At 8 o'clock everyone goes back to their own houses, well Jace goes up to his bedroom in my house to 'do homework'. We all know that he's really up there playing on his and Jon's Xbox. I'm sat with my legs crossed, Luke next to me, on the sofa. We have the TV on, I have no idea what I'm actually watching, and I'm staring off into space.
"Clary." I feel someone nudge me on my shoulder and look up to see Luke's kind blue eyes looking towards me. "Your mothers calling you. She said to send upstairs, she wants to talk to you." He says to me. I wonder if my mother told him my predicament. I sigh get up and make my way towards the stairs. On my way past Luke I bend over and kiss his cheek.
"Night dad." I say and I am half way up the stairs before it's even clicked that I called Luke dad. I turn around and see him looking at me a smile so big it looks like it could split his face in half.
"Night Clare-bear." He says, his eyes bright with happy tears. I smile and carry on walking up the stairs. "Mom?" I call walking into her room.
"Clary? I'm in your room honey." She calls back. I walk into my room and see her holding a box in her hands. She holds it up to me when I freeze. "I thought now would be a good time to do this. Everyone is distracted or otherwise occupied. I don't think we'll get five minutes alone tomorrow. Unless I need us to. You know for a doctor appointment."
I nod my head and take the test into my bathroom and take the sick out. I look at the box and follow the instructions, uncapping the stick and peeing on it. I re-cap the stick, who wants to touch pee, and finish my business on the toilet. I put the stick down on the side and sit on the edge of my bath tub.
"Clary, honey, can I come in?" I hear my mom call from outside. I mumble a yes back, she must have heard me because a few seconds later she's sat next to me on the bath.
"I'm scared mommy." I say as the tears start to roll down my cheeks. She pulls me towards her chest and I lay my head down. She runs her hand up and down my back.
"Don't worry Clary. I promise I'll be here for you. And when we tell Luke he'll be here for you too. Everyone will be here for you Clary, some may take a little while longer to come around. And Jace won't let anyone bad mouth you when he finds out." She says holding me close to her body.
"But mom, what if he doesn't remember. What am I supposed to do then?" I sit up, pulling myself away from the comfort that I don't deserve. "What if he thinks I'm lying just to get a daddy for my baby?" I'm almost in hysterics by now, I've even started pacing.
"Clary calm down. We will sort it all out as soon as we have the results from the test. Which should be ready by now." She says and stands up and walks towards the test. I hear her gasp and slowly make my way over to her. I look down and see a little pink plus sign in the window of the stick. I hear a sob and then something hitting the floor. It takes me a while to realise that I was the one to make both noises.
My mom bends down and pulls me into her chest. She starts to whisper soothing things in my ear rubbing my back at the same time. After about a minute I hear tapping at the door and immediately stiffen in my mother's arms at the sound of Jace's voice drifting through the thick wood of my bathroom door.
"Clary, Jocelyn? Are you ok in there? I heard something fall." He says. You can hear the worry in his voice. If it was Jon he would have laughed at the concept of him falling, but I'm a different story. They all think I'm delicate and break able. I'm not. But at the moment it seems to be that I'm more delicate than anyone even thought possible.
My mother quickly reaches up and pulls the test off the side of my sink and hides it in her back pocket. "Jace can you come in here please." She calls. I look up to her fear written plainly across my face. Would she out me to him, make me tell him before I was ready. God I hoped not. Not even a second later Jace was in the bathroom with us, knelt down pulling me into his arms.
"Hey Red, what's wrong? Are you being sick again?" I can't answer him and just bury my head into his chest. His hand comes up to cup the back of my head and I feel his head moving, I assume he's looking up to my mother to find the answer to his question.
"Yes she's being sick again. We were talking and she came in her and was sick. I can't carry her any more, would you please move her onto her bed?" She asks, I feel her hand on my shoulders, a small gesture that tells me she won't tell him anything. I relax against Jace then before I know it I'm being pulled tight against Jace's chest and moved into my bedroom.
"Also if it isn't too much trouble, I need to go and work on a piece that I'm being commissioned for, its high profile. So can you please stay with her, don't leave her, no matter what." I can hear the hidden meaning behind her words, but I'm not sure he realises.
"You know I'd never leave her when she needs me Jocelyn. She's my best friend." I feel his eyes on me, but instead of looking up to him, I bury my head more into his white covered chest.
"Good." Is the last thing I hear my mother say before the door to my room is closed. The next thing I know, I'm being placed on my bed then pulled back up onto Jace's chest.
"Hey Clary, do we need to take you to the hospital?" He asks the worry in his voice betraying how much he actually is worried about what's happening. "I mean what if it's something bad, like food poisoning. Or whatever is worse than food poisoning." He says waving his hands about over me.
I can't hold back the laugh that escapes my mouth. I feel rather than hear Jace chuckle. His arms tighten around me and I snuggle my head more into his chest. I faintly feel his heart rate speed up and feel him swallow thickly. I look up to him my eyebrows creased but before I can get a word out he pulls me back down to his chest.
"Shall we watch a film? Or we can start a new TV series. Didn't you want to start watching that new one on Netflix? What was it again?" He asks, his questions rushed, causing my train of thought to get turned around.
"Um I don't know. How about we just re-watch the sixth season of Pretty Little Liars ready for the new ones?" I ask him and pull myself so I'm reaching across him and grab the remote. I pretend I don't feel him stiffen and breathe in deeply as my chest pulls across his. I can feel his perfectly sculptured abs through my t-shirt as I'm pulling back into my position. "Hey Jace, can you go in my second draw over there," I point to the chest of draws in the corner of my room, "and get either my piglet nighty or my Tigger short set for pyjamas please. You may want to go get into yours as well. You'll probably end up crashing in here with me. I know how you are when we watch Pretty Little Liars." I say. He agrees gets up and grabs my nighty, then makes his way to get him pyjamas out of his own room.
Whilst he's out of the room I quickly pull my t-shirt over my head and undo my trousers and pull them down, causing my phone to tumble out onto the floor. When it hits the floor it lights up and I see that I have a missed call from Izzy. I pick up the phone and call her back.
"Clary! Ok girl, you need to tell me what's going on between you and Jace. All the usual sexual tension that's usually around you has like… I don't know… quadrupled since this afternoon when I asked about you being a virgin. What happened?" She gets out in what I assume to be one breath.
"Well hello to you too Izzy." I say and laugh. I hear her gasp on the other side of the phone.
"Oh my God, Clary!" She screeches so loud I'm pretty sure I heard her from down the street. "Did you sleep with Jace?"
I choke on air. I keep coughing and in between manage to get out, "Izzy why would you think that?"
"Oh come on Clary, it's not as if no one has noticed the way you both look at each other. You may play it off cool towards each other and Jon but everyone else can see it. Its only moments until Clace happens." She says, her voice taking on a serious tone.
"Not this again Iz." I beg. Izzy starts to rant again, I don't pay attention when suddenly I hear a gasp coming from my door way. I look over to see Jace shamelessly staring at me. At first I'm confused then I look down and realise that I'm only in my underpants. Worse I'm in the matching green bra and thong set. "Um Izzy, I kind of have to go, bye."
"Wait, who gasped, Clary what's going on? Clary don't you hang up on…." She doesn't get to finish her sentence because I've hung up.
"Um… Umm…Umm." Is all Jace seems to be able to say, he can't keep his eyes from checking me out. I blush red and quickly turn around pulling my bra off and pulling my nighty on. Usually I'd sleep with my bra on, but my breast are really sore tonight so they're hanging free.
"I'm so sorry, I phoned Izzy and got side tracked and didn't realise how long I was on the phone for. I'm sorry you had to see me like that." I say and climb into bed.
"It's ok." He says, staying in his spot for a little longer I look at him confused then realise that he'd hanging his head, I look down and realise that he's trying to… how can I say this… calm himself down. I gasp and Jace shakes his head. "It's not my fault!" he shouts, but not loud enough to cause alarm with my parents. "I'm a teenage boy and you were moments ago a half-naked girl and now I know that you have no bra on under all that with that green bit of lace covering delicate and intimate parts and… Damn I'm a teenage boy!" He groans. "I'll be right back." He says and walks out of my room and into his bathroom in his bedroom.
After a few minutes Jace comes back in, his problem gone and he walks towards the bed. "I hope you washed your hands." I say to him, having a sneaking suspicion I know what he's been up to in the five minutes he was gone.
"If you were to focus on anything other than my good looks you would realise that I have wet hair, and that I am freezing cold after that Arctic shower, let me under the blankets." He says. I look up and take in his attire and notice that his hair is indeed wet. I let him into bed and we start watching Pretty Little Liars.
After a few minutes Jace pulls me towards him and I snuggle against his chest.
"You're warm, I'm freezing." Was all he offered in answer to my unasked question. I just tangle my legs with his and watch more TV. After 3 episodes I feel myself drifting to sleep.
"Good night Jace." I say falling off the edge of consciousness into the oblivion of much needed sleep.
"Good night Clary." He says and plants a soft kiss on my hair line. I smile and plant a small one on his chest where my head lays. I hear him sigh and feel him relax. Before I'm fully asleep I hear Jace whisper very quietly "I love you Clary." But no matter how hard I tried I was out for the night, and probably wouldn't remember that he said anything in the morning.
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