The elevator ride downstairs was pretty awkward. Isabelle stood over in the corner with her arms crossed and I stood in the other corner the same way, but Church just sat in the middle of the elevator. When we got to the main floor I was the first to walk out. When we got out to the main floor church quickly jumped onto the arm of the couch and laid there. I joined him and collapsed on the seat next to the arm and began to pet him.
"Here Evelyn, I thought you would want this… you forgot to grab it from your shorts when you changed." Isabelle handed me the stele Jace had given me earlier that day. I felt a pang of guilt hit my stomach for almost forgetting about it. I grabbed it from her and shoved it into my boot. Just as the last of it was shoved into the boots Jace quickly turned the corner but slowed down when he saw Isabelle and me. I felt my jaw drop as soon as I saw Jace. He was dressed in a casual concert tee and his jeans were slightly faded with a couple of rips in them. He wore just plain black and white converse. He looked stunning. A smile came to his face when he saw that I was staring at him in awe.
"I'm not the only one who can clean up nice." Jace laughed at me and gave me a wink.
"Yeah? Well you always look nice…" I mutter under my breath. Jace must have heard because he looked back at me with an even bigger smile spread across his face and he had another wink to throw at me. I couldn't help but smile. Was he the guy I kissed…? How had I managed to get a kiss from a guy as gorgeous as him? It feels like it has been a lifetime since my lips had met his. I longed for a moment like that to come again. I could tell my cheeks were getting pink just by the thought of us kissing again. There was an awkward silence before I spoke up.
"So, Jace are you almost ready to go? I am ready to find my sister. Let's get to partying." I was slightly shocked by what I had just said. How could that combination of words ever make sense? Oh well, my life was completely different now. Nothing made sense anymore.
"Yup, I'm ready. But here," Jace handed me a long thin dagger about the size if my forearm. "You might want this… Just put it in your boot or something. Just in case." I did what he recommended and put it in my boot but the hilt peeked out. After we said our last good-byes to Isabelle we were on our way out of the institute. On our walk I got a couple of shouts and whistles but kept my head down and continued to walk. After the sun was completely out of sight and the moon was full in the sky the temperature took a steep drop. For being later summer it sure was getting cold. As we walked my boot's heels clicked against the concrete. I took a sideways glance to see what exactly Jace was doing. When I looked over I realized Jace was already staring at me.
"Well your being awfully quiet." I say to him. He gives me a soft chuckle before he replied.
"I'm thinking of things." He left it at that. Then he looked back ahead into the dark streets that stretched before us. The cold started to really get to me and I began to shiver. I had my arms wrapped around my chest and my back was hunched trying to conserve heat. We had barely been walking for 10 minutes and I was already freezing my butt off. Oh, maybe that's because it was barely covered! When I looked over again at Jace he was starting to take off his jacket.
"Oh, Jace you don't need to… I will be fine. We are almost there anyway." Jace looked down at his jacket and looked back up at me.
"Oh. I wasn't taking my jacket off. I was just adjusting it, but if you're cold…" he started to actually take off his coat but before he had it off I nestled myself into his side. I must have shocked him because he just looked down at me for a second before he wrapped his arm around me. It took only a second for me to feel the heat radiating off his side. We walked like this for a couple more minutes before we reached the place we were on our way to. My eyes were shocked by the bright lights and the music spilling through the doors. We got in the line and as we got up to where the jumper stood I looked up and saw one of the places I could information of my sister, and the bright blue and red sign read The Pandemonium Club.
