So as some of you have noticed, I changed the title of the story. 'Eternal Ecstasy', I figured out, sounds very sexual. So I renamed it. The story is now called 'Jump and Fall'. And NO, not like the Taylor Swift song.
Sorry that it took me so long to update, everyone! I have no excuses other than my most commonly used one: I suck.
I've been having a hard time coming up with ideas for any of my stories lately, especially this one :/ some help would be helpful...
Okay, so during spin the bottle, I would listen to Flaunt by Girls Love Shoes. I think it fits :)
Okay. Enough chatter. Enjoy chapter 4!
Clary dropped her bag on the floor and collapsed onto her chair.
Isabelle walked in and smiled. "Hey." She dropped her bag on the floor, too, and sat in her chair. "How was your day?"
Clary groaned. "Long."
The corner of Isabelle's mouth curved up. "It isn't done yet. We still have to play spin the bottle with everyone."
Clary put her face in her hands. "Why did I agree to that? I've never kissed anyone before. I don't know how."
Isabelle's eyes widened. "You've never been kissed?!"
Clary peeked through her fingers. "No. Can't you just say I'm not feeling well and I could stay here?"
Isabelle turned to her desk and opened up her laptop. "Come here."
Clary rolled her chair across the room next to Isabelle.
The page was on Youtube, and she was searching 'how to kiss a boy'.
"Oh, please don't," said Clary, suddenly feeling sick to her stomach.
Isabelle clicked on the video. "You need to learn how to kiss within fifteen minutes. What else is there to do? I'm not letting you practice on me."
Clary sighed. This was one hell of a first day.
xxxxx
Clary followed Isabelle to the Auditorium. It looked like a theater- red velvet seats, stage lights. The room smelled like dust and people, and the stage lights made everything slightly tinted blue. It was overall nice.
"Sorry we're late," said Isabelle as they walked onto the stage.
The others were sitting on the stage in a circle.
"I thought you'd bailed," said Camille. "Come on."
Clary sat on her knees next to Isabelle. Her heart was pounding. Why had she agreed to this?
Clary looked around the circle of teenagers in their uniforms nervously, and tried to remember everyone's names to distract herself. Magnus, Camille, Nate, Cecy, Will, Ella, Tatiana, Gabriel, Alec, Jace, Jessie, Jonathan, and Isabelle. Clary was impressed with herself for remembering.
"I'll go first," said Camille. She set a bottle in the middle and spun it around. It slowed near Clary and she sucked in a breath. Please, for the love of all that is holy, Clary thought, don't land on me.
It stopped on Nate. Clary released the breath she'd held.
Camille got a feisty look on her face. "Lucky you."
"Oh, come on," said Magnus- who was sitting next to Nate. "It was so close!"
Camille laughed. She went up to Nate, and kissed him.
Someone wolf whistled and Magnus rolled his eyes.
Camille went back to her seat. "Jessie, your turn."
Jessie spun the bottle, eyes fixed on it. It stopped on Will.
"Oh, Come on!" Said Will and Jessie in unison.
"Anyone but him!" Jessie pleaded.
Isabelle giggled next to Clary.
"Let's get this over with," said Jessie. With a glare, she went up to Will, and she kissed him.
After three seconds, Will pulled away. "You're a terrible kisser!"
Clary couldn't help but laugh with everyone else, though she tried not to.
Jessie glared at him. "Look who's talking."
"Oh, I know you liked it, Jess."
Jessie blushed and sat back down next to Camille.
"Cecy. Go," said Camille.
Cecy grinned and spun the bottle. It stopped on Gabriel, and he blushed.
Will growled under his breath. He seemed to dislike Gabriel, Clary had observed throughout the day.
Cecy smirked and kissed Gabriel. There kiss lasted for four seconds before Cecy wrapped her arms around his neck.
The others ooo-ed.
"Okay, that's enough," Will growled.
Cecy pulled away and smirked at her brother.
Maybe she did that to piss off her brother, Clary thought. Then again, weren't those two dating?
Gabriel was blushing a deep red.
"Clary," said Camille, "your turn."
Clary swallowed and slowly spun the bottle. Her heart pounded as the bottle spun. It stopped and she looked up from the nose.
"Alec," said Camille.
"What?" It appeared that he was spaced out.
"Bottle."
He looked down and his eyes widened. "Who spun it?"
"Clary," said Isabelle.
Clary blushed intensely.
"Go on," said Camille. "Kiss him already!"
Alec looked uncomfortable.
Clary slowly went up to him. Her face felt like it was on fire.
She hesitated.
Alec briefly rolled his eyes. He grabbed the side of her face and kissed her.
Clary's eyes widened, then she closed her eyes and tried to remember what the video had said to do.
It felt like minutes, but Clary was counting in her head, and it had been exactly four seconds. Clary could hear her heart pounding in her ears.
Camille laughed and Clary nodded at Alec before returning to her seat.
"You look like that was your first time," said Jace, sounding slightly... off. Clary didn't know how.
"Your hair matches your face," Jessie giggled.
Clary looked at the floor so her hair would be a curtain.
"I think that was her first time," said Jonathan, his eyes slightly narrowed.
"Oh," said Camille. "Was it good?"
Clary didn't look up. She wasn't sure if it was good. It was her first time. She just nodded- thinking it would be rude to shrug.
"Okay, my turn," said Isabelle.
Clary saw the bottle spin and stop. Out of curiosity, she glanced up and saw it landed on Jonathan.
Isabelle was already in front of him. He put his fingers under Isabelle's chin and kissed her slowly. Clary looked away.
The rest of the game was a bit of a blur. The next thing she remembered was collapsing onto her white sheets of her twin sized bed.
"Have fun?" Asked Isabelle.
"Don't make me do that again," Clary begged.
Isabelle laughed. "If you insist."
"Oh, and please don't look through my sketchbook again."
"Why?"
"It's... It's kind of like my diary."
"Oh! Sorry."
Tessa lounged on her bed with her kindle. She'd lied about having plans to those girls to get out of playing spin the bottle. She wondered if Clary had actually gone, or if she'd backed out.
Tessa was recapping on Pride and Prejudice. It was just as good this time as it had been before.
The door opened. "Tessa? Are you in here?"
Tessa looked over. "Hi, Sophie."
Sophie looked almost nervous. "Do you... Do you want to sit with us for dinner tonight?"
"Yeah," Tessa smiled. "Thanks."
Sophie smiled, too. "I just thought, since you have new mates now... That you may not want to hang out with us anymore."
Tessa shook her head. "Believe me, they're not my friends- well, maybe Clary and Jem are, but not the others. Maybe we could invite Clary to sit with us?"
Sophie nodded. "Okay, that'll be nice."
Tessa climbed down from her bed.
"There's still a few more hours till eighteen hundred, so-"
Tessa frowned. "Eighteen hundred?"
"Six o'clock."
"Ah," she nodded. "Continue."
"So, we should do something," she smiled. "You probably haven't seen much of London yet. Would you like to?"
Tessa nodded.
"Clary. Clary, wake up. It's almost time for dinner. Do you still have jet lag? Clary!"
Clary opened her eyes. She had been drawing in her loft bed and dozed off. She sat up.
Isabelle was putting on makeup in the mirror, not looking at Clary. "Clary, you should get ready. Dinner is going to be served in fifteen minutes."
Clary climbed down from her loft.
Isabelle saw her in the mirror. "Oh good, you're up." Isabelle put her mascara back into her makeup bag. "Did you say you were sitting with Tessa this evening?"
Clary looked at herself in the mirror. She had pillow lines on her face, sleepy eyes and messy hair. "Yeah. You wanna join us?"
"No thanks. Not enough hot guys there- no offence to them."
Clary chuckled and tried fixing her hair.
"Jace asked about you, by the way."
Clary turned, her cheeks growing warm. "He did?"
"Yeah." Isabelle turned from her mirror, too, completely oblivious to Clary's blushing. "Ready to go?"
Clary shrugged. "I guess."
xxxxx
They went down to the Cafeteria. Clary got her food and walked over to Tessa's table. "Hey."
"Hey," said Tessa. "Glad you made it." Tessa and Sophie moved down the bench.
Clary sat next to Tessa and across a brunette boy, who sat next to a girl.
"Clary, this is Sophie, Simon, Maia, and Jordan." Tessa gestured to everyone. "This is Clary."
"Hi," Clary gave a small wave.
"Hey," said the boy across her- Simon. "This may seem like a weird question, but do you like manga?"
Clary's eyes widened. "I love manga!"
Simon seemed surprised. "Really? Cool. Which ones?"
"Um, Naruto, Fullmetal Alchemist-"
"Me too!" Simon exclaimed, his eyes beaming.
Clary and Simon talked about manga for awhile.
"So, Clary, what's your story?" Maia asked.
Clary frowned. "What do you mean?"
"Like, do you have a story of why you're here; at Alicante?"
Clary shrugged. "I do, but it's kind of boring."
"Can't be worse than some of the other conversations are," said Jordan.
Clary sighed. "My parents are divorced. My dad got my brother, and all the money, my mom got me. I was four years old when they split. Mom got remarried. We live in an apartment in New York. My dad convinced my mom boarding school would be a good idea, for my education, and he's paying for it, so here I am. Told you it wasn't interesting."
"Who's your brother?" Asked Maia.
"Jonathan Morgenstern."
Simon's eyes widened. "You're related to that asshole?"
Maia elbowed him. "Simon!"
"No, it's okay," said Clary, "I agree with you."
The bell rang.
"End of the day. How was your first day, Tessa?"
Tessa shrugged. "Good, I guess."
"And yours, Clary?"
"Good."
xxxxx
Clary sketched the people she'd met that day in her sketchbook that night. She drew Isabelle, Alec, Jace, Maia, Simon, Jordan, Tessa, Sophie... She fell asleep while drawing.
Her phone buzzed in the middle of the night. Clary woke up and read the text. It was from Jocelyn.
Luke's dead.
Sorry it's so short! And sorry for the cliffhanger! I'm working on it.
So I know the kissing thing was like, well, you probably wanted Clary to kiss Jace, right? Well I thought about it, and if I had everyone kiss their future boyfriend/girlfriend, it would be too much of a coincidence, right? Plus, Clary and Jace's first kiss should be something more special than spin the bottle, right? (I do NOT ship Clary/Alec. EVER! MALECMALECMALEC!)
Anyway, some of you are aware that the playlist for this story is currently blank. Any ideas for songs for this fic?
And finally: Europe. I'm going to be out of town in April- pretty much the whole month- because I'm gonna be in Europe. Sorry, but my updates will be extremely minimal! Sorrysorrysorry!
Okay, see you guys later! If you have any suggestions for the story, it would seriously help! I have little to nothing more!
-Wisterian Princess