So I'm revising some of my chapters and getting rid of all the (I)s and (B) stuffs. So I have to ask you guys: same length chapters with updating as often as I can, or longer chapters (you can choose the length), but the updates will take longer. Your choice!

Clary POV

When I said that I wouldn't completely shut my mom out, I meant it. She was finally moving on from my father, and she could finally be what I had always wanted. That didn't mean that I have to tell her everything. Don't get me wrong, I meant what I said. I'm just not at that point where I can trust her with all my secrets-no one could ever reach that point of trust with me. Mom knew that, and the same was with her. But that didn't mean that she would let me off the hook with Simon. She kept on pestering me about what happened until one day I finally cracked.

Flashback

"So now that all your friends are back in order, at least that's what I think from what happened with Simon right?"

"Mom for the last time I don't feel like talking about him. Everything's fine and I need to finish my math homework." I had actually been getting a lot better at math. Jace was a surprisingly good tutor.

"I know that you don't want to but I really want to help and if you can't talk to Simon then you have no one to confide in."

"Right now I don't need someone to talk to, I need to finish this assignment so I can move onto the next class's homework."

"But I just want to hel-"

"Look mom I get that now you want to get back in my life and make up for lost time, but not like this. If I wanted to talk to someone I would have and that's that now please just leave me alone!" My face must have resembled a tomato and the heavy breaths must have made it look like I ran a mile.

"I get it, I won't bring it up again." With that my room door was shut once again, leaving me to attempt tranquility in the silence.

End flashback

Since then my and my mom had settled into a comfortable silence.

"Hey Clary!" I was brought out of my mind by none other than Simon. Although Simon seemed to be trying even harder than Jace to prove himself, because he knew that I hadn't fully forgiven him. What I said last week was mainly so my mom and Jace would think that's everything was perfectly alright and not bring up the topic. Wrong assumption on my part! Simon pretty much left the populars, and the fact that he did it for me made Aline upset! If looks could kill…

"Hi Simon" I replied, stepping out of my brother's car. Another weird thing that happened, I can now ride in my brother's car. He's been a lot kinder to me, playing it off that it's because mom's breathing down his neck about not being nice enough to me, but I know this has to relate to what he said in the hospital. Although his one rule for me was: don't let anyone know.

There was a lie to cover up any kind of compassion that he would show towards me, the car being that mom forced him, not teasing me because he "wasn't in the mood for it" or he "forgot something in class". But he was slowly but surely becoming the brother that he had been all those years ago to me. Our family was going through a slow, but steady, drive down recovery road.

"So what's your first class?"

"Do you even need to ask?"

"Touché Fairchild."

"So-" I was cut off from completing my sentence when a heavy force knocked me over.

"Hey I didn't see you there Clary." Of course it was Sebastian Verlac of all people that ran into me. Typical

"Look man I get that you might be mad at me or something but that doesn't mean that you need to take it out on Clary." Although me and Simon still weren't on the best of terms, he finally took back the role he once had.

"I didn't run into you on purpose Clary, I just didn't see you."
"So now the short jokes. Are you really going to pull that on me Sebastian?" Nothing I haven't heard a thousand times or more.

"I didn't see you and that's the truth. Honestly I don't get why Aline has such a big problem with you anyway. I mean I can't find anything to hate about you." That giant lie of a statement was followed by the signature player smirk almost all boys wore when they were overconfident, cocky, (insert word of choice).

"You have got to be kidding me. Are you seriously pulling that on me?"
"Hey," he replied in that annoying arrogant voice, trying to sound all sweet and innocent, but I knew Sebastian all to well for that to work on me. "It really was an accident. You can believe it or not." With that he left me perplexed with one thing in that conversation, except for the short joke-or-was-it-a-joke there were no insults thrown my way.

"Well that wasn't confusing or weird at all." There was a real grin, if only that could make me smile like it used to.
Time for another day of torture.

Aline POV

"Well did it work?"
"Of course not what did you expect for her to fall into my arms?"
"No, but do you think that you at least made a small impact or anything that we can work with?"
"Maybe, but it's definitely going to take time. Clary isn't like all the other girls in the school. But within the month I'll have her in the palm of my hand."
"Good we need to terminate her, she needs to pay. Goodbye." With that Sebastian walked away, leaving me alone in the storage room.

Clary was going to regret ever talking to my Jace. She poisoned his mind and made him think that he was too good then me. That I was actually doing something wrong. Clary always makes me second place at everything in the world and I am done with it. I am sick and tied of always being stuck the in her shadow.

Even when I have everyone wrapped around my finger yet she still managed to ruin the one thing she hadn't touched yet.

My boyfriend

Ex-boyfriend now because of her. I tried everything.

At first I was nice to her, then she ruined my hair.

I try to ruin her outfit, but the food ends up on me.

I attempt to ruin her confidence, but I get caught mid-way.

I studied for hours for that spelling bee, to finally find something that I would be able to be better at there than, she won that too. I wanted something, just one thing, one damn accomplishment that I can tell my parents about and finally be proud of.

What I've always dreamed of.

Too bad it seems impossible.

It was never my intention to have Aline be the complete villain just because, Aline is more then that and a character that I really liked in the books. I just needed someone to fit this role, but I hope it's all explained.