Heyy guys okay so this is a long chapter like maybe the longest I have written so far so I hope you can get through it and I hope you like it

Disclaimer: most of the characters aren't mine and the CoB parts aren't mine either!

Chapter 4: All the world's a stage even when it's not

The rest of the day was fairly uneventful, Cris had managed to avoid Jamie, Sebastian and Cato but did talk to Jem quite a bit. When the final bell rang she packed up all her stuff and sauntered out the door with Tessa, who she had English with, and went to the outside of school to meet the rest of her group, where they said they would meet before going to the auditions for the school play this year.

This wouldn't go towards there grade but they thought it was a bit of fun and it would be good practice for them. She saw the girls and Cris and Tessa waved as they saw the girls and one boy. As she got closer she realised the boy was Simon. "Simon!" she called and ran into his arms as she clutched him closely, she hadn't seen him for a few weeks as he had to go on a camp thing. She and Simon were really close but could never go out with each other, too much history.

"Hey, Annie" he said into her hair and she pulled back and slapped him lightly on the arm. Apparently Simon thought she was a lot like Annie Leonhardt from a manga and anime called 'Attack on Titan'. Tessa hugged him and Clary asked "Are you ready for auditions?" Tessa and Cris answered "Totally" at the same time then laughed.

"So, to ask the obvious, Simon are you doing auditions?" Tessa asked as everyone apart from her and Cris seemed to know. Katniss, Clary, Tris, Izzy, Tessa and Hazel had all thought it would be better, and supposedly more fun, to watch that play and most of them didn't like to act in front of lots of people. So that Cris and Maia auditioning, they weren't competitive towards each other; just as long as one of them got the main female role they were happy, although to say they weren't competitive towards others was laughable, they were.

"Nah, I decided to have a day with my girlies" he hung an arm over Cris' and Maia's shoulders and leaned his head down to whisper in both their ears at once "Plus I couldn't miss out a chance to see to beauties make fun of themselves" The three of them laughed and Cris and Maia, not so lightly, slapped Simon's chest as they began to walk towards the theatre.

No one knew what they were auditioning for because the school liked it when you were thrown in at the deep end so you didn't even get the name of the play until you arrived. Which is helpful she thought sarcastically.

When they reached it the girls and Simon split: Cris and Maia went to sit on the bottom rows with the other auditionees and the others went to sit on the top rows where the other spectators were. The theatre was normally decked out with people as everyone wanted to see who would play the roles for the play, which was always extremely well turned out, meaning 'tickets sold out' kind of full, and today's auditions were no different.

All the girls, who were auditioning, turned to see Maia and Cris sit down and some of them scowled, some hissed and some looked like they wanted to leave. Maia noticing this whispered to Cris "That's 'coz they know they have no chance against us" Cris holding in a laugh replied "Well, they should know that by now" and they both laughed, leaning against each other. Since the girls got to the school they had always had the best parts for their age and everyone knew it. Last year's production of 'Divergent', yes each year the play was after a book, Cris had played Tris, even though she was apparently too young for it, Katniss played Christina and Clary and Izzy played Lynn and Marlene.

The drama teaches and the head teachers arrived then and Mrs. Branwell, the head teacher, raised a hand for silence. Mrs. Branwell, who Cris knew as Charlotte was actually quite young at only 28, she had straight brown hair and brown eyes to match, everyone liked her as she was kind and lenient but knew how to be the boss. The whole room went silent immediately and Mrs. Branwell began "Welcome, everyone to this year's auditions" Simon whooped and everyone laughed. Charlotte smile and shook her head slightly, as if saying 'what am I going to do with him', she continued saying "As we all knew last year's production of 'Divergent' was fantastic" Maia nudged her then and Cris smiled "But we are hoping this year's will be even better" A few cheers rose up and someone from the audience shouted "Just as long as we get to Cris make out with someone" The whole room erupted with laughter and some agreements as Cris cringed but couldn't help but smile and she hid her face in Maia's neck as Maia couldn't help but laugh.

Then someone else shouted "Yeah, preferably another girl," Once again the whole theatre laughed. Cris turned around to the person, she didn't know who shouted it, just turned in that general direction, and shouted "Pervot!" Even the girls cracked a smile, as they were previously scowling, and the boys laughed and they heard a chorus of "Burn!" Cris and Maia laughed as Mrs. Branwell coughed very deliberately but even she couldn't hide the smile on her face and continued as if nothing happened "This year I am proud to announce the play being held will be based on the book 'the Mortal Instruments: City of Bones'" YESSSS Cris thought as she cheered with the others from her group and high-five Maia. This was one of the books, films, TV shows and animes the group loved to fangirl over.

One of the drama teachers, Mrs. Penhallow, began to read out pairs of names after a few funny auditions Mrs. Penhallow announced "Maia Roberts and James Carstairs" Maia smiled as she got a good partner and Cris muttered, with a smile on her face "Lucky," In auditions you were assigned a partner and a scene to act out in front of everyone, luckily for the girls Charlotte always chose recent and amazing book which the girls often knew by heart, so this wouldn't be a problem for Cris and Maia.

They gave them the scripts, Cris watched Maia skim it just to see what scene it was and they started

'"Your friend's poetry is terrible," Jem said. Maia blinked and seemed as though she was caught momentarily off guard. "What?" Oh so this is the scene with Jace and Clary outside Java Jones, Maia is Clary and Jem is Jace. "I said his poetry was terrible. It sounds like he ate a dictionary and started vomiting up words at random." Jem says imitating Jace perfectly.

"I don't care about Eric's poetry." Maia looked furious "I want to know why you're following me."
"Who said I was following you?"

"Nice try. And you were eavesdropping, too. Do you want to tell me what this is about, or should I just call the police?"

"And tell them what?" Jem says quite menacingly. "That invisible people are bothering you? Trust me, little girl, the police aren't going to arrest someone they can't see. "

"I told you before, my name is not little girl," she said through her teeth. "It's Clary." Maia suited the part of Clary as she was feisty and it also helped that she wasn't exactly tall.

"I know," he said Maia pulled a confused face. "Pretty name. Like the herb, clary sage. In the old days people thought eating the seeds would let you see the Fair Folk. Did you know that?"

"I have no idea what you're talking about." Maia says but she seemed to be a little phased by what Jem/Jace said.

"You don't know much, do you?" he said. There was a lazy contempt in his silver eyes. "You seem to be a mundane like any other mundane, yet you can see me. It's a conundrum. "

"What's a mundane?" Maia asks.'

At that the scene is finished, everyone applauded with cheers from Cris and a few others. They did amazingly Cris thought. Maia sat back down next to Cris and Maia sighed. "You did amazingly," Cris says, happiness filled her voice.

Mrs. Penhallow the called out "Crisiant Jones and…" she looked over the paper and sighed oh no. All the teachers knew she only hated one boy. One bloody boy. "Jamie Campbell" she finished. The whole room went silent. Crap, not him any one but him she thought as she reluctantly got up of her seat and walked over to the smug Jamie. She didn't even realise he was in the room. She death stared him and walked over to get the scene. At least it wasn't the greenhouse scene she thought, actually this is quite good she said smiling, she looked over at Maia who gave her a questioning look, as if to say is it that scene, Maia must have guessed since Cris was smiling and she gave a small nod and Maia smiled. This was going to be fun. They walked to the very left of the room, off stage, and started the scene.

'Jamie walked with pace to the middle of the stage, Cris half-jogging to keep up with his long-legged stride. "Have you got your house keys?" Jamie asked.

Cris glanced down at her shoes and answered "Yeah."

"Good. Not that we couldn't break in, but we'd run a greater chance of disturbing any wards that might be up if we did." Jamie said like he knew what he was talking about,

"If you say so" Cris said uncertainly, they had now stopped in the middle of the stage and Jamie reached out as if to press a button. Cris put on a confused face, then one of realisation as Clary realised it was a lift. "Jace?" Cris asked breaking the silence.

"Yeah?" Jamie said turning to face her.

"How did you know I had Shadowhunter blood? Was there some way you could tell?"

Jamie moved and pretended to unlatch the gate and slide it open. Jamie gestured for Cris to step in and when she did she looked around the pretend lift in wonder. "I guessed," he said then shrugged. "It seemed like the most likely explanation." Cris looked at him with a look of shock.

"You guessed? You must have been pretty sure, considering you could have killed me." Cris said looking slightly annoyed.

He pressed a pretend button to the side and said "I was ninety percent sure."

"I see," Cris said mischievously.

At that Jamie turned to look at her. Her hand cracked across his face, a slap that rocked him back on his heels. He put his hand to his cheek. They heard gasps across the room, she wasn't actually meant to slap him 'oops' "What the hell was that for?" He asked genuinely.

Not to go off script she answered with a huge smile plastered on her face "The other ten percent,"'

The whole theatre was silent for a few more seconds then applause and cheers ricocheted across the room, Cris looked towards Jamie who was scowling at her with a red hand mark across his face and moved towards Miss Penhallow, since she was her teacher for drama and she was her favourite student, but still looking at Jamie who was in turn staring at her and said "I'm so sorry Jamie, my hand slipped" she said in a voice that sounded genuine.

He stepped towards her and was about an inch from her when Miss Penhallow put an arm between them and said "Jamie, no, it was obviously an accident" Cris nodded at her words as if they were true. Jamie looked at the teacher stunned, but Cris still managed, only just, to keep an apologetic facial expression.

Jamie reached for her as if to push her but Miss Penhallow, and the other drama teachers had to restrain him and pull him out of the room. Mrs Branwell walked up to Cris, who was still standing on stage and sighed "What am I going to do with you?" she said with a smile and gestured her off stage.

When she sat back down Maia whispered "Well done, good job". They both laughed as Cris knew she was talking about the acting. "Thank you, I'd like to think I've improved" They laughed again and waited for the rest of the auditions to finish.