Clary's POV
My alarm went off, ruining my dream about my dad. We were at the palace, I was about seven maybe. He was chasing me around and we were laughing. Our laughs were bouncing off the walls. Then my grandma came in to see us on the floor in a fit off giggles. I just smile and then frown because I would give anything to go back. I sighed and remembered that today was the first day of school. I groaned and flopped back onto my bed.

Eventually I got up and showered. I really did miss him, and last night probably should not have happened. Okay well Niall should not have been there. I hate when people see me cry...I was raised to be strong and hide my emotions. I had to be strong for our people...and weak ruler wouldn't have done us any good.

I walked over to my closet. I put on a pair of high waited shorts with studded pockets and a green tee then grabbed a grey plaid shirt to put over it. I decided to do a simple side braid. I grabbed my pair white converse and went downstairs. I had only half an hour to eat and finish my make up. I was greeted by my mom and a huge chocolate chip muffin. Score. "Here ya go honey. You're not too nervous? I heard you last night…" I sighed. My mom was the only one who I let see me cry and my dad but he's not here.

"I am fine mom, I just missed him a lot last night. And no I'm not too nervous." She smiled and grabbed my hand while I shoved muffin into my mouth.

"Okay darling…when is your football practice done? I was thinking I could pick you up and then we can go by the bakery to check out the mural site."

"I'd like that Mom and it gets done at 6." I finished my muffin and ran back upstairs and did my usual makeup. Wingtips and mascara. When I finished I still had five minutes to pack up my football gear and backpack before heading over to Niall's. I kissed my mom goodbye and wished her a nice day at work. Then I walked across my yard and saw Niall coming out of his house.

He smiled when he saw me. "Hey Clary! You can just put your stuff in the back seat." I did what he said then got into the passenger seat. I saw Nate pull out of his driveway and head off towards school. "Are ya nervous? And you look nice." Don't blush...don't blush.

"Huh? Oh not really…and thanks." The rest of the ride was relatively quiet.

We pulled up to the school and I felt like I might throw up my muffin. I was so nervous...I don't know why but I was. God I would rather give a speech or something than have to be the 'new girl' again.

I got out of the car and grabbed my gear. I heard my name and saw Harry and Liam walking towards us. "Wow look at you Clary! You look like you should be in a photo-shoot!" Harry shot him a glare. Don't blush.

"Thanks Liam. Um do you guys know where the office is?" Harry grabbed my hand.
"Yes I do, right this way m'lady." He led me to the office and I got my schedule.

1-Art 2
2-Gym
3-Principles of Pre Calculus
4-English
Lunch
5-Biology 2
6-Anatomy
7-Music

I had art first. Thank goodness...a nice class to start off the day. Plus, I loved to paint. I was raised by my mom most of the time while my dad was away.

I noticed that I some how lost Harry while I was looking at my schedule and locker combo. I managed to find my locker. Okay the school doesn't look that confusing...I haven't gotten lost yet. But there still was the rest of the day. I sight and try to open my lock. I jiggle it a bit and it open. Great I would get the sticky lock. This is not going to be fun.

"Clary! Your locker is right by mine and Ellie's! Oh lemme see that schedule love." Lilly plucked my schedule right out of my hands. I sigh then start to shove my gear into the locker. I miss having my own car. I miss California. I miss my old school. The lockers were way bigger.

"Oh oh we have gym and math aand anatomy together!! And obviously lunch. You will sit by us obviously."

"Okay yea. Good so I know one person in at least three of my classes…"

"Bell is about to ring I got to go! Old dead people are calling my name! SEE YOU IN GYM CLARY!" Then Lilly headed off down the hall. I just laughed at my friend. God she was so bubbly.

I waved and headed down to find Art. I managed to find it fairly easily. Which was good. Not only getting lost and showing up late but I would also be the 'new girl' and I could not gurantee that my muffin would've stayed down.

I walked in and was one of the last ones there. Just perfect. Then Zayn came in. "Clary! I didn't know that you did art. Come on you can sit next to--"

That’s when the teacher spotted me. "Mr. Malik please take a seat. I'm sorry I don't know you…you must be new." And as if having fucking red hair and an American accent didn't set me apart enough the teacher had to say new. Everyone's head snapped up and looked at me. I noticed Nate was in the class as well.

"I…uh yea I am Clarissa Wolf…I moved here from California…can I sit down now?" Way to sound like an idiot...how embarrassing...

"Yes have a seat, everyone welcome back! Glad to see many of my students from Art 1 have returned. Now lets go around and introduce ourselves and say one interesting fact about ourselves. Well this will be easy. When it got to me everyone looked at me.

"I'm Clarissa…I liked to be called Clary…and I have lived in 7 different places." Everyone gaped at me. Nate smiled at me. I just wanted to shrink into my seat and never reappear.
Art was surprisingly fun, after we got through the awkward introductions. My teacher, Mr. Roans, was really cool and laid back. I headed to gym. I got to the locker room and spotted Lilly talking to some girl.

"Hey Lilly, Zayn is in my art class, so that’s good we had to do stupid introductions though." I sat down next to Lilly. She smiled at me and so did the other girl.

"Hey I'm Perrie, we've met before but briefly."

"Oh you're Zayn's girlfriend! Nice to see you again." All of a sudden music started to play in the locker room so I sang along. I stopped as soon as I noticed Perrie and Lilly staring at me.

"What?"

"OH my gosh! You have to do theatre with Zayn and I! We could really use another strong female vocalist!"

"I uh…okay sure what the hell." Oh yea like I have time! Why would I say that?!

Perrie squealed and we ended up talking the rest of the hour. Basically we just got our locker combos and that’s about it. Lilly and I headed to Pre-Calc and waved goodbye to Perrie. When we got to class Ellie waved us over. We all sat down and started to talk then Harry and Liam came in

"Ah look what we have here Haz…"

"Dibs sitting next to Clary!" Then Harry sprinted over and sat down next to me while Liam sat behind me. Our teacher walked in and told us to shut it. Obviously nicer. I always got math and I took Pre-Calc last year back home since I was in the advanced program. So this class will be an easy A. Gotta love having easy classes.

I leaned over my notebook pretending to listen to the teacher. I felt a poke on my back so I turned around and saw Liam smiling and slid his notebook so I could see what was written. It was his number. I looked into his brown eyes, and smiled then turned around. Liam was really cool. I definitely didn't like him like that. He was handsome but not Harry or Niall. Fucking Niall...damn he was good looking. Shit focus Clary.

I pulled out my phone and passed it back to him. I waited for him to hand it back and when he did I continued to draw. It was just a simple sketch of a lion, I was completely tuning out the teacher at this point. But it kind of looked like I was taking notes.

The bell rang and I stood up to leave. "Hey Clary what do you have next?" Liam asked me as he grabbed my sketchbook. I walked with him, "English I think…with Ms. Trowell."

"Aw sweet me too! These are amazing Clary…"

"Thanks Liam. Can I have it back now?" I didn't really like people touching my stuff...especially my sketchbook.

He smiled at me, he had a nice smile too. His whole face crinkled up and it was a cute smile. I hope we become good friends. Back home I had a lot more guy friends than girl friends. We got to English and I spotted Nate. "Hey Clary come sit by--"

"She doesn't want to Lukas." That’s when I noticed Niall was sitting in the back corner. I looked back at Nate and went to sit by him. What was Niall's problem. Again there goes his mouth fucking up that gorgeous body of his. Such a shame.

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Niall's POV
When she walked into English with Liam I breathed a sigh of relief. Every class before this I walked in hoping that she would be in the same class, with her brow all crinkled focusing on her schedule to make sure she was where she was supposed to be. Not to mention she was looking stunning today. She couldn't get any prettier I am certain. I wanted to sit next to her and just watch her concentrate on class. But so far nothing. Even though I think we have gym the same hour. I motioned for Liam to sit by me but Clary went and sat down by Nate anyways.
I hated that guy. He thinks he is the shit. He probably just wants to get into Clary's pants. "Ni, trying to explode someone's head with one's mind only works in movies. So might as well cut your losses."

"Yea alright. Fine. I just don't want her gettin' mixed up with him. He's bad news Liam."

"Yea I know tha--shh here comes the witch."

I looked up and saw Ms. Trowell enter. She called out Clary's name and called her up to the front to introduce herself. Her face was redder than her hair. "Uh…Hi…I'm Clary…I moved here from California…" She practically ran back to her seat. Nate said something to her. What did he say? Whatever he did say seemed to help calm her down. I want to just stab him with a pencil. I should be calming her down...okay well maybe not but I want to be the one who gets to.

"Alright class. We are going to be doing a project to start out the year. It will be a powerpoint presentation on a novel that you are going to be assigned. Now the partners are………Liam Payne and Clarissa Wolf, Niall Horan and Rebecca Foles. Now go meet up with your partners then come up here to get your assigned novel." Clary came over and sat down by Liam. That lucky piece of shit. He gets to be with her all the time. And I'm stuck with Rebecca...I sigh and decide that the universe hates me.

"Hi, I'm Becky." Rebecca sits down infront of me...she's alright but she mostly hangs out with the theatre crowd...like the weird ones. She's pretty smart so that's good. But her dark brown hair and eyes were bland compared to Clary's beauty.

"Hi. So I guess let's go get our novel." Our novel was The Great Gatsby which shouldn't be too bad. It was an okay book. I've read it before so that's good. Rebecca seemed happy about it. She spent most of the hour talking about what we should focus on while I focused on Liam and Clary.

The bell rang which meant lunch time. I quickly shot out of my chair and headed for Liam and Clary. "Hey Niall. Nice partner!" Rumor had it that Rebecca had a huge crush on me but never really did anything but pine for me. Which was weird...so I just had to try to not give her false hope.

"Shut up Liam. What book did you guys get."

"Pride and something." Clary rolled her eyes at him.

"Pride and Prejudice Liam. It is such a good book! I read it last year for class."

"Oh right. What book did you get Niall?"

"The Great Gatsby. And I'm paired up with Rebecca...could my luck get any worse..." They both laughed at me. I suppose Liam told her about Rebecca then...maybe she doesn't like me anymore...that would be great.

We made it to the lunch room and sat down at the table. The rest of the gang showed up a couple of seconds later. Louis spoke "So Clary how are ya liking it so far?"

"Its pretty good. All the classes I have so far I know what is going on so that's nice." She went back to poking at her food.

Haz and Liam in almost perfect unison spit out "Even in Pre-Calc?"

"Especially Pre-Calc. I took that last year. Stop looking at me like that, I was in the advanced program at Pasadena High."

Ellie and Lilly were laughing at the boys expressions when Louis spoke again "So you're like a super genius then?" Clary just laughed and shook her head.

I finally said something after thinking about something that was pretty neutral for a good solid 5 minutes. "What do you have after this Clary?"

"Biology 2 and then Anatomy. And I have Music last."

"I am in Bio 2 so is Haz and all of us minus Ellie and Lilly are in Music last hour." Yea good...I can talk to her like a normal person. I'm doing pretty good.

"Oh fun! Yay I know at least someone in every class!" She smiled at me and I think I've never seen anything so beautiful.

Lunch ended so I walked with her and Haz to class. When we got to Biology we picked seats next to each other. The teacher started to say what the class was about and I looked over to see Clary scribbling in a fancy notebook. She looked so intense. Her head snapped up when she heard lab partner assignments. "Clarissa Wolf and Nate Lukas." You have got to be shitting me.

"Niall Horan and Harold Styles." Well at least I was with Haz. Nate looked at Clary and waved, she smiled and waved back. Then the teacher went back to the lecture and Clary went back to scribbling. What was she writing down?! We haven't even done that many notes yet!

"Psst. Haz, what is she doing? She couldn't be taking notes that intensely.." I was taking notes but she was going hard core. Haz whispered back

"Probably drawing that is her sketchbook. She always has it on her." Ah that made sense. So I leaned towards her.

"Hey Clary you should probably be taking notes…not doodling."

"I already learned this stuff but thanks for the concern Horan." Great she threw that last name crap out again. Maybe she's just joking now...

Class ended and she showed me her drawing it was a sketch of Ariel the little mermaid. Yep the last name thing was totally now a joke. Thank god. "I'm not done though I finished one in math want to see that one?" I nodded and she smiled and showed me a picture of a lion. I'm so happy she's talking to me one her own. Holy crap she's almost as good as Zayn.

"Wow these are really good Clary." She smiled and seemed to glow when I said that.

"Thanks well off to study the body. I'll see you in Music!" She turned around and left. I went over to history.

"Hey Niall!" I looked and saw Nate sneering at me. Great. I wasn't friends with anyone in this class. Its okay one hour and I'll be with the gang again...and Clary...oh man I can't wait for music...maybe she'll sing. Actually no...I want to be the only one whose heard her sing.

"What the fuck do you want Lukas? What rumor will you make up this week to try to make yourself feel better?"

"Maybe I won't have to do anything. Seems like just talking to Clary sets you off."

"You fucking leave her alone." My blood was boiling now.

"Nah I think I will have some fun." I was so close to punching him but then the teacher walked in

"Mr. Horan please take a seat."

I walked to the back of the class and sat down. I hated him. He was once my best friend but then his parents split and he decided to take it out on everyone by putting them down. He was the worst. History was actually one of my stronger subjects but it seemed to drag out. Finally the bell rang and a practically shot out the door to get to music.

However when I got there I saw that Clary was right between Liam and Harry, who were both hanging on every word she said. Just fucking great. Now how am I supposed to get close to her?

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Clary's POV
"Yes, we can have a study group! Oh it will be fun."

"Did she just say math was fun mate?" Liam was making a face at me

"I believe so…" Harry was making almost the same face. They both looked at me funny, I was laughing when Niall came and sat down by us.

There were no desks in this classroom so you had to sit down on the ground. Louis, Zayn, and Perrie all came in and sat down by us too. We were all talking when our teacher came in.

"Hey guys. Alright class is starting so everyone shut it. Now welcome to music. I am the new music director. My name is Mr. Reynolds and I just finished grad school. I am from New York. So we will go around and say our names and an interesting fact." I already liked him. He was young looking of course way too old but still nice to look at. He looked at Zayn to start.

"Hi, I'm Zayn Malik…and I can't swim."

"I'm Perrie Edwards, and I don't like roller coasters."

"I'm Louis Tomlinson and I like silly string."

"Name's Liam Payne and I love turtles."

Then all eyes landed on me. Well shit. I hated doing this. "I'm Clary Wolf and I have lived in 7 different places. 6 different states and now 2 countries."

"Where ya from Clary?"

"Um…California most recently. But I've lived in Wisconsin, New York, Florida, Colorado and Texas." He just smiled at me then looked at Harry.

"Well I'm Harry and I don't know my fact won't seem as cool after Clary…I came up with our band name."

"Hi, I'm Niall Horan, and I hate birds." The rest of the class was pretty much a study hall. It was really fun though. We all just pretty much talked and joked around. So school wasn't as bad as I thought. I was walking out to practice with Niall.

"Oh I have a ride home so you don't have to worry."

"If it is Nate I swear--"

"Its my mom."

Man did he have a problem with Nate. I went over to the girls side of the field and started to get my gear on. Lilly and Ellie came and sat down next to me. "So how was your first day here?"

"It was alright. I know at least one person in all my classes so that's nice."

"That’s good! You should bring your friend Nicole to school when she comes next week!"

"Ellie that's a brilliant idea!" I just looked at Lilly and Ellie like they were talking some foreign language.

"Is that even allowed?"

"Yea just get a sheet from the office. Say that she's touring or something. We'll grab one Friday!" Lilly was beaming at me.

"She can even practice with us if she wants! I'm sure coach won't mind." Ellie quickly added that.

"You guys are the best! She will love it!" The rest of practice was like usual. Drilling then a game against the boys. We won this time.

We were walking out and I saw my mom. She smiled and waved at me. I was putting my stuff in the car when Niall came over.

"See ya tomorrow Wolf. Oh and don't get too cocky. You only stole the ball from me a couple of times." I smiled at his teasing use of my last name. I liked the way it sounded coming from him.

"And that was enough for me to score Horan. See ya tomorrow."

My mom waved at him. I hopped in and we drove to the bakery. "Hey Clary!!!" I looked and saw a dimpled boy with green eyes smiling and waving at me from behind the counter.

"Hey Harry! I didn't know you worked here. My mom is doing a mural. I get to help." I smiled and leaned on the counter looking at him.

"Ah. How fun. And yea it’s a job…I've got some mad baking skills." He winked at me and then my mom dragged me to where the mural was going to be. It was a nice space. "So what do you think?"

"Its nice mom…what were you thinking about doing?" We must've both been sketching hard core because Harry came and tapped us on the shoulders.

"Um…I'm closing up so you guys need to go, but I brought you cupcakes! On the house." He flashed me a smile and my mom and I packed up our stuff to leave. "See you tomorrow Harry!"

"Bye Clary! Mrs. Wolf!" My mom smiled and waved back. We headed home and it was almost 10pm. We got home and ate the cupcakes laughing at eachother and sharing stories of our days. Just like old times…before he left us.

I caught myself hoping he would come busting through the door. But he didn't I looked at my mom and she just smiled. "I know darling. Me too." She kissed me on my head and went upstairs. I sat there for a couple more minutes then headed upstairs for bed. Only four more days until Nicole comes for the weekend.

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