AN -
I'm sooooo sorry for not updating the story in ages... It's a really long chapter because I have had to include detail of the school and lessons and characters. The normal school days wont be this in detail in the future (They can if you want) but I just think it's good to have a lot of detail in the beginning.
Thanks for that review on the last chapter. Hope your all had a Magnificent Xmas and new year, just want to say that I have updated/improved my last chapters fixing the most comma problem and adding more content times and dates. Also shoutout to the amazing people who have followed and favourited this story, you made my week :)
Alec and Izzy's first day at Clairvoyant High! Big chapter ahead!
Disclaimer- All the characters are Cassandra Clares, I only own the plot and the school.
Enjoy!
Monday 5th September 2016
7:30am
Alec POV
I was wrapped up in a tartan blanket sitting on log watching the last of embers on the bonfire dwindle away, I poked the fire with a twig trying to stir the flames back into action but nothing worked.
"Alec has the fire finally died? Darling come back to the tent where it's warm," A familiar silky voice purred from over my shoulder, as the said person came into view.
They were wearing a fluffy jumper as they walked up in front of me and knelt so we were at eye level, raising their hand to carefully caress my cheek lovingly.
"Alexander what planet are you on?" The voice chuckled slight as they lent forward and pressed their lips to mine while I wrapped my hand into their hair and they hummed in agreement against my lips in return.
"Found you blue-eyes," he said in a husky voice before standing up breaking he kiss halfway, sending me happy wink.
Before I was even aware of what I was doing I found myself calling after them.
"Magnus..."
I jolted awake. Heart racing. What they hell was that?! Groaning to myself as I turned away from the my wall as more post-it-notes fell from it and littered bed. Rubbing my eyes groggily as I dangled my legs over the edge of the bed hold my head in my hands. Never am I going out in before school again as blurred flashes of last nights activities stabbed at my head. Just as my alarm decided to scare the living daylights out of me and shock me into action. Today was the first day of school. Shit I spared a glance at the digital numbers that angrily glared the passing seconds, as if to highlighted how much vital time I am currently wasting, catapulting myself to my feet as I blindly felt for the light switch which only succeed in me pulling down more post-it-notes from the wall. I let out a frustrated sigh throwing my hands up in the air, I don't have time to deal with this, I'm already late.
Shit I'm on breakfast duty!
I was already hurling myself down the stair case, while propelling myself off towards the kitchen using the hallway wall, and skidding round the last corner to enter the kitchen calm and collected, striding in purposely so Izzy thinks I was meant to over-sleep by 45 minutes...
"Morning Iz, how do you feel about just having a cheese toasty instead of pancakes? " I say as I dug through the bread bin finding 4 slices of bread out.
"Awh, but Alec I wanted pancakes!" Izzy pouts slightly as she crosses her arms childishly across her chest but you could easily tell she was joking with the laughing glint lighting the corners of her eyes. She silently pushed across the table a glass of water and a painkiller, I grabbed the water and pill giving her a slight nod as I shoved the bread into the grill.
"I'll just cook whatever you want at the weekend just let me off the hook today," I promised as took the toasty's out from the grill, using my thumb and my forefinger to quickly carry them to the plates on the table.
"Alec maybe next time bring the plates to the toasty's," Izzy stated looking over the rim of her glass of orange juice, at me pathetically blowing my burnt fingers.
I shot her a glare as I shoved the rest of the bread in my gob as I ran back up the stairs to get dressed, I didn't realize how hard it was to climb the stairs three at a time sporting a hangover the size of a small country. My hands grasped up the hand rail as stumbled the stair case having at least 5 near-death experiences with the floor. On-wards and Up-wards this day can't get any worse. Shoving the a plain white shirt, a black tie outlined with a saffron stripe on while trying to pick up some trousers that actually fit unlike last night...
"Alec we need to leave in 5!" Izzy voice resounded through the house just as I as trying to find the arm hole of the blazer and pulling my trousers up with the other hand.
I rushed to the bathroom while shouting down to Izzy to get in the car as I quickly brushed my teeth looking at my watch to time the two minutes. I spared a glance at one of the mirrors that dominated he bathroom wall, to see my hair still swept in my eyes and looking like I had just rolled out of bed -which I have I thought. I raked my hands through my fair hoping in some way it would neaten this birds nest in some way.
It was a good job our parents weren't in to see me vault over the banister and to land perfectly on me feet on the ground floor grabbing my bag (I had prepared luckily yesterday) next to the two grand oak doors. Bustling out the doors, sprinting down the drive way to rip the car door open on the Bentley EXP and flooring the accelerator as the car pulled out of the estate.
8:07am
We rolled into the deserted car park, I quickly pulled into a space which was shaded by a giant maple tree quite a bit away from the school, sighing as I turned the engine off reaching for the car door just as Izzy turned the comfortable silence into an awkward silence from just one question that was left ringing in the air.
"Alec who gave you the hickie?" Izzy looked at my flushed face and my hand frozen on the door handle with a raised eyebrow. I could feel all my blood freeze in my veins as I looked at her in horror stuttering my words as they tumbled from my mouth.
"Wh-What h-h-hicke?" I gulped at her as she pulled out a little purse mirror from her bag, opening it up in my direction to see a giant purple bruise to the right of adam's apple, I reaching up to touch it with a unsteady hand touching it faintly. Shit. Shit. Shit. Is that what Magnus gave me?!
"Jeez Alec calm, here have some foundation, if you go any redder your going to pop a blood vessel!" Izzy tutted as she moved over with multiple makeup brushes as she gripped my chin turning it up as she worked her magic on my neck with the foundation.
"But I expect answers later!" She glared at me but I was to busy marveling at how my neck appeared as if nothing had happened during yesterday's night time activities.
"Come on Iz we need to see Administration before homeroom starts," I hastily escaped the car grabbing my leather satchel walking a few paces in front of Izzy before my blush died down so I could turn and lock the car with the keys.
That's when I actually took in the school that towered above us, it 5 imposing levels high stretching for miles at the sides, as little white windows lined the walls all accurately spaced along the floors, ivy was spreading up the ancient walls, tickling the edges of the windows. The front doors stood fast, painted white with giant metal knockers. Lining the doorway were two marble pillars which had pictures sculptured within it, at closer look they didn't seem to have any theme.
At the very bottom of one of the pillars had waves from the sea forming a ring around its circumference, with fire lining the next ring, stars the next, butterfly's flowing around another, lighting dancing above, birds spreading their wings as they fly, thorns wrapping around further up the pillar which morphed into snakes coiling, these images had no pattern. How do thorns and butterfly's link? I thought as if I could decipher the story that the pillars might be holding. On the other pillar was full of some sort of language which was twisting round and round, the language looked slightly like Latin but I still couldn't understand it.
"Move it history freak, even you said we need to get to Administration before homeroom," Izzy chuckled as she dragged me into the foyer, the foyer was beautiful it had a mosaic of tiny tiles, I gasped at it's odd style it held a picture of four Cs back to back with a half crescent moon, a book, an arrow and a star. It was fascinating. Even Izzy's face was in a perfectly shaped 'o' as she let out a breath.
"Alexander Gideon Lightwood and Isabelle Sophia Lightwood you two are the new students here I'm Mrs Ashdown, I was wondering where you two had ran off to" said a woman with hazel eyes and dark murky red hair tied up in an neat bun dressed in black office wear the top of her jacket on had saffron stripes on just like our tie.
"Hello ma'am," Izzy said with a smile as she clasped the older woman's hand in a shake. "The school is memorizing..."
"You will get bored of it very soon," Mrs Ashdown said with a smile as she gave us some documents, "Here's a timetable, school rules and a map. Most of the students here are nice enough to help you if you get lost. Oh and here are you locker numbers and combinations, also your allowed to decorate your locker Mr Asmodeus says its for the students to be unique."
She briefly looked at her watch "I'm so sorry to leave you like this but school is almost beginning to start and I have to get back to the office. Go to the east wing, fourth floor and that should be where your two lockers are, they are easy to spot, the two plain ones. Also we put each of you in your cousins individual homerooms" Mrs Ashdown had already turned away walking in the opposite direction.
"Alec you gotta read the map, you know I have as much sense of direction as a broken compass," Izzy said as she was holding the map upside down. I just grabbed her arm as we made our way towards the east wing, passing many different rooms. The school itself is a traditionally built with all the marble and brick making it look grand but the interior was somewhat modern as you looked in the doorways of classrooms, it was filled with the top notch technology and what amazed me was the fact that each room was decorated with personality. The whole school gave of the vibe as traditional but modern it was the oddest mixes of themes.
"Alec it says here that the first floor is for homerooms and Children of the Moon lockers are here, on the second floor is languages and humanities subjects with the children of Lylics lockers are there, the third floor is maths and science with the children of the Night are there, fourth floor is arts and design with children of Raziel lockers , and the final fifth floor is the common room and staff offices with children of Lilths lockers."
"So there are 5 houses?"I questioned - that is a lot of information I pondered as we walked past some lockers they all had a similar theme of animals and family...? That's odd. Some lockers had individually had pictures of family and friends. One group of about 6 lockers had painted a picture using all 6 of them as a canvass, it held a group of people looking happy and jolly arms linked over each others arms. As I looked closer at that group of lockers I saw Jordan with his arm around a girl grinning flashing all of his teeth.
"Yup, your homeroom is tutor is Mr Branwell and mine is Mr Shade, lets go find them now." Izzy practically skipped down the corridor with me in tow.
8:30am
Jace POV
Ahh back at this shithole... I thought as Will drove his Range Rover Sport into the car park at a leisurely pace, Jem was seated shotgun with Cecily sat behind undoubtedly on her phone to Gabe - againnn. I was sat behind Will kicking the back of his chair repeatedly.
"Oi Will weren't we meant to me in school like 5 mins ago?" Cecily asked impatiently. "I was going to meet Gabe before going to homeroom."
"Well it's not my fault it's your dear darling brother Johnathon's fault! if he didn't act like such an annoying child by kicking my chair we would probably have gotten there quicker." Will fired back.
"It's not my fault that the oldest Herondale the only one of us that can drive, drank his and JEM'S mass in alcohol, and didn't think far enough ahead that he was driving us to school today instead of Dad!" I aimed a another kick into the seat.
"Someone needs to know there alcohol tolerance better..." I said under my breath.
"JACE I HEARD THAT YOU LITTLE SHITE!" Will turned around in seat as soon as he parked the car. "Your lucky I'm not going to lock you up in this car with a blood-thirsty beast."
"You wouldn't dare ..."I narrowed my eyes at my brother.
"Don't test me!" Will pointed his finger at my chest.
"You wouldn't even be able to pick one up to put it there and I doubt Jem would help you." I shoved his hand from my chest and walked off towards the school. I heard my brother shout across the car park just as I was reaching for the doors.
"I HOPE YOU GET DEMON POXS!" Will hollered.
"So mature..." Jem and Cecily murmured in unison.
I strolled down the Moon Wing, blazer chucked over my shoulder and my bag held over the other as I pushed the door open into my homeroom. The design teacher, Mr Branwell hadn't even noticed that I had came in he was too busy with what ever hazardous invention he had brought to homeroom this morning. I felt a sarcastic smile smile stretched across my face as I saw my usual table at the back near the window with Gabriel, Jordan, Jon sat by it talking to -Will?! How come Will is in my homeroom? How did he get in here before me?
"Will? Have you came to get you ass verbally beaten or would you prefer physically?" I felt my smile morph into a smirk as I saw him start to turn but at the same time Jordan was in hysterics -What the hell is he laughing about?
I still kept my smile on my face trying to avoid my friends expressions. But that's when Wills body finally turned to meet me and that was when I saw that it wasn't Will but it was Alec. It was so obvious now, Will was shorter, stockier and radiated the Herondale arrogance like a second skin and poor Alec was slender and shy.
"Oh shit, Alec I didn't realize it was you," I laughed at his confused expression. "Welcome to Clairvoyant High."
"Smooth Herondale..." Gabriel stated in between laughs.
"You nearly scared the living daylights out of him! You should have seen his face" Jordan gasped holding his stomach as poor Alec went bright red looking slight humiliated.
"Wait till I tell Will that you mistook him for a Lightworm - no offence Gabe, Alec - you are never gonna live that down," Jon said with his dimples appearing because of the giant infectious grin on his face.
You could tell that Clary and him were sister because of both of their charisma and ability to lighten the mood in seconds, we were all dissolved into laughter even Alec who's face as returned back to being pale was gasping for breath at the end.
"So Alec what lessons have you got today? Gimme your timetable so we can compare" I said as Alec slid his over the table.
"I thought that we have different lessons because we are in different grades?" Alec replied.
"Nah, we are all smushed into the same lessons just take the tests differently and your grade is more senior due to them being in the course for 1 year already compared to us juniors." Jordan said while smashing his hands together.
"First lesson you have maths that's on the Vamp/3rd floor with Mr Nightshade - "
"OHHH you have that with me bro!" Jordan playfully punched Alec in the arm.
I shoved Jordan off of his chair as I carried on looking at the paper "Shut it Jordan, second lesson you have history that's with Mr Nix that's on the Fay/2nd Floor -"
"Alec that's with my brother, he will take you where we normally hang out for break" Gabriel piped up.
I shot him down with a glare "As I was saying, third lesson is back on the Vamp/3rd floor and that's physics with Mr Shade that's with Jon," I said as Jon gave a small salute with a goofy smile, "Fourth lesson isn't on a floor it's on the athletic track today with Gwyn and that lesson is with you favorite Herondale who will come and lead the way if you meet him at the mosaic." I finished with a small bow.
"So how come Will is showing me to sport?" Alec said with a smirk visible in his eyes.
"Oh Lightworm you wound me," I said dramatically clasping my chest.
"I'm joking, I'm joking," Alec giggled.
"You would think that this Herondale was the one that took drama," Jon stage whispered over the table.
"Shut your trap, Morgenstern!" I sneered at him as he stuck his tongue out at me.
"Oh yeah I almost forgot... today you have your free last, so your allowed to go home early if you wanted," I said after I had finished pulling faces at Jon.
"Oh I can't give my sister a lift home normally..." Alec looked slightly disappointed.
"Fair play next time just ditch her with one of the girls, we all share lifts home sometimes" Gabriel said looking up from his phone.
"Yo Henry can we go to first lesson now?" I called over to our teacher who was still absorbed in his trinket to even tell that we were almost late to lesson.
"Yes, Yes do as you please Jonathan," Henry hadn't even bothered to look up as the students started to leave the homeroom.
8:50am
Alec POV
My tutor hadn't even looked up as me and Jordan walked past his desk, but I heard his voice from behind my shoulder just before I walked into the corridor.
"Welcome Alexander to Clairvoyant High," His kind voice carrying across the classroom.
"Come'on Alec we are gonna be late and you haven't even been to your locker yet! Ah Well nevermind just put your sports kit in mine, we will come collect it at break." Jordan was talking excitedly as he pushed me down the corridor. Jordan came to halt again to in front of some lockers on the first floor.
"Hey Jordan I thought our lockers were on the fourth floor?" I asked.
"Nahh mine isn't yours is. We are in different houses, I'm in the Moon Children House or as the students call us the werewolves / wolves, see a grey stripe outlining my tie, and yours is a yellow colour." Jordan said as he flicked the combination lock. That's when I realized our ties was different mine yellow just as he said and his was grey like a moon.
"So what am house am I then?" I asked as Jordan rummaged though his locker, and grabbed my sports kit from me.
"Your Raziel's Children, or Nephilim as most people say," Jordan slammed his locker and pulled slightly on my tie. And that's when I looked at his personalized locker and it was one of the group of 6 lockers which had a image painted on it, Jordan was smiling a smile that lit up his whole face and his eyes were lovingly on a girl with curly brown hair and happy amber eyes.
"Who's that?"I asked pointing to the girl on his locker.
"Oh that's Maia, you will probably see her around, with been together for about 3 years now..." Jordan's eyes were slightly glazed over obviously reliving a happy memory a small blush tinted his cheeks. "She will be in your sport I think, anyway come on Mr Nightshade isn't a happy bunny if your late. More like a bunny with really sharp teeth"
Jordan mimed fangs as he bounded down the corridor towards a flight of stairs, racing up them pushing past a group of people donned in flowers braided in their long hair with a tie striped with green. It was as if Jordan was immune from there deadly glares that they shot him as he bundled past them, oblivious to the knife like glares aimed in at his back.
"Just ignore the Fay folk probably too high to even remember who pushed them," Jordan sniggered as we reached he third floor., he dramatically threw the doors open to reveal a darkish corridor all the lockers were placed on the left side of the hall, some had stars painted on them, others dark creepy forests but they all shared the same idea of nightime. I felt Jordan come up behind me and give me a shove.
"BOO! welcome to the crazy vamp floooooorrr! don't get too close to them they are very 'emo' and 'gothic', nah I'm only joking most of them are ok but the rest are jackasses." Jordan said swinging arm wide so Alec could take the view in.
"Quickly into the maths room before Count Dracula comes and eats us," Jordan was just about to reach for the classroom door as a man - I'm going to assume he is our teacher - pulled the door open and I could see Jordan visibly gulped.
"Mr Kyle glad you could join us... and Mr Lightwood I would hope the new student wouldn't be led along so easily by a dog," Drawled the man as he stepped away from the doorway letting both of us in.
"Mr Kyle go sit next to Mr Lewis and Mr Lightwood sit next to Mr Carstairs. Hopefully these two students will change you two trouble makers." Mr Nightshade was wearing a black shirt complete with black trousers the only colour was on his shirt was two red stripes on his shoulders. He had dark hair swept back away from his peircing dark eyes as he scanned them over me and pointed over to the back of the classroom as Jordan sat sliently next Simon at the front. I pushed the urge to blush at being told off by a teacher I haven't even spoken to, as I walked over to where he was pointing. Luckily I saw that Mr Carstairs was Jem, so this couldn't be so bad.
"You don't want to get on the bad side of Mr Nightshade Alec, he isn't very forgiving." Jem murmured out of the corner of his mouth, from a distance it wouldn't look like Jem was talking only taking notes studiously.
"I can tell, he called Jordan a dog! that can't be allowed by a teacher!" I must of sounded appalled as I mirrored his technique while copying down the notes from the board.
"Well I must say in Mr Nightshades defence Jordan did introduce him by saying Count Dracula, I wouldn't fret too much Jordan vs Mr Nightshade is quite common. Jordan is quite the class clown." Jem stated as he loosened his saffron striped tie.
Me and Jem chatted quietly throughout the lesson laughing occasionally as Jordan said a snide comment to Mr Nightshade. The maths was relatively easy since my parents had ordered a maths tutor to make sure I was caught up on the senior topic in maths and the rest of my lessons. It was down to the last ten minutes of class when Jordan appeared to have gotten bored again, much to Simon's attempt to try and stop Jordan throwing a ball of garlic at Mr Nightshades only to succeed on knocking his arm so the bundle of garlic landed on the poor girl next to them. She had long blonde hair, green intelligent eyes, curves in all the right places, her white shirt not done up all the way, with a red tie tied loosely round her neck showing off a bit too much skin. I started to feel sick I wish she would button her god damn top up.
"Mr Nightshadeeee," rang from her blood red lips as she smirked at Jordan. "Jordan threw a piece of garlic at me,"
Mr Nightshades head whipped round and planted both of his hands either side of Jordan's desk, "Mr Kyle I think you have over stepped your boundaries today, i'll ring Mr Scott now to come put you on a leash. Miss Belcourt you're allowed to go can clean yourself up in the toilets then go straight to next lesson here's a hall pass."
"Excuse ME, Mr Nightshade but the garlic hasn't even made a mess on the skank." Jordan huffed standing up and stormed out the room, "I'll go find Ralph myself!"
"Sir, it's my fault!" Simon jumped up out of his seat looking quite frazzled, "I was the one that knocked his arm, he was aiming for the bin."
"Mr Lewis, Of course it wasn't your fault," Mr Nightshade replied before turning back to the board and carrying on with the lesson.
"Jem is Jordan in trouble?" I asked out the corner of my mouth as my eyes were fixed on Simon as he was still frozen above his seat as he signed and lay back in his seat.
"Nah course he isn't Mr Scott loves Jordan and hates Mr Nightshade, so he will just put Jordan down for disturbing the class which is pretty mild to be honest." Jem said it as if this was usual to happen.
A high ringing bell resounded through the whole school which marked the end of the lesson, I started to clear away all my pens quickly shoving them into my satchel.
"Hey Jem do you know who has history with Mr Nix?" I shouted over the bell.
"Tessa, Cat, Sophie... I think Gideon and maybe Mags," Jem replied shouldering his bag but all I was hearing was Mags is that Magnus. My secret. "Do you want me to take you there it's a bit of a it's sorta on the way to the basement but I don't mind too much Miss Blackthorn wont mind if I'm helping a friend."
But it sounded as if I was underwater... I could barely hear him, his voice sounded distorted as I tried to focus on him, I could feel my breaths coming in quick and shallow. Shit shit shit keep it together Alec. I felt a surprisingly strong grip on my shoulder and whipped my head from the spinning room to Jem
"Alec, can you hear me?" Jem said looking straight into my eyes, I nodded slightly, "Okay, Alec I want you to count to ten for me,"
1, 2, 3-3-3. I shook my head taking a big deep, I felt unsteady on my legs as I saw a worried Simon appear next to Jem, 4, 5, 6,7-7-7. Jem linked one of his arms under my armpit and getting Simon to do the same barking controlled orders at some people to clear off and get to next lesson, as he and Simon moved me into the boys toilets. Luckily it was empty.
"Simon can you make sure now one comes in?" Jem asked calmly as he whipped out and texted someone, Simon worriedly pushed his glasses up the bridge of his nose then turned out of the door.
8, 9 ,10-10- 10. I was clinging to the sink head leaning on the cool surface of the mirror as angry tears streaked down my cheeks.
"Calm down Alec, speak to me buddie," Jem said furrowing his eyebrows in confusion a small wrinkle forming on his forehead.`
"Is this about the same thing that happened last night?" Jem asked, and that's when I remembered that here I was crying in a bathroom again in the small space of 24 hours.
"Sorta... I'm fine now," I said trying to hide my shaking hands as I washed my face with some cold water from the taps. "What did I say last night? I can't really remember much of it?"
"Oh not a lot really... just saying how you shouldn't have done something. And he was going to catch you out again?" Jem sent a anxious look at me, "Look Alec I know there are a lot of questions I want to ask you, but they aren't going to help the situation, so I'm not going to pry." His silver eyes glowed honestly as a small smile formed as he could tell that I have calmed down a little.
"Gideon has already told Mr Nix that you have fainted and that is all Gideon knows, but I suggest you don't keep this all inside," Jem advised as he led me out of the bathroom waving for Simon-who was tapping his foot nervously biting his thumb-to come and walk me to the second floor.
9:57am
Cat POV
"I swear Mrs Black gets creepier ever year," Sophie giggled at me as we moved from the biology classroom onto the corridor.
"Ugh she gives me the shivers," I replied pretending to rub my arms, "We are gonna be late for Mr Nix's if she keeps increasing the time she keeps us in after the bell just because of Gregor and Jacob miny scraps."
There was some shouting coming up from the maths side of the floor, I linked arms with Sophie as we went to investigate the familiar shouts. The closer we got the more we recognized the shouting it wasn't aggressive or very loud but it was commanding and firm.
"Why's Jem shouting?!" Sophie questions as we break out into a small run to the sound, just as we got there we saw Simon and Jem struggling with a boy held up in the middle of them, his tall body making hard for poor Simon who was at least a head smaller than the boy. They all disappeared into the boys toilets, and soon after Simon popped back out telling anyone to go to a different floor spouting some bullshit about them being broken.
"Simon! Are you okay?!" Me and Sophie gushed out, "Is Jem alright? Is that boy okay?"
Simon looked nervously over his shoulder in the direction of the toilets "Yeah Jem and me are okay..." He said absently, "Alec is feeling... unwell."
Simon couldn't lie to save himself so I didn't ask or want to invade in the poor Lightwood boy.
"Alright if you say so me and Sophie are going to class now..."
"Do you think that Alec got into a fight?" Sophie asked as we made it to the Fay Floor.
"I don't think Alec is that sorta of person..." I replied as we entered Mr Nix's classroom, seeing Magnus, Tessa and Gideon already sat in the usual spaces on the middle row. Sophie sat next to Gideon as I sat to her right with Magnus and then Tessa sat next to me as the class fell into the normal amount of chatter litter the air about the first day back from summer, Magnus bouncing his pen up and down as he spoke to Tessa about first lesson.
Mr Nix entered the classroom around 5 minutes after me and Sophie, walking in on his black cane which always seemed to be clutched in his left, his right stroking his snowy beard, the whole class instantly hushed all holding a breath as he turned just about to speak...
And that's when an electronic ping rang from Gideon's bag, all eyes in the classroom swiveled to meet Gideon as his eyes widened when he read the text.
"Sir, Alec is going to be late for class because he fainted in Mr Nightshades class." Gideon said cautiously but concern was evident in his green eyes.
"Alrighty-ho thanks for informing me Gideon," Mr Nix tightened his blue tie as he turned back to the board writing the title with his claw like hands. The whole class sighed in relief, Mr Nix had multiple moods after teaching teens for that long it must have ruined his brain, because your either dealing with a teacher who jokes and is jolly on a first name basis or your dealing with a psychotic teacher who will portal you into hell the moment you speak up. The whole class studiously wrote the introduction down in our books because there's not telling when he switches.
A quiet knock was heard at the door, and Mr Nix turned towards the door just as Jem popped his head round the door, looking cautiously at Mr Nix's face. I felt Magnus freeze next to me no longer tapping his little tune on his pen.
"Good Morning Aldous! Sorry Alec is late," Jem said in a warm tone.
"Oh it's okay James just leave him here and scamper off to lessons!" Mr Nix grinned at Jem as he turned to Alec.
"Is Alec short for Alexander?" He asked almost childishly.
"Y-Yes sir..." Alec avoided making contact with anyone else in the room it honestly looked like he wanted to disappear through the floor.
"Shush my name is Aldous or Mr Nix, Sir makes me feel old. Welcome to the history class, you can find your seat next to Gideon." Waved his hand over to Gideon's direction. Alec quickly retreated into the seat and slumped his head on the desk, as Gideon poked and nagged him what was up with him in first lesson, Alec just shoved his hand of and laughed saying he was fine, just a bit of a hangover.
"Today we will be watching a documentary about Machu Picchu to start the year of nice and easy," Mr Nix said as he excitedly went and turned on the projector, he seemed to look forward to it more than the actual students, but we weren't complaining. I noticed Magnus had not moved an inch since Jem had disturbed the lesson his eyes still glazed over looking off into the distance, I prodded him in the ribs and he launched himself 10ft into the air with a squeal, earning a odd wave off of Mr Nix, Magnus waved sheepishly back.
"Magnus," I laughed as he shot me the birdie as Mr Nix turned back to watch the video.
"What's up darling?" He replied as he furiously wrote all the notes he had missed while off in lah lah land down.
"Nothing you just weren't paying attention,"I said and with that the rest of the lesson was spent in silence as the class wrote about the Inca's citadel built in the 15th century.
AN -
I'm sorry for taking so long to update im a terrible person. But i managed to update before school restarted again. I hope you liked the idea of the school houses, lockers etc etc I just wanted you to all know that the teachers are actually people from the Shadowhunter's universe, and the Shadowhunter wiki has helped me out loads (that website is godly). I am working on the next chapter now, so should be done hopefully soon... just repeating that only the next chapter is going to be as detailed because it's the first day of school and I wanted you guys to get the realtionships between the characters. So next chapter is going to be break time, physics lesson, lunch and sport then a free period then a bit of home life.
Hope you enjoyed it would love to hear some feedback on how you think I could improve my story or if you like a certain idea.
Thanks for the Read.