Izzy's POV-
"WHAT DID YOU DO?!" I screeched at Jace. His head snaps up at the sound of my voice. I stomp towards him murderously, fully intending to rip him a new one.
Before he could say a word I slap him so hard across the face that my handprint is etched in red on his cheek.
"YOU ASSHOLE! YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT ANYONE BUT YOURSELF! WHAT DID YOU DO NOW?! HUH?!" I scream at him.
"Please stop Izzy." I hear a small voice whimper behind me. I snap around to see Clary curled in on herself and shaking her head in disbelief.
"What did he do Clary?" I ask her dangerously calm.
"He told me something that I never thought that I would hear, something that has me incredibly happy but extremely confused." She explains in a whisper.
Before I can say a word, I'm being dragged out of the room by my arm. I whip around to see Jace standing there with a grim look in his eyes. Of course, my curious genes take over and I sit silently waiting for him to start.
"First of all," He begins. "I know about Jon." At this I gasp. I thought I was the only one that knew! What about her dad? He didn't say anything about him...
"I confronted him and he told me a very interesting and depressing story that I just told Clary…"
Clary's POV-
Once Jace told me what Jon had said I was in utter disbelief. I couldn't believe what I was hearing. But at the same time I felt relief fall over me. I now understood his actions over the past few days- why he defended me, why he gave me his breakfast this morning.
But what I still didn't understand was why at school? Valentine wasn't there- he wouldn't have known if he were nice to me. And what took him so long to tell someone this? Why did he just now decide to stop?
He could have told me. He could have told me years ago. But no, he had to wait until someone found out to finally say all these things.
Part of me in ecstatic because I have my big brother back, but the other part is weary of his actions. Yes, I believe his story. Valentine is a cruel, evil man and that sounds like something he would do to his own kids. But I don't trust him. He lost my faith and trust in him the second he raised his hand to hit me with a grin on his face. The second he stood by and didn't say anything. The second he ignored me.
I needed to find Jon and discuss things with him but I needed to be mentally prepared first. I needed to brace myself for the mysteries I was going to uncover. I am now a detective for the first time in my own twisted, brutal life.
I glance up from my position on Jace's bed when I hear the door open. Jace walks through sporting a nice looking handprint, which put a small smirk on my face. Seeing this he winks at me with a grin.
Izzy walks through the door looking dazed and confused. She walks directly over to me and wraps me in a hug, not saying a word. I instantly react and pull her closer to me. It felt great to have my best friend and boyfriend back in my arms.
She glances up to examine my face. "Well, it's a good thing we haven't done our make-up yet." She says with a grin. At this we all bust out laughing at her comic relief.
Jace catches my eye and grins. He mouths 'I love you' over Izzy's shoulder and I grin back. As if Izzy could feel us having a silent conversation she snaps around from her position on the bed and glances at us out of the corner of her eyes.
"I KNEW IT! I KNEW THIS WAS GOING TO HAPPEN!" She exclaims with a grin. "But so help me Jace Herondale if you so much as touch her with out her permission I will castrate you!"
Jace's look of terror sends Izzy and I into another fit of laughter.
"What? You think this is funny?" He asks seriously. All we can do is nod at him.
With a mischievous look in his eye he stalks over to us and begins tickling us like little kids! Careful of my stomach his fingers go up and down my sides to my neck. Izzy and I started squealing with laughter.
"S-s-s-stop!" I squeal.
With a final tickle Jace collapses in between Izzy and I laughing with tears streaming down his face. Izzy and I were panting from the exhaustion of his incessant tickling.
I was so happy in that moment I was grinning from ear to ear. Not a care in the world. I wasn't thinking about Jon's confession or my father's inevitable wrath. I was in a whirlwind of laughter and memories with my best friend and boyfriend. I was content for the first time in my life.
"We have to go downstairs!" Izzy shrieks! "It's time for truth or dare!"
With a groan from Jace and I we slowly stand up, grab each other's hands and walk down the stairs together to see that the furniture was pushed together in a circle. Magnus, Alec, Maia, Jordan, and Simon were all ready down there waiting for us. Magnus and Alec were seated together on the love seat while Maia and Jordan were sharing a chair. Izzy walked over to Simon and they took the couch leaving Jace and I on the floor.
"Hey guys why don't we just all sit on the floor because there isn't enough seats for us all?" Izzy asked. With a nod everyone pushed back the furniture even more making enough room for us all to sit down.
Jace and I sat next to each other with Izzy on my right and him on my left. Next to Izzy was Simon and next to him was Jordan and Maia. On Jace's other side was Alec with Magnus sitting next to him.
"Here's the rules: If you refuse to answer the truth question or perform the dare then you have to take off one item of clothing. Ok, who's going first?" Izzy asked with a mischievous glint to her eye. Nobody answered so with a grin she announced that she would go first.
"Clary, Truth or Dare?" She asks me.
"Dare." I answer feeling brave.
"Ohhhhh I got a good one." She says with a smirk. Izzy then gets up and goes to the kitchen and comes back with a can of whipped cream. "Head up." She instructs me.
Izzy then takes the whipped cream and sprays from my ear to my chin. Before I can protest she says. "Now lick it off Jace." I blush bright red at the thought of Jace's tongue running along my neck in front of everyone.
Before I could say anything Jace started licking and sucking from my ear all the way down to my chin. He positioned himself perfectly so all I could see was his curly golden hair. It was over all too soon.
With a grunt and obvious effort Jace pulls himself off of me and back into his position next to me. A few wolf whistles were released at the sight of our flushed cheeks.
"Jordan. Truth or dare?" I ask him.
"Dare. You got nothing on me little Red." He says.
"Nuh uh. You can call her Clary little Red is mine." Jace says with a playful glare.
With a little shove to Jace I get up and walk into the kitchen with a grin on my face. I grab the peanut butter and jelly from the cabinet and the bread from the pantry.
I walk into the living room seeing Jordan looking overly confident in his dare.
"Ok Jordan you're going to be making a peanut butter and Jelly sandwich." I tell him.
"That's easy! I love PB and J!" He exclaims.
"But not any peanut butter and Jelly sandwich, take your shirt off." I tell him. He gives me a confused look but does what I tell him. "Now lift your arms." He does.
I then smear the peanut butter on one armpit and jelly on the other. I then take the bread and take off as much as possible then put it together. "Now eat it." I tell him.
He looks sick to his stomach as he does what I say.
"This is disgusting Clary. You have a sick mind." He tells me looking green. Before I can say a word he jumps up and runs into the bathroom. We all start laughing at the look in his eyes.
"Congratulations Clary you have officially turned me off of PB and J." Jordan yells from the bathroom.
At this everyone starts practically rolling on the floor laughing at him. Jordan comes back in with a huge frown on his face.
"Magnus truth or dare?" Jordan asks.
"Truth. I don't want to participate in your dares." Magnus says.
"Who in your family would you marry if you had to spend eternity with them?"
"Chairman Meow." He answered smoothly.
"Wait." Alec interrupted. "Isn't that your cat?" He asked him laughing.
"Yup." Magnus says popping the 'p'.
Well all laugh at Magnus's absurd answer.
"Izzy. Truth or dare." Magnus asks her with a smirk.
"Dare. I'm no pussy cat." She says to Magnus daring him to challenge her.
"I dare you to go cook something then eat it." He says with a wolfish grin.
There is a few 'ew that's disgusting' rolling around the circle but Izzy seems oblivious.
"That's easy, I love to cook!" She exclaims happily. Izzy skips off to the kitchen to make 'pasta' with 'red sauce'. Ew.
"Wait, what's so bad about her cooking?" Asks Maia. She is relatively new to this circle of friends.
"You shall see my friend, you shall see." Magnus says cryptically. While we wait for her to get back we continue on with the game.
"Nose goes!" Someone shouts. All of our hands fly up to our faces as fast as possible. Simon is the last one to get his finger to his face so he is asked. "Truth or Dare?"
"Truth." He replies.
We all huddle up into a circle to contemplate our question for Simon. Since it is technically Izzy's turn well all decide on what to ask Simon. Jace speaks up and says that he has a question he has been dying to ask Simon for a week now. Ok… We all say.
"Simon, what did you mean on Monday when you said 'why him?'" Jace asks him.
"What do you mean?" Simon asks him clearly confused.
"When Clary and I announced that we were dating you asked her why him. Why did you say that?" Jace asks honestly curious. Now that he asks the question I become even more confused myself. Why did Simon say that?
"Ummmm" Simon begins then decides better of it and takes off his shoes and places them in the middle of the circle.
Jace frowns slightly at this but shrugs it off.
"Jace." Simon says. "Truth or dare?"
"Hmmmm I'm curious to see what you would ask me so…. Truth." He answers.
"What is your biggest fear?" Simon asks with an evil glint in his eye.
With a gulp Jace answers.
"I'm sorry I couldn't hear that. What was it?"
"Ducks!" He yells.
We all start laughing at the truly distraught look marring his beautiful face. How could a guy as big as Jace be scared of ducks?
"What? You think is funny?! They are blood thirsty little demons I tell you. DEMONS!" Jace shouts at us.
This only makes us cry with laughter rather than calm us down. It is right then that Izzy comes in with her 'pasta.'
"Ok guys, anyone want to have some with me?" She asks.
Instantly everyone in the room stops laughing and turns pale when we see her with a big bowl of noodles and 'red sauce' that some how looks black and pasta that look green. We all try to get away from the smell of the 'food' and send her looks of pure horror as she grabs the fork and takes a huge spoonful and shoves it into her mouth. All the while looking at us triumphantly.
The look on her face after a few moments was priceless. All of the blood drained out of her face and took on a slightly green hue as she spit it back out into the bowl and goes running into the kitchen. We all walk in to see her dry heaving over the sink.
"Told ya your cooking was disgusting." Jace says, earning him a glare from Izzy.
We all laugh at her reaction then go back into the living room. Izzy grabs a coke to settle her stomach and sits on Simon's lap to take refuge.
"Alec truth or dare?" She asks
"Dare." He replies.
"Go make me a pie. I need to get this taste out of my mouth." She tells him with a sly smile.
"No." He says removing his socks.
"Whyyyy?" Izzy whines to him.
"3 reasons: 1. I don't have any pie ingredients. 2. I don't actually know how to make a pie. And 3. I'm not your bitch." He states completely seriously.
Every single on of us started laughing at the expression on his face. When we all stopped and looked at him again it took all of my effort not to laugh again.
"If you guys are done laughing at me now, Jace. Truth or dare?"
"Dare." Jace answered with a grin.
Alec gets up soundlessly and sprints up the stairs he comes back down holding something big and yellow in his hands- a duck.
Jace instantly pales at the sight of it. The duck was huge. If it were standing on its 'feet' it would probably reach up to my waist in height. It had big googly eyes with a small orange bill on its round face. It had tuffs of yellow 'hair' sticking out on the top of his head.
"I dare you to hold this duck until the game ends." Alec says seriously with a malicious glint in his eyes.
As Jace moves to take off his shoes everyone chimes in calling him a wuss and to 'not pull a Simon.' That made steam come out of his ears.
"Fine!" He says exasperated. Jace gingerly takes the stuffed duck out of Alec's hands and puts in his lap. With a grimace he wraps his arms around it and pulls it to his chest. The duck is tall enough that the top of its head comes up to Jace's chin.
Jace looks over at me and says, " This should be you not this demon."
I just laugh at him in response earning myself a glare from Jace.
"Izzy. Truth or dare?" Jace asks her.
"Dare." She answers.
"I dare you to order a pizza for us all and then when the pizza guy shows up kiss him straight on the mouth for 10 seconds." He dares her.
With a huff Izzy took our orders and called the pizza place. "I really hope it's not a chick or some old guy." She grumbles.
As we wait for the pizza to get here she asks Maia "Truth or Dare?"
"Dare." Maia responded bravely. With an evil glint to her eye Izzy grabs a blindfold from her room and puts it around Maia's eyes.
"Ok Maia, I am going to mix together some stuff in a glass of water and you have to drink all of it. Got it?"
With a nervous nod Maia is ready to down this glass of yellow ick.
Izzy had grabbed a small glass of water and mixed in yellow mustard. The moment that Maia's mouth touched the glass she knew exactly what it was. The smell of the mustard was strong enough that I could smell it when I was helping Izzy mix it together.
What I had expected to happen was the Maia would gag and spit it back out or even sprint into the bathroom to throw up.
But what actually happened was quite a shocker. Maia downed the glass in just 3 gulps. She ripped the blindfold off only to see our shocked faces but a grin full of pride on Jordan's face.
"What? I have 3 brothers this isn't even that bad." She explains. "Simon. Truth or dare?"
"Dare." He replies with a brave face on.
"I dare you to call your mom and tell her that you got Izzy pregnant." Maia tells him with a smirk.
"Nope. Not gonna happen. She would kick me out of the house nope. Nuh uh." Simon says ripping off his socks in his haste.
Just then the doorbell rang. Izzy put on grin and pulled down her shirt a bit making Simon flush. We all followed her to the door to grab the pizza so she could complete her dare. I pulled out my phone ready to record this mess.
When she opened the door we saw a guy about our age if not a little bit older- maybe 18. Izzy flushed in embarrassment and realization struck. That was Raphael! Izzy's ex!
After she paid and handed the pizza to Jace she surprised Raphael by the neck and pulled him to her. She kept him there for a solid 10 seconds and right as my video turned to 10 she shoved him away from her. He tried to grab for her and pull her back but she just slammed the door in his face with a shudder.
"Ok guys, that wasn't funny!" She exclaimed as everyone was laughing at her.
"I know that was your ex Izzy but that just made it all the more amazing!" I howl with laughter.
With a glare Izzy stalked into the kitchen to get plates for everyone. While we ate we continued playing.
"Magnus. Truth or Dare?" Simon asked him.
"Dare. You can't throw anything at me I can't handle." Magnus replied.
"I dare you to go take a shower and go to the concert with no glitter." Simon replied looking evil.
"HELL TO THE NO!" Magnus exclaimed. He ripped off his shoes and threw them into the middle along with Simon's shoes and socks and Alec's pair of socks.
"Maia, I think I have a dare even you can't handle. Truth or dare."
"I can take anything you throw at me. Da-." She was cut off.
"SHIT IZZY IT'S 6:30!" I screech.
"FUCK!" Izzy exclaims. She then pulls me up by my arm and shoves me into her room. We race around to get dressed and ready in time- Thank the angel we got partially ready before we went downstairs.
Izzy curled my hair slightly to give it a wild but tamed look. She put me in a black dress with red lace covering my arms. It was short- barely covering my butt but I put on black thigh high heels to cover my legs for the most part. We covered the rest of my scars in make up to help conceal them from wondering eyes.
Izzy then lined the inside of my eyes with black liner and put a dark purple in the corner of my eyes fanning it out to black. She then put a bright purple lip stain on my lips to add more of a contrast to my green eyes and pale face. The end result was amazing I couldn't believe that anyone was this talented.
I run over to the mirror to admire the finished product. My red hair was tamed enough to be considered 'wild'. It flowed down my back in beautiful and voluminous waves. Izzy added curls to the front to 'frame' my face. My eyes were amazing. The black eyeliner on my inner line made my eyelashes appear thick and full. My eyes seemed lively and deep rather than cold and dead. My pale face was free of my many freckles- per my request. My dress was tight all the way down showing my non-existent curves. The neckline was a little low for my taste but I had to admit- I looked hot.
"Thank you Izzy. I look amazing." I told her with a grin.
I examined Izzy's ensemble with amazement. She had straightened her long black hair so that it hung down to her waist. She had on a bluish black dress that was even shorter than mine it clung to her in all the right places giving her curves that I envy. The neckline was plunging but, surprisingly, didn't show much cleavage. She did her eyes with an amazing gold color that made her eyes stand out and look fierce. She put on a pale lipstick to make sure her eyes popped the most.
She look beautiful- Simon is lucky to have her. With a grin she loops her arm through mine and we walk down the stairs to see that the guys have gotten ready as well.
Jace was wearing low hanging jeans with a muscle tank- effectively showing off his sculpted arms. I have to admit I was slightly jealous that all of the would be screaming for him. But the look that he gave me stopped all of my worries. He looked at me as if I was the only girl in the world he would be with. He looked at me with so much love and affection that I instantly felt stupid for how I felt only moments ago.
He walks up to me and scoops me up into his arms. "You're beautiful Clary. I can't believe that you're mine." He says breathlessly.
A cough sounding from behind us breaks us out of our fantasy world.
"Sorry to interrupt but we have a concert to get to." Jordan says.
"Let's go, let's go, let's go!" Jace whoops with a fist pump to the air. We all walk outside to see that a limo was sitting there waiting for us.
As we climbed inside I see the last person I want to see at the moment. Jonathan.
He sat all the way at the back of the limo and leaves the rest of us room to get in. I was surprised that he was here and a little uncomfortable with the thought of sharing the same breathing space as him. When we all find our seats I put a little bit of distance between Jace and I as to not provoke Jon.
I still haven't talked to him about his little confession to Jace and I'm guessing that's why I was uncomfortable.
Just as we all get settled Jace gets a phone call. He talks fervently for a few moments then hangs up the phone.
"Shit!" He exclaims the second the line disconnects.
"What's the matter Jace?" Alec asks him.
"That was the manager of the opening act, they can't make it." Damn it, I thought. I wanted to see what this opening act was and why Jace was being so secretive.
"Ohhhh." Everyone murmurs with a slight laugh. Except for me. I'm so confused what's going on?
"Well I guess we will have to find a new opening." Jordan says.
"Ya. But I don't know who." Says Alec with a grin.
"I know! What about Clary?" Jace exclaims.
"Me?!" I shriek I've never performed in front of a bunch of people before!
Jace gives me a grin. "Surprise." He says simply.
A/N
I hope you guys liked the Truth or Dare section! It was harder to write then I thought!
I am now going to write the next chapter and I warn you there is going to be a lot of songs in the next chapter because it is the concert!
I know that there might be some questions regarding Jonathan and I am going to try to clear that up in the next few chapters. If you have any questions please just ask!
Thanks for reading! PLEASE REVIEW! I try to incorporate as many as your guys' ideas as possible! If you want a scene to be written in just tell me! Ideas are welcome!
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