Chapter Seven: Twister
As Jace and his other team members go to the locker room to freshen up after practice, Izzy and I are still on the bleachers on our backs looking at the sky. As I sit up a wave of dizziness almost send me back to the ground, I try to hide it as best I can so Izzy won't worry anymore. Izzy sits up too, not seeming to notice what just happened.
"Let's mingle." I hear Izzy say
" I think I'm fine up hear." I reply, seeing Jordan come out of the locker room with some freshmen I don't recognize
"Oh come on." She says, pulling me up with her, causing another wave of dizziness.
I follow Iz down the stairs holding onto the railing the entire time down. When I get to the last step, thinking I made it, I don't expect to trip on the edge of the stair causing me to trip and fall on my face.
This time though, I can't get up.
I here Izzy saying my name while hovering over me. I feel my eyes close and when they open again, Izzy looks close to tears and Jordan is also hovering over me. The dizziness is gone but I can't find the energy to get up.
"Iz, I'm fine. I just tripped." I say trying to reassure her.
"Clary," she says sounding relieved "You scared the hell out of me."
She scoops me up to hug me but I gasp at the sudden movement causing the dizziness to return. She lets go of me immediately.
"Oh god Clary are you okay? I'm so sorry I didn't mean t-"
"Iz I'm fine," I say gently "Hey Jordan." I say trying to lighten the mood.
"Hey Clare. You okay there?" He asks concerned, but friendly.
"Just dandy." I say causing him to crack a smile "Help me up?" I ask him holding my arm out.
He pulls me up as gently as he can but as soon as he lets go wave of dizziness comes crashing at me that would of caused me to fall back down if it weren't for Jordan catching me.
"Whoa, easy there." He says picking me up bridal style "Izzy, go get some water from the locker room."
She looks hesitant for a second, not wanting to leave my side but eventually she runs toward the guys locker room.
" Jordan I'm fine." I say trying to let me down, but a fit of coughing takes over making it hard to breathe between each cough.
"Yeah… totally fine." He says sarcastically. He sits down and puts me down next to him, I find myself leaning heavily on him.
When Izzy returns from the locker room I see Jace coming with her looking anxious.
Izzy hands me the bottle of water and I start to take small sips of the water.
" Hey." Jace says coming to sit next to me; he nods at Jordan as if saying thanks. Jordan stands up to go talk with some kids from the football team; one of them is Simon who keeps glancing our way.
"Are you okay?" He asks in all seriousness.
I nod looking down at my hands. We're quiet for a second until I lean into his shoulder and say,
"I had a nosebleed this morning."
Jace POV
I feel myself go ridged when I hear her say the words I never wanted her to say.
"What?" I ask, feeling a little hurt and some anger for not telling me earlier.
When I look at her, her head is buried in my chest so she just nods.
"Clary why didn't you tell me earlier?" I ask her a little too sharply, I realize, when I see her flinch.
"You were practicing, and I didn't want you to worry." Her voice is muffled from talking into my shirt.
"Clary." I say gently lifting her face so she meets my eyes. There are tears in her eyes and a couple of stray tears falling onto her cheeks. I wipe them away with my thumb. "I'll always worry about you, no matter what's going on. Sorry to break it to you, but I'm yours and I'm not leaving anytime soon."
She gives me a small smile making my mood ten times better.
"Why am I such a mess?" She asks to no particular person.
I don't say anything; I just hug her closer and kiss her on her head.
I love this girl.
Wait… what?
Clary POV
After this mornings craziness the rest of the day went by pretty fast. There were a couple of close calls of Jace almost beating up some guys for touching my butt… it didn't end well.
It's finally the end of the day now and you can see the excitement radiating off of Izzy when I met her in the parking lot. Maia was already in Izzy's car, probably texting Jordan.
"Are you sure you don't want to drive home with me?" Jace asks
" You know Izzy wouldn't allow that. It's only 15 minutes to your house." I reply
"Well 15 minutes without you is 15 minutes wasted." He says, making my heart melt.
I give him a kiss on the lips. " Since when did you become so mushy?" I ask him
"Look what you're doing to me." He says, giving me a kiss on the forehead "I'll see you soon."
I turn after that and walk over to Izzy's car, all of us excited for an amazing night ahead of us.
As we walk into the house; Jace, Jon, Jordan and Simon are already there sitting in the living room watching football… typical guys.
Maia runs over to Jordan and hops onto his lap giving him a kiss on the lips he happily accepts. I go over to Jace, straddling my legs around his waist and kiss him. I could tell he didn't expect this but he happily goes along with it snaking his arms around my waist. When we break the kiss he gives me a smile and mouths the word 'Wow' causing me to giggle a little.
I look around to see Simon and Izzy snuggling together on the floor and Maia and Jordan talking on another couch. Jon is sitting watching the game, I feel bad his girlfriend couldn't come because she's sick. I snuggle further into Jace's lap as we watch the game together. As soon as we're both comfortable though, Izzy shoots up like a bullet surprising Simon.
"Hey Jace, did a box happen to come?"
"Yeah it's by your bedroom door, I picked it up on the way inside." He says, half distracted by the football game on television.
"Yay! Thanks bro!" She says jumping up and down. "Clary, Maia, lets get ready." She calls to us
"Iz, it's 3:45, the party doesn't start until 9, we have some time." Maia says looking comfortable next to Jordan.
"Fine." Izzy mumbles, looking a little deflated. A sly smirk suddenly grows on her face, as she runs out of the room. When she comes running through again she's holding four large bowls, a wooden spoon, four bottles of paint (red, green, yellow, and blue) and.. .Shaving cream?
Ten minutes later she come back from their backyard.
"Okay everyone in a swimsuit." She says assertively, no one questions. We all start to walk up the stairs, Maia and I to Izzy's room and Jace, Jordan, Simon and Jon to Jace's room.
"Hurry up!" She yells from downstairs.
After all of us getting suited up we meet Izzy outside. I find Jace by the stairs waiting for me and he looks… wow. He's wearing a pair of black swim trunks, which only makes his golden skin look even more beautiful, and his six pack even more prominent. I have on a white bikini on with some swirly purple design on them; it was smallest swimsuit Izzy had.
"Hey there, sexy." He says after a second. I blush a little and grab his hand as we walk to the backyard, we're the last to people out there.
When I catch sight of Simon I see him looking guiltily at the light purple bruise on my right hip. Jace pulls me closer to him as he sees Simon staring.
"Okay." Izzy says, practically jumping with excitement "The name of the game is Messy Twister. The first four people to get to the game board from where you're all standing are who'll play that round. The other two can do anything to distract the players and make them fall down."
As she says the name I understand the layout of the lawn, It's practically a Twister board on the lawn. The spots are made with different colors of the paint she had mixed with the shaving cream.
"I'll say the directions for the first round." Izzy says.
We all have skeptical looks on our face but no one objects. If it passes the time why not?
"Okay ready?" she asks
We all get into our running position ready to sprint.
"Right foot red!" she yells
We all sprint toward the board to get to the red spots first. I make it to one of them as well as Jordan, Simon, and Maia. Jace and Jon had gotten caught up in pushing each other and ended up slipping causing all of us to laugh.
10 minutes later the game is in a lock with all of us on top of each other in different awkward positions with our bodies covered in the colored shaving creams. Jace and Jon resorted to pelting us with water guns to try and get us to slip, which ended up getting Jordan to trip.
"Left foot yellow." Izzy says laughing at us looking like a human pretzel.
As I go to move my foot I see Jon beginning to squirt his water gun in my face me which successfully gets me to trip and fall on top of Simon which softens my landing. We're both just a mess of Shaving cream, paint and water. When I turn around to look at Simon he looks worried for a second to make sure I'm okay, typical Simon. I start to laugh though at the multicolored shaving cream beard on his face. He takes some shaving cream from the ground and lightly smacks it on my face making both of us laugh harder. Jace is there after a second, looking a little irritated at Simon, He lifts me up by my waist twirling me around. He sets he down and gives me a kiss on the lips. I laugh when I see red tinted shaving cream on his lips.
"I win!" Maia says triumphantly.
"I call treason!" I say, "My own brother sabotaged me!"
This makes everyone laugh, especially when Jon decides to squirt me in the face again!
Oh, it's on. I think to myself.
I make Jace let go of me and I take a water gun lying on the gun and start to squirt my brother back. His keeps going backwards, towards the pool. Perfect.
When he gets to the edge of the pool I run at him with all my might to push him into the pool. At the last second, though, he grabs me in a bear hug and jumps into the pool with me. We're under water for a second before he resurfaces with me still in his grasp. He's laughing hard at my surprised face, that is, until I splash him in the face with water.
Everybody else jumps into the pool after that cleaning them selves of the shaving cream and paint on their body. Everyone is laughing and having a good time when suddenly I feel myself being lifted out of the pool onto someone's shoulders. I look down to see Simon holding me up. He looks up at me smiling. Maia and Jordan are doing the same thing with Maia on Jordan's shoulders. I wasn't really expecting it when Maia gives me a light shove trying to get to fall. I immediately catch on and we start to attempt make each other fall. Simon and Jordan are splashing at each other below.
I'm caught off guard for a second when Jordan decides to splash me in the face. Maia takes the opportunity to shove me off of Simon's shoulders. What she didn't expect was for me to grab her arm at the last minute taking her with me when we fall into the pool. Their talking is muffled for a minute while Maia and I are underwater; we both come back up to the surface laughing.
" You know I would pay to see that." Jace says an amused tone.
This comment causes both Jon and Izzy to dunk Jace's head underwater.
After another hour and a half of having a good time laughing, talking, and playing around; it's time to start getting ready for the party.
" Let's see, it's six o'clock which means us girls need to start getting ready." She says, getting up from beside Simon. " Say bye to your boyfriends for the next three hours!"
I start to sit up from where Jace and I are laying in the grass but he pulls me back on top of him.
"Jaaaace!" I whine.
"Claaary!" he says copying my voice.
"I need to go get ready."
"For three hours?" he asks
" With Izzy?"
"Yeah." We both say at the same time. I give him a peck on the lips and he lets me go.
"I'll see you soon." I say smiling.
"See you soon." He says back, as I turn around and walk back to the house with Izzy and Maia.
Immediately when we get to her room we crack open the box waiting by her door to see the dresses we had ordered. In my opinion, they all look better than I thought they did on the computer screen! Maia goes to shower first while Izzy and I get to work painting our nails.
3 Hours Later…
We're finally ready. And we look amazing.
I look in the mirror after Izzy finishes doing my makeup. I never knew I could look as good as I do now. My black dress hugs my body perfectly giving me curves I didn't know I had. The bottom flares out perfectly at my waist to just above my knee. My hair Izzy managed to get into perfect ringlets that gently fall onto my shoulders and back. The gray eye shadow and black eyeliner make my eyes pop; especially with the soft pink lip gloss on my lips.
"Wow. Izzy, I can't explain how good you are. Thank you!" I says going to hug her.
"Aww. Anything for my besties." She says, happy that we like what she did to us.
They both look just as good as I do, if not better. Izzy's tight dress hugs all of her curves perfectly and her shiny, black hair makes her look that much more beautiful. Maia's gold dress complements her skin tone perfectly. Her brown eyes are just ravishing with the gold eye shadow she's wearing.
" Ready to show the guys?" She asks us. Maia and I both nod enthusiastically.
Right then we hear Jace yell from downstairs.
"Are you guys ready? We have to leave in like five!"
"Coming." Izzy yells back.
When we walk out there the guys are silent. As we walk in they're just staring at us making me feel slightly uncomfortable. As we reach the bottom there are still no words spoken. I look at Jace who's looking pretty good in a pair of dark wash jeans and a black button down shirt. He's looking back at me with his eyes wide.
"So…?" Izzy finally says
"Wow." All of them say at the same time, a similar look of awe on all of their faces.
I walk up to Jace burying my face in his shirt to hide from the stares.
" You look beautiful Clary." He says into my hair.
"You clean up pretty good yourself." I say, looking up at him.
" Are we all ready?" Jon asks
There are a chorus of yes's. I decide to ride with Jace in his car with Maia and Jordan. Jon, Izzy, and Simon take Izzy's car. There is excitement radiating off of all of us as we go into each car and drive off.
This is going to be a fun night.
AN: Tell me what you think about this chapter! The party is next featuring creeper Sebastian!
ALSO I'm thinking about doing a collaborative TMI story. If anyone's interested Comment or PM me and if there is enough interest I'll tell how to audition in the next chapter. If not then I might try again in later chapters or not at all. I love all of my readers so much!
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Erin