A/N Hi everyone! This is my first story ever (well, the first one that I think is good enough to publish), please tell me what you think, what you liked what you didn't like and pretty much everything you want, feedback is very much appreciated.

I OWN NOTHING (I wish I did, but I don't)

First a little bit of context:

Jace and Isabelle started college and immediately decided to rent an apartment, be as independent as possible and convice Alec to live with them. It was like the good old days, before Robert kicked Alec out and before the divorce, but they're not the same as they used to be, Robert and Maryse's divorce was tough and Jace and Isabelle had to live through it, trying to protect Max while finishing high school, dealing with the constant fighting and seeing the effect it all had on Maryse.

Alec lived on a crappy apartment while going to college, balancing work and as much classes as he could take, managing the rejection from his father and getting used to not seeing his sibilings everyday. He found his soulmate when he least expected it, Magnus Bane made his way into Alec's life and things started to look better for him. Magnus was all the family he needed and then Jace and Isabelle asked him to move in and things were never better.

Now Alec was moving in with Magnus, leaving his sibilings again, this time definitely happier. Jace and Isabelle are just starting to build up their lives, finally being who they are beyond Maryse and Robert, beyond Alec, even beyond Max. It's time for the Lightwoods to live.

Chapter song: Natalia Kills - Zombie

Isabelle's POV:

I was lying on the couch half watching a movie half sleeping. I really needed a lazy Saturday afternoon, and since Alec was with Magnus and Jace was out with whatever-her-name-was I had the apartment for myself. Around twelve I ordered some takeout and haven't moved since then until my phone ringed at three.

"Aline, dear, how are you?"

"Not so good, I need you… what are you doing?"

"Nothing really. Why don't you come over? "

"I'm glad you asked. I'm at the door."

I laughed and got up to open the door. Aline and I were friends since we were kids, our parents were friends and had country houses by the same lake so we used to spend every summer together, she even dated Jace for a month or so before coming out to her parents, she called him Jacey Wacey, a nickname that Jace hated and that Aline, Alec and I still used just to piss him off.

I was shocked when I opened the door, Aline had always had long black hair but now it was cut just above her shoulders, she looked way better.

"Aline! When did you cut it?!" I said running my fingers through it, we had eaten lunch on Wednesday and she didn't say anything about cutting it.

"This morning?" she blushed shifting her weight from one foot to the other "do you like it?"

"I love it!"

She smiled and entered the apartment sitting in the couch and leaving a plastic bag in the coffee table.

"Okay, let's see what we have here so I can assess the problem…" There was chocolate ice cream, whip cream and a bottle of tequila in the bag "It seems like a serious thing"

I served two bowls of ice cream and two glasses of tequila -this wasn't a shots situation- and then I looked at her. "Spill"

"Helen in having a party tonight"

"And the problem is…"

"That I don't know anyone besides her and she's gonna be busy with everyone and I wanna go but not if I'm gonna stay all night getting drunk in a corner watching her dance and flirt and-"

"Hey, breathe"

"Sorry" she looked at me sheepishly and ate a big spoon of ice cream.

"First of all, Helen likes you, she's not gonna flirt with anyone besides you and she will never ignore you" I'd met Helen briefly and really didn't knew her, but she was very nice and I knew she was the kind of person who would never hurt anyone intentionally "now, if you're still worried I can go with you."

She had been quietly eating and drinking barely looking up from her bowl of ice cream, she looked at me with her eyes shining "would you, Iz? Thank you so so so much!"

We finished the ice cream and went into my room to decide what to wear.

"I can't believe that there are still boxes in here" Alec decided about a month and a half ago to move in with Magnus, unfortunately the process was interrupted by midterms, and Alec took school too seriously to continue. Therefore, there were boxes scattered all around the apartment for over a month now.

"Yeah, you get used to it… unless you're Jace, he's seriously gonna lose it if we can't finish tomorrow"

"Oh, Iz, I didn't know you had to do moving stuff tomorrow… I can go alone to the party; really you don't have to-"

"Stop talking nonsense Aline I'm going, I can move stuff around with a headache, besides, if I don't do it well, there's a bigger chance that Jace would do my job"

Picking hair, makeup and dresses with Aline was fun, and before we knew it we had finished the tequila and were having our own little party around the apartment when Jace arrived.

"Jacey!" Aline shouted as soon as he closed the door, he looked exhausted but smiled at the girl.

"Don't call me that please"

"Hey Jace, can I ask you a favor?"

"Sure"

"Iz and I are going to a party tonight, can you drive us?"

"Why can't you drive yourselves? You're already drunk?"

Aline just laughed and collapsed in the couch by my side "Please Jacey"

"It's very rude to ask me to drive to a party that I'm not invited to because you can't drive since you were drinking all afternoon without inviting me, again, you know"

"Hey! We've only been drinking since three!"I told him from the couch.

"Do you want to go with us to the party Jacey Wacey?"Aline asked in a high pitched voice

"Aline, stop calling me that or I'll kick your ass"

"Why, Jacey Wacey?" I teased flaunting my best innocent-looking face.

"Isabelle." He warned

"Whatever, Jace, we can call a cab" I said as I noticed that we needed to get ready now and pulled Aline out of the couch way too fast.

After adjusting for a second I got into the shower while Aline did the same in Alec's bathroom. I chose a short, bright blue, tight dress with halter straps to showcase the tattoo that covered the left side of my back paired with black strappy high heels while I lend Aline a red loose dress with a crisscross cutout in the front, which she could wear without looking excessively sluty thanks to her small boobs -not that I was complaining- and black boots, smoky eyes for me and bold red lipstick for Aline and then I put my hair up in a bun whilst she kept her hair down to showcase her new do.

"Isabelle" Jace called once we were out in the den "do you still need a ride?"

"What, you're gonna drive us now?" that was a sudden change of heart that I did not expected and it was weird "why?"

"I just wanted to do something nice for my sister and close friend, god Isabelle, I can be selfless"

"Yeah, right"

"Okay, the girl I was with today, Kylie or whatever, I don't know, wanted to hang out tonight and I really don't want to…"

"I don't get how this has anything to do with you driving us to the party"

"Well, I was hoping that you could maybe pretend that we're going out so she will leave me alone? Please, I won't hook up with anyone, I'll even be DD! I swear she's parked outside with night vision goggles, Izzy, please!"

"You're overreacting Jace, stop flattering yourself"

"Come on Iz, he wants to drive us and we need to go"

"Thanks Aline" he smirked at me and I threw him a death glare "let's go!"

Helen's parties were always nice, not epic like Magnus', but nice. Aline had invited me to a few, mostly because she only knew a couple of Helen's friends and no matter how many times Helen had proven that she only wanted to spend time with her, Aline was always anxious about it.

There was good music and good drinks and, surprisingly, Jace had been drinking water on the couch all night, guess that girl really scared him. Helen and Aline were dancing and I had found a corner to stand and drink for a while, since there weren't really any guys that I was interested in and I didn't want a hook up tonight anyway.

Suddenly, a tall figure caught my eye, he was there and had a very familiar redhead on his arm.

That bitch!

I needed Aline. Now. I made my way to where Helen and Aline were dancing and dragged them both to my corner.

"Isabelle! What's going on?!" I had clearly interrupted something, judging by the look on Helen's face.

"Sorry" I said quickly before turning to Aline "Meliorn is here"

"What?!" she looked as shocked as I felt "What do you mean 'he's here'?"

"I mean that I just saw him walking around… with Seelie, I must add"

"Do you want to go?"she said looking around "I'm sure Jace is around here, let me just find him-"

"No, no" I said quickly, I was not going to leave the party just because of that idiot "he can't be the one who decides where I go. No, I just need a guy to distract myself"

"Well, let's find you one then!" Helen said happily, forgetting about my rude interruption.

"I found one!" I nearly shouted after a few moments, right by the table with the drinks was a tall guy, really tall, I guessed he was about my height with heels on, he was wearing skinny black jeans and a black t-shirt.

"Are you serious?" Aline was looking at me like I had lost my mind "you can't be serious"

"I'm with Aline on this one, Isabelle"

"What? He's cute!"

"But 'cute'is not exactly what you normally strive for"

Aline was right, the guy was not my usual type. Yes, he was tall and slender, but he didn't looked too comfortable, more like he desperately wanted to get out of there. Not quite the confident winner kind of guy I was normally attracted to. But there was something about him that made me curious.

"I'm not going to sleep with the guy, Aline!"

"Oh my god! Look at her, she looks like a cat!" Helen laughed

"More like a tiger!" Aline slapped my arm playfully and fell back into Helen's arms "poor little guy… go easy on him Iz"

Helen started kissing Aline's neck from behind and I took that as my cue to leave.

I grabbed a beer from the table next to the guy, I noticed him looking at me, he had chocolate brown eyes and I had to admit he was actually attractive in a grungy careless kind of way.

"Hey" I smiled at him, he looked confused for a second and then he returned my smile "what's your name?"

"Hi, I'm Simon" he was speaking a little too loud but clearly, a little buzz but he wasn't drunk. Perfect.

"Isabelle"

"Beautiful name" he said, still smiling "like a princess, from an old kingdom"

"I would much rather be queen than princess"

"Sorry, I'm a little nerdy"

"It's fine…" I trailed off as I found myself unable to stop smiling, then I thought of something "what are you drinking?"

"Just beer. Why?"

"What do you say about me making a little drink for you?"

"I say okay, but you have to drink it first"

"Fine" I said leaving both of our beers in the table and handing him a few bottles "but you should trust me, Simon"

We went to the surprisingly empty kitchen and he sat on a bar stool while I quickly mixed to blue drinks.

"There you go" I said handing him a glass and holding mine up "Adios Mother Fucker"

"This is actually quite good, and I didn't turn into a rat or something"

"Thank you" I curtsied and he laughed a little, and I was still smiling "I told you, you should trust me"

"And you were right, my apologies"

"Apology accepted"

We laughed and made small talk whilst we finished our drinks, he was really funny and cute, played guitar and loved videogames.

"Alright, Simon" I said when we finished our drinks, we were both pretty close to being drunk and I could feel my attraction to him growing "what are you doing 'til daylight?"

He stood up, grabbed my hand and pulled me out of the kitchen "I'm gonna dance with you"

I laughed at how ridiculous everything was, but went with him anyway, he was cute and even though I was still determined to not sleep with him, the alcohol had made me a little horny.

A lot of people in the room were on the very same mood as I was and it was almost an orgy, and Simon looked a little taken back by the view, but before he could back down I started to dance grabbing his neck and grinding my body against him, he quickly fell into the rhythm and I rested my head on his shoulder, closing my eyes. After a while I started placing sloppy kisses on his neck and his arms on my waist held me even closer.

"Do you want to go outside?" he whispered in my ear.

I nodded weakly and he led me to the stairs on front where we sat, my head on his shoulder and his arm around me, rubbing my arm gently. It was much more silent and my ears thanked me for that, I felt myself falling asleep.

"Isabelle?"

"hmm?"

"Open your eyes"

He was smiling at me, his dark hair falling on his big chocolate eyes. He looked like a puppy. I smiled at him for what felt like the thousandth time, and then I couldn't resist it anymore and lifted my head, our lips crashing together.

It was a sloppy kiss, his tongue making its way into my mouth quickly, earning a moan from the back of my throat that surprised both of us. My fingers got tangled in his hair and my free hand found its way under his shirt to caress his naked shoulder, but his hands roaming thought my body and his tongue dancing with mine, it all made me feel so good I wanted more.

My mind was still a little lucid, and remembered me that we were outside, right in front of the door, but I lost what was left of my sanity when his hand went up my thigh under my dress, I was horny and this guy was making it very hard for me not to sleep with him, not that my body was objecting it anyway -or my mind for that matter-. I gasped and then melted into him, losing all control over my body. My hand left his shoulder and made its way down, resting on his hip and then on his growing erection trough his jeans, he was as turned on as me. A little bit of pressure and he bit my bottom lip.

"Oh god, Isabelle" he said in a very low voice against my jaw.

"Izzy, call me Izzy"

He kissed his way up my jaw to my earlobe and then slowly down my neck. I threw my head back in pleasure and my hand kept on massaging his crutch, I was about to unbutton his jeans when he grabbed my wrist.

"I don't think this is the best place to do this"

I was a little taken back, but with his hand out of my dress I could think straight and I knew he was right.

"Sorry, Simon, I just got carried away"

"Me too, don't worry"

I sighted and collapsed into his shoulder again. This was unbelievable. I normally had a little self control.

"You know…" I looked at him and used all my willpower to not throw myself at him again "you can always give me your number and we can do this in a more appropriate location"

"I'll give you my number if you give me yours"

"Deal"

After exchanging numbers we went back to our original position for a moment before my phone buzzed. A text from Jace.

If you're done having sex on the driveway, we need to go home now. Meet you in the kitchen.

Crap. He saw us, now I'll never hear the end of it. I groaned.

"I have to go"

"I'll walk you inside"

"thanks"

Inside I gave him a little peck on the cheek and went to meet Jace. It was early and Aline decided to spend the night, Jace was a little annoyed and since Sunday was moving day he rushed me into the car before I could think of staying a little longer.

My lips were stlil tingling wen sleep got to me later that night.

A/N: So here it is, my first chapter. Hope you liked it. (btw, if you recognize the piece of lyrics there 1. I'm sorry I tried not to write it down but I couldn't 2. It works as a hint for what's comming next)