Chapter four
The next few days I spend with the Grays getting clothes, stationary, sketch books and everything else a girl my age needs. We all eat dinner together and like the same television shows. When Rose and Luke were dragging me store to store I begin to feel like I realise this place where I am but then I notice that before I broke out (which is when my powers came) I use to live here and went to school here until high school. My mother was the only one who knew I had these powers and my old best friends whom I missed everyday and never forgot their names Simon Lewis and Sebastian Verlac. We did everything together and we lived next door to each other before me and my mum was taken or did she get married again? As you can probably tell my memory is sort of coming back but slowly which is a miracle.
I am suddenly woken up by a buzzing noise which is annoying I turn to hit the thing that is buzzing really loudly. Why it's too early? Then I hear a soft laugh and a chuckling noise I sit up rubbing my eyes.
"Why?" I whined.
Rose and Luke both say "Come on Clary it's the first day of school and you don't want to be late for your first day of school, do you? No."
I then jump out of the warm, comfortable bed which seems to be calling me back I nearly give in but I'm nervous and excited but I have butterflies in my stomach and feel sick. Today or this week I'm a new student at the Institute. I quickly get showered and stick on a red top, black skinny jeans, navy converse and leather jacket, I brush my long silky red hair which seems to decide it wants to be curly so I just roll with it and I put on some make up. I am ready. I run down the stairs to the smell of bacon and eggs oh boy was I hungry. I sit with the 'parents' and we chat and then the clock hits eight thirty-five and it's time for me to leave. I grab my bag and head for the door to Rose's and Luke's car for some reason they want to drive me but I don't mind I actually like it.
We come to a stop and we are outside a huge school which seems to resemble a gothic castle but with modern twists. Surrounding the school are football fields, tennis court anything an Academy should have access to. I'm going to love it here I hope. I am too interested in my thoughts to notice that Luke and Rose are talking to me.
"I'm sorry what did you say?"
"Once you get into the school find the front office and get your schedule and-''
"Yes, yes I know what to do. Don't worry I'll be fine. And yes I will call you if I need a ride home or feel like going to school now is too much." I interrupt. I lean in and kiss both of them on the cheek and hug both of them before stepping out of the car. How can a person survive high school? This is going to be hard.
I walk through the large double doors and search for signs for where the office is just like they both told me but I can't see an office anywhere. This is so frustrating I should have got Luke to come in with me as he went here. I see a girl about my age with a slim figure and jet black hair I jog towards her.
"Excuse me sorry to bother you but could you help me I am looking for the office"
"Yeah sure you must be new here. Just take the right and keep going down the hallway and turn left and you're there. Bye"
"Thanks"
I begin to proceed down the hallway and turn left until I am standing in front of an office and I knock on the glass window and the old women in front of me lifts her head up.
"Can I help you?"
"My name is Clary Fray I am new here and could I have my class schedule please"
She hands me a page with my classes and rooms which they are in and at the top is my locker number 1467. If that's my locker number how much more can there really be? I begin to find my first class but a bell rings and there are no students about and I hear someone shouting my name, I turn around to see the office assistant running after me.
"Clary you have to wait for the principle he will show you to your first class"
"Okay where should I wait for him?"
"Come with me love and I'll get you a coffee whilst you wait"
"No please I don't want to bother anyone there really is no need"
"Don't worry child it is no bother, come with me"
I sit outside of the office with my head down making sure I don't get noticed. I begin to think about my emotions which control my power and if I feel so much emotion I begin to start a fire and can end up teleporting and expose myself to everyone which is not ideal. I can now stop myself from reading other peoples thoughts and feelings but if their feelings are too strong I can get 'sucked' in. Minutes go by and a man walks out of an office and begins to speak to the grey headed women and she points to me.
"Hello you must be Miss Fray and I am Hodge I prefer to be called by my first name like most others. I am going to show you to your first class and from there someone will be appointed to you to show you around the school and where your classes are"
"Thank you."
We walk down the hall until we stop and I take a deep breath as Hodge turns the door handle and he walks in with such grace and suddenly everyone in the class stands up and he gestures them to sit down. I am still standing outside of the class and Hodge tells me to come in so I do with my head down and do not dare to look up. I bet these people can smell the fear coming off me. I am so screwed.
"Good morning class this is Clary Fray and she is the new addition to the Institute so treat her with kindness and Isabelle if you would please show Miss Fray around for the week that would be so kind"
"Yes Sir I would love too" She replies.
Hodge whispers in my ear if you need anything come to me I am aware of your condition. He then walks out and I am still standing in front of the class. The teacher then tells me to sit where there is an empty seat. The teacher then starts to call roll call. Everyone shouts hear and then he shouts out my name.
"Here"
Isabelle then walks up to me and begins showing me around and telling me that her brother Alec is a baseball player and that her adoptive brother is the football captain and that they are popular. I kind of tune out for a bit because she kept talking but then she notices that I have my head down. She stops in front of me and I walk straight into her.
"Clary, why do you have your head down?"
"Avoiding detection"
"It's okay really just keep you head up and no one will bother you, you are now my new bestie"
We walk down the hallway laughing and joking and getting along I have never had a girl whose a friend just those two guys I remember but I push them out of my mind so I don't seem distance or rude. The classes fly in and I sit beside Isabelle in nearly all of them but in English I sit beside a boy which is not here which is good because it is usually guys who say something about my red hair.
The bell rings for lunch time and I go to my locker and Isabelle is close by but she is currently talking to a cute guy and I wonder why I can't attract guys like she can. I begin to place my books into my locker and suddenly the one next to mine opens but I avoid eye contact. I close my locker and I accidently drop a book and it's not just any book it's my sketch book which I am trying to figure out. The guy bends down and picks it up.
"Hey you dropped this. You're really good"
"Thanks" I am avoiding eye contact and I don't even know what he looks like. I begin to walk away to go up to Isabelle but a hand grabs my arm and pulls me back.
"Why in such a rush strawberry shortcake I am sure that my good looks will keep you interested if you just look up from the ground"
"Seriously I haven't heard that one before but if you get another nickname for me please tell me so I can add it to the red joke list which seems to gotten longer"
"Come on every girl wants a piece of my hot body and I am sure you're just like the rest of the girls here"
This guy has seriously just pissed off the wrong red head. I jerk my arm back and walk up to his face but my eyes are still focused on the ground. "Sorry to hurt your huge ego but your just a jerk who is too up himself so in the future don't touch me Got it? Good." Then I walk up to Isabelle and we begin to walk towards the lunch hall but before we turn the corner I turn my head around just in time to see the jerk walk away all I see is his perfect golden hair.
Jaces POV
I wake up with my alarm buzzing and after literally having to drag myself out of bed and into the shower. You see I am extremely gorgeous and I am the captain of the school's football team which is amazing and my best friends are also on the team such as Jordan but I don't really talk to him much anymore but the vice captain Sebastian Verlac and Simon Lewis are my closet friends and I trust them with my life. We have been friends since the first day of the Institute when we were all picked for the school's football team and from there we have been friends. I get a quick shower, get into a white t-shirt and a pair of jeans that shows my rocking body which the ladies love and I grab my school bag and my gym bag so I can get in early practice.
I am in school and manage to get in a full hour of working out before going to class but because I hate English I send in someone with a note saying I'll be in late. I hide in the boys toilets until the bell for lunch goes. I walk out of the toilets and head to my locker and once I do that I see that the locker beside mine which hasn't been used since what last year has been taking up by a red headed girl. I guess she is new so I turn on the Jace Wayland charm to get her to notice me. She drops a book so I bend down and I see that this is a sketch book and the drawings are amazing the best I've ever seen. The girl doesn't look at me which is strange so I begin to flirt which usually works with the ladies but with this one didn't, she is different from the rest. She keeps her head down and avoids eye contact. She begins to walk away I grab her arm and she immediately pulls it back and says:
"Sorry to hurt your huge ego but your just a jerk who is too up himself so in the future don't touch me or talk to me. Got it? Good."
Wow I never knew I was actually being that much of a jerk but when she jerked her arm back I saw her eyes which are emerald green and I have never seen anything like it before it's so beautiful; she is beautiful. What was I saying I am Jace Wayland and I could have anyone but I wanted her? Strange.
She walks away and turns the corner and I am in too much shock to say anything so I just turn around and walk until I find Simon and Sebastian. They are in a deep conversation about something and I swear if they are discussing who would win in a fight between Batman and Superman I swear they will be in a world of pain soon. But as I get closer I hear the end of Sebastian's sentence.
"...it could her Simon it's the same colour of hair but we need to check the eyes"
They stop as soon as they see me. "Hey, who are you talking about?"
Simon replies "Just the new girl you know with the red hair"
"Damn is that girl so stubborn and feisty but I like it but there is something strange about her when I was talking to her she kept her head down but when I grabbed her arm and she pulled it back I seen her eyes they were emerald green"
Simon and Sebastian both look at each other and both say at the same time "It's her!"
And they ran off towards the lunch room I assume so I walk behind them slowly.