Clary POV
I get ready for the date that Jace has promised me. He won't tell me where we are going he just keeps telling me that I'll love it. I hope so, I was looking forwards to staying in bed all day watching films on Netflix. Instead I'm up showered. My hair is dry in casual waves, thank God for hairdryers, and I have my new dress on that I bought with my mom and Celine a few days ago. I got the most beautiful Forest green dress that falls just above my knees with a V neck top half. It flairs out just below my breasts, hiding my growing baby bump whilst emphasizing my newly developed breasts that everyone seems to notice. I've even had the school slut come up to me and ask where I had them done as they looks 'Toats real like'. A shiver of disgust crawls through my body. I can't wait to leave that place. Only four more months for us! Seven and a half for everyone else.
The thought makes me smile. Its things like arranging that that help me understand just how much Jace loves me. And although he says that having his babies helps him understand how much I love him, I'd like to do something to show him how special he is to me. Maybe I'll cook him his favourite dinner tomorrow. It's not much but it will show him my love for him. During the time I'm thinking Jace walks back into the room and stops short and just stairs at me.
"Do I look ok?" I ask after a little while of his staring at me. I start to feel nervous. Maybe the dress isn't that nice after all.
"My God Clary, you look absolutely beautiful. I'm so lucky to be able to call you mine. I love you so much." He walks over and pulls me into his arms, my arms wrap around his waist as he pulls me closer to his chest. He leans down and starts to kiss me. I move my arms and wrap them around his neck pulling myself up closer to him so he doesn't have to bend as much. "As much as I love kissing you, and I really do, if we don't stop we'll never get our plans done." He says as he pulls away.
He grabs my hand and pulls me from the room, grabbing our jackets on the way past he pulls me down the stairs and out of the house.
As we walk towards the car I hear Celine shouting behind us.
"Jace! Clary! Honey's wait!" She follows us down the drive way, camera in hand. I laugh at the looks on both Jace and her faces.
"What do you want mom?" He asks, his face showing his frustration.
"I just want to take a lovely photo of my two beautiful children." She says with a huge smile taking over her face. Jace huffs out an okay and pulls me into his arms, his chest to my back. "Okay," She takes a few. "And one of you holding her bump Jace!" She orders and Jace complies leaning down almost a foot to be able to wrap his arms around my stomach.
We both laugh as his mom takes the photo of us, she looks down at the camera and smiles at it.
"Okay mom were going now, or we're going to be late." Jace says pulling me to the car. I wave from the passenger seat as he runs to the other side and jumps in staring the car and driving off. He beeps the horn as he drives from the curb.
"Finally." Jace sighs as we drive towards our destination. "Between you not waking up and mom with her photos I thought our date night would go out the window." I laugh at his rambling and reach across to hold his hand.
"I love you Jace." I say squeezing his hand. He smiles to me and says it back.
We drive for a short while until Jace pulls up to my all-time favourite restaurant especially since I caught pregnant and my cravings kicked in.
Coconut pancakes with curly fries dipped in the pancake syrup washed down with chocolate milkshake. My mouth waters just thinking about it.
I must look stupid as I hear Jace laughing by the side of me. "You look adorable when you realised what you were getting." He smiles and hops out of the car that he managed to park whilst I was day dreaming about my food. He runs around to my side and opens the door, pushing a hand in to help me out. I grab it and climb out pulling Jace with me into 'Takis'.
We get into a booth and Jace orders for both of us earning a funny look from the waitress who just shrugs her shoulders and walks off to put our order in.
"Thank you Jace." I say and he looks at me with his 'what for' expression. "Thank you for taking me somewhere you'll know I'll enjoy, and not somewhere where I won't know what any of the food is on the menu." I smile and grab his hand across the table.
"I wouldn't want to take you anywhere you wouldn't love. And I know that this is a great start to the date. The rest though is a surprise so don't bother asking" Jace says. I smile at him and just shake my head. We spend the rest of the time talking about trivial things, even whilst eating our food we talked about random things that we want to do or that we have done and want to do again.
After dinner is paid for Jace tells me follow him back to the car, when I get there he puts a blind fold on me and tells me not to peak. He puts music on so I can't question him and then he drives, and dries and drives. After about 45 minutes we stop.
I reach for my blindfold but Jace stops me.
"Keep it on for a little while longer. We only have a little walk and then you can take it off, but not until I tell you." He gets out of the car and walks around to get me out. We walk for a little while, even up some steps and around a few corners.
"Okay, so I don't want you to shout at me when you see this, remember I did it out of the love of my heart." He says as he pulls the blind fold off me and stairs into my eyes.
"What did you do out of the love of your heart?" I say, looking back into his eyes. He kisses me and then kisses up my cheek and whispers in my ear 'turn around'. I follow his orders and turn around.
"Oh my god." My hand flies to my mouth. "Is this real, Jace have you really done this?" I walk closer and read the plaque. 'Summer Days, Clarissa Fray, Age 17' "Jace that's my painting. My summer days painting! How did you get it here? Jace how did you get it here."
"Well if you give me the chance I will tell you." He laughs I look at him waiting for him to continue. "I called them up and told them that I knew an amazing artist and wanted to try and get her work into the museum as a gift. They said they wanted to have a look at some of the work, so I took a few photos of your paintings and sent them to them, then they asked for them to come in, I brought them in and now they are on display." He says with a smile. I squeal and jump into his arms.
"My works in a gallery! Quick take a photo of me with it!" I hand him my phone and stand next to the plaque whilst Jace takes my photo. Whilst we were doing this we both didn't notice the posh and sophisticated looking lady walk up to us.
"Excuse me for interrupting but did I hear correct, you are Clarissa Fray?" Due to something I can only assume is shock I only manage to shake my head in answer to her question. "Hello Clarissa. My name is Doctor Margret Phelps. I am a doctor in arts and business. I couldn't help but be drawn to your painting and want to know if you are interested in starting a contract with my company, Idris arts." She says and my jaw falls open.
"Idris arts? As in the big huge art building in New York?" Jace asks the shock evident on his face.
"Not just an art building, it's a place where we take up and coming artists and sell there paintings. And I happen to know someone who is willing to pay big money for a piece just like this, the way he described it to me." The art Doctor says.
"How much is big money? And do you need to see any of my other work?" I ask her, my face must show my excitement because she laughs and says she'd like to speak with my parents I agree and she gives me her contact details to phone later when I'm with my mother. "Thanks you Doctor Phelps." I say as she walks away.
"It's my pleaser Clarissa." She says with a smile and turns to walk away. She looks back over her shoulder, "And one other thing, big money is $20,000." With that she smiles and leaves.
"Jace," I say and turn to him, he has a grin that I think is mirrored on my face.
"Clare, we will be able to get everything for the babies and more with that money!" He exclaims.
"That's what I was thinking. Jace I could do what I want for a living and actually earn good money! Do you realise how amazing that will be! We could afford to put our children through whatever college they wanted without even worrying about tuition, we wouldn't have to rely on our families to support us until we can be stable in our jobs. We could do it ourselves!" I say tears of happiness streaming down my face.
"Clary calm down! Come on lets go and speak to your mother, I can't believe this is happening. All I wanted to do was make you happy seeing your painting in a gallery and now… it's like your dreams are being started right here." He says running his hand through his hair as we walk to the exit towards the car.
"And it's all because of you Jace. I love you so much thank you so much for doing this for me." I say and pull him to me, well as much as I can being a foot smaller than him.
"Thank you for having my babies. I would do this a million times over and still wouldn't live up to the gift you're giving me." He rests his hand on my stomach and plants a kiss on my lips. I wrap my arms around his neck pulling him closer to me. "Okay now we have to go home before your hormones kick in and you pull me into the broom cupboard." He winks to my and untangles our limbs from each other. Then grabbing my hand he pulls me towards the car where we quickly drive home.
"Mom!" I shout the second I walk through the door. Walking further in leaving the door open for Jace to shut behind him.
"Clary, I'm in the living room with Celine and Luke!" She shouts back then Jace and I make our way there. "Is something wrong, you never shout like that in the house?" She questions as we walk in, instantly relaxing when she sees the grins on our faces, "Okay nothing bad, what's happened you two?" She questions.
"Okay so have you ever heard of Doctor Margret Phelps?" I direct the question to all of my parents sat in front of me.
"Yes, the director of Idris Arts, where they sell art to important people who are willing to pay big bucks for paintings, that Doctor Phelps?" My mother answers with odd looks coming from Luke and Celine. "What I'm an artist." She replies to their odd looks. They just shrug their shoulders and look back to us.
"Well you all know what I did for Clary to show her how much I love her, putting her painting into the museum?" They all nod at Jace's words he looks at me to finish the story.
"So today whilst we were at the museum, I kind of had a little freak out and started shouting about how my painting was in the museum and this woman walked up to me told me who she was and told me she wanted to talk to my parents about selling my paintings for 'big money' and when I asked what big money is she said it was around $20,000 for one of my paintings." I say and all my parents gasp and jump up to congratulate me on the great news.
"Okay so let's phone her right now, Clary where's her card?" My mother asks I give her the card and she excuses herself to go and make the phone call. Whilst she'd gone I have hugs from Luke and Celine and they both tell me how proud of me they are and that they are so excited.
20 minutes my mother comes back grinning from ear to ear. "Take a photo with all your work Clary, and make sure it's all signed she spoke to the museum and had all the photos that Jace emailed them and she wants to offer you a contract with them, they want 5% of every sale as commission which is a great amount considering how much she thinks she can sell your paintings for. " She seems more excited than Jace and I put together. "I'm so proud of you my princess! Let's have a small gathering! Call all your friends!" she shouts and goes into the kitchen to sort out food.
We all laugh at her enthusiasm and call the people we need to. Lucky for us most of our friends were together, and by that I mean we phoned Jon who was with Seb and Jace phoned Alec who happened to be with Izzy, Simon and of course Magnus. Jon said he'd call into Aline's and get her and Helen on the way home. I was so excited to have everyone here. And then, because of course my body hates me right now, I run to the bathroom to empty my stomach of the food I had eaten not even 2 hours before. Great.
Jace was behind me rubbing my back until I had finished got up and brushed my teeth. "Hopefully in the second trimester it will go." He says and I can only smile to him. I go into the kitchen and get a bottle of water, to make myself feel better.
After drinking half of it I feel more like myself and smile to Jace. Just then everyone turns up and Jace smiles and takes my hands and takes pulling me into the living room and sitting me down on his lap next to his mother. Everyone comes in waiting to hear our good news and I smile.
"Should we tell them all our good news?" Jace asks discreetly placing his hand on my stomach to emphasise his question.
"I still want to wait until next week if you don't mind. Can you wait a week?" Jace huffs but agrees, causing me to burst out laughing.
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Okay! I'm sorry I haven't posted in almost a month, I've been busy and in all honesty haven't felt like this story is going anywhere, with only 2 reviews on my last chapter it kind of put a downer on my mood and want to write this story. But I pushed through and came up with this! Now I don't know the cost of good art, as I am not an artist nor interested in ever becoming one, so the price in this is a estimation on how much I've read some paintings go for.
Please review this time, it makes it so much easier to write things for you all when I feel people are actually looking forwards to reading my writing.