Everyone in the room stared at me, but one of them looked different from the others. I couldn't forget those golden eyes if I tried. Jace. He must be the adoptive brother that Sebastian told me about. Wow he looks even more gorgeous now than I remember him being earlier. Oh crap, I'm staring at him.
"Jace. Nice to see you again." Izzy looked at me questioning if this was the guy I was talking about earlier. I felt my face go bloodshot red, and Izzy let out a chuckle.
"You are Sebastian's little sister?" I'm pretty sure that was supposed to be a question, but Jace said it so nonchalantly that it sounded like he was calling me short.
"Are you trying to tell me I'm little, because I already know that? I can't help that below average." I started laughing, and everyone else joined me. It was a very awkward the first few minutes with them, but soon everyone lightened up.
"So then I said," Alec was telling a story about his encounter with a blind date, "A banana peel and a banana are robbing a store. "Don't worry," says the peel. "I've got you covered." And of course I died laughing, but my date just looked at me. I didn't even get a courtesy laugh from him." Jace broke out laughing.
"YOU DID NOT! Oh my angel that's good stuff."
"It's not funny Jace. He was a great guy and I ruined the date with my dumb banana joke. I mean I thought it was hilarious but I guess my date didn't feel the same way."
"You're right. It's not funny at all." Jace had on a serious face. "It's priceless." He started rolling on the floor clutching his abdomen as his cute laugh escaped.
"Hey guys I'm sorry, but I haven't slept in past two days, so I'm hitting the hay. See you guys tomorrow." I get up and start walking away and nobody says anything. I don't know I just expected a goodbye or something, but I got nothing. Oh well they were all probably just too caught up on Alec's embarrassing story.
I walked down the hall and went into my room. It was nice and quiet in here. My whole adventure has drained all of my energy, where are my pajamas? Oh yeah. I don't have any. Well I guess I'll just go to sleep in my hoodie and jeans. I also don't have any bead sheets, should I go find some? Nah, I'm too lazy. I'll just get everything sorted out tomorrow. Right now I need some sleep. I lay down and feel safe in the comfort of this new bed.
My wrists feel weird. It's dark and I feel sweat dripping from my face onto the rest of my body. Where am I? I try to walk forward, but realize I can't move. I look up to find my wrists tied together with a thick rope, hanging above my head. Did I pass out? Why am I waking up like this?
"Look who's back. I thought you would never wake up."
"Daddy? What is happening? Can you untie me please?"
"Sweetie. You know what I'm trying to do. We need to let it take over you okay."
"I don't understand. What's taking over me?"
"When she comes, I'll explain everything."
"Who is she? Is mommy coming?"
My father let a few laughs escape, "No Clary, not your mother."
"Then who?"
"You." Me? What does he mean me? I'm literally right here.
"I don't understand."
"You will in time dear. Now let me get back to work."
I started to remember where I was. It is the middle of the night. Mom and Seb are gone for the weekend on business. It's just me and daddy for the next few days. He brought me to the basement again. It's been a couple of months since we visited the basement together. This time he said he was going to try something different with me. I watched as daddy picked up a belt off of the tool counter. He came closer and closer to me, and I remembered why I passed out.
He raised the belt in his hand and came down on my back hard. I let out a scream. The pain was unreal. It stung on my back like a million yellow jacket stings at the same time. He let me gather the little strength that I could grasp and then came down with another blow, and then another. My tears started to trickle down my body and my screams became the only sound in the room, other than the sound of the belt meeting my skin. Soon my father's laugh joined in with my screams, echoing throughout our basement. I felt myself losing consciousness again, but daddy didn't want me to sleep.
"Clary, you need to stay awake."
"I can't daddy…I can't."
"Clary wake up." His voice sounded different than usual.
"I can't help it. I can't."
"I'm not your father, wake up."
My eyes shot open and I was about to scream when a hand covered my mouth. I realized it was a dream and I was not in that horrible basement anymore. I was sitting on my bare bed in the Lightwood's house. It was a dream. Just a dream.
"Clary…are you okay?" Jace looked down at me, eyes filled with worry. I wonder what he heard me say in my sleep.
"What happened?" I guess he heard me say something. I hope it won't scare him away.
"You were screaming, so I came."
"Oh. I'm sorry. I…I-" He interrupted me.
"You don't have to tell me what it was about." He is so nice. "Why are you still in your clothes from earlier?"
"I don't have anything else with me."
He looked at me funny, "Wait here." Jace got up and left me alone in my room. I can't believe I was screaming in my sleep. That's never happened to me before. At least I don't think it has. What time is it? I got up and looked around the room for a clock but didn't find one.
Jace came back in with a big t-shirt and some shorts in his hands. "Here, you can borrow these." He stuck his hand out and for some reason I didn't reach out to grab the clothes. I guess I'm still a little on the edge from that dream. "Oh I get it. You want my help don't you?" He started flashing his one of a kind Jace smile and chuckled a bit. "Why didn't you just say that?" He started to walk towards me but I backed up until I hit the wall. His goofy facial expression disappeared and turned serious
"You can j-just set those down on the bed." My nerves started to go crazy, partially from my dream, but mostly from the hot man standing alone with me in my room.
"Look Clary, I don't know what the heck you just went through during that nightmare, but if you want to talk about it I'm here." He set the clothes down on my bed and turned, exiting my room.
I put on the t-shirt and shorts, but they kept trying to fall off of me. These are the problems normal short people deal with, but me, I have bigger, crazier problems. One for example, my insane nightmare. It's really not so freaky since it actually happened to me. I still don't know why dad did that to me for so many years. Maybe he just enjoyed it, but I think it had something to do with whatever was in his serum.
Chills started to cover my legs just thinking about my father. I don't want to be alone right now. I could go see Izzy. She'll probably let me stay in her room. I walk out into the hallway and I guess my sleepy actions forgot which room was Izzy's, because when I entered the room next to mine Izzy was not in there.
"Well hello Clarissa. Couldn't wait any longer to see me, could you?"
"I thought this was Izzy's room."
"Ouch. That hurt. So you didn't come in here to cuddle with me?"
"No not really."
"Well I'm down to chill if you are. Come, join me. We can talk." I debate on leaving and finding Izzy's room, but what if this opportunity never knocks on my door again? I slowly walked over to his bed, and he raised the covers so I could get in with him. I've never been in bed with a guy before, well Simon, but he doesn't count. As I was climbing in with Jace, I noticed he wasn't wearing a shirt. Just shorts.
"I need to get some covers on my bed. It was freezing in there." I tried my best to make conversation.
"You are welcome to use my covers any time you want."
"Uhh thanks." I turned my face so he couldn't see my embarrassed smile.
"What do you really want to talk about?"
"I'm just confused, I guess."
"About?"
"I just had a nightmare, but it really happened to me before. So I was reliving it all over again, and I don't know why."
"It's probably due to the events that happened during the last couple of days. I hear it was a little hectic."
"These past two days have been some of the worst I've lived through. I mean I had to search the institute, my home, and I-I found…I found my…"
"Shhh. Don't force yourself to talk about it. You aren't ready. You need to get sleep."
"I don't want to go back to sleep." Dreaming right now, just made me feel stuck. I don't want to go back to that hell.
"Why don't you sleep here tonight? I'll protect you from the nightmares."
I looked over into Jace's eyes. "Is that okay?" I don't want to break any rules. I mean it is my first day here, and I need to make a good impression on Maryse and Robert. I could end up living here for a while.
"Don't worry about it. Just sleep." We both laid down and soon sleep took me.
I hear a creek sound coming from the bedroom door. I open my eyes to see light coming from a window somewhere and bare naked skin. Oh my angel. I'm using Jace as a pillow. Oh my freaking angel. As I try to roll over, I realize that Jace's arm is wrapped around me, holding me in place. I feel like I'm in a movie right now. This doesn't happen to normal shadowhunters like me. I'm just Clary.
The door creeks more, and I hear a man's voice. "Jace wake u- WHAT IS THIS?" The sheets are ripped off of us, and Jace sits up.
"Oh…hey Sebastian."
So that's chapter 4! Finally we are getting to see the beginning of Clace! And how awkward is that for SebastianJ I mean I wouldn't really want to walk in on my little sister in bed with a guy! He must be thinking a lot about that situation!
Anyway thank you guys for sticking with me! I have a really good idea for this story and am so excited to share it with everyone. I'm going to try to update this story weekly, so right now expect a new chapter every Thursday!
I wonder what crazy stuff is going to happen in the next chapter…J