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After listening to Isabelle for over half an hour as she walked her through every detail of her hot,steamy sex with Simon,Clary came back in the room and found Jace napping on the bed. She actually felt jealous of Isabelle's relationship. Simon had had really good reasons not to touch her, but what reasons did Jace have ?Maybe he simply wasn't attracted to her and she should get used to the idea of having a passion-less marriage. She went to her wardrobe and pulled out a black high-waisted flaring skirt that reached just under her bottom, thigh-high black socks and a mid-riff purple thin sweater. She got dressed in the room,taking advantage that Jace was asleep. She put on ankle-high black heeled boots and sat at her vanity to do her make-up and put on accessories to feel better about herself. After being done with her winged make-up she sat up from the vanity and went sat on the edge of the bed next to Jace. She shook him lightly and watched him open his eyes."Hey, I'm going downstairs to grab a bite and hang out with Izzy and Simon. Do you want to come?"she asked, trying to keep her voice light and casual .Jace nodded sleepily and got dressed in less than five minutes. It would have taken him even less if he weren't busy staring at Clary who was just looking into her lap playing with her fingers. The only skin revealed was the one from her mid-thigh to her short skirt ,but the effect those long socks had on him.. they made him think of those sexy lingeries women wore with those ganthers..He would love to see her in one of those.

They walked downstairs in awkward silence , the only sound being the clicking of Clary's heels. She wondered why she even bothered fixing herself up. Jace didn't seem to notice. He never once told her she looked nice or that she was beautiful. She felt really unhappy. They met Isabelle and Simon in the living room, sitting at the same table as Sebastian and Aline. After their fight, Clary and Isabelle just pretended that Aline didn't exist whenever she was around. And she was around a lot, considering that Sebastian was best friends with their husbands. Jace and Clary greeted them and sat down .

"So, I heard there was really high demon activity in this club Pandemonium.We should check it out."Sebastian said while chewing loudly. He had the manners of a caveman, Clary thought as she rolled her eyes inwardly.

"Oh, oh ! And we could go dancing too !I feel like I haven't been out in ages!"Isabelle added cherfully while playing with SImon's hands. They were right in that place where it was just sex and talking, sex and talking..You could see it all over their faces. It made Clary want to stab them both. She just sighed.

"We don't really do dancing.. "Simon added meekly.

"Nonsense ! We are young and hot. We have to go out."Isabelle replied.

"It could be fun.."Clary said thoughtfully."And we get to kill demons. So, it's a win win."

"Great, so, I guess we'll be going there. But not tonight. We have to go over some strategies. " Jace said with a small pucker between his eyebrows, showing that he was already racking his brain for ideas.

"Good "Sebastian said trimphantly.

"Boys and their strategies.."Isabelle sighed and rolled her eyes.

The guys began talking about the hunt while Clary retreated in her own little world, eating an apple uncosciously ."What's gotten into you?"she heard Isabelle ask, who was sitting next to her."Nothing much has gotten into me "Clary replied while looking straight ahead. "Oh , I see.."Isabelle added, not knowing how to comfort her."It'll happen "she continued."Yeah, but it will happen for the wrong reasons. For having a child or for simply fulfilling primal sexual needs. Not because we really want each other.I want him to want me "

"How do you know he doesn't want you?"Isabelle tried to keep her voice low so the others could not hear. It was always really loud in that room, since everybody hung out there,but still, she wouldn't risk it .

"He hasn't done anything. We were about to kiss before you started to bring down the door,but.."

"Oh my god ! I am so sorry !"

"It doesn't matter. It was only happening because he had just woken up and had his morning glory. His boner had nothing to do with me."she continued bitterly.

"You can't know that , Clary ...maybe you should try and talk to him."

"I don't know.. I feel weird talking about sex.. I'd rather just get it over with."

"It helped with me and Simon.."Isabelle tried to convince her but she noticed that Clary was no longer paying attention to her and was staring at Aline.

"Oh, Jace, that's a really good idea ! You're so smart !"Isabelle heard Aline say .

Clary was shooting daggers at Aline who was obviously and shamelessly hitting on Jace, with her own husband next to her .She was leaning in ,her breasts resting on the edge of the table, giving Jace, who was sitting across from her, a pretty good view. Clary brought her chair closer to Jace's ,practically glueing them together and wrapped both her arms around his strong, muscular arm and started stroking the outline of his muscles. Jace 's eyes flickered to her but said nothing and tried to relax under her touch. Clary just stared at Aline who was desperately trying to engage into conversation with Jace. But she didn't want him to give her his attention so she kissed him on the cheek ,very close to his mouth. He then turned towards her, a smirk on his face, and a confused furrow between his brows. She just flashed him a teethy smile while caressing his chest a little bit. Jace was sure she didn't know what her hands roaming over his body were doing to him. He found himself wondering how he would get up from the table with a boner .Clary saw Aline looking angrily at her from the corner of her eyes and placed a wet kiss on Jace's jaw, then on his neck, then under his ear.

"Clary,sweety, you need to stop that.."Jace murmured while trying to seem interested in the conversation at the table. She looked at him, an expression of hurt on her face , and proceeded to pull her chair away from him. SHe felt her eyes beginning to sting and tried to hold back the tears. SHe was furious for being rejected. Jace noticed and turned towards her, obviously alarmed.

"No, no" he whispered and pointed towards his trousers .

"Oh" relief washed over Clary's face and she smirked ,meeting his hungry eyes. She wrapped her arms around his arm again and leaned her head on his shoulder. He kissed the top of her head, smelling her hair. Clary squinted her eyes at Aline and felt the need to point her tongue at her like a three year old, but refrained herself from doing that. It wouldn't have been appropriate. Maybe smacking her across the face for staring at her gorgeous husband would have been more appropriate, she thought.

Thank you for reading !Also, if you have any suggestions for what you'd like to happen next in the story, feel free to tell me !

-Kisses