Good afternoon guys, sorry it's been a little while I have zero excuses. So here it is and a fair warning I've had writer's block for this so this was all that I could come up with. Thank to all who have reviewed, favoured this story and followed, it means a lot :)
I wake up to my alarm blaring and Luke banging on my door to wake up because I'm on delivery today of the younger ones, while Luke has some meeting with other children homes about how to improve living standards within homes around the country.
Groaning I fall out of bed with a thump and grab my chair helping me lift myself up and drag my feet towards the chest of drawers ten meters away from me, but it feels like miles in a desert of bleary eyes and tired limbs. By the time I get there I'm a little more awake enough to open the doors and catch the picture I drew when I was seven in primary school that is forever falling out every time I open the door.
Rubbing my eyes removing the last of the sleep in my eyes I look at my wardrobe which mainly consists of jeans, shirts, shorts and two dresses. Sighing I grab my black skinny jeans with a rip in the knees and my green baggy shirt that can act both as a hoodie and shirt, tugging my jeans on I throw on some scabby socks and my favourite blood red slightly scuffed Doc Martins before going on the hunt for my hairbrush.
While I'm brushing my hair a thought comes into my head which makes me and stop to think about it at least you're not going to look like you're mourning over losing Jace. You're just wearing the same stuff you would if you were still going out. I shake my head in frustration, I was the one who broke it off with him, and I've cried about it got grounded about it what's left for me to mourn about in all fairness. This was my choice so now I have to deal with the consequences of that choice.
Finishing with my hair I grab my old battered beanie hat and IPod before going downstairs to grab a granola bar before jumping into the van. A weird sense of dread comes over me getting into the kitchen and kissing the head of the little kids saying good morning to all of them and Luke, who looks incredibly uncomfortable in his suit preferring jeans and a shirt like me.
I wink and say; "Nice suit Mr. Garraway" making him shift uncomfortably again looking down at the suit. "Peg picked it out for me, I feel like a monkey this." He says sounding like a whiny child not getting a lollipop, I laugh slapping his hand away from the tie he keeps loosening then tightening; "You're going to wreck it, here" I say grabbing it and tightening it slightly making sure it is in the centre.
Luke smiles saying thank you then turns to the kids at the breakfast table, "Right kids, go grab your bags and your lunches from the fridge before Clary takes you all to school" a little cheer goes up as all the kids jump up and start running around like headless chickens. "Clary, Clary can you tie my shoelace please!" a gangly brown messy hair blue eyed Zach says running over to me his shoes untied and his bag wide open.
Laughing totally forgetting my problems for a while I delve into acting like a mother, making sure everyone had a coat their homework and that they had their seatbelts securely fastened in the running van before quickly hugging Luke assuring him he'll be fine at the conference, then running outside and jumping into the front seat.
The way there is filled with nursery songs and songs by Taylor Swift and some cool new band the boys all seemed to enjoy. I pull up into the preschool that Tavy and Bat go to until half twelve and bring them into their class where they quickly kiss me goodbye and off to say hi to their friends.
It takes a bit longer for the older ones who are twenty minutes away from the preschool, after realising there wasn't anywhere to park in the Primary school I reversed out of the school and parked in an abandoned parking lot across the street. Parking I get out and open the door helping the rest of the kids out with their bags and zip up Emma's coat again.
Pocketing the keys I grab hold of Emma and Julian's hand and tell the rest to hold hands as we go to cross a busy street. They do it slightly nervous and I feel bad, Luke would've found a parking spot and avoided all of this, instead they have to cross a street with a really old set of traffic lights that have been broken and has graffiti all over it.
We walk quickly over to the lights where I have to let go of Emma's hand to press the button, Emma clings to my jumper while I'm doing this and latches onto my hand again while we wait for the green man to pop up. This hasn't been so bad, everyone's got to school on time and nobody got hurt, well done Clary. The green man appears and we start to cross when someone shouting my name startles me to look left, there up the front is a familiar Land Rover with a shocked Jace up the front, who I quickly turn away from to see Aline halfway out of the car taking pictures of the kids and me.
"Hey loser give us a pose!" she shouts laughing this terrible screech. I put my head down and drag the kids across the last piece of road, at the other end I stand there leaning against the lamppost beside the lights eyes closed breathing in and out trying not to scream. Didn't take him long to go back to her did it. "Clary?" a little voice interrupts me and I open my eyes to Emma her hair in tight braids I did earlier, her eyes are wide and bright.
Plastering a smile on my face I kneel down looking at her and say; "Let's get you to school, yeah? What do you think you'll learn today?" I ask letting their enthusiastic voices wash over me as I bring them to the door. There I hug all of them and tell them to be careful before heading back to the van. Oh shit the van, no way am I bringing that to school. I'll just have to be a little late today nobody will notice.
Quickly crossing the road I unlock the car jump in and make my way back to the house to grab my bag and bike. Now that all the younger ones are gone I can listen to my music, so I stick on The 1975 skip to my favourite song "Girls" and blare it singing along not caring how weird I look, I'd started with a bad day but this song will make better. Humming along I pass my school again and the dread starts to seep in again, what will Aline do with the pictures she took? I mean I know she'll show the whole school, but what name will I have after this.
I ponder the thought of skipping school and going back to bed, but that just seems like admitting defeat and there's no way I'm doing that when Aline and Jace are involved. So instead I just open the door with my keys and put the van keys in the little bowl some past kid here made, I run upstairs grabbing my bag stuffing homework into it and grabbing my bike keys from my bedside table.
If everything goes wrong in my life the one thing I know that will never change is the love I have for the wind in my hair as I drive towards the nightmare called school. My IPod is blaring as I enter the parking lot and for the moment everything looks normal, people are laughing at each other, people frantically asking for homework from a fellow pupil everything seems normal.
Exhaling the breath I didn't know I was holding I park my bike furthest away as I can get from the Land Rover and the inhabitants. Hoping off I grab my bag from the carrier and slug it over my shoulder starting my descent towards school trying to do everything other than imagine what's going to happen when I have to pass the Rover, I don't have to wait long though because soon the Rover is looming and my breathing is getting quicker and quicker.
When I get close to it I plug my earphones in and quicken my pace trying to avoid confronting the beast, but apparently the beast in question was just waiting to pounce and is on me before I can even blink. She struts over her hand trailing across the hood of the rover a smirk on her lips as she gets closer and closer to where I'm standing.
"Well well well. What happened Clary did mummy and daddy finally wake up and realize the abominations they gave birth too? Oh wait that's right, you don't have a dad do you? And your mother was murdered which is even better. She just didn't want to see the disappointment you would become" Kalie smirks like this is the best thing someone has ever said to me before.
Flushes of heat and ice wash over me as I try to control my emotions which are boiling right underneath the surface, I want to punch her in her stupid smart ass face right here right now. But she knows as well as I do that I won't, not here in a public place where there's no doubt I'd be caught and, if I was lucky, only get suspended I'm not risking the look in Luke's eyes if I had to tell him I got suspended.
Kalie smiles victoriously and says; "Well we both know one person who learnt the hard way how much of a disappointment you are. Jace" at his name I look up from my spot on the floor where I've been looking to prevent doing something I'd regret, I look up and there he is looking directly at me pleading with me not to do anything and just talk to him. Kalie notices the look and goes to stand beside Jace wrapping her perfectly manicured hands around his neck dragging him down for a very loud disgusting kiss in front of everyone.
I can't help but laugh shaking my head; "Kalie if I wanted to see a kiss I'd go watch Harry Potter at least those relationships stand a chance, but hey you can have him." Both Kalie and Jace's eyes go wide and bystanders start to whisper amongst themselves, I smile like everything is fine and say; "I was always taught that sharing is caring after all" I smile at Kalie then turn to Jace; "But I've got a sandwich in my lunch today we can half, might be more hygienic than putting you tongue in her mouth, where we all know has been"
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