Chapter Three
Sometime around 12:15pm_The LIghtwood mansion
Ready to strike with my knife and loaded gun I start moving until the scene around me registers...
Jace is on the floor in an awkward angle, groaning softly. It look like he was knocked out and dragged in here. Then dumped on the floor. Max is in a corner on one of the chouches. He was probably calmly playing his gameboy which is gripped in his hands. Eyes frozen on me, mouths gaping open. The twins were probably arguing about something while standing over a now alert Jace. Everyone has their eyes on me, frozen in place.
I decide to break up this staring thing and release my stance. "What the hell is going on here?" I ask. "Bbb, well, uhm, uh Izzy started it and Jace lost and someone managed to break moms vase. Yeah, and I was an innocent bystander who knew nothing about the base downstairs." Max blurted out. And then shut his month realising that his siblings were looking at him shocked. There was a pause and then everyone started shout at the same time. "You knew?" "What base? Base for what?" "How are you doing here?" "How did she get in?" "Do I know you?"
"Oye! Shut it!" I yelled back. After they quieten down I turn to Max "The truth this time". He starts, " OK! It was my fault. I didn't mean to, I just need some training. This is the longest I have ever being without training and the bedroom workouts were enough. So I was training and then when I decided it was time to come up everyone was looking for me and then I tried to hide but I somehow did something to the system and then Jace found me and I panicked and took him out." I stare at Max some more and then he spits out the rest of the story. "And in the struggle we wrecked the hall." He sheepishly grins at me. "Tess and Iz came while Jace went out cold. They were convinced he was dead and there was a ghost in the house." Max is looking around as if he is trying to find a way to escape as he recounts his tale.
I sigh. This is gonna be a long day. "Alright everyone." I address the speechless teens. " I am Clarissa Adele Morganstern. You know me as clar-" "Clarissa Adele Fairchild, Clary?!" Jace cuts me off. "Yes, but its actually Rissa. Now, I know you are shocked but short explanation, and don't cut me off let me finish." I add as I glare at Isabel, her month frozen as she was about to form a sentence. I carry on, " It's late but I know none of you will let me rest in peace with out an explanation. Firstly your parents are spy's. I have being observing you three since fifth grade and you all have the potential to live up to your family legacy's. Second Max found out about the spy stuff coz he is a little genius, sometimes. Thirdly I have being babysitting Max and training him while he was "away" with your parents. Fourth your training being the tomorrow after you get set in your new dorms and room. No more explanation for now. All question will be answered tomorrow. Now off to bed."
Sadly no one listens to me. "What?" "Why?" "Can I-..."
"Bed! Now!" I scream. "I need to clean up the mess in the hall and reboot the system and run a security check manually. It takes a while and I got a lot to do today. Bed, please. Your questions, the ones I can answer will be answered tomorrow at breakfast."
"Do what she says, it ain't pretty when she is mad" Max says.
"I am not mad, my plans went down the drain and you had a chute in your room. Which is much easier then breaking into the base." I say.
"Ah, she is planing and searching for a reason why I am so stupid at times. Hmm. Got it. Ah, also not a good time. I gonna run before she blows." Max concludes as hevmakes his escape.
As I turn from looking at the space between the wall where Max left to his siblings. One look and the girls leave, while Jace is still staring. Why is he looking at me like that? I start moving to the door which seem to startle him out of is trance. " Wait, i want to help you" he blurts out. I pause at the stairs. "Okay, we will clean up first and then reboot the system. Lastly the security check." I don't know what made me agree but I suppose its good if he know what to do incase I am not here.
As Jace gets the cleaning supplies, and some bread, I clean up the hall. Straightening the pictures, putting the pillar back and piling the glass and flowers. We work quickly when he returns. Him hold the trash bag open, me throwing the trash, I sweep he mops up. When I take the bread and get on my knees sponging the floor he asked what I am doing. "The bread picks up the little shards that we missed. Its safer to do this because knowing max, he will be prancing around bare foot till its time we leave. Wordlessly he follows me.
After we cleaned up I show him how to gain access to the base. I show him how to use the chutes and some equipment while I wait for the system to complete its reboot and scan or any threats. He listens attentively soaking all the information given to him. He amazes me. With the reboot complete I explain that we should start the search inside then work our way outside. Firstly because of his siblings inside and also because it will be like leaving the house ungraded and time for someone, if they are in the yard, time to break in. We work quickly. Checking the floor that everyone is asleep on first and then working our way down and out of the house to the grounds. I guess my morning workout is cut in half now. When we get back to the house Jace starts to head upstairs, exhausted but he turns to me and asked where I am going to sleep. I reply that I will go nap in the base. "Why", he asked me confused. "If you babysat Max all that time then I am sure you have a room here."
Smart boy. "I do" is my reply. Then let me walk you there. I smirk," My room is your room. We are never here at the sametime and I only use your room to sleep." He is quite for a moment, eyes slowly darkening with something. "Then let's go, we can share" he says with a smirk of his own. Damn this boy. "That's not a good idea" my reply is. "Why not? Sacred I will bite red?" He taunts back at me. "No, I think I would like being bitten. But I sleep naked, Max tells me you do too." His eyes are bulging out of his head staring wide at me. "Oh god, she was naked in my sheets. That sexy body was draped on my sheets where mine goes" he groan's out " oh fuck". I don't think he knows what he just said. "What was that?" I ask. "I uh, oh fuck it!" He graps my wrist an pulls me behind him, all the way up the stair's and different floors and into his room. Once inside with the door locked and curtains drawn he says, " I have loved you since the first time I saw you. We don't have to do anything but if you let me I want to feel your body against mine." He looks down at me hands going to my hips where my shirt ends. He waits staring into my eyes. I give a slight nod. He leans down to brush his lips against mine while we undress each other. In the dim moonlight drifting in through the curtains we study the other. I pull back the covers and slide in, waiting for him. We both lay silently, not touching. Staring at where the other lays. I know I said I don't date and what not. But Jace is my dream man and I may have and a slight crush on him. It feels right being with him.