This chapter is dedicated to Jillessa Heronstairs for her awesome Beta work. She really improved the choice of words which made the chapter flow better! Thank you soo much again! And thank you to my patient readers who handled the cliffhanger for soo long. I won't be answering your reviews on here anymore because I am in a hurry to update.

Still, I'll answer them on PM. Enjoy the chapter! x

"Why?" Cecily asked softly, though her voice firm, staring at Gabriel. "Why?"

Gideon cleared his throat, looking around for an escape, something to get out of the situation with. "Cecily, listen-"

"Shut up." Gabriel shot his older brother an intense look before his eyes reluctantly shifted back to Cecily. "I thought you wanted Jem to know..."

She felt dizzy. "I did, but I didn't tell him and Will thinks I did."

"I'm so sorry."

"If you were going to tell Jem, you should have at least took the blame. Not me!" She was shouting now, her voice loud to her own ears.

"I'll tell Will then," Gabriel reasoned. That was a reasonable solution, but Cecily still felt angry. Gabriel's calmness infuriated her even more. She fell back down in her seat, feeling her back hit the chair. She hadn't even realized she had stood up.

"You can't tell Will," Gideon suddenly announced, urgency in his voice, and Cecily realized she had forgotten he was there.

"Why can't he? I didn't do it!" She exclaimed, anger spouting up once again.

Gideon ignored her and turned to Gabriel. "I need to talk to you in the kitchen. Now." He added sharply. Gabriel, sighing, stood up with his brother and they both went to the kitchen.

Anger bubbled up inside Cecily. Why was everyone suddenly keeping secrets? And why does this all happen to revolve around Will? The Lightwood brothers weren't obviously going to explain what the hell was going on especially since they are in some sort of debt towards Will. However, Jem and Tessa were not.

Cecily silently walked to Gabriel's room and changed her boxer shorts for a pair of jeans. They were very loose though but she solved the problem by wearing one of his belts. At least the jeans wouldn't fall off, though they still looked awkward. She stuffed her shorts in the pocket and searched for something to wear on her feet. She settled on soccer shoes that was only a one or two sizes bigger than her own foot size. She looked in the mirror and tried to calm her messy hair down but it wouldn't work. Luckily, she found a rubber band and loosely tied her hair. As she examined the clothes she borrowed from Gabriel (and Will's old shirt she was wearing), she wondered who to go to first.

Jem was a reasonable choice. He might be mad at Tessa and Will, but he was kind and understanding enough to know that just because Cecily was related to Will doesn't mean she had tricked him too. But didn't I know about Will and Tessa, but didn't even tell him? she asked herself silently.

For a moment, she hesitated about going to Jem and wondered whether Tessa was a better choice.

However, Jem, she decided, after a long moment of pondering, was the better choice. Will believed that Cecily had told Jem so Tessa must think the same. Didn't Cecily threaten Tessa more than once a few nights ago that she'd tell Jem that she was cheating on him? Tessa would slam the door in her face if she even bothered to answer it in the first place. Jem was the person she had to go to for answers, by default.

She slipped out of Gabriel's room and was relieved to hear Gabriel and Gideon's voices coming from the kitchen. Now she could slip out without lying to them even though they had plenty of secrets of their own.

As she was passing the closed kitchen door, she realized the brothers were arguing. Hesitating, she wondered whether or not she should eavesdrop. Cecily decided that it was better not to, since she knew she would listen to the end of the conversation and then there would be no time for escaping.

Forcing herself to walk away, she opened the front door and left the apartment.

This is how Cecily thought everything go with Jem: She'd ring the doorbell; he'd open it and let her in. She'd ask him about what happened last night; he would tell her that Gabriel told him to come to the club and how he found Will and Tessa making out and start crying. Cecily, being the good friend, would comfort him. Very cliche, but what else was there to except?

Obviously, she never imagined that she'd catch Sophie leaving Jem's house. Nearing Jem's house, she caught Sophie coming from his front door, head down, as if not to be recognized. Cecily stopped her in tracks and panicked. Her plan had been to visit Jem's place without anyone catching her. Yet here was Sophie about to come her way and she would definitely ask questions why was Cecily going to Jem's and why she was wearing men clothes.

Cecily ran to the ally, praying that no one was already hiding there. She waited for five minutes until she finally heard footsteps. She backed away inside the ally a bit more to be safe. She finally saw Sophie pass. Her friend looked horrible. Her hair was a mess and she kept on fidgeting with her fingers. She was obviously distressed.

For a second, Cecily wondered if perhaps Jem had distracted his heartbreak over Tessa by sleeping with Sophie? She did use to have a crush on Jem in middle school, but the next second, Cecily wanted to laugh at herself. Jem hardly seemed to be the type of guy who just had sex for his own selfish reasons. Not at all, right?

When Sophie finally passed, Cecily waited a minute or two, before leaving the ally. She continued her way to Jem's house, though she had her eye out for any more surprises.

Sorry for the really short chapter but I was in a hurry to update and I thought this was the perfect place to stop. I guess I'm going to have to leave you again with a cliffhanger. I love being a writer.

Thanks again to my Beta Reader, Jillessa Heronstairs. You should have been my Beta a long time ago.

Tell me in the reviews why do you think Sophie was at Jem's? What were Gideon and Gabriel arguing on about? Stay tuned x.