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"Charlotte, are you ready?" Henry called standing in front of her closed room.
The noise of a crash came from inside Charlotte's room. "One minute!" she shouted back. True to her word, after one minute, she opened the door. She was wearing loose black pants with a red top and a a black and red striped jacket (which was an odd choice, it was summer). Henry had always noticed that Charlotte never wore anything revealing. "Sorry, I took long," she apologized.
"It is alright. What happened? I heard a crash," he said concerned and curious.
Charlotte flushed. "Your voice startled me and I accidentally knocked over my lamp."
"Sorry," he apologized now. "I can fix it for you," he offered.
Charlotte ducked her head and hid her smile. "It's okay. I never liked that lamp anyway."
"Then I will build you a new lamp!" he declared.
"That isn't necessary," she began to protest, but Henry just waved her off.
"Are you ready?" he asked her.
She nodded. "Yes. I can't wait to go to town. It feels such a long time since I've been.." she trailed off when she noted Henry was frowning at her hair. "What's wrong?"
"You're not ready," he stated. Charlotte had tied her hair into a ponytail. Henry pulled the hairband from her and her brown hair fell to her shoulders. "That's much better. You look beautiful," he commented as he smoothed Charlotte's hair that reached her shoulders. She shivered lightly as she felt Henry's fingers brush her shoulders by mistake. Henry had called her beautiful. Maybe he did return her feelings.
"Thank you," she whispered gazing at him. Henry didn't noticed as he stepped back to admire his work of art.
"Your welcome," he replied with a smile, "besides now someone will notice you and you might get a boyfriend!"
With that, Henry began walking down the hallway. Charlotte, hopes distinguished, followed him. He still didn't return her feelings, obviously.
"Why won't you notice me?" she mouthed, tempted to say those words out loud.
Sophie rolled her eyes. Why did Mr. Branwell have to be so oblivious to Charlotte's feeling? She could only imagine the agony Charlotte was feeling. How would she have loved to rush between them and announce that Charlotte loved Henry and rush off, the problem was Sophie wasn't sure what kind of effect it would have on Henry. Would he be pleased or horrified? Horrified wouldn't be the word, Henry was too kind to be horrified. He'd find it awkward.
She had been spying, around the corner as Charlotte and Henry talked. Charlotte would murder her if she ever found out that Sophie had been spying. Of course she would murder Sophie in a best-friends-way type. Sophie, deep in her thoughts, let out a gasp when two hands slammed onto her shoulders.
"Boo," a voice whispered into her ear. Sophie turned around to meet Gideon Lightwood's eyes.
"Gideon!" she said, part of her relieved that it wasn't Charlotte or Henry, angrily.
He chuckled. "Did I scare you?" he teased tucking a dark strand of her behind her ear. She shivered at his touch.
"No," Sophie lied as she noticed that was wearing a sky-blue shirt and light brown pants with green shoes. "You don't look like you're dressed into your sport clothes."
"Nope. I don't have to attend since I'm not a teenager and a teacher. I made sure with Charlotte before she went out," he said eyeing Sophie's clothes. Sophie was not those type of girls to wear sport bras. She just wore an Addias loose blue shirt and black shorts that reached her knees with blue shoes. "However, you unfortunately have to."
"So what are you going to do for the rest of the day, now that you're free?" Sophie inquired.
"Charlotte asked me to help Magnus with you lot," he responded, taking a step closer to Sophie. He was close, a little too close. Sophie felt her heart pace quicken.
She titled her head. "What are we? Children?" she said. Gideon smiled, but not at Sophie's sentence. Sophie had accidentally tilted her head which must have given him a sign to kiss her because he was lowering his lips to her's. Sophie tried to find a way to escape, but his lips were already on her's. He was pressing his lips on her's as if waiting for her to kiss him, not rushing her.
Just as Sophie began closing her eyes, she saw a knife. She felt the hardness of the wall on her pinned wrists. An angry shout roared from the past as a hand hit her cheek. Sophie's eyes widened and her hands found Gideon's chest and pushed him away. Gideon, surprised, was easily thrown back despite his strength.
"I don't think you should do that Mr. Lightwood," she said coldly.
Gideon raised his eyebrows in shock. "Mr. Lightwood? And do what? Did I do anything wrong?"
"You kissed me when it is strictly not allowed for the students to kiss their teachers," she told him.
"Sophie-" he began, but she cut him off.
"I work here as a maid to afford studying here. You work here to be obviously with your brother. We have jobs to lose that could cause us to loose something important. I'm sorry Mr. Lightwood," she told him, her tone emotionless. With that she walked away.
"What's with the sport clothes?" Magnus demanded when he swept inside the lounging room to see the teenagers sitting or standing, as they waited for him. Magnus liked to be fashionably late.
"Charlotte said we have to wear them," Gideon -or was it Gabriel?- said. He was supposed to help him with the kids since he was a teacher.
Magnus paused. "When?" he finally asked.
"At breakfast."
"I must have been asleep."
"Or maybe there's too much glitter in your ears," Will suggested. Tessa giggled as Jem -who was supposed to send Will a warning look- smiled at him.
"I know where you live," Magnus threatened him. "Anyway, you changed your clothes for no reason for we are doing Arts and Crafts today!"
"How unfortunate. I really wanted to swim through a pool of glitter."
"Watch it, Herondale, I can choke you with my glitter."
Magnus turned away from Will just as Jem whispered, "I think he's quite serious."
"Come along children," Magnus claps, to get their attention. With that, he leads the way to who-knows-where.
They really think we are children, Sophie thought as she and the others follow Magnus.
Charlotte felt a pang of jealousy when she saw a girl from afar checking out Henry who was beside the eggs section. Pushing down the Green Monster, she walked over to Henry and dropped in the trolley a sack of potatoes.
"I'm thinking about asking Agatha to make mashed potato for lunch," Charlotte told Henry to catch his attention.
Henry grinned. "That's a good idea! Which means we need gravy!"
"Gravy?"
"Please don't tell me you eat mashed potato without gravy?" Charlotte just rolled her eyes at Henry's horror.
"Fine. We'll get gravy," she promised. From the corner of her eye, she noticed the girl was still checking Henry out. "Henry, I think that girl likes you."
Henry frowned. "Which girl?" Charlotte pointed at the girl. Henry looked and the girl quickly turned away, blushing.
"What do you think of her?" Charlotte said, trying to keep her voice light.
He shrugged. "She's a stranger," he stated.
Charlotte wanted to choke Henry. "I mean like is she cute?"
Henry titled his head as if he could see the girl's beauty in a different angle. "I guess."
"So, why don't you go and talk to her? She's obviously interested," Charlotte suggested. Did she have to spell out everything for him?
"No," he responded turning away, "I don't think so.
"Why not?"
"I'm not interested in her."'
"Henry, you're never interested in anybody," Charlotte pointed out, "have you ever even dated a girl?"
"Uh no," he muttered, his face getting more red by the minute.
"Oh." Charlotte didn't expect that. "Well, have you ever had a crush on a girl?"
Henry paused for a minute. "Yes. It was around 7th grade, but I stopped liking her when I realized the girl had a crazy-obsession with boy-bands."
"Boy-bands? Seriously, Henry?" Charlotte said, smiling.
"She was very obsessed," he argued. Charlotte just laughed.
"Your task is simple," Magnus said, "make something that is covered in glitter." They were in Arts and Crafts room of the London Institute.
"Can you be my Arts and Crafts project then? You're already covered in glitter," Will stated with a smirk.
"I will get my revenge on you."
"As you sparkle?"
Jem hit the back of Will's head. "Shut up William," he told his best friend.
"Wait, why does it have to be in glitter?" Jessamine said, studying her nails.
"Because I don't have any glitter objects that are handmade and it would be a nice touch to my new room here," Magnus replied.
"Oh God, he's living here too?" Will muttered.
"Be polite Will," Tessa whispered.
"But I'm mad at Magnus, Tess. I wanted to swim in a pool of glitter."
"Anyway, on one table the boys will sit and the other table will be where the girls sit. I know how you teenagers are with your hormones so I'm really hoping you all are straight," Magnus told them, ignoring Will.
"Why? Am I not good-looking enough for you?" Will demanded, flipping his hair.
"Well, if I said that, I'd be insulting my boyfriend. He looks like you."
"I look like Henry? Well, that's not very nice."
Magnus just glared.
"I will deal with him," Gabriel announced as he grabbed a frying pan from one of the tables and hit Will with it from behind. Will stumbled to the floor.
"Will!" Cecily gasped.
Magnus waved his hand. "He'll be okay." He pointed to Sophie. "You're the maid too, right? May you get us some a bucket of water?"
Without a word, Sophie went out of the room.
"I can't believe you hit my brother!" Cecily screamed at Gabriel, as she knelt down beside Will's body.
"Oh he deserved it," Gabriel told her.
Magnus looked at Gabriel. "I think you're my favorite, Gideon."
"I'm Gabriel."
"Does it look like I care?"
"Well, yes, if I'm your favorite."
"You're no longer favorite, Gale."
Cecily snorted. "He isn't even hot enough to be called Gale."
Gabriel looked at her weirdly. "What does the name, Gale, have to do with my looks?"
"Have you watched the Hunger Games?"
"What I like to know," Jem said interrupting Cecily and Gabriel's argument, "what was a frying pan doing in an Arts and Crafts room?"
Magnus looked up from Will's unconscious body. "I've always wanted a frying pan covered with glitter."
"Henry?"
"Yes, Lottie?"
"Do I really have to carry this jar of gravy the whole way on my lap?"
Henry, who was driving, glanced at Charlotte from the corner of his eye. They were driving back to the London Institute and Henry had insisted Charlotte carry the jar of gravy on her lap for the whole way.
"Yes. If we leave it with rest of the stuff in the back, it might spill and ruin my baby."
"Your baby?" Charlotte repeated, giving Henry a weird look. She had no idea Henry was the type of guy to love his car so much to give it nicknames.
"Yes. Florida is too precious to me to even have gravy spilled on it," he replied.
Before Charlotte could reply, her eyes landed on a squirrel in the middle of the road. The same road they were one.
"HENRY! STOP THE CAR! SQUIRREL!" Henry quickly pulled the break. Charlotte and Henry would have flew if they weren't wearing seat belts. Unfortunately, the gravy flew.
Water drenched Will and he woke up, startled.
"What the..?" He exclaimed and looked around. Beside him was Cecily and the other side was Jem with Tessa hovering near him. He looked up to see a smirking Magnus, holding a empty bucket upside down.
"Did you throw water on me?" he demanded.
"No regrets," Magnus just replied as cast away the bucket.
"Is that your revenge?"
"Nowhere close, William."
"What happened?" he said rubbing his head. "My hand is pounding like a drum."
"The bastard over there," Cecily said jerking her thumb behind her where Gabriel stood, "hit you with a frying pan."
"I was doing Magnus a favor," he protested as he smirked at Will.
Will frowned. "What was a frying pan even doing in the Arts and Crafts room?"
Before Magnus could answer, Jem replied, "Don't ask."
Will noticed from the corner of his eye that Gabriel was still smirking at him. He slowly got up and walked over to a table. Everyone stared at him confused as he opened a jar of glitter. They only understood what was going on when Will grabbed a handful of glitter and threw it towards Gabriel. Gabriel ducked fast and the glitter flew in Jessamine's face.
"WILL YOU ASSHOLE!" She screamed. She grabbed a jar of glitter and took some and threw it. However, Gabriel took this chance to put his head up. His hair was covered in glitter.
Will bursted out laughing. Cecily said smugly, "Glitter looks good with your hair."
Surprisingly, Gabriel smiled sweetly at Cecily. He grabbed an open box of paint and threw it on Cecily's shirt. She gasped as the yellow paint soaked her white top. "Yellow looks even better on your shirt though," he commented as his smirk returned.
"That is enough!" Gideon demanded, trying to keep things under control.
Cecily scooped some paint from her shirt and threw it on Gideon's face. She turned to Gabriel and said, "That was hitting my brother with a frying pan."
"That's how you wanna play? Okay we'll play," Gideon exclaimed and threw glitter at Cecily, but Cecily ducked and it hit Sophie in the face.
"GIDEON!" she screamed. She scooped up some paint from Cecily's top (That action surprised Cecily) and threw it at Gideon. It hit him on his face.
Tessa and Jem tried to sneak away before they got hit, but Will noticed. "TESSA AND JEM ARE TRYING TO ESCAPE! ATTACK!" he shouted and everyone threw paint and glitter on them except Magnus.
"That is enough children! Play time is over!" He said angrily before everyone threw glitter and paint on him.
The war raged on, some went down, some survived. However, the war was stopped by the queen who ran the country, Charlotte Fairchild.
"WHAT IS GOING ON?" Everyone turned to the doorway to see an angry Charlotte and a Henry covered in gravy.
Everyone was silent and were too terrified to answer. Finally Henry asked, "Why do you guys look like walking disco balls?"
"Why are you covered in gravy?" Will countered back.
"Fair point."
Charlotte punished them -including Magnus- to clean up the mess they made in the Arts and Crafts room. After everyone got cleaned up, they began their punishment and finished around midnight.
Will was so tired from scrubbing that was ready to sleep. He threw away the blankets and fell face first on the bed. Bad mistake. He removed his face from his bed and found himself (from the front) and his bed covered in glittered.
"MAGNUS!"
Magnus smiled to himself in bed as he heard Will scream. I guess he found his little surprise.
SORRY IF THERE ARE MISTAKES. I was so excited to post this I didn't proof-read it. I just had soo much fun writing this chapter and I wanted to see what you guys thought of it. Was it as good as you expected to be or are you disappointed? I think this chapter by so far is the most chapter I'm proud of and I really enjoyed writing this! Please review and tell me your opinion.
