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“Clary I don’t understand why you’re overreacting about this?” Liam asks aggressively, Clary stands staring into his brown eyes in shock.
“What do you mean overreacting? You cancelled our plans to hang out with another girl” Clary replies, trying to hold the tears in. It's the end of the day they are stood by Clary’s locker.
“I’m allowed to do whatever I want, you can’t control me i can go on dates all i want, just because you’re my girlfriend doesn't mean you own me” He says spitefully as he walks away. Clary slams her locker and almost runs out of the building. She doesn’t realise where she's going until she arrives, its like clockworkShe automatically ends up at the same place every time.
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Clary sits at her dad’s grave for what feels like hours before she decides to take out her phone and text her mum telling her not to worry and put her earphones in. Once the music fills her head she begins to let the tears fall. They’ve been together for two years she doesn’t know what shes done wrong, why she isn’t good enough, she thinks this until she is pulled out of her head by a tap on her shoulder. She jumps ripping her earphones out of her ears and turning to her supposed murderer with a face full of terror before she sees who is standing behind her. Jace stands behind her in all his golden glory, his golden eyes glimmering with amusement before he notices the tears streaming down Clary’s face.
“Clary what’s wrong?” Jace asks voice flooded with concern.
“Nothing, what are you doing here?” Clary replies shrugging off Jace’s concerns.
“Clary i’m not stupid, and i was walking to Java Jones to meet up with this girl and saw you sat here and thought i’d say hey” Clary considers his response for a few minutes before replying.
“Damn, well you’ve said hi so you can go to your date now” Clary responds trying to keep the sadness out of her voice.
“You’re not getting out of telling me whats bothering you that easily midge, I'll cancel my date” Jace says matter of factly. Clary is ready to protest but the use of his childhood nickname for her makes her not want to. They were born friends because their parents were, there are six of them Clary, Jace, Alec, Magnus, Simon and Isabelle. They’ve always told each other everything, but the problems between Clary and Liam have been happening for a year now and are just getting worse so why hasn’t she told them. Jace’s concerned face brings her out of her head once more and urges her to tell him, the pain is too much now.
“Liam, he’s whats wrong” Clary says in a whisper followed by another river of tears.
“What has the slimy toad done?” Jace responds trying to contain his anger, but failing to do so.
“For a year now he's just been an ass, not really spending time with me, not replying to my messages, flirting with other girls, and then yelling abuse at me calling me names acting as if it's all my fault, you name it he’s probably done it” Clary struggles through the tears. Jace sits there emotionless for a while before punching the ground.
“I knew it! I knew he was an asshole, Clary leave him please you have to, you can’t stay with someone who is cheating on you and emotionally abusing you” Jace says quickly holding Clary by the shoulders.
“Jace I can’t im scared of him.”
“Don’t be we’ll all be there for you, he tries to do anything he’s got me, Alec and magnus to go through”
“Just you three? What about Simon?”
“He’ll be there for emotional support just like Iz, he’s not exactly threatening so he’d ruin my menacing demeanour and make us look like a joke”
“How nice?” Clary laughs resting her head on Jace’s shoulder as he puts his arm over hers.
“You know me midge, always full of compliments”
“That's true, but you’re right, I'll do it after school tomorrow, make sure you’re by the oak tree with the others, i’ll brief them at lunch”
“Good, i'm so wise” Jace says but after that they sit in silence taking in the moment, Clary staring at the engraving on the stone that reads her father’s name and thinking about what he would want.
“Why didn’t you tell us?” Jace asks, breaking the silence.
“I don’t know, it started happening on a small scale before dad died but I didn't think much of it and then dad died and I held on because I didn't want to lose anyone else” Clary utters sheepishly feeling ashamed.
“There's no point holding onto a prick, plus you don’t need him you have us” Clary considers his response.
“You’re right, thank you for listening Jace it means a lot, i'm sorry for ruining your date”
“Don’t be you saved me, i didn’t want to go it was set up by my cousin Will, if anything you did me a favour. Plus you’ll always be more important than a petty date”
“Thank you, i’m going to go home now, have a goodnight i’ll see you tomorrow” Clary says as she stands up collecting her things.
“Night midge” Jace responds as she starts to walk away. Jace lingers there watching Clary’s figure fade into the darkness before going to Java Jones to get coffee.