"Isabelle, did you do the math homework?" Simon asked walking beside her and Sebastian.
"Um, sort of. It was pretty hard so I didn't finish it." Isabelle said as the three reached an empty table and sat down. All three of the teens had study hall this morning. During study hall you had to stay in the cafeteria or the outside cafeteria on the lawn until the period had ended.
"What part did you do? Because I didn't do any of it and I'm already failing." Simon said looking up from his math sheets, putting his pencil's eraser in his mouth.
"Uh, question one?" Isabelle said, smiling.
"Shit, thanks Izzy. I'm really screwed." Simon said, sighing.
"Well what are you guys doing in math?" Sebastian finally spoke up.
"Simplifying exponential expressions," Isabelle said, looking over to Sebastian. He was ranking his hands through his dark hair and he was biting lip, as he looked down at the worksheet. Isabelle blinked a few times to stop from staring.
"Looks fun doesn't it?" Simon said sarcastically.
"Well this one is actually pretty easy. You guys are just trying too hard." Sebastian took the pencil out of Simon's mouth and started scribbling on the paper.
Isabelle and Simon looked at each other and shrugged.
"There," Sebastian said, putting the pencil down.
Simon picked up the paper and his mouth dropped open. He looked over at Sebastian. "Are you some kind of secret math genius? Because if you are, you're totally my new best friend."
Isabelle rolled her eyes and snatched the paper out of Simon's hands. There, on the paper, was the equation. Solved.
"Well this is a little too much math for me. I'm going to the bathroom. Be right back" Simon said getting up from the seat and walking away.
Isabelle put the paper down in front of her. "How did you do this?"
Sebastian shrugged. "I'm good at math"
Isabelle blinked a couple of times again. "Well, uh, can you help me? You know teach me how to do it?"
He grinned. What a smile, Isabelle thought.
"Yeah sure," he said, moving over next to her. "Okay well since the power is Z and there is no other power, all you have to do in this problem is multiply the exponents. So multiply this exponent and the one outside the parenthesis."
Isabelle nodded and multiplied them and wrote it down. "Like that?"
Sebastian nodded. "Exactly like that"
"So then the answer would be (z²)⁵=z10?"
He nodded again. "See you know this. You just need someone to help you sometimes"
"Someone like you, maybe?" Isabelle asked. She felt herself blushing.
Sebastian grinned again. "If you want me to be"
Isabelle grinned as well and, having no control over it, she moved closer to him. So close that their legs were touching.
If you want me to be.
"Hey you" Jace said, sitting down next to her. She looked at him and then down at her notebook. "Listen, I'm sorry about before. I didn't mean to ditch you."
She shrugged and didn't move her head. Her green eyes weren't even looking at Jace.
He narrowed his eyes slightly seeing if maybe she would crack.
A couple of seconds later, he gave up.
"Okay, so today is probably the day all of you have been dreading in my class. We are going to study one of the plays written by Mr. William Shakespeare. But the thing is you, the students, get to pick which play. I am going to pass out a list of plays for you all to choose from and then we will vote." Mrs. Green took a pile of papers off her desk and started passing little piles down each of the rows of tables.
Jace took this opportunity to not pay attention. He knew when it came to voting time he would need to vote but at this point, so early in class, he could care less. He would just pick one at random when it came to his vote.
Jace folded his arms onto the table in front of him and laid his head down. Maybe, he thought, I'll be able to fall asleep. He inhaled lightly and closed his eyes, hoping he could catch some Z's.
Clary watched as Jace laid his head down on their table, his face opposite to her. She slightly pouted. Even though she was little mad at him, that didn't mean she didn't want to look at him.
She jumped when a pile of papers landed on her desk. She blinked and grabbed them, took two pieces out for her and Jace, and then passed the rest back to the others. Turning back around to face forward, she looked to her right and found a pair of eyes staring at her. No, her eyes were sending daggers through Clary. Clary looked at the girl, confused. The girl was a brunette with pretty curls, a little less tamed than Clary's curls, but it they still looked good on her. The girl really wasn't that pretty; she had muddy brown eyes with pale, almost translucent skin. Clary probably thought her only best feature was her hair.
Clary sighed and turned her attention to the paper in front of her. Maybe, she thought. Girls here are just all the same. Maybe they all are just mean.
He was at a green field and no one else was there. Jace was chasing after a white dove, his blond hair bouncing in the air as he jumped.
Suddenly, he had heard a soft voice. He turned around to find a little girl with reddish pig tails.
"Hi," she had whispered, smiling.
Jace cocked his head to the side and smiled. "Hi. Wanna play?"
The small girl looked at him, confused.
He thought maybe she hadn't heard him, so he asked again. Still he had gotten the same reaction; the little girl said nothing.
"Are you okay?"
A single tear ran down the small girl's face.
Jace started to panic. He knew he didn't hurt her, but something was wrong. He put his small hand on her arm and looked at her.
She wasn't even looking at him; she was looking behind him. The small blond boy turned around, scared of what he would see.
A black shadowy creature was ripping the small white dove, limp from limp. Jace blinked, shocked.
He knew what to do. He knew what to do in this situation. He knew what do in any situation with these types of monsters, but he was only six. He had been marked with a dozen runes before leaving his home. His parent's wouldn't let him go anywhere without them, but he knew he didn't have much practice. If he did something wrong, he knew this would be the end. Sure, he was six, but he wasn't stupid.
Growing up in a place with these types of monsters, you couldn't dare make a stupid move unless you had a death wish.
"A Forsaken" Jace whispered.
The black creature looked up as if Jace had called his name. Jace turned around slightly to face the little girl, "When I say, you run. Okay?"
The little girl nodded, her body frozen. She didn't know what to do; all she knew is anything that had to deal with Forsaken, she had to listen to any shadowhunter, older or younger.
The Forsaken warrior crept towards them, forgetting about the lifeless bird in back of it. The now red and white bird had lost its beauty in the bloody massacre.
The girl in back of Jace cried quietly.
"Now?" she whispered. She was obviously scared to death.
Jace shook his head, watching the black monster. He slowly reached for the blade in his belt. He was ready to face the monster now. He was ready to fight. He wanted to fight.
The Forsaken stopped, watching the two children. Jace was now blade in hand, waiting.
"Why'd it stop?" the little girl asked, slightly confused but still scared.
Jace studied the monster carefully. It slowly raised its legs into a position.
"It's gonna pounce. Are you ready?"
She nodded her head and closed her eyes but then reopened them, scared she might miss something.
The Forsaken pounced at the two kids. Jace kept his eyes on the black creature as he shouted to the girl.
The red pig tailed girl ran to the tree about twenty feet from where the blond boy and the monster were fighting.
The creature was on top of Jace. He fought to get out of the creature's grasp and to his steele that he dropped a few feet away. Jace kicked and kicked until he kicked the creature far enough to grab his blade. He stood up on his two feet and positioned himself, blade in hand.
The Forsaken jumped at him and this time Jace knew what he was doing. He charged at the demon and cut it open, green liquid oozed out. The demon let out a shrilling scream and curled itself together in a ball.
After watching it for a few minutes, Jace came to the conclusion that the demon was dead and wasn't going to jump and attack him again.
Jace gasp, trying to locate some air even though he knew it was all around him. He blinked a few times, not believing he had actually killed his first demon, by himself. He looked down at himself; there was green liquid all over his clothes and body. Although he didn't look different besides the green ooze, he felt different. He felt more confident and brave.
Jace turned around to the big tree a few feet away and there was the little girl he had saved. She had stopped crying and was maybe in a shocked state; her mouth was hanging open.
Jace walked over to her, putting his steele away as he walked.
"Are – Are you okay?" she asked, looking at him concerned.
Jace nodded. "Yeah, its not my blood, thank the Angel. But I'm alright and your alright" He smiled and then looked at her. "You're alright, right?"
The girl smiled. "Yeah I'm okay," She detached herself from the tree she was grasping on to and walked closer to him. "Thanks to you, my hero"
Jace grinned. He kind of liked the sound of that. "Oh, my name is Jace, by the way"
The small pig tailed girl smiled and nodded. "That's a nice name. My name is –"
"Jace Wayland!" His head shot up from the table and he looked around.
He was… still in class?
Mrs. Green was looking impatiently at him; there was a hint of anger in her hazel eyes. Jace yanked his hands through his blond hair. "Yeah?"
The students around him burst into giggles.
"Mr. Wayland, your vote on which play we are going to discuss in class?" the teacher said once again. She was becoming irritated, Jace knew.
"Oh, uh…" He quickly looked to Clary. She was smiling. Hopefully she isn't mad at me anymore.
"Jace…" Mrs. Green was about to explode.
He looked down at his paper. "Um, okay well how about—"
The bell rang, signaling class was over. Saved by the bell.
"Okay class, tomorrow we will finish with the votes and start the play" Mrs. Green announced and everyone got up from their seats to head to their next class.
Smiling, Jace got up from his stool and grabbed the paper from the table. Folding it as he walked, Jace quickly realized Clary wasn't in the room anymore. She was half way out the door already. Jace sped up his pace until he was walking the same pace as her, next to her.
"Hey" he said. Done folding his paper, he shoved it into his back pocket of his jeans.
Clary looked over at him and smiled a bit. "Hi"
Now really looking at Clary, she seemed familiar to Jace. He looked at her closely. There was something about the way she smiled or the way her hair looked in the sun that made him feel that he already knew her.
"Um, Jace, you okay?"
Jace blinked and looked around. He had managed to walk outside without bumping into anyone. Awesome.
"Oh yeah I'm good" He shrugged and leaned over her. "What's your next class?"
Clary pulled out a piece of paper from her pocket and opened it up. "Um, Science & Anatomy; building one?"
"Okay this is totally weird," Clary looked confused. "I have that class next too."
"Oh," Clary said and laughed. "Well maybe we were meant to be together."
Jace's eyes brows rose and Clary blushed.
"Uh, I didn't—Um…"
"Hey guys!" Alec ran over to the two teenagers. "We have Anatomy next, ready?"
Neither one of the blushing teens responded. Alec seemed to find himself in an awkward position.
"Um…. We better go or we'll be late." Clary finally said.
Alec nodded and asked her what class she had next.
"Oh, same as yours." She said, starting to walk away to find building one on her own. But this time she wasn't upset or jealous; this time she was all giddy inside.
Sebastian walked to building two, for his Physics class. His day was going pretty well and he had especially liked this morning with Isabelle. He had only been here at East Academy for a couple of days but he seemed to really like Isabelle.
When he finally arrived at building two, he walked into the wrong class room. Twice.
After finding the right room, he introduced himself to his teacher before class started and went to go grab a seat in the back.
He hadn't seen Clary all day except for breakfast, which was a quick hello and goodbye. Jace seemed pretty eager to get alone with his sister and Sebastian didn't like that very much.
Sure, Sebastian didn't know Jace. But after the talk that morning about who he had sex with before, Sebastian as been itching more and more to keeping Clary away from him.
He took a deep breathe and looked out the window.
If it weren't for me, we wouldn't be here right now…
Back home, Sebastian wasn't the good child. Somehow he had become rebellious to his mother and to any older authority.
Sebastian knew Clary knew nothing about Idris or shadowhunters, and Sebastian wanted to keep it that way. She had been there a couple of times when she was smaller, before her parents had split up. But not knowing, Sebastian felt, would protect her.
Before moving to New York, Sebastian had lived in Idris with his father, Valentine. He had a pretty normal life growing up just like any other kid. But, he was a shadow hunter. Along with every Nephilim child, Sebastian would practice day and night to becoming a skilled shadow hunter.
His father had sent him away to live with his mother because Sebastian was banned from the Clave, from Idris and even seeing his father. He had done something terrible that went against them.
Sebastian looked up to the wall clock. Class was going to start. He sighed and looked up at the teacher as the bell rang.
"Okay, good morning class" the teacher, Mr. Lexington, said. He smiled and opened his hands to the class. "Today we have a new student," he gestured towards Sebastian.
Oh, how I detest going to new schools, Sebastian thought.
"Please stand up, Mr. Morgenstern"
Sebastian did as he said. He didn't smile. He didn't wave. He just stood there.
"Class, this is Sebastian Morgenstern. Please make it an effort to welcome him here to East Academy." Mr. Lexington looked at Sebastian and nodded. "You may sit now."
Sebastian nodded and slowly sat down. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw something dark.
There in the corner of the class room was a Forsaken.
"What the…" he said lowly. Maybe it's just my imagination, Sebastian thought. When I open my eyes it will be gone.
Sebastian closed his eyes tight, terrified to open them again. Even if the demon was still there how was he going to kill it with it being in a class room with his teacher and classmates? He'd have to use an invisibility rune, but he left his steele at his dorm room under his bed.
Heart racing, Sebastian opened his eyes. Nothing; It was gone. He let out a sigh of relief until he spotted something else in the other corner of the class room.
There it was. The demon was just staring at Sebastian, not in any way ready to attack. It was just sitting in the corner looking at him.
Sebastian knew only he could see the demon, but he worried for his teacher and classmates. The demon would attack anybody, but they were designed to kill shadowhunters or any type of Downworlder.
What am I going to do?
Simon, Jace and Alec walked to their dorm building, laughing. It was around four o'clock in the afternoon and they were heading back to play some video games on Alec's Xbox 360.
"So then the guys like, 'why do I have to do that?' and I was like, 'because the president said so' and the poor guy did it! It was hilarious." Simon laughed at his own story. Jace and Alec stared at him, a little clueless. Simon shrugged. "You kind of had to be there…"
Alec nodded slowly while Jace shook his head. "Well that explains why I don't get it then," Jace said.
"Yeah, most likely" Simon said. Two blond girls past the three teenage boys, looking back at the boys and giggling as they went. Simon sighed looking after them. "So they were either doing that because of Jace or… well, I don't even think there is another reason."
Alec agreed. "Jace can have any girl that he wants that goes here"
"Along with a couple of guys," Jace added.
Alec and Simon looked at each other and then at Jace. Jace looked surprise to see their expressions. "Well, it's not like I sway that way. Chill out guys."
Alec laughed while Simon smiled. "Because we all know Jace loves that red head from this morning"
Jace stopped walking, abruptly. What were they talking about? Jace didn't know Clary like that.
"What?" Simon said to Alec, confused. Alec shrugged and turned around to face Jace. "Jace? You okay?"
Jace looked at them but didn't say anything. All he could think of was what she had said earlier to him. Well maybe we were meant to be together.
She had caught him off guard with saying that. It sent a pile full of questions through his head. He hadn't known what to say next. He just stood there. Like an idiot. Well, until Alec came. But still, even then he stood there like an idiot. Which is not like Jace Wayland.
"Jace, man, you okay?" Simon asked him, a little concerned. Jace shook his head a little but then nodded. "Me? Yeah I'm good."
"Okay, good. You kind of scared us there. It was like you were in another planet or some shit like that" Simon said, chuckling. "Now let's go. The 360 is calling and it's telling me that I'm going to beat your asses at Madden '09."
Jace then laughed and walked towards them. "Oh really? Well that's exactly what it's telling me. Sorry to burst your bubble, lover boy." Jace grinned. "First one to make it back to Alec's dorm first, gets the best controller."
"Your on" the other two boys said.
The three teenagers ran to the boy's dormitory hoping to get the best controller first, but all that was running through Jace's mind was Clary.
"Mom, seriously! I saw it and it just sat there staring at me!" Sebastian said. He was on the phone with his mother. She was the only person he could tell what had happened earlier to. She, just like him, is a shadowhunter and, well, was supposed to know what to do in a situation like this.
"Was Clary in that class with you? Because if you had seen it, she was bound to have seen it as well" His mother, Jocelyn, said on the other line.
"No, she was in a different class. But mom, it was so weird. The Forsaken didn't attack anyone or do anything. It just… sat there." Sebastian paced back and forth in his dorm room. He was alone for now, until Alec came.
"Honey, I don't know what to tell you. I'll call your father in a bit and ask to see if he knows but that's all I can do for now if it's not attacking." She said. "But what I need you to do is keep an eye on Clary, please. If she sees one of these demons she will freak out and start asking questions."
"Okay fine" Sebastian said finally.
"But if it makes you feel any better I'll talk to the Clave as well and see what they say."
"That makes me feel better," Sebastian said, smiling.
"I knew it would. I'll talk to you tomorrow, alright?"
"Yeah okay, love you"
"I love you too sweetheart, bye" The line then went dead. Sebastian turned around and there was Jace and Alec, staring at him. The door was half way open. Why didn't he hear them come in? "Uh, hey guys, what's up?" Sebastian said nervously. He didn't know if they heard his conversation or not.
The two boys stared at him. Shocked.
"A Forsaken?" Alec finally said.
"Oh that? Yeah, it's… uh… it's a band. Yeah, they are really good; you should listen to them sometime." Sebastian said nodding slowly.
"A Forsaken is a band?" Jace asked. "Then does that make a rune a tattoo?"
"Well they kind of are anyways…" Alec said nodding his head.
"Wait, what? A rune? How do you guys know what that is?" Sebastian asked confused.
"How much time do you think we have?" Alec asked Jace, ignoring Sebastian question.
Jace looked outside the hallway, checking both ways. Nothing.
"Mmm… I'd say about five maybe ten minutes. When Simon gets food, oh, he gets food."
Alec smiled, nodding. "Alright, close the door Jace." Jace did as Alec said and turned around to face Sebastian. "Okay, who are you?"
"Who am I? I'm Sebastian. What's wrong with you guys?"
Jace shook his head slowly, his blond hair shaking as he did. "No, not your name. Let me rephrase myself, shall we?" He cocked his head to the side, staring at Sebastian. "What are you?"
Sebastian looked at the dark haired boy and then to the fair haired one. Did they know anything about him? About Shadow hunters? Or were they trying to just play a joke on him?
"Are you guys being serious?"
Jace folded is muscular arms across his chest. Alec sighed and leaned against the door. "What do you think?"
"I think you guys are bullshitting me, that's what I think." Sebastian said his jaw set.
"Well, not after this you won't think that. Me and Alec –"
"Alec and I" Alec corrected from behind. Jace turned around, mouth gaping open. "Seriously Alec? Seriously?"
Alec shrugged. "You don't say it right now; you'll never say it right in the future"
Jace shook his head turning to face Sebastian again. "Well anyways, Alec and I are gonna be honest with you right now. We—" He pointed to himself and Alec. "Are Shadowhunters." Jace smiled. "And I bet twenty bucks you are one too. Well, that is if you're a demon instead, then I take that back."
Sebastian stared at them. "Shadowhunters? You guys are Shadowhunters?"
Alec and Jace nodded. Sebastian thought about this.
They probably are telling the truth. Why would someone kid around like this? No one besides Downworlders and demons know what Shadowhunters are anyways.
"Okay, fine. I'll be honest with you guys too." Sebastian finally said. He kneeled down and reached under his bed for the box he had stuffed under there his first day here. Jace looked back to Alec and but Alec just shrugged.
Sebastian pulled the box toward him and laid it on top of his bed. He opened the box lid and smiled.
"Boys, I'd like you to meet Raella."
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