Hey, guys! So here we go with the next update. Also just wanting to let you know that I will be taking the rest of the month off, so no other updates until May. Just have a lot going on in my life at the moment and I'm feeling a bit stressed out. But I'll still be around, so if you want to fangirl or talk, send me a PM. From May, the updating schedule on my profile will be adhered to once again :)

Y : Yours To Hold - Skillet
Requested by Soccerpup17

I'm stretching but you're just out of reach
You should know
I'm ready when you're ready for me
And I'm waiting for the right time
For the day I catch your eye
To let you know
That I'm yours to hold
Every single day
I find it hard to say
I could be yours alone
You will see someday
That all along the way
I was yours to hold
I was yours to hold

"You're pathetic," Alec Lightwood stated with a fond smile on his face as he watched Jace Wayland almost drop the tray of croissants that he had brought out of the kitchen and his eyes had zeroed in on the red head who was sitting in the corner of the coffee shop. She was with her friend, the nerdy kid with scruffy hair and glasses, and she was laughing, her head tossed back. There was an order number between them on the table, which meant that they were still waiting on their coffee, and Jace's eyes skittered over to the order sitting behind the espresso machine.

"You haven't taken her coffee out yet?" He asked quietly, ignoring the smirk on his best friends face.

"No, we wouldn't do that to you, Jace," Isabelle Lightwood grinned and came up behind the golden haired boy, nudging him in the side. Jace tried to ignore the heat on his cheeks as he quickly shoved the tray of pastries into the display cabinet beside the cash register and picked up the two styrofoam cups of coffee. One of them had Simon written in Alec's scrawl, and the other said Clary. Alec had annoyingly put a little smiley face next to her name, just to piss him off, and Jace rolled his eyes as he picked them up and started over to the table in the corner.

"Order 23?" He phrased it like a question, nodding at their order number, even though Jace knew perfectly well that it was their coffee in his hand.

"Thanks, man," Simon Lewis reached out gratefully for the coffee, wrapping his hand around the cup and practically inhaling it.

"Oooh," Clarissa Fray's eyes widened as she fixed them on the coffee that Jace was handing her. She took in from his hand and flashed him a quick smile. "Thanks." And then she was looking back at Simon, starting to babble about some new professor she had for Art History over at NYU. Jace hesitated for a second, but then Simon gave him a bit of a questioning look, and so he high-tailed it back behind the counter, because what exactly was he going to do? Eavesdrop with ridiculous hope that maybe she would involve him in their conversation?

He was pretty sure she didn't even know his name, it's not like they wore name tags.

Clary had started coming into Lava Java at the beginning of the year. It was easy to tell that she was a New Yorker born and raised, and not just someone who had moved into the city for University. It was easy to tell the ones who weren't used to the fast paced hustle bustle, and Clary wasn't one of them.

As time went on, through small talk and overheard conversations between Clary and her friends, Jace learnt that she lived in Brooklyn all of her life, which was why he had never seen her around. She had moved into an apartment nearby with Simon and their other friend, Maia Roberts, and they were all attending NYU. Jace wasn't sure what Simon or Maia were studying, but he knew that Clary was taking something relating to Art.

More than once she came in with paint on her face or in her hair.

Jace thought it was utterly adorable.

"Can I get another one?" Clary's voice snapped Jace out of his work, where he had been methodically wiping down the benches. He realized it must have been a while since he had taken her coffee over to them, because her and Simon had all finished and packed up their things and were ready to go.

"Another hazelnut cappuccino?" Jace asked unnecessarily, already moving to start making it. Clary's pretty, pink lips curved upward in a smile and she nodded, tucking a few unruly strands of red hair behind her air. Clary pulled out her debit card from her wallet as she waited patiently for him to finish her coffee.

He had thought about asking her out a hundred time, but how awkward would that be? They barely knew each other. He was just the guy that made her coffee every other day.

"Don't worry," Jace pushed the coffee cup over to her, giving her a smile as he waved away her attempt to pay. "It's on the house." Clary frowned a little.

"Oh, are you sure?" She asked.

"Yeah, it's totally fine," Jace assured her with a grin. Clary's expression relaxed and she gave him a smile in return, those gorgeous green eyes of hers sparkling up at him.

"Thanks, Jace," she told him, tilting the coffee cup toward him in farewell before turning on her heel and heading toward the door, where Simon was waiting for her, texting away on his phone. Jace watched her leave, his golden eyes round in surprise as she disappeared. When he turned around, the Lightwood siblings were standing there, in identical positions with their arms crossed over their chests, eyebrows raised.

"She knows my name," Jace's grin almost split his face in half.

"Pathetic," Alec repeated.

"I agree, big brother," Isabelle smirked.

Clary was back in the next day, this time with Maia and another girl, Aline Penhallow. They ordered their coffee to go, and then waited a little bit away from the counter as Jace made up their order. They had also ordered brownies, which Isabelle was warming up for them out the back, after giving Jace a pointed nod. Jace scribbled the three girls names on their coffee cups—the typical hazelnut cappuccino for Clary, a caramel macchiato for Maia and a cinnamon frappuccino for Aline. His hand paused over Clary's one, the vivid in his hand poised to write down what he had wanted to do for the past few months since she had first walked into their coffee shop.

Would you like to go out with me sometime?

As per usual, he chickened out.

"Aline! Maia! C-Clary!" His voice stumbled a little over her name and he kicked himself internally. The three girls came over, ducking around the line that had formed at the register where Alec was taking orders. Clary's two friends were grinning at him, and shooting looks back at slightly pink-cheeked Clary as they took their cups from him. Clary rolled her eyes as she reached for her own coffee.

"Thanks, Jace," she said softly as she took her cup.

"Have a great day," Jace smiled at her. Her friends nudged her with their elbows as they walked out, throwing looks over their shoulders at him before saying something to Clary and giggling and then they were gone. Jace bit down on his lower lip, wondering what it was that they were saying that was making Clary blush so pretty, and was jolted back out of his reverie when Alec snapped his fingers in front of his face.

"Bro," he stated. "Quit pining, and start making my orders." He shoved over the list of receipts from his customers who were waiting before moving onto the next lady, looking harried as she tugged her screaming child along behind her. Jace quickly started on the next lot of coffee.

Three days went by without Clary coming in, and Jace couldn't help but feel a niggle of disappointment. His cousins teased him, saying that maybe she had moved onto another coffee shop where the barista would actually man up and act on his crush rather than just giving her the occasional free hazelnut cappuchino to show his affection. But then she shuffled in on the fourth day, looking exhausted as she pulled her beanie down further over her head.

"Clary?" Jace said tentatively as she approached the register. She lifted her tired eyes to his and gave him a smile, small but genuine. "You okay?"

"Oh yeah, I'm fine," Clary replied with a sigh. "I've got this massive art project due, so I've been stuck either in my apartment or at the studio, working."

"You've been able to function without your caffeine fix?" Jace joked lightly and Clary cringed.

"I've been using the instant stuff we have at home," she replied.

"Betrayal," Jace's eyes widened in mock disappointment and Clary let out a laugh.

"Don't worry, it doesn't compare to you—uh, to your coffee," her cheeks reddened a little. Jace grinned and automatically began moving behind the espresso machine. Clary fiddled with her wallet, waiting for him to finish. He picked up the vivid, even though there was no need to write her name because she was the only one in the coffee shop who hadn't received her order. He paused after he wrote her name, glancing over to where the red head was texting on her phone, waiting for him to finish her order. He took a shaky breath and added another note under her name.

"Here we go—on the house," he told her. Clary grinned at him .

"I promise I won't take three days before coming back next time," she told him, turning around and heading back out the door. As soon as she left, Jace regretted the extra message he had added.

"Why?" He groaned to himself, picking up a bottle of all-purpose cleaner and a cloth, starting to wipe down the counter to distract himself. His phone vibrated in his pocket a few minutes later and he practically threw down the cloth and cleaning bottle in his haste to answer it.

So writing your number on my coffee cup is your way of finally asking me out?

There was a cute string of emoticons following after the message, and Jace couldn't stop a stupid smile from spreading across his face as he started to compose his reply.

Songs this time...Symphony by Clean Bandit featuring Zara Lasson. Holy shit. So completely in love. Shape of You, the cover by Madilyn Bailey. This chick has suuuch an incredible voice, I love most of her covers, but this one is amazing. And the song Shout, the version by Think Up Anger, that was on Riverdale. It's incredible. Also, I finally got around to watching The Get Down, and I can't believe I waited so long,

Let me know what songs you guys are listening to, and if you guys have seen The Get Down!

Did you guys like the chapter? Yes, no, maybe? The letters left to be requested for the next round of these are A , F , J , K , Q , R , U , V , X , and Z, so send through your requests, I'll give the songs a listen to and see if they're something that I feel I can make a story out of!

Leave a review, let me know what you think :)

Also, I would like to say Transgender Day of Visibility for the other day xx