Isabelle
After mine and Clary's little tiff this morning, over the matter of her using her trust fund for that building, I decided that I needed to go for a drive to clear my head. I hate when we fight just as much as I hate when she wants to do things like that. So I drove around for about an hour before I ended up parking at our old hangout spot behind the football field; when we were all in high school we use to hide out here and throw some crazy tailgate parties.
The longer I sit here with the rain pounding down on the roof of my car, the more my mind keeps wandering though. I swear she'd rather be living in the poor house as long as it meant everybody else was happy and had what they wanted. That's what pisses me off the most. She needs to think about herself too before she runs off making hasty decisions like that. I mean come on, her parents thought about her by setting up that trust fund.
They told us the story at least a couple dozen times as we were growing up. They said that they wanted to make sure she was always taken care of financially, so they set it up when Joceyln was pregnant; just like they did for Jon. Her, not everybody else and their damn dog. Okay, I know they don't have a dog but that's not the fucking point. The point is that she needs to take care of herself too, and if she uses that money to get that building she'll have hardly shit to live off of. I growl audibly. I just don't know what I'm going to do with her. I love her to pieces but sometimes I think her heart may just be to big, especially for her good.
That's why I threatened with telling Jon, Jace, and Alec on her. Because I know with certainty that they'd never let her do something so selfless, even if they were going to be the ones to benefit from it. After all they've had to stop her before, we all have.
Like the time that she wanted to buy Alec a brand new truck for his birthday cause he liked it. She argued that his truck was the oldest out of all of ours, and that with him going back and forth to school it was going to end up breaking down leaving him strained on the highway so it was time for a new one; the same truck is still running strong.
There was also the time that she wanted to take the whole gang - before Magnus, Maia, and when he's around, Todd- around the world cause we were talking about places we'd all like to see.
Then there was the time she wanted to buy me a new car after my red camaro was stolen and totaled, even though the insurance company was going to write us a check to replace it since it had full coverage; her argument there was that and I quote, 'Insurance companies take to damn long and you need wheels now, not when they decide you do. You can just pay me back.' end quote, but I knew better. I know as well as everybody else that she'd never accept the money back.
This is the type of things she does, and that's what upsets me so much. When she does this the only way to stop her is to tell, so that we can all can talk her out of it; admittedly it takes a lot to talk her out of it, but she eventually gives in. I'm sure it's more out of frustration and to shut us up more than anything else.
I sigh outwardly. I don't like it when we have to gang up on her, at least that's what it feels like to me. So I hope like hell that this time...
She comes to her senses on her own.
Jace
After I made it out of the fucking rain and into the store, I walked around for at least forty-five minutes before I finally found an employee that was willing to answer my questions and seemed to know exactly what I was talking about.
"You do?" I ask excitedly as I double check that I did in fact, hear the woman I'm talking to correctly.
"Yes sir." She says amusedly with a chuckle. She gestures for me to follow her. "Right this way, and we'll get you all set up and taken care of."
"Oh thank you so much!" I say dramatically as I begin to follow her. "You're a godsend."
She laughs. "I do believe that's the first time a customer has ever told me that before."
"Well it's true." I tell her assuredly. "I've been searching for days."
"Well then search no longer, we have everything that you are looking for." She says confidentially.
"How long will it be before I can pick it up?" I ask curiously. "I'd like to have it by tomorrow."
"Oh, you'll be able to leave here today with it." She says as we come up to a counter at the left side of the store.
"But will it be like I want?" I ask skeptically.
She walks around the counter and kneels down.
"It will be exactly how you requested it to be." She says reassuringly with a smile as she stands up holding a brown box in her hands.
"See I told you, you were a godsend." I say with certainty.
"Thank you." She says with a chuckle. "What makes this so important? If you don't mind me asking."
"It's for my fiancé, tomorrow's her birthday and it's something she wanted." I explain proudly with a grin.
I can't believe this is actually happening, I'm finally catching a break! After what feels like forever, I've finally found something I was looking for; something I wanted and needed. I'm completely ecstatic and even though it is raining, I don't think there's anything that can bring me down from this high I'm feeling. After Jon's great idea and now this, today just...
Keeps getting better!
Jonathan
It's raining; it's pouring. The old man is snoring. He went to bed and bumped his head, And couldn't get up in the morning.
I keep singing repeatedly on my way home. It's the same nursery rhyme we use to sing when we were younger and even though I'm twenty-three, the song still haunts me when it rains. And if it's raining and I'm with Clary, she's the one that starts it. She thinks it's hilarious to get it stuck in my head.
Speaking of Clary, I have done stopped and picked up her birthday present, and have even managed to get her a couple of others to go with it. I feel fucking good knowing that even though I've cut it pretty damn close, I still managed to knock this year out the ballpark!
Now that I'm only thirty miles away from home, I can't help but thinking about her and her presents. I so glad that I can easily hide them away from her. She's always been the worst when it comes to trying to surprise her. If she knows that I've gotten her something, she'll go snooping until she finds it or talks me into giving it to her. Then she gets mad at me for spending money on her. She's a mess that way, but I do happen to find it quite amusing. She's like I want it, I want it, and then it's, yeah I wanted it but why did you spend money on me. Even now I can't help but to chuckle at the thought of it.
I can't help but to think about this storm too. A few mornings ago when we were actually paying attention to the news, the meteorologist said that there was a tropical storm heading our way but the worst of it should miss us completely. However, the rain is starting to come down so hard that it's beginning to obstruct my view out the windshield and the road harder to see. Damn I really don't want to have to pull over on the side of the highway but it looks like I don't have much choice. I'm going to have too, at least until...
It slacks up some.
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Until tomorrow. Mwah!
KB: I'm glad you're enjoying this! Yes, I really did the prank. He moved away and when he came in for a visit he didn't tell me, his excuse was that he wanted to surprise me so instead I surprised him. Lmao. Fingers and toes are crossed that the new account works! Summer time for you! YAY!
