As I see my parents stepping into my hospital room, I know that this will be the moment of truth. I need to tell them about me and Jace and I'm so nervous. But that is of course after they've made sure I'm okay. Knowing my mom, it will take a while.

Mom and dad rush into the room to stand beside my bed.

"We were so worried about you! We came as soon as we heard what happened. Or they didn't exactly tell us everything that happened, just that you had broken ribs and you were most likely beaten up by someone. What happened?" my mom rambles nervously.

I explain how Raphael and the others beat me up. And then comes the question I had been dreading for.

"I will make them pay. Why did they do it? "dad asks angrily. He became furious as he heard what happened.

I turn to look at Jace who has been silent by my side since my parents came to the room. He smiles at me encouragingly and nods his head. I take a deep breath and turn back to look at my parents.

"I have something to tell you. I know this will come to you as a shock and I hope you'll try to understand. And try to keep calm, because I've been through enough today."

They look at me confused.

"Jace and I are dating," I blurt out.

They look shocked and thankfully I see no hint of anger. I know mom wouldn't react that badly, but I'm more afraid of dad's reaction. Their gazes go between me and Jace and they don't seem to be able to say anything, so I continue speaking.

"That's why they beat me up. They heard us arguing about our relationship. Then Jace left and they confronted me."

"Oh. Well, I'm happy for you two. This is a shock, but we will get used to it, right, Valentine?" mom asks dad who hasn't said anything yet.

"Yes. This is very unexpected, but I accept it. If he makes you happy then I'm happy for you," dad says, a little awkwardly and gives me a small smile. He then turns to look at Jace with a serious expression. "And I take it you have made things up with Jonathan?"

"Yes. Everything's good between us now," Jace says nervously. My dad can be a little scary sometimes.

"Good," dad says curtly. Mom starts rambling nervously again and I roll my eyes. I wish they'd just leave me alone with Jace.

"When can you leave?" mom asks.

"The doctor said that if everything goes as expected, I get to leave in two days."

"We have to leave for a business trip tomorrow. We wouldn't go if it wouldn't be absolutely important. I'm sure your sister or Jace can take you home and take care of you." Mom looks so guilty.

"It's fine. And yes, I'm sure either of them can take care of me, right, Jace?" I turn to look at Jace.

"Yes, absolutely. I'll take him home and make sure he has everything he needs," he reassures my parents and smiles at them.

After my parents are reassured that I'm okay, they go home. Clary comes right after they leave and I tell her to go home to sleep. I swear she's as bad as mom. After telling her that I'm fine, she finally leaves, leaving me and Jace alone.

I don't know if I should ask him to stay.

"Before you ask me to leave, I'm not going. I can't leave you here alone. I wouldn't be able to sleep. I'd just be worrying about you all the time." I can see that there's no arguing with him. I am glad he's staying. The idea of spending the night alone here makes me distressed.

"You better get comfortable then," I say and make some space for him next to me on the bed.

"Are you sure?" he asks hesitantly.

"Get in here," I command and he carefully settles down next to me. I lie on my back and Jace lies on his side, facing me. I turn to look at him, finding him already looking at me.

"You really scared me today," he says sadly, his eyes getting a little wet.

"I'm fine. Nothing too bad happened to me."

"But something worse could've happened." I cut off his worrying by kissing him. He responds immediately. He's kissing me very gently and I'm glad. I need his gentleness right now since I've had a really rough day. He softly strokes my hair. His kisses and touching are so soothing to me right now. After a while of kissing, we finally separate.

"We should go to sleep. You've had a long day," Jace says quietly and lightly wraps his other arm around me, careful not to hurt me.

"You're right. Good night," I say and kiss him.

"Good night."

"Jonathan, wake up," I hear a familiar voice saying gently to me. It certainly is not Jace since he doesn't have a girl's voice. I open my eyes and turn to look at the direction where the voice came from. Clary is standing beside my bed.

"What're you doing here?" I ask tiredly. It must be early, because I feel very tired.

"I just came to check up on you before I went to school." She moves the hair away from my eyes and strokes my head softly.

"What time is it?"

"It's seven. I'm sorry I came so early. I just didn't want to be late for school. And I thought that maybe Jace would need to go to school too. But maybe it's hard to make him leave your side." I have to agree with that. He did stay the night and refused to go home.

"You're right," I say and turn to look at Jace who's still sleeping. His arm is protectively wrapped around me. I shake him a little and his eyes open. He looks at me and then his gaze moves to Clary.

"Hey, what's up?" he asks.

"I came to see Jonathan before going to school and I thought that you'd need to go to school too." Jace's arm tightens around me slightly.

"No. I'm not leaving him here alone. Something could happen."

"You need to go to school. I'll be fine. The nurses are here if something happens. I'm sure nothing will happen. You can come back after school," I say.

"But-"

"No. You are going to school. You need to go. I'll be fine." He still looks hesitant. Then he sighs.

"Fine. You have your phone here?"

"Yes."

He kisses me twice and then gets up from the bed. He takes his jacket from the chair and puts it on. He rounds the bed and goes to stand next to Clary. Now they're both looking at me side by side, scared to leave me alone.

"How many times do I have to say it? Go to school." Jace still looks uneasy and I give him a hard look.

"Okay, but I'll come back right after school," he says and leans down to kiss me one more time.

We say our goodbyes and they leave. I hope everything will go okay in school.

I drive Clary to school since she took a taxi to the hospital. When we get out of the car in the school parking lot, I notice Clary and Jonathan's father going inside the school.

"What's your father doing here? Is he already coming to check out the security cameras?"

"Yes. He wastes no time. Plus, he and mom are going on a business trip today. He wants to make them pay."

We walk inside and I see Valentine standing in the hallway talking with our principal, Luke Garroway.

"Do you think we could see the security camera footage too? I wanna know for sure who it was that did it to him," I say to Clary and I notice my voice wavering with anger a bit.

"Well, let's go find out," she responds and starts dragging me to Valentine and Luke.

Turns out that I'm already needed since there's a police officer in the office and I was the last one to talk with Jonathan before the incident. He needs to know all the details of the day to know what really happened and why Jonathan was beaten up. They also need Clary since she was the one who found him.

As we go to the office, there's a paused image on the computer screen of what looks like the security camera's footage. The image is of me and Jonathan.

All of us gather around the screen to watch the video. The principal puts it on play. It doesn't have a sound, but it's clear that Jonathan and I are arguing. It's painful to watch. It's even more painful when I see myself walking away from him. If only I hadn't.

But the thing that hurts the most is when Raphael and the others gather around Jonathan and start beating him. I hear as Clary starts crying and I put an arm around her shoulder for comfort. I feel tears rolling down my cheeks too. They're both tears of sadness and anger.

Soon it only shows an image of Jonathan lying on the ground, passed out. Some time passes and then Clary and Sebastian run to him. They carry him away and the principal stops the video.

We spend about an hour of answering the questions the police officer asks. Like, who were the guys and what were me and Jonathan fighting about.

We get the rest of the day off since the principal thinks that this must be so hard for us. I'm so glad. Now I can go back to the hospital. And I really don't want to see the assholes that beat Jonathan up right now. I might not be able to control my temper.

Clary wants to go back to the hospital too so I take her with me as I go. As we go inside Jonathan's hospital room, he's looking at us with a disapproving look.

"Are you kidding me? Why aren't you at school?" I can't help but smirk at him.

"Aw, I missed you too," I say and walk over to him. I gently hug him, afraid of hurting him. We separate and he still looks at me disapprovingly.

"Seriously, what are you doing here? Are you ditching?"

"Relax. The principal let us go earlier since he thought that we might be upset about what happened to you. We saw the security camera footage." I say the last part quietly, looking at him warily.

Clary doesn't give Jonathan time to answer as she runs to hug him.

"It was so awful to watch them do that to you," she cries against his shoulder. Jonathan carefully wraps his arms around her and comforts her.

The three of us spend the day in Jonathan's hospital room. Both Clary and I refuse to leave Jonathan alone. The nurse comes to check him sometimes. Everything is going as planned and he should be able to go home tomorrow.

Hopefully when he returns to school, those idiots that beat him up are expelled. I know they are. The police and the principle saw the tape so they can't let them just get away with it. I can't believe they were so stupid that they thought that they were never gonna get caught. But they are idiots who beat someone up because he was dating another guy, so maybe I do believe that they're actually so dumb.

Weeks fly by as I take care of Jonathan. He doesn't have any bruises anymore, but his ribs are not completely healed yet. He tries to tell me and Clary to not fuss so much, but of course we're not listening. We both care about him so much. Almost every day when his parents come home from work, they check on him to make sure everything is okay.

Sometimes Clary brings Sebastian to the house too and then we all fuss around Jonathan to annoy him. Thankfully Clary and Sebastian are serious with each other so I don't have to be jealous of him being near Jonathan. Though sometimes it is kind of weird thinking how he has dated both of the siblings.

Also all of our friends have come to see him. They all had this pitying look on their faces when they saw Jonathan in that shape. It really annoys him. They weren't even that surprised when they learned that Jonathan and I are now together. They were of course very happy for us.

Today is the day when Jonathan goes back to school. I've always made sure to give him the homework and things we've been working in class during these weeks. He does have a few tests waiting for him this week, but I think he'll be fine.

Especially since those idiots are no longer there. They were expelled and got the punishment they deserved. Hopefully now everyone knows not to mess with us.

I guide Jonathan to the car, holding him gently by his sides. I know it annoys him, but he has tried to shake me off way too many times and knows by now that I'm not leaving his side.

I get Jonathan to the car and then go in myself. I'm pretty nervous as I start to drive towards the school. I mean, everyone has heard about me and Jonathan, but this is the first time they'll see us together. Girls have still tried to get my attention, but I've told them that I'm dating Jonathan. They always react differently. Some are sad that I'm no longer available for them and some are angry and disgusted. But I couldn't give a fuck of what they think.

"Are you nervous?" I ask. I quickly glance at Jonathan and see him staring blankly at the road.

"Not really. I'm more concerned of how people will react on seeing me again at school. I really don't care, but it annoys me when someone looks at me with pity. I swear to god if I see a one more look of pity…." he trails of angrily. We stop in the parking lot of school and I turn to look at him.

"You mean this look?" I put a pitying look on my face.

"Yes! I hate that look! Except it's not so bad when you do it," he says smiling and I lean in to kiss him. I didn't even have to scan the parking lot to make sure no one sees us. Our kiss gets a little too heated up and we separate, leaning our foreheads together. We're both breathing heavily. Fuck, I just really want to rip of our clothes and take him, or him to take me. We haven't been able to do much because of his injuries. Maybe some blowjobs and hand jobs, but I think we're both ready to take it further.

"Can we just stay here and make out?" Jonathan asks grinning, but I can see a little nervousness underneath it.

"I'd love that, but we can't. And even if we would stay here and make out, we would probably end up doing a lot more than that."

"I wouldn't mind." I roll my eyes. I give him one last kiss and get out of the car. I round the car and go open the door wider that Jonathan has already opened. Now it's his turn to roll his eyes. I just grin at him and reach down to help him get out of the car.

As we start walking towards the school, everyone is looking at us. It doesn't surprise me, but it's more annoying than I thought it would be.

"Don't you just feel like yelling at them to mind their own business?" Jonathan asks pissed off.

"I was just thinking about the same thing," I mutter. We start walking faster to the school, eager to get this day over with.

There might be like two chapters left anymore. I might write more than that if I come up with more ideas