I'd love you if I could
Chapter 2- Moments like these
A/N: I'm updating on my birthday. How nice am I right? Just kidding. So thanks for all the reviews. I can't believe it! 22 reviews for 2 chapters (technically one)! Such a great response to this story... btw does anyone know what you press to make the lines seperating different parts show up on ff? :)
Disclamer: I don't own TMI... blah blah blah the usual :)
Love.
It's like lightning, you get struck once,
and baby, it kills.
She opened the door and gasped,shocked at the person standing behind it.
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It was Alexis, with 10 huge shopping bags in her hands and on the ground. She wore a big cheerful smile as if standing in front of her friend's door with enough clothes to last years was perfectly normal.
"Lex, what are you doing?"Clary said, her eyes still bugging out, eyeing her bags.
"Well, I thought we would do a girls night. You know, makeovers, movies that type of thing." After a long pause, she added, "Well aren't you gonna invite me in?"
"Oh! sorry, " Clary said as Alexis carried some of her bags in followed by Clary carrying the others. Once they put down the extremely heavy, to Clary's surprise, bags of clothes, they settled down on Clary's velvet colored couch. Lex filled in Clary on her shopping trip, while Clary pretended to be interested. She reminded Clary of Isabelle, her ex-best friend. She figured Isabelle hated her now, now that she left. Lex had been her only friend, and she was human. When Clary left 5 years ago, she had let go of their world too. The shadowhunting world. She regreted leaving, but it was the only way, but she desperately wanted to see their daughter and Jace. She wondered how they looked like now and how their life was. It was getting harder and harder to not go running back to the institute. It was one of the reasons why she moved back to New York. To feel closer to them. She would be happy with just a glimpse of them.
"Hello? Earth to Clary, you there?" Lex snapped her fingers in front of her face.
"Sorry spaced out there"
"S'ok" and she began to continue talking animately about her day. Clary swore, she acted like a teenager instead of a 22 year old, which was a year older than Clary.
"-so I went in this jewelry shop and found these really cute earrings!" She took a big breath and continued making hand gestures while she talked. "Then I went in Wet Seal, Anthropology, and got this really amazing Chanel purse! Well I found it with some help. I met this girl at Chanel, about our age. Well we had so much in common. It was like we were twins or something. So we shopped together and she gave me her number too. We're supposed to meet her and go on a shopping spree on Tuesday. Wanna come?" She talked excitedly as she pulled out a slip of paper.
154-8888
The number looked familiar, but she couldn't remember where she had seen it before.
"I don't know." she said undecidedly.
"Come on, it'll be fun, go somewhere for once, instead of just staying at home all day with your sketchpad."
"Ok" Clary said reluctantly. Lex was very convincing when she wanted to be.
"So... what's her name?"
"Hmmm, come to think of it, I don't know."
"So you're saying, you shopped with someone a whole day, exchanged numbers, and planned to meet each other to go shopping again and you don't know her name." It was so like Lex. She sighed and shook her head then carried Lex's remaining bags into the house.
Jace sighed and shook his head as he carried the rest of the seraph blades into the house, looking at the mess Belle had made. Toys and books were strewn all around the room and Belle had settled herself into a tiny corner playing happily with her toys.
"Daddy, what are you doing?" She asked innocently looking up. Jace quickly stood in front of the blades. The family (Jace and the Lightwoods) had thought it would be good for Belle to have a normal childhood, and it would be her choice to be in the shadowhunting world or not. Nobody but the Lightwoods and a few other mundanes knew that Belle existed. Which meant the Clave was unaware of her, and they all tried to keep it that way. Who knew what they would do if they found out that Belle had 2 parents with angel blood.
"Nothing, Belle, just bringing in some old stuff." He replied. The five year old just nodded and ran off thinking nothing of the sparkling objects behind Jace's unmoving body. A moment later, she came back with something behind her back.
"Daddy, I made something for you at school." She said with a shrill voice, smiling. Jace couldn't help but smile back at her. She reached behind her and pulled out a card. Jace took it from her hands and looked at it. Inside it said:
To the bwest dady eva!
I lov yu
On the outside it was a big heart with lots of glitter. Jace figured she probably dumped the whole bottle onto the card. She loved glitter and would put generous amounts on everything.
She looked up at Jace, "Do you like it?"
"Of course, sweetie, I love it, Thank you" He replied, his heart melting at the sincere expression on Belle's face. He bent down and hugged her. No matter what happened, it was worth it. He'd give anything, for moments like these.