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A/N: Hey guys, welcome to my latest Malec endeavour… I know, I write about them way too much but the inspiration keeps coming and these boys are my ultimate OTP ;) So, it's gonna be M rated later on but it's simply cute and fluffy right now… :) anyway, far be it for me stand in your way of reading this so I'm gonna shut up now and let the story speak for itself :p

I hope you love it, the next chapter will most likely be up during the week sometime :)

Enjoy!

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4th May 2014:

Alec Lightwood stood in the line alone, staring up the giant wheel as it turned slowly. The lights glittered against the night sky and the music played joyfully. The air was filled with the scent of popcorn, hot dogs and candyfloss. The whole fairground had a sense of magic about it.

But that didn't calm his nerves in the slightest.

He stepped closer the front of the line, his turn looming over him. He took a deep breath and remembered what his sister, Izzy, had said.

"You can do it Alec. I know it's scary, but i think i have a plan. Start small, conquer those little fears until you work up to this one. You can beat it, you'll be able to tell them soon."

He sighed. His sister had made a strange kind of sense. Conquer his fears, smallest to biggest, until he could finally do what he'd been too terrified to do for years.

To start with, he beat his littlest fear: spiders. He hated spiders. The way they moved, the way they looked. They were just so creepy. But his brother, Jace, had simply picked one up and let it leisurely roam around his hand. Jace didn't die. The spider just walked around casually before Jace put it back outside. It took Alec a good few days of fighting, but he finally picked one up. It was quite little, brown and fluffy. It ran around like a headless chicken and actually made him kind of laugh. Within a week of first trying to beat that fear, he had the spider as a pet. It lived in a clear box full of leaves and twigs on top of his wardrobe and went by the name of Aragog.

He smiled a little and took another step, his breathing still unsure and shallow. But he thought back to the other fear that Izzy had helped with.

The dark.

Yes, he was a 17 year old guy. But since he was a kid, the dark had terrified him. Probably because of his brothers love of horror movies and his own over active imagination.

But Izzy came to the rescue. They spent several nights in pitch black, alone in the house. Without Alecs blue, red and green light sabres illuminating the room like normal. At first, he was scared. In the dark, you can't see the monsters and the mad men lurking around, waiting to kill you. They're there, but you can't see them. Every noise, a light blow of the wind, or creaking of a pipe or a floorboard sent Alecs heart racing. But Izzy would slap on the light and he'd see there was nothing there.

After several nights, he came to the conclusion that even if there was something there, hidden in the dark, it couldn't see him either because he was also hidden in the dark. Izzy made him see that with his light sabres shining in the night over his bed, it made him visible. Because in the dark, the man with the light is an easy target. And if the monsters hadn't got to him when he had the light, it would make it even harder for them to get to him in the darkness.

And somehow, that sort of childlike, twisted logic seemed to quell his fear and make sense to him. Maybe he was just crazy. But it worked so he didn't care. And even if the dark did still sometimes freak him out, he could always strike up a one sided conversation with Aragog.

Which brought him to now. Conquering his third fear. Heights.

He stared up the 50 foot Ferris wheel and took a deep breath. He could do this. He'd beaten his fear of spiders, his fear of dark and now he could do this. And once he'd done this, he'd be ready to beat his final, fourth, fear.

Hey, four fears, he thought to himself with a small smile, i should make people call me Tobias Eaton.

He smiled and steadied his breathing as the ride managed guy called "Next!"

Alec stepped forwards, his turn had come. The guy looked at him and saw he was a single passenger. He motioned for Alec to go to the second carriage, which had only one guy sat next to an empty seat. Alec gingerly walked towards it on shaky legs.

Izzy and Jace were somewhere around the fairground with the significant others; Alec had to face this fear alone.

So he climbed the steps to the carriage and sat down, pulling the bar over his and gripping it tight. He didn't look at the guy beside him as the seat swung softly and he whimpered under his breath as the wheel began to turn.

He took a deep breath and bit his lip hard as the ride moved his further from the ground. The guy beside him spoke up with a soft voice.

"Hey, are you ok?"

He asked cautiously. Alec gulped and clamped his eyes shut.

"Ask me that again when i make it off this ride alive."

The guy laughed softly before Alec could feel the boys stare burning through him. He kept his eyes shut as the boy replied.

"Are you scared of heights by any chance?"

Alec let out a deep breath and spoke with a tight voice, fast and panicked.

"Scared of heights, scared of falling 50 feet to my untimely bloody death, take your pick because there isn't really a difference."

The boy sighed a laugh and Alec felt him move. He then felt a light touch on his shoulder, like a friendly bump between bros or something.

"Well, if you're scared of heights, why are you riding a Ferris wheel? Doesn't that seem a little counter-productive?"

He asked lightly, jokingly. Alec laughed shakily and gripped the bar harder as the carriage swung in mid-air. His stomach turned and he fought down a wave of nausea.

"Yes it does. But it was my sister's idea. Conquer my fears until they don't scare me anymore."

The guy laughed in bemusement and tapped lightly on the bar.

"Conquering your fears? Wow, I'm gonna call you Tobias Eaton. How many fears do you have, Tobias?"

Alec gulped.

"Four. I've beaten two so far."

The guy laughed gleefully.

"Oh that is perfect. You have 4 fears. That settles it, I'm gonna call you Four. Is that ok, Four?"

He asked playfully, laughing. Alec couldn't help but find it strangely endearing and he laughed a little too.

"I guess that's ok."

He answered as the carriage swung dangerously and he gasped a cry of fear. The guy touched his arm to calm him and took several deep breaths along with Alec. The guy spoke again after a few seconds.

"Ok, Four. Talk to me, it'll make this easier. I promise. So, what are you fears?"

He asked conversationally, seemingly trying to actually help Alec. This calmed him down a little and he at least managed to open his eyes but kept them locked on that silver bar, not daring to look down.

"Um, well, the first was spiders. And the second was the dark. Now this one, heights. And then the big one."

The guy hummed thoughtfully.

"Spiders? I hate spiders."

Alec smiled a little, gasping as his stomach turned again while the ride stopped to let more people on and off.

"So did i. But i like them now. I have a pet one. He's called Aragog."

The guy laughed at this and Alec knew he was grinning.

"Oh my god, that is brilliant. Does he have a wife called Mosag?"

Alec laughed and his grip on the bar loosened a fraction. He felt a shock of something run down his spine as he thought about the guy. He has a nice voice, he knows Divergent, and he likes Harry Potter. He deduced that he could have been trapped on a Ferris wheel with a lot worse.

"No. He doesn't have a wife. I couldn't deal with a whole family of spiders."

The guy hummed in agreement.

"Me either. So, Four, what's your final fear then?"

Alec took a deep breath. If he ever hoped to admit it to his family, he had to admit it to strangers who meant nothing to him.

"Coming out to my parents."

The guy beside him gasped a little in shock and Alec bit his lip.

"You're gay?"

The boy asked bluntly. Alec cringed and sighed, his fear levels right back up to infinity.

"Yes. And it's just my fucking luck that i end up stuck on a Ferris wheel sat next to a fucking homophobe."

He growled his words and face-palmed, groaning as the seat swung and they started moving again.

He heard the guy laugh softly and felt a light touch on his elbow.

"I'm not a homophobe. Trust me. You only have to look at me to know that."

For some reason, Alec did trust him and he turned slowly to face him, rolling his eyes up the boy's body, taking in his rainbow coloured converse, his red skinny jeans, his black and white mesh tank top and his red and black cropped leather jacket. He eyes travelled higher until he reached the guys face and he gasped, his eyes wide as he stared.

The boy's skin was flawless caramel in colour and looked so soft. His black hair fell in a sexy mess into his eyes and spiked up in placed with dyed red tips. His lips were crimson red and shining, with two electric blue piercings to one side. But his eyes, oh his eyes, they were golden green and glimmering magnificently in the flashing lights, rimmed with black and shadowed with blue and red. There was a light dusting of glitter covering him head to toe that gave him an almost ethereal glow. It also screamed "Gay!" Like he was celebrating it, not hiding it.

Alec shuddered and couldn't tear his eyes away from the boy, who was staring at Alec with equal rapture.

"Wow," the boy mused, "Your eyes are amazing, Four. So blue, like sapphires but also kinda purple. Damn, you are a very beautiful boy."

Alec blushed deep red and boy grinned.

"Aw! You are so cute! Your boyfriend is a very lucky guy."

Alec gulped and quickly looked away.

"I don't have a boyfriend."

The guy's mouth shut with an audible snap and he smirked wickedly.

"Oh? I assumed you were coming out for him. That's what most closeted guys do."

Alec sighed and looked back at the guy.

"No. I'm coming out because of him, not for him. I had a boyfriend, but i couldn't come out so we kept it a secret. But he was out and it was killing him. So we broke up. I don't want that to happen again, so I'm doing something about it."

The boy nodded slowly in understanding.

"Been there. It's not fun. But now i have a boy and everything's awesome."

Alec felt a surge of disappointment that seemed to kill all of his energy at that statement. The first cute gay guy he met after Sebastian, his ex, that he wouldn't mind getting to know better, already had a boyfriend. Of course he did, just look at him.

The guy seemed to notice change in Alecs manner and he quickly changed the subject, realising that they had reached the top of the wheel and were now on the descent. He didn't want the blue eyed cutie to go anywhere, so he formulated a plan that made him grin in triumph.

"So, Four, how exactly is riding a Ferris wheel gonna help you come out?"

Alec sighed and shrugged.

"Well, I'm going on the basis that if i can beat this fear, i can beat that one. It was my sister's plan."

The boy smiled and nodded.

"Well i have a better one, if you're interested."

Alec perked up at this and raised his eyebrows.

"Oh? Do tell."

The boy grinned in success and began to spin his web.

"Well, you want to come out to your parents. But you've never even dated in public. How do you expect to be comfortable coming out if you're not comfortable with being who you are around a load of random strangers?"

Alec froze. He hadn't actually thought about it like that before. And coming from a fellow gay guy, it made a lot of sense in actuality. He looked at the guy curiously and saw a gleam in his eyes, he asked cautiously.

"What exactly do you propose?"

The boy smiled. He knew what he was doing was wrong. But he didn't care. He liked this boy, regardless of his boyfriend back home. A little fun wouldn't cause any harm.

"Well, i propose that you go on a date. In public."

Alec's eyebrows shot up.

"You want me to go on a date? When?"

"Now."

"With who?"

"Me."

They reached a standoff and just stared at each other for a minute. Alec couldn't get his head around that. They'd literally known each other about 15 minutes.

The boy stared at him, waiting for a response and deciding to play it slightly differently.

"You have a boyfriend."

Alec said slowly, unsure of what, was happening. The boy nodded.

"Yes, i do. And I'm not suggesting we date and change our relationship statuses' to 'in a relationship with Mr Sexy Ferris wheel guy.' I'm simply suggesting that we imitate the variables of a date as a simulation of sorts to get you comfortable with that kind of situation. It's purely scientific."

Alec stared at him in bewilderment for a second, blinking slowly. Again, that actually seemed to make sense. So slowly, he nodded. And the boy beamed, clapping his hands and grinning.

"By the way, Four, we're almost on the ground again. You did it. You beat your fear."

Alec looked out at the sky and lights of the fairground. The guy was right, he did it. Because he wasn't afraid, it was actually a beautiful sight to behold. He smiled and turned to boy.

"Thank you."

"No problem, blue eyes. Now come on, we've got a date to be had."

The wheel descended its final few feet before they were back on solid ground. Alec looked up at the wheel and laughed, not believing that he had just done it. The guy stood in front of him, smiling and he extended his hand to Alec almost shyly.

Alec looked at him curiously, before taking a deep breath. If he could beat the Ferris wheel. He could beat this.

He reached out and took the boys hand, walking side by side through the crowds with their fingers tightly entwined.

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A/N: So? Love it? Hate it? Let me know what you thought, and let me know any predictions you may have or anything :)

Love you lots guys! Thanks for reading and I'll have the next chapter of all 3 of my ongoing fics up soon! I promise!

Love,

Anna…XXXX