Hi, look I know I'm a terrible person for not updating in forever! I've actually been doing school work and junk so I haven't had time to update. I'm sorry please forgive me *hands you all some pie*
Anyway here is a new chapter of Pool Boy :D
I don't own the mortal instruments or its characters they belong to Cassandra Clare.
~enjoy~
Alec's POV
"Oh, big brother!" Isabelle called in a sing song voice, skipping into the room and sitting down on the fraying couch opposite Alec.
Alec looked up from the book he was reading. "What do you want, Isabelle?" he asked, knowing that whenever his sister used that tone of voice she always wanted something.
"What made you think I wanted something?" Isabelle asked innocently.
"Just tell me what you want Isabelle." Alec said shutting his book, "If it's the money I made from cleaning out Mr Morgenstern's shed then you can have it, I was going to give it to you anyway."
"It's not that" Isabelle said waving her hand, "But I will take the money," she said, outstretching her hand towards Alec.
Alec sighed and fished the ten dollar note out of his back pocket and handed it to Isabelle. "Now," Alec said. "What is it that you really want?"
"Well" Isabelle said, twirling her long, black hair around her finger. "There's this party going on tonight and Meliorn is going to be there and I was wondering if you could come with me."
Alec looked at his sister, "No." he said. "I'm not taking you to the party."
Isabelle made a whining sound and stood up, she stomped her foot down, "Please, I need you to take me so I don't get stolen or something."
"Well then don't go." Alec said, opening up his book and reading from where he left off.
"Alec!" Isabelle whined. "Please!" she said, dragging out the e.
"Ask Jace to take you or something." Alec said, not looking up from his book.
"He's taking his new Bimbo friend thing." Isabelle said, "Which is stupid because he and Clary would be perfect together."
Alec rolled his eyes and continued reading his book. Isabelle started saying please over and over again. Alec snapped his book shut and glared at his sister. "Will you shut up?" He asked.
"I will" Isabelle said, "If you take me to the party."
Alec groaned, he knew he couldn't get out of this, Max was at a friend's house and he couldn't let his younger sister walk around the town alone. "Fine." He groaned, "But we're not staying for long."
Isabelle smiled widely and hugged Alec, "okay I'm gonna go get dressed," Isabelle said.
"Alright, I'll just wait here." Alec said.
"No, no, no mister." Isabelle said, "You have to dress up nicely."
"Your version is dressing up in tight, expensive clothes." Alec said, crossing his arms over his chest. "What I'm wearing is fine."
"No it isn't." Isabelle said, "I bought you some new clothes a few days ago, I've laid them out on your bed, go get changed."
"How did you lay the clothes out on my…" Alec trailed off. "You already knew that I was going to cave didn't you?" Alec asked.
Isabelle smiled sweetly, "Be ready in half an hour." She turned and walked out of the room her hair swishing behind her.
Alec sighed and ran a hand through his hair. He picked his book up and walked to his room, which wasn't that far away because their house is so small. Alec saw the clothes on his bed, a pair of black jeans and a white T-shirt.
That doesn't seem so bad, Alec thought. But knowing my luck, they're going to be tight.
Alec placed his book down on the cardboard box that he used as a bedside table and undressed. He pulled on the new clothes and realised that he was right, they were tight. Alec looked down at the clothes and wondered how much they cost, hopefully not too much money.
"Alec are you ready?" Isabelle called.
"Yeah," Alec said, grabbing his beat up, old phone of his bedside table.
Alec walked out of his room and into the hallway. "Ugh!" Isabelle said, "I've got to do something about your hair."
"What's wrong with my hair?" Alec asked, turning around and looking into the cracked mirror that was hung up on the wall.
"It's all messy." Isabelle said.
"It always looks like this." Alec said as he tried smoothing down some bits that were sticking up wildly.
"Yes you're right it always looks messy, you should learn to brush it." Isabelle said as she pulled Alec's face away from the mirror and started brushing Alec's hair with her fingers.
Alec groaned and tried to move away from her but Isabelle grabbed a fistful of hair, Alec yelped and stayed still.
"Don't move." Isabelle said, pulling at one of the knots in his hair with her fingers, "Or I will pull out a clump of your hair next time."
"You're being mean," Alec said, crossing his arms over his chest.
"I'm not being mean," Isabelle said, "I'm making your hair look nice."
Alec sighed and waited for Isabelle to stop trying to pull out his hair. After ten more minutes of torture Isabelle said that his hair was presentable.
Alec looked at himself in the mirror, "My hair looks the same as it did before." He said.
"No it doesn't," Isabelle said, "Now come one we've got to go."
o.O.o.O.o.O.o.O.o
Alec looked up at the mansion that towered above him, there were bright techno coloured lights flashing from the windows and Alec could see silhouettes of people dancing in the windows. The front door was wide open and Alec saw Jace making out with a girl with short, dark hair up against the hallway wall.
Alec pushed down the jealousy that flared up.
"Come on!" Isabelle said, grabbing his arm and pulling him into the house. They past Jace and the dark haired girl in the hallway, without being noticed, and walked into the sea of people grinding up against each other and making out.
"I see Meliorn!" Isabelle yelled over the music, "I'll see you later!"
Alec nodded and watched his sister as she walked over to some guy that Alec vaguely recognised. Alec sighed and skirted around all the people dancing, he really didn't want to be here it was too crowded and the place reeked of sweat and alcohol. He saw that the backyard was almost empty, there was just a few people smoking and making out.
Alec made his way out of the crowded area and stepped outside, cool air hit his skin and he shivered a little. He sat down on one of the pool chairs, away from the people smoking and making out, and he looked at the pool.
Even in the dim light he could see how green and disgusting it was. Alec screwed his face up in disgusted and wondered who owned this place, everything was great but the pool was disgusting.
Alec sighed and propped his elbow on his knee and rested his chin on the palm of his hand. He's only been here for a few minutes and he was already bored. Alec saw that the people making out and smoking had left and he sighed again.
Alec looked back at the pool, "Whoever owns this disgusting looking pool is lazy."
"Glad you think so highly of me," a familiar voice said.
Alec turned around and saw Magnus Bane standing there in a purple blazer and blue boxers. "Oh! Sorry!" Alec squeaked out, "I didn't know that this was your house."
Magnus laughed, "It's alright," Magnus said, "It's true I'm lazy."
Alec felt the heat rush up to his face and he let out a small laugh, "Yeah um, sorry."
"Like I said, it's alright." Magnus said, walking over and sitting in the pool chair opposite him.
Alec noticed how much skin that Magnus was showing and he felt more heat rush up to his face. "So um… why aren't you like wearing any…" Alec tried to asked.
Magnus laughed again, "You want to know why I'm not wearing any pants?" Magnus asked.
Alec nodded, "I'm just… you know curious…"
Magnus smiled, "I was just with Camille."
"Oh…" Alec said, he felt a small pang in his chest but ignored it. "Are you two like together?" he asked.
"No." Magnus said.
"But you said you were just with Camille" Alec said, "And you're not wearing pants."
"We were just having a little fling" Magnus said.
Alec nodded.
"So," Magnus said after a few minutes of silence, "I didn't know that you were going to be here."
"My sister, Isabelle, forced me to come with her here." Alec explained, "I couldn't let her come here alone."
"I take it you're not really a party person" Magnus said.
Alec nodded, "Yeah."
"Well I bet you if you came inside with me, I could change your mind about parties" Magnus said, smirking a little.
"I don't really know," Alec said, looking at the house with all the dancing bodies and bright lights.
"Come on it'll be fun" Magnus said standing up and outstretching his hand towards Alec.
Alec bit his lip and looked up at Magnus, he hesitantly took the taller boys hand and stood up. "I guess it'll be okay," Alec said.
Magnus smiled and started to walk towards the house Alec holding onto the boys hand tightly.
"Wait!" Alec said, pulling Magnus back. "Does it involve drinking because if it does, I'm not going because I need to look after my sister and if I drink something that can fog up my common sense it won't be very helpful," Alec rambled.
"Okay it won't involve drinking" Magnus said, "just dancing with me then."
Alec swallowed and pulled his hand out of Magnus's grip. He didn't know if he could dance with Magnus he wasn't even out of the closet only his family knew that he was gay, he didn't want the school to know about him because he was sure they'd just bully him.
"It's okay" Magnus whispered, sliding his hand into Alec's, "Most people don't remember what happens at my parties and people don't even look at who's dancing with who."
Alec nodded, "okay, I guess."
Magnus smiled and pulled Alec into the house and pulled him through the crowd of dancing bodies. Alec felt Magnus wrap his arms around his waist and Alec hesitantly wrapped his arms around Magnus's neck.
Alec kept a small distance away from Magnus as the swayed to the music, "Loosen up, Alexander!" Magnus yelled over the music, "Just have some fun."
"I don't really know how to loosen up and have fun," Alec admitted, a small about of heat rushing up to his face.
"That's alright" Magnus said, "I don't want to make you uncomfortable."
Alec smiled a little, "thanks."
For a good fifteen minutes Alec and Magnus danced together, not as close like other people were but as they were dancing they moved closer to each other. Alec could feel Magnus's eyes looking at him as they danced and each time he looked up at Magnus he was met with the older boys beautiful green eyes.
"Alec," Magnus said.
Alec looked up at Magnus and was afraid that he had done something wrong, like stand on Magnus's feet without noticing or that he had gotten to close. "Yes?" Alec asked.
"Are you enjoying yourself?" Magnus asked.
Alec nodded, "yeah, I am."
Magnus smiled brightly and peck Alec on the nose, Alec felt the heat rush up to his cheeks and he looked around them hoping nobody saw that.
"Relax darling," Magnus whispered in Alec's ear. "No one saw, they're too busy with each other."
Alec nodded and looked back up at Magnus. Magnus smiled down at him and started to lean down.
"Let go of me you creep!" a familiar voice yelled.
Alec looked behind Magnus and saw Isabelle trying to get out of that Meliorn kid's grip. Alec pushed away from Magnus, which caused Magnus to stumble back and give him a confused looked. Alec ignored him and pushed past him and other people on the dance floor to get to his sister. When he got to his sister he found that she had gotten out of Meliorn's grip, her red lipstick was smeared across her face and she was hugging herself.
Isabelle looked up and she saw Alec and ran into his arms, "Can we go home now?" Isabelle asked.
Alec nodded even though there was a part of him that wanted to stay and go back to Magnus and apologies. The two of them walked out of the house and into the cool night air.
o.O.o.O.o.O.o
Alec handed his sister a cup of tea. They had made their way home from Magnus's party and Isabelle hand gone and gotten changed and she had wiped off the make-up that was smeared across her face.
"So," Alec said sitting down on the most uncomfortable second hand couch they owned, the half stuffed one, with no legs and itchy, green fabric. "Are you going to tell me what happened?"
"Meliorn's a jerk," Isabelle said.
"I know that" Alec said, "I just want to know what happened."
"Meliorn was saying that he'd pay me to have sex with him because I said no when he asked me to have 'it' with him, then he said that he'd pay me to have sex with him and then I said no again and he said why would you turn down to have sex with me and how could you turn down getting money because you're poor and junk." Isabelle said, glaring down into her tea cup.
Alec felt anger flare up inside him and he felt like punching Meliorn in the face but he knew that Isabelle would get angry at him if he did. So he settled on asking if she was okay.
"I'm fine." Isabelle said, sipping at her tea, "just really pissed off."
Alec nodded. "There are better guys out there you know," He said trying to cheer his sister up.
"I know," Isabelle said, "But I think that a lot of guys don't want to date me because they think I'm only dating them for their money."
"Well they're stupid" Alec said, "and you shouldn't waste your time on them."
Isabelle nodded and sipped at her tea. The two of them heard the front door unlocking and their mother, Maryse, walked in looking tired and worn out.
"What are you two doing up so late?" She asked, dropping her bag on the coffee table, "It's one in the morning."
"We went to a party" Isabelle said, standing up with her cup in her hand.
"Did you have fun?" Maryse asked.
"It was a complete waste of my time" Isabelle muttered stalking out of the room.
"What's wrong with Isabelle?" Maryse asked, "She usually lives parties."
"There was a stupid boy there," Alec said.
Maryse nodded, and sat down on the couch Isabelle was sitting at before. "Did she go alone?"
Alec shook his head, "No, I would never let her go to a party alone."
"Good" Maryse said, "Did you have fun at the party?"
"Kind of…" Alec said, blushing a little bit.
"That's good," Maryse said, "It's good to see you enjoying yourself a little."
Alec smiled and stood up, "I'm gonna go to be, I've got work to do tomorrow."
"Alright, have a good sleep," Maryse said, "make sure that you be safe at your jobs tomorrow, I don't want you hurting yourself."
Alec nodded, "I'll try not to."
Alec walked out of the room and into his room he quickly undressed and dressed into his worn out pyjamas. He crawled under the covers of his bed and closed his eyes. He knew that tomorrow was going to be a tough day he had to clean dirt out of Mr Starkweather's gutters, clean Jace's pool for him again, Mow Jace's Grandmother's lawn and clean Magnus Bane's disgusting pool.
Alec's eyes snapped open. He was going to see Magnus tomorrow. Alec remembered the way he rudely pushed Magnus away when Isabelle was trying to get away from Meliorn, Was Magnus about to kiss him? He wasn't sure.
What if Magnus was going to kiss me? Alec thought. What would I have done if I didn't push him away and he kissed me? Kiss him back? Freak out and run away? Die?
Alec internally groaned, Magnus probably thinks I don't want to kiss him! He thought, I pushed him away he probably thinks I'm not interested in him or I don't like him! He doesn't know the actual reason why I pushed him away.
Alec shut his eyes tightly, Stop over-thinking everything Alec! You need to get some sleep or you won't be one hundred per cent for work tomorrow.
Alec sighed and stopped all his stupid thoughts and drifted off into a restless sleep.
So what did you guys think about it? review please, well if you want to. *hands you all some more pies*
-Kate.
