A/N: Sorry about the LOONNGG wait! I'm so busy I haven't had time to actually finish this chapter. Well now that I have, here it is for all you to read. Please make sure you review and I'll TRY to update You Had Me At Hello SOOON. Give me some time?

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Alec looked back at his door as it opened. In walked Jace, his face blank. Alec glanced back to the TV as Jace made his way to the couch next to step-brother. He sat down and didn't say anything. Alec sat there for a minute and then asked, "Where were you today?"

Jace didn't look at him but shrugged. "Personal day,"

"DA find you?" Alec asked. Jace shook his head and didn't say anything else. Alec sensed something was wrong, but didn't know how to bring the subject up. He didn't know what it was about or who it involved. He didn't want to say the wrong thing.

"Want to sneak off campus tonight?" Jace suddenly asked, finally looking at his brother.

Alec gave him a confused look. "Why?"

Jace gave him a look. "To party, duh"

Alec shook his head. "It's Monday, man, we can't."

"Yes we can," Jace said, scratching his arm. "We just can't get caught, that's key." He glanced at the TV, the volume now lowered, and then back at Alec. "Come on, it'll be fun. Don't be so uptight. I know Simon will come. We should invite Sebastian."

Alec started shaking his head again. "Maggie will get mad…"

Jace scoffed. "On a short leash there?" He laughed with no humor in his voice. "Fuck girls. Come on man, let's go."

Alec shrugged. "Maybe, I'll think about it."

Jace grinned. "Great, let's go find Sebastian."


"Clary?" Isabelle opened the door slowly to the dorm room. She peeked in and saw a figure on Clary's bed. She sighed a sigh of relief and hurried walking in and closing the door. She rushed to Clary's side. "Clary" She said, her voice full of concern. "Are you okay? Where were you today? You never came back last night and I got worried. I tried your cell a couple of times but it was off. I figured you were maybe at the library and so I didn't really look into it, but then you never showed up to class…." She stopped midsentence. Clary wasn't moving nor speaking. Was she sleeping?

Isabelle touched Clary's arm, gently, afraid to startle her. Clary moved her head a bit and made a noise. "I heard you Isabelle" was all she said.

"Well can you answer my questions so I can relax?" Isabelle adjusted herself on the bed so she could see Clary's face. It was tear-stained and puffy. "Oh my God, Clary, what's wrong?"

"Nothing," Clary said sitting up. "I'm fine." She wiped her eyes with her jacket's sleeve that she hadn't taken off since she left Jace's. "You know, just PMSing."

Isabelle shook her head and pretended to sneeze. "Sorry, I'm allergic to bullshit." She smiled weakly. "Now tell me?"

Clary shrugged. "I hurt someone."

Isabelle looked shocked. "When you say hurt, you mean…?"

"Not physically." Clary scoffed, half laughing. "Hell, I couldn't hurt a fly if I tried." Isabelle laughed along with her and urged her to continue. Clary shrugged again. "Emotionally, I guess is a better word." She looked down at her hands, which were folded in her lap. "I didn't mean to though."

"Who?" Isabelle finally asked.

"Jace." was all Clary said. Isabelle looked surprised. "Wait, Jace? Jace Wayland?" Isabelle studied Clary, her brow furrowed together. "How? Jace is unbreakable. He makes it so you can't even read his face. He doesn't let anyone get too close to him." Clary sighed faintly. "What happened?" Isabelle asked after a few seconds.

"It's a lot to explain and I don't feel like explaining right now."

Isabelle nodded, understandingly. "Well, when you're ready, I'm here."

Clary nodded and suddenly felt the need to change the subject before the water works came. She then remembered something. She shoved Isabelle lightly to get her attention. She looked up confused. "That was fast…"

"No, new subject." Clary announced. "You and my brother…?"

Isabelle blushed vigorously, grinning. "Well, I was meaning to tell you…" She jumped up from the bed, taking off her jacket. "But he asked me out…last weekend…? I don't remember. It's casual in a way. I don't want to rush into anything too fast, but yeah I guess we're sort of together." She shrugged. "I'm not sure."

Clary nodded. "That's good though. Better you than any other girl."

Isabelle laughed and picked up her bag from the floor and emptied the components on her bed. Clary winced watching her. "A lot of work, huh?"

Isabelle looked back at her friend and shook her head. "Oh, no. This is all your brother's stuff."

Clary gave her a questioning look and really looked at the things on Isabelle's bed; shirts, sweatshirts. Clary thought she might have seen Sebastian's lucky boxers too. Isabelle smiled. "Well he gave them to me."

Clary nodded slowly. "Oh what love" She laid back down, wrapping her blanket around her. She breathed in slowly and her eyes eventually closed putting her into a deep sleep.


"So you up for it or what?" Jace asked impatiently. Sebastian shrugged. "What time?"

Alec answered this time. "Around 11PM is when we leave."

Sebastian shrugged again. "I'll think about it and let you guys know."

Jace scoffed. "Does anyone not want to have fun anymore, like honestly?"

Sebastian looked at him and then Alec. "Well Isabelle might get mad…"

Jace scoffed again. "You and Isabelle," he said gesturing to Sebastian. "And you and Maggie." He gestured to Alec. "What the fuck, guys. Loose the girls. We never have fun anymore because of your leashes."

"Maybe you should get a leash" Sebastian suggested. Jace scoffed once again and rolled his eyes. "For what reason?" he asked.

"So you have something to do, most of the time." Alec said. "Instead of bugging us to go out with you on a school night."

"Which we can get suspended for" Sebastian piped in.

Alec nodded in agreement and pointed to his friend. "The boy has a point."

"Fuck girls," Jace said, annoyed.

"Literally?" Sebastian asked. "Because I can do that"

Jace scoffed. "Not with Isabelle on your tail now, you can't."

Sebastian grinned. "But I can fuck her"

Alec gave Sebastian a half disgusted and half angry look. Sebastian stopped smiling and mumbled an apology. Alec looked back to Jace. "What about Clary?" He asked, folding his arms across his chest. "I though you liked her."

"I never said that." Jace said quickly.

Sebastian raised a single eyebrow, something his sister had envied him for. "But aren't you hanging out with her a lot?"

"That doesn't mean that I like her." Jace said swiftly with no emotion.

"Right," Alec said, his voice dripping of sarcasm.

Jace gave him an evil look. "Whatever, we're going out tonight whether your owners like it or not. Meet me at my room before curfew." And with that, Jace left the room.


Clary yawned and opened her eyes.

"Hey sleepy head" She heard Isabelle say. Clary turned to find the owner of the voice. Isabelle was on her bed actually doing homework.

Clary sat up in her bed and stretched out. "Hey"

Isabelle watched her stretch, her eyes narrowed. "You okay?" Clary asked, a little confused. Isabelle got up in a swift movement and landed on Clary's bed. She took her arm and studied it.

"What's this?" Isabelle asked, pointing to the heart on Clary's arm.

"Oh," Clary said, shrugging. "Something I drew last night. I got bored."

"You drew this?" Isabelle questioned, studying it again.

Clary furrowed her eyebrows. "Yeah, why?" It was quiet for a couple of more minutes before Isabelle responded.

"It looks like a rune."

"A rune? Those tattoo things?" Clary took her arm back and studied it. "It does?"

Isabelle nodded. "It really does, but it can't be. It doesn't look like one I recognize."

"You sure?" Clary asked.

Isabelle nodded again. "Positive."

"Strange."

"Very" Isabelle walked back to her bed and sat down. "But it's impossible to make a new ruin unless your part of the… that group… oh I forgot."

Something lit up in Clary's head. "The Silent Brothers?"

"Is that what they're called?" Isabelle scoffed. "I always forget. Or maybe it's the Clave, I don't remember. I never did pay attention in History lessons."

Clary rolled her eyes and studied her arm some more. "What if there was a person that could make ruins?"

"What if," Isabelle said and picked up her pen, continuing to write in her notebook.

Clary got up and walked to the bathroom. She stripped off her clothing and turned on the shower to the red H. In the shower, she attempted to scrub off the drawing on her arm. It took her a couple of tries, but she finally got it off. Now her arm was all red and puffy.

After turning off the shower, she grabbed the towel she had left on the sink and wrapped it around herself.

Once she had left the bathroom, she noticed Isabelle had left. Not thinking anything of it, Clary started getting dressed into some sweats and an old sweatshirt. She put her wet hair up in a black hair tie and sighed.

There was a knock on her door then that startled Clary. She walked to the door and opened it.

"Oh, hey" Sebastian said, surprised. He walked around Clary into the room. "Isabelle here?"

Clary shook her head. "Obviously not." She crossed her arms across her chest. "Got a hot date tonight?"

Her brother shook her head. "I needed to talk to her. I figured she'd be here. She said she had a lot of homework to do."

Clary shut the door and then shrugged. "Well when I came out of the shower, she wasn't here and that was just a couple of minutes ago. What do you need to talk to her about?"

"Tonight," Sebastian said, sitting down on the chair at Clary's desk. "Jace invited me out tonight and I don't want to go if she doesn't want me to, you know?"

Clary's body stiffened at his name. She frowned slightly. "Oh, go out where?"

"To a party" Sebastian said casually. "It seemed like he doing it irrationally, like he wasn't thinking about it. Alec even pointed out us being able to get suspended for being out after curfew and he still didn't care."

"He doesn't care about anything but himself. We're talking about Jace after all."

Sebastian shrugged and got up from the chair. "I guess since Isabelle isn't here, I'm going to go have to check the library. I'll see you later." He opened the door to the room and waved goodbye to his sister.


"I don't know…" Isabelle said, putting her pencil down on her notepad. Sebastian had finally found her in the library in a corner, doing homework. He had told her about Jace's plan and asked if he could maybe attend. He was sitting fairly close to her in another wooden chair that seemed to be made out of the same wood as the table. Their knees we're touching and Sebastian had to stop himself from looking at Isabelle's bare legs.

Oh how much he loved spring time.

"I could care less if I go…" He commented. But honestly, he really wanted to go. He just didn't want to make Isabelle mad if he showed it. He wanted to spend more time with the guys, as weird as that sounded.

"Well, it's not the actual event that I'm not sure about. It's the whole "you might get caught" thing. I don't want you to get suspended over something you can do on the weekend, you know?"

Sebastian grinned. She was fucking amazing. "Yeah, I know. If you don't think it's a good idea, I won't go."

Isabelle bit her lip and shook her head. "No, you can go. Just… be careful. Please?"

His grin grew wider and looked at her in shock. He knew if he had ever asked any of his ex-girlfriends, they would have answered with a flat no. He got closer to her face and whispered, "You know you're amazing right?"

Isabelle smiled as their lips touched. It felt so natural to have her lips on his. The slow motion of their lips made his heart beat faster than he have ever thought possible. Plus, the smell of her watermelon shampoo was so inviting.

She broke away from him, smiling. "I've been told."

"From no other guys hope" He said, finally putting his hand on her knee. Her skin felt so soft. It reminded him of a baby.

"Of course not, babe" She answered and leaned in to kiss him again. It was Sebastian's turn to break away this time. "I could get used to this, you know."

She smiled. "To what?"

"Us, me and you."

"So could I" She whispered, smiling. Sebastian grinned. "Good because I don't plan on going anywhere anytime soon." He said. This made her grin even wider. "I'm going to go, alright?"

"Didn't you just say you weren't going anywhere anytime soon?" She smirked at him.

"You're funny" He said.

"That I have been told as well." She said. "But go. Text me later, alright?"

"Alright" He leaned in to kiss her for the last time. It was sweet and slow until they heard someone clear their throat. They broke away from each other and looked up to see the librarian standing in front of the table. She was smiling but they knew not to try it again.

Isabelle laughed as the old librarian turned her back to them. Sebastian laughed too.

"I'll talk to you later." He said and pecked her lips.

"Bye" She said as she watched him walk away. She picked up her pencil and stared at her English assignment objective. She shook her head and put the pencil back down.

Oh, she knew she couldn't continue writing this after that.