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CPOV

Isabelle had insisted that I'd let her sleep with me so that's how we have slept three last nights. Jace, Simon and my brother in their own room and me and Iz in our room. Izzy and I have a huge king size bed but still, when I woke up on the Christmas day, Izzy was clinging my side. I took a piece of her hair out of my mouth and shook her to wake her up. Not a simple task. I had to push her off of the bed to wake her up.

"Okay Clary, what the hell?" She asked getting up from the floor.

I laughed at her and said: " You didn't wake up, so I had to push you. Little too hard, maybe." I smiled sweetly to her.

Izzy just shook her head and headed to her wardrobe to get her satin robe. I got up as well. I had my pyjama pants and a long-sleeved t-shirt on while Izzy was Izzy. She had a short pink silk gown on and a little longer robe wrapped around her slim body. Her long black hair was shiny, as usual, while my red curly hair was more like a bird's nest.

"Hey Clary." Izzy said as I opened the door and I turned around to look at her.

"Yeah?"

"I just wanted to give you my gift for you now." She said holding a small velvet box out. I took it from her and opened it carefully. I gasped as I saw what was inside. There was a beautiful silver necklace that had an infinity symbol in the middle of it.

"Wow, Izzy.. This is so beautiful. Thank you." I smiled to her.

"I thought that it would describe our friendship pretty well." She said and smiled as well.

I changed my old necklace to it, and it was perfect. I hugged Izzy, then went to get my gift to her. She tore the paper away and gasped.

It was a photo of us. Jonathan took it when we were at our cottage. Isabelle and I were standing on the beach, my left arm around Iz's waist and her right arm loosely on my shoulder. Isabelle's taller than me so it looked funny. Wind had messed our hair and we were laughing our asses off. I had my Ray Ban's on and my black maxi dress was flying around. I don't know how Isabelle had managed to keep her short white summer dress down. We had our shoes in our hands.

It still brought smile to my lips. I looked at my best friend just to see tears falling on her cheeks.

"Izzy? What's wrong?" I asked concerned.

"No, no. Everything's fine. I just love that picture. Thank you Clary." She put the picture down and pulled me into her arms.

After awhile, we broke apart and laughed.

"Okay, let's go to eat something." She said and pulled me with her. Everyone was already in the kitchen eating left overs. I sat down next to Jace and kissed his cheek.

"Nice necklace." He said and touched it gently.

"Yeah, Iz gave it to me." I smiled to him.

"Merry Christmas baby." He whispered to my ear after awhile.

"Merry Christmas to you, too." I said.

"Have you finished?"

I nodded and we got up. Jace pulled me with him to their room and sat me down on his bed. I looked around as he tried to find something. Their room was big. Really big. There was three queen size beds placed around the room. Simon's bed was under the huge window. He had his suitcase opened next to his unmade bed and clothes hanging from chair's back. Jonathan's bed was 15 feet from Simon's and he had also his big suitcase open next to his bed, just like Simon. And I wasn't surprised that my brother hadn't made his bed, he never did. And nearest to the door was Jace's bed. He had his white sheets, like always, and he had made his bed, like he always did. Straight and tight. His clothes were in his closed suitcase, not a single sock hanging from anywhere. The colors in the room were peaceful: light brown, beige and natural white. The floor was dark wood.

Jace was still searching something. "Do you need help?" I asked.

"NO! No, I mean. Just wait there." He said.

Just when Jace found what he was looking for, Jonathan came running through the door, panting he asked: "We thought it would be nice to go to husky dog sledging, do you guys want to come? I know Clary's much better now. Mom said you could go, as long as you would be wearing warm clothes."

I looked at Jace and he shrugged. I grinned at him and nodded to my brother. I jumped off the bed and ran to pull something warm on.

JPOV

I sighed as I put the small red velvet box down. Damn you Jon.. I thought. I opened my suitcase and took some warm clothes out. Then I walked to Clary's room and leaned against the door frame. Clary was braiding her long red hair in front of the mirror. She caught my gaze and held it. Her mouth curled into a smile and her eyes shone.

We've been dating over 6 months, but she still made my heart race whenever I saw her. I guess she'll always do that to me. I smiled back. I loved her more than the life itself, cliché, I know. Finally she was ready, skipped to me and took my hand. She pulled me with her to put our skiing clothes on.

Everyone else was already outside waiting for us, and after we got our clothes on we packed into two cars. Jonathan, Clary and myself in the other, and Izzy, Simon, Alec and Magnus in the other. We went first and Jonathan drove us to some old house. There was a man waiting for us. He had red nose and cheeks too, his beard a little too long to look actually good.

"Okay, that beard wouldn't make anyone look good. Maybe me, but I'd look amazingly good if I was wearing just a plastic bag, so that doesn't count." I said. Clary shook her head and laughed at me while Jonathan just rolled his eyes.

"What? Johnny-boy, you're just jealous." I said smirking to him.

"Welcome back jerk, welcome back." He laughed.

"I knew you missed me, who wouldn't have?"

"Okay, stop it." Clary laughed. She opened her seatbelt and got out. Jonathan and I followed her and went to meet the doggie-man.

"Hello there, come here boy! Come to Jace." I said to one of the dogs, patting my knees. The dog just growled at me and walked away.

The man laughed and patted the dog's head. "This one's Lexi. She's the leader of this pack."

"Awww, someone could finally refuse our little Jacey." Jonathan cooed to me.

"Oh come on man.." I muttered. "Your sister tried but -" I didn't have time to end the sentence before Jonathan had taken a snowball and threw it to my head.

"Don't even think about it. You'll turn into dog's food very soon."

"Okay, that's enough." Clary said and took the snowball I was holding in my hands.

Finally Izzy and the others managed to get themselves out of their car.

"What the hell took so long?" I asked.

"Yeah... We kind of got lost..." Alec said looking down at his shoes.

"Got lost? Well okay then.." I laughed.

Clary was talking with the doggie-man with Jonathan. We waited for them to come and tell us what was the plan. 5 minutes later they shook hands with the man and walked to us.

"Is everyone coming?" Jonathan asked. Magnus lifted his hand and shook his head.

"I'm not coming. But Alec is." He said as he noticed Alec opened his mouth.

Alec rolled his eyes and said "Okay, I'll go. Are you sure?" Magnus just smiled and nodded his head.

"Okay, now we'll separate us into pairs. Jace, you'll go with Simon." I was going to argue but Jonathan lifted his finger "That's for your own good. And for Clary's. I know you can't keep your hands off of her."

I sighed but didn't want to start a fight with him.

"Jace, that's not the only reason. The dogs' owner said there has to be one lighter and one heavier one in the sleigh. And Jonathan didn't want you to come with me. And for you, Izzy, you're going with Alec. That's just fair. If I can't go with my boyfriend, you're not going either." Clary said smiling to Izzy. She just rolled her eyes laughing.

"That's fine." She said. Simon nodded as well.

"Okay let's go then" Clary said. "Simon and Jace, you'll be in the last sleigh, Izzy and Alec in the middle and me and Jonathan first."

Oh boy, this is going to be fun I thought, even my thoughts full of sarcasm.

CPOV

Jonathan guided me towards the first sleigh. I saw Lexi, wagging her tail. Behind her were six dogs, waiting for us.

"Hello, I'm Clary and this is my brother Jonathan." I said to a boy who was kneeled next to Lexi. He stood up and smiled at me. He had black hair and baby blue eyes. His nose was straight and he had long black lashes. He had high cheekbones and his cheeks were blushed because of cold. He was very attractive. Almost as attractive as Jace. And that's something. Where this boy was contrast of black and white, Jace was gold. They were like night and day.

"Hi, I'm Will." He offered his hand first to me and then to Jon. "Nice to meet you. I'll be your guide during this day. These are my babies, I'm the one who takes care of them." He patted Lexi's head. "This is Lexi, leader of the whole pack, not just these six here. And the next duo are Tyson and Ellie. Tyson's a sweetheart. He's the most loyal dog I've ever seen. He has never bit anyone. And if Ellie was an object she would be energy drink, I'm sure of it. Anyway" Will pointed the next duo."These are Sadie and Splash. They're brother and sister. And the last duo is Rizoe and Rider the most calm and strong ones in the whole pack." He said pointing the last two.

"Okay, Jonathan could you come sit here?" Will asked looking at us again.

"Sure." Jonathan nodded.

"And miss Clary, could you sit in front of your brother?" Will asked winking to me. I blushed and my cheeks felt really hot. I should've used to flirting by now, because of Jace. Jonathan just laughed at me and moved a bit backwards so there was room enough for to sit down.

"Clary?" I heard Jace's voice behind us. I turned around to see him walking towards us. As he reached us he kneeled down and kissed me. "Be careful, okay? And Jonathan? I'll break your every bone if you let something happen to her."

"Oh come on Jace, these dogs are as harmful as feathers." I said laughing. "Sorry, this is my overprotective boyfriend who sometimes crosses the line of 'normally overprotective'." I said to Will. He was looking at Jace, eyes widened.

"Jace? As Jace Herondale?" Will asked.

"Ummm. Nowadays I go by Lightwood, but yes. That's my real last name. Do I know you?" Jace asked, standing up and looking at the black-haired boy.

"Oh come on Jacey! You can't have forgotten me!" He laughed.

And then I saw realizing in Jace's amber eyes. "WILL? Is that you William?" He asked.

"I knew you couldn't forget this body." Will laughed again. He pulled Jace into a tight hug. Few moments later they broke apart, smiling widely to each other.

"Clary, " Jace said looking at me again "This is my cousin, William. Will, this is the love of my life- Clary." And then he looked back at his cousin. "Man, I haven't seen you for ages! Where have you been, bro?!"

"Oh, you know, here and there." Will shrugged.

Jace was going to say something, but Simon yelled for him. "Come on Jace, let's go!"

"I'll talk to you later, Will!" He said before he kissed me for the last time and ran back to his on sleigh.

"Yeah, let's go." Will said to us as well. "Are you ready?"

"Yeah." Jonathan and I said together.

The day went fast, I mean really fast. It was dark until we were back at the house. Will said he would come later for a visit.

We had decided in the morning to open our gifts in the evening. So when we had eaten our dinner, we gathered together into living room. After changing the gifts we started to open them. I loved all of my presents, not because of what they were, but because the people I love had taken their time to think about what would I like. But I noticed one thing. I didn't get anything from Jace. I knew I shouldn't take it as an offence. But I did. My gift for Jace was a quite expensive gold watch, so, I kind of expected something from him.

I saw Jace looking at me and I tried to hide my feelings. He looked away very quickly. I turned my attention to Isabelle, who was beaming next to me. Simon had bought her a pair of beautiful silver earings and she was showing them to me. Jonathan was smiling at me as he held up his new soccer shoes. He had whined about his old ones so long that I had bought him new ones. Thank you, you're the best! He mouthed to me. I smiled too and nodded. I lifted my new bracelet which Jon had given to me. We were once shopping at the mall, back in California, and I had seen it in some jewelery shop's window and fell in love with it immediately. I didn't have money enough to buy it right away, but when I went back to get it, it was gone. Apparently my dearest brother had bought it. Thank you. I love it. I mouthed back to him.

I looked around and saw everyone looking happily at their gifts. We took all the papers from the floor and threw them into our fire-place. The flames swallowed them greedily. I was sitting on the couch, curled up against Jace's side and his left arm around my shoulders, reading a book I got from my mom, when Jace whispered to my ear "Let's go to my room, I've something for you."

We got up and left the room. I caught dad watching us and he smiled and winked to me as he saw my gaze. What's going on? I thought. Jace led me to the boy's room and sat me down on his bed. He took something from his suitcase and sat next to me.

He took my hands in his and looked me in the eyes. I was sure my heart was in it's way out of my chest.

"Clary, before you say anything, please let me speak first." I nodded and he continued "Clarissa Morgenstern, I love you. I love you so much. You have no idea how much I love you." I was going to say that I loved him too, but he touched my lips with his forefinger to make me stay quiet before continuing.

"Let me finish. Before you, I was a player, I won't deny it. I always felt like no one was enough for me. That something was missing, and I didn't know what. I was an asshole to many, many girls. I regret it now, I really do. And then you came into my life. You broke my every thought of an ideal girlfriend. Every single one of them. You were a fiery, small and stubborn girl. It's like you broke into my head and threw away all the other thoughts I had, so I could only think about you. Think about your smile. Your laughter. Think about you.

I fell in love with you fast. Really fast. And that scared the shit out of me. It still does. I'm scared of you, Clary. I'm afraid that you'll realize someday that you could do so much better than me. But i'm not going to let that fear prevent me from loving you. I promise I will marry you someday. I will. And I promise I will have children with you in the future. But not yet. For now, I promise I will love you every day of our lives. I'll make you happy every single day. I want to make you feel like a princess. I want to make you feel loved. And like I said I will marry you someday. And I want to give you something that confirms it." Jace said and opened a red velvet box.

Inside of it was a beautiful silver ring with just one small diamond in the middle of it. I covered my mouth with my hands and tears fell down on my cheeks.

"Clary? Are you okay? If you didn't like it we can always change it.." Jace said, clearly worried now.

"NO! Don't you dare to change it. It's beautiful." I whispered.

"You like it? Phew." Jace muttered. I laughed and took the ring. I put it to my ring finger and looked at it.

"It's kind of promise ring. I promise to marry you someday. Not yet, no. But in the future." Jace whispered. I pushed him down on his bed and kissed him. Hard. Few moments later Jace pulled away and sat up. I sat up as well and took his hand.

"I have something else for you, too." He said, kissed my cheek before standing up and walking over his guitar.

He sat on Jonathan's bed and started to play. It was Ellie Goulding's How long will I love you.

How long will I love you?

As long as stars are above you,

and longer if I can.

How long will I need you?

As long as the seasons need to

follow their plan.

How long will I be with you?

As long as the sea is bound to

wash upon the sand.

How long will I want you?

As long as you want me to,

and longer by far.

How long will I hold you?

As long as your father told you,

as long as you can.

How long will I give to you?

As long as I live through you,

however long you say.

How long will I love you?

As long as stars are above you,

and longer if I may.

How long will I love you?

As long as stars are above you.

I was crying again. Jace came to sit next to me again and pulled me into his arms. "I love you so much Clary."

And I knew he ment it. And I loved him too. With my whole body.

"I love you too."

Hey guys! Like I said, I'm alive... How was your Christmas? My Christmas was lovely. I love Christmas!

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