I'm here waiting for Dean and Stacy. Stacy told me that Dean couldn't meet on Saturday so we all decided to meet today.
"Hey Clare!" Stacy comes and sits down with me.
"Hey Stacy. Where's Dean?" I ask.
"Yeah, he'll be here in some time. He's probably running late like always." Stacy says.
"Of course," I laugh.
"So how's everything at Ravenswood so far?"
"Everything's amazing, I made some good friends. You tell me, how's Eric?"
"It's been really really good and I know it's only been a month or something but I think I love Eric."
"That's great, Stace. I'm so happy for you."
"Thank you Clary. Anyway, anything else I should know about? Like this new guy-friends of yours."
"Their just my friends. But do you know that Ethan's in town. I keep seeing him and he says that he wants to get back together and that he's sorry. I mean that's crazy, right?"
"He is back in town? That is crazy." Stacy says thinking while looking around. She looks guilty.
We talked for another hour or so. We had eaten too and Dean had still not shown up.
"I don't think Dean is coming. Wanna get out of here?"
"About that, I might've not even invited him." Stacy says looking down.
"What do you mean? Why didn't you invite him?" I ask confused.
"Clary, I had to talk to you about something and I wasn't sure if you'd come. I just said, Dean was coming so you don't say no, he isn't even in town."
"Why didn't you think I'd come?"
"No reason, I just wanted to be sure that you'd be here."
"Okay, you're acting weird since you got here. What is it? What'd you wanna talk about?"
"Clary, it...it's just..."
"What? Stace, you're scaring me."
"I had to tell you that the night, when you and Ethan fought. That night when he cheated on you. It was with me. I'm so fucking sorry. We were drunk and... I'm sorry, that's not an excuse."
"Are you serious right now?" I asked not believe what she just said.
"I'm sorry, Clary. I couldn't tell you. I was worried that I might lose our friendship."
"Wow, so all this time you were pretending to hate Ethan because of what he did to me, when you were equal part of it, all along. If you'd told me the truth earlier..."
"Then you would have hated me earlier too. I'm sorry Clare. I am so sorry."
We were both crying at this point. I felt betrayed and it hurt so much. I never thought Stacy could do something like this but I guess you never know.
"And tha...that is supposed to make it o..okay?" I ask with my breaking voice.
"Tell me what I can do..."
"There's nothing you can do. I don't even wanna talk to you right now, or see you."
I get up and walk out of there. My mother dropped me here so I can't leave on my own. So I called the first person I could think of.
"Hello? Hey Clary." I heard from the other line.
"Harvey, can you come pick me up?" I say.
"Are you crying?" He asks worried.
"No, I'm not. Can you please..."
"Yeah, sure. Text me your address. I'll be there as quick as possible."
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Harvey's car pulled up and I got in. Harvey didn't say anything for sometime and kept driving in silence.
"Clary? What happened? I thought you came to see your friends!" Harvey takes a pause.
"Wait, did any of them hurt you? I swear to god, I'll go back there right now and I will..."Harvey says angrily but I cut him off.
"It's nothing. I just had a fight with Stacy."
"Why?"
"Mainly because she's been lying to me since a long time. I hate that."
"Will you ever be able to forgive her?" Harvey asks thinking.
"I don't know."
"What if she was lying because she doesn't wanna lose you?"
To be honest, it doesn't even feel like we're discussing about Stacy anymore.
"Well, she ended up losing me, anyway."
The rest of the drive was silent. It wasn't awkward. We just enjoyed each other's company.
"I'm sorry if I disturbed you while you were doing something important." I said when we almost reached home.
"Don't be. If anything, I feel good."
"Huh? Why?"
"I feel good because you called me when you needed someone." He says simply.
I didn't know what to say to that. We had got home anyway so I just kept quiet.
"I'll see you tomorrow?" He asked me as I opened the car door.
"Yeah. Bye."
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Between Shadows
FanficI could see it in his eyes the first time I met him that he had a bigger purpose behind everything he did.