Chapter 26
Jace POV
Urgh, what a horrible day this has been. All I want to do is get home and enjoy a lovely dinner with my beautiful girlfriend. I smiled at the thought of Clary being my girlfriend. I finally had a decent girl, one my mother would have liked to meet. I had a glance at twitter during my lunch and saw on twitter pictures of Izzy and Clary circulating. I'm so happy Clary and my family get along, that's all a guy could want. The drive home wasn't a long one thank god. I unlock the door to the apartment, "Clary?" I call out but I'm met with silence. "Clare?" I try again, but all I get in return is silence. I shrug to myself, she must still be out with Izzy. I call her mobile but it goes straight to answer phone. I chuckle to myself, she's always forgetting to charge the blasted thing. I walk into the living room, deciding to watch a but of TV while I wait for Clary to come. As I enter the room, I nearly have a heart attack. Stood in the middle of the room is none other than Isabelle Lightwood and boy she looked PISSED. "JESUS CHRIST Izzy, I nearly had an heart attack." I say holding my hand over my racing heart. "Why are you in here? How did you get in? Why didn't you answer me when I called for Clary? That's a point, where IS Clary? I assumed she was with you." I had a million and one questions running through my head at this moment. "You do not get to talk, what the hell were you thinking? What did you think she wasn't going to find out?" Izzy screeched at me. I was so confused. "Izzy, what the fuck are you on about?" I asked her and she just scoffed at me. "Don't act like you don't know". "Izzy, I swear to you, I have no idea what you're on about, now please tell me where my girlfriend is" I begged her. Izzy didn't say anything, she just reached into her pocket and took out her phone. She was clicking and scrolling for a few seconds, until she shoved the thing in my face and walked away from me, letting me look at her screen. I felt the colour drain out of my face. It was a gossip website and full screen was a picture of Kaelie and I kissing. No no no no no no no, this CANNOT be happening. I looked up at Iz, her face looking at me blankly, the fury evident in her eyes. "Iz, I swear to you; this isn't what it looks like" I plead with her. "Oh REALLY, because it looks like you and that whore kissing." She replies bitterly, her anger apparently making an entrance. "I can't believe you could be that fucking stupid Jace, and now Clary has gone, god knows where, she won't answer my messages, but you just had to kiss that bitch and break her heart, and after everything she went through with Sebastian, you just had to do thi-" I covered Izzy's mouth with my hand cutting off her rant. "Can I talk now? And will you listen?" I ask her. Isabelle glares at me but when she see's the plead in my eyes, her body relaxes and she sighs and nods. I nod back to her and remove my hand slowly. "so here's what happened…."
JACE POV - 7 HOURS EARLIER
Today was just the worst already and it was only just coming up to lunchtime. I had been stuck in meaningless meetings all morning, so I took the first chance I could to escape the cramped office, and decided to go and buy myself some lunch. I decided to just go to the little Deli just down the road, I was too exhausted to get anything fancy or bigger for my lunch. The Deli was busy, which was expected so it took me around 20 minutes to finally get my food and be able to leave again, I left a twenty in their tip jar. To help them during this busy period. As I walked back towards the office, I was idly scrolling through Instagram, not really looking at what everyone was posting; this was until I heard a voice shouting my name. I pause and turn around to see Kaelie catching up with me - oh boy. I break out into a fake smile, hoping it didn't look like a grimace. "Hey Kaelie, how have you been?" I ask, trying to be friendly. "I'm okay, how have you been?" she asks back. Maybe this will actually be a civil conversation? "I've been good thank you, everything seems to be going well." I reply, actually enjoying the small talk. "good.. so.. I've missed you" Kaelie says placing her hand on my arm. There it is, I knew this couldn't just be a normal conversation between two old friends. "Well Kaelie, I can't say the same about you; in case you haven't heard, I'm in a relationship now." I say moving out of her touch and trying to walk away from her. Kaelie reaches out and grabs my arm, pulling me back to her. "That ginger can't make you happy, I make you happy, that me help you remember." With that Kaelie reaches up and kisses me with full force, for a second I am frozen with shock but finally my senses come back to join the party. I place my hands on her hips and push her away from me; wiping my mouth with my hand. Kaelie looks happy with herself. "Kay, thanks. See you later Jace." Kaelie says with a wink as she walks away from me, leaving me dumbfounded in the middle of the street. It takes me a few minutes to get my composure back, when I do, I sake my head to clear my thoughts and carry on the walk back to the office, forgetting all about the kiss.
PRESENT TIME
Isabelle doesn't speak the entire time, and just lets me tell my story. "So that picture is actually Kaelie kissing me and me pushing her away from me." I say quietly; this wasn't good but if Izzy believed me, maybe Clary would. "Jace-" Izzy gets interrupted by the front door of the apartment slamming against the wall in the hallway. Isabelle and I both jump at the sound and the next thing we know, Simon comes barreling into the front room, the anger evident in his whole body. I stand up, "Simon, just let me expl-" I'm cut off by Simon's fist connecting with my jaw bone; mother fucker can punch. I feel myself stagger a little as I reach to massage my jaw. "SIMON" I hear Izzy shout. "I told her, if you EVER hurt her, I would punch you in the face." was all he said as he turned around and left the apartment. Izzy looks between me and the direction that Simon went, until eventually she apologised and ran out of the door after her boyfriend. I collapsed onto the couch, holding my head in my hands. How did my life get this fucked up? Where is Clary? I try ringing her phone again' but it just goes straight to voicemail once again. "Clary baby, you have to listen to me; that photo isn't real, I promise you. Kaelie kissed me and my hands are on her hips because I'm pushing her away from me. I promise baby, please get back to me." I leave her a message; throw my phone on to sofa and just crawled into bed, blocking out the entire shitty world that we live in.
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