Hello everyone ^_^ Sorry I've been absent for a while. Here's another new story for your enjoyment. As always, please R&R. Thank you, lovelies :)
All characters belong to Cassie Clare. Only the story is my own
Max Lightwood came down the stairs, as his older brother Alec rearranged the furniture in the library. Max's shaggy brown hair was barely visible behind a rather impressive tower of blankets. One of them had even slipped down and was covering up his face. Alec laughed and went to lift the bedding from his brother's arms. "So, Max." He ruffled the boy's hair playfully. "What do you think?"
Max pushed his glasses up the bridge of his nose and looked into the room. Two large couches, with their backs to each other, formed the sides. Several tall chairs stood between them, forming the final wall. Max broke out in a fit of excited laughter. "Alec! It's amazing!" He ran into the room and jumped around in a circle between the furniture.
"Okay, okay!" A voice sounded behind Alec. Jace came in, carrying a bowl of freshly popped popcorn, which he set down on an end table near one of the couches. "That's enough jumping around, shorty." He said with a smile.
"Jace! Look!" Max exclaimed, hardly deterred.
"I can see." He chuckled and took a few blankets from Alec and stepped closer to his little brother. "But, it would seem that your fort…" he draped a dark blue comforter over the chairs, "needs a roof."
"Oh, Jace." Max sighed, "It wasn't finished yet." Alec smiled and joined them as they finished covering the fort. "There!" he squealed. "It's done!" Jace and Alec threw the rest of the pillows and blankets inside the fort, then leaned back to admire their work.
"Well… it looks good." Jace said plainly. "Now what?"
"What do you mean, "now what," Jace?" Alec sighed. "We sleep in it."
"No!" Max whined. "We play games, and watch movies, and … and play Truth or Dare."
Jace laughed. "That I HAVE to see, Alec playing Truth or Dare. Think we should dare him to order pizza, then make out with the delivery guy?" Max laughed. Alec turned a brilliant shade of red.
"Jace!"
"What? I'm sure Magnus would forgive you."
"That is SO not what I meant. Anyway… can we change the subject now?" Alec pleaded.
Max picked up the bowl of popcorn and chucked a piece at both Jace and Alec. "Can we PLEASE play in the fort now? We spent all that time building it and –" He giggled when Alec scooped him up in his arms and dove into the fort, landing on his side.
Jace laughed and joined them, picking up a few pieces of spilt popcorn.
"Happy now, Maximus?" Alec teased.
"That's not my name, Alexander." Max hit him in the shoulder, then giggled.
"Are you sure, that's a pretty sweet name." Jace offered, settling back against the pillows. Max snuggled in between them.
"You think so?" Max asked, tossing a piece of popcorn in the air and catching it in his mouth.
"Yeah… I think so," Jace leaned up on his elbow.
Alec laughed and closed his eyes. "No! Alec! If you fall asleep, Jace says I have to draw on your face!" He shook his brother by the shoulder until he opened his eyes.
"Now that that's settled," Jace added, tossing a pillow at Alec's face, "order the pizza."
