Disclaimer: Cassandra Clare owns all Mortal Instruments characters seen in this story…I own the plot.

It stopped raining, so Jace and I go out to his car and get our stuff. When we open the door to the casita, I don't know what I expected. It has light hardwood floors like the house, a fairly large closet, a bathroom, a balcony, and in the center of the room, a bed. We unpacked our stuff and changed out of our sopping wet clothes. It was only 3:00 but I could tell that the weather wouldn't let up until tomorrow. That and I checked the weather app on my phone. Tomorrow's supposed to be sunny and 78*. "I'm actually going to get in the shower and into my pajamas…I'm pretty sure Izzy isn't going to make us do anything else today," I tell Jace while grabbing my pajamas.

He nods his messy golden head and reaches around his now empty suitcase for something. I turn to get in the shower and I can't help but wonder where Alec and Magnus are.

~.o.O.o.~

When I get out of the shower, I change into my usual sleep shorts and top. I didn't realize how cold it'd be when I opened the steamy bathroom door though. The second I opened that door, I was hit by a wall of cold air. The door to the casita has two parts. You can open the top part of the door and keep the bottom part closed, or shut the door altogether. Jace has also opened the windows to get some air flow in here. I expected it to be cold, but not this cold. "Holy," I trail off as I run into the closet that is right next to the bathroom and grab a sweatshirt, "It's freezing! How are you still in wet clothes?"

He shrugs and says, "You'll see how I distracted myself." Then he gets back up and heads in the shower himself. He shuts the door and I jump on the bed. This bed is like a cloud! My brain doesn't pay attention to the level of comfort of this bed anymore because I see that Jace brought a connector and already connected the iPad into the TV. He's amazing!

By the time Jace gets out of the shower, it's closer to five. And Magnus and Alec come through the gate. "Who is driving the black Mustang?" I hear Magnus say. They are shaking the water off of their umbrellas. I get up and head towards the casita door and lean on the bottom part. I rest my head on my hands and respond, "That'd be Jace."

Magnus and Alec jump and turn towards me. I smile and wave and then Magnus opens the casita door. He immediately pulls me into a hug and I can already feel glitter on me. "Biscuit, you're here!" We pull back from our hug and I look over at Alec. I'm not surprised to see that he's talking with Jace…they are on the same Varsity Hockey team at school and Jace is, of course, the team captain.

"Mags," I grab his attention, "What's Izzy doing? She seemed so…closed off when we got here."

Magnus sighs and looks sad. "Saul and Izzy are going through a bit of a rough patch, Biscuit."

"Really? Is it okay if I ask what happened between Simon and Izzy," I ask quietly.

He sighs and looks over at Alec and Jace, deep in discussion. He grabs my hand and pulls me into the casita and shuts both the top and bottom door. The door has two windows at the top of it and I see Jace looking curiously at me. Before I can shrug my shoulders, Magnus reaches past me and closes the blind over the two windows. But not before he sends a quick wink in Jace's direction. I hear Jace start to knock on the door and then Magnus locks it before Jace can open it. I hear Alec laughing at Jace and then Magnus smirks. "Are you going to tell me what's up or not?" I get Mags attention back and his joy is short lived. His face drops immediately. "Well, Biscuit," he begins and sighs, "I hope she's not mad at me for telling you this, but this is why Alec and I were gone."

My eyebrows shoot up to my hairline. "Was it that bad?"

He nods his head sadly and continues, "Simone forgot their three year-iversary today. Izzy hasn't been talking to him since lunch."

"Lunch? Why lunch?" I interrupt.

"She thought Sam was going to say something this morning during breakfast, but he didn't say anything." Magnus answers. He's been calling Simon by different names ever since he met him so now we're all kinda used to it. He can't even keep the same name throughout conversations. At least they've all started with 'S' so he is close.

"Does Simon know why she's not talking to him?"

"No," Magnus sighs, "Scott doesn't know what he did wrong. Izzy was so distraught after breakfast that Alec and I followed her into her bedroom while Sean cleaned the dishes. We asked her what was wrong and she told us everything that I just told you. I told her that I would talk to Steven while Alec stayed with her, but she told us not to. She said that she didn't want us saying anything to him and if it was meant to be, then he'd remember."

"Wow, he's really in the doghouse isn't he?" I say. "Mmm-hmm," Magnus nods somberly. Simon has a horrible memory. All throughout high school, he's forgotten things, whether it's his mothers' and his sisters' birthday, or it's that he's supposed to give me a ride home with Izzy because Jace had hockey practice. Amazingly enough, he's never forgotten his homework. His brain works oddly.

Magnus and I are still standing by the door, feeling kinda down because we know what Simon had to go through to be with Izzy. "Wait…" I get an amazing idea. Magnus looks up at me and gets a hopeful look when he sees that I'm coming up with something. "What exactly did Izzy say?"

"She said, 'It was our three-,'" I cut him off. "No. Not that part, fast forward to the part about not telling Simon."

"Oh…if you mean the part when she told us not to tell Seth, then there's not really anything we can do," his hopeful look vanishes.

"I don't care. Tell me what she said exactly. "

He takes a deep breath and begins, "She said, and I quote, 'Magnus, I don't want you or Alec telling him anything.'"

"It might just work," I say. Magnus looks at me skeptically and I begin to tell him my plan. "Okay, so here's what were going to do…"

~.o.O.o.~

Magnus and I leave the casita with the full intention of making this plan work. Magnus heads for the living room where Alec and Jace have moved to watch hockey while I head down stairs. His first stop is getting Alec and Jace in on the plan and getting Jace to actually agree to helping. My first stop is talking to Simon. I hear the game pause upstairs and continue walking down the stairs. When I reach the bottom floor I immediately look down at my feet. The light hardwood flooring has stopped at the stairs and the floor I am walking on now is dark unpolished tile.

I look to my right and decide to try the heavy-duty white door. I open the door and am met with the garage. 'This could work ' I think to myself as I close the door and try the other door under the stairs. Aaand there is a storage closet. Now onto the door on the left side of the stairs. I walk around the stairs and open the door. Of course this is the laundry room. Can I not catch a break? I sigh to myself as I shut the door and turn to my right.

I do see the double doors on the other side of the wall, but I am more interested in the view from the exercise room. The back of the house faces the beach and even though it's foggy and cloudy outside, you can still kinda see the beach. When Izzy said this was a beach house, she wasn't kidding. The house is on a hill and there are steps leading down to the beach. You walk down the stairs that are on the side of this hill and you are at the beach…literally. I turn my attention to the exercise equipment and see that there is a spin bike, elliptical, and yoga mat. I see an open door behind the elliptical and see that it's the extra bathroom. The door to the left of that is most likely the extra closet.

I made a full circle while looking at the room and I'm now looking at the mirror that is covering the wall, only to see myself staring back at me. Yep, this will definitely work. I turn my attention to the white double doors and knock. The doors open and I see Simon staring back at me. His face goes from hopeful (meaning that he was hoping I was Izzy) to happy to see me. "Clary! When did you get here? I didn't hear you come in," he smiles as he says this and motions for me to come in. I walk past him and glance quickly around the room.

I see two doors to my right, and one is opened. I see that it's the bathroom and come to the conclusion that the other door is another closet. On my left I see a chest of drawers on the opposite wall of the very large bed that is facing the door, and a seating area by the windows. I head towards the two chairs and sit. Simon looks at me curiously from his position by the door and opens his mouth to speak, but I raise my hand to silence him. "Shut the doors, Simon."

He closes the doors slowly and a snail could be faster than Simon as he came over to sit across from me. "We need to talk," I say and can see him visibly gulp. When Jace would be with one of the sluts, both at school and not at school, I would hang out with Izzy and at one point, Izzy's scariness rubbed off on me. I can be really intimidating to Simon if need be and now is one of those times. "About what?"

"About you and Izzy," I say and through the glasses, I see worry flash in his eyes. "Are you finally going to tell me why she's not talking to me?" he sounds hopeful. "Yeah…and now Mags, Alec, maybe Jace, and I are going to get your ass out of the hole you're in."

"I don't even know what I did!" he goes on the defensive side.

"Whoa, calm down. I'm helping you aren't I?"

He nods his head and motions for me to continue. "You must remain absolutely silent throughout what I'm going to say." He nods his head and I begin, "Well, you and that amazing memory of yours, forgot that today was your three year-iversary with Izzy." I hear him inhale sharply and before I can tell him the plan, there's a knock at the door.

I stand up and walk over to the door. I open it and see that it's Magnus and Alec…but no Jace. "Where's Jace?" I ask. Magnus shakes his head and I step aside to let them in. Alec walks over to where Simon is and is trying to get his attention. But, with what I just told him, he's in complete and utter shock. Alec is actually waving his hand in front of Simon's face. Magnus is still standing by me and we start talking quietly. "I told him what today is and I was just about to tell him the plan when you guys knocked, so that's your job. Now what happened with Jace? I assume you informed him and told him and Alec the plan."

"I can tell him the plan and yes I told them both what was happening and what was going to happen. Alec jumped on the chance to help Izzy, but Jace didn't want to get involved," Magnus shakes his head sadly.

"This plan won't work without Jace helping," I say and I immediately get an idea. "I'll talk to Jace and get him running down the stairs to help you set it up before I go talk to Izzy," I smirk as I say this and I exit the room.