Mundane high school

Chapter 10

Jace P.O.V
She's so oblivious, I mean how obvious to I have to make it that I like her? These are my thoughts as I lay in bed thinking what we have to do later today and the rest of the weekend. Yesterday everyone came over to finalise our plans and roles for tonight's sabotage on Aline. Tomorrow is homecoming so we thought it would be a good idea to do it before then so that one her favourite days of the year is ruined. I want to ask Clary to be my date but I am worried that she won't want to and our efforts at being friends will be for nothing. It's also almost Easter and we get a long weekend so my cousin Will has invited us up to his place like he does every year. It's always been Izzy, Alec, Maia and I who go up there but this year we are also inviting Simon, Clary and Magnus. Will's girlfriend Tessa and closest friend Jem also spend the weekend with us. For our revenge tonight Clary and I have to disable Aline's car and then help Alec and Simon with the alarm clocks. I'm not sure I really want to do it, but I have learn over the years not to get in the way of Izzy's plans. So tonight while Aline is in the gym we will go to her house and set everything up, before that we need to go to the shops and buy everything. But before all of this happens I need to get out of bed, get ready and sit through yet another day of torturous school. As I get ready the only thing that motivates me is the fact that we have the next four days off school, our school is generous enough to let us have the day of homecoming off to get ready and stuff. And I am also planning how I can ask Clary to homecoming without ruining our friendship. In no time I'm sitting in the car beeping the horn and waiting for Izzy and Alec to get in. When they finally arrive Izzy says to me 'you seem very eager for school today.' 'Well I just can't wait to get it over and done with.' I reply. We drive the rest of the way in silence.

Clary P.O.V
'Driving at ninety down these old country lanes
Singing to Tiny Dancer
And I miss the way you make me feel
It's real
And we watched the sunset over the castle on the hill.' Simon and I sing at the top of our lungs while driving to school, this earns some weird looks from people driving in other cars. I missed our morning singing sessions, we stopped them after we came here, probably because we went with Izzy a lot and well things have changed majorly since we moved here. The one change I am still getting used to even after a whole year is the absence of my mum. Growing up Magnus and Simon were some of my only friends so I spent a lot of time at home and with my mum, we were really close. She taught me to paint and now when I paint I always think of her. I really miss her, she was always laughing and smiling and she was so happy and it's sad to see that even someone that bright can leave our world. My dad I also miss but he wasn't home very often, I hardly knew him. It's easy to imagine he is just away for work. Mum had just picked dad up from the airport and they were on their way home when the accident happened, I was with Simon that night, because we had already planned it and mum didn't want dad to start interfering with my plan. Then I received the phone call that said both my parents were in the hospital in a critical condition and they weren't sure if they would make it through the night. This definitely interfered with my plans, I had started crying and Simon woke up and taken me to his mum. I told them about the phone call and she drove us straight down there. I spent all night and most of the next day with them until it became clear that neither of them were going to make it. I was a mess, and of course then there was the problem of who I would live with. I had no living relatives, the closest thing to family I had was Luke Graymark, but he was in no condition to adopt a teenager. The only other option was the orphanage, I really didn't want to go there and I expressed my feeling on it to Simon and then the next day Elaine was offering to adopt me, and of course I accepted this very happily. As I pulled up at school I broke out of my memory. Simon and I exited the car and headed to our first class. At lunch you could practically feel the excitement pouring off Izzy in waves. Getting revenge on Aline was something she really wanted to do. We made small chat all through lunch, as I think we were all just looking forward to a long weekend and getting revenge on Aline so Izzy will snap out of her crazy mood. By the end of the day I'm ready to leave, all my classes dragged on. We head over to Simon and I's house for a change. When we are there Simon introduces everyone to his mum and they talk while Simon and I go grab snacks. When Simon introduces Izzy to his mum, she seems fairly shocked, like she couldn't believe Izzy was actually real. I can't blame her. After we sit around and talk about the weekend for about half an hour Jace gets up saying he needs the bathroom and asks me to show him where it is. I get up to show him but as soon as we pass my room he pulls me into there instead. 'I don't actually need the bathroom I just needed to talk to you without Izzy getting all suspicious. You know how she is.' He explains to me. It seems a bit wired that he would want to talk to me. I really like Jace but he is so confusing. One second he doesn't want to even acknowledge I exist then we wants to be friends then he wants to fake date and then he can't stand that. I just don't know what to think about him. Yesterday I almost thought he was going to say he wanted to date me for real but then he just said he wanted to be friends and now this. 'Ok Jace what do you want to talk about?' I ask him. 'Um well you know how I told you yesterday that I thought we should just work on being friends? Well I've been thinking about and that's not what I wanted to say at all. Really I wanted to tell you how I feel, but I can't put it into words and I don't want to hurt you or ruin our friendship.' He tells me. That was very unclear he could be trying to say that he doesn't want us to be friends at all or that he wants to be more.

Jace's P.O.V
Wow, this is harder than I thought. I decided I should man up and tell her how I feel but blank expression isn't very encouraging. 'I have been thinking about how Izzy said that we look at each other as more than friends. And well I think I know why. Clary I really like you and well if you want to I would really like it if you were my date to homecoming.' I meant to tell her how beautiful, funny, smart, caring, creative and amazing she is but well I still don't how she feels so this will have to do for now. I look at her face and see her trying to process what I just said. 'Did you just ask me to homecoming? For real?' She asks me 'for real' I reply. 'Yes Jace, I would love that.' She starts to lean in and so do I, then Izzy barges in and yells out 'I knew it, I knew it, I knew it!!!' Then she holds out her hand to Simon who places a $20 note in it. 'What Izzy?' Clary asks her and she replies. 'Oh I just knew he would ask you to homecoming and Simon thought you guys would confess afterwards so we made a bet and obviously I won. Oh but we won't tell the others, your secret is safe with us.' With that she leaves and Jace and I follow her after we share a glance saying what are we going to do with that girl. Soon we leave for the shops and get everything we need. Then we head to Aline's place to set everything up. We finish after about half and hour and then we say our goodbyes until the next day.

Hey guys! Remember to vote and comment if you liked. Jace finally confessed his feelings! And then Izzy ruined the moment. Their homecoming should be in the next chapter so if any of you have any dress suggestions please let me know.
If I don't update again tomorrow which I am hoping to, because it's Easter then happy Easter!!