Here is is as promised, but one thing. I wrote this as a google docs with the italics on that, but I am pretty sure that it will not transfer so hopefully the details after will help you identify thoughts. Sorry!

Disclaimer: I own almost nothing, all credit to Cassandra Clare.

Jace POV

What happened yesterday? Why in the world did I confess my life story to Clary?

I mean just because she's the only person in the world who might be able to understand what I went through doesn't mean that I have to burden her with my life stories right? Remember she is Jonathan's sister and you know what he says about her. That's she's a nerd with no life and she wastes her life away. At least that's what everyone says

Funny how none of that seemed true now that I knew Clary. It was crazy how much that girl had changed my life. In under one week, she had shown me how people truly perceived me, who my ex-girlfriend really was under her "mask", and defied all stereotypes and rumors told about her.

Everyone in the school had their own opinion, but unfortunately everyone's was wrong. People say that she was socially awkward and hardly ever talked. Others thought she was secretly dating Simon Lewis because no one else wanted her. (Well they couldn't be more wrong than that.) Some even went to extremes and said that she had a temper more fiery than her hair, and once attacked Aline out of nowhere.

Most people can base their entire opinion on what other people say, without even meeting the other person themselves. I mean who wants to go through the tedious and troublesome process of having to introduce yourself to that person and hang out with them etc. etc. When you could just listen to what everyone else says and then decide if you like them or not.

And that's what most people do, that's exactly what I did. I went almost 17 years of my life thinking about Clary Fray in the wrong light. I listened to the rumors and misperceived Clary entirely wrong. Before, she was always the nerd who spent too much time reading and was someone who I would hurt (verbally of course) or at least assist in the action with hardly a second glance. But now, she was the girl who had dealt with more than most would in their entire lives. She was strong and confident and everything that I aspired to be.

There was really no denying it. I had a crush on Clary Fray.

*time skip*

There was no denying it, school was torture. Not just the normal way of it's-so-boring-get-me-out-of-here way, but with what went down yesterday.

When I got to school I was greeted by Aline who was in her words "giving me one last chance before I regretted it." Which I turned down of course.

Apparently word had spread and Aline was doing everything in her power to make my life miserable.

My locker was filled with garbage, I was getting pushed and shoved around by the other football jocks, people kept on attempting to trip me, not to mention when I spoke there was always soft snickering behind me. That was all before lunch!

I seriously wanted to change schools, but there was something keeping me here. Someone.

That someone was Clary. Throughout the day I was building up the nerve to ask her out.

What was this girl doing to me? I never ever asked girls out. They always asked me out and I almost always accepted. Why was I getting nervous of all things? She was just a girl and if she said no then so what?

But as much as you want to act like you don't care about her, you actually do. What! No I don't she is just another girl there are over a billion others in the world. But none are quite like her are they?

Head spinning I approached the lunch line looking for a certain red-head.

"Jace are you sure you want to be in that lunch line? There's a peanut sauce and we all don't want you to go to the ER." Aline slyly stated with a malicious glint in her eye.

"It's so nice that you care about my well-being considering the fact that I dumped you." That put her in her place, but I wasn't done yet. "I mean you really must care about me since you practically begged me to take you back." Echoes of "burn" were scattered across the hall, turning Aline's face redder than a tomato.

"What are you talking about everybody loves me and if it's anyone who should be begging it's you!"

"You see just the fact you are telling me that i should take you back means that everything I just said was true. Everyone else may like you but I know who you really are. You are a selfish, caniving, manipulative person who will do whatever it takes to get what she wants." If anyone hadn't been listening before, they were now. But I found who I really cared about, and she was a few yards away looking at me.

"What… what are… you talking about?"

"You know what I mean Aline, like I said you're manipulative. That's probably the only reason that I went out with you and it was the biggest mistake of my life. Never again will I help you into hurting someone or humiliating them." With that I walked over to Clary, but I couldn't ask her now.

"Can I talk to you after school?"

*time skip*

Walking over to the bleachers, i thought my heart would burst with the ferocity of it's beating. Or maybe that was just fear…

"Clary, you came?"

"Is there a reason why I wouldn't?"

"Look Clary I came over here to ask you something." Can I really do this? Just spit it out and get it over with! But what if she says no, I'll be crushed. Not as crushed as if she gets a boyfriend because she didn't know you were interested. With that I ended my mental argument, ready to ask.

"Clary will you go out with me?"

What happened next was unpredictable.

Her face was a mask of shock and disbelief, as if someone had just told her her dog died. There was silence for a moment, broken by her response.

"Jace, I can't." With that She turned in her stiffened posture and left.