A/N: Honestly, I am so soooo sorry for the long wait that I have put you guys through. There really is no excuse, but further more I will try to update sooner and try not to leave you in suspense much longer anymore. Antyways, without further ado the next chapter!

Clary:

I went upstairs to my room and instantly crashed onto my bed after the long day. Of course the talk with mom helped me out a little bit, but I was still confused of how I was going to get Sebastian off of my back. I mean seriously, I did kick his ass tonight, but I don't think that will keep him away from me for good so that doesn't really help me at all. I was happy that he was no longer on the football team which meant that I wouldn't have to see him at cheer squad practice anymore, but I did still have to see him at school. I was pondering about this when my door opened and someone sat on my bed making me roll because of the added weight. I turned my head towards the person sitting on my bed and saw that Johnathan was sitting next to me wearing his pajamas.

"if you are here to check on me to see how I am doing, I am telling you right now that I am totally fine, I am just really tired; it's been a long day and I had a lot of things happen to me today and right now I just want to go to sleep." I told him with an exasperated sigh.

"I know you're fine, I'm just being my usual overprotective self. Just let me know if you want to talk about anything and I'll be sure to get izzy in a heartbeat." He said.

I threw a pillow at him with a small laugh and watched as he dodged it. I stood up from the bed and walked to the other side to give him a hug. He wrapped his long arms around my waist and I wrapped my arms around his neck. We stayed like that for a while and I pulled back from him. He stood up and went to the door and I went to my dresser to get my pajamas. I turned when he cleared his throat.

"Love you Clare-bear, always have and I always will." He said.

"Love you too, John, have a nice sleep and please try not to worry about me, I will be fine." I told him.

"You know me, always the worrying type, night little sister."

"Night big brother." I said.

He left the room and closed the door gently behind him on the way out. I went into the bathroom adjacent to my room and changed out of my uniform into my shorts and cami that I usually wear for bed.

The next morning I woke up to Izzy jumping on my bed.

"Izzy, is there a reason that you're jumping on my bed at 7 in the morning?" I asked her.

"Well, it's Tuesday and I thought that you would want to wake up to someone that isn't your brother." Izzy said.

"Alright, I'm getting up, but I don't feel like dressing up today so you might as well get out so I don't have to hear you criticizing what I'm wearing, little miss fashionista." I said sitting up.

"Excuse me, but that is Miss Fashionista to you, I never and will I ever be little to you." She said leaving my room.

I chuckled as she left the room and went into my bathroom to shower and brush my teeth. I came out in a big fluffy white towel and went into my closet to get gray sweatpants and one of the gamer t-shirts that Simon gave me for Christmas that said Gamer girl. I slipped on some mocassins and made my way downstairs to grab my bag and breakfast. Johnathan was already downstairs waiting for me and of course Izzy was the last person downstairs so we had to wait another fifteen minutes before she finally came downstairs dressed in leather tight jeans and a black shirt that Simon bought for her that said fashionista across the front. She slipped on leather boots and made her way to my car. I got in the driver's seat and Johnathan got in his car so he could go and pick Aline up from her house. I started the car up and made my way towards school. It was quiet in the car so I was startled when izzy started speaking.

"Are you okay, Clary?" she asked me.

"Of course I'm okay Izzy why would you think that I wasn't okay?" I aksed.

"Well it was kinda intense last night and I heard that you were talking to your mom and I saw you get out of Jace's car with tears streaking your face so I figured that something bad had happened."

"Oh, no nothing bad is going on between Jace and I; it's just mostly that Sebastian is getting on my nerves and that he just won't leave me alone even though he's been threatened by a lot of people to."

"Alright, so I don't have to give Jace an earful about being a douche, but seriously, what are we going to do about Sebastian, I mean we cant exactly beat him up at school in front of everybody and you know that Johnathan will actually do that; so what now?" Izzy asked.

"We go to school and pretend that nothing has happened. Of course if Sebastian gives us trouble I'll deal with it and make sure that Jace and Johnathan are nowhere in sight for it but of course that will be impossible considering of how protective they are of me." I said.

I pulled into a parking lot space in school and got out of my car. I could feel that the air was getting colder and I was glad that I had decided to wear sweatpants. I went to my locker and saw that Jace was standing there waiting for me with his bag across his back. I smiled to myself and went up to him to say hello.

"Hey Jace."

"Hey Clary, how are you feeling today?" he asked.

"Better than I was feeling last night for sure. Have you seen Sebastian at all today?"

"Nope, and I'm glad I haven't; I really don't want to go to the principals office today for trying to kill a student." He said.

"Okay stop right there, one you would never kill a student and two you would never hurt someone so much because they disturb me."

"Clary, I don't think you understand what my feelings for you are. If someone or anyone dares to even make you feel uncomfortable or even look at you the wrong way I will come to your defense because you are my girl and everybody should know that and understand what I would do for you." Jace said holding my face in his hand.

"Jace, that is so sweet of you and now I guess I do understand how you feel about me, but you know how I feel about others handling the situations I get myself into."

"Yes and Johnathan and I both ignore you and you love us for it." He said.

"Well, I guess it is always nice to have someone behind you when you are in trouble; Just please promise me that you won't hurt Sebastian enough to the point where you are suspended from school." I told him looking into his eyes.

"I promise not to hurt the douchebag too much to the point where I am suspended." He said.

"Thank you." I leant up and gave him a small peck.

He returned the peck with a kiss and when he pulled away he walked me to art class.