More than it seems ~ Clace fan fiction

Chapter XIV

"Here we go." I whispered to myself, I rolled my shoulders and held onto the straps of backpack and took long strides into my school.

The hallways were crowded as always but with every step I took, more eyes were on me. I felt like a piglet at a petting zoo, surrounded by intimidating humans that stared down, waiting to pounce when theres an opening.

My locker was crowded by students that were whispering and taking pictures, I pushed through the crowd to see a picture of Jace and I in the hot tub with words like 'slut' and 'whore' written in permanent marker on my locker.

I felt like crying and hiding from the world. No amount of lemon tart could fix this. I pushed out of the crowd, Izzy ran to my side with the picture in a tight ball in her hand.

"Thanks Izzy." I whispered, she wrapped an arm around my shoulder and led me down the hallway.

"Listen up everyone!" Someone yelled from near my locker. We turned around and I saw Jace looking furiously at the crowded hallways. I groaned and hid my face in Izzy's backpack.

"Nothing happened in the hot tub, okay. Stop all this bullshit and get on with your lives." Jace yelled, the crowd murmured and slowly walked away, giving Jace strange looks.

Jace and I made eye contact, his eyes were filled with guilt and anger. I quickly turned away, not wanting to talk to him or anyone for that matter, and went into the bathroom. Of course the bathroom wasn't empty and the one person I didn't feel like seeing today was standing at the mirror, applying probably her sixth layer of lipgloss.

Kaelie looked at me through the reflexion and smiled rakishly.

"Hello Clarissa." Kaelie smirked, putting her lip gloss in her purse.

I rolled my eyes and crossed my arms impatiently. "How could you do this?" I yelled, Kaelie looked stunned for a moment before smiling again.

"How could I do what, Clarissa?"

"I know you posted that video on Instagram, why would you do that?"

Kaelie rolled her eyes and looked at her manicured nails. "Same old Clary, always the one to make presumptions. And for your information, I only did it to get back and what you did to me."

I was confused, "What did I do?"

Kaelie sighed angrily, "You knew I liked Jace, and at my own party, you f**king kissed him anyway!"

"That was in fourth grade during spin the bottle you psycho! Talk about holding a grudge." I yelled back.

"Then you pushed my cousin away from me with your stupid rumou-" I interrupted her rant,

"I didn't push Izzy away from you, you did that on your own by hanging out with the 'cooler' people and not inviting us to your parties. You called us dorks!"

"Who's fault is that?" Kaelie said fault with venom, making me flinch.

We stood in an awkward silence for what felt like forever, I turned to leave but stopped at the door when Kaelie started talking. "We're not all what we say we are. Jace isn't as strong as he tries to be, I am not as brave as I may seem and you are definitely not as innocent as you pretend to be." I looked at Kaelie before walking out of the bathroom and to my first class.

——-time-skip-to-after-school——-

"How was school ladies?" Dad asked with to much happiness for it to be normal.

Emma looked at me knowingly before jumping in excitement.
"Omgomgomgomg! Today was a-ma-zing! It started when I saw Cameron kissing Zara, the bitch of the year level, so I dumped him and Julian thought I was sad so he tried to be comforting but I was smiling like crazy cause I wanted to break up with Cam anyway cause I like someone else. At lunch I took Julian aside and told him that I liked him and that I was gonna break up with Cameron to be with him and then,"