Clary POV (Art)

School was over which is wonderful. Today was pretty boring, we had the science presentations, that I didn't do the best on. Now I have an art club meeting to attend since it's Wednesday. Alec has archery today and I'm surprised he signed up for anything to be honest. I finally made it to art room. Since we don't have art as a regular class it's the first time I have ever been there.

"Hello, what's your name." A guy, who looks about twenty, asked me.

"Clary" I replied and he checked me off on his list.

"Great! Alright, well your seat is over here." He said leading me to my assigned seat. I smiled awkwardly and sat down, of course there are assigned seats. A couple other students filed into the room. I recognized some of them from around the school.

"Hey Clary, I'm Ella from your class." One of my classmates said, sitting in her assigned seat which was in front of mine.

"Hey Ella, you into art?" I asked, awkwardly trying to make conversation. I mean she obviously liked art since she chose to do this club.

"Yeah, I have been in this art club since freshman year." She replied.

"Hey Ella." A boy said sitting in his assigned seat next to her.

"Hey Dan, this is Clary." Ella says pointing to me.

"Hey Clary, your first time at this club?" Dan asked.

"First time at this school actually. I came here almost two weeks ago." I replied.

"Oh okay, well welcome to our lovely school. This club is really cool." Dan said which was followed by Ella nodding in agreement.

"Hey guys, I'm Derek." The guy who was sitting next to me said.

"Hey Derek. I'm Ella, this is Clary and Dan." She said while pointing to us.

"Are you new to the school?" Dan asked.

"Yup! My first day was actually on Monday." Derek replied.

We talked until the club officially started about 10 minutes later. Our first assignment was to paint a simple gradient and then paint our names on it in cursive. It was pretty easy and mainly just a warm up activity. I decided to do a dark to light purple gradient. Ella did the same but in blue. While Dan did it in red and Derek in green.

It was pretty relaxing and it took about 10 or 15 minutes to paint the gradient. We did have to wait for it to dry though which didn't take that long. The instructor gave us scrap paper and black paint to practice painting in cursive. Ella was pretty much perfect at it. Dan was pretty good and he only had 3 letters to do. Derek was okay at it but pretty shaky. I however was terrible.

Sure, I'm pretty creative and I think I'm good at art. Cursive however was never my strong suit. I remember crying in 3rd grade when we learned it. It was that traumatic for me. Needless to say, I still can't do it about 12 years later.

"Clary you have to let your hand flow more." Ella says after watching me struggle for about 20 minutes.

"Hey, it's okay. I suck too It's fine." Derek said lighting putting his hand on my shoulder.

"Not as bad as me" I said shaking my head at disbelief because of my horrendous cursive.

"It's not that bad." Dan said trying to sound nice.

The three of them tried helping me to the best of their ability. Eventually I got something that resembled my name in cursive, well sort of. On my good copy the cursive was okay but mostly because Ella did some of it for me. It was a bit stressful but it was the best 2 hours I had since we had come to the school. I made 3 new friends which was so weird for me since I had next to no friends in actual high school. By the end of the club we had made a group chat and I had gotten all their contact information.

Alec POV (Archery)

After the boring school day I expected to be going home. However the redhead reminded me that we had our first club meetings so I had to stay at the school and attend Archery. Archery club was being held in the gym. When I got there I saw a few classmates and some other people I would see at lunch.

The instructor looked about nineteen and positively sucked at archery. When he was demonstrating he shot about 15 arrows and got one on the target. I just shook my head the whole time. Even shortstack was better and I had only let her shoot arrows at the institute maybe 3 times. My siblings and I had been doing archery since we were around 5 and even then we had better form than this guy.

After what felt like forever of the instructor embarrassing himself he let us get some bows and arrows. He attempted to teach us about form not that he was qualified to do so. No one learned anything. Finally he let us just try for ourselves. I went to an empty target and shot about 10 arrows and of course made them all. The instructor came over and just watched me in amazement.

"How long have you been doing it?" He asked dumbfounded at how good I was.

"Since I was about 5." I replied while getting the arrows from the target.

"Wow, guess that's why you're so good." He said. That's not why I'm good. Izzy started around age 5, Jace too I think even though I didn't know him then. They both only make maybe 6 out of 10 arrows. All my instructors always said I was made to be an archer and here I am.

Many compliments and stares later the club meeting was finally over. I enjoyed it so I guess, I wasn't going to drop out or anything. I packed up and went to pick up Clary from art so we could go home. I got lost on the way to the art room and had to ask the 80 year old janitor. I finally showed up to the art room.

I looked down at my phone and I remembered that art club finished after archery. So I just stood around looking through my phone for about 20 minutes. When the door finally opened, I stepped back letting everyone came out talking and laughing with 3 others. Great she had actually made friends. I waved in her direction and she hastily said goodbye to her friends and walked over to me.

"How was archery?" Clary asked as she got into the car.

"Fine I guess, everyone sucked." I replied as I started the car. Clary spent most of the car ride discussing art club and her new friends. I did not pay that much attention. Clary and I are friends but I just did not have enough energy to really pay attention to her. At home she luckily talked to Jace and Izzy while I hid out in my bedroom. This whole school thing was really starting to bore me.

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