2 hours later my mother walks through the door. "Mom!" I shout and jump up and run to hug her. "I've missed you so much." I say as I hold on to her and she rubs my hair and back.

"I've missed you too princess. Let me in the house will you?" she asks and I laugh letting her go and walking back into the living room. When Luke walks in carrying their luggage I gave him a small side hug and then walk back into the living room to claim my seat on the 3 person sofa. Jon and Jace both get up and hug Mom but only Jon hugs Luke, Jace just waves awkwardly from where he's sat back down next to me. "Happy birthday for yesterday you two." Luke calls over from the kitchen where he disappeared to get a drink. He walks back in a beer in his hand and a bottle of water for my mom.

"Yes happy birthday my babies!" My mom says and reaches into her bag and brings out two cards and two boxes. "Open the presents together because I got you the same thing." She says grinning towards us both. Jace looks at me and shrugs. We open our cards and they are the normal type of cards we get off my mother, mine says daughter and Jace's always says son. For the last 6 years she's bought him a son one saying that he spends enough time her to be classed as her third child. We both smile and thank her, placing our cards on the table, mom moves them to the fire place where our cards to each other sit. Jon still hasn't given us our cards. "Now open your presents!" Mom says excitedly.

We both open the box and find books with our initials on it. Something my mother loves. "Open the books" She says. We do and both gasp jump up and hug her. She laughs at us and wraps her arms around us both, well around my head and Jace's chest as she's taller than me but shorter than Jace. "I'm guessing you like the presents?"

"Are you kidding mom! These are my favourite band! I love Cold Play!" I say bouncing around the living room.

"Well good, because the concerts tomorrow." She says. I look at Jace and I can see he has the same expression I do! Yes we get out of shopping. I bounce over to Luke and hug him and say thank you as well. Even Jace gives him a man hug. Jace and I sit down and start talking about the concert and what we think they will play. After about 5 minutes the rest of our friends knock on the door and walk in. I hear Izzy shout 'Honey I'm home' and can't resist calling back. "Shit my wife hide." And I hear everyone laugh. I jump up and hug Izzy, Simon, Maia and Magnus and wave to the others. "Hey guys." I say and walk back into the living room. Izzy sits next to Simon her feet in his lap her head against his shoulder.

"Oh and when did this happen?" My mother ask signalling between Izzy and Simon. They both grin up at her. "Let me guess. The wedding? Clary's plan actually worked then."

"Mom! They didn't know about the plan." I say and hide my face.

"There was a plan?" Izzy asks looking at me with an evil glint in her eyes.

I move to hide behind Jace and I hear him chuckle. "I may have switched rooms with Simon so you and him could spend the night together and actually hopefully get together." I say and hide even more behind Jace when she throws a pillow towards my face. Jace being Jace catches it before it even reaches where I was and throws it back at Izzy. The whole room erupts in laughter and the plan is forgotten.

"Ok Clary, Jace. Here are your cards and gifts." Izzy says handing us both bags that she got from somewhere. We open our cards and gifts. We have 16 cards between us, one of mum and Luke, of Jon, of Isabelle and Simon, Alec and Magnus, Maia and Jordan, Maryse and Robert, Celine and Stephen and we each have one off each other.

"Clary honey, where is Sebastian and where are your cards off him?" My mother asks. Everyone but she and Luke look at me sympathetically.

"Um mom, Seb and I broke up the day after the wedding." I say and shrug when she takes in a breath. "It's ok though. We're still friends but he's in France. Ok who's ready for movie night?" I say trying to avoid the conversation between me and my mom about Sebastian, but I won't try to kid myself to try and pretend that it won't happen. I know we'll be talking about it tomorrow. We all settle down and start watching James Bond films, a Chinese ordered from Jace and I's favourite restaurant. As soon as food is eaten and the films finishes we all fall asleep where we're sat, except mom and Luke who went to bed after food. Again I fall asleep with Jace. But this time it's us led on the sofa my back pressed to his front and all our friends are either sleeping on the floor or on the spare chairs. We kicked Jon off the sofa so we could lay down just after food.

I wake up the next morning my face on Jace's chest. My eye's flutter open and immediately close again. I turn my head and bury it into his chest. I feel it vibrate with laughter.

"I did exactly the same 10 minutes ago. But I had nothing to hide my face into so I just had to close my eyes." He says running his hand through my hair.

"Let me sleep." I mumble into his chest. He laughs and pulls me closer to his chest.

"Sleep red." He says and pulls the blanket up to cover both our faces. I think he leans down and plants a kiss on my hair but I'm falling too quickly back to sleep to even think twice about it.

I wake up again a few hours later, still led on Jace's chest but I can feel the slight vibrations of him whispering to someone. I decide that I want to listen to what he's saying and who he's talking to, so I avoid moving and keep my breath as even as possible.

"… Need to tell them Jon. Especially her." Jace whispers and involuntary, or voluntary I don't know, tightens his arms around me. I groan and burrow my head into his chest acting as if I am asleep. Jon lowers his voice even more.

"But Jace I can't tell Clary that her now ex-boyfriend of a week was into me and her. How weirded out would she be if she found out that I had a crush on, her then, boyfriend and sometimes thought that he sometimes feels the same way too?" He asks Jace, his voice rising slightly towards the end. I decide now would be a perfect time to make myself known.

"I'm sure she…" Jace starts before I interrupt him.

"I think you should go for it! You both would make a lovely couple." I say sitting up from Jace's chest to put my legs over his stomach and my back against the sofa. "You both already act like each other what difference would it make if you ended up together." I say. Jon and Jace both gape at me and I shrug. "What? If you hadn't squeezed me I wouldn't have heard what he said so it's your fault for waking me up." I say poking Jace in the side which causes him to laugh once. "I think you'd make a cute couple." I say looking Jon in the eyes a small smile playing against my lips.

"Who's would be cute in a relationship?" My mother asks walking into the living room carrying a tray of coffee with 4 cups on it. We all look at the coffee expectantly until she rolls her eyes. "Tell me who would be cute together and I will give you coffee." She bargains.

"Jon and…" Jace and I both begin before Jon reaches forward and places a hand over both of our mouths. I poke my tongue out and lick his hand.

"Eww!" Jon shouts and wipes both his hands on his trousers. "You both licked me at the same time! That was gross! Why are you so in sync with each other?" Jon shouts. Startled I look around the room and realise that all our friends are gone. I look over at Jocelyn and she's laughing at our interaction.

"Mom where is everyone?" I ask looking around once more to make sure they don't just magically appear with Magnus's 'warlock' powers. He is adamant that he was a warlock in a past life there for every time we have a fancy dress party, which if often by the way, he dresses up in what he feels he would have worn as a warlock back in the day. This often ends up being moss green glittery pants, a black pair of shoes and a black top or a bright coloured top. Let's not forget his 1k ton of glitter that he drops on his head.

"There in yours, Jon's or Jace's room." My mother says with a swish of her hand brining me back from my musing. "But enough about them who would Jon look cute with?" She directs the question more to Jon than us.

Jace and I both look at him saying with our eyes that we'll back him up whoever he says. He takes a deep breath and whispers, "Sebastian." I suck in my breath and look towards my mother. She has her head tilted to the side and looks towards Jonathan.

"Yes I can see it. You would make a cute couple. But isn't he straight?" She asks looking back and forth between all three of us. We are all looking back our mouths hanging open. At that moment Luke walks in. "Honey what do you think about the situation. Jon and Sebastian. Cute couple? Should he go for it?" She asks him and our jaws hit the floor. Luke eyes Jon a little then nods his head.

"Yeah I could see you with Sebastian. More than I could see your sister with him actually. Go for it. It would be good for you to get someone that we all already know and like so we can't frighten them off." He says and laughs, sipping from his own coffee cup. This snaps me back to the coffee on my mother's tray I close my mouth quickly.

"Hey we told now hand over the coffee." I say and hold my hand out for a cup. Jace does the same and my mother passes them both to him.

"Magic word?" Jace asks holding my coffee out of reach.

"Jace!" I groan. "Give me my coffee!" I attempt to grab one of the cups from him but he just raises them higher. "Please don't make me say it. Everyone is here." I say pulling out my puppy dog face.

"Everyone here knows the magic word as I never give up. The puppy dog eyes stopped working when I was 13." He says and rolls his eyes.

"Damn your stupid crush on me ending." I mutter under my breath.

"What was that?" Jace asks raising his eyebrow. He's the only one close enough to hear. "Didn't sound anything like the magic words." He says and lowers one of the cups and sips from it. "Mm coffee. Black just how we like it." He says and winks at me.

"Agh! Ok I'll say it." I say and glare at him. Using my most menacing voice I say, "Jace Herondale is the greatest, sexiest and most amazing best friend a girl could ask for and I love him with all my heart." I say. He lowers my coffee cup and hands it to me. As soon as I have it in my grasp I turn more to him and mouth 'Asshole' as my parents and brother are all holding their stomachs laughing hysterically. "Guys it's not funny! You should be sticking up for me I'm the only girl here. I've been being bullied for most of my life by two childish boys." I say and drink my coffee placing the empty cup on the floor. I look up and my family are still laughing. "You are all so horrible." I sigh dramatically and purposely fall over hard onto Jace's chest.

"Ump." Jace says as I lay my head on him. "Hey no need to attack me I did nothing." He says and runs his hands through my hair.

"You started all this." I say and move my hands to signal my parents and brother just recovering from their laughing fit at my expense. I turn my head to look at them and their all looking at us. Jace's hand stills in my hair and in my head I mutter 'way to look suspicious. "Umm… Guys why are you staring at us?" I ask looking back at Jace to see that he has a confused expression on his face as well.

"Definitely cute together." My mother mutters and gets up and walks out. My eyes bug out of my head and I use my hands to push off Jace's chest and run after my mother. She's humming songs under her voice and walking towards her art room.

"Mom can I speak to you?" I ask, which surprises her. She jumps and nods her head at the stool stood next to her. I move and sit in it. "Mom you can't say things like that to us. You know were best friends and nothing else is going to come out of it." Except for that one night on your wedding night which he doesn't even remember, I add silently in my head. "I know you still think that I still have that crush on Jace but I'm over it I swear." I say hoping she believes my lies.

"Ha like hell you are." Izzy says walking into the room making me and Jocelyn jump. "Clary we can see the way that you look at him and him you. It's not a best friend look but if you want to keep believing that then that's up to you. We're all going to get breakfast wanna come?" She asks me giving my mother a hug from behind. My mother wraps her arm around Izzy's two that are across her waist.

"I think it's a good idea. You all go get breakfast. Bring me and Luke back some blue berry pancakes. Extra syrup." She says and waves a dismissive hand in my direction. I sign get up and run to my room to get dressed. I put on a tight pair to black skinny jeans, a tight white vest top and my leather jacket. I walk down the stairs to my friends and declare that I'm now ready. We walk out the door and make our way to our favourite restaurant, Taki's.

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