Disclaimer: Cassandra Clare owns all Mortal Instrument characters seen in this story.

"You're here for what?!" I screech.

"Yeah, Izzy and I have been dating for a month now," he scratches the back of his head and says, "I thought she told you. She said she'd tell you when she talked to you about Jace…" either he trails off or I just stop listening. I'm in such shock I'm frozen in my place. Then the words register in my brain and I realize they are dating and they didn't tell me. I'm their best friend. At least I had a valid reason! Izzy would have killed me if she found out I was dating Jace! She practically lied to me. She told me she had a date and made it sound like Meliorn.

Simon sees the look on my face and says, "Clary…calm down." And I'm gone. I have never run this fast, yet I run out of Jace's arms and burst into Izzy's room. "Whoa, Clary…are you okay?" I hear Jace and Simon running after me up the stairs and I turn to shut and lock the door behind me. Izzy is in a blue long-sleeved t-shirt and black leggings with black knee high heeled boots. "Izzy, why didn't you tell me you were going on a date with Simon?" my voice is clam as I talk to her.

"I thought you would be mad, Clary…you know, because you…I don't know! I just didn't want to say it! I mean what if it didn't work out between us? I wouldn't want you to be going between us weekly because we couldn't talk to each other. If it didn't work out I thought we would just act like it never happened so we could all still be friends. It's dumb, I know."

"Izzy," I walk over to her and we sit on the bed, "that boy out there is madly in love with you. He has been since he first saw you on the first day of school freshman year."

She looks up at me hopefully, "He has?"

"Yes, Iz." She looks at me like she's made a decision. She gets up and unlocks the door. I follow her to see what's she's doing and she shocks everyone by walking over to Simon and pulling him into a kiss.

~.o.O.o.~

Izzy and Simon left for their date about an hour ago and I'm staying until Christmas Eve here at the Lightwood's house because my mom is visiting her boyfriend's family in Germany. And by a stroke of amazing luck, Mr. and Mrs. Lightwood are visiting relatives in the United Kingdom, and Alec and his boyfriend are in Australia. "Looks like it's just us again, Red."

"What are we going to do?" I ask, my voice shaky. His eyes are a molten gold. The way he's looking at me makes my knees weak.

"Well, we could always," he breaks off, walks towards me and whispers in my ear…Okay, there's no way in hell I'm ever repeating that…

When he finishes he leans back and smirks at my no doubt red face. Heat pools in my lower stomach from what he said and I walk closer to him and wrap my arms around his neck as he wraps his around my waist. We kiss. Hard and long and passionate. When we break apart for air, my phone vibrates in my jean pocket. I move one of my arms to reach my pocket so I can look at my phone: Text Message from Izzy.

Izzy: Don't wait up ;)

I scoff. "Well, it looks like it's just us tonight." Jace looks at me and then leans in to kiss me. As this kiss goes on it gains in intensity. Eventually, I jump into his arms and wrap my legs around his waist. "Are you sure?" Jace asks me. "Yes," I respond and kiss him again.

~.o.O.o.~

I wake up next to Jace and find once again we are tangled up in each other. But one thing that definitely crosses my mind is how I am a little sore. It's kinda a dull nagging pain, like a sore muscle that doesn't hurt until you move in a certain way. I untangle myself from Jace and get out of bed. I look for something to put on and decide to put on Jace's shirt. I rush downstairs to take two Tylenol and the run back upstairs. By the time I get back in Jace's room, I am absolutely winded. I am just about to get back into bed when Jace sits straight up, looks around the room and says, "Clary?"

His worried expression melts my heart as I reach across the bed to cup his face. "I'm here, Jace." His face relaxes when he sees me and he pulls my arm so I fall onto him on the bed. "Good morning, beautiful girl," he says. I feel the blood rush to my face as he says this and I respond, "Good Morning, very attractive boy."

Jace kisses my nose and says, "I am not a boy. I am a man. You'd think that last night would be enough proof of that."

"Jace!" I give him a good whack on the arm and he laughs. Then his eyes grow darker as he pulls his shirt off of me and says, "How about a shower?" I don't even get to say yes because he has already picked me up and is carrying me to his shower while kissing me.

~.o.O.o.~

Jace and I are sitting on the couch, watching a movie…well, not so much watching the movie, more like kissing each other a lot. Things are heating up when all of a sudden, my phone rings. Jace groans and says, "Let it go. Whoever it is can leave a voicemail."

"Jace, it could be my mom, I have to answer." I pull away to grab my phone off the coffee table and sit on the couch. Sure enough it is my mom.

"Hey, mom! How's Germany?" Jace has other ideas, rather than sitting there on the couch and instead starts kissing my neck.

"It's great Honey, but we're snowed in here so we might be back in a week. Is that okay?"

"Yeah…that's fine. Am I staying at the Lightwood's?" Jace is getting distracting.

"Honey, are you okay, you sound distracted? But yes, you will be staying at the Lightwood's."

"Yeah, I'm fine…Izzy and I are just watching a-ahh," Jace is now getting a little handsy," movie and we got to a really good part."

"Okay, well, I'll let you go. Love you. Have fun with Izzy."

"Love you too!" I all but scream out.

"Damn it, Jace!" I say and crash my lips to his.