Hey, this very well may be the last chapter. Idk just yet, but I hope you like it. Oh and I just started a new story. It's called The Kingdom Awaits and, yes, it is indeed a TMI story.

CLARY'S POV

"I. Hate. You." Simon glared daggers at me from across the table. "By the Angel, if you do it our friendship is officially over."

"Si, I've already shown that I have the card, I very well can't put it back now," I reply holding out a draw four uno card. I slowly begin to move my hand towards the stack of cards in front of us and Simon narrows his eyes. Isabelle looks back and forth between us and shakes her head.

"Remind me again why I agreed to play uno with you guys instead of spending time with Jace since it's his last full day here?" Isabelle seemed to pointedly be talking to me and Simon shrugs.

"Because Clary is really insecure and unprepared to say goodbye so we're hiding until we absolutely have to leave," Maia says as she enters the room holding a bowl of popcorn.

"Am not." I pout.

"Are so." Simon rebuttals and I stick my tongue out at him. "So mature too."

"Listen, Jace understands that I need a little bit more time to process this whole thing. We're going tonight and everything is going to be just fine." I finish my sentence by slapping the draw four card down on the table.

Simon picks up four cards to make his hand six and shakes his head. "Just like how our friendship is going to be fine after this game."

Isabelle glares at Simon. "Enough with the jokes. We've had a lot of fun the past couple of years but Clary this is really serious. Don't you want to spend as much time with your boyfriend before he leaves?"

I sigh and set down my hand. "Yeah, I guess we could go over to your house and help them pack. But it's not just Jace that's leaving, Jonathon is going to college too."

"That's different." Maia points out as the four go outside to Izzy's car. "Jon is going to be an hour drive away, Jace is going to be across the country."

"There's always Skype," I say softly and shrug my shoulders.

"When has that ever worked?" Simon says as I plop into the passenger seat of Isabelle's car.

"It'll be different with Jace and I, because we're different. I know that people always say long distance relationships never work but we'll make it work... we have to."

MAGNUS' POV

"Still, you would think that she would want to be here." Alec says to Jace as he continues to load boxes into his car.

"Of course she probably wants to be here, she's just... not," I suggest and Jace raises an eyebrow at me.

"Can you two stop trying to help me emotionally and actually help me physically. There's still a few more boxes inside and neither of you has lifted a finger this entire time." Jace crosses his arms and leans against his car.

Alec raises his hands defensively. "Yeah, I've got them." Once he's inside I turn to Jace.

"Clary is dealing with a lot right now, cut her some slack. Aren't you two going out tonight anyway?"

"Yeah, but I'm leaving at six in the morning to catch my eight o'clock flight. It'd have been nice to spend more than just a couple of hours with her today." Jace slams a door closed and pops open the trunk. He starts rearranging some things when Alec comes out holding two boxes.

"Why are you bringing so much stuff?" Alec huffs as he sets down the boxes.

"It's really not that much, I just like for everything to be organized." Jace squeezes the boxes into the trunk and then closes it. As he's doing so I see a car pull up to the house.

"Hey Jace, you know how you said you wanted to spend more than just a couple hours with Clary? Looks like you're going to get your wish." I grin as Jace and Alec look behind them as Isabelle, Maia, Simon, and Clary gets out of the car.

"Clary, hey! I didn't expect to see you till later." Jace meets her halfway down the driveway and kisses her on the check.

"Well, Izzy finally managed to convince me to come over and see you. Not that I didn't want to! It's just... I get sad." Jace chuckles and wraps an arm around Clary's shoulders.

"Would you look at that," Isabelle smiles with content. "The gangs all here."

"Plus Maia," Clary says with a grin and Maia narrows her eyes.

"I'm not entirely sure if that's an insult or not." Maia raised an eyebrow.

"Doesn't matter, you're one of us now." Isabelle wrapped her arm around the girl.

CLARY'S POV

Jace's last night in New York goes by far too fast. I knew this was coming of course but that doesn't help to settle the feeling in my stomach. It's almost five am and I have not slept a wink all night.

It's almost five am and I have not slept a wink all night. Simon, Maia, and I stayed over with the Lightwoods so that we'd be there to see Jace off. So right now I'm lying on their couch staring up at the ceiling.

Quietly, I get up and make my way to Jace's room. He's asleep when I enter so I walk over to his bed and sit on the edge. Jace groans a little and though his eyes don't open he turns to me.

"Clary?" Jace whispers.

Instead of responding I move the covers over and crawl into the bed next to Jace. He willingly scoots over to make room and then wraps his arm around me.

"Clary, what time is it?" Jace asks though his voice is strained from sleep.

"Almost five." I bury my head into Jace's shoulder. He attempts to get up but I pull his shirt back. "No, don't leave yet."

"Clary I need to get ready," Jace says though I can tell that he doesn't want to leave either.

"Ten more minutes." Jace sighs and relaxes back on his bed.

"Fine, I'll lay with you for ten minutes. But that's it."

"Jace?" I ask after a moment and he sighs.

"Yeah?"

"How come we don't do this?"

"Do what?"

"Cuddle like this."

Jace chuckled softly. "Because last time we slept in the same bed Magnus made some crude jokes and you got mad." Jace tightens his grip on me and I sigh from the memory.

"Oh yeah. That was the night of the storm."

"Morning of the storm." Jace's voice starts getting softer and I can tell he's about to fall back asleep.

"I'm going to miss this," I whisper but all Jace responds with is a grunt and I realize that he basically has fallen back asleep now. I twist around so I'm on my back and stare at the ceiling again.

Everything has changed so much since the day Simon and I moved in next door. And now it's all going to be different.

I twist back around and close my eyes. Sleep begins to overcome me. The last thing I hear before falling asleep is Jace whisper: "Me too."

"Hurry up!" Isabelle yells at Alec. "At first I thought that it was going to be Jace and Clary's fault we're late because they overslept but now I'm sure it's going to be yours." Isabelle glares at her brother as he sprints out the front door.

"Not my fault somebody decided to hide all of my pants." Alec exclaims and looks at Jace when he says 'somebody'. Jace snickers before getting into his car.

"So then where's you get those?" I ask Alec as I stand next to the passenger side of Jace's car.

Alec looks down at sweatpants currently on his legs and sighs. "They're Izzy's." He mumbles and I burst out laughing. "Okay, whatever. We need to go, so please, leave my pants alone."

"You mean my pants," Isabelle says. Alec turns to look at her.

"What?"

"Well you said that you're wearing my pants so we wouldn't be leaving your pants alone we would be leaving my pants alone so technically you don't have the authority to tell anyone to leave the pants alone, only I do and I say that you guys can talk about my pants as much as you want." Isabelle grins once she finishes her long sentance and I have to practically bite my tongue to keep myself from laughing. Alec glared at Isabelle for just a moment before slamming the backseat door of Jace's car closed.

Soon we arrived at the airport and Jace had to rush to get past all the security. Eventually, we came to the point where the rest of us couldn't go on with him. Jace set down his bags and turned to face us all.

"I'll call you guys all the time," Jace said it looking directly at me.

"Call me the moment your plane lands," I say with a small smile and Jace nods.

"Yeah, and don't worry I'll come home for holidays. We'll all stay in touch." As Jace spoke I could hardly contain the tears stinging at the back of my eyes.

"Yeah." My voice cracks and Jace pulls me into a hug. During that hug, I can't stop the tears anymore so when we pull away Jace wipes my cheek with his thumb. "I love you."

"I love you too." Jace let go of me to say goodbye to everyone else. Before leaving he gave me one last kiss and then that was it. That was it... he's gone.

As we leave Isabelle links her arm with mine. "You okay?"

I smile at my friend but shake my head. She frowns and pulls me into a hug even as we walk.

Around six that day I sit in Jonathon's room with boxes surrounding me. Lately it seems that boxes are everywhere. Jon wanted me to help him finish packing for when he leaves in a few days but I can hardly focus. Jace was supposed to call once he landed, he should have called around one, and yet I haven't heard anything from him, neither has Isabelle or Alec.

"Clare, can you hand me the tape?" Jonathon speaks but I'm so lost in thought I don't even hear him. "Clary. Earth to Clary!"

"Huh? Oh sorry." I pass Jonathon the tape before scratching one of the cardboard boxes with my nail.

"Hey, are you alright?" Jonathon asks and sets down the tape.

"Yeah, I'm fine," I reply but Jon obviously doesn't buy. He scoots closer to where I'm sitting and stays silent for about two minutes before saying anything.

"What's wrong? Is it Jace?" I look up at the mention of Jace and wince a little. "Clary I'm sure he'll call soon. His phone probably just died or something."

"Or something," I repeat with a shrug and Jonathon raises his eyebrows.

"Clary you need to stop thinking about him for a little. You've been in a sort of funk all day, I hate seeing you like this." Jonathon said worriedly.

"I'm not thinking about him... I'm thinking about the fact that he hasn't called."

Jonathon rolls his eyes. "Why don't you try calling him?"

"No..."

"And why not?"

"Because Alec did earlier and it went straight to voicemail."

"See! I told you, something happened with his phone and that's why he's not calling." Jonathan crossed his arms.

"You don't know that for sure. What if he blocked all of our phone numbers. He's not biologically related to the Lightwoods, he never has to come back. Jace could just forget all about us." I sigh and slump up against one of the boxes.

"Somehow I think he's have a pretty hard time forgetting about you." I cock my head to the side when the words don't come out of Jonathon's mouth. Instead my brother looks past me at the door, a surprised look on his face. I turn around to see Jace standing in the doorway and jump up off the floor.

"Jace! What are you doing here? I thought you got on the plane to California?" I hug him as tightly as possible until Jace groans fro not being able to breath.

"Yeah I did, then I landed in California and it was all pretty great for about five seconds. Because that's when I remembered that you weren't there. So I hopped on the next plane back to Brooklyn which just so happened to have been in thirty minutes. I made it by this much." Jace puts his fingers as closely as possible.

"But what about college?" I ask not letting go of Jace.

"I'll just take a year off, like Jonathon." Jace motioned to Jon who sat back with contempt.

"So I'm a role model now. Cool." I shake my head at my brother and then kiss Jace. I wrap my arms around his neck and pull him as closely as possible until Jonathon clears his throat. "I am sitting right here."

"Sorry Jon, haven't you ever been in love before?" I keep my arms around Jace's neck but look backward at Jon.

"I am in a committed relationship right now and you know that." Jon shakes his head again and I laugh.

"So you're back?" I whisper against Jace's mouth.

He kisses me lightly before replying. "I'm back."