AN: I am tired, and I meant to write this yesterday, but Taylor Swift dropped an album. So here we are.

I also figured out what I am going to do after this story. Hehe.

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Disclaimer: I do not own the TMI, and I am tired with no beta. There are spelling/grammar mistakes.

Counting Down to You: Day 9(0.6K)

December 9th

The knocking at the door wakes me up, and I grumble my way to the door, wrapping my robe around myself. I pull the door open, not looking through the hole before opening the door wide.

On the other side was my mother with a bright smile and a coffee in her hand.

"Morning sunshine," she says, and I reach out for the coffee, and she steps inside the apartment with me as I whisper a thank you.

"So Dinos, huh?" and I nod.

"He doesn't grow up; I cant. He is almost 30, and he chooses dinosaurs for our family tree."

My mom shrugs, "We don't choose our family. It can't be as bad as the car's tree. Your brother is special, but he does manage to wake up before 9 am every day, unlike someone I know.

I roll my eyes and defeat, "I only get home around 8 pm; I think it is fair for me to stay up later and sleep in longer."

She looks at me and doesn't speak, but her face says, 'yeah, right.'

I ignore it and ask about her weekend with Luke's family doing the same round of games.

"I won as you saw, and I did woodland creatures. I rock paper scissored with Ella. Charlotte was a poor loser and fought with her father, who judged the competition."

We sit at my coffee table for a while, just chatting until 9 am, where I stand and start coffee number 2 so I can get ready for work.

"Hear from Jace today?" my mom asks.

"No, it was weird too. He usually calls before bed."

"'Call him now," my mom says, and I raise an eyebrow at her as she reaches into her bag and pulls out a red wrapped present with green ribbon.

Oh no, my mom was giving me a red present last night.

There better not be any more sex toys in there.

I hesitantly take the gift and call Jace.

My call declines.

It is soon met with a text from Jace breaking the silence, saying he is in a meeting.

At 6 am? I text back.

Jace replies with "Had to work overtime, we are on the phone with a guy in hong kong, and they are 16 hours ahead, so they are already at 10 pm."

Then he sinks me wink emoji and tells me to open my gift.

So I do.

I take the box from my mom, who looks on from across from me with a smile on her face.

That can't be good.

I lift the lid, and I sigh.

My cheeks flush red, and I close my eyes.

Not again.

My mom starts laughing, so I imagine she looked over.

She then whistles, "Someone is going to get busy."

I reopen my eyes and look at the dark green lingerie with a neck plunge lace teddy one piece.

I can't believe he did this.

I ignore my mom and take a photo of the box and text him the message, 'Why do you make my mom give these to me?'

He messages back, 'I need some fun since I am not there to try it out with you.'

Oh boy

I text him back, "2 weeks, babe. 2 weeks."

He sends me back a boomerang of him blowing me a kiss.

I analyzed the small video and see how tired he looks. His blonde hair is everywhere, and his eyes have dark circles under them, but his smile is still there.

I text him back, 'Can't wait.'

Now to awkwardly deal with my mom.

AN: So Jace was silent because he was working overtime; I hope you enjoyed this chapter!

Green lingerie was the present today; Jace just likes to embarrass Clary with her mom.

Questions: What colour is next? (repeat), Taylor swift's album, yes or no? What are the holiday seasons going to look like for you this year? What gifts would you like to see? Anyone see the theme for red yet?

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Blondechicka17: HAHA sorry, he is currently still in LA. I love Disney as well, that is going to be the theme for my mini tree.

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