Mundane high school

Chapter 9

Once I realised everyone was staring at me I grabbed Jace's hand and quickly pulled him inside. 'Are you all right Clary?' Jace asks me, looking concerned. 'Oh, um yeah I'm fine, it's just I'm really not used to all the attention.' I reply. 'Oh yeah I forgot about that. I can't believe that's what Aline really thinks of me, I know it's only been a day since we broke up, but we were together for over a year, how can she think that we will only last a day?' He asks me. 'Just don't let her get to you, she is just trying to you ruin your life, like she tries to ruin everyone else's.' I say. Just then I see a blonde head coming around the corner, she is accompanied by a boy. 'Emma' I exclaim and go over to her. 'Clary!' I give her a hug and as I do I notice her hand is interlocked with someone else's. 'Clary this is Julian, Julian this Clary.' She tells me. 'Hi Julian' I greet him. 'Hi' he replies. At his moment I feel an arm wrap around my waist. I get ready to punch whoever it is, until I see it's Jace. 'Jace, this is Emma and Julian, Emma and Julian this is Jace.' They greet each other and I pull Emma away. 'What did I miss? I thought you and Julian weren't together!' I ask her. 'Well after we talked yesterday I went over to his house and confessed my feelings for him, I'd decided that it was worth the risk. It turns out you were right the girl he likes does sound a lot like me, it is me!' She tells me. 'That's great!' I tell her. 'So Jace, hey? I used to like him when I was like 6!' She informs me. I laugh and reply with 'yeah, that's a long story.' I tell her. Just then the bell goes and after saying our goodbyes we part ways, heading to first period. As I'm heading there I feel someone come up behind me and put an arm around me. I assume it's Jace but when I turn my head I'm greeted with someone who looks like the polar opposite of Jace, he has practically white hair and black eyes. 'Hey babe, you're looking good today, wanna hang out sometime?' He asks me. 'I don't even know who you are, and if I did or if I cared then I would tell you that I have a boyfriend. But I don't, so that won't be necessary, because it's already obvious I'm not interested.' I reply and walk off with him left staring after me before he regains his composure and yells out 'your loss' to me. Then someone else comes to walk with me, this time it's only Izzy. 'Nice.' She says to me. I stopped outside the science room and Izzy headed off. When Mr Starkweather finally arrives and we head inside I notice the absence of a certain golden boy. Where would he be? After about five minutes Mr Starkweather tells us to work on our project. As I'm pulling it out Jace barges into the room, quickly apologises, to the teacher and heads over to me. As he walks over to me I notice his knuckles are cut up and he has a slight swelling on his jaw with an already forming bruise. 'Jace what happened? Are you okay?' I ask him. 'It's nothing, I just got into a bit of a fight with Sebastian.' He explains. 'Why?' I ask. 'Because he was hitting on my girlfriend. You're not really meant to do that.' He tells me. 'Oh, right, well umm thanks. But maybe next time you're going to beat someone up for me at least let me know beforehand.' I say. 'Ok' He says and starts to work on the project. I have never seen him so absorbed in his work, he obviously doesn't want to talk. We work hard all class and by the end we have done a significant amount of work. As we are walking out of class Jace says to me 'can I talk to you? In private?' I agree and head to my locker, when we met back up in minute he brings me outside. We go back to where we were yesterday morning. He sits down and gestures for me to do the same. 'What's up Jace, you've been acting really weird?' I ask him. 'It's just I don't think I can do this Clary.' He tells me. I should've known he disliked me enough to be repulsed by just fake dating. 'Ok well that was a waste of good clothes and makeup, Aline will be happy when she hears about how long we lasted. Bye Jace.' I say get up to leave. 'Clary that's not what I meant.' He gets up as well and grabs my hand to stop me going any further, even this small gesture is enough to have a my heart beating 10 times faster. 'Then what did you mean?' I ask him. 'I meant when I was talking to Izzy about us last night, I was worried I had ruined any chance at us actually being friends. She told me that didn't want me to stuff this up and that I need to fix it between us. That's what I'm trying to do, I know I'm not very good at it, but I don't want to miss out on being friends with you Clary. You mean too much to me already to just let you go because my girlfriend was a horrible person.' He explains to me. This is the first time he has even mentioned us being friends, I liked it and I would prefer to be friends than I would to fake date him. At least a friendship would be real. 'I don't want to ruin any friendship we could have either Jace, but do you really want Aline to have the satisfaction of knowing that we only lasted a day?' I ask him. 'Leave Aline out of this for moment, Clary, this is about us now. I can't 'date' you when I know it's fake. I can't be with you not knowing whether or not you are secretly in love with someone else but you won't tell me because of the 'relationship' were in. I can't be here and watch other guys flirt with you and not know if I'm aloud to be protective because you were never really mine, and maybe you want to be with them but I'm here stuffing up any chances of you ever being with one of them. I can't be with you knowing that the only time I could ever kiss you is when there are other people around and not when we're alone, because it's all fake, I don't want anything to be fake Clary. Aline was fake, I don't want you to be fake.' He says and I'm taken aback by everything I just heard.

Jace P.O.V
'Leave Aline out of this for moment, Clary, this is about us now. I can't 'date' you when I know it's fake. I can't be with you not knowing whether or not you are secretly in love with someone else but you won't tell me because of the 'relationship' were in. I can't be here and watch other guys flirt with you and not know if I'm aloud to be protective because you were never really mine, and maybe you want to be with the, but I'm here stuffing up any chances of you ever being with one of them. I can't be with you knowing that the only time I could ever kiss you is when there are other people around and not when we're alone, because it's all fake, I don't want anything to fake Clary. Aline was fake, I don't want you to be fake.' I say to her. There I let it all out, I couldn't go on without her knowing how I really feel, and while I didn't just say to her that I want us dating to be real I hope she understands that's what I want. And if this backfires and she doesn't feel the same and doesn't even want to be friends with me, at least I tried, at least Izzy will know I tried. 'What do you want then Jace?' Clary asks me. 'I don't know Clary but can we please just forget today ever happened and just work on being friends for the moment?' I ask her. 'Ok Jace' She replies.

Hey guys I meant to update earlier because I promised myself I would write the chapter while I was away. I've spent plenty of time on Wattpad but I didn't spend it writing. Anyway I hope you liked the chapter! Remember to vote and comment if you liked it.