part." He chuckles and parks his car in his usual spot.
I got out of my car and Jace instantly greet me. He says good morning and kisses me on the cheek. I smile and intertwine our fingers. Jon looks at us disapprovingly and shook his head.
"No PDAs at school, remember?" Jon says to us. Jace nods to him while I stick my tongue out to him. He chuckles and hugs me one last time before he head to his first class.
Jace walks me to my Biology class every morning; at first it was hard with the stares. But I brushed it off eventually. He walks me to class this morning, lightly kiss my cheek and then walks off to his first class. I walk in, ignoring the stares and head to my seat at the back. Isabelle is sitting there with Simon, talking about something and laughing at it.
Then my way is block by a Blondie with little amount of clothes. She crosses her arms in front of her and glares at me.
"I'm Kaelie. You must have already known me; I'm the one who should be Jace's girlfriend anyway. Why would he pick you anyway? You're just a short, ugly, and untalented girl. Must be a mistake. Or maybe he's just using you." I recognize her as the girl who's kissing Jace on my first day here.
I roll my eyes at her and cough out "slut" to her and start to walk past her. She grins devilishly at me and put her feet in front of me. I didn't see her foot, so I fall to the hard marble floor. I put my hand in front of me to stop the fall but it's a mistake. There's a jolt of pain from my hand and it hurts like hell. My head bangs the cold hard marble floor and I lay there very still. I breathe in and out and try to hold the pain.
Isabelle sees me and stops her chitchat with Simon then run to me, she helps me to get up and ask me where it hurts.
"My..y.. wris…t" I manage to croak out. She nods and mouths something to Simon. Simon grins, and shoves Kaelie until she falls to the floor the way I did, but not as hard as I am. Both of them leads me to the nurse office and try to entertain me all the way. I manage to laugh at Simon's jokes but it makes my hand hurts more.
The nurse asks me to lie down and put my hand in top of my stomach. I do what she told me and wait for her to examine it. She put an warm blanket on top of my arm and it helps the pain a bit. Isabelle and Simon wait patiently beside me, asking for my needs, and I'm really glad I have them to rely on.
"Clarissa? I think you've injured your wrist. It's not that bad, but you still can't do anything with it for a week." The nurse says while smiling politely at the three of us. "You should rest here, both of you can go back to your class." She nods to Simon and Isabelle. They quickly leave the room and promise to visit me later.
Thank god it's my left hand so I can still write, I don't want to miss any homework or school stuff, just because of this. The nurse told me to take a rest, so I change to a comfortable position and sleep.
"Clare. Clary. Clarissa. Wake up." Someone shouts at my ear. I wake up instantly and hit my left hand; the pain from before rush through all part of my body. I wince and contain it. All of my friends are looking at me, worry in their eyes especially Jace.
"What's up?" I ask them. They all look at me like I'm crazy, then Alec burst into laughter.
"You injure your left hand, and slept through all the classes until lunch, which is now. And you only say 'what's up?'" He burst into laughter again.
"Oh shut up Alec. It's not her fault she got injure." Isabelle defends me. Jace walks up beside me and pulls me in a tight embrace.
"I should've been there for you." He whispers to me. I shook my head and hug him again. "It's okay." I whisper back.
"So… What happen exactly?" Jon pipes in. He looks as confuse as the others. I don't say anything. Then Isabelle starts to tell the story with Simon helping her.
"I'm going to beat the shit out of her." Jace says through clench teeth. I put my hands in his tense shoulder to calm him down.
"No you won't. I will." Isabelle says back. "Boys can't and won't hit girls. That doesn't make sense anyway. So I will, it will be fair right?" Jace nods and begins to calm down. Jonathan and Alec are fuming in anger right now, and they want Kaelie to feel what I've been through.
"Guys, you don't need to do that. I'm fine." I try to smile weakly, even if it hurts everywhere.
"Oh shut up, will you?" Jonathan says mimicking me. I roll my eyes at him. "Just admit it, I know it hurts everywhere." Oh, damn. He knows there's no need to lie anyway.
"Yeah, but you don't need to do anything to her, Iz." I slump my body to the bed and looks at Izzy, but she's already gone with Simon. Don't tell me…
"God, I hope Izzy doesn't do anything she will regret. I'll stop her." I say and try to get out from the bed. Alec stops me and pushes me back in bed.
"Stay where you are, sissy." Jonathan says before he leaves the room with Alec, leaving me alone with Jace.
"Jace please…" I pout at him. He looks away from me, hands cross in front of his chest.
"No." He replies firmly. I sigh and lay down at the bed. But I don't intend to stay here for long. I hop down from the bed when Jace is not looking and run to the door. I quickly burst out of it and run to search for Izzy ignoring Jace calling out my name.
I see that the front door of the cafeteria is crowded with people and I sneak past them to get a clear view of what's happening. I push past them roughly and still didn't make to the front.
"Just admit it will you!" Someone says loudly at the front. Wait, I recognize that voice. That sweet voice could turn scary in times like this. Isabelle. I push past all the other rougher this time. Hoping and praying that Isabelle hasn't do something. I finally reach the front and see Isabelle with her back to me while Kaelie kneeling in front of her. Jonathan and Alec are by Izzy's side, protecting her I guess.
"I..I.. did noth..nothing." Kaelie stutters. Where did the bitchy attitude go? Ha. Didn't know that she's just a weak girl in front of Isabelle.
"Oh cut the crap. You know what I meant." Isabelle replies coldly. I never see or even hear Isabelle talks like that, it creeps me out.
"Well, she slipped, it's not my fault she didn't use her eyes." Kaelie reply more calmly while rolling her eyes.
"You put your foot in front of her you dumb witch!" Isabelle slaps her and then strangles them. Kaelie try to keep up with her but fail miserably. She's being attack by Isabelle and she can't do anything.
"Jon! Alec! Do something!" I shout to them. They glance at me behind them and run to Isabelle and pull them apart. Isabelle is in Alec and Jon's hand, and she's still growling at Kaelie. Nobody wants to pick up Kaelie, so she lay there on the cafeteria floor, whimpering.
I walk to Isabelle and help her walk. She has a few bruises but not as much as Kaelie.
"You shouldn't do that, you know." I say to her softly. She turns her head to me and looks me in the eyes.
"But you're my best friend, and I don't want my best friend gets hurt." She replies calmly.
"Neither do I. "
"Best friend hug?" She opens her arm to me. I smile and reply,
"Best friend hug." I hug her tightly, and then we pull apart smiling at each other.
"I know this is touching, but we're going to get late to Music Class, so can you guys do the sick bff thing to each other after school or whatever?" Jon says not politely. I roll my eyes and drags Isabelle (with my right hand, of course) to Music Class.
"WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN CLARISSA?" Jace shouts to me in the music class. The class hasn't start, and most of the students are at the cafeteria, laughing at Kaelie.
"Searching for Izzy." I reply calmly without looking at him. He grabs my left arm and pulls me to meet him. I cry in pain but he ignores it.
"Don't ever leave me like that again."
"Jace let go. You're hurting me." I say whimpering in pain. Jonathan grabs me, releasing me from Jace's grasps and sit with me in the furthest seat from Jace. Isabelle and Simon sit next to me looking at me with worry eyes.
"It's okay." I smile reassuringly to them. They nod and start to talk with each other.
Jace looks at me from his seat with a sad look but I look away. I don't want to see him. Why would he grab my left arm when he knows that it hurts like hell? Did he do it on purpose? No he won't. But he's still a jerk by acting that way.
"Are you sick?" Jonathan asks me carefully. I nod. I don't fell well, especially after Jace attack, well I wouldn't call it an attack but it feels like that.
He helps me to get up and tell Mrs. Branwell that I'm sick so I got to go home and he will accompany me. Mrs. Branwell nods and dismissed us. This time, he drives silently.
Jon drops me at home and goes back to school, since the class is not finished. I walk silently in my house, hoping nobody would see me. Yea, good luck with that.
"Why are you here Clary?" Sara asks me. I turn around and see Sara, standing with her eyebrows raise.
"I injure my hand." I say lifting my left hand so she could see. It's swollen but it's not as painful as before. She gasps and tells me to sit in the couch at the living room while she takes some stuff. I do what she told me and wait for her. She comes back, puts a warm blanket around my sore hand, and then she wraps my body with a blanket.
"I'll make you soup. Just wait okay?" I nod and she leaves to the kitchen. She comes back minutes later with a warm soup in hand. She hands me the soup and I begins to eat it hungrily. She smiles and grabs the bowl after I finished it.
"You can go back to your room, I'll check on you every hour or so." She says softly, I thank you her and walk upstairs to my room. I flop to my bed, grabbing my sketchbook and begin to sketch randomly. After finishing the first sketch and heading to the next one, someone knock on my door softly.
"Do you need anything else, Clary?" Sara stands in my doorway, smiling politely at me.
"No thanks, Sara. But I need your help for one thing, though." She waits for me to continue. "Let my friends in except Jace." She raise an eyebrow at me, confuse.
"I thought he's your boyfriend." She reply confusedly
"We got in an argument." She nods and closes the door of my room when she leaves.
I wake up by the sound of someone, or half of the school arguing in my room. I keep my eyes shut and listen in their conversation.
"We shouldn't be here! She's sleeping duh!" A feminine voice says that sternly. That must be Isabelle.
"I want to be the first one she see when she wakes up." Someone reply back, with a deep voice. Jace. How did he get in? I told Sara to let my friends in except him.
I open my eyes and quickly run to the bathroom, ignoring the people that are crowding my room. All of them are looking at me with worry in their eyes. I shut the door behind me, lock it and crouch in the bathtub. God, I should've brought the pillow or something to make my sleep here more comfortable.
I get up lazily and dash to grab a pillow and run back to the bathroom again, locking the door so they won't bother me. I put the pillow at the head of the bathtub and begin to sleep again. No one will bother me now, I hope.
Well it didn't last long, Isabelle is screaming at me and banging at my bathroom door minutes after my abnormal dash.
"Clary! Get out here right now! Jace is gone, your maid just took him out of here." I sigh in relief and open my bathroom door to see Isabelle fuming at me.
"You don't have to do that. I'll kick his ass if he dares to touch you." Isabelle says and wraps me up in a hug. I smile and thank her.
"So what did you do in School?" I ask her while lying in my bed, looking at the night sky ceiling in my room.
"Nothing much. All of the teachers ask about you and they are really worried." She mumbles and lay next to me, staring at the ceiling too.
"Why would they?" I reply nonchalantly.
"Oh I don't know beside the fact that you're the teacher's pet and the smartest student beside Aline, why?" She retorts back with sarcasm. I roll my eyes and push her out of my bed. She falls out of my bed with an oof. She stands and pulls my right hand to her.
"Let's do something fun." She says happily, dragging me out of my room.
"Which is?" She didn't reply me and keep on dragging me to who knows where. I sigh and follow her with no enthusiasm as she is. I can feel the wind breeze toward us when we walk out of my house.
"Are we going to walk?" I ask her. She nods as a response and drag me much harder. I let out a frustrated sound and walks by her side. The wind is really hard right now, and I regret I didn't bring a jacket with me. We finally stop at an abandoned playground where Jon, Simon, Isabelle, Alec, and I used to play. I smile remembering the memories.
Flashback
"Clary! Get down from there!" An 8-year-old Jonathan is screaming towards Clary, his 6-year-old sister to get down from the slide. Clary stubbornly didn't obey him and keep on climbing up the dangerous railings.
"Why is she so stubborn?" Jon mutters to Alec, while Isabelle and Simon are trying to get Clary down from the slide.
"Clare-Bear, listen to your brother please." Alec said sternly to Clary. For an 8-year-old he could be so mature. Clary stop when he heard Alec's voice but keeps on climbing, she was merely an inch to get down the slide.
Jonathan began to climb the stairs but stopped instantly when he saw Clary glaring daggers at him.
"If you climb, I'll jump off this slide. Just let me slide one time please Jon?" She says sweetly to Jon. Jon sighs and agreed to her. How could he be angry with his sweet and only sister?
Simon ran to the front of the slide so he could catch Clary instantly. Clary glares at him and cross her arms in front of her.
"You have to deal with Simon, or no going down the slide." Jon says to her. She glared back to Jon before accepting the fact that Simon has to catch him. She began to slide down the slide happily and got caught in Simon's embrace.
"That was close." Isabelle mutters beside Jon. Alec glare at her to shut up and ran to hug Clary.
"I'll get you back for that." Jon says to Clary before hugging her tightly.
"Get off me Jon, you're heavy. You know that?" Clary replied goofily.
Isabelle, Simon, and Alec began to laugh at her words while Jonathan pick up Clary and put her on top of his shoulder.
"Put me down Jon!" Clary scream and hit Jon in his back. Jon chuckles and keep on walking back home with Simon, Alec, and Isabelle trailing behind him playing tag. Clary looked back at the playground for the last time.
End of Flashback
I'm sorry if it's too cheesy, and sorry for the long update. But I've been busy this week, so sorry again. Reviews please. I love your critics and reviews and appreciate all of it. Sorry if there's any mistake, you could review me for that, I would be happy if you do.
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