Chapter 5: Bachelors and Bachelorettes
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"And why do I need to buy a dress?" Clary asks Izzy as they both sort through the dress racks. "I already own plenty of nice things."
"It's your wedding Clary! You're getting a new dress," the raven haired girl replies, clearly showing that Clary has no say in the matter.
"Look, I know you've been busy - there's probably a thousand things on your mind. But I already bought a dress - white, expensive. This must be ringing some bells…" Clary says, meeting Izzy at the end of the rack.
"Of course I remember your wedding dress - and I love it. But this is your bachelorette party, so you need to get a new dress so you can look super hot!"
"Right, I forgot who I was talking to. Apparently I need a different dress every time I step out of the house!" Clary says, dramatically draping one of the massive ball gowns over herself.
"You can never be caught wearing the same thing twice," Izzy says winking, "at least not when it's your own party…"
"Well if it's my party can you finally tell me what we're doing? That way I can know what kind of outfit to look for," Clary says, trying to persuade Izzy to break her love of secrets for her even bigger love of fashion.
"That's what I'm here for - I'll tell you if it's appropriate or not. Now… how about this?" Izzy asks, holding out a gold, silk mini dress.
"Really?" Clary asks, taking the dress from her. "You sure it's not too much?"
"You'll look drop dead gorgeous in it. Try it on! Please?" Izzy says, jumping up and down.
"Fine…" Clary says, turning and heading towards the dressing room, hiding her smile from Izzy. If she ever knew that Clary secretly enjoyed their shopping trips, she would never get out of one again.
A few hours later, both girls were leaving Izzy and Simon's house, in new dresses with their hair and makeup done by Izzy.
"Will you finally tell me where we're going now?" Clary pleads as they both sit in the back of a car.
"We're going to be there in twenty minutes… patience young one," Izzy says, tucking a strand of hair behind Clary's ear.
Clary sits back in a huff, looking out the window to try and figure out where they are heading. Clary had never been a big fan of surprises or, ironically, being the centre of attention. She had a feeling that there were going to be more than a few uncomfortable moments throughout the night.
"Am I allowed to know where Jace is?" Clary asks, bored of the silence.
"Nope, sorry. Alec wanted it to be secret as well. And anyway, this is your last night of freedom. No more thinking about Jace!" Izzy said, and then pulled a flask out of her bag.
Clary couldn't help but shake her head at the other girl, but accepted the drink when it was offered to her. Better she be a little bit loose by the time she got there.
"So I know you've left your partying days behind you, and honestly, I'm kind of happy about that," Alec tells Jace. "But… this is your bachelor party - so I really think it's quite fitting."
Jace, Alec, Simon, Magnus and Kit were all standing in front of a club which was already raging inside.
"I asked Izzy for some tips on what you like… hope this lives up," Simon says, before walking into the club. In all honesty, Jace had once thought he had had about as much fun as a person could. He would go out, get absolutely shitfaced, hook up with every hot girl that threw themselves at him and then do it all over again the next night. But since meeting Clary, he'd realised how wrong he was.
When they went out together, it didn't matter what anyone else was doing. Dancing with her - seeing her sweaty and smiling, dancing to the beat was like it's own kind of drug. He didn't need anything from his old life anymore; Clary was everything now. She made him feel everything. And he was happier and healthier because of it.
But he really couldn't blame any of the guys for tonight - clearly he used to like this sort of thing, and it was his bachelor party - it's not like they could exactly invite Clary.
"What's going on over there?" Jace asks Magnus, having to yell over the loud music in the club.
"I'm not too sure - the place must have two parties booked tonight," Magnus says, and then hands him a shot.
"Bottoms up!" Kit yells, and everyone downs their drink.
The next hour or so goes like this. There were plenty of people at the club to help him party. Some were coming to the wedding and others weren't, but they were clearly all more than happy to help in celebration.
Despite the crowd full of people all there for him, he couldn't help but wish Clary was here, and hanging out with her, and now his, best friends was the next best thing.
"Come on Clary, don't just sit there! Dance!" Izzy yells, pulling Clary off the couch where she was having a conversation with someone.
"Sorry!" Clary yells at the girl she's being pulled away from.
Izzy handed Clary a shot, which Clary did, and then she was quickly pulled back onto the dance floor.
"Are you having fun?!" Izzy asks. Izzy had had several more drinks than Clary, and clearly was finding the whole night a lot more fun.
"Yeah," Clary yells back, not really knowing what else to say. She didn't really feel safe completely letting go and losing herself unless Jace was with her.
"Well you don't look like it!" Izzy yells, and then grabs both of Clary's hands so that they are dancing together.
"I hear we have a bride to be in the house tonight!" The DJ yells into the microphone. Clary can feel herself blushing, and is thankful knowing the flashing lights won't show it very well.
Everyone else cheers however, and the crowd parts, leaving a clear path between Clary and the stage.
Clary waves at the stage, but shakes her head, trying to tell everyone that she doesn't want to go up there.
Izzy grabs her hand and starts pulling her towards the stage, and Clary quickly grabs a shot of a waitress' tray who's walking past, before giving in to Izzy. There was no way she was going to win this.
There is a seat on the stage, which Izzy leads Clary to before hurrying off. Clary squeezes her eyes shut, praying that a stripper doesn't appear from somewhere. Thankfully, Izzy just comes back and places a tiara on her head. Maybe Izzy understood her a little more than she gave credit for.
"Hey, hey, hey!" The DJ yells. Jace turns towards the stage, where the DJ has his booth set up. "We got a man in here counting down the days until his wedding. Where is Jace Herondale?"
Everyone starts pointing towards Jace, and he waves at everyone.
"Let's get him up here!" the DJ says, and as Jace makes his way to the stage, people cat call and yell. Once Jace makes it to the stage, he does a few little mocking bows and blows some kisses.
He notices there is a chair in the middle of the chair, which he assumes he's meant to sit in. He didn't think that Alec and Simon would organise a stripper for his party, but maybe Kit had convinced him. He'd seemed really excited about the idea.
Instead of a stripper, Alec appears on the stage, holding a crown. He places it on his head, and then the wall in front of him starts moving. He thinks he must have drunk more than he thought, but after a little while he's sure - the wall was definitely moving.
After getting over the shock of it, he realises that it opened up to the party that he'd noticed before. And sitting on a similar stage far across the room was a little red head lady. Clary.
She must notice everything around the same time he does, because he sees her start to laugh, and then a big path appears before them, and they both get off the stage to meet each other in the middle.
"Hi," Clary whispers.
"Hey," Jace answers.
"Fancying seeing you here," she says, louder now.
Instead of answering, Jace bends down to quickly kiss her, and they both smile as they hear everyone around them starting to holler and yell. When they break apart, Jace says in her ear, "there's nobody else I wanted to see."
Clary kisses Jace on the cheek and then grabs his hand and pulls him to the side, out of everyone's focus so they can dance, and finally have a good time.
After a little while they head over to the bar, where everyone else is.
"How did you organise this?" Clary asks Izzy, who was holding hands with Simon.
"Well it's pretty obvious that you guys have the best time when you're with each other. So it wasn't hard to figure out that the best party we could organise meant bringing you two together," Izzy answers.
"But we wanted it to be a surprise," Alec adds. Magnus is standing very close by.
"And I found the club!" Kit says, pumping his eyebrows.
"Well we didn't come here just to talk - we could do that at home," Simon says.
In response, Magnus pulls Alec out onto the dance floor.
"Did I tell you how amazing you look?" Jace almost growls into Clary's ear.
"I don't believe you did," Clary answers, trying her best to look innocent.
"Let's just say, it makes me want to marry you even more - and I didn't know that was possible," he says, quickly kissing her cheek. "Except one thing…" he reaches out, and pulls Clary's hair out of the up do it was in. "There you go - now you're irresistible," he says, and grabs her hand and pulls her out onto the dance floor, where it's less obvious when he starts sucking on her neck and nobody can hear Clary squeal and laugh.
Clary and Jace wake up in their bed the next night, not exactly sure how they got there, or how the room got that messy, but knowing that they had an amazing time last night. Apparently most couples celebrate their last night of freedom, but Clary and Jace couldn't be more happy to give it up.
Sorry that one was a little shorter... but the next chapter is the wedding and I promise it'll be much longer. I haven't finished writing the next chapter yet, so if there is anything you want to see at their wedding, let me know and I'll try to include it in the chapter! Have a great weekend :)