Next chapter! I apologize for any mistakes made, my editing was a little rushed on this one.
Clary didn't get home until after lunch time the next day. Isabelle had already left a few hours earlier because she had needed to get to the fashion shoot where she needed to do the make up for numerous models. She didn't look particularly good when she had left, still a little pale with her eyes glassy, but she had been determind to recover and there wasn't much that Isabelle couldn't acheive when she put her mind to it. Jace woke up around ten, which was pretty early for him after a night out, but he had stopped drinking after Clary and Sebastian had left, and so he wasn't feeling too bad this morning.
Well, aside from the fact that he was checking the time on his phone every few minutes, counting down the time until Clary walked through the front door.
It wasn't as if she had never had a one night stand.
Shit, they had all had relationships, both serious and not serious, since they had been living together. Magnus had been quite the hussy before he and Alec ended up together, and although Simon was the most awkward out of all of them, he had even managed to charm a few girls with his bumbling ways into his bedroom.
It's just that it felt a little different this time, given he had something to do with her and Sebastian to get together. He had invited her at his work colleagues request, after the blonde had blatantly said that he was interested in getting into her panties.
"Ayyyye!" Simon let out an obnoxious cheer when the front door opened and Clary walked through. She was still wearing her dress from last night, but she had a white button down shirt over the top which was most definitely not hers, so probably Sebastian's. Clary rolled her eyes at them, but there was a small smile on her face as she took off the high heels that she was still wearing. Her face was scrubbed free of make up and her hair was pulled back in a bun on top of her head, a little damp, as though she had had a shower not too long ago.
"And there she is!"
"Back from a night sluttin it up!"
"It was the dress, I told you that dress was a home run!"
"Okay, okay, okay," Clary laughed as the boys—minus Jace—all started yelling at her. Her cheeks were a little bit red and she ducked her head and tugged at a loose strand of hair. "I'm just gonna get changed—"
"Hold up!" Magnus leapt up from where he was on the couch. "How was it? How was he?" He was wearing a lewd grin.
"Oh my god, are you serious?!" Clary snorted and rolled her eyes.
"Hey, this is the first time in forever that you've gone out and done this. You were well overdue for there to be something between your legs that wasn't your own hand," Magnus teased her and Clary rolled her eyes again, her cheeks reddening even more. Her eyes shifted between her roommates, resting on Jace for only a split second before moving back to Magnus. "It was the dress, wasn't it? I knew I could get you laid if you wore that dress."
"Oh you, hm? Put it all on the dress and not my womanly wiles," Clary laughed.
"Yeah, well, that might have had something to do with it," Magnus flapped his hand to side off-handedly.
"So is this like a one time thing or are you planning on going back for some more?" Simon had clearly decided that he was getting in on the gossip as well, turning sideways in the arm chair that he was in and resting his elbows on the arm, grinning up at her.
"I don't know," Clary shrugged. "It's not like we did all that much talking."
"That's my girl," Magnus smirked and held up a hand for a high five. It looked as though Clary was going to leave him hanging but then she let out a giggle and slapped her hand against his. Jace pursed his lips, looking back at the TV and trying to stop himself from outwardly reacting to the way she was grinning and her skin was glowing.
This wasn't the first time she had had a one night stand, he kept telling himself. He had even joined in the teasing and joking around with the other boys, so that was what he forced himself to do now.
"You know, Magnus was right about the dress," he hoped that his voice didn't sound as forced as it felt in his throat. "It was definitely a big part of it."
"And here I was thinking that you would be the one person on my side," Clary looked a little relieved that he was joining in.
"You're forgetting that I saw you in that dress," he teased. "I saw what wonders it did for you."
"Thank you," Magnus grinned and crossed his arms over his chest. Clary looked between them before letting out a playful huff.
"Okay, well, thank you so much for getting me laid not once, not twice, but three times, Magnus," she said with an exagerated tone. "I appreciate your interference in my sex life." Magnus gave a humble nod of his head.
"You're most welcome, biscuit," he hummed out at her before flouncing over to where he had been sitting in the loveseat with Alec. The two of them curled back around each other, going back to watching TV, although that didn't stop Magnus from shooting Clary cheeky smiles and Alec glancing at Jace every few minutes. Clary went into the kitchen, pouring herself a drink of juice and then emptying it in a few mouthfuls. Her fingers were playing with the hem of the shirt she was wearing, and she couldn't stop smiling.
Magnus had been right.
It had been a long time since she had gotten laid.
She forgot how good it felt the day after.
All laxed and sated, a bit out of her head.
She was glad that she had nowhere she needed to be today, because she just wanted to mope around and enjoy the heaviness in her bones.
What she had said to the boys was right, her and Sebastian hadn't discussed whether or not they were going to see each other again. And to be totally honest, she wouldn't mind either way. She wasn't looking for any type of relationship right now, and it was a little bit complicated given Sebastian worked with Jace, but maybe a few more times wouldn't hurt anyone.
Clary padded down the hallway toward her room. She pulled off the button down shirt that she was wearing and then her dress and her lingerie, dropping them into the laundry basket in the corner of the room. She pulled her robe off the corner of her wardrobe door and slung it on as she walked across the hallway to the bathroom. She had already had a shower this morning, but that hadn't really been about getting clean. A smile tugged at the corners of Clary's lips as she thought back to the rendezvous that her and Sebastian had had in the narrow shower cubicle at his own flat. She pulled out two dry towels from the stack in the cupboard behind the door and waited for the shower to heat up before stepping inside and pulling the curtain across.
She was completely lost in washing herself down with her lavender body wash and jumped and almost skidded over onto her ass when she lost her footing momentarily on the wet tiling of the shower when a voice sounded behind the curtain.
"Hey, Clare Bear," Simon sounded as though he was laughing at her, hearing her fumble inside the shower. "You good there?"
"What the fuck are you doing in here, Si?" Clary pulled back the curtain just enough so that she could poke her head around and glare at him. He was sitting on the closed toilet seat, facing the wall opposite him, at least not staring directly at the shower. "We're not kids anymore, we can't just have these conversations in the bathroom."
"Don't see why not," Simon joked, glancing in her direction. "Nothing I haven't seen before."
"Jesus," Clary rolled her eyes and settled back into the shower, assuming that Simon wasn't going to leave her alone until he had said whatever it was he needed to say. She began massaging her shampoo into her hair when Simon started talking again.
"Jace didn't seem all that happy after you left last night," he commented.
"He seemed absolutely fine with his blonde," Clary kept her tone airy and light although she felt a twinge of regret. There was no point in getting upset about something that she couldn't change, and also something that was no ones fault. Her and Jace had some kind of chemistry that was more than friends but neither of them were ever going to take that step, and so they both needed to enjoy the things that they couldn't give each other.
"You know...I was the only one who knew about that thing you had for him back in high school," Simon's voice was a bit softer now, and Clary had to strain to hear him over the falling of the shower spray.
"That's because you were the only one that I trusted," Clary shot back.
"And I always said that you were so much better than him, and you deserved better?" Simon reminded her. Clary bit back a smile as she remember pimply faced Simon grumbling about the crush that his friend had on the good looking jock.
"I always that was because you had a crush on me," she teased him.
"Yeah, well, maybe that was part of the reason," Simon admitted with a rueful laugh, and she could imagine him scrunching up his nose a little like he did when he was embarrassed. "But he was also kind of a dick back in high school." Clary licked her lips, not answering as she stared down at the sudsy water being swallowed up by the drain next to her feet. "He's not like that anymore, though."
"Simon," she stopped him there, reaching out to turn off the shower, indicating that he was going to need to vacate the bathroom sooner rather than later. "Please...I don't want to have this conversation." Simon sighed audibly from where he was sitting, but when she peaked around the corner of the curtain, he had left.
Happy Valentines day to you, beautiful people! My song recommendations this time are Wild Things by Alessia Cara. Pretty much anything by her actually, a massive thank you to my babe reppinda5o3 for making me listen to her in the first place. Then there's Paris by Chainsmokers, and Please Don't Go by Joel Adams. All songs I'm obsessed with at the moment.
Something that I forgot to make mention of in my last update—and I can't believe I forgot because I was a total mess when it happened—was Carrie Fisher :( OMG. It was so horrible to hear about her passing, and then her mother. My heart goes out to their family. Star Wars and Princess Leia will always hold such a special place in my heart xx
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