Wings

Chapter 16: Hide and Go Seek

I.P.O.V

After I stand up after siting on the swing I jog back up to my room and start pacing. I have to think. All I can think are the music's lyrics! Goddammit, this music isn't helping! I chuck my phone and headphones at my bed, and they smacked against my two hot pink pillows. I have to focus.

So, what to do, what to do.... 

I wrack my brain for any kind of idea of what I should do, what I could try so I could at least get Jace to maybe take Clary on any kind of date.  

Maybe I could set up a party and try and get Clary to sneak out. I snort. Like that is ever going to happen.  Why is this so hard! I fight demons, like you think this would be easy! I start cussing myself out, because I am wracking my brain for anything that I could possibly do. I sort through millions of possibilities, discarding every single one.

"FUCK! WHY IS THIS SO HARD!"

I have no idea what I should do.

Why can't life be happily ever after? Like seriously, what is so hard about kissing and making up? I had no idea that Jace would be so upset that Wren exists, but apparently having an adorable daughter that would love you unconditionally is a bad thing? God, he is so stupid! He probably got angry at Clary and yelled at her! He just has to push her away! The only thing in his life that can make him happy. Besides, he probably just made Clary's life hell. I mean her fucking mom threatens to take Wren away, and now the only person that could maybe stop her mom, or maybe even help Clary stand up to her mom, says he hates her! Angel! Why is he so, just, UGH! 

I just have no idea why he has any reason to be upset.

I sigh, this isn't helping anything.

I sit down on my bed and put my head in my hands. How the hell am I supposed to fix the mess I am in? 

Maybe I should ask someone for help. But who?

Simon's P.O.V

This day couldn't get any longer. I really hope Isabelle is getting along well without me. I really miss her.

I wander down the sidewalk towards the grocery store. My mom just needed me to pick up some things for dinner.

I was still living with my mom and finishing high school. My plan was to finish high school, then tell my mom about Shadowhunting so I can go on and actually train to use my skills. I am a Shadowhunter, after all. But I do still need permission from the Clave to tell her, but really, seeing that I am currently dating the Consul's daughter, I don't think that'll be much of a problem.

I think about Isabelle and the way she smiles a little when I say something that makes me sound like a nerd. The way she almost always laughs when I do something awkward, and the way her face lights up when I bring up a memory of us. I have almost completely remembered everything that had happened after Magnus' father had taken my memories, it's been a struggle, but having Izzy makes it worth it.

Oh god that sounded really cheesy.

I walk around the corner and I see a flash of red and I let out a noise of surprise. 

What the Hell?

I duck back around the corner of the grocery store's building, and flatten myself against the wall.

Oh. My. God. 

I peek around the corner and to my surprise, I see a familiar shock of bright red hair. I pull back into the alley, and slide down and sit down against the wall. Only two people have that shade of red hair, and go to this grocery store. They must be back, I thought to myself in shock. I sit there for a while and think.

Then I hear the metallic twinkling of the shop bell chiming and I stand back up. I inch up against the wall, trying to get as close to edge, without being seen. Then I hear voices coming around the corner, coming closer and closer to me.

Crap! I duck behind the dumpster that was to the right of me.

"Luke, I can't help but be pissed off! She went and did the exact opposite of what I wanted her to do! It's not like you are going to go and set her straight when we get home, so I am always the bad guy. At least that's what it looks like." 

"I get that you're upset..."

"LUKE I AM MORE THAN UPSET! I AM FURIOUS! DON'T YOU GET IT?"

"Jocelyn, please! Don't yell, just listen." Luke must have paused and waited for Jocelyn to calm down. 

"We, just need for Clary to know that Jace isn't going to be there, like how Valentine had abandoned you. She needs to know that just because he doesn't always act like it, he is more like Valentine than Clary wants to admit. You also have to agree that when you were young, you too were naive to Valentine's actual ways, until it was too late. Now don't give me that look, I know this isn't the same, but you should still consider that maybe Clary just wants Jace because she wants Wren to have the life that she didn't."

Jocelyn sighs, "Fine, but I do need to talk to really need to talk to Wren, I think that she is hiding something and I need to get it out of her." 

I hear footsteps, and I realize that my head is poking out from the top of the dumpster. Shit. I quick duck back down. My foot hits a plastic bottle and it rolls off into the center of the alley. I'm so screwed.

But finally, with some stoke of luck from what ever celestial being is up there,  they don't notice, and they walk past the alley. After a couple of minutes, I get and walk into the grocery store, grabbing all of the things that my mom needs as fast as I can. 

I sprint towards the checkout lane, and I throw all of my stuff onto the conveyor belt thing, wait impatiently as the checkout and bagging ladies talk as they slowly pack everything into brown paper bags. They move at the pace of molasses, and as soon as I think I am going to have to ask them to hurry the fuck up, they finish doing whatever took them so long, and I was out the door before they started to ring up the next customer. But then again, she takes forever, so I have some time left over. 

I race back to my house, admiring how much more athletic I had become since I became a Shadowhunter. I ran down the sidewalk, watching the flowers, trees, and grass pass by in a blur.  Then when I finally made it to my house I quickly sprint up the steps and in the front door.

I run into the kitchen to find my mom waiting for me, and sitting at the kitchen table with a glass of lemonade and the crossword from the New York Times. I mumbled a hello and I set the bags down on the table in front of her and walked away as quickly as I could without seeming suspicious. I ascended the stairs two steps at a time and ran into my room.

I pulled out my phone and I called the one person I knew would have all the details. Izzy.

A/N

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