The Next Day
CPOV (Clary)
When I woke up, my thoughts immediately went to Jace. How were my mom and Luke going to handle him in the morning? He's a bit grumpy when he wakes up. My parents wake up earlier than I do and so does Jace. Oh god, they're going to kill each other, aren't they? I looked at the floor of my bedroom to see that Magnus' bed was empty but Izzy was still sound asleep. I shot out of bed and rushed down the stairs. There stood Luke in the kitchen, making pancakes. "Hey, Luke, where's Jace, Alec, and Magnus?"
"Jace said he needed to get something from his house so Jon drove him, Alec, and Magnus. They put Jace's bike in the bed of the truck and Alec is picking up his car when the snow clears. Jon is dropping Magnus off at his own home. Jace will be back soon with Jon." He placed the chocolate chip pancakes, bacon, and eggs in front of me. I drowned the pancakes in syrup and started chowing on bacon and shoveling eggs. "How are you so damn tiny? I've been making breakfasts lie this for you since you had teeth." I grinned sheepishly and continued eating. "Your mom and I wanted to talk to you about something with Jace." At that moment, Jace and my mom chose to walk into the kitchen. My boyfriend kissed my cheek and sat next to me, stealing a strip of my bacon.
"Make your own," I muttered, snatching my bacon back. "We've been dating for almost four months. You should know not to touch my bacon." He grinned back at me. Luke handed him some left over bacon and Jace thanked him. "So what do you guys need to talk to us about?" They glanced at each other, looking nervous. Mom slid a small velvet box out of her pocket and set it on the table. I looked at it curiously and Jace had a look of confusion that matched mine. I slowly took the box and opened it. Sitting in the velvet was a golden purity ring that had "True Love Waits" engraved across the front. "It's a purity ring. Do you guys not trust me?" I demanded.
"Honey, it's not that. We just don't want a pregnant teen on our hands and we are way too young to be grandparents," my mom said. "We wanted to talk about this with both of you because obviously—since he's eight years older—he's more experienced and we just want to make sure that he knows his boundaries. We just want you to wear this until you are at least eighteen years old." I rolled my eyes, but slid the ring onto my left ring finger anyway. Jace looked at it with a disappointed gleam in his eye. "Okay, now, I trust you two to be alone for a bit while Luke and I go to the store for groceries. And don't forget that your brother is still in the house."
"Fine, whatever, goodbye," I muttered, putting my plate in the dishwasher. Mom and Luke left and I took Jace's hand and brought him up to my room.
"Did you actually clean up in here?" Jace asked, shocked considering that last time he was in my room, you couldn't see my floor or desk. Now, my room was completely clear and I put more drawings and paintings on my walls.
Isabelle was no longer there on her inflatable mattress. She soon came out of my bathroom, fully dressed with her makeup renewed. "Jon's going to take me home. Alec said he wanted to talk to me so I need to get home as soon as possible." She hugged Jace and me before walking to the door. "Bye, we're leaving now." Once she was gone, I brought Jace over to my bed and laid him down with me curling into his side. I turned my TV on and let Jace pick the show. He stopped on one that I've never seen before.
Before I knew what was happening, Jace was reaching over to my nightstand, grabbing my sketchbook. I don't let anyone touch that. It's like my diary. I tried to grab it but damn Jace kept it out of my reach as he flipped through the pictures. When he was getting towards the end, he saw that there were more and more drawings of him. He seemed interested as he sat up straighter. "I never saw how amazing you were." All of the pictures were dated with the time I finished them. "Some of these are dated the first day you met me. Then the time is before you were even at our house that night."
I smiled at him and said, "I liked you as soon as I saw you." The first picture I drew of him was him with angel wings and a golden glow surrounding him with a halo floating over his head. He smiled and leaned down to kiss me lightly on the lips. I deepened the kiss, burying my fingers in his silky golden hair. I grinned against his lips and straddled his waist. He pulled back, slightly out of breath.
He lifted my hand with the purity ring and kissed it. "I don't know how I feel about this ring."
"Trust me; I don't like it either." I started to trail butterfly kisses down his neck.
"I wanted to put a different type of ring on this finger." I looked at him in curiosity. What other ring goes on the left ring finger? The only kind I could think of was an engagement ring.
"Um, Jace, I don't think…"
"Oh, wow, you totally misunderstood that. I didn't word that very well." He reached into his pocket and pulled out a velvet box similar to the one my purity ring came in. "If you want to, I would like you to accept this as a promise ring. It stands for my promise to love you forever and someday, I will want to marry you." I beamed as he opened the box, revealing a gold ring with an emerald. "It matches your eyes," he said quietly and sincerely. "So, do you accept it?"
"Yes, of course." I held his face in my hands, giving him a deep kiss. I pulled back to admire the promise ring. I slipped off the purity ring and replaced it with the ring my boyfriend gave me. I placed my purity ring on my nightstand. On my promise ring, I saw "forever and always" engraved in the gold.
Jace continued to kiss my neck when I heard our doorbell. I started to get up when Jon shouted, "I'll get it!" I heard him greet someone at the door but I was already too lost in Jace to take any notice. I heard footsteps going up the stairs but disregarded it, assuming it was Jon going to his room.
? POV …it's a surprise ;)
I pressed down on the doorbell, waiting patiently for someone to answer the door with my friend by my side. A man in his mid-twenties with white hair and black eyes opened the door. "Hey, it's been awhile since I've seen you guys. What are you doing here?"
"We just came to catch up," my friend said. The three of us ran up the stairs to Jon's room when I heard noises coming from one of the other rooms. I turned around to see a door that was slightly cracked open. I pushed it open a little bit more to see a room covered in sketches and paintings. There were two bodies on the bed. The girl had fiery red hair and the man had wavy golden locks. I immediately recognized them as Jace Wayland and Clary Fray. Both of their shirts were off and you could see that Clary was wearing a black lacy bra. The rest of both of them were covered under the blankets. I took out my phone and snapped a couple pictures of them where both of their faces were showing. I even caught a picture that showed the golden ring with the stone on her left ring finger. I made sure that the door was almost shut like it before.
I turned back to Jon's room when I heard footsteps coming from behind me. "Hey what are you still doing out here?"
"Oh, I just had to take a call from my mom. She wants me to go home and he's my ride. So I guess we'll be off now. And, please, don't tell your sister that we were here. We're not really on speaking terms." I grabbed my buddy's arm and pulled him towards the door.
Once we were in his car, he asked, "Why are you acting so weird? We just left your house." I silently handed over the phone with the pictures on the screen.
"He's sleeping with a student?" He looked through the pictures and squinted at the screen. "Is that an engagement ring on her finger?" I slowly nodded. "You need to hand this over to the police." I agreed. It was disgusting to think about it.
"Maybe I'll do it in a couple days. I'm going to get some advice about knowing about this. Maybe I'll talk to Mr. Fell tomorrow. He seems easy enough to talk to." With that being said, we drove back to my house.
The Next Day…
? POV (Same person)
The bell rang, signaling the end of class. I walked up to my History teacher, Mr. Fell. I have a free period next so I won't be late for any class. "Mr. Fell, can I talk to you about something?"
"Sure, what is it?"
"You see, there's this teacher that's involved with a student. I feel guilty hiding it and I just wanted to know how I should handle it. I don't think I should let this teacher get away with it."
"Well, is it a mutual relationship?" he asked me.
"Yeah, it is. Do you think I should report it to the police? I saw them together. There was no mistaking what I saw."
"Yes, I think you should tell the police about it. If it makes you uncomfortable, I'll report it myself. Can you tell me which teacher it was and how old the student was when the relationship started?"
"Yeah, it's Mr. Lightwood. I saw him with a student, Magnus, who was seventeen when they started going out," I answered, trying to hide the fact that Mr. Lightwood was dating another guy. I know that Mr. Fell has a crush on Mr. Lightwood. I see him giving him longing looks when passing him in the hallway. I was going to report Mr. Wayland and now Mr. Fell is going to report Mr. Lightwood. I saw a look of fury on his face when I told him the teacher's name. I walked out the door with a smirk on my face, seeing him reach for his phone pressing three numbers.
The Next Day…
CPOV (Clary)
I was sitting in first period on our second day back from vacation. I was wearing my promise ring around my neck and my purity ring was on my left ring finger. Truthfully, I should just throw the purity ring away. In a few weeks I'm going to have to tell my parents that I'm pregnant. I was planning on telling Jace after school. It was conceived when we had our first time two weeks ago on Christmas Eve.
There was suddenly a knock on the classroom door. Isabelle got up since she was closest and opened the door to reveal a police officer. She took a step back in shock and sat back down next to me. Jace stopped writing on the board and turned to the door. He set the dry-erase marker on his desk and said, "May I help you, Officer?"
"Are you Jonathon Wayland?"
"Yes, is there a problem?" Jace asked.
The cop pulled out a pair of handcuffs and cuffed Jace's hands behind his back. You are under arrest for having sexual relations with a minor. Are you aware that that is statutory rape? I'm afraid I'm going to have to take you into custody. You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be held against you in a court of law…" I drowned out the rest about attorneys as another officer walked up to me.
"Are you Clarissa Fray?" I just nodded, too shocked to speak. "I'm afraid I'm going to have to take you into custody for questioning."
"Why?" I asked, stunned.
"I think you know why." I nodded solemnly. I could hear whispers of rumors already spreading throughout the classroom. I stood up and let the officer put the cuffs on me. He didn't read me my rights since I'm technically not under arrest.
"Don't touch her!" Jace protested.
"She's not under arrest, Jace. They just need to question her," Izzy assured him.
The officers escorted us through the halls that were lined with gossiping students. Once we were outside, I saw cops leading Alec into a cop car. The officer guiding Jace put him in the same car. I was put in a different one with Magnus in the seat next to me. "Clary, what happened?"
"I don't how, but the cops found out about Jace and me. And I'm guessing they found out about you and Alec?" I just nodded sadly. "Who would do this to us?"
I hope you liked this chapter :) please let me know what you think.
I've been having writer's block with this story and my other story, Forbidden, so I hope this was okay. I apologize if I have a lot of mistakes but it is now 3AM and I am exhausted. I thought writing would help me sleep :)
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