All That Money Can't Buy

Chapter Three: Keep Calm and Find Nico

Send my love to your new lover

~ Adele

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Clary's POV

This can't be happening.
I think this is the closest you can come to feeling violently sick before your actually violently sick.

I stared at it for a very long time and almost felt it sucking my future away from me, sucking everything good out of my life and I cursed myself for thinking such a thing yet couldn't bring myself to see it as anything other than extremely bad news. Crushingly bad news.

I had always disliked the colour pink, and so naturally it was quite fitting that it now symbolised my worst nightmare.

The little pink plus sign was making me want to empty my stomach all over the bathroom floor because I didn't seem to even have the energy to move from my crouched position against the bathroom door of jace and i's hotel room.

At first I put it down to the alcohol, the sickness I mean yet when I got into the pharmacy the girl at the counter badgered me with questions then slapped some painkillers and a pregnancy test down on the counter.

"It's either one or the other" she said, nodding towards them. "Best buy both to make sure"

Needless to say she was quite sassy.

I thought this was a ridiculous accusation at the time yet here I am.

I only realised I was sobbing in here when there was a knock on the bathroom door and I slapped a hand over my mouth, feeling the tears silently roll over it.

"Clary?" Jace called from the other side of the door, I was being stupid. He obviously knew I was in here, the door was locked meaning someone was inside, muffling my sobs wasn't going to help or make him go away.

"Yeah?" I croaked, calming down and refusing to look at the little stick in my hand.

"You okay?" I can sense the worry in his voice and few more tears escape me

"Yeah, just" I sniff, wiping my face with my free hand "not feeling too well."

"Okay" he answered, conversation was slightly awkward, considering he had broke up officially just this morning.

Broke up...

Don't you dare start crying again. I told myself.

You don't have the right to cry about that you slept with someone else and now you might even be having their child.

I needed to find Nico.
He had to take the test, not Jace.
I couldn't live with myself if I marched him up to the clinic only for him to find out that the baby his Girlfr- Ex Girlfriend was having wasn't even his.

I knew he had a room in this hotel and I only had a couple of days left here before we set off for London yet I can't remember for the life of me what floor he is on or what his room number was or if he is even still staying here!

But I know someone who might know.

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5th room on the 15th floor,
According to Magnus.

Who, I may add was still very hungover and grouchy... And covered from head to toe in glitter.

As was Alec.
I didn't ask, of course.

I almost didn't knock on the door, I paced around in the hallway smiling at passers by even as they looked at me as if I were psychotic.

Which I guess is what I must look like right now.