"Hey Clare," Mom said as she took the seat next to me. "What's going on?" Mom asked.

"Oh, nothing" I explained while grabbing my name card and playing with it. Again. Damn I'm a terrible liar.

"Nothing, eh?" She said. "Is this about Jace? I noticed him with Aline earlier." She said in the typical caring-motherly tone.

"No shouldn't you be dancing with your husband?" I said a little too harshly.

"Ok, so this is what it's about." She asked? Was it a question?

"No, no it's about Jace" I said and smiled. She let out a silent laugh.

"Clary, you have to understand that no one is ever going to replace your father." She said taking my hand.

"I know, mom." I loosened on her hand. "It's your wedding...go dance with someone." I chuckled.

"How about you?" She asked.

"I'm going to go talk to Izzy" I said looking over my shoulder to where she was standing alone on the other side of the room. "Later?" She nodded and went to dance with some of her friends. She was truly happy.

I made my way over to Izzy. "Hey."

"Hey, what time is it?" She asked.

"Three"

"A.m.?" She asked sounding disgusted.

"Yeah"

"Well I'm tired so I'm going to go back to the room. And BTW who was that slutty girl making out with Jace? Because I did not like it." She growled, I looked up at her.

"My new evil stepsister, Aline!" I said with fake enthusiasm. "Her twin is the blonde one over there" I stated pointing over to wear Kaelie sat look at herself with her little mirror.

"She is really dumb, I tried making conversation with her, and she is an idiot." She said taking a sip of her water.

"Doesn't surprise me" I've never really spoken to her before. "I saw you dancing with Jon." I teased.

"I'm going to bed" She said as she walked away blushing, headed for the exit after telling her mom good bye.

"So what am I going to do?" I asked myself.

Well I have already seen drunks trying to walk so, no that. I could dance with mom but, I have no energy. I'm going to bed.

I walked over to were mom was sitting with Luke.

"Hey, mom I'm going to go to bed." I said yawning.

"Okay, Honey, Love you." She said. Then she got up and gave me a hug.

"Goodnight, Clary." Luke said.

"Goodnight." I said and headed for the big double doors so I could exit. I exited and walked past the pool and down the hallway to my room. I pulled out the key Izzy had given me earlier and Unlocked the door.

Izzy had left the bathroom light on, and was in bed sound asleep. She looks so precious. Aww... It was so cute. I got out of my dress and but on my white shorts that say 'EXTREME' on the butt and I black tank top and tried to get to sleep. Tried. After three hours of trying. I decided to grab my sketchbook and go sketch by the pool. About a few hours later I stopped and looked at what I had drawn.

"That's really good." I heard a familiar voice say. I turned around. Jace. I quickly hid my sketchbook.

"It's private." I stated. "It's kinda like a diary."

"I see. It was still really good." He said. "And if you want a male model, I'm here for you" He said with a coy smile. God.

I gave him a don't-piss-me- off look. "Very funny." I grabbed my book and got up from my chair. "Well, I'm going to go shower now so, Hasta." I said with a wave.

I started walking towards the hallway when I bumped into Aline. "Watch were your going Midget. God." She said fixing her hair. Wow, she had problems, I just walked away. "Wait, where suppose to be nice to each other, so we should talk. Like boy talk, like now." Okay, then.

"Okay" I said, this should be interesting.

"Never mind, it's not like you've had a boyfriend. You don't know anything about that." Ouch.

"Nice talking to you, Aline." Bitch. Jeez. I looked back to see that she was with Jace. Too good to be true. Aline has got the 'rockin' bod, so.

I just kept making my way to my room. I swept the key and went inside. Izzy was still sleeping. So I just went in to the shower. The water was really soothing. I slipped out and put on my white bikini (Izzy approval) some light jean short shorts, my sunglasses and an orange lose fitted tank top. I put on some cover-up and lip gloss, and then I walked out of the bathroom. Izzy was awake and digging through her suit case.

"I thought I heard somebody disturb my beauty sleep." She chuckled. I just shuck my head. Believe it or not in the past 24 hours Izzy and I had become great friends. She was really nice. "Okay so today we are going to hang by the pool, and tomorrow were going to be where exactly?"

"Don't ask me! No friggin' clue" I stated.

"Ok, I'll ask Alec, and have you seen Max? Anyway I'm going to take a shower then we're going to go to breakfast since you're going to wait for me, and I'm going to French braid your hair. Okay?" She asked. "Okay!" Oh, Izzy. She went into the bathroom locked the door, two minutes later the shower turned on.

I went outside on the balcony and just looked at the great view of the ocean I had. It was beautiful. I loved it. I sat there in the peace thinking about the one thing: Jace. He never asked me to dance; he was too busy with Aline. I don't know if I should be sad or to relieved that I didn't say anything stupid or embarrassing if I danced with him.

"Clary let me French braid your hair now!" Izzy half yelled.

"Alright." I replied. I walked through the doors. Izzy was towel drying her hair.

Half an hour later we walked out of our hotel room and went to eat some breakfast. I had pancakes, six actually. Jon always makes fun of me because I eat more than him. Izzy had two pieces of toast.

"Were do you put that you're like 100 pounds?" Izzy said looking at my food.

"115 pounds," Was my reply. "I eat a lot it's just who I am."

"Hey Clare," Jon said pulling up a chair.

"Hey J-"

"Izzy there is a dance/ club thing for ages 16-20 in the east room tonight, you and sister dearest over here should come." He said.

"Hey J-"

"We will totally be there." Izzy said flirtatiously, as she flipped her hair. Jon grinned at walked away. "Yes!"

"NO!" I said.

"Why not?"

"'Cause I don't want to" I stated. Simple as that. I took a sip of my OJ.

"Jace might be there." She said with a very evil grin. I chocked on my OJ.

I cleared my throat. "He is with Aline, why would I care?" I asked confused.

"Because you like him." She stated.

"That obvious?"

"No, but being around you for the past twenty-for hours makes a girl notice things. Any, way lets go swimming." She said as she got out of her chair.

"Okay" I replied. I got up. "Let me just grab a bottle of water."

"'K I'll meet you there." She sang headed towards the pool.

I went made my way over to the buffet and grabbed a bottle of water. My mom and Luke were over there grabbing there breakfast.

"Hey, Clare," Luke said.

"Good morning" I replied. Luke walked off to grab some bacon.

"So have you and Aline and Kaelie been getting along." My mother said with piercing eyes.

"Well haven't spoken to Kaelie yet, but I'm pretty sure Max was trying to teach her how to read on the deck, and Aline and I almost had a sister moment about boys, in her case Jace, then she trashed me about never having a boyfriend. So if that's getting along were doing great." Was my heavily sarcastic reply.

"Well Jon told me you guys are going to that club tonight why don't you invite Kaelie and Aline?" She asked.

"Well, Jon probably invited Jace which means Aline is going, and since Kaelie can't speak without Aline tell her what to say I'm pretty sure Kaelie is going." I said with a sarcastic grin.

"Okay, well I might not see you so...have fun." She said awkwardly. "Use protection." I swear to god my mouth was in a perfect 'O' shape right now.

"Goodbye" I said quickly and speed walked to the pool. I made my ray to the pool to see Alec holding Izzy back away from Aline.

"You slut!" Izzy yelled. Thank god no one else was here. I ran up to Alec. Aline was sitting there with her sister looking scared.

"What happened?" I asked, confusingly.

"Izzy 'accidently' bumped into Aline, so Aline called her a bitch and bitch slapped her. So Izzy attacked her. That's why I'm currently holding Izzy."

"It was an accident, the little whore over here just over-reacted." Izzy spat.

"What the hell is going on here?" Jace yelled jogging over here, Jon not too far behind him.

"You're sister just attacked me." Aline whined in he that high pitched girly voice.

"Yeah." Kaelie but in.

"Only because she called me a Bitch!" Izzy spat, giving the evil eyes to Aline.

"Aline, are you ok?" Jace asked.

"Yeah." She pulled him in for a kiss and Izzy, Alec and I, mad gagging noises. Then they looked at us and we put on our innocent smiles.

"Whatever I for one have had enough of this love fest. I'm going to go lay down by the pool." Izzy said getting out of Alec grip.

"Right behind you." I mumbled. We walked off to take some seats in the sun by the pool. I lay down and enjoyed the sound of kids playing with their dads in the pool, or playing Marco Polo. I remember when I use to do that.

"May I join you?" Sebastian asked as he sat down on the chair next to me.

"Oh, sure." I replied. "So what have you been up to I haven't seen you?" I asked.

"I played C.O.D. with Jon and Jace all morning, what about you?"Ha asked.

"Watched a cat fight." I said in the –isn't-it-obvious tone. Also known as the 'Le duh' tone "It was interesting." He chuckled.

"I'm sure it was."

So Sebastian and I just small talked. Izzy had fallen asleep. We talked about Liegh-ann, and how fun this cruise was going to be as long as we avoided Aline and, well Kaelie isn't that bad, just an idiot. We woke Izzy up and went to grab a burger around two thirty. After we ate we went to our chairs and went into the pool. Great I was going to have to shower again. Anyway Alec, Max and Jace came down (without Aline), and we had chicken fights. Alec and Izzy won all four times.

"Hey, what time is it?" I asked looking around for a clock. Jace got out of the water went to his bag and grabbed his phone.

"Six-thirty, why?" He asked in his velvet smooth silky voice.

"Six-thirty! Clary we have to go get ready. Jeez, we only have 1 hour!" Izzy squealed. She hopped out of the pool and grabbed a towel. "Well come, on." I followed Izzy 's steps and we walked in silence back to the room. "Okay I'll shower first then while I'm getting ready you shower, 'k?" She asked.

"Yeppers." She looked at me weird. "Yes Iz, I get it."

"Okay, stop using such confusing words, Gosh." She said and walked in to the bathroom. "Oh, and Clary, do you have another dress?" She asked with her head peeking out of the bathroom door. I nodded. "Good." Then she went back in the bathroom and the shower turned on. Five minutes later Izzy came out with a towel wrapped around her and her head.

"'K, my turn." I stated. After I showered I went into the room Izzy was wearing a gold dress that went down to mid-thigh. She had gold eyes shadow on and some lip-gloss.

"Oka-Oh, my, God. I love your dress."She squealed. My dress was a tight black dress that fell mid-thigh.

"Thanks." I cheered. I sat down and she started to do my makeup and hair. When she finished I had silver sparkle eye shadow, lip gloss and my hair was straightened, ending in the middle of the back. "Let's go" I sang. I grabbed my key and walked out the door with Izzy next to me. We met everyone else on the deck. Wow we were late. Everyone was already there. Jace, Alec, Sebastian, and Jon.

"Where's Aline and Kaelie?" Izzy asked. "I mean like, why isn't she like with Jace." Izzy mimicked Aline's habit to say 'like' a lot. I laughed, I just couldn't help it.

"Aline is feeling sick, and Kaelie didn't want to go if Aline didn't." Jace replied.

"And Aline is cool with you going?" Izzy asked, raising one eyebrow. Damn, I've always wanted to do that.

"You bet." Jace replied.

"Okay, let's go!" Izzy squealed.

So we made our way over to the club, we showed are I.D. and walked in, to the music blasting. "Clary, come on dance with me." Isabelle said, dragging me to the dance floor. We danced to numerous songs then Jon wanted to dance with Izzy so I went to get a coke.

"Hey." I said. I took the seat next to Jace.

"Hey." He replied.

"You bored without your girlfriend?"I teased.

"She is kind of a bitch." He said. Are you kidding me? "Yeah, she dumped me."

"You guys dated for a day!" Am I the only one getting this?

"Yeah. Clearly not her type though."

"One day." I muttered. That's what Aline must have wanted to talk to me about. "Well, I'm sorry?"

"I'm not." He said. "I didn't really know her, you know?" I nodded.

"Really" 'Cause like 4 hours ago you were defending her." I asked.

"She dumped me 15 minutes later. Oh, well. Well I do care, but I'll survive." He stated.

"Excuse me?" I asked the waiter person. "Can I get a coke?" he nodded. He came minutes later with a coke. I started to drink it.

"You want to dance?" Jace asked. I set my coke down

"What the hell? Let's go."

Who thought Jace was going to get dumped? I didn't! Just sort of happened. Anyway please review and tell me what you think.

~Hermosa Pesadilla~