AN: Sorry guys! I've been in Canada for the past few days and couldn't update. I'll make the next couple chapters extra long, just for you guys.
"I like the name Charlotte," I say smiling. "It's pretty. We can call her Charlie for short. It'd be adorable."
"Hmm," Jace fidgets with his fingers. "I like the name Emma. But Charlotte is cool too."
"Oh!" I jump up, "I LOVE the name Jordyn. It's sooo cute. Or maybe Christina."
"Okay, so for girls," Jace starts to tick the names off on his fingers, "we've got Charlotte, Emma, Christina, and Jordyn. Not bad. Maybe we should run these by Izzy, though."
"Alright. Enough baby brainstorming right now. We'll discuss boy names after this. We're gonna be late for our appointment." I spring up and his huge hand swallows mine.
"A girl?" Jace asks, trying to keep his eyes both on me and the road at the same time. "We're seriously having a girl?"
"Yes." I try really hard to keep in my excitement.
"So no need to brainstorm boy names, huh?"
"Nope," I grin.
"You're way too excited about this, Chilli Pepper," Jace turns his golden gaze on me.
"But it's a girl! I really don't want another Jace running around here. Like, no."
Jace puts his hand to his heart in feign hurt. "That's offensive, Tiny. Like, that's really cold."
I slap his arm and he laughs.
It's silent for the rest of the ride and it gives me time to think.
What would you call Jace and I's relationship? Skinny love? Well, I know that I like him, not love yet, but like. I have no idea if he likes me or not which is what gets me so damn frustrated. It'd honestly just be easier if this baby hadn't had come. But after the baby, there will only be two options. One of them is if after the baby is born, we stay together, get married, and have a happy family. Yeah, fuck no. That's so incredibly unlikely. The second option is that we stay together as friends once the baby comes, and once she comes, he takes off and leaves me as a single mom. That's what happens to every teen pregnancy, right?
We pull up at the Lightwoods' circle driveway and Jace sighs deeply.
"Now, we have to tell the others," he exhales.
"Yup," I unbuckle my seatbelt and climb out of the car. Jace comes over to my side and grabs my hand. We walk towards the front door, butterflies in my stomach.
When I open the door, Alec is standing there, waiting for us. Or, rather, waiting for me.
"So? How'd it go?" He pulls me into a hug, lifting my feet off the ground.
"It was great," I grin. "The baby's a-"
Before I get to say any more, Alec gets tackled to the floor by a mass of long dark hair.
"She's not telling you first," Isabelle says, deathly calm. "She's going to tell me first. Me, her best friend."
Isabelle jumps up from her straddle position on her brother's waist and hugs me. While she hugs me, she whispers in my ear, "Boy or girl?"
"Girl," I whisper back and she squeals so loudly, that Jace, Alec, and I all have to cover our ears. Isabelle starts jumping up and down, screaming.
"From Izzy's reaction," Alec shouts over his sister, "I'me guessing that it's a girl?"
I nod, grinning madly and Alec swings me up in his arms. I hold onto him for dear life while we both laugh and grin like idiots.
"I'm so happy for you," he whispers in my ear.
I nod, burying my face in his shoulder.
"Will you start talking to Jace again?" I whisper back.
"I'll have to think about that one," Alec pulls back and smiles.
Izzy drags me up to her room once the squealing has subsided.
"So,"she winks at me. "You and Jace? What's going on there?"
"Well, I actually have no idea. It's kind of weird. One moment we're awkward, one moment we're all lovey dovey and shit, and the next moment, we're best friends. I just want to know what he wants to be. I'll be good with whatever, preferably the second or third option."
"Oh, sweetie," Isabelle sighs. "You've got it bad. Really fucking bad."
"I know," I sigh deeply, rubbing my hands over my face. "It's saddening."
"Enough of this heavy stuff. You're just getting more frustrated as we go along. So. About those baby names."
I perk up immediately. "We're deciding between Charlotte, Charlie for short, Emma, Jordyn, and Christina. What do you think of those?"
"Ooh, I like those. Hmm, I actually adore all of them. This is difficult. I really like Jordyn and Charlotte. Ask Alec."
"Alright," I jump off the bed and rush out of Izzy's room, walking down the hall to Alec's room.
I knock on the door,and bounce slightly on the balls of my feet.
"Coming!"
I wait for a couple of minutes before Alec open the door, flustered. I raise my eyebrows and he just chuckles.
"I just got out of the shower," he explains. "What's up?"
"Isabelle wanted me to go over baby names with you. Can I come in?"
Alec just opens the door and I step in.
"Where's Jace?" I ask him, once I sit down on his bed. He sits down next to me and shrugs his shoulders.
"He went out. Didn't tell me where, though. So anyway-"
Alec's phone rings and he frowns. I gesture for him to answer and he does. Alec looks even more worried as the time goes by. At one point, he drops his phone.
"Clary."
"What?" I ask, afraid of the answer.
"We've got to go. It's Jace."
AN: And that's where I'm going to end this chapter. ;) I need a vote on the names cause I need to know what most people want. So it's either:
Jordyn
Christina
Emma
Charlotte (Charlie)
Please review! I love you guyssss.
P.S: I updated chapter 7 cause it was pretty unrealistic.
