Chapter 14 Letters
Hey guys here is Chapter 14. I hope that ya'll enjoy it and that ya'll like it. Anyways yes, Jace is a street racer :) in this chapter Jace's life is explained well sort of :) What he does and about his family. So we have some new characters in this chapter. We are also going to see more of the kidnap so I hope ya'll enjoy it :) let me know what ya'll think and don't forget to review :)
"Street Racer?" I asked.
He smiled and nodded. "Yes. That's what I do." He said.
"How?" I asked.
"Just like in the movies but when you are racing it feels way different. You have adrenaline pulsing in your veins and when you win...you feel incredible." He said. He sounded proud.
I smiled. "Where do you race?" I said.
He smiled. "The night we met I was going to race."
"So you lost a race because of me?"
He shook his head. "I didn't lose anything because I had not put in my bet."
"Oh."
"Are you mad? I'm sorry if I didn't tell you before." He said.
I shook my head and sighed. "I was just curious and I suspected it."
"How?"
I smiled. "The Skyline."
He smiled. "I didn't think you would notice."
"I notice because I've always wanted to race."
"Really?"
"Yes. I would blame on the Fast and the Furious but its just me. My brother, Tito, is the same way."
"Have you ever practiced?"
"No. I would just always drive eighty miles per hour." I said looking out the window.
He was quiet.
I waited a few more minutes until I couldn't take the silence anymore.
"What are you thinking of?"
He smiled. "That we could practice and I could take you to do a race."
"Really?! You would do that?!"
He smiled. "I would do that and more for you. If I explain it, its not going to be the same thing as actually racing."
I smiled. "That would be great."
He nodded.
"When will that be?"
"Well first we will have to upgrade the Nissan 350Z."
I smiled. "What are we going to do?"
"Well we have to change a lot of stuff. Upgrade the engine, put in the turbo and all of that. But most importantly the Nos."
"To tell you the truth I never imagined that it would come true."
He smiled. "I understand. I thought the same thing."
I smiled.
"What about the color?"
"What about it?"
"Do you want that color?"
"For now, yes. I might change my mind later."
He nodded.
I smiled and tried really hard not to laugh, but I couldn't hold myself. I was remembering the time when I got stopped by a police officer going 53 in a 30 speed limit.
"What's so funny?" Have asked.
"I just remembered when I got stopped by a cop." I said.
"Why?" He asked.
"I was going 80 in a 55 speed limit zone."
He laughed. "I actually visualized it."
I smiled. "Tell me."
He looked at me and smiled. "Okay." He sighed.
'I could see myself going 80 in a 55 speed limit zone when suddenly a cop turned on the lights and asked for me to pull over.
I did what he asked.
The police officer got off his car. He came to stand right beside my car.
Me: 'Is there a problem officer?' I asked.
Police officer: 'Do you realize your 80 in a 55 zone?' He said
Me: I blame fast and furious, and Mario carts for giving me too much confidence in my driving skills"
I laughed. "You have a big imagination."
He laughed. "I told you that I had imagined it."
I smiled. I looked at his face. He looked kind of sad. "Jace, what's wrong?" I asked.
He sighed. "Seeing your family reminded me of mine." He said.
I nodded. "When are you going to tell me about them?" I asked.
He sighed again. "Well I guess is time."
I nodded. "Are they criminals?"
He laughed. "No, nothing like that."
"Then?"
"Let me start at the beginning."
I sighed and nodded.
"My parents met in a club, but it was kind of weird since she was the only one that could see them."
"See them?"
He sighed. "This is why I had not told you. It's very complicated to explain."
I sighed. "I'm sorry but I will try to understand."
He nodded. "You see, my parents are shadowhunters."
"Shadowhunters?"
He nodded. "Yes. We kill...we kill demons."
"Ya'll kill demons? Like the demons in movies?"
"They don't look anything at all like that. We kill demons and some vampires and all that to protect humans."
"Wait...I have already heard of this before."
"Really?"
"Don't tell me that your mother's name is Clary?"
He sighed. "It is."
"I thought that clary was born in 1991 like me."
"The dates were changed."
"I seriously can't believe this!"
"I know it's hard to believe. Besides that's not everything."
"There's more?"
He nodded. "You are a Shadowhunter too."
"I am what?"
"You are. The day we met, all those people that were in the boat, they were Shadowhunters also. I was actually surprised when you got on the boat, since everyone had their marks on. After that, when you left with me, I found out about your family. You are half Shadowhunters because of your mother's father's family."
"But my mother doesn't believe in stuff like that. Sure she believes in angels and that Saint Michael fights for our souls, but not people."
"It's because she doesn't know. There are some that are born with the sight and some that are not."
"So all the shadows, all the people I use to see when I was younger; they were real?"
He nodded.
"So that means that Isabella's parents were Shadowhunters too?"
"What do you mean?"
"They both had the same marks that you have."
"They did?"
I nodded.
"So that means that she is one."
I nodded again. "So what happens now?"
"What do you mean?"
"Can I still be one?" My heart started to beat faster. What if I couldn't be one anymore?
"I think that you can, but it might be difficult."
"Why?"
"You have to learn the Shadowhunter's History, you need the basic training, you need to learn to use weapons and you have to earn your marks."
I nodded. "I can do it. When can I start?"
"You can start the training, one you are out of the pregnancy and your strength has returned."
I nodded again. "So, now what do we do?"
"I think that it's time to go to Manhattan for a visit."
"When?"
"Tonight. After we tall with Erick."
I nodded.
We went back to talking about cars as he drove. That made me want other cars and to fix them up and make the look like the hot wheels toys. After two hours we finally made it home. Isabella had fallen asleep. Jace parked in front of the house. Claudia and Erick parked beside us. We got off the car. I went to get Isabella out of her car seat. I took her in my arms and closed the door. I loved to see Isabella asleep. Her face was so relaxed and she looked like an Angel. She was my Angel. My life. My everything. She changed my life since the first time I saw her. These seven months that I have been her mother have been wonderful. I never imagined that I was going to be this happy. Jace and I walked to where Erick, Alex, Claudia, Jack and Kimberly were.
"Erick, Alex, Kimberly." I said greeting them.
They smiled and nodded.
"Karla." Erick said giving me a hug. He had always been a nice person. "I heard that you were back."
"Yes, we got back last night." I said walking to the front door. I opened it. "Please come in." I said leaving the door open for them.
"We?" Alex said.
"Yes, my husband and our daughter."
"Ah, yes we heard that you got married and had a daughter, but we thought that you were alone." Erick said.
"Claudia told you?"
"Yes."
"Where is she?"
"She is in the car feeding Jack."
"Oh."
Erick nodded. "Well let's get to what we are here for."
I nodded.
"Alone." Erick said.
"Whatever you have to say to me, you can say it in front of my husband."
He looked at Kimberly.
Oh!
"Alex, do you mind staying here with Kimberly?" I asked.
He smiled. "Not at all." Alex said.
"Thank you." I turned to look at Jace.
He nodded.
"Alright Erick follow us." I said.
He nodded.
We started walking towards my office.
"Wonderful house you have. It's so big."
I smiled. "Thank you."
We got to my office. Jace went to open the door for us.
I sighed and went to sit on a chair.
Jace sat beside me and took Isabella in his arms.
Erick sat down and sighed. "This is hard, difficult and sad." He said after a while.
"I know. Claudia told me about Jakelin." I told him.
"Yes, she told me that you already knew. That's why I came to talk to you."
I swallowed. "Go ahead. We're listening."
He sighed. "As both of you might already know Jakelin was kidnapped." Erick said.
We nodded.
"Did Claudia tell you by who?"
What did he mean by who? Did they already know who it was?
"Ya'll already found out who it was?" I asked him.
Erick looked at his hands. "Jakelin came to me that same night, before she was taken. She told me that she had seen people following her to work and to her apartment. That's why she didn't come to my house. We met in a restaurant. She told me not to bring Kimberly because she knew that HE is after her."
I gasped. "Carlos is after Kimberly?"
He nodded.
"I knew that this was going to happen." I said.
"What do you mean?" Erick asked.
I sighed. "When Kimberly was born he was on his way to the unites states. He saw Kimberly when she was two months old, I think. My mother told him to help her out with what Kimberly and Jakelin needed, because she couldn't do everything. He told my uncle Calico that he didn't come here to support anyone. That he only came here for Jakelin and his daughter and that he was going to shut my mother's mouth by taking them with him and that nobody was going to know where they were going to be."
He sighed. "We should have never done it this way?"
"Why? Do you think someone followed you?"
"No, I meant about keeping Kimberly away from him. If he had just gotten a chance to see her, Jakelin wouldn't be missing."
I shook my head. "It was going to be the same or worse."
"What?"
"She means that he would have taken both of them at the same time. It wouldn't have mattered if he saw her or not." Jace said speaking for the first time.
"Right."
"What else did Jakelin tell you?"
"She told me that if Kimberly was in any danger, or if something happened to her, to bring Kimberly to you."
To me? Why me? Jakelin didn't like me and I knew that Claudia didn't like me either. I didn't understand why, but I could feel it when I was around them.
"Why?" I asked him.
"She said that you would do for Kimberly what she could not."
I started to feel a pressure in my chest.
"Love, are you alright?" Jace asked.
I put one hand over my chest. It felt like it was getting difficult to breathe.
"Love try to calm down it's not good for the baby." Jace said.
I nodded. I took deep breaths.
"She's pregnant?" Erick asked.
"Yes. I thought you already knew." Jace said.
"No. If I had known I wouldn't have come to talk to her." Erick said.
"No, no, no its fine. I need to know. She is my sister and I wanted to know."
He nodded.
"Does Kimberly know?" I asked him.
He sighed. "She thinks that Jakelin is doing some business in South America."
"Is that all?" I asked interrupting him.
"No. She also knows that she is supposed to stay with you. Alex and I told her that we are going to go do a business in Australia."
"She's staying here? With me?"
He nodded. "Well if you don't want to I can..."
"No, no it's not that. I would love for her to stay, but what I don't understand is why Jakelin would tell you to bring her to me. Jakelin hates me. That's the reason why we didn't talk that much."
He smiled. "She told me that she thought that you felt that way so she left you these letters."
"Letters?"
He nodded and gave me five white envelopes.
I took them and looked at them they had my name on them and they were sealed. So I knew he had not read them.
"I haven't read them."
"It's okay."
He nodded.
"So I'm the only hope Kimberly has to be safe?"
"Yes."
I sighed. "This is not going to be easy."
"I'll help you." Jace said.
I nodded. "What did she say when you told her that she was going to stay with me?"
"I didn't tell her. Jakelin did."
"But what did she say?"
"She was sad at first because Jakelin was leaving. But she said that she wanted to come."
I nodded.
"Well I must go because Alex and I are going somewhere."
"Okay. I promise you that I will do everything to keep her safe."
"I know you will."
I nodded. "Oh, I forgot to introduce ya'll. Erick this is my husband Jace and our daughter Isabella. Jace this is Erick, Kimberly's father." I said.
"Nice to meet you Jace." Erick said shaking Jace's extended hand.
"You too Erick."
We went back to the living room.
"Hey Alex this is Jace, Karla's husband, and Isabella, their daughter, and them there is the future baby."
"You're pregnant?"
"Yes."
"Congratulations."
"Thank you."
"So this is number two huh. Wow ya'll are going fast."
Jace and I laughed.
"Well let me go get Kimberly's luggage." Erick said.
I nodded. "So Kimberly, Erick said that you are going to be staying here." I told her.
"I don't want to stay here."
I nodded. "I know. I can feel it, but it's only going to be until Erick or your mother come back. Then you'll be back with them."
She nodded. "What are we going to do here?" She asked.
"Well we can go horse riding." I told her.
"You have horses here?" She asked.
"Yes."
"How many?"
"Four."
"Wow."
"We also have dogs."
"Really?"
"Yes."
She smiled but I could still see the sadness in her eyes.
"Kimberly you don't have to worry, you are going to be safe here and we'll try to make it fun."
She nodded. "So he is my uncle?" She asked looking at Jace.
"Yes. He is my husband."
She nodded.
"So you are Kimberly? I have heard so much about you." Jace said.
"Really?"
I knew that he was trying to make her feel comfortable. My phone started to vibrate. I took it out of my pocket. I didn't recognize the number but I decided to answer it.
"Hello?" I said.
"Karla." Wilma said.
I sighed. "Yes?" I said.
"Hey I'm calling to let you know that we're not going to be able to make it on Monday. I'm sorry." She said.
"No, Wilma its fine. I'm going to go meet Jace's family anyways." I told her.
"Aw, don't worry everything will be fine." She assured me.
"I'll try but in case that we are back and you are working we'll stop by."
"Oh okay. Then I'll see you next week."
"Yes."
"Alright Karla good luck."
"Thank you. I am going to need it."
She laughed. "Don't get nervous. Everything is going to be fine."
"Yes but you know that there are mother-in-laws that don't like the daughter-in-law."
"Quit worrying."
"Okay."
"Alright."
"Bye."
"Bye."
"Who was it?" Jace asked.
"Wilma."
"She is really special to you huh?"
I nodded. "She is like a second mother to me."
"Where's Tito?" Kimberly asked.
"Um he should be back in two months."
"Oh. Where is he though?"
"He is going to school in another state."
"Oh."
I nodded and sighed. How were we going to do this? Telling my mother was going hard, but making sure someone was safe was going to be harder. Especially a young girl who was just seven years old, who didn't know that Erick was not her real father.
Jace came to hug me. "You are stronger than you think." He whispered in my ear.
"What?" I said
Erick and Alex came in with Kimberly's luggage.
"Well we have to go." Erick said
I nodded.
He went to Kimberly. "Be a good girl okay? Do what your aunt tells you. Don't ask questions just do it. You will understand later."
Kimberly nodded.
"I love you Kimberly. Don't forget that."
"I love you too."
Erick nodded. He got up and came to stand in front of me. "Good-bye Karla."
"Good-bye Erick."
"Nice meeting you Jace."
"It was nice meeting both of you." Jace said
They nodded.
"Bye Karla." Alex said giving me a hug.
"Bye Alex."
They went back outside. They got in their car and left following Claudia.
"Alright let's go upstairs. We need to pack." Jace said
"So we are not staying here?" Kimberly asked.
"Of course we are. But tonight we are headed to Manhattan."
"Why?"
"Because we are going to meet Jace's family."
"Oh."
"You don't want to go?"
"I don't know them."
"I don't know them either."
She sighed.
"Okay how about if we go and when we come back, we go visit Tito?"
She smiled. "Okay."
I nodded. "Okay I am going to need you to watch Isabella while we pack. If she wakes up just let us know okay?"
She nodded.
I took her hand in mine and we walked together to the elevator. The doors opened and we went in. The doors closed and I pressed the button with the number two. The elevator started going up. Then the elevator stopped and the doors opened. We got out and we started walking to the last hallway.
"This is a big house." Kimberly said.
"Yes it is. It's big for just the four of us."
She nodded. "Aunt Karla?" She said.
"Yes?"
"What happens when my mom comes back?"
I sighed. I loved Kimberly like she was my own daughter. I was glad that we were going to spend some time with her. "You leave with her."
She stayed quiet.
I looked at her. By then we were turning to the hallway that our room was in. "Kimberly what is going on?"
"Nothing."
I stopped walking and so did she. "Really?"
"Yes." She said not looking at me.
"I think that there is something going on but you don't want to tell me."
She shook her head.
"Okay let's leave it like that. But I know that you are going to tell me sooner or later."
She looked at the wall. We started walking again.
"Okay stay in the baby room with Isabella okay? We'll be in the one that is in front of this one."
She nodded.
"It won't take us long. It's just going to be a couple of minutes."
"Okay."
Jace laid down Isabella on the baby crib and then we went to our room.
I sighed and sat on the bed. I looked at the letters. What did these letters have that nobody else knew? What did she want to tell me? Was she going to give me some clues?
"You love her a lot don't you?"
"Yes."
"How did it all started?"
I sighed. "That is a very long story that I will tell you some other day."
He smiled and nodded.
"I just didn't think that I was going to see her again."
"But you did and she is here now."
I smiled and nodded. "Well let's start packing."
He smiled. "Everything is already packed remember?"
I smiled. "That's true. So shouldn't you call to let your family know that we are coming?"
"Nah. Besides I have to mark you."
"Will it hurt?"
He smiled. "No it won't." he went to the drawer and got a stick out that looked like a long crystal. "This is a stele. You are right handed right?"
"Yes."
He took my hand and he had the steel in his other hand. The point of the steel touched my skin. I felt a little burn as he started to move it. I saw some light coming out and some smoke. When he was done he let go of my hand.
"I don't see anything." I said looking at my hand.
"Relax your mind." He said.
I kept staring. Then out of nowhere big eye popped out on the back of my hand. I jumped a little.
He smiled.
"What is that?"
"That is the first mark that you should have gotten when you were twelve."
"Twelve? But I'm already twenty."
"I know. But nobody else knows it. We can just say that you got your first mark and didn't get your training."
I nodded.
He smiled and touched my cheek.
I don't know if he realized the reactions that my body did when he touched me. My heart skipped to second gear and I could feel that where he touched it was hot.
Then he kissed me. He moved us until my back was against the wall. I pulled him against me and his lips moved to my neck.
"Jace." I said.
"Mmm." He said against my skin.
"We have to go remember?"
"We have a few minutes."
It was really hard to concentrate with him kissing me. "Yes but Kimberly is in the other room."
Then his lips moved to my chest. I had my hands on his shoulders, my fingers holding him there. It just felt too good. I wanted him. I wanted him to make love to me and I wanted to make love to him. It felt like fire was running through my veins. I couldn't control myself. It was so hard to say no to him at that moment.
"Jace."
He laughed against my skin.
"Kimberly is in the other room."
"And?"
"She fan come in at any moment."
He stopped and smiled. "You are right."
"Believe me if she was asleep we could but what if she finds us when we are...you know."
He laughed. "Right. She would probably freak out. Besides we have to go."
I nodded. "That's what I tried to say before."
He smiled. "You take Isabella and Kimberly downstairs. I'll take the luggage."
I nodded. I went to the baby room and picked up Isabella and took Kimberly's hand in my right hand. We went to the hallway and started walking to the elevator. Kimberly pressed the button and the doors opened. We went in and she pressed the button with the number one. The doors closed and then we started going down. The elevator stopped and the doors opened.
We went out. We went outside. I went to put Isabella in her car seat. Kimberly sat next to her. I turned on the Volvo. I closed the doors and went to check Kimberly's luggage. I grabbed one and opened it. It had shirts, pants and socks. I opened another one. It had underwear and shoes. I took both of them outside. I went to open the back door and I went to get the suitcases and put them in the back. I saw that Jace was coming with the luggage and I went to help him. I took the ones that he had and he went back inside to get the rest. I got in and folded the seats so I could fix the luggage. Jace was already back with the rest.
"I'll do the rest. You call everyone."
I nodded.
I went inside and grabbed my phone. I texted Cindy, Chris and Ana and told them what was goong on.
Jace closed the back door and got in the driver's seat. I got on the passenger seat.
"Alright let's go." Jace said. He put the Volvo on reverse and then on drive.
I moved and felt something brush against my skin. I looked around and saw the letters. I looked back and saw that Kimberly was asleep. I picked up the first letter and sighed. Might as well start reading them since it is going to be a long drive. I opened the letter and unfolded the white paper. I looked at the handwriting. I almost didn't recognize her handwriting. I started reading it.
'When you get this letter I will no longer be around...'
Okay guys that is it for chapter 14. So what do ya'll think that the rest of the letter says? How do ya'll think that Jace's family is going to react? So Karla is now officially a Shadowhunter :) do ya'll think that she will be able to do what she needs to earn her marks? So in Chapter 15 we will meet the Lightwoods, Herondales and the rest of the family (older version than the mortal instruments) so let me know what ya'll think. Don't forget to review :) and I will try to update really soon. Thank you for reading and for all the support