Omg! I feel so bad! I haven't updated in forever! I didn't really know how to get my ideas out in this chapter, so some parts seem kinda vague... Haha, well anyways, here is chapter 10... hehe *smirks*

Disclaimer: I do not own anything. Just my slightly cliche plot(:

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Clary POV

I run up the stairs to take a shower, and I can't stop thinking about what Jon told me. It's something we've been worrying about for a while. We were told by our mother, Jocelyn, and step-father, Luke, that joining the football and cheerleading teams might be a little risky, but we realized last week just how bad.

Jon has been on the football team for a couple years, and he has never had a problem with this. But now that I'm a cheerleader, we will both be there. And he knows exactly what we look like, even if we hardly know the guy.

Valentine, our birth-father. Apparently, he wants parental rights for both Jon and I, even thought he left around the time I was born, when Jon was about two. He sent my mom a letter a couple years ago saying that he would see if either of us had any talent, and if he saw it, he would have us.

Jon is an awesome football player, and has talent for that. He is also an honor student, and a really good person in general. Even if he can be a bit of a jerk or player sometimes.

I, personally, don't think I have that much talent. I'm not a terrible cheerleader. It's only my first year, I'm not that good. The thing my mom is worried about is that he will see my artwork, which is way above the usual level of a sophomore. I am also on the honor roll. I, unlike Jon, don't go out of my way to get good grades or help strangers.

Anyway, Valentine might try to take Jon and I away from our mother, and from that letter he sent to her, it sounds like he's not afraid to be forceful. So now I have to watch out for a man in his 40s that looks almost exactly like Jon.

Joy.

To try and forget about Valentine, since I'm not even completely sure what he is all about, I do what I originally came up here for. I take a shower.

I step into the nice water, and it feels like all of my worries are just washing away. I think about what you normally think about in the shower. Everything that is coming up in the day ahead, then life in general. I go through the cheer routine a couple times in my head. Then I start thinking about how other people are going to react to Jace and I being together.

My guess is that people's reactions are either going to be surprised, or jealous. Jealous of me, of course. Practically all of the girls will be jealous that the girl who hated Jace Herondale with a passion is now kissing him with that same passion. Then I'm guessing that his friends are going to be surprised, but happy for him. Though they like me too, apparently, so maybe they will be mad?

Who knows how teenage boys will react? Certainly not me.

"Clary! Get out of there! You are going to waste all of the hot water!" I Izzy's voice yell and into the bathroom. "Plus, I need to get you ready!" At this, she walks into the bathroom, and flushes the toilet.

"Gah!" I yell because the water steams up. "Okay, okay, I'm getting out, Iz!" I hear her humph in triumph, and slam the bathroom door. I slowly get out of the shower, making sure she isn't there anymore. She isn't.

I climb the rest of the way out, grabbing a towel to wrap around my body. Then, I grab a second one to twist my hair up in. I see she had left my uniform in the bathroom. I pick it up, which reveals lacy red underwear, and a matching bra.

"Izzy, do I really have to wear these underwear?" I yell out to my friend.

"It's actually part of the uniform. All of us are required to wear them." She replies, and I can hear the sarcastic laugh in her voice. "Now hurry up!"

I do as she says, and get dressed. The bra and underwear feel kinda weird to me, since it's not what I usually wear, but the rest of the uniform is comfortable. It's skirt, obviously, that is black, with red and white stripes coming from the corner where the side seam meets the bottom of the skirt, which is about mid-thigh. I have a pair of *spanks on underneath them. The top is red, with a black angelic rune in the middle. The word 'Shadowhunters' is split around it, shadow on top, with hunters on the bottom.

"Are you done yet, Clare?" Izzy yells.

"Yeah!" I yell out, opening up the door.

"Omg!" She squeals. "You look adorable!" Isabelle motions for me to spin in a circle, which I do.

"You're the one to talk, Iz! You look amazing!"

"Please, tell me something I don't know. Now, let's get your hair and makeup done!" She pushes me down in a chair in front of her mirror. Her hands move so fast, I can hardly tell what she is doing. Though before long my hair is up in a high ponytail, perfectly curled, and a red and black bow.

My face is a whole other story, though. If I thought my tamed hair was a miracle, my face is equal to someone walking on water. She contoured my face, but it still looks natural. Izzy did magic with a red-to-black smokey eyes, with red sparkles. I am wearing blood red lipstick, and to be honest, I hardly recognize myself. Makeup must be magic. Simple as that.

"See, now we are ready I go!" At the exact time she finished saying that, some of the guys shouted up to us.

"Are you girls done yet? We kind of need to go!"

"If you're not done in the next 5 minutes, we will leave without you!"

"Seriously, even I don't take this long." Then, Magnus I presume, takes some time to think about what he said, before continuing. "Well, it depends on the day. But that's besides the point, hurry up!" Izzy and I laugh at this, then run down the stairs.

"Took you long enough." Jace smirks once we get downstairs. "But you look even better than usual, so you are forgiven." I slap him slightly. Which just makes him laugh.

"We need to go." Jon gives me a pointed look, clearly saying to watch out. I give him a slight nod, showing him I understand. He turns around, and heads to the door, followed by everyone else but Jace and I. My boyfriend leans down to whisper in my ear.

"I heard you shouting something about underwear. Do you think I will get to see them?" His voice is low. I shiver slightly.

"Well..." I trail off, pretending to think. "Nope!" I yell, running off. I hear him groan, and start chasing after me.

"You little tease!" Jace shouts as he chases me. He catches up quickly, and throws me over his shoulder. "Now come on, Red, you need to go cheer for me." I reach over, and slap him upside the head.

"Idiot," I mumble under my breath.

"I heard that!"

"You were supposed to." Our voices sound mad, but I couldn't help but feel the warmness in my chest.

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*spanks- They are spandex short shorts that are usually worn under skirts, or for dance/gymnastics. I have heard them called multiple things, so I just wanted to make it clear what they were.

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So... I'm sorry this is really late updating, and it's pretty short! As I said, I didn't really know how to get the whole thing with Valentine out there. I didn't want to go into super detail, because Clary and Jon don't even know that much. So, yeah. It was kind of heavy in the beginning, then it's fluffy! Haha, next chapter will be jumping between the two a lot(:

~TessaGraceHerondale