Time: Before and during WW2
Description: Jace and Clary grew up together, and when a boy and a girl are best friends, they usually fall in love.
When we were six, we stole washcloths from the kitchen and used them as bases to play baseball in the empty lot.
When we were seven, we would track mud and goose turds around the house until our moms yelled at us.
When we were eight, we kept our pet worms on the dinner table and fed the dog our vegetables.
When we were nine, you lived on the bottom floor of our house and I lived on the top floor.
Then we grew up.
You moved away to the other side of town but we still hung out and played warrior games in your basement.
Then when we went to high school, you changed.
You avoided me.
It hurt.
And then you told me you loved me and I realized that deep inside I loved you back.
When I came home from college you were waiting and you came at midnight and proposed and
I
Said
Yes.
We had a son two years later.
When he was three, the war started and you left us to go fight.
I still remember the day the man came to the door with a small bag and a letter.
I didn't, couldn't, wouldn't believe him.
After he left I made sure Jonathan was asleep and I ran to the empty lot.
I found the wooden trapdoor in the ground with stuff from 20 years ago still in it.
I found the baseball bat and the ball under the bushes we hid them in, rotting and water logged.
I went to the tree we would climb up to play pirates and I found it.
Carved into the wood by the roots of the tree are my favorite three words.
JACE AND CLARY FOREVER