AN: Sorry about the long wait for the update guys, I've been busy doing homework and school work and well updating all my other fanfics and not mentioning my sucky depression becoming randomly worse so I gave up writing happy parts. Anyway thanks for any reviews I've received they really mean a lot and well I hope you like the chapter.
Clary's point of view
After everyone had unpacked their stuff in the two cabins which took us about three hours due to the fact me and Jon had a massive debate on whether we should unpack or have fun first.
Jon was now failing at wrapping a scarf around his neck and Magnus and Will were laughing at him where as Ragnor was just sitting there shaking his head.
I sighed wanting to go out in the snow, so I went over to him and tied the scarf up myself.
Jon smiled at me and said "Thanks mum."
I smacked his arm softly before saying "Come on guys. Fun time."
I ran outside a lot like a little kid and yelled back "Come on guys!"
They all came out grudgingly just to get a snowball in the face for each of them.
I cracked up laughing and only just about managed to dodge Jon's snowball back.
As we walked down into town still throwing snowballs at each other I heard a voice call "Clary!"
I looked around and saw the Lightwoods standing not too far away and Izzy waving at me as though she was making sure I could see her.
I smiled and waved back but quickly had to duck to avoid Magnus' snowball at my head.
I then had to spend the next ten seconds dodging the snowballs from the rest of the band and when all of them missed I stuck my tongue out at them and said "Ha missed again."
Jon said "I'll get you at some point Clarissa."
I smirked and replied "I'll look forward to it Jonathan."
Izzy had now caught up to us and she gave me a hug and asked "Have your guys eaten?"
I shook my head and said "Nah we're going to central park to have a snowball fight and some fun in the snow before we eat."
Izzy nodded and called back to Maryse and Robert "Hey mum, dad! Why don't we join Clary and her brother's band and then eat with them afterwards? I mean you two can go Christmas shopping whilst we play."
Maryse nodded and Robert said "Okay then but Max you're coming with us okay?"
Max whined "But mum, I want to join in the snowball fights."
Maryse just gave him a look which then made Max sigh and say "Fine."
As the three of them walked off, Magnus did his usual style of greeting "Why Clarissa, you haven't introduced us to these people yet. How rude of you."
I rolled my eyes at him and said "Okay Lightwoods, this is Jonathan, Magnus, Will and Ragnor. You idiots, this is Alec, Izzy and Jace. There introductions over."
Jon smirked at me and said "Think fast."
Suddenly a snowball whacked me in the side of the face making me curse under my breath slightly before I scooped up my own snowball and lobbed it back at him, hitting him in the face again.
I giggled and said "Ditto."
Jon scowled at me making me giggle even more and apparently it was contagious as Magnus soon started laughing slightly and throwing snow at me as well as Jon.
I whined at them "Not fair, two against one."
Magnus smirked and told me "Life isn't fair dear Clarissa."
I rolled my eyes and smacked him in the mouth with one making him splutter and have to spit snow and ice out of his mouth.
I then said "Well goodbye guys, I may be dying at any point from now."
Izzy laughed and said "Well you did hit him in the mouth so yes I think you may be."
I nodded and said "Well nice knowing all of you."
Jon now did his typical big brother/superhero type of thing and said "Don't worry fair maiden I will save you from the mighty Bane."
I rolled my eyes at him and said mockingly "Oh thank the angel Raziel. A hero has come to rescue me."
Jon smirked and then scooped me up bridal style, after hitting Magnus with about three snowballs, and then ran off down the road me bouncing up and down in arms.
As Jon came to a stop and set me back on my feet i had to bite back my laugh as I said "Oh my hero, however may I thank you?"
Jon considered this and told me "You have to give me your chips at dinner."
"Half."
"Fine half of them."
I nodded and said "Good job it wasn't a cloth or something otherwise you'd be getting nothing."
Jon laughed and said "Yes and I'd have to punish you."
I rolled my eyes as the others caught up with us and Ragnor asked "Your chips?"
I nodded as I replied "Half."
Jace said "That's unfortunate."
I shrugged and said "He always steals at least eight of them."
Jace laughed and said "Well that's why you're so skinny then."
I rolled my eyes at him now and said "Yes all because Jon always steals at least eight of my chips throughout my childhood."
Jon appeared next to me and told me "And you let me because you love me so much."
I snorted in amusement and said "More like you don't exactly give me a choice."
Jon frowned and said "And you love me."
I smirked at him and said "Of course you're my brother."
Jon smiled and said "And I used to give you a doughnut every month."
I grumbled "Only because I complained and you had around four of them anyway."
Jon thought about it and said "Oh right, well I still gave you one."
I rolled my eyes and said "At least it was normally a jam one."
As we got to Central Park I grinned at my brother and said "May the odds be ever in your favour."
Jon stared at me and said "My band against your friends?"
I nodded and said "If you want it to be like that, let it be."
My brother laughed as he told the others what we were doing.
Soon enough we were all covered in snow and freezing cold but we went on for another half an hour before all of us felt like blocks of ice.
My team actually won and I stuck my tongue out at Jonathan and said "Ha, you see that is much fairer than boy vs girls when I was the only girl."
Jon grumbled "Yet you still won a majority of them anyway."
I smirked and said "See I'm that ninja."
Jon scowled at me playfully and said "I'm a ninja; I just haven't got any certificates yet. Must be lost in the mail along with my Hogwarts letter."
I laughed and said "Obviously, I still got my Hogwarts letter though."
Jon sulked now and went to join Magnus leaving me talking to Izzy.
Izzy told me "Your brother's amazing."
I laughed and said "I guess he is pretty awesome."
Suddenly it started to snow heavy again and Magnus howled out a complaint about how his hair is now ruined.
I chuckled along with my brother and the rest of the band and told Izzy "He spends hours sorting his hair out I swear."
Jace now appeared next to me and asked "Even longer than Izzy?"
Izzy did a mock glare over my head and I said "Yes a lot longer than Izzy."
Izzy now turned her glare to me but it wasn't quite as mean as it had been to Jace.
Jon then appeared throwing his arm around my shoulders as he said "Hey Clarissa, you know you love me?"
I looked at him and asked "What do you want Jonathan?"
Jon gave me his puppy dog eyes and said "I want ice cream."
I burst out laughing and said "Okay, we'll get some on the way home."
Izzy reminded me "It's in the middle of winter Claire."
I shrugged and said "Rule one of being a Morgenstern; it's always the right time for ice cream."
Jon grinned and ruffled my hair which I smacked his arm for doing so making him pout at me and say "I taught you maybe too well."
To answer this I just grabbed his arm and said "Well the quicker we get to Taki's and eat the food then the quicker you'll get your ice cream."
His grin reminded me distinctively of the one he gave to our mum when she told us we could get some sweets.
Soon Jon was grabbing my wrist and bounding down the long roads trying to get his food quicker so he could eat ice cream.
I chuckled and when we arrived outside Taki's, Jon practically yanked my arm out of its socket as he rushed forwards.
Surprisingly during the meal Jon didn't do his usual thing of telling everyone really embarrassing stories of me and him as kids, well I say embarrassing for the both of us, they're more like funny for him and extremely embarrassing for me.
But luckily he decided not to do that today as he was so fixed up on getting his ice cream.
By the time everyone finished eating Jon handed Maryse and Robert the correct amount of money for the five of our meals and the rest of us were practically dragged from our seats, leaving me only enough time to smile and call bye to the Lightwoods before the door slammed shut behind me.
When we got outside I told Jon "Next time we see them you are apologising to them Jonathan Morgenstern."
Jon stuck his tongue out at me and replied "You have my word Clarissa Morgenstern."
I smiled slightly at him before he tried to steal some of my cookie dough ice cream, which he missed and got a smack around the back of the head for trying.
A few days later- Christmas day
Today it was just me, Luke and Jon.
We'd just finished opening our Christmas presents which I found most amusing.
I got a box of makeup from Izzy, who claims that now I have to wear it, a load of manga comics and anime films from Simon, some books from Luke, some sketchpads and expensive paints and pencils from Jon and the band, the Prior's had gotten me a load of chocolate and to annoy me Jace and Tobias had chipped in together and brought me two cushions for my bed at the Prior's house one saying 'Dork' on it and the other 'Nerd' and both had geeky glasses and a moustache on it too.
Suddenly a horrible smell came drifting through the air and I asked "Is something burning."
Jon sniffed and confirmed "Smells like it."
We sat in complete silence until it hit Luke who shouted "The turkey!"
Both I and Jon sucked in a breath as Luke ran out of the room and five minutes or so later came out holding a tray with a lump of black which looked suspiciously like coal.
We both looked at Luke waiting for his confirmation.
Luke then said miserably "I burnt the turkey slightly."
A silence filled the room whilst me and Jon tried not to laugh at the failure of the turkey.
After a minute or so, green eyes met black eyes and we both collapsed into fits of laughter.
Jon then just about managed to stand up to poke the, what was the turkey and say "I think slightly burnt is a bit of an understatement."
I started laughing even harder now as I stood up and said "It looks like its coal."
Now I was silently laughing as I couldn't breathe properly and then Luke and Jon started laughing at me not being able to laugh properly.
After about another twenty minutes of laughing I said "And that is why women cook in this family."
Jon said "Yeah, I think you're cooking it next year if you're still here Clary."
Luke smiled and said "Um maybe we should go out for a meal."
I joked lightly "Yeah, I'd rather not eat coal."
We all laughed for a few seconds before I stood up and said "Yeah let's go."
Whilst walking through the aisles of Tesco, looking for some cooked meat, I managed to crash shoulders with someone and successfully knocked them to the floor.
I winced as they hit the floor with a muffled "Ouch."
Now I felt bad for them so I said uncertainly "Um sorry, are you okay?"
The boy looked up and I said "Oh well it had to be you I knocked over Herondale."
Jace smirked at me and said "Of course, you could say I fell at your touch."
I rolled my eyes but offered him a hand up which he accepted and made himself dead weight for me to heave up.
Once he was standing up he asked "So what are you doing in here anyway Red?"
I had to try my best not to start laughing again as I said "Luke burnt our turkey to coal."
Jace raised his eyebrows slightly as Luke called from down the other end of the aisle "Which is why you're cooking next year Claire."
I grinned slightly and said "Right, because a seventeen year old me will really spend Christmas in the kitchen."
Jon teased me "And you said that's why women in our family should be the ones in the kitchen."
I rolled my eyes and turned to Jace and said "Oh and thanks for the presents you got me, they were very… nice."
Suddenly a wooden sword flew towards me which I grabbed out of reflexes and turned to see Jon holding his own and we both stared at each other until Jon said "On guard." And swung his sword at me which I blocked.
We carried on fighting whilst Jace and Luke just watched us like we were some kind of aliens.
Eventually I knocked the sword out of Jon's hand and he panted "Okay you win."
I cheered slightly but soon said "Okay why did we just have a fight in the middle of Tesco with wooden swords?"
Jon shrugged and I nodded as an older lady walked past and said "Well it could have been baguettes."
I almost laughed but saw Jace's strange look and decided not to.
We went back to looking at different things again and I stared at some chicken before I asked "What is buffalo style cooked chicken?"
Jon and Luke both shrugged and when I looked at Jace he raised his eyebrows and asked "You want my opinion on that?"
I shrugged and said "Do you know what it is?"
Jace shook his head and I said "Oh. Let's not eat that."
Soon I got bored of looking at chicken and asked "Can't we just get some pizza, ice cream and coffee and be done?"
Jon added on "And chips."
Luke rolled his eyes and asked "Seriously you two? You want to eat pizza, chips and ice cream on Christmas day?"
Both of us just looked at each other and shrugged and I added on "And marshmallows, and Oreos."
Luke sighed and said "Come on then, let's just give up with cooking."
I said "Well you have to cook pizza… and even Jon can manage that."
Jon mock glared at me which I gave him a fake sweet smile back in reply before turning to Jace and saying "Merry Christmas Jace."
Then I ran off after Jon to choose the ice cream flavours.
Jace's point of view
I stood rigged from where Clary had left me, her words still echoing in my ears.
The way she said my name at the end of the sentence still made my heart stop for a minute.
By the time I'd snapped back into reality Clary had disappeared after her brother and Luke had followed the two of them.
I thought about how open Clary had just been with me. I mean sure she might have not really taken it in that I was there whilst she fought with her brother and asked curiously what buffalo style cooked chicken was but the fact that she included me and remained open kind of meant more to me than I first ever expected.
A shrill squeal now came from somewhere behind me and I turned around just in time to see Clary properly running and squealing "Nooo!"
She then grabbed my arm as she skidded to a stop near me and hid behind me and said "Hide me."
My body was tingling from where her hand was still gripping tightly to my arm but I tried my best to ignore it as I asked "Do I want to know?"
Clary shook her head and said "Probably not."
I smiled, though she couldn't see it and said "Right."
Her brother now came darting around the corner his eyes scanning the aisle apparently for Clary as he asked me "Have you seen my sister?"
I shook my head and said "Last time I saw her she ran off after you."
That made him curse and run off again which caused Clary to sigh quietly and say "Thanks Jace, we're playing 'it' whilst Luke is paying for the stuff."
I nodded and said "Right."
Clary smiled at me slightly before sneaking up the aisle but just before she went to turn the corner I called quietly to her "Merry Christmas Clary."
She looked at me for a moment before grinning and running back around the corner.
Luke now appeared next to me and watched as Clary came running back around the corner screaming "Luke's safe home!"
Her brother now called "Only if you're not touching the floor."
Clary very nearly screamed as she jumped onto Luke's back in a hurry and yelled out "Home!"
Jon cursed wildly and Clary sighed again with relief before looking at me and grinning sheepishly and saying "Hi, person I happen to go to school with."
Luke who was struggling between supporting Clary and holding the plastic bags asked "Can you get off Claire Bear?"
Clary looked at Jon who nodded and said "I give up."
She now sprung off Luke's back and said "Bloody hell, I need to run around aisles of Tesco more often if we're going to do this again."
I joked lightly "Or maybe you need to just do some more exercise anyway Fray."
Clary gave me a mock glare much like her brother did to her and said "I'd like to see you try to do that Herondale."
I reminded her "Football team Red."
"Okay so I don't run around for however long you do training for and the game lasts Goldilocks. I like to eat pizza and ice cream and drink coffee."
I smirked and said "So do I but I don't do so very often where as you do."
Clary now just sighed and said "Shut it Barbie."
Again I smirked at her before Luke said "Okay girls break it up. You wanted pizza and I'm starving so we're going home."
Clary nodded and answered thoughtfully "Mm pizza and coffee."
By now Luke and Jon were nearly out of the shop and Clary shot me a quick smile before saying "See you on New Year's Eve then Herondale."
I stared at her for a second before calling to her retreating back "Later Fray."
That earned me the quickest of smiles before she ran down the street after her family.
For a while I stood there staring at where Clary had left wondering why she affected me in a way that no one has ever done before.
AN: Hey guys, yeah sorry about the seriously long update there, I'll try to make the next one come a bit sooner I promise and well I hope you liked the chapter and please feel free to follow, favourite, and review because that would really mean a lot to me so um well until next time I update that's all I have to say so I'm out especially as it's like nearly midnight and I'm meant to be in bed at ten… oops.
