His heartbeat raced while searching the crowd for his favorite blue-eyed kitchen boy. Magnus was currently doing a magic trick simply for the entertainment of the court. He gave readings and made flowers appear behind a girls ear. Simple stuff he learnedas
just a boy.

Meanwhile Alec stared up in amazement as the warlock in front of him. Magnus gave Alec butterflies and made his heart jump whenever he was near. Something so electric pulled Alec to him, but Magnus is male and they cannot simply be

together. You would be shamed without a doubt. They'd probably be sent away if they were ever caught. Caught is the fine word in this sentence.

Magnus found Alec's eyes and winked. Alec moved his head downward with a smile before looking the right wall with a door on it. Magnus understood and excused himself from the King with an apology. Alec headed for the door a minuteafter and Magnus
pulled Alec against him. Alec kissed Magnus fiercely considering their time and Magnus responded back quickly.

Alec first met Magnus after a party just like this one. That night Alec was exhausted, but not exhausted enough to say no to the handsome warlock. They talked all night about the most random of things until the night started to turn to morning.

"Well Alec, it was so nice to meet you but I must be g-" Magnus had told him before Alec did something rash, he kissed him. Alec pulled back quickly realizing his mistake when Magnus pulled him back into the kiss, more passionately.

Footsteps echoed throughout the halls now and the two boys flew apart. They casually started talking when Jace walked by, winking at Alec. Magnus rolled his eyes but Alec stopped Jace. "Jace you aren't allowed at parties anymore,

you know that." Alec reminded him. Jace nodded before responding.

"I'm not going to the party. I'll be back at sunrise, don't worry about me,brother. Worry about your warlock now." Jace told him. Jace and Isabelle were the only ones that knew. Jace knew because Alec once confessed his feelings for him

and Isabelle knew because she had caught them.

Magnus and Alec kissed passionately while Magnus pressed Alec up against a wall near the garden. "Alexander Gideon Lightwood! Mom has been lookin-" Isabelle has interrupted. Alec looked at Isabelle before sighing. "My eyes!

My pure unexposed eyes!" Isabelle has said.

"I find that hard to believe." Alec whispered under his breath while Magnus walked off with a bit of pep to his step.

Jace paced in front of the lake before deciding to swim. He needed to see Clary but decided the passage was too dangerous. He hoped Clary would know to come here, considering it was their spot. Jace remembered how he first showed Clary thespot.
They were about eight years old at the time and Jace had found the lake a week before.

"Clary! It's just over this hill! Please!" Jace's younger self had yelled to Clary. She was shorter and slower, considering she was in shoes with a slight heel. Jace was impatient so he decided to ask Clary "Do you want me to justcarry you?" Clary looked up. Her eyes fluttered with mischief and a grin popped on her face.

"Yes." She told him before he ran back to where she was and threw her over his shoulder. "Hey! I thought you were gonna carry me wedding style!" Clary had fought against him.

"Why would I do that? We aren't married... Yet." Jace mumbled while walking. They reached the lake and Jace set Clary down on her feet. She moved to turn around but he panicked. "No! Let me cover your eyes!" He covered her eyes quickly then
realized how informal he was being. "My princess," he added and she giggled.

Jace whispered behind her while covering her eyes "three...two" he paused and watched the sun rise over the cliff. "One." He whispered before removing his hands. She stood completely still and looked up in what he could only guess
was wonder.

The lake was small, with a few rocks in the water that rose above it slightly. Jace raced out and jumped upon each rock before he stood on one in the very middle and he looked down at the fish that swam around it. Clary watched as her golden
boy's curls were reflected in the water and how the sun bounced off of each strand.

Jace shouted over to Clary "Would you like to swim my lady?" Clary nodded before dropping her cloak off her back. Jace took off his shirt and dove in. Clary debated. She didn't want to get her dress wet but she wouldn't dive in naked with
Jace. Jace's head bobbed over the water. "What's wrong?" He asked her after which she blushed.

"It's my dress... I rather not get it wet." Clary told him while looking down. Jace rose onto the rock he was just on and grabbed his shirt. He walked out of the water towards Clary.

"If you'd like, you could wear my shirt." Clary squeaked and shook her head. The shirt was too transparent. After a moment of thinking, she took off her dress but left her in her slip. She ran and dropped into the water with a scream.

Underneath the surface she met Jace. Jace grabbed her hands, comparing their smallness to his. When he noticed Clary turning red, he thought she was drowning so he pulled her up. "Wer-were you drowning?" Jace had asked her and she smiled.

"Maybe," before she went under again and Jace followed her. She moved fluidly under, moving her arms and legs in a way that caught Jace's attention. She moved to the water fall and when Jace went up for a bit of air, Clary was no longer there.

He panicked and raced to where she was going, when he stopped right before it and no sign of her, he turned around. He search the lake with his eyes before he felt two little hands pull him up. He gasped for air as he found his little redhead.
She grinned down at him as she stood on cave floor just under the waterfall. "Jace, this is it." Clary told him and he got confused.

"This is what?" He asked. Her grin turned into a smirk when she looked at him.

"This is our place"

Clary felt suffocated in her dress while watching everyone party and drink to their content. People congratulated Clary on her engagement to Simon and Clary felt sick to her stomach. Simon was busy with Izzy, Clary gratefully realized.

Something about them together. Izzy had always been intothe bad boy type, but Izzy also always had a thing for Simon. She had hoped it wasn't the money but she knew Isabelle well enough that it wasn't.

Meanwhile,Simon looked at her like she was a undiscovered gem, like she was abnormal and Izzy was. She was the first girl to want to learn to fight. Men often wanted her, to the point of no return so it was Izzy's job to show them they couldn't
/have her.

Izzy and Simon danced, Simon leaded and Izzy became flustered. "I was never taught how to dance this way," she mumbled under her breath and Simon looked at her.

"What were you taught?" Simon asked while Izzy smiled at him. "Can you put on happier music?" Simon asked the band and let Isabelle do her thing. She backed up from Simon and tapped her foot to the beat.

When the music went up, so did Isabelle she made a line dance of people that were copying her. Then she broke off and grabbed Simon's hands.

"Follow my lead." Isabelle whispered. Simon glanced at her feet and they moved together beautifully. They jumped up and down, joining the line dance before coming back together at the end, breathless.