Jocelyn watched as her daughter trained with Jace, she had a funny feeling in the pit of her stomach knowing that her daughter had feelings for her bestfriend, She knew that Clary having feelings for the boy she had grown up around her whole life could have conciquences to their relationship, but she also knew whatever was to come would happen for a reason, weather it be good or bad.
"That's it, Red!" Jace shouted proudly as he watched Clary move so skilfully that she almost matched him in comparison. Jace had never been more proud of his little fireball, he had been teaching Clary all he had learned when he had gone away for a few weeks to England to see some distant relatives with the Lightwoods, his adoptive family.
Breathing heavily Clary halted in her step, stopping what she was doing and dropping the Kali stick to the ground, she turned to face Jace, her cheeks flushed and chest heaving. A smile big enough to reach the end of the earth graced her face as she basked in the glory of nearly being as good as the boy she had looked up to her whole life. "how was I? Did I do good? Was it... okay?" Clary rambled just wanting to know that she was definitely catching up to the golden boy.
"good?" Jace asked Clary laughing as if he couldn't believe his ears, "good? Clary you done amazing! It took me weeks to learn what you just done in a few hours!" Jace said proudly pulling Clary in closely by swinging his right arm over her shoulders and holding her to his side.
Clary had become more comfortable around Jace's touches, when she had just learned of her crush on her bestfriend she would blush and sometimes turn away from Jace or even just walk away and act as if she couldn't here him calling her name; but that still didn't stop her from having a small effect from his touch. Clary's cheeks covered over with a barley visible tint of red, almost looked as if it was natural from her heaving state. "really?" Clary asked not looking to Jace but at Izzy, who in the distance was climbing a beam and practicing her balancing skills.
"Yeh, Red! You looked like you were born to do that!" Jace replied smiling widely, he knew Clary was blushing she always seemed to when he would compliment her or just touch her, but he never seemed to notice exactly why, even though everyone else had; Jace was blind to Clary's feelings.
In return Clary looked up to Jace and gave an even more dazzling smile "thanks', Goldie." Clary laughed, unwrapping herself from Jace and ruffing up his perfectly stilled, messy hair. Jace groaned at Clary and shoved her arm away from in front of his face so her hand flopped down from between the strands of his hair and to the side of her body.
Jace lifted his right arm to just in front of his face to read the watch on his wrist, 14:09pm, it read. Jace groaned "I'm sorry Red, I have to go. I have a date with a human girl. Might get lucky this time- who am I kidding, I always get lucky!" Jace laughed looking to the doors that lead to the hallways of bedrooms that were filled with mostly teens but some family's.
Clary forced herself to laugh even though it hurt to hear Jace talk about a girl who's name he didn't even know. "Who is it this time?" Clary asked her voice joking, but inside her heart was breaking just a little more, like it always did.
Jace had, had a few proper relationships with girls but none of them worked out because- get this, the girl he was with always seemed to cheat on him, never the other way around. Jace might have a reputation with girls, but he had never picked up one about cheating.
Clary always wondered if it was because of the first girl he ever liked cheated on him and ever since then he never thought he was good enough for anything else than the city hoe's. It had been a possibility that had swam around in her mind since she had turned 16 and Jace had begun his conquest to succeed in having the record for sleeping with the most girls, not literally; but that's what it seemed like to Clary.
"uh- I would tell you Clary, but that would involve me actually knowing, which I don't so..." Jace chuckled rubbing the back of his neck, Clary shook her head disapprovingly and Jace groaned "don't do that, Clary."
"okay." Clary replied simply looking to Jace, Jace smirked pulling clary in for a hug before quickly letting her go and running off telling her, he would see her late on, that he would bring back food and they could catch up on there days.
More specifically Jace would blabber on about how bad or good the girl with no-name was in bed.
Clary sighed watching as Jace disappeared out of the double doors, them slamming behind him in the process. Clary picked up the Kali stick she was previously using and walked over to the rack were they kept all of their training weapons.
Clary placed back the Kali stick in it's holder, along beside all of the others then turned and walked out of the room shouting a quick 'bye' to Izzy who was too pre occupied with her balancing techniques to hear quickly Clary went to the girls side of the institute to have a shower and get changed so she could go and meet up with Simon. Just before Clary reached her room she heard the sound of padding feet, turning in the direction they were coming in Clary watched to see who it was.
Emy Wilson walked around the corner smiling brightly as she saw Clary "Oh, hey Clary!" Emy shouted almost running over to her. Once Emy was standing in front of Clary she almost jamp to hug her but kept in her excitement.
"Hey, Emy, you seem particularly happy today. Any specific reason or is today just that kind of day?" Clary asked just being generally curious as to why this young girl was so happy.
Emy smiled up at Clary, her white teeth almost making Clary blind "yeh, look I got my first Rewin!" She exclaimed, Clary smiled brightly down at the young girl and then pulled her in to a hug.
"I'm so proud of you, Emy!" Clary exclaimed hugging her tight, Emy wrapped her small arms around Clary welcoming the feeling of having an older sibling, since she had none of her own. Being an only child Emy felt particularly lonely, so she looked up to Clary a lot.
They pulled away from the hug, "thanks', Clary-" Emy said looking at Clary but became distracted and looked behind Clary and noticed her mother was standing watching the exchange between the both of them, Clary turned to see what Emy was looking at.
Clary smiled at Mrs Wilson who in return sent her a smile and then motioned for Emy to hurry up, Emy quickly hugged Clary goodbye and then ran to her mother leaving Clary to go back to what she was planning on doing.
Once Clary had her shower and had gotten changed in to clean clothes, she put all of her dirty clothes in to her wash basket that was in her bathroom. Clary then collected her stele, phone and a seraph blade just encase.
Clary quickly texted Simon:
To Simon: Hey, Si! Java Jones, in 10? xx
From Simon: Already here...you were supposed to be here half an hour ago...! xx
To Simon: OMG REALLY!
From Simon: No just pulling your tail, see you in 10! xx
Clary sighed in relief, she hated when Simon done stuff like that because she was so gullible when it came to things like that. Quickly Clary was out of her room and heading for Java Jones.
Clary walked down the sidewalk as rain poured down on her, it was almost like the weather was reflecting her emotions for Jace, she felt depressed and sad and also a little angry at him, but it wouldn't stay like that for long; it never did, she was never able to stay anything but happy around him, he always made her day that much more brighter.
Clary pushed the wooden door of Java Jones open and observed her surroundings until she noticed Simon sitting an a green leather couch in the far away right corner. Clary smiled and walked over to him. It was always nice to hand out with Simon because he always managed to make her happy and feel light; bring her back down to earth.
"Hey, Si." Clary said plopping down next to her other bestfriend, Jace and Simon have never gotten on; they have always fought over Clary, always wanting her attention and to be the one she would pick, Clary could never choose between the two though although Jace held a more special spot in her heart, she still loved Simon, just a little less than Jace.
"Hey, Clary. How has your day been, I feel like we haven't seen each other in ages!" Simon exclaimed wrapping an arm around her shoulders. Clary leaned in to Simons embrace leaning her head on his shoulder, to on goers they would have looked like the perfect couple but that would be pretty awkward especially when Simon was dating Izzy.
"I know same, but we literally saw each other like 2 days ago." Clary laughed, Simons chest shook making Clary do the same. "oh and my day has been good, done some training with Jace and mom watched for a while then left, I don't think she knew- I knew she was watching." Clary rambled, she hated it when her mom watched over her training sessions she was always so annoying and liked to point out the tiniest of mistakes, but she guessed today her mom just wasn't in the picky moon. "what about you?"
"Still finding her watching over your training annoying?" Simon asked smirking, Clary groaned then glared at the table in front of her.
"You don't know the half of it!" She groaned out rubbing her face with her left hand.
"My day was okay, I guess. I went to see my mom just before I came here-" Clarys ears perked up at that, she knew Simons mom was having a hard time coming to terms with the fact that Simon wanted to move out because of 'reasons he couldn't tell her'.
"what did she say!?" Clary wondered, pulling away from Simon so she could swivel on the couch and look at him properly.
"that if it was what I wanted then she couldn't stop me..." Simon dragged off, Clary was shocked for a minute and her mouth hung open slightly.
"Seriously?" Clary asked shocked.
"No, she said I wasn't aloud to leave until I had a valid reason for wanting to pay for accommodation and food when I get free accommodation and food with her, I don't understand why she can't just let me live-" Simon stopped in his tracks and we both looked at each other and blinked.
Simon began to snicker because that was impossible unless a miracle was to happen, Simon would be forever dead; A Vampire.
Simon and Clary talked for a while, whilst drinking their coffee and re-filling when it would get cold or they would run out. Soon Clary had to leave Simon because he was meeting Izzy for a date "I'll see you soon, Si." Clary said standing from the green sofa and hugging Simon who also hugged back.
"Yeh, text me when you want to meet up." Simon said placing a kiss on her fore head when they pulled away, Clary smiled nodding; they exchanged goodbyes and then Clary left deciding just to go back to the Institute.
Clary walked along the busy sidewalk that was lit up by the shops, lamps and car lights that were so bright she was having to pull her black hood up over her head to shield her eyes. Clary eventually reached the Institute and went inside quickly, Clary closed the door behind her and walked up the entrance steps.
Quietly Clary walked down the halls passing the main area were the Institutes leaders done there demon research and were they planned missions, people said hi and Clary replied back with the same greeting. Once in the girls corridor Clary went straight to her room.
Looking at the lamp on her bedside table she noticed that she had been out with Simon foe nearly 3 hours, she had left at 3pm- well just past the hour, so she was away for just over 3 hours, being back at 7:27pm.
Clary wasn't hungry so instead of going for dinner with everyone else, or going to one of the take outs to get something Clary just put on her PJ's after stripping from her clothes, knowing Jace probably wont turn up tonight, if he wasn't already back.
Taking out her sketchbook from her bedside cabinet Clary sat on her bed and looked through her pad, She had recently started a new one since her old sketch pad was all filled up. Looking at all of the blank pages made Clary a little jittery, her hand itched to sketch but she knew if she started now she wouldn't finish until the drawing was complete, and it was late; so Clary needed rest just encase she was called on during the night.
Just as Clary began to get settled in her bed there was a knock on her bedroom door, Clary groaned, but still slipped out of her bed knowing it was probably Jace. Opening the door she was faced with an annoyed looking Jace, he held up a bag of steaming Chinese food and Clary smiled opening the door wider to allow him entrance.