Before anyone gets to angered by what happened with Isabelle and is wondering when it will happen, let me just tell you it will happen. The main problem right now is the Izzy needs to get herself together first, which will hopefully happen sooner or later.

The whole ride home Izzy did not say a word. This worried Jace, because usually he could not figure out how to shut her up. All he knew is that whatever happened between her and Simon deeply affected her, the last time she was this shut off was when their parents filed for divorce. If Jace was not going to hear about what happened from Izzy, then he needed to ask Clary. Surely Simon told her about what happened by now right?

Jace opened the door to Izzy's apartment and sat down on the couch next to Alec, "Hey guys, how was the mall?"

Jace sighed as he said, "Don't ask." Izzy walked to her room without a word. Alec turned to Jace and gave him a confused look. He could tell that Alec wanted him to explain what happened. "Like I said, it's better if you refrained from asking about the mall." With that out of the way he went outside of the apartment and called Clary.

The phone rang a few times before she picked up, "Hello, Clary?"

"Jace? What is it?" Clary asked. She was obviously clueless as to why he was calling her.

Jace thought for a minute before he decided how to bring up today's events, "Can you tell me what happened today? Izzy has not said a word since the mall, what did Simon do to her?"

"What did Simon do?" Clary replied loudly. Now what was wrong with her? First Izzy now Clary, was there something going on he didn't know about? "You mean your sister right? She is the one at fault here after all."

"What do you mean she is the one at fault?" Jace questioned. "I know you care for Simon a lot, but what happened was obviously not her fault otherwise she would not be this upset."

"Well that is where you are wrong. Your sister was just toying with Simon, she never had any real feelings for him!" Clary yelled. "She went ahead and messed with his heart and his head. Do you know how hard it was for him to put himself out there?"

"Oh," Jace responded. So she found out about Izzy's habit, so that was the problem. But why was his sister so upset then? She got what she wanted right?

"Oh? Just oh? You already knew, didn't you? You knew your sister was like this yet you still let her do this to my best friend? What is wrong with you?"

"Clary look I can explain," he started, but before he could continue he heard a click. As he looked at his phone he saw she had hung up on him. What the heck! Why did his sister's scheme have to ruin everything? Now all four of them were unhappy.

Simon skipped every day that week, he was clearly still upset about the whole Izzy incident. He just moped around the apartment re-watching Star Wars and eating ice cream. Clary had no idea how to help him, so she called Maia to see if she could help. Maia seemed extremely eager to help which was good. Clary had never been told the reason that they broke up in the first place. They were a good match in her eyes, so she was shocked when she heard the news.

A few hours later there was a knock at the door and when Clary opened the door she saw that it was Maia. "I knew there was something off about her, I hated from the start," Maia pointed out. Clary was sure that was more of a jealousy thing, but she had no intention of bringing that up now. The last thing Clary wanted to do was run off the person who was the most likely to cheer Simon up. "Where is he?"

"He's in his bedroom, its the one down the hall to the left," Clary replied. She was hopeful as she saw Maia make her way to Simon's door.

Simon looked away from the TV as he heard a knock at the door. "Go away Clary," he called out. "Let me be depressed in peace." Despite his clear protests his door opened and to his surprise he saw Maia in the entrance way. "Oh its you."

"What a warm greeting, its nice to see you too Simon," Maia replied sarcastically. "I heard you had a fight with that girl."

He sighed as he stated, "I don't want to talk about her right now. So unless you came here to watch Star Wars or play video games you should just leave." He wasn't really in the mood for a heart to heart at the moment, he had already had one with Clary.

Without responding Maia sat down beside him and motioned for his Xbox controller. Simon begrudgingly turned off Star Wars and switched his TV over HDMI 1 so he could play Xbox. While he was normally all for video games, he tried to avoid playing games with split screen. He hated how small the screen became and it was almost impossible for him to tell what was going on unless he squinted.

Things went pretty much how Simon predicted they would, out of the ten matches they played he only won one of them. Even though he won that game, he could tell that Maia was taking it easy on him. "So are you good now, or do we need to have a heart to heart?" Maia asked.

"No, I'm good now. Thanks...for everything. I think I'll be fine now, there are always more fish in the sea," Simon replied.

"That's good, I'm glad," Maia answered with a smile. With that she went home, which left Simon and Clary alone. He made his way into the living room and found Clary sleeping on the couch, so he grabbed a blanket and covered her up. When Simon looked up at the clock he saw that it was nearing midnight. Had he really been playing with Maia for that long? You know what they say, time flies when you are having fun.

Jace was really starting to worry about Izzy, she hadn't been acting like herself ever since that day at the mall. Normally when she was done with guys she was cheery and moved on quickly, but for some reason she was visibly upset. He wondered if deep down she had started to develop genuine feelings for him, but quickly brushed the thought aside. In all the years he had known Izzy she had never opened up her heart to anyone that wasn't family, he doubted that some random nerd would have the ability to break through her icy shell. Alec on the other hand seems far too happy. Jace was used to the brooding and debby downer side of Alec, but he wasn't very accustomed to how he was acting now. He always seemed to be smiling now and his smile was contagious.

Jace decided not to worry too much about it as he headed to the gym. The gym was always his escape whenever he needed to relax and take a step back from the world around him. There was something about pushing himself to the limit that was freeing in a way. Jace was excited to partake in his normal routine when he heard someone grunting and struggling while using the bench press. Being the good samaritan he was, he went over to help spot for the struggling person. "Are you good man?" He asked.

"Y-yeah. Just warming up," the stranger responded. As Jace got into a spotting position and looked down he saw that the person was none other than Simon. "Since when did you come here?"

Simon scoffed, "I was trying something new, trying to make a change in my life and all. I went through something recently, but you would know all about that wouldn't you?"

"Whose side should I have been on? My sisters or some guy I hardly even know?" Jace pointed out. "Obviously I am not saying that what she did was right by any means, but that doesn't mean I would go behind her back for someone who I have almost no connection to."

"I find it amazing how you are able to justify your actions so easily even when you're wrong," Simon retorted. "Have you ever thought of becoming a lawyer?"

"Haha very funny, for real though I do feel bad," Jace explained. "It's not that I have a problem with you or anything. We could talk more over lunch if you wanted?"

"I'd rather not," Simon muttered as he walked out of the gym. Well that went better than Jace expected, Simon could have tried to punch him or something. After what just happened Jace decided that he needed to have a talk with Izzy, maybe she would be done toying with people once and for all. Maybe with the help of Alec he could knock some sense into her.