Hey everybody! Another update here for y'all. Sorry for not updating quicker!

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So anywayyy thank you guys for reading, and for all the follows and faves. Each one of you is ahh precious and great, okay? Never forget that. Love you guys.

Also, as y'all know that I usually write from Jace's point of view but in third person, this chapter is gonna be from Clary's perspective but also in third person. If you guys want me to do more from Clary's POV or want me to write in first person, please do say so. Tell me what y'all think about it.

Also, y'all should just expect swearing and inappropriate stuff in the chapter sometimes. XD

Disclaimer: I do not own the characters from TMI. Cassie does.

Whoops now on with the chapter!


This is going to be a long night, thought Jace as he followed his friends up a flight of stairs and to an isolated dark room at the end of the hall. Everybody else was still partying downstairs, but Magnus had somehow gotten Kaelie to let them use a guest room in the house. All to themselves. For now, at least. When Magnus had made the offer to play the game, everybody had laughed and shot their hands up in agreement. Not Jace. He had just smirked, his hands folded across his chest as he watched the others.

Now as they finally swarmed into the room, somebody flipped on a switch and the room was bathed in a dim glow from a single light. It wasn't fully dark in there, but not completely bright either. Everyone then got settled on the plush clean-looking carpet on the floor. They were seated in a circle in the middle of the average-sized room, and Jace found himself looking straight ahead, and into emerald green eyes.

Clary's POV

Clary sat down with a huff; it was more like tumbling down, with all her lack of gracefulness in her movements. Now, looking around her, she saw that Sebastian was to her right — as usual, since he accompanied her almost everywhere these days. Not that she minded much. To her left was Simon. Glancing up, she then realized she was sitting directly opposite to Jace as his tawny golden eyes bored into hers. She sent a tiny wave in his direction, and he smirked in response. She ran her eyes over each person present, and noticed two things — first that Maia and Jordan were absent, which was probably because they had snuck off together; and second that that Eliza person was sitting right next to Jace. How clingy, she thought in exasperation, rolling her eyes internally.

"... Clary? Clary." A voice broke into her bubble and she snapped to attention. She turned to the dark-haired boy beside her, and she had to admit, he was indeed attractive. She wondered how people who looked like Sebastian — and okay, Jace — would even like her. She was short, barely had much curves, had freckles all over, was clumsy and just whatnot. But whatever. She didn't need to think about those things right now.

"Yeah, Seb?" She smiled at him. He raised an eyebrow, smiling himself.

"You weren't paying attention. It's interesting how you can get lost in your own world so quickly." He lifted a finger and tapped it gently against her temple, while his eyes ran all over her face as if seeing her for the first time.

Then Magnus' voice rang out. "Okay, everybody! Now, now, let's start this game. Truth or Dare! Who's first?"

He looked over every single person, a smirk on his face. "Well then. If nobody's willing to start, I will. Isabelle!"

Izzy just raised her eyebrows.

"Truth or dare?"

"Dare!" She grinned.

"I dare you to go downstairs and shout 'I'm crushing on Lewis big-time!'"

"But I—" She glanced at Simon, who was blushing a little, and bit her lip trying not to smile.

"Fine." She got up and so did Clary. She had to make sure Iz did the dare.

When the raven-haired girl made her way to where the main party was going on, Clary stood and watched from the edge of the stairs, grinning.

"Hey, Iz, hurry up!"

So she did. When Isabelle shouted "I have a big-time crush on Simon Lewis!" most heads that weren't too busy drinking or making out or whatnot turned to her, and looked at her as if she had grown two heads. Tripping over themselves with laughter, the two girls ran back up the stairs and to the room.

"You guys should have seen their faces!" Clary snorted as they sat back down.

A few small laughs sounded and then Izzy clapped her hands. "Okay, now who to pick."

She looked around with a glint in her eyes when they landed on Alec. During these games nobody had mercy on poor Alec Lightwood. "My dear brother Alec! Truth or dare?"

"Uh, truth." He muttered. Izzy laughed evilly.

"Who did you lose your virginity to?"

"Oh— um, I.."

"Okay, by the way, you have to answer any truth given or do your dare. There's no option to remove an article of clothing or take a shot of alcohol if you don't want to answer or do it." Magnus chimed in, smirking.

Alec turned bright red, and unfortunately for him it was terribly obvious against his pale skin. "Fine. It was— oh god, it was Magnus, okay?"

Everybody gaped at the blushing blue-eyed boy. Izzy decided to squeal loudly. "Why didn't you tell me?! I totally ship you two together."

The fact that everyone was still gaping and Magnus was smiling and staring at Alec did not do anything to help the Lightwood boy's blush.

"Move on from me already, all of you." He crossed his arms and spoke in his elder brother voice. They just laughed. He rolled his eyes.

"So. Simon, truth or dare?" Alec asked.

"Uhh, dare?" He replied, thinking Alec probably wouldn't give him a hard or bad dare.

"Oh, boy. Dare you to stand outside this room and flirt with the first person you see into giving their number to you."

Simon's jaw dropped a little. Seconds later, he sighed in resignation and went out, leaving the door wide open for the people inside to see. All of them waited, and finally after a few minutes a girl came into view. She looked like a wannabe-cool bimbo. Simon "uh-d" and "um-d" his way through the conversation and miraculously somehow, he came back into the room with the girl's number indeed. The thing was that the girl had written it in lipstick on the inside of his right arms. Gross, Clary thought as Simon quickly rubbed it off having shown the evidence to his success. After that Si asked Izzy a truth, but Clary didn't pay much attention.

The game slowly went on, until somebody decided to ask her for the first time. "Biscuit, truth or dare?" Magnus sang.

Clary bit her lip and she cast her gaze towards Jace. He was, of course, looking at her. She turned her focus back to Mags and answered coolly, but not before Isabelle decided to chime in: "Truth is for wussies!"

The redhead snorted and replied, "Dare."

"Oooh." Magnus rubbed his hands together evilly, just like he had done multiple times earlier and that Clary was sure was not the last time either. She thought she saw the guy cut a nano-second glance at Jace, but she couldn't be sure so she dismissed it as her imagination.

"Well, then — I dare you to make out with any one guy here for thirty seconds." Magnus grinned, and the others just smirked.

Clary couldn't help it, she risked a glance at Jace for a split second, and no emotion showed on his face. Which was quite unusual, since Clary was normally able to read him really well. She knew she couldn't kiss Jace, since that would only make things escalate later on and make them more awkward for now; Simon was out of the option too, because she knew Izzy had a thing for him and Clary would never want to be upsetting the other girl who had grown to be a really good friend at any cost, even if it was a stupid dare. Magnus and Alec were out of the question; hell, she too shipped both of them together so hard. So that only left one person, sitting right next to her — Sebastian. Well, she had kissed him before, but that had been only once. She did, however, feel a little weird in front of everyone else. So she uttered a nervous laugh and turned to the dark-haired boy, who was looking back at her with an eyebrow raised. It wasn't an expression of amusement, but seemed to be out of mere curiosity. As she pulled closer to him, both of his eyebrows now arched, and she wondered if she had really heard someone in the group release an almost inaudible gasp.

You can do it. It's nothing, Clare. Don't be a wuss, she told herself. She took a small breath, and pressed her lips to Sebastian's. She felt a slight tingling sensation. Eventually their lips parted, granting entrance to their tongues fighting for dominance.

When the thirty seconds were over, Magnus cleared his throat and they broke apart. Sebastian smiled sheepishly, and Clary just blushed. She didn't noticed the not-so-subtle glances of the rest of the gang going back and forth from Clary to Jace. When she did look up, her eyes fell upon — as usual — Jace first. She felt as if her insides were bring squeezed by a large brutal hand when she saw, quite clearly, shutters falling behind her best friend's eyes. She cursed herself internally.

"Okay, now... Eliza! Truth or dare?" Clary asked, hoping her voice came out steady.

The other girl's eyebrow arched as she looked at Clary, as if surprised to be picked by the redhead. With an elegant twitch of her shoulders, she replied in a seemingly indifferent tone: "Truth."

"Uh.. I don't really know what to ask, so anybody is welcome to."

Izzy spoke up, though she was also looking at Jace pointedly. "What do you feel about Jace?"

Eliza just shrugged and gave a musical laugh. "Oh, Blondie? Well honestly, I'm not sure. He's cool and all, and I think I might like him or something, but I don't know. My likes normally don't last longer than a week." She smirked. Just like Jace, Clary muttered bitterly in her mind.

There was no emotion on Jace's face except for a little amusement that was showing. Resisting the urge to suddenly cuddle up into her best friend's side and delve into negative feelings, Clary turned her head and was again faced with Sebastian, who smiled at her and placed a hand on her back supportively. She appreciated it, but didn't care to look up again as the game continued again.

She only snapped to attention again when somebody dared Jace to kiss any one girl. Similar to Clary's dare.. She looked up through her eyelashes and found that Jace had, without hesitation or looking at her, turned to the girl next to him and kissed her. Eliza, Clary thought resentfully. After that she soon withdrew from playing the game but remained in her position, leaning lightly toward Sebastian as her eyelids began to droop from drowsiness.

It had been a long night joking and messing around. The last thing she remembered before falling asleep were — surprisingly — concerned golden eyes, and then strong arms wrapping around her as her body went limp from sleep and exhaustion.


Ehhhh hope this chapter didn't disappoint! I'm sorry that it wasn't much long and if it came out sucky. It probly did. And also, I was too lazy to proofread again, hope no one minds for once. But I've been really busy (and I'm kind of on a little vacation) so I haven't had much time to write, and this just came out in a rush cause I didn't want to leave you guys hanging for more days than I already have. Hope y'all understand. I love you guys. Please fave/follow/review if you like the story.

I'll be back home in probably two days or so, and will try to update soon.

Until next time! xoxo