Alec POV

It had been a while since I had to attend class. Izzy has patrolling duties today so I was free to do whatever. I had decided to show up to class because I didn't want to be too suspicious.

The first two periods sucked and we had gym next. When we walked into the room I was met with the smell of sweat and something that weirdly reminded me of meatloaf. Everyone was chatting with their friends when the teacher walked in.

"Quiet down class." Mr. Hollis yelled. "We are playing dodgeball today!"

"What's dodgeball?" I whispered into Clary's ears.

"You don't know what dodgeball is?!" Clary yelled out in surprise.

"Shhhh!" I yelled. But it was too late. By now everyone was staring at us.

"As I was saying before I was rudely interrupted," said, aiming a glare at Alec and Clary, "if your name starts with the letter A-M then you are on team one. Go grab a red pinny and head to the left side of the gym. The rest of you go grab a green pinny and go to the right side. And for those of you who don't know the rules, it's simple. If you're hit then you are out. If someone catches the ball, the person who threw it is out and if you hit someone in the head then you are out."

Clary and I grabbed a red pinny and moved to the left side of the gym. We waited for the balls to be laid in the middle.

"Start!" Mr. Hollis yelled when all the balls were set on the floor.

What followed was a wave of balls being thrown everywhere. I moved in front of Clary to protect her. Who knew mundanes played such a dangerous sport.

"What are you doing?" Clary asked with a incleorous look on her face

"Nothing." I grunted.

For some reason nobody went near me or threw the ball even a foot near me. It might have been because out the scary face I was making–according to Clary– and people were too afraid to come near me.

"What are you doing kid!" The coach yelled at me.

"Nothing." I replied.

"What do you mean nothing! Why are all the kids scared to go near you?" The coach asked.

"I don't know." I said.

"Ugh. Whatever." The coach gave up on asking me. "I don't even know why I try anymore with kids these days…."

Me and Clary ended up being the last ones standing. Clary threw the last to get the last person out because I refused to touch those disgusting balls dripping with high school slobber.

We were just getting ready to go to lunch when Mr. Hollis yelled–

"Mr. Lightwood and Ms. Fairchild, please stay behind."

"This is going to be fun." I whispered to myself. Clary gave me a amused look because she was close enough to hear.

"Ok, Mr. Hollis." Clary said to not seem rude. By now everyone one had already left for lunch. I didn't want to be here any longer than I had to so I followed Clary as she walked into his office.

"I don't know what you guys did but considering what happened in this class I think it's fair to say that you two will not be on the same team from now on."

"Was that all?" I said rolling my eyes. As if I would go to his gym class regularly. I didn't wait for a reply–he should've realized that it was a rhetorical question by now–and left the room.

Mr. Hollis stood there in shock and I could hear Clary offering an apology for my behaviour. Clary came out of the room a few minutes later and ran to catch up to me.

"What was that! I thought we were trying to mix in." She said.

"Look, I'm sorry. He was just annoying me and I'm kind of stressed out from the mission. We already found out about Veronica but that's not enough. We can't even confront her about it because she might refuse to tell us and then our cover will be blown."

Clary gave me a awkward side hug which was probably meant to be comforting. It wasn't comfortable but I smiled in content. We don't usually get along but we've recently been getting closer and she's become like family to me.

"Let's go to lunch now. We don't want to miss it."

When we arrived at lunch Izzy gave me the usual report about finding no demon activity. Most days there weren't any but we still did the patrols to be sure.

The rest of the day was spend with me sitting in my seat thinking to myself and when it came time to leave, I couldn't wait to get out. School was too boring and there was nothing new to learn.

When we got home, we had a movie night. Clary had found a copy of Grease and we watched it until we all fell asleep in the living room.

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