Chapter 4: I couldn't
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4 years before
"perfect by nature/icons of self-indulgence/just what we all need/more lies about a world that…"
Kitty was singing along to the song that was playing on her stereo when Alec walked into her room. She didn't notice, she was too busy singing and drawing something. She has a really nice voice; sometimes it was questionable whether she was part fey or part mermaid. She couldn't lie, so that ended any doubts Alec had. Still, her voice is very nice.
"Kitty?"
"Hm." Kitty looked up from her drawing. "Oh! Zander! I didn' realize it was you!"
"Who did you think it was?"
"Her father, telling her to make her bed." Aaron was standing behind Alec leaning in the door frame. Alec turned to look at Kitty's bed and saw that all her blankets were bunched up in the corner of the mattress.
"You don't make your bed when you first wake up?"
"Of course not." Kitty looked at him with a raised eyebrow. "Not everybody is a neat freak like you and your family."
Aaron looked at Kitty and Alec with amusement. "You know Kitty, I think you could learn something from Alexander. Like making your bed every day. For now on, if your bed isn't made by the time Alexander comes over, him and I are going to get Ice Cream. Without you."
Kitty's eyes grew big and she ran over to her bed. Sometimes Alec thought as he watched Kitty make her bed in record time, you almost can't tell she has demon blood at all.
4 years later (present-Monday)
Kitty paced around her hotel room. It had plain white walls and a blue carpet with red squares dotted on it. The room wasn't large; it was just a normal hotel room, with a desk, a TV, a bed, a chair, an armchair and a coffee maker in the small bathroom. She felt like an idiot. Alec said he was going to call her, but he didn't have her number. She had his, but she didn't know when he would be done with the demon attack.
There was a clock on one of the bedside tables. Kitty looked at it. 4:49. She would call him around 5:30 (dinnertime) to see if he was home and they could go eat. If not, then she would give him her number and they could eat some other time. It made sense that they would be done around that time. Kitty heard the conversation between Alec and his sister (Isabelle, wasn't it?) and knew what they had found. They wouldn't find a demon near the site. They would go home, Kitty would call Alec, they would go out to eat, and everything would all be fine. Nodding her head once smartly, Kitty sat on the bed and stared at the clock and phone.
5:25-Monday still
Alec sighed. In the two hours none of them found anything. Isabelle and Jace had come back in a bad mood since they wasted two hours and didn't kill anything. Alec was actually relived they hadn't ran into whatever killed the mundane. But that memory that was triggered when he saw the body was not coming out any further. It was giving him a headache trying to see it, so he gave up. Now he was sitting on his bed trying to figure out how to reach Kitty. I don't have her num-
His thought was cut off by his phone ringing. He answered it.
"Zander?"
Speak of the devil
"Kitty? Hello."
"Hey! Are ya back home?"
"Yes. You want to go to dinner?" Alec already knew that answer, but it didn't hurt to ask.
"Yup! Where?"
"Ever been to Taki's?"
"Nope, never heard of it."
"Then we'll go there. Where do you want to meet?"
"How 'bout outside the institute? I'll be there in 10."
"Ok. See you then."
"See ya!"
Alec put his phone in his pocket, grabbed his jacket and walked out of his room towards the elevator. He could hear Isabelle and Jace in the training room. He wondered who would win with both of them as mad as the other. He should probably stay to make sure they didn't kill each other. But Kitty was back in town for the first time in six years. The choice wasn't hard.
6:29- still Monday
"Zander, do ya wanna to try some?"
Kitty was eating some sort of faerie food that looked like a pastry. When she ordered it, Kealie looked at her strangely, but took her order anyways. Thinking about that Alec declined.
"So, what happened?"
Alec looked at her confused. Changeling and Shadowhunter stared at each other until Alec understood what she was talking about.
"Just a demon attack. When we got there, the demon was gone. We aren't even sure what type of demon it was."
Kitty had a strange look on her face. "Do ya know anyone who could figure it out?"
"No…" Alec thought about it. Then his eyes lit up. "Yes! Kitty, wouldn't you be able to figure it out?!"
"No." Her face had turned cold. "I couldn't"
What's wrong? He wanted to ask her. But he knew he couldn't. "Oh."
There was a silence. That seemed to happen a lot between the two of them. It did make sense however, as Alec never spoke much anyways, and when he met Kitty he found even less of a reason to talk. She either talked enough for the both of them, or was silent also. But now, when they needed to talk, their personalities were conflicting.
"So, have ya asked your boyfriend yet? 'Bout me staying at Y'all's apartment?"
"No, I haven't got a chance to; he's away on "business"."
Kitty raised her eyebrow. "What do you mean?"
Alec shook his head and smiled fondly. "Most likely a fashion show. Of course, he could be doing actual work, but I highly doubt it."
Thinking about what he just said, Kitty began to nod. "I think I'm gonna like 'im."
"I think you are too." Alec smiled. "He's very…flamboyant."
"Neat!" Kitty smiled. The tension was gone. The rest of their dinner was spent talking about things that were important only to the two of them.
7:43-guess what, it's still Monday.
"So this is your hotel?"
Alec and Kitty had stopped in front of a plain looking hotel. Its name was Mirtis Namelis. The motto was "You'll never want to leave!"
Kitty nodded.
"I need the number to the phone in your room."
"Oh, yeh, I know. I forgot, I wrote it down."
She pulled a piece of paper out of a pocket in the denim skirt she was wearing. It was big and heavy. Alec couldn't understand how she could wear it. He took the number out of her hand and entered it into his phone.
"Ok, I think we're good now."
"Ok. Well, bye! See ya…tomarra?"
"Maybe, I don't know. Bye."
Kitty gave him a quick hug. Very quietly she whispered in his ear "I couldn't." Alec stared at her back confused as she ran into the hotel.
Mirtis Namelis means Death house in Lithuanian according to Google. Thanks to peetaisamazing (I'm glad you like my story and I love Alec too) and BooksBeforeLife (I'll try to pick it up next chapter and awesome name) for reviewing. Thanks for reading!