Chapter 14: Songs of Life
Clary POV
I hear the elevator coming up as I am getting a mission ready in Library. Of course they need background on the downworlder now. It's just Jace coming back from the store with Simon. I think to myself. Walking into the Hallway I see, Lucien and Simon getting out of the Elevator.
"Simon! You're supposed to be at the store with Jace!" I say
"Clary he said he can handle it now, sides I had to talk to someone for a bit"
"Yeah sure, Why not scare the living daylights out of him"
"Oh come on Jace probably do the same thing"
"That's only because Cassie is his daughter Simon"
"I know that and Cassie feels like a niece to me, remember when she was younger she used to call me Uncle Simon until we had to tell her that we weren't related?"
"Yes I remember that of course I would remember that"
"Ok then I have right to warn him that if he hurts her that he is in a load of trouble coming from her family"
"Alright Simon and u sure Jace said he could handle shopping?"
"Told me that if girls came up to him that he would just say that he was happily married to a beautiful red head and has two children" He said. I laughed of course for that is something Jace would tell them.
"Ok I believe you"
"Never thought you wouldn't" Simon said.
Jace POV
As I look at the list in my hand trying to decipher Simon's terrible hand writing. Now I can read a lot of languages but it is hard to decipher his hand writing. Eventually I am able to read it and try to finish up when this mundane girl comes up to me. She looks about twenty or thirty years old, average height for a female brunette hair, and green eyes that seemed to look up and down my body.
"May I help you?" I ask her
"Maybe you can" She said back not holding back at all on hitting on me
"I'm sorry but I am happily married and have two wonderful kids" I say and show her my ring. Clary and I had decided to get married the Shadowhunter way but sense we live around mundanes, we thought it would be best to get rings just in case something like this happened.
"All the good looking men are taken now and days" She says as she walks away disappointed. I will admit that I like seeing the sad face of female mundanes when they see I am taken. That wasn't the last encounter of females that hit on me at the store, there was about 5 or 10 more after her. One woman even tried to get me out of what I was saying and tried telling me I was lying, until I actually showed her the picture of Clary, Cassie, Max and I that is in my wallet. Next time groceries need to bought, Clary is coming with me no matter what was going on. I finally check out and head out to my car. That was the worst day of shopping for me.
Cass POV
I could hear my mom talking with Simon about something but I didn't know just what it was. I know that my dad's name was brought up and then something about scaring somebody but that's it. Either way I didn't want to intrude so I just went on to what I was supposed to be doing. After getting into the music room, I open up my guitar case and grab the guitar out of its resting place. Its own little coffin as I think about it. I walk over to the chair with it and start to tune the guitar. Not even needing to look at the notes on a page of music, I start to play "This one's for the girls" by Martina McBride.
This one's for all you girls about thirteen
High school can be so rough, can be so mean
Hold onto, on to your innocence
Stand your ground when everyone's giving in
This one's for the girls
This is for all you girls about twenty-five
In a little apartment, just trying to get by
Living on, on dreams and spaghetti-o's
Wondering where your life is gonna go
This one's for the girls
Who've ever had a broken heart
Who've wished upon a shooting star
You're beautiful the way you are
This one's for the girls
Who love without holding back
Who dream with everything they have
All around the world
This one's for the girls
This is for all you girls about forty-two
Tossing pennies into the Fountain of Youth
Every laugh, laugh line on your face
Made you who you are today
This one's for the girls
Who've ever had a broken heart
Who've wished upon a shooting star
You're beautiful the way you are
This one's for the girls
Who love without holding back
Who dream with everything they have
All around the world
This one's for the girls
Yeah, we're all the same inside (same inside)
From 1 to 99
This one's for the girls
Who've ever had a broken heart
Who've wished upon a shooting star
You're beautiful the way you are
This one's for the girls
Who love without holding back
Who dream with everything they have
All around the world
This one's for the girls
Yeah, this one's for the girls.
I end the song and look up as I hear somebody clapping from the doorway. Now normally I would be blushing right since I forgot to close the door but I don't for I see who is there. Lucien, of course he would be there.
"That was great Cassie" He says
"Thanks I have heard it forever so it is like committed to memory"
"Nice, I also got a song stuck in my head. May I?" He asks and points to my guitar
"Sure" I say and give him the guitar as he takes a sit on the piano bench.
Lucien POV
I take the guitar from Cassie and sit down on the piano bench so that she doesn't have to get up. I had thought of the perfect song, she sang a song for me now it was my turned. I tune the guitar to the song key I needed and started to play "Your Guardian Angel" by The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus.
When I see your smile
Tears run down my face
I can't replace
And now that I'm strong
I have figured out
How this world turns cold
and it breaks through my soul
And I know I'll find
deep inside me
I can be the one
I will never let you fall(let you fall)
I'll stand up with you forever
I'll be there for you through it all(though it all)
Even if saving you sends me to heaven
It's okay. It's okay. It's okay.
Seasons are changing
And waves are crashing
And stars are falling all for us
Days grow longer and nights grow shorter
I can show you I'll be the one
I will never let you fall (let you fall)
I'll stand up with you forever
I'll be there for you through it all (through it all)
Even if saving you sends me to heaven
Cuz you're my, you're my, my, my true love, my whole heart
Please don't throw that away
Cuz I'm here for you
Please don't walk away and
Please tell me you'll stay, stay
Use me as you will
Pull my strings just for a thrill
And I know I'll be okay
Though my skies are turning gray
I will never let you fall
I'll stand up with you forever
I'll be there for you through it all
Even if saving you sends me to heaven.
I end it softly and look up just in time to see Cassie's face in front of mine. She kisses me lightly then pulls away from me.
"Thanks" She says
A/N: I know I know I haven't updated in a while. I was trying to do get everything done and yeah. I also couldn't think of the rest of the chapter until now. Happy Easter! I can this for it is Easter! Yay! This is your present from me! Hope you enjoyed the Chapter I threw in Clary, Jace and Simon into the mix this time! Remember I like Reviews! So don't forget to Review