Clary's POV
I sigh and say, "it is a long story."
"I have time," he says, we have till we get to our destination."
I sigh and start to tell the story.
Flashback
I was four years old when my parents started arguing. My mom was upset that my father was always drinking. When I turned eight he started hitting us. First my mom, then my brothers. It wasn't until I was ten when he started hitting me and Seraph. That was the last straw for my mom. She got a divorce and for the first year we would go visit him. When I turned eleven he stopped hitting my brothers but continued hitting me and Seraph. My brothers continued seeing him.
Present
"Me and Seraph stopped going over to visit him. We haven't seen him in five years but with mine and Seraph's sixteenth birthday coming up I guess he wanted to see us," I say.
"Wow," Jace says, "on a totally different note we're here."
