Hey guys! So I'm back with a new story! I am going on a bit of a hiatus after I post this, but I'll be back with a regular updating schedule next year!
Disclaimer: I do not own the characters in this story.
Becoming friends with 'Clary' had been a complete accident.
A case of mistaken identity, really.
She had sat in Jace Herondale's 'Added Me' section of his snapchat account for nearly two weeks before he had accepted her request. He hadn't recognized her name and had just assumed that she was someone who had managed to get his private snapchat account, and his first instinct had been to block her. Not many people got his snapchat name, even less people than who got his phone number, and so he had been a little curious about who it might be.
Jace watched the story that she had posted on her snapchat with suspicion, looking for any sign that he might recognize who she was. He tried to figure out if she was a socialite, or some girl from a bunch of B-grade movies, but he honestly couldn't place her. There weren't any snaps sent to him with suggestive comments typed underneath or pushy questions that he would usually expect.
She was a green eyed, red-haired, wide smiled girl who looked as though she was completely loving life without a care in the world.
So, in other words, no one that he knew.
Jace had tentatively added her, but hadn't sent her any direct snapchats, and she hadn't sent him any either. But he watched her snapchat stories more than he would care to admit, and it took him a while before he plucked up the courage to send her a message, asking who she was and why she had added him. It was then discovered that she had actually meant to become friends with someone else who's user ID was similar to Jace's, apparently one of her cousins. She had apologized and then it seemed as though they weren't going to talk anymore and Jace had a momentary freak out that she might delete him.
It shouldn't matter, at this point he hadn't even known her name, but he had spent two weeks watching her snap stories and he was kind of addicted. He didn't want her to delete him and no longer see her smiling face throughout the day, or the pictures that she sent of her cat, or there were a couple of an amazing view of what appeared to be a vineyard. They were all such cliché photos, that were littered over so many girls Instagrams and Facebooks and snapchats, but they were all actresses and socialites and people that Jace actively avoided.
Not like her.
None of them seemed like her.
So he had messaged her, and struck up a conversation about her cat, even though he knew absolutely nothing about pretty much any animal, but she had seemed more than willing to talk. He found out her nickname, that she lived in southern California and that she was twenty-three years old. At least, Jace assumed that Clary was a nickname, but then he wasn't judging if it wasn't, he was just glad that she hadn't gone through and deleted him. The messages had all been pretty sporadic at first, not really about all that much, but eventually she started sending him pictures—one's specifically for him and not just left as her snap stories.
They made Jace feel all sorts of warm and fuzzy, which was stupid.
He had girls sending him naked pictures on a regular basis, and yet the girl who was sending him photos of her sticking out her tongue with her best friend, or stuffing her face full of pizza, or making kissy faces at her cat was the one making him grin like an idiot.
"What are you smiling about?" Alec Lightwood grunted. "You never smile."
"No, big brother, I believe that's you," Isabelle Lightwood smirked and pointed a finger at her older brother, waving her finger in front of his face. "Anyway, the reason that he's smiling is all because of his snapchat girl," she sung out with a knowing smirk. "She sent you another picture in her pretty backyard?"
"Is she the one with the vineyard?" Alec tilted his head to the side.
"As if there's any other girl that Jace is talking to," Isabelle snorted.
"I talk to girls!" Jace protested.
"Your mum and Isabelle don't count," Alec replied with a smirk.
"Shut up," Jace pulled the fingers at him and looked back down at his food. Isabelle laughed and then started talking about a fashion show that she was going to be starring in the following night, while Jace sent messages back to Clary. One of the good things about snapchat was that there wasn't really a trail, and you could tell when someone was downloading your picture with a screenshot. He was sure that there were other ways to download the pictures or save the messages without people knowing, but it didn't seem as though Clary did that, because every now and then she would screenshot one of his pictures and he would get the notification. It took a while before he actually sent her pictures, rather than just sending a message, and even now when he was taking photos, he barely ever took photos of himself, or where his face was fully in the light.
"Oi!" Isabelle poked his knee under the table. "Are you listening?"
"Sorry," Jace put his phone down on the table and looked over at his dark haired friend. "What did you say?"
"I said," Isabelle rolled her eyes. "Are you coming to my show tomorrow night?" Jace pursed his lips together and jerked his head in a tense nod. "Yay!" Isabelle clapped her hands together. "I'll get you front row seats, next to Magnus."
"Uh, Izzy..." Jace gave her a pained look. "I'm totally fine with one of the back seats."
"You're my best friend," Isabelle pouted. "I want you in the front seat." Jace sighed, thinking about all the photographers and paparazzi that were going to be at the fashion show tomorrow, but nodded again, mainly because he found it extremely hard to say 'no' to Isabelle when she was doing that thing with her lower lip. "Sweet," she smirked. "So you'll be in one of the front rows between Magnus and probably Elizabeth Banks." Elizabeth Banks...Jace recognized the name. He knew that she was an actor, Isabelle went on about her quite a bit, so it made sense that Isabelle was making sure she had a good seat at the show.
"Whatever, okay," he waved his hand in resignation at her as he leaned back in his seat, folding his arms over his chest. There were a couple of people a few tables over from them that kept looking at them, and Jace instinctively tipped his face forward, letting his hair fall in front of his face. The big, dark Aviators that he was wearing covered his face well, and usually he had it paired with a baseball cap or a Fedora. But they were sitting at the back of the cafe, and he had his back facing the doorway so most people couldn't see his face, so he had thought that he would be okay without it.
Of course, sitting at a table with one of the most popular supermodels of the year and an up and coming director who had already won his first big award wasn't exactly inconspicuous. Especially when Isabelle had no qualms about taking photos with her fans or signing autographs, although usually she kept a low profile when she was out with him.
Because Jace hated the spotlight.
Being the son of two Oscar award winning people was someone who was followed around almost constantly by cameras and prying eyes since the day they were born. He'd always had a love-hate relationship with them while he was younger, but he sort of just learnt to ignore them and move on with his life. He won a bunch of awards as a young actor, and was in multiple TV shows and movies, and he hung out with all the right people. As a teenager, he had dated several actresses, and there had been a couple of the typical scandals of public drunkeness and being spotted with a joint. But then Kaelie Whitewillow had happened, and that had all gone to hell.
Ever since then, he had avoided the cameras like the plague.
Jace's phone pinged again and he saw it was another snapchat. He opened it up, pressing his thumb to be scanned and unlock the phone, and then opened up the snapchat. It was a close up of Clary, a pair of shades on her hair, her red hair falling around her face, and she was making a face at the camera—her eyes cross eyed. Jace snorted and shook his head.
"Are you ever planning on meeting this girl?" Alec asked, his voice low. "I mean, you message her all the time, you smile like a fucking idiot every time you get another one of those photos from her—it would make sense that you finally meet her."
"I'm not just going to fly out to California to meet with this girl. I don't even know what she does for a living, or what her last name is!"
"You don't know what her last name is?" Isabelle scrunched up her nose. "What the fuck? You talk to her every day and you haven't asked her what her last name is?" Jace shrugged his shoulders and looked back down at his phone, swiping left and typing out a message in response 'the cross eyed look is attractive on you' and sending it off to her. He got another photo back quickly, this one even closer to her eyes, so close that he could see the flecks of lighter green in her eyes, and how long her eyelashes were.
"We talk about other things," Jace shrugged.
"What? Like shared life experiences?" Alec snorted and got another glare from Jace.
"I think Alec is right," Isabelle had her phone on selfie mode and was reapplying her lipstick, which had worn over as they had eaten brunch. "It's not like you've got anything better to do—after you come to my show of course. Just take the jet. I mean, if you meet her and it all goes to shit, then you can just stay at the Malibu house for a little bit, you've been talking about going out there and getting some sun."
"I'll think about it," Jace muttered, pocketing his phone and getting up from the table. They were getting more looks now, and he picked up the baseball cap from where he had dropped it on the table top and put it on, pulling the brim down. He pulled out his wallet and put a few notes on the table to cover his share of the bill. "Anyway, I'm heading off. Send me the details of the event, and I'll have mum's stylist sort out my suit. Great," he sighed. "And then the stylist is going to tell mum that I'm getting a suit and she's going to think that she can hold that as leverage to drag me to some publicity event."
"You could always ask Magnus," Alec suggested.
"On second thoughts, yes," Jace nodded with a raise of his eyebrow. "That's a good idea." He turned to leave when Isabelle called out to him again.
"You know what else is a good idea?!" He looked back over his shoulder at Isabelle, who was wiggling her eyebrows. "Going out to meet that girl!"
Alright! So, my recommendations this time...Songwise, the ones I've had on repeat are; Somebody New, by Cedric Gervais. Fucking loooove it, my husband hates it, but I play it loud as hell when I'm the only one in the car. Haha. First Time by Kygo and Ellie Goulding, this one is cute and sweet, makes me think back to being a teenager. Then there's Easy by Sky Ferreira, which is just beautiful, from the movie Baby Driver, and the last one is Too Much To Ask by Niall Horan, which is just so pretty.
Movie wise, I've recently seen Kingsmen 2, which was fucking great, although my favourite character...*quietly sobs in corner*. Also It, which was great as well, the kids were all so fucking brilliant in that movie, and I have to admit, I ship Reddie. I think they're absolutely adorable. Bill Skarsgard did an amazing job. And then tomorrow, I'll be seeing Thor: Ragnorok! It looks amazing, so fingers crossed.
And then in the TV show area, I've just started watching The Gifted, which is pretty good so far. Also binged the second season of Shooter, which I've really enjoyed, and I hope that there's more! Another one is Wynonna Earp, which took me a while to get into, but I love it now. Wynonna and Waverly are just fucking amazing. And then there's just the general shows that I've been keeping up with, like How To Get Away With Murder, Gotham and NCIS: Los Angeles, all of which are great.
So! Let me know what you guys think of the chapter, let me know if you guys have any prompts or songs you want me to write about (any of the fandoms I'm in, check my profile, and keep in mind I will try to write them, but can't guarantee all of them) and absolutely recommend any songs, movies, tv shows or fics to me!
There's a preview of the next chapter for a review... xxx