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Previously...

One ring. He still has it! Two rings. Maybe he's not going to answer if because he doesn't recognize the number... Three rin- "Hello?"

Oh, my god. He sounded exactly the same. Tired, irritated, and annoyed, but the same.

"Hello? Anyone there?"

I knew he'd hang up if I didn't speak soon, so I took a deep breath and said, "I-is this Simon Lewis?"

Duh stupid! "Yeah, who's this? And why are you calling me at...four in the morning?" Was it? I actually didn't

know. Another deep breath and, "I-I'm sorry. I just...needed to hear your voice I guess." That didn't sound

creeper at all, you idiot!

He snorted. "Hear my-Who the hell is this? And why the hell do you have my number? Tell me or I'm hanging up."

So, in my need to talk to him, I nearly yelled, "It's Clary! Don't hang up!" He gasps and it's all quiet.

Neither of us speak for a few minuets, and it's as if I can't. Then, I whisper, "Y-you still there Simon?" He was

trying to catch his breath as he whispered in reply, "C-C-Clary? I-is it really you?" "Yeah, the one and only. I'm so

sorry that I haven't called you." And I was. Immensely so.

"How-Why-I mean...Why didn't you tell me you were leaving?" The hut in his voice just poured out, and my heart

squeezed in pain. You're the one who caused that Clary. You hurt you're best friend all because you didn't talk to him.

"Because...I just had to get away. I didn't really want to leave you, but I just...I had to get away from him. I'm so

sorry Si. I won't be surprised if you hate me like everyone else does." I deserved his hate. He was the only one

that I truly did hurt.

In a way, I wanted him to yell at me, hate me. I even half expected it. What I didn't though, was what he said

next after a sigh. "Miss you terribly, not hate. Never hate Clare-Bear. You should know that by now. I can't even

tell you how worried I've been about you. And the baby. Where are you staying? Did you have a boy or a girl? Do

you still go hunting? Have you-" I cut him off laughing.

"Simon! Chill it with the questions for a sec! Look, there's a lot to yell you. And I can't answer all of your

questions yet, but here it goes." I take a deep breath and continue. "I'm staying at an Institute in West Virginia.

And I do still hunt-duh! I'm a Shadow-hunter still. I spent too much time training not to be! But I mostly just go on

the weekends cause there's just too much to do during the week. Man Si, I don't think I could even begin to tell

you everything right now." How could I?

That's when he gasps and I can almost see the light bulb go off in his head as he said, "I'm a genius! I can come

over to you and visit!" I gasped too. Could he? Would he be aloud? Was it safe? Wait, he can't even- "Simon,

you can't even come into an Institute, remember? You're a vampire." It was a known fact that Downworlders

couldn't enter the Institute.

"But I can now! You're mark combined with the angel blood finally lets me! I've been able to for little over a year

now." Now I gasped. "Oh my god Simon! I don't believe it! That's fantastic! That's it! As soon as Mike gets up, I'm

asking him if you can come over!" I get my friend back!

His breath hitched for a moment, worried. "Uh, Clary, who's Mike?" "Oh! That's right, you don't know him. He

run's the Institute. Don't worry there Si, I didn't get married to anyone. Well..." Leaving it at that, because that

my friend, is an entire different story. I could almost see his eyes widen as he gasps slowly. "Clarissa Fray, you'd

better be kidding with me! You are not aloud to get married unless I've met the guy! And you'd have to tell me!" I

sighed. "Si, I was only half kidding. I'll tell you everything when you get here. Now, change the subject." We

talked about him and Izzy. Apparently they've been on and off since I left. And not once have they said that they

were exclusive. Right now though, they were together. He loved her though-he always had-but she doesn't

know how much.

"Yeah, every time I want to tell her, she breaks it off, or we get in a fight. But the longest we've ever been

broken up is about a week and a half. I wonder how I'm going to explain to her that I'm leaving New York for a

few days. Bet she won't like that at all."

"No, but, I mean...I'd come up there, but..." "Yeah, I know. So what am I going to tell the others?" Hm. One of

the great questions of my life. But then, I had it! "You can say it's official vampire business! Say Raphael said he'd

do you a favor if you came here and, I don't know, meet with another vampire. And you can say that a wizard

here is the one making the portal! Technically, there is too! She's so cool, you'd probably love her." I went on

into telling him my plan.

He'll tell the others that Raphael wants him to go to Ohio for vampire business, and he'll be gone for a few days-

or a week if I could convince Michael. I'll be the one who opens the portal-me being one of my friends who's

actually a real wizard-and then I'll take him home, saying hi to his mom and then come back home. Of course

though, now Simon will be part of my life again.

"Great plan Clary! Hay, by the way, not that I'm complaining, but why did you call me up at four in the morning?"

I laughed slightly. "I couldn't sleep. Plus...I was just thinking about my past. Mostly that last day and how I'd hurt

you. Ya know what Si? You're the only true friend I have. Sure, Izzy and Alec are my friends, but you're...you're

my brother. My best friend. Actually, right now, you're one of the only one's that I can even trust. My friends here

have become my only family-other than you of course-so I've been alone a lot. And one of my friends-her name

was Adreona. She...she died almost a year ago and she was...she was like a female you. And I trusted her as

much as I do you."

Silent tears began to pour out of my eyes and I wiped them away. "Aw Clare-Bear...I'm so sorry." "It's OK. So,

yeah, I was up, thinking, and...well, I had to change a diaper." ((AN-I forgot to add that part in. Clary had been

changing Lilly, then put her to sleep, then was watching her kids thinking. Just wanted to make that clear

XD )) He started laughing. "So as you were changing a shitty diaper, you thought of me? I'm touched Clary!" I

busted out laughing too, then remembered that people were still asleep. "It was after I finished! "

We talked longer, him telling me more about his life. His mom had died-I almost started crying again because she

was such a good person-and he sold the house and now lives in an appartment 10 minuets away from Magnus.

Then he asked me if I was calling him from a land-line or a cell. "My cell. You can save the number if you want,

just put the name as something other than Clary, Kay?" "Gotcha. What name do you want miss?" "Just put in my

old nick name. I actually go by it here. Ya know, so no one knows where I am." "And that would be what? CB?

Shorty?"

I laughed. "No silly! Roe! My middle name?" He gasped and busts out laughing. "Oh my goodness! How could I

forget! Little Clarissa Rowena Fairchild!" As he laughed, I scratched my upper arm and said, "Uh, Simon? I'm

actually not technically that anymore. So as far as everyone's concerned, I'm technically Rowena Carter. No one

in Idris- other than Robert and I'll explain that later-knows where I am. I'd rather have a fake last name then go

by all those others. Fairchild, Morgenstern, Fray. Well, Fray's OK. Since, ya know, you're really the only one who

calls me that."

We ended up hanging up soon after that. We were going to call/text each other when we were ready. That was

when I realized that it was already 5:30 in the morning. Wow. We were taking for over an hour. But I was

happy. I had my best friend back!