Chapter 7

It's been three days since I last talked to Jace. He's left me alone and I've done the same. There's been a new level of tension throughout the house these past couple of days. Izzy and Alec give me looks whenever I enter the same room as them. I know they want to talk to me about Jace but Sebastian's been tied at my hip ever since he's got here. Jace and I have avoided each other like the plague lately. Anytime he sees me he immediately leaves the room and I do the same.

"Clary we need to talk now!" Izzy burst into my room with frantic eyes.

"What happened?"

"Come quickly!" She ran out of my room and I followed closely on her heels. We both entered into her room and I looked around trying to see what the problem was. Magnus sat on a pink chair in the corner of Izzy's room.

"What's going on?" Izzy slammed the door shut and ushered me to sit down on the bed. I sat and Magnus strode over to me.

"Clary, this is your intervention." Magnus said solemnly. He and Izzy stood side by side looking down on me with grief-stricken faces. I just stared at them and burst out laughing.

"Are you kidding me?" I kept laughing but their faces didn't change.

I quickly pulled myself together, "Izzy I think you've watched too many 'How I met your Mother' episodes." I smirked at her and tried to stand up from the bed only to be pushed back down.

"Look, something's going on with you and Jace and we want to know what."

"I don't know what you talking about."

She threw up her hands in exasperation."Give up, Clary!" I gasped at her sudden outburst. "We know somethings going on! You two can't even be in the same room with each other anymore without one of you storming out."

"I can't tell you." I put my arms across my chest and stared down at the floor. It was a new habit I've been doing lately this week. I suppose before I didn't need to stare at the floor to avoid the eyes of those that care about me.

"Clary, we want to help you. Somethings troubling you, just tell us what's wrong." Magnus sat down beside me and I could feel his hand rubbing soft circles on my back in a comforting motion.

"I just can't tell you guys, I'm sorry."

"Can't or won't?" I looked up and Izzy and felt my eyes burn with the tears that were starting to form.

"I'll tell you everything. Please don't judge me for what I did." I choked back the tears and started to tell the story of Jace and I.

"When Jace and I used to know each other we hated each other. Then I come back here to tell the news of my wedding and everything changed in an instant. He changed, just like you said Izzy. We tried to be friends and he was sweet to me for once. He was the first guy to ever call me beautiful. Then one night we kissed." Magnus and Izzy both gasped at this and waited eagerly for me to tell more. "You know how in books people say they felt sparks? I always believed that was a bunch of hoopla till him. He made me feel like I was on cloud nine but I knew we couldn't be together so I told him no."

"Oh Clary, it's okay." Magnus said softly as he hugged me from the side.

I laughed lightly, "that's not all. Right before you and Alec came home with Sebastian we talked in the kitchen. Things got a bit heated. I didn't mean for it to happen but it just did. We then talked after dinner and I told him it was over. Now I can't even look at him without wanting to burst into tears." I sobbed into Magnus's shoulder as Izzy patted my back comfortingly.

"It's going to be okay. Clary I need to tell you something." I looked up at Izzy through my blurry vision and saw her sad eyes. She looked on the edge of crying.

"Before this all happened, before you came back. Jace felt this way about you for a long time."

"What do you mean?"

"Jace has loved you even when you guys acted like you hated each other. He always has, and always will."

"What?" I croaked and thought about it all. It makes sense, Jace would never fall for someone so fast over the course of only a few days. He must have felt this way for a long time. Yet I fell for him suddenly. Maybe I felt this way a long time ago but those feelings were buried deep within my sub-conscious. Now that I'm back in town those feelings must have resurfaced.

I hastily stood from the bed and looked at Isabelle,"Why didn't you ever tell me?" I asked angrily.

"I didn't know you felt the same way or else I would have!" She exclaimed. I paced around the room my sad tears turning into angry ones.

"You could have prevented this whole mess by telling me how Jace felt right away!"

"Me?" She got up from the bed and stalked towards me. "You're the one who kissed him. I didn't force you to do that!"

"Yes, but if I knew in the first place how Jace felt I could have avoided it and then I would never have wanted to break off my engagement!" Izzy and Magnus both stared at me in shock as I recalled what I just said.

"I didn't mean that.." I protested. "I can't think straight right now. I need to sleep." I ran out of the room with a tear stricken face. Did I really mean it? Do I want to break it off with Sebastian? I couldn't feel that way. Could I?

Hello lovely people! I'm so sorry for not updating Thursday but this weeks exam week and I really need to study (math is seriously kicking my derrière). This unfortunately means I may not update this Thursday yet again. I'm going to try to but my grade are very important. If I don't get to it I'll update this weekend for sure!

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