Behind the Shower Curtains (Revised)

What I found in the Bathroom

DISCLAIMER: I OWN NOTHING

Clary

As we exited the red room, the bright light of the sun blinded me. We stepped out to what I assumed was the back of the school. It was a small alleyway with a couple dumpsters lining the school wall. I couldn't help but wonder what they had talked about. What Jace had been told. "I told you that wouldn't go well." Isabelle says, which was when I realized she and Alec had followed us out. "You're lucky Alec stuck his neck out for you, God knows what they're gonna say to him now." Isabelle groans as she rubs her temple.

"Alec will be fine," Jace said as he ran his fingers through his golden hair. "Carl won't actually do anything to him, and what he was about to do to Clary was just going to lead to a disaster." Jace pulled out his juul in the middle of his sentence and took a hit of it, causing the air to smell of intoxicatingly sweet mangos again.

"You're right" Isabelle said with a sweetness that was just as artificial as Jace's mango-flavored juul. "Instead he'll probably kick you out of the shadowhunters and feed you to one of the many other gangs who want you dead." Isabelle then brings her index finger up to her lips and looks up at the sky, pretending to be deep in thought. "Hmm lets see, there's the Jinx, the demons, the Brooklyn fives, The red dragons...Shall I go on?" Isabelle spat at him, her tone quickly turning bitter.

"Most of those gangs hate me because of you, so I'd stop talking right about now if I were you" Jace said, scoffing at Isabelle's list of people who apparently want Jace dead.

"BECAUSE OF ME? I'm not the one who can't fucking control themselves around others" Isabelle yelled, and Jace simply ignored her, taking yet another hit."Whatever Jace, you're putting us at risk for nothing." She said nothing while looking at me right in the eyes as if all of this were my fault.

"Are we in Jail? Iz?" He says with a shrug. "We're not are we? You think if she was gonna tell the police she wouldn't have done that already?"He said condescendingly. Jace then turns to me, and he softens as he said "You won't tell anyone will you red?" His voice was honey-like, and I knew what he wanted my response to be.

"I don't care If she told the police yet or not. She can go back and tell them whatever she wants whenever she wants, and you don't seem to give a flying fuck about that!" I could see Isabelle begin to lose it as her voice began to rise and her fists got into tighter balls"Jace cocks his head towards her, tensing up again.

"Will you lay off Iz, you're starting to get on my nerves," He says, taking another hit. Isabelle's eyes widen, at him, as though she couldn't possibly believe the words that just came out of her mouth.

"Oh Fuck off." She spat, purposely storming off to crash into his shoulder and send him flying into the brick wall. He coughed as the smoke billowed out his mouth, laughing all the while.

"What's her fucking problem?" Jace said, turning towards Alec, who simply looked at him with a disapproving look as he began to chase after her.

"You're impossible," Alec calls out to Jace. We were left alone, he took another hit as he looked at me, we hadn't said a word yet.

"I have to go.." I mumble awkwardly. "But thank you...for not killing me those couple times" I said, he flashed me a smile, and was about to say something, but before he did, I turned around and walked towards the front of the school. I took out my phone and saw five missed calls from my mother. I finally pick up her sixth call.

"Clary! Where are you! why weren't you picking up your phone!" My mother yelled into the phone.

"I'm sorry, I was helping a friend carry some stuff to the photography room" I lied, and broke into a run towards the school parking lot.