Morning Star

1

Clary Fray

As my three best friends and I walk to our homeroom, we are talking about Jace Herondale. There are rumors going around school that he will be attending our school, Seraph High. We aren't the best, but I guess we are a good school.
Anyways, because all the girls- and maybe a few guys- are going to go crazy over the celebrity with the big ego, we are going to have an assembly at the end of the day about how we need to treat him like a "normal teenager".
Yeah right! Like that's even possible! He is loved by almost everyone across the globe, there is no way for him to be "normal"!
I guess I should introduce you to everyone and tell you a bit about me. My three best friends are Simon Lewis, Isabelle Lightwood and her brother who is a grade above us, Alec Lightwood. They also have a younger brother named Max, who presently has a cast on his arm from breaking it when he crashed his bike. I live with my mom named Jocelyn and stepdad named Luke. My mom and dad got divorced and my dad was never to be seen, leaving my older twin brothers, Sebastian and Jonathan, and I with our mom. I never met him, and don't really want to. Jonathan and Sebastian graduated last year and are going to college. Maryse and Robert Lightwood are obviously Izzy's, Alec's, and Max's parents. Maryse is like my second mom, but I'm not very close with Robert.
I'm very artistic, like my mother. Simon and I love manga. I love black coffee with a little sugar. I'm not really girly or into fashion like Izzy is. Alec is gay, but he hasn't really admitted that he is (we all knew he was when he started to obsess over Jace Herondale by the way he talked about him). Luke owns a bookstore and so I kind of read occasionally. I'm not very popular, but I blend in with everyone else.
I am a lot shorter than most and I get teased for it a lot. I have freckles and fiery red hair that matches my moms, but is completely different from my brothers who have fair blond hair. My eyes are bright green, and I love the color because they are unique.

As I sit down next to Alec in art, Alec says excitedly, "I can't believe the Jace is coming to our school!" Art is a class that all grades can take together, depending on when you sign up.
I can't help but roll my eyes at him. "He is probably some airhead that doesn't care about the other human beings on Earth."
He gapes at me. "If you say anything like that again, I mean it when I say will kill you." He jokes
"It's my opinion...just mines the right one." as I say that, a group of girls walk past talking about "The Amazing Jace Herondale". I'm not like most girls who would fall at some hot guys feet and kiss his shoes, I'm more like the girl that would spit on his expensive Italian leather shoes and stomp on his toes.
Alec glares at me, "Your opinion is only right to yourself."
I look at him blankly and say, "Your sister agrees with me."
"No she's to busy trying to get Simons attention while he tries to get your's."
"Simon does not try to get my attention." I roll my eyes.
The teacher walks in and then we have to be quiet. I take out my sketch book and draw for my art project. Art is my best class and I'm pretty sure I'm the best student here in art. I'm already looking at art schools for college and I'm still a sophomore.
I listen to music on my iPod while I work on my project. I begin drawing the detailed rose that I plan to color cobalt blue.
"Very good, Clary," the teacher, Mr. Bane praises like he normally does.
  As he walk away, Alec stares at his back.
  "What are you drawing?" Alec looks at me now.
I lift my drawing and show him.
"It is good," he says, Alec then shows me his which wasn't the best, but it could easily get a B. "Mine is horrible."
"No it's not! Don't hate on yourself, it's really good." I encourage him.
He gives me a half smile and gets back to drawing, as do I.

Later in the day, it's finally lunch and I'm almost one-hundred percent positive everyone around me can hear my stomach growling. I grab my lunch in a brown paper bag from my locker and walk with Izzy to the cafeteria.
"All this Jace Herondale talk is driving me insane!" I groan.
Izzy is preoccupied on her phone, her thumbs typing a text message quickly. "Yeah..."
"He's not even that hot. Like... Have you seen Jordan Kyle?" As we turn a corner, I have to pull Izzy over so she doesn't run into a wall. "Are you listening?"
She finally lifts her head with her eyebrows raised. "Huh?"
I tell her the shortened version of what I just said as we enter the cafeteria.
"I don't know. Ask my brother, he seems to know everything about him." Izzy says.
I give her a look. "You know Alec hasn't come out yet. I'm not going to ask him that."
She sighs. "He's going to come out soon. He's been crushing on the art teacher for awhile."
I quickly look at her. "What?" I almost yell. "How do you know."
She smiles. "Whenever he seems him, he blushes or something. It's really cute."
We're at our usual table now, Simon is playing a game on his phone and Alec is reading a book for our English class.
"Okay, so now that we're finally here!" Isabelle stands and says a little louder for the three of us to hear, "I have an announcement!"
I look up at her as I pull my ham and cheese sandwich out of my lunch bag. "You're pregnant?" I ask jokingly.
She gives me a seriously look and says, "No. I'm thinking about trying out for cheer."
"You should do it!" Simon says, looking up from his phone. Those two are alike in some ways, and totally different in others...
"Yeah! That would be fun and-" She cuts me off.
"I signed Clary and I up for it." She smiles, proudly.
My mouth drops. "What?" I shriek. "I can't cheer!"
She rolls her eyes and sits back down. "Of course you can. It just takes practice. Please do it with me?"
"I don't cheer. It's not my thing."
"But I don't wanna do it alone! Please? Just at least try out, it might be fun." She begs.
I think for a second then sigh in defeat. "Fine!"
She squeals and claps her hands quickly then gives me a tight hug. "You're the best, Clary Fray!"

At the end of the day, we have the assembly. Our principle, Ms. Gray, makes a long announcement about how we strive for a great future before the current cheerleaders come out and do a bunch of stunts. After a bunch of other school spirit things, we finally get to the point of this assembly.
"As many of you must have heard," The young principle begins, "The famous Jace Herondale will be attending our school."
She is interrupted by a bunch of the students screaming with excitement. She lets everyone settle down before continuing.
"I expect that you will all treat him with respect and like a normal human being. He said that he wishes to be just like all of you and not like someone on the cover of a popular magazine."
I roll my eyes and don't bother to listen to the rest. I sneak my phone and scroll though Instagram and type in Alec's username (@alightwood18) and spam him with comments and likes. I do the same to Isabelle (@iizzyybelle) and Simon (@rocksolidpanda).
When the assembly is over, we meet up and say goodbye. They also thank me for the spams. Simons and I split apart from them and begin walking home since we both live pretty close to each other.
"Wanna come over tonight? Watch some movies or binge on Pokemon?" Simon asks as we cross the street.
"Yeah, maybe. Depends on what my mom has planned. My brothers might be coming home this weekend, but my mom hasn't told me if they are for sure." I reply.
We stop by Java Jones to grab a to-go cup of coffee- I get a black coffee with two packs of sugar.
"I am not looking forward to next week." I say and take a sip from my cup.
"Yeah, I'm sure you aren't." He lets out a little laugh.
We talk as we enter the farmhouse I live in. My mom is in her studio painting and she calls us in for our opinion. She's painted a picture of a wolf and a man who looks like Luke.

"That's great, mom!" I say and hug her, or try to over her bulging stomach. One thing I forgot to mention is that she's expecting my little sister, Lydia. "Are you selling it?"
She graciously laughs and kisses my forehead. "Thanks, honey. And yes, Tessa is coming by later. She wanted to give it to her friend for her birthday."
Another thing I forgot to mention, Tessa, as Tessa Gray, is a family friend. My mother helped her when her aunt died and her brother left for work. Her mother died when she was younger.
"Okay. Well, we're going to go to my room."
"Bye, Mrs. Fray." Simon says.
After my mom and Luke got married, my mom didn't want to change her last name because she didn't want it to be different from mine. I thought about changing it to Graymark, but it didn't feel right.
I throw my school bag on my bed and sit beside it. Simon takes a seat in the chair by my desk and puts his bag on the ground. Simon is my closest friend and has been since we were little. Isabelle is my best girl-friend and has been since I met her in fifth grade. We are polar- opposites, but I love her to death. Simon is like me in boy version. As for Alec, he is like another brother to me.
"We should start the project for history." I say and pull out the directions. It's suppose to be timeline on a war between the years 1700-2000. "What war are you doing?"
After looking over the paper, he says, "I'm thinking about the American Revolutionary War. You?"
"World War 2. Or the Civil War." I reply.
I get us poster boards and we begin our project.

That's the first chapter! I'm excited to write this. It's like a fresh new story and stuff. Like a new beginning. I was going to have Clary already have a little sister like the dream-vision (I don't remember what it was exactly) in City of Heavenly Fire. Her name was going to be Valentina like in the book, but it says her dad left and I don't think her mom would name her daughter after her ex-husband who left. So I did a bunch of name quizzes and finally gave up and looked up vintage names before deciding on Lydia.

Anyway, I hope you enjoyed the first chapter! Comment and vote of you enjoyed!

-Chloe