Chapter 2 "The beginning and the End"

Soon the Lightwood children were called to eat breakfast by their mother and father. Jace, Izzy, and he raced to the kitchen. There Alec saw his mother had set up the table and his father reading the newspaper, as well as his new baby brother Max in the highchair. After breakfast Alec's mother Maryse said "We should greet the neighbors into the neighborhood." Alec tried to not let his excitement show at the thought of meeting the pretty boy he saw earlier. All the Lightwoods left and walked across the yard to their neighbors' house with a pie in hand. After a brief introduction to the Bane family Jace and Alec were volunteered to help bring boxes in. Alec went to the moving truck to get a box and saw the pretty boy from before he decided to introduce himself. Alec tapped the boys shoulder and when he turned around Alec stuck out his hand and said "Hi, my name is Alec welcome to the neighborhood." The boy smiled and shook his hand firmly saying in a honey-smooth voice that sounded like a lullaby to Alec "Hello my name is Magnus, Magnus Bane." Alec was so taken by everything that was Magnus that he said the first thing that came to his mind saying "You are shiny," Alec immediately felt his cheeks warm from embarrassment but Magnus simply replied "It is called glitter darling." That started a friendship unlike any other. Alec and Magnus spent the rest of summer together, every single moment that they could. When school began they were in the same class and they became even more inseparable. By the time they went to middle school everyone knew that if someone wanted to find Magnus look for Alec and if someone wanted to find Alec look for Magnus. When they were twelve and in seventh grade Alec noticed that his feelings for Magnus were not normal like how he would get butterflies when he was close to Magnus, how he had a gut wrenching feeling when he saw Magnus talking to someone else, and especially how he would get the biggest and goofiest smile on his face when Magnus called his Alexander. One day while Alec was hanging out in Magnus' room Manus looked up at him and blurted out "I'm Bisexual," it took Alec completely by surprise and by the time he processed it Magnus had feared the worst "It is okay if you do not want to be friends anymore, I understand." Alec immediately took Magnus' crying face in both his hands and with his thumb whipped the tears way saying "I will never leave you." For a moment they just looked into each other's eyes then Magnus hugged Alec. Alec was so happy he liked Magnus for everything he was he liked that Magnus was exceptional at science, how his classes were called "nerd glasses", he loved that Magnus liked to wear bowties just everything. Alec's phone rang it was Izzy telling his that mom wanted to go home for dinner. Before he left Magnus told him that he planned to tell his parents tonight because he was not one to hide who he was. Alec wished him luck because he knew that Magnus' parents were very religious and conservative. That night around 10pm as Alec was about to sleep he heard a cry for help coming from Magnus' house. Alec ran to his parents' room to tell them and they called the cops as they ran to the Bane's house. Alec waited outside in the front lawn when the police and paramedics came and entered the house. A body was brought out in a black bag and Alec knew that someone died. Then Mr. Bane came out in handcuffs and two police man holding him by the shoulders and they led him to the police car, he was getting arrested. Then Magnus came out on a white bed with an oxygen mask on his sleeping face with paramedics around. They led him to the ambulance and Maryse went with Magnus as the ambulance's sirens came to life as they drove away. Robert Lightwood drove everyone remaining to the hospital, there Alec found out that Mrs. Bane committed suicide and that Mr. Bane blamed it on Magnus because he found out that night that not only was Magnus interested in guys but that he was not his son. Apparently Mrs. Bane thought that God was punishing her for her infidelity, so she killed herself after she confessed what she had done and locked herself in her room. Then when Magnus and Mr. Bane could open the door they saw her hanging there. Mr. Bane lost it and dragged Magnus to the bathroom were he tried to drown him. Or at least that was what Magnus told the cops when he woke up.

Time Jump

It had been a couple months since the 'incident' as Magnus likes to call it and Alec felt his heart breaking with how Magnus had changed he was colder like he froze his heart so he could never get hurt again. Just when Alec thought things could not get worse Magnus was adapted to a Will and Tessa Harondale, but he wanted to keep his last name Bane. They were a loving couple that was not the problem the problem was that before they decided to adopt Magnus, because they met him by chance when the orphanage went to Central Park, that they would move to England and they decided to take Magnus with them. The fair well at the airport had a lot of tears from the Lightwoods, but no one was as devastated as Alec. As he watched the plan take off into the he felt like this was the beginning to the end of his most treasured friendship and first crush.