Clary POV

"I know that I didn't handle that in the best way. But why in the world could he ever think that I would lower myself to what some of his past girlfriends have done?" I ranted off to Izzy at lunch. Yeah it was five hours later and I was still fuming over this.

"I don't see why it is such a big deal to you, Clare. You would finally be able to be with him. If either of you get boyfriends or girlfriends then you would practically be his girlfriend." She said attacking her salad. Unlike most girls today who were starving themselves, Izzy still insisted on eat her normal diet. The girl had some real balls.

"Except for the in public thing where he has all of these other girl throwing themselves at him. And if we aren't dating, then he could go on to kissing any girl that he wanted." Which was already made a fact to me with Aline at the frozen yogurt place. Example number one on probably the long list to come.

"Just answer this one question: do you still want Jace? Push past all of the stuff that he has done or said ever that you didn't like. In those moments, do you still want him?" She asked me seriously. And I don't think I have ever really seen Izzy that serious.

What did I want? I know that I was mad at him for wanting me. Oh my god, I was mad a freaking hot guy for liking me. What the hell was wrong with me. Oh the just the everyday struggle of a girl trying to stay mad at a guy that most girls would kill for.

"I'm so stupid. That was his way of saying that he wants men isn't it?" I said slamming my head down on the table. And the award for the smartest girl in the grade goes to Clarissa Morgenstern.

"Ding ding ding. We have a winner. I can't believe that it took you five hours to figure out that was Jace's way for expressing himself for you. And I thought that you were supposed to be the smart one in the group. Looks like Simon still holds that title."

"What am I going to do? I just screwed myself over royally. He is going to think that I'm a psychopath or something." I was panicking now, lovely things mood swings.

"No, he will not. We still have the plan remember. Jace will be looking for any girl that will be interested in him. I will just pry him away from another girl and shove him on you. He could do it for a pity dance, all we need is something to get him interested in you." I loved her master plan, but I still had a few doubts about it.

"What if he doesn't find me interesting or anything? He could not even be interested and completely zoned off the entire time."

"Clary, just breath and don't worry. Everything will go according to my plan. I will make sure of it. I want to make sure that you are able to at least tell him how you feel." My brain was finally settling into ease.

"You don't really know how much I love you right about now? What would I do without you Iz?" I said pulling her into a hug.

"Have panic attacks like just now all the time. And you probably wouldn't even know Jace if I wasn't in the picture." That got me laughing. It felt really good to laugh.

Time skip to the end of school about 15 minutes before the dance.

Izzy's room was a freaking pigpen after we were pulling the finally details of our outfits together. Izzy hadn't let me do any of my own stuff, she insisted on doing all of it on her own. I had poke my head a couple of times out of the window to get some fresh air until they finally agreed to leaving the window open. We were all running around in corsets and underwear until the last minute of getting our dresses on. Those suckers were harder to get on than what I had originally thought that they had been. But that could've been the fact that was trying to balance in heels as well.

When they finally let me see the finished product, mask and all, I honestly thought that someone else was standing in front of me. But then I wouldn't be able tone into the mirror itself, that was me. I looked like something out of a fairy tail. Izzy pinned each of the curls individually so that they each laid perfect. My mask rest on the bottom of my cheek bones and covered all of my freckles. I can't believe it.

"Well Izzy, you managed the impossible. You made me look pretty and girly." I said with tears starting to well up in my eyes.

"No, you are not allowed to cry. If you cry and mess up my masterpiece, I'm killing you. And you don't need me to look pretty. I just made it a little more noticeable. Now, lets go and capture my brother's heart for you." She linked her arm in mine and we walked down into the crisp air of outside.

Each of our steps was meet with the swish of ballgowns and the click of high heels. As we got closer to the light area, you could see that some girl had opted for shorter or more form fitted dresses to the big ball gowns. But there were at least one or two other ones not counting Maia and ourselves. Izzy stepped a couple steps in front of me so that she could swing herself onto looked rather dashing in his suit. But that left me all alone to fend for myself. As soon as I stepped into the designated party area, I felt a million eyes on me. But the only ones that had an impact in me where the ones of pure gold across the floor. The ones I knew belonged to Jace Lightwood.

And they stayed on me for almost the night. We literally had about 45 minutes left when Izzy finally went over to her brother. I was keeping busy though most of the night. I dance with Iz, Maia and ,with their consent, their boyfriends as well. I got introduced to a couple other people as well while I was waiting. Most of the girls and guys didn't really pay attention when Izzy introduced me and I didn't really care all that much either for them.

But, back to the part of when Izzy finally went to tall to Jace. He seemed a little cold towards her in the beginning which wore off. Then she pointed to me and I look away quickly to give myself the shy impression. It worked because out of the corner of my eye, I saw him give the smallest of smiles. Then he started to walk towards me. Hook, line and sinker.

"I couldn't help but notice that you are all alone tonight. Mind if I ask?"

"No it really was just something that Izzy wanted me to do. I didn't have all that much time to get a date."

"Didn't have time or just didn't want to ask?"

"You caught me. I didn't want to ask this one guy I was thinking of. Too scared."

"What is there to be afraid of? Was he already taken?"

"I didn't know. But I saw him tonight with no date and I just thought that I was so stupid for not asking him."

"Why don't you go and ask him know? I can tell you one thing even if I don't know you, no one will able to turn anybody down if they look as beautiful as you do."

"Are you being serious? He wouldn't say no to me." I played up the whole lonely girl thing even more. I smiled a little bit more at his compliment.

"Yeah, and if he doesn't say yes, I will beat his ass for you and spend the rest of this time with you." That warmed every part of my heart.

"Just one more question and I will leave you alone if you want." This is it.

"What is it?" He said smiling that famous smile. I reached to the back of my mask and undid the silk. I pulled it slowly off of my face to meet his surprised one.

"Jace Lightwood, would you please spend the rest of this dance with me?" I asked as his jaw dropped even more. Finally the look of shock washed off of his face into another smile.

"I thought that you would never ask, Clarissa Morgenstern." He pulled me tight against him. I knew in that second that we both had the biggest smiles in the world. We finally pulled away from each other to see Izzy jumping up and down and hollering, drawing all of the attention over to the two of us. But I didn't care, I had Jace now. We started to shift around in a circle slowly, our own dance to fast paced music.

"Well, can I ask you one little question, miss Clary Morgenstern?" He whispered in my ear.

"And it would be?"I asked back.

"Is that hair dye permanent? I like it, but red is my favorite color you know." I giggle at him.

"I didn't know that. And don't worry, the color will be out by tonight. The red is here to stay."

"That's how I like it."