Hello lovelies. Okay so I am almost back on track with this story. I think ...
I had a bit of meltdown a couple of weeks ago because I started writing a few new chapter for another story on the notes on my phone as I do when I'm bored on the train to work. And I accidentally deleted it. It really broke my heart so I kind of stopped writing comepletely.
So I managed to get them back the other day by googling how to recover notes on my phone. Amazing!
Hence the updates ...
Friday night
Jace is standing in front of Clary's door. Usually he would just walk in using the spare key but somehow today he is nervous. He wants to use tonight to make her see him in a different light but he is isn't sure how to go about it. He knocked at the door five minutes ago but she still hasn't answered.
Clary has left school earlier because she had a free period and he had football practice afterwards so he told her he would meet her at her place. He finally gives up and pulls out the spare key from the planter which he knows is there mostly for his benefit.
He walks through front door and calls out her name and doesn't get a response. He figures she is upstairs in her room listening to music and sketching. He drops his bags by the door and slips off his shoes and heads quietly up the stairs. The house is eerily quiet and he heads towards her bedroom.
He pushes the door open and is met with silence. He looks over and Clary is sprawled across the bed asleep in a light summer nightdress that has ridden up high on thighs. Her hair has fanned out around her like a halo of red silk. He smile to himself and shakes his head chuckling. This is how he would like to see her when they lie in bed together on a Saturday night but she always insists on wearing pyjama bottoms and oversized t-shirts to cover up everything that is on display right now. He has teased her on numerous occasions in the past saying that it doesn't matter what she wears if he wanted to touch her clothing certainly wouldn't get in the way. Well that was before when he only meant it jokingly. He knows it is mainly because she feels self-conscious in front of him. But he has never understood why. She is truly gorgeous.
The night dress he is sure is Jocelyn's doing, an attempt to get her daughter to wear more feminine clothing. It is baby blue strappy short number that is form fitting on her chest and fans out underneath barely covering her thighs. He would like to think it is for his benefit but he knows she probably put it on due to the stifling heat outside and thought she would nap wake up and change before he came over.
He pulls off his jacket and lays down next to her turning his head to the side to study her sleeping form. Her eyes are closed and her long eyelashes are visible. His gaze moves further down and settles on her full pink lips which are slightly parted. He resists the urge to lean over and kiss them. He wonders what she would do if she woke up with his mouth on hers. Probably scream and kick him off her.
His gaze goes further down and rests on her neck, then the curve of her ample breasts which largely on display due to the nightdress she is wearing. One hundred dirty thoughts pass through his head but he wouldn't dare act on any of them yet. He follows the nightdress down to wear it stops just above her mid-thigh. He strokes at her bare thigh with his hand and sighs.
He nestles against her wrapping his arms around her body. He rests his head against her chest listening to the sound of her even heartbeat until it lulls him to sleep.
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He is awoken by a muffled cry. He suddenly remembers where he is. He can feel Clary squirming under the weight of him but decides not to move. He has her locked in a vice grip with his arms and his head is still against her breasts. He peaks up at her without releasing her.
"Jace, get off me!" she groans. He can see her cheeks are burning bright red.
"No, this is a very comfortable position," he says yawning and nestling his head against her breasts again. He can feel her trying to wiggle out of his grasp and he tightens it.
He feels her stop struggling and knows she has admitted defeat.
"Please, Jace, Can you get off me, please." she says softly. He grins against her chest and feels her breathe hitch. He runs his nose along the curve of her breasts up to her neck and plants a sloppy kiss on her neck.
"Okay." He says rolling off her releasing her. This had turned out much better than he thought it would.
She jumps up out of the bed and he can turns to see the furious look on her face. "What the hell were you thinking?" she asks angrily.
He props his head up with one arm and smirks at her, "I got here and you were taking a nap so I decided to join you. I thought it would be rude to wake you up…"
"You know that's not what I mean!" she says blushing and waving her hands around emphatically.
"What do you mean?" he asks nonchalantly yawning and sitting up stretching his arms.
"Don't even think about doing that again… You know you weren't meant to see me like this…" she says huffing, "I'm not one of your cheap girls Jace."
He stands up in front of her running his hand absently down the length of her arm and her eyes meet with his own but quickly look away and he can see she looks upset. That wasn't his intention.
"You look beautiful," he says softly bringing his hand up to her cheek and pulling her to face him locking her with his gaze, "I'm sorry if I upset you, but you don't need to hide from me Clary. I would never do anything to hurt you, you know that right?"
He sees her eyes widen in shock and her cheeks colour. Her head drops and he pulls her to face him again, "You know that, don't you?" he asks again earnestly, "I would never hurt you."
She nods at him after a pause.
"You just surprised me," she says quietly clearly embarrassed.
"I'm sorry. I won't do it again I didn't think you would mind." He says smiling at her sheepishly.
"It's okay," she says turning away from him, "just let me get changed… We can go out and have dinner or whatever it is you wanted to do."
He grabs her arm and pulls her back, "Let's stay in tonight … we can just chill out…"
"Okay…" she says, "but I still need to change."
"That's a shame." He says grinning at her playfully and she swats him with her arm.
He watches her pull out some clothes from her cupboard and head into her en-suite to change.
When she returns he is flicking through one of her sketchbooks that was laid open on her desk.
"Jace leave it alone, you know I don't like anyone looking at my sketches…" she calls out to him.
He turns around and his mouth falls open as he looks at her.
She in a very short summery day dress. It is cream with an empire line showing off just a little less cleavage than what she was previously wearing. The dresses top half has a cream and black floral print and then the fabric changes to a flowy pleated cream material which drops down from under her bust to her mid-thigh. The dress is held up by thin black straps and when she turns to throw some stuff back in her cupboard he can see it has a low back revealing her black bra from behind.
Her hair is swept up on her head messily probably just to get it out of her face. He looks down to her feet and she pads towards him barefoot.
She snatches the sketchbook out of his hands and puts it back on the desk.
"I thought we weren't going out…" he asks her his voice uneven.
"We're not?" she asks confused looking up at him.
"Oh okay…" he says scratching at his neck, "can we order a pizza and just watch a movie."
"Yeah sure." She says eyeing him suspiciously, "Are you okay?"
"I'm fine…" he says and as she turns away he regains his composure, "you look hot in that dress though."
"Shut up, Jace." She says not turning around and he follows her out of the room.
This girl is going to be the death of him he knows that now.
Okay so it took a lot out of me to post this chapter because I had about four different versions of a chapter later in the story. I think I've finally found my happy medium ... I'm going with it now.
So if you have any strong opinions about what should happen next ... you're almost too late?
I appreciate your reviews and input so keep it coming. Thanks for all your support guys.