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Jace, Jon, and I sit with our backs rod straight and eyes wide and alert looking for an escape route in case things get too serious. My parent sit opposite us with chairs brought out from the kitchen, observing us quietly. While my mom looks between all of us with a small smile on her face eyes glancing between each of us equally, my father sits with a meager frown on with red eyes he occasionally rubs. Sorry dad. There's a plate of fresh chocolate chip cookies sitting between us on the table, no one has dared moved to take one.
I chance a look to Jon, he's sitting with his hands in his lap, face determinedly looking anywhere but at my mom and dad with a faint blush on his cheek. He's sitting on the far left of the couch with me on the fare right which leaves Jace in the middle. Jace is sitting with his jaw firmly closed looking like he's losing all patience and understanding in the world. He also looks sick to his stomach.
"I know we never gave you all the proper sex talk and I don't know how much of it you all know. So I think it best to start with the basics. Then we can get into questions, and other facts and all. Does that sound fair?" My head quickly snaps back to my parents; it was my mom who spoke. Always the eager one huh?
At the words, I hear a whimper leave Jace's tightly closed mouth.
"What you witnesses last night was what you call making lo-"
"Jocelyn, I don't think this will be necessary, we already know about this stuff." Jace is speaking quickly tumbling over his words, trying to stop my mother from continuing.
Jon nods his head quickly in agreement.
My mother looks between all of us with her eyebrows furrowed looking surprised and confused.
"Well, are you sure?" She's shaking her head disbelief.
"Because if you're listening to what other teenagers are telling you they could be lying. I don't want you to be confused at all if you're to be in a sexual situation."
A snort from one of the boys and an eye roll from my dad.
"You heard them Jocelyn, they already know all about this, like I told you. This talk is completely unnecessary." My father says.
My mother pauses to look between us all.
"No, Valentine. They may know some stuff but look how sick they look. They think that sex is nasty." She turns to us.
"I can assure you sex is completely natural and okay." She gives a reassuring smile looking between each of us and nodding her head yes.
My dad rolls his eyes dramatically slapping his legs in the process.
This is completely ridiculous. After all the times the boys have snuck girls over, she's trying to reassure us it's normal.
I'm holding back a smile from the irony of the situation when I hear a chuckle erupt from Jonathans mouth. Jace's shoulders are violently shaking as he tries to hold his laugh in. I bite my lip to keep quiet.
All while my mother is glancing between all of us completely confused.
"I know this may be a weird matter for you guys, but I promise it's okay."
Jace breaks his resolve and lets a laugh escape. I hold my lip firmly in place. Jon's full on laughing but opens his mouth to talk, his laughs interrupting him every couple of seconds.
"Mom- mom I can assu- assure you, we know that it- it- it's okay." Says Jon.
"Then, what is so funny? How can you assure me you know it all?"
Jace full of shrieks, no longer holding back any sounds.
A quick look to my dad and he seems completely out of it, he's checked out of this conversation long ago. I look down to my lap.
"Mo- mom we just kn- we just know." Jon answers.
Mom's eyebrows scrunch up even more. She's looking at the boys with complete destress and confusion. Her eyes glance to me quickly and I rush to glance back down. Her eyes look to the boys then to my father, like she's thinking of something. Her eyes get wide.
"ARE YOU BOYS SEXUALLY ACTIVE?!"
I can't help it, I scream. I quickly shut my mouth to stop more laughs from erupting.
The boys are looking at each other, trying their best to stop, but they're too far gone. My mom see's this look and her eye's get even wider.
"WITH EACH OTHER?!"
The boys look to my mother and back to each other, laughs stopping.
I can't hold it back anymore, I'm screaming with joy and I cannot stop. Laughs erupting in fits of joy.
"Not that there's anything wrong with that boys. I ju- I just didn't know. How could I not know that you two were in love? It all makes sense now! How you two are always looking at each other. We always thought it'd be Jace and Clary we might have to look out for, but this makes so much more sense."
"MOM!"
"JONATHAN AND I ARE NOT SCREWING!"
The boys say at the exact same time.
At this point I'm on the floor, hiccupping with laughter.
I faintly hear a "watch your mouth" come from my dad but I'm too distracted with my mom's sudden revelation.
She's pacing the floor.
"I should have known when you guys were babies, always together and refusing to leave the others side. Why Jon always insisted that Jace spend the night and Jace was always so eager." She looks up at the boys.
"I'm sorry." She walks around the table and comes in front of the both of them who are standing with wide eyes and their mouths open.
"I'm so sorry. I've been an absolute terrible mother to the both of you. I should have known so long ago; I just wasn't paying attention. I love both of you so much and don't think this changes anything at all. Is that why you didn't tell us? You thought we wouldn't love you anymore?"
Tears of terror are forming on her face while tears of joy are forming on mine.
"You thought I wouldn't love you anymore?" Her eyes are full blown red and her voice is seven octaves higher.
"Oh!" sniffle.
"I've been such a terrible mom if you believed I wouldn't love you anymore." She begins to hug both boys.
"What did I do to make you believe that?" she asks.
She's shaking.
I'm screaming and rolling on the floor.
"What did I do to make you believe that?!" She shrieks.
The boys jump into action going from being stock still to wrapping their arms around her. Her face in their chests, snot rolling on their shirts.
"What was it? Just tell me!" She's yelling extremely loudly but so am I.
Both of the boys jump at this.
"No-nothing mom. You didn't do anything." Jon says.
"Then why didn't you tell me?" she yells.
"Uhh?"
The boys look between each other. No best friend lies they've made up for this one I see.
"We um- we didn't want you to split us apart." Jace says. Jonathan glaring at him.
"What? Why would I split you apart?" My mom asks looking up.
More looking between them.
"Since we were together we didn't want you to think it was inappropriate of us."
"You thought I wouldn't love you anymore?" She assumes again with more screaming.
"No, no no!" Jace rushes.
"Since we're so young we thought you might want us to focus on our studies and stuff. We knew you would accept us Jocelyn, we just didn't want to have to live in separate houses and I didn't want to have to live by myself or always traveling with my parents." Jace rushes out, making up a story as quickly as he can.
My mom begins to calm down sniffling. She looks to Jonathan.
"Is this true Jon, you thought I would think you were too young?"
He looks at her and Jace panicking. Jace nods his head prompting him to say yes.
"Uhh, yes. We didn't want to be too apart. Even if Jace's house is just around the corner we're just way too much in love to be that much apart." Jon finishes.
Jace is giving him a stupid look clearly saying too much.
I get up from the floor wiping my eyes and sit down opposite from them.
My mom's sniffling, significantly more calm.
"I guess that makes some sense. But you still should have told me. I would never split you two apart." She wipes her nose on the back of her hand and hugs the two of them tightly.
"I love all of you too much to do something like that." A sniffle. She steps back gives them both a reassuring smile and a kiss on cheek before patting each of their cheeks and comes over to where I am.
"Did you know about this Clary?"
I glance to the two boys who now have complete smug looks on their faces now that I'm the one being questioned.
"No mom. I had absolutely no clue." I say.
A cough from behind her back.
"She's lying Jocelyn, Clary's actually the one who helped us get together and explain our feelings for each other." Jace says with Jon nodding his head in agreement.
My mother gives me a look.
"I'm assuming you didn't tell me because you thought I'd split them up?"
"Yes mom." I say quickly.
She nods her head. Gives a pause.
"Are you sexually active Clary?" she asks.
The boys chuckling in the background while my cheeks turn pink from the question. My dad's eye narrow as he glances up finally.
"No." I mumble.
"What'd you say Clary? Speak with your head up."
"No I am not sexually active mom." I say louder with my head down still, blushing even harder.
The boys are laughing even harder now.
"Well, it seems the boys know all about making love to each other. They probably did a lot of research."
She looks back eye brows raised in question.
They quickly wipe the smiles from their face and nod their head in agreement with complete serious faces on.
Jon says a, "Oh yes." At the same time Jace says, "Definitely."
She looks back to me.
"So do I need to just talk to you about it?" she asks.
"No, no, I'm good. I've- I've also done some research." I say looking up quickly.
"I think you should have the talk with her mom, she's clearly confused and needs to be assured sex is okay and natural." Jon says.
I glare at him and Jace who's nodding his head in agreement.
"Yes, I think you boys are right. Why don't you two scurry along and Clary, your father, and I will talk."
There you have it folks! I'm sorry for the long wait! I had a chapter written a few days ago… but I accidentally deleted it. It was the car scene when the three were driving back home. That being said this chapter was supposed to be the next one, but it was way too boring trying to rewrite it, (that being the car scene) so I wrote this one instead. Thank you for reading. Please read, review and request others to read it please. Updates more frequently now! I love you guys!