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I couldn't wait any longer, I just couldn't. I hadn't talked at her since Saturday evening -or night, more precisely- and I really needed to have a talk with her… now. I searched through the crowd that was heading outside, trying to capture the last sunrays before winter would start.

Every time I had passed Clary in the hallways, my heart had skipped a beat, but she had never tried to talk to me. The little smiles or slight head nods were the only things that gave away that she had even noticed me, and it just drove me insane. In her texts, she may had said that everything of Sunday had nothing to do with me, but I needed to hear it from her own mouth before I would really believe it. So now I was searching that mouth… that delicious, perfectly formed mouth of her, so it could release me of all my worries.

And then I saw her… She walked into the middle of the stream of students who were getting outside, and was talking to a brown-haired girl who walked next to her. I didn't know her very well, only knew that her name was Maggie or something like that, but I smiled as I saw how they were both laughing. It seemed like they were both having a good time, but that didn't surprised me much. Up till know, I hadn't met anyone who didn't like Clary: she always seemed to find the right words to twist everyone around her little finger, including me. Especially me...

"Clary!" I shouted at her as I made my way to her, paving my way against the stream. I had figured out that soon enough my friends would find out that I did knew Clary, that she even lived at my house, so I didn't care about anyone seeing us together. I was almost in front of her when she noticed me and as I stopped walking, I made my world-famous smirk, expecting her to smile back and come to me. But then again, it was Clary where I was talking about, so I probably should have expected that she would do the exact opposite…

She stopped walking herself and said something against Maggie or whatever that girl's name was, while she made some gestures towards me and towards a picnic bench. It almost looked like they were having a little argument but then they finally split ways. She looked a little hesitantly as she made her way to me.

"What's wrong Jace? Why did you need me?" she asked, a slight frown visible between her eyes. I couldn't help but see how adorable she looked with that, but I tried to focus. "We need to talk Clary" I said, my voice less confident than I wanted it to be. "About what?" she said, making a weak attempt to avoid the matter. "You know about what." I retorted quickly, a hundred percent sure that she knew where I was talking about. She sighed as she looked around her and started to walk, probably assuming me to follow. Slightly offended that she wasn't the slightest bit eager to talk to me, I followed her to one of the big trees on the terrain. She acted weirdly, as if she was… hiding or something like that. She turned around and I took a step closer, closing the enormous space between us. Now our heads were almost touching, but she didn't backed away. I looked at her with a meaningful look: I wouldn't go away until she talked to me. "Fine!" she said finally, as she rolled her eyes. "Fine! I will talk to you… But not here, at home…" I smiled… I could live with that option. "Fine." I answered. "When?" I asked, whereupon she rolled her eyes again. "At 6 o'clock precisely in my room captain!" She said mockingly as she made a military salute with her hand. "Are we good now?" She said ironically. "Perfect!" I said back, ignoring her irony. "Great!" she said, the sarcasm now clearly audible in her voice as she started to walk away from me. And then I did it… I couldn't help it, if she was like that to me, I just couldn't help but try to piss her of even more. I quickly caught up with her. "We hadn't said goodbye yet" I said, after which I bent towards her and gave her a kiss on her cheek. She immediately reddened and after a few seconds of astonishment, she shouted my name angrily. Luckily for me, I was already walking away, not risking to get slapped by her if I stayed close to her right now…

Clary's POV

"Fucking asshole!" I mumbled under my breath as I turned away from him and stamped furiously to Maia. Or at least I tried to be furious, even though my body was still filled with pleasurable tingles. It was unbelievable how his presence influenced me! Blood was racing through my veins, my skin tingled at every place that he had touched, and in his presence I felt more alive than at any other moment of the day.

I reached the table were Maia was sitting and she grinned as I sat down next to her. "What?!" I asked, trying to act as if nothing had happened just now. "I was wrong…" she said with a smile, and I looked in surprise to her. "About what?" I asked slightly timorous. "I was wrong when I said that half the school is talking about you… I'm pretty sure that right now, the entire school is talking…" I was startled by what she said, even though I had already knew it somewhere, right from the moment he gave me that kiss. You couldn't just do something like that with someone popular without anyone noticing. Ugh, I hated popular people… I looked subtle around me (or at least I tried to be subtle about it) and I noticed that Maia was totally right… again. A lot of people were staring -without the slightest attempt to be subtle- at us and whispering to each other, and I was pretty sure that they weren't talking about my fashionable clothes…

Only then, Izzy and her friends reached our table, ending our conversation provisionally. Izzy had promised that she would sit next to me in the midday so that I certainly wouldn't be alone, and I saw that she was elated that I already had made a new friend. I introduced Maia to them, and was glad that she had stayed even though she didn't like Izzy's group. Don't get me wrong, I totally loved Izzy, but I just didn't trust her friends...

As the rest of the day proceeded, I couldn't stop thinking about Jace… I had no idea what I needed to say to him, and I was afraid that he would ask way too many questions… Finally school was over, so I said goodbye to Maia and left the school with Caroline in an uncomfortable silence. Alec and Jace would stay a bit longer because they already had a training for the soccer team and Aline, Kaelie and Izzy had already left –in the brand-new Mercedes of Kaelie- cause they wanted to go shopping. Caroline had some appointment she couldn't reschedule and I wasn't really in the mood for even more shopping that I had already done with Izzy, so Caroline offered to drop me off at home. I asked Caroline something about her hobby (she had mentioned that she loved horseback riding) intending to start some conversation in which I luckily succeeded. It appeared that Caroline was a smooth talker which made the car ride way more enjoyable than I had expected. As she dropped me off, I decided that I liked her more than the other two girls. In some way, she didn't seem as… fake as Aline and Kaelie were…

God, this was just terrible! Ever since I had come home, I had been incredibly nervous… I had been eating… a lot, I had taken a long hot shower and had tried to sing a few songs to clear my mind, but nothing could put Jace out of my mind… Every time again his adorable, knees-shaking smile and his magnificent eyes reappeared in my mind, making me completely insane. How could one boy take possession of every single thought?! I lay on my bed, refusing to meet him earlier even though the waiting was just nerve wracking… I knew that if I went to his room right now, he would be making numerous remarks about how I couldn't miss him, and I refused to give him that satisfaction … So now I was counting the minutes until it would be six o'clock, because even though I was scared of what could possibly happen, I just wanted to see him.

I sighted: still 23 minutes to go… I went to the mirror in my bathroom and looked narrowly at my reflection. This was certainly open for some improvement… I ran to my closet, happily that I finally had some goal to keep me busy for the next 23 minutes. I picked out a black short with a white tank top and putted a denim shirt on top of that, trying to create a nonchalant look (because I was totally nonchalant about this whole thing, right?!). Back in the bathroom I made a braid in my hair, trying to tame my curls a bit, before I went back to my bed. I sat down on the edge of my bed, trying to ignore the knot in my stomach that was getting bigger and bigger. I finally allowed myself to throw a glance at my clock radio: 5.56. I sighted deeply…

Ok, I couldn't hold it any longer! It was 6.03 and he still wasn't here! Had he forgotten about it? Or was he just playing a game with me? I was walking around and trying to make a decision about what I needed to do. Go to his room? Act like I had forgotten about it too? Text him? Grrrr why could that fucking douche bag not just be here in time?! Apparently I was so unimportant for Lightwood that he even forgot me! Well, I would show him that I would not just take that! I quickly left my room, striking my door loudly.

I didn't even knock on his door, too irritated to show any form of politeness. I remembered Izzy's warning to never open Jace's door without his permission, but I wasn't afraid of him and I couldn't care less. I just opened his door and went in, ready to yell to him… a lot. "Jac-" I started angrily before I shut up abruptly. Jace stood in the doorway of what I supposed was his bathroom, only wearing a towel that was loosely wrapped around his waist.

Soooo cliffhanger! :D Well guys, I hoped you liked this chapter! :) but… I got a very important question for you guys. In the next chapter, there's gonna be Clace… a lot of Clace :p , but I'm not sure how far I would go yet… Let me know what you think that should happen!