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CLARY'S POV
Jace starts going up to where Izzy, Simon and myself were sitting. Everybody is now starting to leave so it's hard for him to come up. Isabelle sees him coming up here and smiles. "Oh and Clary, I'm sorry, I lied and I told him." Isabelle grabs Simon's hand and runs off before I have time to react.
Jace is almost up here. Oh no, what am I going to do now?
I start freaking out as Jace keeps getting closer to me. Should I bolt? That would certainly be the easiest choice, but I know that I'm going to have to face him at some point so I might as well get this over with.
I breathe in and out a few times and Jace finally reaches where I am. He opens his mouth to say something but I quickly cut him off. "Listen, I know that Isabelle told you something and I know what that something is. And I know that you obviously probably don't like me like that. I mean you could have any girl you want. And well... But it's just that... Well, you see... The thing is." I start to ramble as I try to come up with an excuse.
Just then Jace cuts me off by cupping my face in his strong hands. Jace leans down and kisses me. His lips are warm and soft on mine. I find myself startled at first and take in a sharp breath. After a beat or two I wrap my arms around his neck and stand on my toes so that he doesn't have to lean down so far. I run my hands through his curly hair and he moves his hands to around my waist.
After what feels like an eternity Jace breaks away leaving his forehead touching mine. We're both breathing heavily and Jace is smiling down at me. "Who said I didn't like you like that?" He whispers and then kisses me again. This time it's just a quick peck but it makes my whole body tingle and leaves a billion and one thoughts roaming my mind.
Jace fits his hand into mine and intertwines our fingers. I can't help but feel giddy. I had never really thought about what could happen if Jace actually liked me back. Well, I'm happy with the outcome.
After we walk down and off the bleachers Jace turns to me and grabs my other hand. "Clary, I have in fact liked you for a while. So I was pretty happy, to say the least, when Isabelle told me you liked me too." Jace smiles down to me. "I was wondering if you would actually like to go on, well, an actual date?"
I fight the urge to squeal or jump or do anything girly. I can't believe this is actually happening! I try to respond as coolly, calmly and collected as possible. "Yeah, I would really like that."
"Great. Tomorrow, I'll pick you up at 6?" I nod back to him feeling a thousand butterflies in my stomach and like I had just won the ultimate prize in a game show.
The two of us walk, hand-in-hand, to Jace's car. He drives us back to our houses and I absolutely hate that I have to leave. Jace walks to my side of the car and lets me out. He has a big smile on his face and before saying goodbye asks me, "So you really almost beat up Izzy just to try to keep her from telling me you liked me?"
"Yeah, I wish I had known this would've happened. I would've gone easier on her." We both laugh and then Jace walks me to the door of my house. "Well, bye." I say shyly.
"Bye." Jace leans in to kiss me and just as he's about to the door opens revealing Luke behind it. He clears his throat at the two of us and Jace puts out his hand to shake mine. The atmosphere is suddenly awkward. Jace nods to Luke. "Sir." He greets him respectively. "Good night Clary." Jace turns and walks over to his house. I immediately turn on Luke.
"Luke! Why would you do that?" He chuckles a little at me and I glare at him.
"Well I'm your step-father. I fill in for the role of your real father so..." He shrugs and I'm still glaring daggers at him. "Well somebody has to make your dating experience awkward." I open my mouth and Luke ruffles my hair, laughing. I shake my head at him, slightly smiling and head upstairs.
Moments later I barge into Simon's room and collapse onto his bed. He was sitting at his desk, on his laptop, and immediately turns to me. He starts smiling when he sees my dreamy expression. I sigh, looking up at his ceiling. "He kissed me Simon! I can't believe it. He actually kissed me." I sit up on the bed and look at Simon.
"Spill. Tell me absolutely everything that happened once Isabelle and I left." And so I do, I tell him everything up to the point where I came in his room. Simon starts laughing because of what Luke did and I role my eyes at him. "He really does act like a father to you. And you know what, that's a good thing. It can't be just me telling Jace that if he breaks your heart I'll murder him. He doesn't take me seriously." I laugh at Simon and he gives me a stern look. "I'm still telling him that though. Because you have to tell me EVERYTHING that happens between you two."
"Of course." I respond back to him. "You are my best friend after all." He raises an eyebrow at me.
"Really? Because if I recall properly, Isabelle is your best friend and I'm just chopped liver." We both laugh at that and I stay in Simon's room for the rest of the night. We watch various movies on Netflix and talk about our lives, school and our relationships until we both pass out at around 3am.
Once I wake up I suddenly remember I have a date with Jace at 6. Crap, I have nothing to wear though. Well actually I've never been on a date before. I need reinforcements. I go back into my room (Simon's still asleep in his) and text Isabelle.
From Clary,
IZZY I NEED HELP STAT!
Isabelle calls me after a minute.
"OMG CLARY WHAT'S WRONG?!" Isabelle screams in my ear. It's already 1pm but it's still too early for screaming.
"Just get over here now!" I respond to her. "I have a date with Jace and I need help! Now!" Once I say this I hear Izzy talking to someone else.
"Yes Jace, I'm talking to Clary.-No, call her on your own phone.-I don't care.-Yeah I'm going over there right now.-No, you cannot come, you get to see her tonight.-Really? You wanna come over to see Simon? Somehow I find that hard to believe." I start laughing at Isabelle and it's like she suddenly remembers I'm there. "Ok Clary. No need to worry I'll be right over." She hangs up on me and about 15 minutes later I hear the doorbell ring.
I rush over to the front door and open it for Izzy. She's carrying a suitcase and a large purse that looks like it's full of makeup and hair products. Isabelle walks right in without and invite and rushes up to bathroom that's connected to my room. "Ok." Izzy doesn't skip a beat. "Now, you only have less than 5 hours so we need to get to work.
"Izzy, I think you're underestimating how long 5 HOURS is."
Izzy waves her hand at me and opens up the suitcase. It's full of clothing of all different colors, fabrics, sizes and types. "Ok, well Jace told Alec all about the date and I may have 'accidentally' over heard him." I raise my eyebrows at her and continue. "Nevertheless, I know what you're doing so I brought about 20 different outfits that could work." She starts taking out dresses, blouses, skirts, pants and jackets. She lays down everything throughout the bathroom. I walk around looking at all the clothing.
"Iz, maybe if you were to tell me what he has planned it would be easier for me to pick out an outfit?" I ask her hopefully. I know Jace probably wants this to be a surprise but I really want to know.
"Nu-uh, nope, no way Clarissa Adelle Fairchild." I give her a weird look for using my full name. "Jace wants this to be a surprise and it's going to stay that way." I sigh and Isabelle starts looking around the room, thinking. She put everything down by color so she walks over to the green section. "I remember that when you rode in Jace's car for the first time you said your favorite color is green, and so did Jace. So how about something green?" She picks up a lime-green blouse and a pair of dark-blue jeans.
"Hmm, that's pretty and all, but I prefer more of a juniper green or maybe an emerald color." Isabelle looks at me strangely. "What? I'm an artist, I know my colors." We both laugh and continue looking through the small green section. After about 15 minutes, I decide on a darkish green tank-top with a light blue, denim jacket to go over it, a pair of black denim jeans that fade to a navy blue at the bottom and a pair of black ankle boots with one-inch wedges.
"Izzy, I told you that this wouldn't take very long, now we have 5 and a half more hours to waste."
"Oh I'm not done with you yet." Isabelle takes the outfit I chose and goes into my room to set it down on my desk chair. "Now it's time for hair, then makeup, then you can get dressed."
I sigh in exasperation. "Isabelle, I am not wearing makeup." Izzy looks at me with a stern look and then turns back to the giant purse she brought with her.
"Yes Clary, yes you are. This is your first date and you're gonna do it right." She says the last part matter-of-factly. "Hmm, now I'm not sure how I should do your hair. I need a guys opinion... SIMON GET IN HERE RIGHT NOW!" Isabelle screams for Simon and I end up having to cover my ears because she's so loud. After about a minute Simon comes running in looking extremely worried.
"What?! What is it?! Is someone hurt?" I roll my eyes and Isabelle goes over and stands next to him.
"Simon, you're a guy." He raises his eyebrows when she says that, looking slightly worried. "I need some advice. Usually I'm good at this kind of stuff, but Clary's hair is naturally curly so curling it does literally nothing and straitening her hair would make it look too boring. It can't be too plain or too fancy." Simon looks extremely confused as Isabelle is talking to him. "How should I do her hair for her date with Jace?"
Simon and I both look at Isabelle like she's crazy. "Izzy, darling... I don't know the first thing about girl hair, let alone how to style it. Plus, if you want advice on how to do Clary's hair for her date tonight, you need to ask someone that's closer to Jace than, well, me. Ask Alec." At that Isabelle laughs.
"Alec?! Alec probably knows less about hair than you do." Izzy laughs some more and the stops abruptly. "But that does give me an idea. Hold on" Isabelle steps into the hallway and calls someone, after a few minutes she comes back in. "Ok so I have called an expert and he should be over very soon." Isabelle smiles at us.
For the next 20 minutes we all just talk to each other until Izzy's mysterious expert arrives. The door bell rings and we all go up to the door. Izzy opens it excitedly and Magnus walks in. "I'm here and I'm queer!" Is the very first thing he says when he enters my house. Simon and I try to stifle our laughs but end up failing. "Ok, ok, ok. Enough fun and games, I heard the miss little red riding hood needed help preparing for her date with goldy-locks." Wow, never thought I'd hear someone say THAT.
We all head to the bathroom again and after 10 minutes of bickering and deciding, Magnus and Izzy get to work on my hair. They put what felt like a million bobby-pins into my hair and jerk it every which way. This takes somewhere from 15-45 minutes, I'm not even trying to keep track of time anymore.
Once they stop I open my eyes and turn to look in the mirror, my red hair is in swirls about 2 inches above my head. Two strands of hair hang down, encircling my face. Izzy applauds and thanks Magnus. "Only for you, would I stop literally everything I was doing and rush down here as soon as humanly possible." Magnus says, I'm not quite sure if it's to Isabelle or me.
"And now," Izzy starts to say with a squeal. "Makeup!"
"Oh no. No, no, no. I told you, No Makeup."
"You have to let me put on at least a little." Isabelle begs me.
"Fine, but only a little!" I put emphasize on the little part.
After an hour or so, Isabelle and Magnus finally let go of me. "Wow." Simon says before I turn around. "You look pretty. Like really pretty." Isabelle elbows her boyfriend (I'm actually not sure if you could call them that yet) in the rib-cage. Simon quickly puts his arm around Isabelle and whispers, "Don't worry, you'll always be the prettiest girl to me."
Awe, that's actually kind of sweet. "Don't make me barf Simon." I say to them instead and Isabelle rolls her eyes at me while Simon sticks out his tongue. "Real mature Si." I laugh and then finally look in my reflection. Whatever Isabelle and Magnus did to me, it doesn't look like they did much. My cheekbones look slightly higher and my lips look a little fuller. And even though it doesn't look like they did much I look gorgeous, kind of like mom actually. "Wow." I whisper.
"You're welcome Little Red." Magnus says to me and heads for the door. "Not that this hasn't been fun or anything, but I've got a date. With your brother." Magnus winks at Isabelle at the last part and she smiles widely.
I look at the clock and it is now 4 o'clock in the afternoon, I still have two hours until my date. I'm really anxious, the good and the bad kind.
"Hey Clary, what do you say the three of us watch a movie while we wait for it to be 6?" Simon asks me with Isabelle sitting on his lap, her head resting on his shoulder.
"Yeah sure, why not. I've got nothing better to do... How about we watch Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, it's based on this book series I read and it's not a lot like the book. But why don't we watch it anyway, we can make fun of all the differences." Izzy and Simon both nod. "Oh wait Izzy, shouldn't I change into my outfit so that I'm ready to go when Jace gets here?"
Isabelle shakes her head. "No, because then when he does get here you make him wait. That way he's forced to interact with Luke and Jocelyn." Isabelle says that with an evil grin. I just shrug and we start watching the movie. It's fun pointing out all the differences between a book and it's movie or a book and it's tv show... ;)
After the movie is over, Izzy and I go to my room and Simon goes down stairs to "discuss ways to kill Jace if he ever hurts me". After a few minutes my mom comes in. "Oh sweety, you look so pretty."
"Thank you mom." I reply back to her, smiling.
"Now listen Clary," Oh no, I have a feeling I'm about to get "The Talk". "I want you to have fun tonight. But remember you're only 16 years old and you make your own decisions. I'm trusting you to make the right ones and if anything happens, just remember, you can always talk to me." She kisses me on the forehead, "Love you sweety." Well I thought that was going to be a lot worse.
"I love you too mom." She leaves the room and Isabelle and I go back to talking. After several minutes the doorbell rings and Isabelle squeals. I start getting dressed and can here Luke and Simon talking to Jace downstairs.
Izzy and I sneak halfway downstairs so we can hear part of the conversation. "Now listen," Simon is talking. "I may not be blood related to Clary but I'm as close to a brother as she's gonna get." My mom gets up and walks over to another part of the room. "So basically, what I'm saying is that if you hurt her, I will hurt you." Jace is sitting quietly in an armchair.
Luke gets up with his hands in his pockets. "I have friends who are policemen you know, I could get my hands on a gun like that." Luke snaps his fingers. "I want her home by 11 at the absolute latest. You understand me young man?" Jace nods looking actually scared of Luke. I don't blame him, Luke can be scary if he wants to be.
"Jace?" My mom speaks up, he turns to look at her. "I hope you two have a fun date." He sincerely smiles to her.
Simon chips in at that point. "But not too much fun!" I finally figure that Jace has had enough and walk all the way down the stairs. Everyone turns to Isabelle and me and Jace stands up. He's not wearing anything too fancy but he's also not wearing his usual, casual attire.
Jace stares at me in awe, like I'm the most beautiful thing he's ever seen and I can feel a blush creeping up on my cheeks. We walk over to the door, not saying a word when Simon and Luke walk over. Simon hugs me and whispers in my ear. "Remember I want to know everything that happens."
Luke looks straight into Jace's eyes and then smiles. "Listen son, everything I just said, well that's all just me being protective of Clary. I do want you two to have fun tonight." Luke starts laughing and Jace joins him awkwardly. "But in all seriousness," Luke suddenly stops laughing and so does Jace. "Be good to her or I will break you." Luke then jokingly punches Jace in the arm and starts laughing again then stops immediately.
Jace turns to me and says, "Well, we should go." I say bye to everyone and we go outside. All of a sudden Jace stops me at the car door. "Wait, one more thing." He reaches for my hair and pulls out a few pins, my fiery curls come down in waves and I start to blush again. God what's wrong with me? "Much better."
We get into the car and head off to our first stop.
The date started off with a stroll through Central Park. We ate our dinner in a gorgeous field that was surrounded by trees and a small, clear lake. After that, Jace took me on a carriage ride and I swore I was falling in love with him as we sat in the carriage, side-by-side, holding hands. At the end of the night (9 o'clock), Jace took me to see a movie, it lasted about an hour and a half so it was 10:30 when we started heading home.
At my doorstep, Jace kissed me goodnight and I didn't want the night to end, ever. It was such a perfect evening and I want to spend all of my nights like this. Well I thought that before I walked inside.
Simon, Luke and my mom are all sitting at the kitchen table. My mom is holding a phone in her hand. It doesn't look like she was crying but she looks distressed and Luke is rubbing her shoulders. The three of them look up as I walk in the house. The smile that had been on my face a second ago is now immediately gone. My mother is the first of them to speak.
"Clary, I have some... news."
Don't you just LOVE cliffhangers. Well anyway hope y'all liked this chapter. It's over 3,600 words, wow. Ok well, bye!
