Chapter 2: L’chaim
"Simon, I swear if you don't stop doing that i will fucking kill you." I told my friend, who was tapping his fingers on the table next to me, he stopped straight away and turned to look at me "Jesus woman, calm down I'm just worried about Clary." My other friend Clary was going for an interview at the Brooklyn Academy of Art. Me and Simon both look to the door when we hear the bell chime to see a red haired girl enter. Clary had a frown on her face as she walked up to our table.
"Before you tell us if you got in or not I have a present for you." I say handing her a small black box with a bow on it, "Ohmygod I love it Hayley its beautiful." Clary says hugging me tightly as I smile.
"Give me the professors' names and I... I will end them." Simon said, me and Clary both look at him, "Sure you will Simon" I say "because your such a fucking tough guy aren't you." Simon and Clary both roll there eyes at me "You know, with... with a scathing e-mail to the dean." He continued as I laughed.
"Don't bother." Clary said as she gave him the envelope, on the front of it was the word 'Congratulations' in big red letters .
"Bish whet!" I exclaim and she laughs. "What! Sad face? Really?" Simon says, me and Clary both laugh. "Well played, Well played." He grins as him and Clary fist bump each other.
"Thank you. You know, its weird. They kind of liked my assigned work, but they flipped out over the drawings for our graphic novel." She told us
"You're welcome." Simon says, I laugh "not everything is about you Simon."
"This day will go down in history as the greatest 18th birthday I ever had." Clary says "That's because its the only 18th birthday you'll ever have." I replied sarcastically.
"We don't need your running commentary Hayley."
"Which is why we are celebrating tonight. Yes, with Maureen, after our show." Simon told us ignoring what I had said.
"Absolutely.So... what's the deal with you and Maureen?" Clary asked him
"What deal? No Deal. We sing together." He said
"You seriously don't know she's been crushing on you this whole time? She asked
Simon started stammering "What? No. No."
"Awwwwkward" I sung and they both glared at me
"Simon, how can someone as smart and perceptive as you not realise that the person sitting right there is in love with you?" Clary asked and i snorted almost spitting out some of my coffee.
"I guarantee you I'm not the only smart, perceptive person to make that mistake." Simon told her. Awkward i thought to myself not wanting them to hate me anymore than they already did.
"That's a latte." I told Red sarcastically.
"But i could have sworn I had a biscotti." She said
"Maybe you ate it really fast and didn't even notice. Happens to me all the time. When im happy... when im sad." Clary laughs and I roll my eyes. "But i will replace your mythical biscotti with an actual one." He puts the biscotti on her plate.
"Thank you." Clary said.
"You know what? Here's to you two. L'chaim." Simon toasted
"L'chaim." Clary and I say together laughing as we touch our cups together.
After we finish our lattes I say by to Clary and Simon and leave them in the cafe and head towards town for my self defence class.
I HOUR LATER
____________
I walk out of the building sweaty and tired, I turn left and walk the 20 minutes back to the flat i share with my mum when I walk through the front door I see my mum standing in the middle of the living room looking at a box with the initials HW engraved in the front, "Hi mum." I say "Is everything okay?" She looks up at me and smiles, "I have something i need to tell you and its really important." Fuck i think to myself she's gonna give me the long talk about Shadowhunters and my real destiny because she doesn't know that Magnus already told me the truth so i decide to tell her so I don't have to go through this boring as fuck conversation again "I already know mum Magnus told me 2 years ago." Mum looks at me but doesn't seem surprised "I thought so that's why you haven't been drawing any runes lately." I nod my head "Well never mind about that conversation then... I want you to have this stele just in case anything bad happens and keep Clary safe for Jocelyn's sake." I nod and hug her "Of course ill look after Clary she's one of my best friends." And my mum smiles at me.
My phone starts to vibrate in my pocket and when I look down I see that its Clary ringing
"Where are you the gig started 5 mins ago."
"Shit im on my way right know ill be there soon." I say as i hang up and run to my room to have a quick shower and get changed into some party clothes, I do my hair and put on my makeup and then just to be safe I put my stele in my dress. I head down the street to Pandemonium knowing that i have already missed Simons gig. Whoops.
Weekly Power Status
-- Power
Ranking 
-- Power
stone