Magnus' POV

The rest of the week leading up to Friday passed uneventfully. Magnus went to class, practiced with Alec and shot dirty's at Camille. Boring boring boring.

Friday brought with it the end of the school week, a climatic football match and the presentation of the member's in Glee Club's performances. Magnus would like to say he wasn't nervous, but he did have a small case of butterflies. His only real concern was Alec. Would Alec hit the notes right? Would Alec come in to his parts on time? Would Alec even show up?!

When the bell to end period three and to start period four sounded, Magnus was up out of his seat as quickly as possible. He literally sprinted out of the class to the Music Room. He wanted to get to Glee Club early so he could request to have his turn with Alec at the very end. Unfortunately, he ran into Camille on the way there.

"Magnus! Darling, why the rush?" She asked, stepping right onto his path.

"Not now, Camille!" He said, making to push past her. She grabbed his wrist, pulling him round to look at her. God, she was stronger than he thought.

"Oh Magnus. Don't walk away from me like that. I have a question for that's very very important," She told him. Magnus sighed extravagantly.

"What is it?"

"Well... I was just wondering if you'd be going to the football match tonight? I'm cheerleading and it would be great if you could come and watch me." She purred. Magnus chewed his lip thoughtfully. He knew if he said no she wouldn't leave him alone the rest of the day.

"We'll see." He told her simply, shaking his arm out of her grip and walking away.

When he reached the music room, almost the whole class was already there. Just his luck. He looked around the room skeptically and, spotting his partner at long last, walked over. He sat down beside Alec, glitter falling around him.

"Ready?" Magnus asked, smiling at him. Alec looked at Magnus with wide eyes, his skin paler than usual. The poor child looked scared out of his mind.

"Remind me, why do you like doing this?" Alec replied simply, looking back down at the floor.

"It's fun,"

"No. No it is not fun at all. Oh god Magnus, I feel like I'm going to throw up." Alec replied quietly.

"Please, please don't throw up while we're performing." Magnus begged.

"I like how you don't care that I might need to visit the nurse and that you just care that you win." Alec replied frustratedly.

"That's the business," Magnus winked at him as the last couple of people milled in. Mr Starkweather leaned against the piano, looking at everyone.

"Okay, everyone. Settle down, settle down. Now, you are all performing with your partner today. I'm going to leave the order of performance to chance and draw names out of this hat." Mr Starkweather said, showing them a fedora filled with slips of paper. Magnus couldn't help but cringe. Mr Starkweather put his hand into the hat and pulled out one of the slips.

"Magnus. Alec. You're up first today," Mr Starkweather said, beaming in their direction. Magnus glanced at Alec who's skin was now tinged green. The butterflies in Magnus' stomach started flapping around faster and more annoyingly. This was not going to go well.

Magnus and Alec both stood up, walking toward the piano. Mr Starkweather grabbed a clipboard and pen before going to sit with the other students. Magnus sat down at the piano stool, Alec leaning against the body of the grand piano. Time to begin.

Magnus played the opening few notes without flaw, as expected. And then began the actual singing.

[Verse 1 Magnus]

I've seen the world

Done it all

Had my cake now

Diamonds, brilliant

And Bel Air now

Hot summer nights, mid July

When you and I were forever wild

The crazy days, city lights

The way you'd play with me like a child

Magnus sang the opening verse as practiced. In fact, he was probably singing better than he had in the practice sessions. He smiled as he did so, letting the music carry him.

[Chorus Alec and Magnus]

Will you still love me

When I'm no longer young and beautiful?

Will you still love me

When I got nothing but my aching soul?

I know you will, I know you will

I know that you will

Will you still love me when I'm no longer beautiful?

Somehow, Magnus and Alec made it through the chorus without falter. Their voices blended well together and balanced each other out. Alec began his verse, looking toward Magnus who couldn't help but notice how ill he looked.

[Verse 2 Alec]

I've seen the world, lit it up

As my stage now

Channeling angels in the new age now

Hot summer days, rock 'n' roll

The way you play for me at your show

And all the ways I got to know

Your pretty face-

And then Alec choked. And then he vomited. And just Magnus' luck, Alec was facing him so the projectile vomit splattered all over him. His hair, his brand new leather jacket and his favourite shirt. Ruined. He looked up at Alec who was looking right back at Magnus in fear.

"Oh my gosh- um- er. Sorry?" Alec asked quietly. Magnus closed his eyes as if trying to calm an inner anger that would surely end in suspension if released and stood up.

"I'm going to go clean myself up." He said, climbing off the stool and leaving the Music Room and it's students behind him looking dumbfounded.

Magnus made a stop at his locker on the way to the bathrooms. He pulled out his change of clothes and then proceeded. This was it. He wasn't going to ever get a solo in all his time at McKinley High. He was done for. He was forgotten. And who's fault was that? Alec fucking Lightwood's.

When Magnus was all cleaned up, he made his way back to the Music Room. He walked inside and did not sit down beside his partner (who wasn't even in the room) but instead with Catarina and Ragnor. He watched the few remaining performances, trying desperately hard not to plan the death of Alexander Lightwood.

Alec POV

All Alec wanted to do was to curl up in a ball and disappear. He'd just vomited all over his crush's clearly expensive jacket and t shirt, not to mention his said crush was very clearly not happy about. As soon as Magnus stormed out, Alec's cheeks went a deep shade of crimson and he was suddenly - and painfully - aware of the many eyes looking at him with mixed sympathy and disgust. All he had to do was sing a couple of lines but somehow he'd managed to fuck that up. The worst part about it wasn't the shame, surprisingly, but was actually the fact that Magnus was most likely not to forgive him any time soon. I mean, they were in their senior year and this was his last chance to get the solo he had wanted so desperately since he was a freshman and now there was absolutely no chance that he would be winning it, all because of Alec freaking Lightwood.

A sense of dread filled Alec as he scrambled out of the room, trying to pace his breathing and as he sprinted to the nearest bathrooms. He hurdled himself into a stall and locked the door before sinking into the toilet lid and trying to calm himself from the hysterics he was going into. It's fine. It was only the glee club who saw him and besides, he had bigger things to worry about than vomiting on a sparkly boy, right?

He sat there trying to convince himself that everything was fine for what seemed like hours until he heard a knock on the door of the stall. There had to be at least four others available. Then he heard the voice.

"Are you going to be in there forever? Other people use these things too you know." An amused voice called from outside the stall.

"J-Jace?" Alec stuttered out and unlocked the door to see his step brother standing there.

"Good work on your assignment bro, you really shocked us all with that one!" Jace said and laughed half heartedly. Alec glared at his feet, sure as hell that he was about as red as his sister's cheerleading outfit. He attempted to shrug dismissively.

"I bet it was just a result of Isabelle's attempt at cooking us pasta last night," He said quietly and moved past Jace to wash his hands at one of the filthy sinks. Alec looked at his reflection fleetingly and couldn't help but notice the dark circles under his eyes that made his skin look twice as pale and his cheeks twice as hollow. He turned back to Jace and sighed when he saw the concerned look in his eyes. "Jace, I am fine." He said more to himself than to his brother.

Alec began to walk towards the bathroom door, the period being almost over. He would just have to go back and get his books before he went to lunch and ran drills with his team, all of whom were unaware ofthe embarrassment their quarterback had just faced in the 'gay' club. Hopefully, they'd never ever find out.

Jace caught up with him as they sped down the school corridors, back to the classroom. Alec was dreading entering with every passing second. He stopped when he felt a hand touch his shoulder.

"Are you sure you're okay, bro?" Jace asked it with a sincere tone but Alec couldn't help but feel a pang of anger at the use of the word 'bro' again. He shrugged his hand away

"Just peachy," He said and continued to walk off towards the room, leaving Jace standing there, his eyebrows knotted together in confusion, "O-okay." He mumbled out before dejectedly following behind.

As Alec made his way into the classroom, he noticed how everyone was sitting on the edge of their seats in anticipation. Mr Starkweather was standing in front of the grand piano holding his clipboard. "Ah Alexander, pleased to see you've rejoined us." He said kindly as he gestured towards Alec's chair. He trudged towards it, feeling every pair of eyes in the room on him - except for one. Magnus was clearly trying as hard as possible to go out of his way not look Alec in the eye. He honestly didn't know why it bothered him so damned much but he supposed that he had just vomited all over him in font of his peers but still, even a glare would have been kinder than this.

Alec was pulled from his thoughts by the sound of the glee members hitting their chairs in anticipation throughout the room. He suddenly looked up the front to see Me Starkweather smirking. They were announcing the winners. The man raised a hand to gesture for the class to settle before looking at his scoresheet.

"I admit in the end it was a tough choice. Our your winners for 2015 are... Mike Chang and Jace Herondale-Lightwood!" He exclaimed as the class broke into polite applause.

Alec watched Jace and Mike share a high five before letting his eyes wandered back over to Magnus. He was pissed, beyond pissed. Catarina was whispering in his ear, no doubt attempting to calm him down. It was proving to be unsuccessful. Alec didn't know why he cared so much, Glee Club was just another excuse to get extra marks on his final report and something he got dragged into because Jace couldn't say no to his girlfriend, and yet there he sat feeling -Jealousy? Anger? - towards Mike and Jace for having stolen their opportunity to win. It was technically Alec's fault but they could've had a chance without those two.

Mr Starkweather smiled at all of the students.

"So you two boys had better start practising your choreography as you will be performing your chosen song - Sweater Weather, at regionals as our duo section. I'll see you all bright and early Monday morning. I also hope to see most of you tonight at the College's Annual Varsity football game where our team will be playing the Kentucky High Nuggets! I also believe we have three players of our own in this class-" he shot Alec and Jace and Mike looks before continuing. "So, it would be splendid for you all to go and support them." He finished just as the bell rang. Everyone seemed suddenly eager to leave the class that still faintly smelled of vomit and sweat. Magnus disappeared before Alec got a chance to say anything and soon enough he was wrapped in the familiar thong of people that caused the lunch time traffic build up. He let out a sigh and silently prayed that with all this bad luck he was blessed tonight and won the game, that was all he needed.

Alec made his way to the locker rooms after the hallways had been cleared out. He quickly changed into his training gear, just as he was pulling on his jersey, he caught a glimpse of blackish brown hair from the corner of his eye and glanced up, standing in front of him was none other than Mike Chang himself. He honestly looked quite tentative and Alec couldn't blame him - he probably thought he would vomit on him too. Alec sighed

"Hey Mike, what's up?" He asked him and sat his boots down on the bench beside him. Mike seemed to begin to say something and then change his mind suddenly.

"Magnus looked really pissed today." He began with, Alec raised his eyebrows.

"Yes, I honestly don't blame him though," He said as he untied the laces of the mud caked, black and white boots. Mike laughed slightly.

"Look, I just wanted to say that I know that what happened today was really embarrassing for you, I mean heck - I got second hand embarrassment from it myself-"

Alec cut him off with a dry, "Thanks Mike." The shorter boy sighed and ran a hand through his hair.

"Okay, sorry, what I am trying to get at is you're extremely talented. Don't let this one incident turn you off performing." Alec rolled his eyes as he slipped on his shoes.

" I was never really into performing anyway. I'm only in the club to support my brother." He said the words with slightly more venom then intended.

"Well, now that you're here you should stay, you should also try to make it up to Magnus, he's not one to forgive easily." he said and smiled slightly up at Alec. He also grimaced as well, as remembering how he had maybe once wronged Magnus. The raven haired boy merely nodded back. "Thanks, Mike." He said as he finished tying up the worn shoes. He left the lockers and made his way towards the field, a million thoughts on his mind all at once. But only one thing kept jumping out at him. 'You should try to make it up to Magnus, he doesn't forgive easily.'

Alec needed a plan. Fast.