Chapter One: Poison Love

"He just looked so good in those light wash jeans. Not many people can pull them off, but Sebastian really can. I think he wore those on purpose because he knows I like them. He's just doing it to mess with me, but it's working. I want to get back together with him," Alec was saying as he and Jace waited for their food at the Taki's diner.

"That's a bad idea, Alec, and you know it," Jace said, not particularly fond of Sebastian.

"I know you and Mom and Dad don't like him, but he's really not as bad as he seems. He can be very sweet sometimes," Alec said, trying to defend his ex boyfriend. They had broken up about six months ago, but they still sat together and talked everyday like best friends. "He just gets nervous around you guys."

Jace rolled his eyes, "Come on, Alec. You were miserable when you were dating him. Nothing good came from that relationship. If you ask me, you should stop talking to him all together."

Alec sighed. Something good had actually come from that relationship, and it was still coming. After they had broken up, they decided to just be friends with benefits. Alec didn't dare tell that to Jace, though. "I'm not going to quit talking to him. I really like him, Jace." Alec's eyes held a slight sadness that made Jace want to punch Sebastian in the face for breaking up with his brother in the first place.

"Alec, you can't keep hanging around him. It's no good for you. Even if he said you can still be friends, you can't. You can't be friends. It just causes a lot of heartache for the both of you." Jace went silent as the waitress brought them their food. Jace got a hamburger with a small order of fries while Alec had two hamburgers and a large order of fries. Jace was always amused at how much Alec could eat.

"I can't just drop him. We have all of the same friends so we are around each other all the time," Alec said thinking that not talking to him would mean no more sex with him. He did NOT want that.

Jace chewed on a fry thoughtfully. "I could set you up with someone to get your mind off of it. A bunch of guys at my school are gay. Most of them are pretty cute," Jace suggested. He and Alec didn't go to the same school due the fact that Alec's mother wanted him in a private school and Jace had been going to public school before his father married Maryse, and he didn't want to switch.

"Absolutely not," Alec said, blushing with a mouth full of food.

"Why not?" Jace asked, looking indignant. He wanted the best for his brother, and Sebastian was not it.

"I'm not desperate enough to be set up, Jace. I'd rather be alone forever than be set up on a blind date," Alec said, wiping a drop of ketchup off his lip with this tongue. As he was talking, he got a text message from Sebastian asking if they could get together tonight.

"Is that Sebastian?" Jace asked, watching his brother's expression carefully.

"No," Alec said, obviously lying.

"Don't answer it, Alec," Jace commanded.

"But-"

"No," Jace said. He grabbed the phone from Alec, locking the screen before putting the phone on his seat and sitting on top of it.

For a second, Alec was scared he was going to read the text message. Though Jace didn't know about their affair, Alec knew he was suspicious. Especially since a month after they broke up, Jace walked in on them making out.

"Can I have my phone back, please?" Alec said, slightly annoyed but more worried that Jace would go through his messages.

"No. You just want to get back with Sebastian because you're horny and you want the sex," Jace said, ignoring Alec's outraged and surprised look.

"That's not true," Alec said. And it wasn't. He was still getting the sex, but it wasn't enough. "And besides, if I'm not dating Sebastian, I don't want to date anyone for a while."

Jace gave him a sympathetic look. "I understand, but Alec you have to move on eventually. We should have a party," Jace said so suddenly that Alec didn't respond at first.

"Wait, what?"

"Yeah," Jace said excitedly. "We should have a party while Mom is away this weekend and Dad isn't back yet."

"No, Jace, we shouldn't," Alec said, knowing that Jace was just wanting an excuse to drink alcohol and set him up.

"It'll be fun! I can invite the football team, basketball team, track team, soccer team, cheerleaders, and half of the band geeks. Maybe even some of the mathletes if I feel like it. I know at least 25 percent of them are gay, so that's a plus for you. I won't try to set you up, but you can scope out your options."

Alec was silent for a moment, contemplating the offer. If he said yes, he could sneak Sebastian in and get alone time with him while Jace was occupied with the party. "Fine, we can have the party, but absolutely no alcohol and no setting me up."

Jace smile brightly at him, his slightly crooked incisor teeth gleaming in the dim light of the diner. "Great, I'll text everyone I know. This is going to be awesome," Jace said.

Alec had already finished both of his hamburgers and half of his fries by the time Jace was done adding people to a group message. "Can I have my phone back now?" he asked, holding out his pale hand.

Jace handed it to him, a Cheshire grin plastered on his face. "This is going to be the greatest party ever."

Alec rolled his eyes, taking back his phone to see that he had three new messages from Sebastian.

We don't have to get together tonight if you don't want to...

Alec?

I really miss you...

Alec read the messages, his mind telling him to just say that tonight wouldn't work, but his body was telling him to be near Sebastian. He quickly texted back.

Sorry, I'm at dinner with Jace. I miss you too, Seb, but I'm busy tonight.

Jace was looking down at his phone smiling. "We already have thirty RSVPs."

"Wow," Alec said, honestly surprised, "I don't think I even know thirty people."

Jace snorted and rolled his eyes, "That, my brother, is because you go to private school."

Alec rolled his eyes again, finishing off his fries by shoving three in his mouth at once. "Speaking of school, I should probably get home soon. I have a ton of homework to do."

"Okay, that's cool. I'll just drive home and see you there after a while," Jace said, distracted by the silent conversation he was having with thirty people on his phone.

Alec stood up, grabbing a twenty dollar bill out of his wallet and handing it to his brother to pay for the food. "Later," he said, walking outside to his olive green 1974 Mustang fastback. Climbing into the driver's seat of his prized possession, he sped out of the parking lot and down the road to his home. It was only a five minute drive, but Alec enjoyed every second. His car was very special to him, and anyone who knew him knew that. He parked her, yes her, in the garage and headed into the house.

His mother was sitting at the counter in the kitchen absent mindedly snacking on peanuts while reading the newspaper. He walked over and gave her a quick kiss on the cheek. "Hey, Mom," he said, stealing a handful of her peanuts and walking over to the fridge to grab a bottle of root beer.

"Hey, honey, how was school?" she asked, putting down the paper.

"Fine," Alec said, not mentioning Sebastian, no matter how much he wanted to. "How was work?"

Maryse grimaced, "I lost the main case I was working on."

"Don't sweat it," Alec said, "You've won almost every case for as long as I can remember. One loss doesn't hurt every once in awhile."

Maryse was saved a reply by Robert walking in. "Hello, Alec," he said, placing a friendly clap on Alec's shoulder blades. "Maryse," he said, giving her a quick kiss on the cheek.

Though Robert wasn't Alec's biological father, he had raised him since he was very young and had legally adopted him. They had grown very close over the years, and spent many hours together in the garage working on old cars.

"Hi, Dad," Alec said, drinking the rest of his soda before tossing it into the recycling bin.

"You are never going to believe this," Izzy said as she stormed into the room. When no one questioned her, they had learned not to, she continued, "I missed the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show!"

"Victoria's Secret?" Robert said, but was ignored.

"Honey, you can watch it online," Maryse said, her eyes only slightly sympathetic. Izzy went through these tantrums and outbursts on a daily basis.

"But it's not the same!" she said, huffing and sitting down at the kitchen table. Alec sat next to her, putting his book bag on the table and extracting his Advanced Biochemistry book.

He began his homework as Isabelle complained and Maryse tried to reason with her. Just a typical day at the Lightwood house.

"What are you studying?" Robert asked, taking the seat next to Alec. His voice was quiet so as not to disturb his wife's and daughter's conversation.

"Chemiosmosis," Alec said, tilting the book a little so that his father could see. "I have to write a two page essay about it tonight."

Though Robert majored in history and became a recruiter of artifacts for the local museums, science was his minor. "That shouldn't be too hard, right?" he joked, nudging Alec's shoulder teasingly.

"Maybe if I knew what chemiosmosis was," Alec said, his voice slightly exasperated. Robert grabbed a piece of paper and began drawing on it.

"Well, here are the basics..." He continued for an hour, helping Alec with his homework. Jace got home just as Alec finished his essay, and Robert went to his study.

"Alec," Jace said, talking in a whisper as he sat down at the table next to his older brother. No one else was anywhere near them, but he still took precaution. "I have the party in motion. We have over a hundred RSVPs, and I have a DJ booked. I was talking to a friend of mine-"

"Which friend?" Alec asked, knowing most of Jace's good friends.

"Just a friend," he said suspiciously, "And he said that if you're eighteen he knows a guy who can get you alcohol at a good price," Jace was talking excitedly, his blonde hair falling in his face. Alec supposed if they weren't brothers and if Jace weren't so irresponsible that he might be attractive. Most girls thought he was anyway, but Alec didn't look at him like that.

"You're not eighteen," Alec pointed out.

Jace just rolled his eyes, "But you are."

"Absolutely not, Jace," Alec said, almost horrified. His voice rose a little, "I'm not going to go to some shady guy that your friend knows to get you alcohol."

"Shush, Alec!" Jace said, looking around to make sure no one heard. "Come on. It won't be that bad. Please?"

"No, Jace, I'm not going to do it. Just get one of the guys on the football team to do it. Some of them are eighteen, right?" Alec refused to participate in alcohol purchase, consumption, or selling in any way. Despite the kind of siblings he had, he was actually a really good kid.

Jace sighed heavily, "I guess I could ask Will to do it, but he's such a pain in the ass."

"Jace, I've met Will. You are exactly like him," Alec said, rolling his eyes again, "And besides you promised no alcohol anyway."

Jace scoffed, "I lied," he said simply, "You don't have to drink it anyway, Princess."

"Wait, does this mean you lied about setting me up, too?" Alec asked, horror dawning on his face.

"That's exactly what this means," Jace said casually as he looked through his phone for Will's number.

"But-" Alec protested, but Jace held up a hand as he dialed his friend's number.

Will picked up in about four rings. "Will the Handsome speaking."

"It's Jace. I need you to talk to our friend de Quincey and get refreshments for the party. I have two hundred dollars set aside just for the drinks."

Alec didn't hear Will's reply this time, but by the look on Jace's face, he knew that he had agreed. Jace said he would text Will the details and the 'shopping list', as he had called it, before hanging up.

Jace looked up from his phone with a smile only to get a dark glare from his brother. "What?" he asked.

"I don't think we should be doing this party without permission," Alec said, his good boy side showing through. Alec hated lying to his parents, using 'bad words', and procrastinating. Jace often made fun of him, trying to get him to do something bad. Jace always tried to get Alec to let go and do something he would be ashamed of later, but Alec always refused. He was too scared of the consequences.

"Come on, Alec," Jace said, "Don't be such a goody two shoes. Mom and Dad will never even find out."

"I don't know, Jace," Alec said reluctantly. "I think they would be okay with it anyway. They are always trying to get me to make new friends away from the Academy, so they will probably encourage this. I'll just talk to Mom, and-"

"Talk to me about what?" Maryse said, walking into the kitchen. She had previously been in the living room watching Gossip Girl with Isabelle.

Jace's eyes were shooting daggers at Alec while he replied. "We were thinking that maybe this weekend we could have a party with a few people from school and the Academy. Would that be okay?" he asked, his blue puppy dog eyes shining a little.

Maryse looked hesitant. "I don't know, neither I nor Robert will be here," she said. "And I don't really want Max around high school kids." She pondered a moment while making herself a cup of tea.

Jace looked like he was about to punch Alec in the face, but Alec was quick, "I'm eighteen, Mom. I will make sure nothing too crazy happens. And Isabelle said she was going to take Max to see Grandma Phoebe and Grandpa Andrew."

Maryse relented, "Okay, but promise to put away all of the vases and art work. I don't want them damaged."

Alec smiled, "I promise."

"And promise to call if something goes bad?" She said, still weary about the idea.

"Absolutely," Jace said, suddenly not so angry at his brother.

"Okay, but you boys be responsible. And remember, I'm leaving for Philadelphia early in the morning. Robert will be here after school for just a little while, so try to get home in time to say goodbye to him."

"Will do," Jace said, glancing at the clock. It was nearly ten. "Oh, I better start my homework," he said. He walked over to his mother and hugged her, kissing her cheek as well. "Goodnight."

"Goodnight, Jace."

As he left the room, Maryse poured her water from the kettle, dropping a green tea bag into her cup. "Shouldn't you be getting to bed?" she asked her oldest son, who had been looking back at his textbook.

"I was just going to stay up a little longer and study for my quiz tomorrow," he said, feeling guilty for taking so long of a break.

Maryse walked over to him and closed the book, kissing her son on the head. "You'll do fine. Now get some sleep so you'll be pleasant in the morning."

"Yes ma'am," Alec said, putting his book back into his bag. He zipped it up and kissed his mother on the cheek, "Goodnight, Mom."

"Goodnight, sweetie," she said, patting him on the back.

Chapter One is done! Thanks for reading and please leave a review to tell me what you think!