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DFTBA!,

KelseyDockry

When I'd hung up with my mother I put my head down on the counter and groaned. Somehow, I had gotten tired already but I was scared to wake Jace. After about ten minutes I stopped caring about that and tiptoed into my room. He was laying there shirtless and on his back with his arms above the covers. The covers draped over his waist and the high amount of pillows sat under him. He looked almost too peaceful for me to climb back in next to him. I did say almost.

I closed the door and the blinds so that it was once again dark. I slid into bed next to him and curled up against his body. Still sleeping, he turned and wrapped his arms around me. Wow, that was one of my favorite reflects of his.

We woke in a few hours and laid there talking. Jace's cell phone rang and he leaned over me to search for it. Once he got it he groaned and stayed leaning over me with his elbows on either side of me.

"What do you want, Magnus?" He asked.

I could hear Magnus say something sarcastic with my name mixed in. Jace seemed to like what he said because he smiled and replied, "I think you know that didn't happen. You've met Clary." I looked at him in a very 'did-you-just-insult-me-you-jackass' way. He looked down at me, laughed, and kissed the tip of my nose. "… I don't think I've ever met a sex driven Clary before. Where'd you find her?" I hit his arm and blushed. "… What Christmas presents?"

"Oh no," I flushed deeper and covered my face. Peeking through my small fingers, I saw Jace's eyes pop open wider and look at me obviously amazed.

"You gave that to her, huh?... No, I haven't seen any of those on her…. I doubt that you can make her do that… No, Magnus she'll just be embarrassed. She's blushing worse than I've ever seen, right now, so I don't think that'll work… Alright, why did you really call? I mean, other than to ask about Clary and my sex life?"

"Oh my angel," I said, pulling a pillow over my head to hide my face.

"Uh, yeah I think she'd be okay with that," he said. "Let me ask her. Clary, Magnus wants to go out shopping with you today. It's okay with you, right?"

I thought about exactly what Magnus would want to shop for and could not imagine any of those things not being embarrassing and something that only Jace should see. I pushed the pillow up and looked him in the eye, "You're not coming."

He laughed, "She's in, don't embarrass her… Okay, bye." He hung up the phone and said, "He's coming over in an hour and a half."

"Why does he want to go today?" I asked.

"Because of tomorrow."

"Wait, what's tomorrow?"

"Babe, it's your eighteenth birthday tomorrow."

"Whoa!" I completely forgot about that.

"Yeah, becoming an adult slips my mind all the time too! It's the weirdest thing!"

"Shut up," I said, pushing on his bare chest to get him off of me. "I'm going to go take a shower."

He jumped up out of bed and proclaimed, "I shall help the damsel in distress!"

"No thee shan't," I said stubbornly.

"Are you sure? You know that you could slide, fall, and die in there. It's best if I protect you from that horrible, slippery death."

"Kiss my ass, Jace."

"Gladly!" He moved to follow me.

"The Venn Diagram of times you take my sarcasm as a serious statement and times that you sound like an irritating jerk is a circle."

An hour and a half later, Magnus showed up. "Hello, darlings," he said.

"Hey, Magnus, take care of her," Jace said with an arm around my waist.

"I will. Do not fret, my golden haired, sarcastic friend."

"Bye, Jace," I said, hugging him. I pulled my shoes on and left with Magnus.

"So uh, shopping, huh?" I asked.

"Worried I see?"

"Not so much worried as much… yeah, worried."

Once we'd gotten down to the lobby I saw a tall, stylishly dressed, black haired Isabelle. She saw me, took off her designer sunglasses, and waved at me excitedly. She skipped gracefully in her six inch heels over to my side, slipping her arm in mine. She seemed dreadfully more tall than usual and I felt immediately intimidated to be the Jack to Izzy and Magnus' giant.

"So, what exactly are we shopping for?" I inquired.

"You'll have to be surprised by that, gorgeous," Magnus responded.

"Am I going to regret coming?"

"Doubtful," Magnus said.

"Most likely," Izzy said, pulling me forward into some little shop.

"Oh, for the love of…" I was towed by Izzy to the no going back point a few feet past the door.

"Magnus, sweetheart!" An average height woman squealed and walked up to hug Magnus. They kissed each other on each cheek. "What brings you here?" She asked.

"That little flower," He replied, pointing at me. Her mud brown eyes slipped over me and she smiled.

"What are you looking for?"

"Look around, Jenny, what do you think we came here for?" Izzy told her.

I also looked around, took in the racks and racks of lingerie and sleepwear. I blushed slightly and wished that I were back at home with Jace, curled up on the couch and watching TV. Izzy had to literally push me after them as they went to the back of the store. "So what are you searching for specifically?"

Magnus rattled off a long string of words that I didn't even want to understand. She seemed to comprehend it because she went back to the corner and pulled off seven different options. "Wow," I breathed, thankful that nobody heard me.

"Perfect, just perfect!" Magnus said with a clap. After that clap I found myself abruptly in a dressing room in front of a mirror and a rack of lingerie.

"Oh, no," I groaned.

"Clary? Clary, you okay in there?" Izzy asked from the other side of the door.

"I'm… not sure."

"Can I come in?"

"Uh, sure."

She came in after it was unlocked and looked at the rack. "What's wrong?"

"Nothing."

My tone seemed to give me away because her eyes shifted from the rack to me a few times. "Don't you want these? They have to be of use for you, if you know what I mean."

"Um, yeah. I-"

"Are you saying that you two haven't slept together?" She asked. I blushed in response. "How have you avoided him?"

"Well we just haven't… I don't know. I tr- he as- I don't know."

"Do you… want to?" She seemed baffled by the fact that I hadn't slept with Jace.

"Yeah, I mean. I do and he does but I just… we haven't yet." I couldn't believe that we were talking about this. Jace and I hadn't even had a full conversation about this, just the objection of one of us at the last second.

"Well of course you both do, that's obvious. So why haven't you? I was under the impression that Jace was being Jace and you two were in bed all day!"

"No!" I blushed fiercely.

"Well you hide it pretty well. How do you get the will power to resist him?"

"I just… do? I don't really want to risk a pregnancy right now…" This was one of the most awkward conversations I've ever had with anyone.

"Damn, well I'm going to go. Try these on, it'll make Magnus happy. Maybe you'll need them soon." She winked and left the cubical.

I decided that she was right and tried them all on so that Magnus would be happy. In the end, he felt it necessary to buy what seemed like everything in the shop and present it to me handfuls of bags. "To the mall!" Izzy cheered.

"Are you serious?" I asked.

"You couldn't have thought that we weren't going to go to Victoria's Secret too."

"Please, please tell me you're joking. Please," I begged.

"Not. Even. A. Little."

After a few hours of mall shopping at, thank the angel, not only Victoria's Secret I stumbled out with full arms of bags. We all walked back to my apartment and dropped everything in the living room. Jace came out and I tried to hide the bags, praying that he wouldn't know what we went shopping for. I wasn't exactly ready for him to see those yet (thus, the reason that all of the old presents from that warlock were in the back of my closet).

"How was shopping?" He asked.

"Absolutely fantastic!" Magnus said. I gave Jace a look that said otherwise.

He laughed, "Alright, I'd like to be alone with my girlfriend now. Shoo," He said as he ushered them out.

"Use what you've got, Clary darling!" Magnus said before the door shut.

"So what exactly did you get?" He asked with one eyebrow raised. A bag fell off of the couch and spilled out onto the floor. I tried to shove it back in before he caught a glimpse but I was too late. "Whoa, planning something, baby?"

"Not happening," I said.

"Oh come on! I won't be this deliciously young and devilishly handsome forever!" He leaned over me on the couch.

"Exactly, you'll get wrinkles if you keep worrying about this," I told him with a smirk, poking his forehead.

"You're… you're lying!" He said with false shock.

I touched his chest gently to try to get him to move but he just held it there, staring into my eyes. "Jace…"

He moved his lips to mine softly, slowly. My hand tangled into his tawny hair and I kissed him back just as gently and lovingly. It wasn't intense or lust filled like it usually was, it was just measured and understanding. The kiss said more than any conversation would have. It didn't feel like I was drowning without him, I felt like we were the same person. Our breathing sped but not enough to make the kiss fast. It stayed slow, it stayed loving, and it stayed beautifully touching. He pulled back slightly and just stared into my eyes for a while. I knew it had to end at some time but I didn't want it to. I knew that in my memory it never would end. We'd stay there for our own little eternity, and that was enough for me.

That could only be in my memory, however. Reality set in and ruined the moment when there was a knock on the door. I expected Magnus or Izzy to be on the other side so I just opened the door. It wasn't Izzy, it wasn't Magnus, it was no other than my mother. Jocelyn was at my door where you could see my living room where the bags lounged on the couch completely ready to be seen by my pregnant, no doubt hormone-ridden mother. "Clary!" Jocelyn cried, hugging me.

"Can you hold on for one second?" I asked in a panic.

"Of course," she said.

"Okay, I'll be right back." I shut the door and sprinted into the living room.

"Whoa, slow down. What's wrong?" Jace asked.

"Jocelyn's here!" I grabbed as many bags as I could carry and Jace took the rest of them into my closet. "Don't look in them!"

"Clare, settle down."

"Do you have any idea what Jocelyn would do if she saw that you were here and these were here? She would kill you, make me clean it up, and then kill me!" I ran back to the door and opened it again. "Hi, Jocelyn!"

"Hi, I have so much to tell you!"

"Come in, come in!" I said. We went and sat down in the kitchen and started chatting about the party they went to and the baby when Jace walked in.

"Oh, Jace! How are you?" She asked and got up to hug him. I was shocked at this because they had never been closer that friendly acquaintances.

"Good, how was Alicante?" He sat down in a chair that he pulled next to mine and put his arm around my waist.

"Amazing, the party was so elegant. Clary, you would have loved it!" They went on like that for a while and I began to be suspicious. They hadn't talked like this ever and now they were best friends? Something was definitely happening.

"Clary, I assume you told him already?"

"I hope that's okay…"

"Of course it's okay. I knew that telling you was like telling him. You're in love, perfectly understandable!" She sang.

"Right… Does Luke know?" I questioned hopefully.

"Yes, I told him yesterday. He's thrilled just like you expected." She sat there and rubbed her lower stomach.

"Do you have room for a nursery? I mean, you live in such a small place," Jace asked.

"Well, we were talking about that and we aren't sure if we want to move or convert another room. We could rent out the house; it's in the back of the book store so we'll have to keep it."

"What room?" I put in.

"Well, the only room that isn't being used is yours…" She trailed off.

"Oh," I said. "Well it is the perfect size and it's right next to your room."

"Are you sure?" She crinkled her little forehead.

"Of course, Mom. You have my blessing. Where is Luke, by the way?"

"Oh, he's at home." She glanced at the clock and said, "Speaking of which, I have to go. We have reservations." She got up and we walked her down the little hallway to the door. She hugged me, hugged Jace, looked at each of us and hugged me again with a smile. Yep, something was definitely going on with those two; something important. She went out with a short goodbye and walked down the corridor. I shut the door and turned to him.

"What's going on?" I asked with that 'Don't you even think about lying to me' look.

He pushed my back against the door, put an arm above my head, leaned in, and matched the look on my face with one of his own. "Nothing," he said.

Well, chapter four is done now so there you go! I'll see you next update! Thanks for reviewing, lovelies!

DFTBA!,

KelseyDockry