It's been Two months since my mother's wedding. Two months since Sebastian and I called it quits. Two months since Jace and I slept together. Almost two months that I've been avoiding being alone with him. It's so hard and takes up so much of my time. We've all started back to school, our last year. Sebastian came back a week before school started. We've talked and he seems fine with just being friends. Everyone is acting the way that they normally do. Jace and I are still planning on going to college in California and we are in the process of filling out our applications. In school most of my classes are either with Jace or Jon. I'm always with Izzy and Simon, but with them I always feel like a third wheel. Jace still doesn't know that we slept together, and I want to keep it that way. I think. I talk myself out of doing it and then talk myself back into doing it more than I do anything else.
I wake up the day before Jon's birthday and instantly feel dizzy and sick. Not the sick feeling like I'm actually going to be sick but the kind of sick where if you eat anything you know you're going to bring it all back up half hour later. I think it may be to do with the fact that tomorrow I'm was planning to tell Jace about the wedding night. I've put it off for so long that I'm really nervous to tell him. I sigh, get up and head to the shower to get ready for a new day. The shower doesn't help with my sick feeling so I just go down stairs and have a glass of water and take some paracetamol. It helps a little bit. I sit down on the stool and my mother walks in the kitchen.
"Good morning princess." She says and kisses me on the head. "How'd you sleep?" she asks busying herself at the coffee pot.
"I slept great thanks mom. How did you sleep?" I ask her. She shrugs her shoulders in a 'can't complain'' way. "Are you going to the studio today?" I ask and she nods her head then pulls her coffee up to her mouth. "Done any new paintings?" I ask
"I've done a lovely one of you and Jace for a late birthday present for you. Well I say one I've done it twice, once for you and once for Jace. Sort of a way to say sorry for missing your birthday. And yes I know that I already bought you both something but I still wanted to do something personal for you both." She says when she sees me opening my mouth to tell her that she's already bought us.
"Ok, where did you get a photo of us from?" I ask trying to think back to when we had photos taken together.
"Oh it wasn't just you and Jace when the photo was being taken. The photographer sent over the photos a few weeks back and he took a lovely close up of you and Jace when you were not concentrating and I thought it would be nicer to have it on canvas than to have just a photo print out of it." She says walking towards me and tucking my hair behind my ear. "Is your brother up? Go check for me will you?"
I agree and make my way upstairs and bang on Jon's door. "Jon are you up? Come on its Friday! Last day of school before the weekend!" He grunts his response. "If you're not up then I'm going to come in and tip freezing cold water over you."
He shout "I'm up! I'm up, I promise! I'll be ten minutes. Call Izzy and Jace and see if they want lifts." I laugh and leave to go call our friends.
10 minutes later Jace, Izzy and Simon are outside our house waiting for their lift. Alec stayed at Magnus' house and is staying there for a few days and Sebastian hasn't had a lift with us this year to school. "Ok everyone ready?" I ask as Jon walks out the front door. "Are we going in my car or yours Jon?" He points his hand to mine so I walk to the car and get in the driver's seat. Jon, Simon and Izzy sit in the back and Jace gets up the front with me. I pull off and make my way to school. No one speaks during the car ride, everyone still half asleep from the early morning wake up.
We get to school and everyone walks towards our English class, Jon's class is across the hall from us so we all walk the same way. I get in my English class and sit in my usual seat, 3 from the back 2 from the front, and Jace sits next to me, Simon and Izzy in front of us.
"So Fireball what have you got your brother for his birthday?" Jace asks.
"I've done what he asked for and drew the photo of us all from the wedding reception onto some canvas so he can have it in his bed room when he goes away to college." I say back to him. "Oh by the way my mother's drawing us something for our birthday. I know what it is but I haven't seen it so I'm not going to tell you what it is. Mom said it should be done soon thought so well have them."
"Oh ok, but she already bought us things for our birthday?" He says confused like I was this morning. I look over at him and it's the first time that I take in what he looks like. He's dressed in skinny black jeans, a white top so tight that you can see his muscles through the t-shirt, his black vans and his leather Jacket. Come to think of it we have very similar outfits on today. I have my black leggings on with a white t-shirt that falls to just below my bum, my black and white vans and a leather jacket.
"How come I've only now noticed that you copy my dress style?" I ask Jace. He looks down at his outfit and back at me and looks down at my outfit. He looks at me and grins.
"Well like I said at the wedding fireball. We're both very hot people. Hot people tend to dress similar so we can identify with each other" He says and sends a wink my way. I laugh at him, then the feeling of being sick comes back to me. I groan and clutch my stomach and place my head on the desk. "Shit Clary are you ok?" Jace asks rubbing my back.
"Oh god no." I say and jump off from my seat just as the teacher is walking in and run to the girl's bathroom. I hear someone running behind me but don't bother to look back. I know its Jace. I get to the girls bathroom and quickly head into a stall and throw up the contents of my stomach. Well what little there is in there. I feel Jace behind me rubbing my back up and down, my hair bunched in his hand as I be sick and dry heave into the toilet.
"Shit Clary, are you ok what's wrong? Did you eat something bad?" Jace asks me as soon as I finish heaving into the toilet and flush it.
"I haven't eaten anything." I sigh and decide it will be best to tell him everything. "I felt sick when I woke up this morning but thought it would be ok. I felt fine after I took some paracetamol it just came onto me just now I don't even know why." I say rubbing my hands into my eyes. Jace continues to rub my back and hold my hair. Jace gets up of the floor and pulls me up walking us both over to the sink. I run some cold water into my hands and splash it on my face. I use some tissue that Jace got me to wipe my face clean.
"Come here." Jace says and holds his arms open for me to walk into. I do with no hesitation. "Do you have the stomach flu or something? Is it contagious do I need to run to the nurse and have my flu shot?" Jace asks making me laugh. I laugh and then start to cry. Jace notices and pulls me closer to his chest. "Shh Clary its ok, its ok. You can cry with me here. I promise I won't let you go." We stand like that for about 5 minutes until I calm down. Jace is still whispering soothing noises into my ear and rubbing my back. I push back off him and walk to the mirror to sort out my make up.
"Thanks for being here Jace." I say when I see him walk up behind me. I turn towards him, he grabs a piece of my hair and tucks in behind my ear.
"Anything for you, my Clary." He says. I blush and look down at my hands. "Come on, we better get to class, the teacher probably has a few choice words for us. You should have seen his face when you run out past him, and then when I ran after you. Ha it was hysterical. Come on, we are going to get in trouble." He reaches down and links his hand with mine. I blush again and we make our way back to Mr. Jenkins class. When we get outside Jace drops my hand and knocks on his door. I try not to shiver from the cold rushing to my hand from the loss of heat because Jace dropped it.
Mr. Jenkins looks up from his desk and sees that it's us. He walks over to the door and opens it and walks out, shutting the door behind him. I see Izzy and Si look over to us worried looks etched onto their faces. I give them both a slight smile and turn back to our teacher. "And what do you think you two were doing running out of my classroom before lesson even started?" He questions hands on his hips. I have to hold in my laugh. You see Mr. Jenkins is not an intimidating man and standing like he is just makes it worse. He is about 5 foot 5, shorter than Jace but 3 inches taller than me, with fading brown hair, more grey than brown. He is very slim build and looks like you could snap him in half with a strong wind. He has glasses and they sit lopsided on his nose.
"Mr. Jenkins sir, the thing is I had to leave the class room or I would have ended up emptying the contents of my stomach all over your lovely clean English class room floor. I would have thought you would have understood that I don't want to get any mess all over your floor and ruin the class for the other students." I say to him fluttering my eye lashes and acting all innocent. He melts at me, I know I'm one of his favourite students.
"Ok that explains Miss. Fray. But Mr. Herondale that doesn't explain your absence?" He says tapping his foot, arms folded across his chest, looking at Jace. Jace looks at me as if to say help me. Mr. Jenkins doesn't actually like Jace, for a good reason. Jace is always cocky when he's in his classroom and doesn't care that it pisses him of. Jace also then laughs in his face when he gets one of the highest marks in the class, even though he never pays attention. I take pity on him and explain Jace's absence as well.
"You see Mr. Jenkins. Jace and I have been best friends for over 14 years. Jace has always acted as a big brother to me and when he seen me running out of the class room he panicked and followed me to make sure that I was ok. He always has my best interests at heart." I say to him. He blinks at us and then agrees and tells me to go home.
"And Mr. Herondale?" He asks Jace.
"Um… yes sir?" Jace asks confused.
"You drive Clary home and make sure that her mother knows why she's home. I will inform the head office about both of your absences today. But I expect you both back in Monday." He lets us into the classroom to grab our bags and we leave the class room. I text Jon and Izzy to tell them what's happened and that Jace has been told to take me home, I also tell Jon that we'll be back up later this afternoon after school finishes to pick up him, Simon and Isabelle.
I give Jace my car keys and climb into the passenger seat and buckle myself in whilst Jace walks around the car to the other side. He climbs in and looks towards me. "You ok Red?" he asks and reaches over and grasps my hands. I jump at the unexpected contact. My eyes water and I blink to take back the tears.
"Yeah." I say but my voice breaks. I cough and try again. "Yeah I'm ok. I think." I say and turn to look out the window. I take a deep, steadying breath and turn to look back at him. I smile and say, "I'm fine I promise. I probably ate something bad last night before bed. You know what I'm like I probably didn't cook the chicken right or something." I say and look back out the window.
"Hey," He says and I feel him turn fully towards me and grab my chin, pulling my head towards him so our eyes lock. "You know you can tell me anything right?" He asks, I nod my head. Well as best that I can when he's still holding my chin. "Good. Now shall we go home and order some pizza and watch horror movies all day?" I smile a genuine smile and nod my head. He smiles back to me then surprises me and pulls me across the seats and hugs me tight. I can feel the tears slowly slipping back into my eyes. I take a deep breath and pull away.
"So what movie do you want to watch first? We could watch all the screams or all the Saws or maybe even all the child's play slash Chuckie's?" I say and I can feel my excitement grow as Jace starts the car and we move off towards our house. Jace laughs at me and we pull up to the house a few minutes later, deciding that were going to watch all the Saws and then make our way back to the school for Jon, Izzy and Simon.
Okay guys! Here is a new chapter! Soon all will be revealed and we shall be watching the outcome of the incident. Well reading, but you know what I mean.
Just going to put this out there in case people didn't know.
Clary, Jace, Simon, Izzy and Sebastian are all 17 although Jace and Clary are the babies and have not been 17 for long where as the others turn 18 soon.
Jonathan is turning 18, Alec and Magnus are 18.
Jocelyn is 36 and Luke is 38.
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