Clary´s POV:

My whole body buzzed with excitement and the only thought, which had been taken over my mind was: You did it! You finished school!

Twelve years of work, frustration, success, failures, tears, cheers, mean thoughts, death wishes against some people, laughter, discussions, whether bad or good...it was all worth it in the end.

Of course I was aware of the fact that this only meant another chapter of my life and that I still had to study and learn a lot, in this moment I didn´t mattered.

All that mattered was this liberating feeling I had right now.

“Und der nächste unserer Abschlussschüler ist Clary Meyer”, my head teacher said through the speakers and the words filled the auditorium.

My family started to clap and cheer loudly and normally I would have been embarrassed by it, but today I didn´t minded. This was a day to celebrate and everyone should be allowed to do it.

“Our next gradualist is me”, I mound to Harry to translate it to him and he gave me a thankfully smile.

My Mum sat right next to him with my stepfather, my sister and my grandparents right in a line, even my Dad came and had done friendly small talk with my family.

They were all here, just to see me walking up this podium and grabbing my last school report ever. The last part of the ceremony rushed over without me really noticing much of it.

My body felt electric and the sun rays, which fell through the big glass windows right on my face only made me happier. People´s clapping got me out of my daydreams and I saw the crowd rushing out into the fresh air.

After I congratulated some of my friends I walked out to search for my family, but I didn´t saw them anywhere. Unsure what to do I stood there in the warm sun and let it shone to my naked body parts, which were revealed under my little black dress.

My eyes closed from itself and I inhaled the sun, enjoying every single second and trying to capture it in my veins for rainy days, when I could need some sun to cheer me up.

Carefully I opened them again and blinked against the brightness. As my sight got clearer again I saw him surprisingly standing right in front of me.

“You are beautiful”, he said and I gave him a bright smile, which just felt as bright as the sun rays.

“Thank you”, I told him, but he shook his head sternly.

“No, you don´t understand. You are beautiful, Clary”, he said once again and I laughed.

“You already said that, Harry. This dress is just pretty”, I said as I looked down on the black material and carefully touched it. I had chosen it together with my sister and it felt so good to spent some time with her again.

“No, oh God it´s not the dress...I mean sure you look amazing in it...but that´s not...well that´s not the point”, he stumbled and I chuckled.

“Harry, it´s just me”, I told him and he finally looked me in the eyes. I fell into green and the sun made them sparkle golden around the pupil. He was just so beautiful as well, we shouldn´t talk about me, what was about him?

“You´re right”, he said quietly and breathed out.

“That´s the point. What I wanted to say is that you´re beautiful, Clary Meyer. But not like those girls from the magazines, you like to read so much, but for the way you think. And you´re beautiful when I see this sparkle in your eyes, when you talk about something you love. You´re beautiful for you ability to make other people smile, even when you´re sad yourself. Clary you are not only beautiful for something as temporary as your looks. You are beautiful deep down to your soul.”

I felt tears coming up and my heart already melted away. But why did it bumped so fast then in my chest? I was out of breath without doing anything.

“I know that you´re probably are still not ready for this, but I just...I have to do it. If you say no, I ´m okay with your decision as well. But, Clary”, he knelt down in front of me and reached out for my hand.

There it laid, looking small and tiny in his large one. Sobs were running up my throat and I had to keep my mouth shout with my other hand.

“Clary, will you marry me and let me always be there to watch your beauty to his fulness?” My knees shock and I knew people around us where staring. At two kids, who just were released out of school. Harry´s eyes stared into mine and I saw he was dying to hear my answer.

“I will”, I breathed out so quietly I thought he hadn´t heard it. But he had and he pulled out the small, velvety box I knew too well. The ring sparkled to me just like the promise I had just given and he put it on my finger before he laughed and lifted me up and turned us around.

“I love you”, he breathed and I kissed him instead of replying. My kiss said everything that had to be spoken. People around stared at us in disbelief, but I didn´t cared since this was my life and I could do whatever I wanted to.

Being with Harry sounded perfectly. More than just that, it was everything I ever wanted – him next to me at all the new things which were about come up and I had to deal with.

Yes, I really wanted to be with him...as long as we loved each other like this I would be fine.

Harry´s POV:

“You two are doing things”, her Mum said and I gave her an apologizing smile. Just as my Mum she had taken it way better than I had ever imagined. Sure, she had been shocked and was asking us, if we knew what were are doing, but after we both agreed she seemed to be at lest okay with it.

“You remember that morning were you rushed into our kitchen?”, she asked me and I laughed.

Clary and her Mum have had a big fight the night before because Clary wanted to sleep over at mine since she felt so lonely and lost in her bed. She nearly broke my head as I heard her crying over the mobile phone and I knew I had to do something.

“I do, yeah”, I breathed out.

“You were so convinced in the things you thought we should know about your feelings and I remember thinking: He´s really clear about his feelings already. And since I know my daughter like no one else I knew she was feeling the same way and somehow I thought that you two could end being together for a long time. For God´s sake, I haven´t thought about forever, but you two should enjoy every single bit of this feeling as long as you can.”

Clary loved me just as much as I did. Probably I´ll never believe it, even though if I hear it from another person.

“I think we can really make it work. She´s not someone who gives up easily of something she really cares about”, I replied.

“It won´t be easy”, her Mum said and I nodded.

“We´re both aware of that fact since we both have divorced and remarried parents. I truly believe that this fact will actually help us both a lot, when it comes to hard times.”

“I just want to make sure, you two know exactly what you´re doing. If things won´t work between you two anymore, you can´t just pack your bag and leave. Things will be more complicated than that”, she said and I nodded again.

“I love her and I want her to be with me as long as we both need each other”, I simply answered and I saw her Mum giving up the parents talk, she had the feeling she should had to do.

“That´s the most important thing”, she said softly and gave me a kindhearted smile.

“Indeed it is”, I answered and stood up, “I think I should go to bed as well. Have a good night.”

I hugged her small body who was nearly as tiny as Clary´s, even though Clary still was some centimeters smaller than her. Her stepfather already went to bed as well and I stepped into Clary´s room.

Smilingly I took a look around and let my eyes slowly slide along everything. This was her, everywhere were pictures of her family, friends and things she cared about.

It was messy, but in an organized way like she just had different messy spots where she collected things, but she always knew where everything in her mess had his spot.

My eyes got stuck on her, laying on her small bed, still wearing her little black dress from the graduation ceremony earlier. The ring sparkled over to me and I let out a protective groan.

Nothing had changed, at least not at our situation of our relationship, but at the same time everything had changed. She was mine now, not only because she kissed only me and we were having sex, but in another way.

The ring officially made her mine and I liked this feeling. Having her around me, knowing she promised to only want me was one of the best feelings I´ve ever had.

Her face was relaxed and she looked younger than she was, her eyelashes twitching of her dream. Her chest moved up and down and I got closer to her.

Her bed was really small and we barely fitted in together, but the size of it had only shown me that she had been sleeping in there alone before we found each other.

Carefully I sat down and unzipped the black dress, revealing her tanned skin from the hot days here in Germany. She said it was always cold, but the weather the last weeks had proved her wrong.

With trying not to wake her up, I got her out of that dress and threw it on the ground. After we came home from her graduation party with her crazy family, she just had apologized for her exhaustion and went straight to sleep.

Quickly I slipped out of my shoes and undressed me to my boxers. The air in the room was already hot and thick from the day and I´ve decided she would be okay with only sleeping in her underwear before I got under the thin blanket next to her.

Guardedly I pulled her body closer to mine and rested my arm around her waist. Her sleepy self made a satisfied noise before she completely relaxed in my arms again. We would getting married and she agreed to being with me forever.

God, I felt my chest hurt as I thought about how happy I was right now. Right in this moment with her being in my arms, knowing she wore my ring. Mine.

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