"Where are we going?"

We have been driving for about ten minutes and Jace still hasn't told me where we are going.

"It's a surprise, Red."

"Well, I guess it's bad that I don't like surprises." I lied. I really do like surprises, but I didn't want Jace to know that.

"Oh, but everyone likes surprises. Especially from someone as sexy as me."

"Yeah, whatever. You keep telling yourself that."

Jace put a hand to his chest in mock hurt. "You don't think I'm sexy? But you told me I was handsome earlier."

"I never said that you weren't sexy."

"Oh, so you think I am sexy?"

"No, I don't."

"But you just said you did."

"No, I never said that."

"You said I was handsome earlier today though."

"Shut up, asshat."

"Asshat? Don't think I've heard that one before. I have only been called: sexy, handsome, beautiful, charming-"

"Can your ego get any bigger, Goldie?" I cut him off.

"So back to Goldie? Well I suppose it's a little better than asshat. By the way, what is that exactly? Is it like a hat for an ass?"

"I don't know what it is. I just know that I came up with the word."

"So what does it mean?"

"You." I smirked.

"Well, Little Red has developed an attitude over the years. Anyways, here we are." Jace pulled into a place called Taki's.

"Is it a restaurant?" I asked dumbly. Of coarse it is. Where else would we be going.

Jace seemed to not think that it was a dumb question. "Yes, and they have everything you can practically think of. Come on, I'm starving."

We walked into Taki's and it kind of looked like a little diner. A girl with blonde hair and blue eyes came up to us and smiled a flirty smile. Jace smile back and she led us over to a booth. She handed us our menus and walked off giving Jace another flirty smile. She must have finally really noticed me and gave me the death glare before leaving.

"Oh, don't mind Kaelie. She doesn't exactly like me bringing girls here with me." Jace said with a smirk on his face.

"So, she's your girlfriend right now?"

"Kaelie? Oh hell no. We dated for a little bit. Maybe like two or three days, but she was too clingy."

"Well, she still is a little too clingy if you ask me."

"She's like that with any cute boy. If your brother were here, she'd be all over him. She probably would still give you the death glare though until she knows you're siblings." He starting chuckling.

"Well that's nice. I'll keep in mind if I bring Jon here, that I yell 'This is my brother! You can have him!'" We both started laughing. When we calmed down some, Kaelie came over to get our orders.

"I'll have a cheeseburger and a mango smoothie." Jace said without much thought.

I hadn't had time to look over the menu so I said, "Um, yeah, I'll have that too." I handed Kaelie our menus, but she was looking at Jace smiling. I looked over at Jace and realized he wasn't looking back at her. He was looking at me. Kaelie must of realized that he wasn't going to look at her because she grabbed the menus from my hand and stormed off. Finally Jace broke the silence that was turning awkward.

"So, how was your life after I left?"

"Oh, you know. The usual. Sulk for about two weeks then started some new stuff with Simon. We would go to the park sometimes. We still had sleepovers. I would draw. Simon would eat all our food because he was over all the time. About two years ago, we started to go clubbing. That was actually pretty fun. We would go almost every Friday night to some all ages club. We had a pretty good time."

"You only sulked for two weeks?" Jace asked with true shock on his face.

"Yeah. We had to get on with our lives. Well, I only showed the sulking when I was alone after that. My mom made me go places and do stuff. She allowed Simon and me to walk the city by ourselves. We found this little coffee shop that we loved. We would go there every chance we got."

"Wow. You did a lot better than I did."

"Really? I thought that you would get over us pretty fast."

"Why would you think that? I never did get over you two."

"I don't know. You were sort of acting like it was no big deal."

"I was trying to make it seem less real, but after I moved I broke down. I met everyone, but I practically locked myself in my room for two months. I wanted to see you and Simon, and I was in pretty bad shape. I only came out of my room when I had too. Finally, Maryse came and told me if I would start participating and stopped sulking, they might arrange a trip to come see you. I held on to that promise with my life. I did everything the Lightwoods asked. I did good in school. I started to realize the girls staring at me and talking about me. They said I was really hot. Maybe even hotter than Will." At that he smirked. "I started dating a few of them, then they practically drowned me. I had to push them away. When high school hit, I had become one of the school's players. I finally realized that Maryse wouldn't keep the promise to let me come and see you, but I still held onto it."

Somewhere during one of our stories, Kaelie had brought our food to us. I looked down at it and back up and realized that Jace was already eating so I started eating too. The food was delicious. After we were done, Jace paid for both of our meals. I tried to pay for my own, but Jace refused to let me pay. We got back in his car and I told him my address. He turned on the radio and we sang along to the songs that came on. In between songs, we would talk about stories from our childhood back in New York- before Jace's move. We talked about our sleepovers, water balloon fights, and camps that we went too. We talked about practically everything we could remember. To soon we were at my house.

"Well, I guess I will see you tomorrow." I said while getting out of the car.

"Hey can I tell you something?"

"Um, sure."

"You might want to pay more attention in class. I know you love art, but you were so absorbed you didn't even notice me sitting beside you today."

"When was this?"

"Every period except first."

"You're kidding." I just could not believe I didn't notice him.

"No, I'm not. It's a good thing we didn't do anything on the first day of school, or else you might've had detention." He said with a smirk.

"Oh, whatever, Goldie Locks. I'll see you tomorrow."

"Bye, Little Red."

I walked into my house, changed, and went to bed. I was so tired. I fell into a dreamless sleep right when my head hit the pillow.