Clace in High School

Chapter 8

Jace's POV

Once I realized Clary wasn't fighting me anymore I loosened my grip on her waist. When we reached the kitchen I sat down at the table pulling Clary with me so she was sitting on my lap. I still couldn't believe Jocelyn would say such cruel things to her daughter. Clary is only living the life that her mother lived, just without the Valentine part. The question I couldn't get out of my head was, why wouldn't Jocelyn want Clary to be happy? Because living here and being with me and having the Lightwoods as her friends. This is the happiest that I have seen her in all the time that I have known her. While I looked at Clary I couldn't help but feel guilty for hiding what Luke had said to me;

"Jace I know you are probably going to be told by Clary later what her conversation with her mom is about but I just wanted to tell you how I feel. I don't think Clary belongs at the Institute with you and the Lightwoods. She belongs here with her mother and I. She should be living the life of a normal teenaged girl. Also shouldn't have to have her shadow hunter friends go to her school so she isn't lonely. She should be making mundane friends. Do you get what I'm saying?"

And well that's all I got to hear him say because Clary came barging into the room and grabbed my hand then pulled me out the door. And when I asked her what was wrong she just broke down and cried in my arms. I still can't get over the fact that Luke and Jocelyn would want to make her feel like she felt that day. That they didn't want her to be truly happy or truly herself. I was snapped out of my daze when Clary gave me a peck on the cheek.

"What were you thinking about?" Clary asked with her puppy dog eyes. Man those eyes could make me tell her everything that I was thinking with just one look at them.

"Oh uhm nothing important" I said trying not to sound suspicious.

Clary told me after our lunch that she was going to go and visit Simon. She said she needed some best friend time alone with him. Meaning no Izzy and no me tagging along. After she left I couldn't help but think about what I should do for Clary seen as how in exactly one month we will have been together for 2 years. I had already bought the perfect grift but now I needed the perfect plan for the day up until I give her the gift.