chap 7 :D RIght now I should be showering but screw it I feel like writing.

Bookworm-lolz :P I didn't write another chap yesterday I was running errands with my mom pretty much all day lol more now...(:

Aleksander-Nikolaevich-Her- Thanks (: I was trying to pick music that wasn't like...to heavy or to light, not like radio music either...lol. And ah man that sucks about no Hot Topic DX I love Hot Topic :P

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Hiding Dani-I feel bad for Magnus too but like...I know where this chapter is going now so I feel better :P lol. And yes everyone always said Alec liked sweaters and I was looking at the Hot Topic website for ideas cuz I'm weird like that and I was like sweaterrr! lol. I will look those songs up sooon (:

Alec PoV

I couldn't hear Isabelle talking, so it was a complete, mortifying suprise when I walked out of the dressing room and her and Magnus were standing there discussing which hair colors looked best in black hair.

I felt ot embarrased. Mundies seeing me like this didn't really bother me-why should it? I didn't know them- but Magnus? By the smirk plastered on Izzy's face I guessed she'd done this on purpose...of course. Angel! How much did she know? About us, about that night..?

I bit my lip, wishing to go back in the dressing room and rip off the sweater, skin tight shirt, skinny jeans, and ring.

Actually, I liked the ring.

Magnus didn't even try to hide the fact that he was looking at me, mouth quirking up at the corners. My cheeks felt like...I don't know. But they were burning, red hot. It had to look funny against the rest of my pale skin and black clothes. The thought made the blush spread to my neck. I wonder if its possible to choke on blush? Can you die of embarrasment?

"Hey." Magnus murmered in my ear.

"Hi," I replied in a monotone.

Why was Magnus's presence doing this to me? Jeez! I'm just going ot ignore him and pretend he's not here.

"Like it, Izzy?" I implored, smiling and holding up my finger, "I like this ring."

"Do you like the rest of it, though?"

"Not really. it's too tight."

She looked exasperated as she replied, "It's supposed to be tight, stupid. It looks good on you."

I really don't think I could've blushed anymore, as Magnus nodded with her. Ignore him, Alec... "It doesn't feel good though."

"You'll get used to it. Go take them off and bring them out, okay? They look good on you. We've been out for hours and you barly have anything."

I rolled my eyes but did as I was told, walking back into the dressing room and stripping down. I stood it front of the mirror in only a tight tshirt and jeans. Izzy was right...I did look good. Not in a concieted way, just...I didn't usually wear clothes like that. And I liked how they looked on me. It didn't seem me, somehow, but Izzy was going to buy them, regardless, so I might as well go along with it.

Right?

And the way Magnus had looked at me...mm. It made me squirm, now that I was alone and able to let my facade go for a moment. He thought I'd looked good, too. Angel, why did that made me so uncomfortable?

Magnus PoV

Alec had looked good. He always did, always looked adorable and innocent, especially when he blushed- I loved that. But in tight denim and a tight sweater? Yum.

But he'd completly ignored me, I couldn't help but notice. And it wasn't in his usual shy manner- he was ignoring me, like not looking at me, paying all his attention to Izzy..why? Did I make him uncomfortable? Was he ashamed? What was it?

Two can play at that game- I can make Alec jealous. I can flirt.

The other boy, Jayden, laughed. He had a giggly, somewhat annoying laugh, but he was surving my purpose well. Alec was glowering by Izzy on the otherside of the table-we were in the food court. Which, at this mall, is a huge open space circle with food place semi-surrounding it, escalators on one end and an opening of other store at the other. I was flipped around my my chair, straddling the back part, and Alec and Izzy were eating French Fries. I'd heard Alec mumble that they were even grosser then Izzy's cooking, but I don't think she noticed. Alec, I was starting to think, was not a fan of greasy fast food.

Anyway Jayden was sitting behind me and I started to mess with him, talk to him, give him compliments. He was gay- I've had 800 years to fine-tune my gaydar. It's exceptional.

"I love your smile...it's one of the nice things you can do with your lips." I waggled an eyebrow and he turned red, giggling unsurely.

He wasn't as red as Alec, though, or as pale. He was tanner, by a fair bit, dressed in blue stone-washed jeans and a paramore t-shirt. The puzzle piece heart one (A/N That shirt exists look it up). His face was different, too, his nose bigger then Alec's, lips plumper.

And his eyes weren't blue, they were green.

Why was I comparing him to Alec? Why? He was just a mundie boy, anyway- it didn't matter if he was really attractive, as long as he was slightly..that would make Alec more jealous.

I was such a bitch. Such. A. Bitch.

Oh, well. Alec brought it upon himself.

"Can me go soon? My feet hurt." asked Alec, looking annoyed. Izzy looked conflicted. "Magnus is our ride home, so..."

"We can go. That's cool."

"Can I drive?" Izzy asked as she threw away our garbage and ran up to me and Alec, setting herself in the 4 foot space between us.

"Do you know how to drive?"

"Sort of." she replied, looking sheepish. I sort of felt bad-most 16-year-old mundies knew how to drive.

I rolled my eyes, "You're lucky I'm a warlock or 'sort of' wouldn't be enough."

She lit up, eyes bright, a bounce suddenly in her step.

We walked out to the car and I commented, "It's like one of us died, we're so quiet."

Alec glared at me, saying nothing, and got into the back of my car. Should I sit with him, or Izzy? Him. I don't think I could manage to sit in the front- I'd started to crave his presence like a drug. Just the mere mention of his name was enough to completly distract me from whatever I was doing.

Izzy wasn't to bad of a driver for never having driver's ed, but she wasn't good, either. She swerved a lot, and it took all of my self-control not to help her sometimes. She needed to learn to drive on her own, without magic.

We pulled up at the Institute. Silence.

"Well...bye Magnus. Thanks for the ride...that was fun. Is the trunk open?"

I snapped my fingers, "It is now."

Alec squirmed and unbuckled. I'd never been nuckled, so there was no buckling to do- I had magic. I suppose he didn't trust his sister's driving.

"Bye Magnus." he sounded stiff, mad, even, voice infused with jealously.

So it was a total surprise when he leaned over and touched his lips to mine. I was caught off guard, I felt my breath hitch as he pressed his body into mine for the slightest second.

And then his body was ripped away from mine, and I was getting out of the car, going to the front seat, saying good bye, and driving home. It was all a blur, generalized and unfocused. He kissed me. Why? To mark himself as mine? Then why didn't he do anything at the mall? To tease me? No, Alec didn't seem the type to be a tease at all. What the hell? I couldn't stop thinking about it.

DISCLAIMER: I own nothing but the plot & Jayden. BTW-I have a giggly, obnoxious laugh :P lol. There's a your kiss...very chaste but there's more coming...I woke up and was attacked buy plot bunnies(credit to Bookworm24601 for saying that saying lol :P) again (: lol