By friday night Izzy had figured out that Emily usually wasn't sitting by herself in the cafeteria but with a friend. Some guy from a different class.
She had spent all thursday observing the girl and found herself becoming a bit curious about her. So friday morning she decided she was going to 'make contact' as she called it in her head. The whole thing felt like a secret undercover operation to her, it was just missing a codename. Jace would probably have the perfect idea for one.
During lunch break that day she was walking over to Emily's table with a big smile on her face. A few seconds before she actually reached it this guy swooped in and stole the seat, making Izzy take a sharp turn to the left, heading right back to the boys table.
"Got some coordination problems there?" Jace smirked "You should work on that before we go hunting again."
"Ooh please go back to waving at your fan-girls now, would you? They're staring." "Of course they are, I look dashing as always!" Jace remarked with a smug grin on his face. Izzy just rolled her eyes at him. While the boys we're talking about the upcoming party, Izzy listened only halfheartedly, her eyes not leaving Emily for a second. The boy at her table had light brown curls, blue eyes and made Emily laugh a lot. Suddenly the boy said something that made Emily blush. Laughing, she slapped him playfully. Isabelle smiled at that, it reminded her a bit of Anthony and herself, well except that she wouldn't blush. Never. Or at least she couldn't recall the last time that she had blushed. "Who's staring now?" Jace whispered, startling her. How did I not notice him creeping up on me like this?! "I'm not staring!" "Oh but you are, I can understand why though. She is pretty in an odd kind of way." At that moment Emily looked their way and found both of them staring at her. Looking a bit irritated she raised an eyebrow before she turned her attention back to the other student. "I wouldn't get my hopes up if I were you though, she probably thinks we're some kind of weird stalkers. But she should feel lucky, at least one of them is hot." "I don't have any hopes! But thanks for commenting on my good looks." "If I had been talking about you I would have said something like 'And one of them looks like an abandoned puppy.'" "I do not!" "Sure you do, staring at her like that." "As I said before, I was not staring and besides at least I don't need the attention of desperate little high school girls to feel good about myself." "A bit jealous, aren't you? I'm sure there are a few who secretly admire you as well, don't worry." While the siblings attention had shifted completely on each other and their bickering, they didn't notice Emily watching them smiling. This was the first time since Isabelle Lightwood had enrolled at her high school that Emily saw her doing something with a spark of something that almost looked like passion. She had wondered what it would take to break that facade of indifference the Lightwoodgirl liked to keep up. Apparently her brother knew exactly what buttons he needed to push to get her to drop it.
The rest of the day Izzy tried not to stare at Emily anymore, although she couldn't resist sneaking a few glances from time to time. Of course always when Emily looked at her as well. Oh for goodness sake it's not as if Jace is right. I don't need to prove a point here.
Friday night Isabelle was staring at herself in the mirror. She was wearing a long wine red sleeveless shirt, dark blue jeans shorts, high heeled studded boots, her red necklace and a black leather jacket. Her hair was down. It was a bit unusual for her but she liked it once in a while. Of course it had nothing to do with Emily's comment about it, it was not like she would even attend the party. No she most likely wouldn't and there was also no little voice in her head whispering that maybe just maybe she secretly hoped for her to be there. Nope not at all.
Before she left the room to join her brothers she grabbed Anthonys Sunglasses. She had come to like them a lot. "And they do come in handy if you want to stare at people without them noticing" said a small voice inside her head that sounded suspiciously like Jace.
When the three of them arrived at the party there were already quite a few intoxicated teenagers. This wasn't a party Izzy would usually attend. She was used to downworlder parties. They were different and one had to be careful not to drink magical cocktails, but Izzy loved them. Lately she had been able to attend a lot of them, since Magnus loved to party and depending on who of the two you asked he was dating Alec at the moment, which meant they were invited to every single one of them. Sadly she wouldn't be able to attend the one he was hosting tonight, since she agreed to come to a mundane party instead. "Well this is gonna be fun." Jace announced. Izzy snorted and let her eyes wander through the room. There was a billiard table, which was used for some sort of drinking game, there was a table offering lots of different drinks, there was music blasting and there were so many students getting drunk. Nothing special really. Alec and Jace dragged her along when they went to greet some of their classmates. When she caught herself zoning out of the conversation and instead searching the crowd for a certain red-haired girl she decided it was enough. She was here to get to know some people, it didn't really matter who it was. "So who is up for a drinking game?" she asked and instantly all of the boys (except her brothers) volunteered. Maybe Jace is right, this is gonna be fun.
After she had beaten every one of them in beer pong she started to feel slight effects of the alcohol, but compared to the boys she was fairly sober. She danced with a couple of them, but made it very clear that that was all she was interested in. She soon found herself bored and decided ditch this. Texting Anthony if he could pick her up and take her to Magnus' Party, she made her way to the bathroom to freshen up her make up. When she opened the door and looked up, she found the room already occupied.