Chapter 4
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Now onwards to the story! *charges forwards*
"Claaaary! Wake up, first day of school!" Clary rolled over and groaned, pulling the sheets above her head. The blankets ended up on the floor, having been yanked off of Clary. "Be ready in 20 minutes, Luke is dropping us off." Clary groaned and sat up, rubbing her sore neck; it had been hurting ever since that stupid nurse had slammed it in her. The incident at the hospital had happened three weeks ago. Clary returned to have a check-up and apologise to the people she had assaulted in a panic a couple days after.
All of them had accepted her apology with good grace, except the nurse who had run at her. She had refused to even look at Clary, ignoring her and calling security to remove her. She was also astounded that while she was at the hospital, that the doctors didn't even notice the bruises that adorned her pale skin; or that she was at least 25 pounds under weight.
Clary, stumbling to the shower began undressing; Luke had provided the girls with their own bathrooms. Luke was as distant to them as ever and still made them cook dinner for him, but he was beginning to talk to them and he was sneering at them less and less. Clary and Isabelle didn't dare ask what was down that hallway; Luke had told them that they were forbidden to go down there.
After washing the conditioner from her hair, and washing her body she turned the shower off. Stepping out she looked at the mirror above the marble sink. Even after spending nearly a month here, she was still able to count all her ribs; it seemed as though her body refused to put on any weight. She sighed, she didn't know why she cared so much. After looking away from her prominent hipbones, she began dressing. She pulled on a plain, pale blue, long sleeve shirt and black jeans, she began her make up.
The bruises on her face from Valentine refused to disappear; she had to pile on layers of foundation to cover the ugly patches of colour over her cheekbones, near her mouth and over her eyebrow. Sighing at the reflection in the mirror, she made her way out.
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Isabelle was standing by the front door of the penthouse, bouncing up and down like a puppy about to go on a walk. Rolling her eyes at her over excited sister she grabbed an apple, deciding to eat it when she got to school. School, ugh. Clary and Isabelle had to attend at the near-by private school of Idris Institute. Luke had applied them there, refusing for them to go to a public school a further 20 minutes away from their apartment.
Luke walked out of his room in his signature grey suit. "Let's go now, you'll have to go to the office before school starts to get your schedules and all that jazz."
Clary coughed, attempting to cover a snigger. She couldn't help but give a small laugh at Luke's funny little sayings. Walking through the front door, she shook her head, smiling. She couldn't help but thinking, Let's get this day over with.
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The school bell went off. Groaning Isabelle and Clary had to say goodbye; they were in different home rooms. Grabbing her books from her new locker she attempted to pull her map out while juggling all her books. Of course she then had to bash into the back of someone with blonde hair in typical clumsy fashion.
"Oh my, I am so sorry!" she managed to stutter out, blushing scarlet. The blonde turned round, Clary's books fell to the ground with a clatter. It was him! It was the golden boy from Wholefood Markets! What was he doing here? Clary wondered.
His golden eyes widened, recognising her as well. He stared at her unashamedly. Seconds passed though it felt like hours. Clary felt her cheeks burn darker. She bent down to gather her books. It turns out golden boy had the same idea, he helped her gather her books.
Then it happened, they both reached for the same book and their hands met. Her hands tingled with the electricity of his hand on hers.
Her eyes flashed to meet his, and she saw that his eyes mirrored the surprise she felt.
Grabbing the book quickly she stood, wanting to leave as fast as she could. Continuing to look him in the eyes she whispered,
"Thank you."
He nodded, understanding the double meaning behind them. He continued to stare at her as he rose from a crouch.
She alternated her weight from foot to foot awkwardly, staring at her feet. She stuck out her hand, looking back up, she said,
"I'm Clary by the way."
His expression surprised her, a smirk had been plastered on his perfect face. Ignoring her outstretched hand, he said to her sarcastically
"Well Clary, it was lovely to meet you again; when you aren't being continually unconsciousness."
Clary felt a frown slip onto her face, her eyes began to prick with unshed tears. It was stupid and she knew it, but she couldn't help the emotions his words brought up.
She spun on her heel, looking at her map she managed to find her way to home room.
Bursting in through the door, she had interrupted the teacher during the roll. Mr Herondale peered over his glasses, raising an eyebrow. She blushed and walked to the middle aged man quickly. Handing a slip to him, she introduced herself quietly, trying to ignore the curious stares she was getting from the other students.
After directing her to a seat next to a tall gangly brown haired boy, Mr Herondale continued to call the roll. Clary in her rushed anxiety managed to trip on the corner of a chair, earning a round of sniggering from her fellow classmates.
Blushing again she sat down, not daring to look up from her books. The brown haired boy leant over pushing his glasses up, introduced himself:
"Hi, I'm Simon Lewis." Clary recognised him from the grocers, this was the boy that Isabelle was talking to that fateful day. She smiled at him, he seemed nice enough; and was also wearing a shirt with her favourite character from her favourite show, Naruto*.
Clary smiled again, his answering smile was dazzling. Maybe today wouldn't be as bad as I thought it would be
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The bell rang shrill in Clary's ears as she made her way to her next class, Visual Arts. Simon had left her, he had Computer Tech. Simon it turned out had a lot in common with Clary, they both liked the same manga's, and anime shows.
Clary only knew what they both were from spending two weeks lazing around watching TV and reading in the penthouse, recovering from that horrible incident.
She tried to take in her surroundings as she walked to her class, this school was very different from home; at her old school the buildings were all spread apart allowing the students to walk outside to their next class. But in Idris High everything was indoors, connected by hallways
Clary looked up, sighing in relief when she spotted the classroom she was looking for.
She made her way forward, she began panicking at the sight of students laughing and shrieking with each other. Looking down and shuffling her feet along she made her way almost tax free.
No sooner than she let out a sigh of relief she was met with two girls standing in front of her.
Quickly looking over their barely clothed bodies she heard what they said,
"You the new girl?" The tall blonde asked smirking and rolling her hips in a way that clearly go the boys excited. Clary extended a hand sighing, she began introductions. "Hi I'm Clar-"
The tall blonde sneered and interrupted her rudely, "I don't give a flying fuck what your name is Red, I saw the way you were making goo-goo eyes at my Jace."
People ohhed dramatically, saying stuff like:
"Oh no she didn't!"
"Oh damn, she's dead meat!"
"Ten bucks she won't make it past first week!"
And, "why the hell is she so short?"
Ignoring the last one, she questioned the girl, "umm, sorry, who is Jace? And quite frankly, who are you?"
"I'm Kaelie, and Jace is my boyfriend; the golden haired one you talked to in the hall before home room? Yeah, I heard about you trying to steal my guy, don't bother denying it! Aline saw you!" She snapped flicking her head to the raven haired girl standing beside her.
Clary felt herself speak before thinking,
"Well I'm sorry if you are so insecure in thinking that I would go for 'guy'"
Another round of dramatic noises filled the hall and all of a sudden the blonde- Kaelie- moved forward raising her hand as if to slap her and screamed
"Bitch! How dare you!"
Her hand lowered and Clary closed her eyes, expecting the pain to come, knowing how much it would hurt. But it never did.
Opening her eyes she saw a curvy black girl standing between Kaelie and her. She had hold of Kaelie's wrist, stopping the blow. Kaelie's eyes widened in surprise, yanking her hand back she looked round the brunette to glare at me:
"This isn't over, Bitch!"
Stalking into the open classroom, Aline and Kaelie began whispering furiously between themselves.
The brunette turned round to face Clary, smiling she said,
"Hi I'm Maia Roberts by the way."
"Clarissa Fray- but I prefer Clary."
Maia smiled wider,
"Well Clary, it nice to meet you; we should probably head into class.
Nodding, Clary followed Maia into the classroom. After finding a bench and stool to sit at; Maia began to speak rapidly. It turns out she hung out with Simon and some other guys at lunch, she invited Clary to join them. The other guys included: Jordan Kyle- Maia's boyfriend-, Magnus Bane, Alec Lightwood, Will Herondale, and Tessa Gray.
Maia also explained that the two girls that assaulted Clary were Aline Penhallow and Kaelie Fay, the queen bees of the school; their daddy's both extremely wealthy, had spoiled them with everything they could ever ask for.
Starting the lesson, Miss Lightwood- Alec's mother, it turns out- got them straight to work, giving the topic of portraits. She instructed them to do a self-portrait, and if they didn't finish it would be set for homework.
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Three quarters of the way through the lesson, Clary finished shading the shadows under her eyes and sat back, massaging her charcoal coated fingers. Maia glanced at Clary's work and did a double take:
"Wow! Clary! Where did you learn to draw like that?!"
Clary shrugged uncomfortably, she wasn't used to accepting compliments,
"I don't know, my mother was an artist: maybe it's in the genes?"
Maia shook her head disbelievingly, turning back to her nearly completed work.
The bell went off not long after that, dismissing them to their next class, Clary groaned; History was next, with Mr Starkweather.
Maia and Simon both had that and this class seems to fly by, ticking away the minutes the lunch.
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Maia and Simon walked ahead of Clary, into the crowded cafeteria. Clary felt her eyes widen, the cafeteria was a scene of pure and utter chaos. There were students running around, chasing each other people jumping around on the tables and chairs.
Clary moved forward again trying to keep up. Quickly grabbing a tray and grabbing lunch, she headed to the table she saw Maia, Simon and a bunch of other people. Too busy trying to get to the table without drawing attention to herself she didn't she the leg trying to trip her before it was too late.
The ground got closer and closer, Clary waited for the impact and was relieved beyond belief when it never came. She felt a an arm snag around her waist, looking down she saw that the arm belonged to someone with a darker skin tone, Clary also noticed that his arms were heavily muscled.
Clary stood and looked up at the face of the boy who had saved her, he looked as though he had a Mexican background, his eyes were a pleasant, warm brown and his a grin plastered on his face. He had dark hair that curled slightly towards the ends. All and all, he was rather handsome.
The mystery boy had not removed his arm from around her waist and still had hold of her tray of food, he handed her food back to her. Amazingly, he had managed to catch it as well as Clary. Their bodies were still pressed flush against each other though. Not moving backwards, Clary smiled shyly, "Thank you…" Suddenly she realise everyone's eyes on her and her rescuer. Clary stepped back slightly, blushing.
The boy seemed reluctant to removed his arm from around her waist, so Clary took another step back. "I'm Clary Fray, and you are?"
"Raphael, Raphael Santiago." The boy smiled wider, and removed his arm slowly. Not taking his eyes off hers, he took her hand and kissed it lightly. Clary blushed again, the cafeteria had gone silent during their exchange. The only noise was several catcalls from when Raphael kissed her hand.
"Thank, I mean, for stopping my fall…" Clary said awkwardly.
Dropping her hand back down, she slowly walked to the table she originally made her way to. Looking back she saw the Raphael boy smirking, and next to him was Kaelie looking furious. But what caught in her mind most, was Jace sitting next to Kaelie, a look of pure, unconcealed rage twisting his perfect features.
Turning back to where she was walking, the cafeteria exploded in noise again; discussing what just happened. Maia and Simon had reached the table and had heard the last of the exchange, they stood there with their mouths open.
Clary finally reached the table after what felt like an eternity. Maia was still gawking at her, eyes wide, mouth wide enough to catch flies in.
"Umm, Maia?" Clary mumbled, "Who is everyone?"
Maia snapped back to reality, "Oh right. Um, ok. This is my boyfriend Jordan," she pointed to an dark haired boy with hazel eyes. "This is Magnus, Alec and Will." She had moved her pointed hand to three boys with black hair. One with yellow/green eyes had covered his hair in sparkles and had it shaped in spikes. The other two both had blue eyes, the one named Will had darker blue; while Alec had electric blue. "And this is Tessa."
Clary turned her attention to the last person. Tessa had dark brown hair, and eyes that matched her last name. She had a serious face, she was tall for a girl, so next to the extremely small figure of Clary, she would look like a giant.
Clary looked at everyone and said a very shy hello; she then noticed that Magnus and Alec were holding hands quietly, as were Will and Tessa; though it seemed that they were more public about their relationship than the former. Maia sat down next to Jordan who quickly claimed her attention, Clary looked around at all the couples; she had forgotten about Simon until he came up beside her and said, "Couples, huh?"
Clary smiled. Then the bell went off, but it wasn't the normal bell. It was loud and low, a continuous drone, Simon had shot up out of his seat. Everyone had also done the same. Girls and guys alike were screaming and teacher ran into the cafeteria. Using a megaphone, the head of the school, Mrs Nightshade managed to get the attention of the panicked students.
"Students! Please calm down! The alarm has just gone off, someone with a knife and gun has entered the school grounds. This man is heavily armed. He is also on the run for the murder of his wife. We urge you to stay in the cafeteria, there is safety in numbers, we suspect this man is part of a terrorist gang."
The cafeteria grew so silent it was eerie, finally someone asked. "What do they look like? Who is it?"
The teacher raised the megaphone again. "He has very pale blonde hair and is over 6 feet tall, he is covered in tattoos," Clary could feel her heart beginning to sink, this man sounded familiar. "His name is Valentine Morgenstern."
Clary heard a scream, she soon realised it was hers; another soon joined in. Whipping her head around, screaming for Isabelle. Isabelle ran over, tears streaming down her face. Isabelle was blubbering her sisters name over and over, but Clary barely heard her. The man she hoped to never hear from again. Valentine had found them.
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Soooooo, WHAT DO YOU THINK!?
Do I sense a little jealousy on Jace's part? Is there something going on between Raphael and Clary?I reeeally enjoyed writing this chapter, please continue to review. I love reading them!
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