Alec POV
Today was the day of the date and I was freaking out. Half the clothes in my closet was laying on the floor, with a array of colours ranging from black to gray. For the first time I was regretting my choice to not buy anything colourful. I sighed and decided to give in.
"Izzy!" I yelled from across my room. She came rushing into my room only a few seconds later.
"What? Is everything o–my god Alec! What is this mess!"
"I have my date with Magnus today and I can find anything I like. Would you help me pick?" I pleaded.
"I thought this day would never come. Of course I'd help you pick! It'd be my pleasure."
For some reason, I got chills. I decided to ignore it for now and watch Izzy go through my clothes.
Half an hour later I was regretting my choice. We had gone through 5 outfits and she was still going through my clothes.
"Can you just pick something? I don't care at this point because I'm going to be late."
"Patience Alexander. Don't rush magic." She replied while holding 2 grey shirts and comparing them. In the end she decided on a black dress shirt with a silver rose on the right breast pocket. The rose had vines coming out of it and a few dead leaves fanning around it. For pant, she gave me my usual black skinny jeans.
I came out of my bathroom after putting the clothes on. "Well, how do I look?" I asked.
"Fantastic! Magnus will love it."
I blushed at the comment and grabbed my winter jacket. It was pretty cold outside and I didn't want to get sick. Magnus said that he would come pick me up so I played a game on my phone to forget my nerves.
I heard a knock on the door and almost dropped my phone is surprise. I brushed my shirt off and checked if I looked okay before I opened the door.
"Hi, Magnus."
"Wow...you look amazing!" Magus said, gapping. I blushed in response.
"You look great too." I said, and it was true. He was wearing a dark blue shirt and a black suit with a silver outline. It matched his–newly dyed–silver hair. I realized that I had been staring for a while so I looked away.
"So, you ready to go?" He asked.
"Yup." I realized that I had never asked where we were going so I decided to do that now. "You never told me where we were going."
"All in good time Alexander." He responded mysteriously.
Magnus had decided to bring his car this time because he wanted us to have a normal mundane date. Which meant no portals.
I got into his car and he started to drive. It was a long ride, filled with awkward silence except for the old 90s music that neither of us were listening to.
When we finally reached our destination, I had no idea where we were. I got out of the car and saw a huge building in front of us.
"Come on, Alexander!" Magnus said with a smile. He grabbed my hand and guided me inside the building. It was beautiful, a large chandelier hung from the ceiling and the room was decorated to look elegant yet modern. I looked in awe and immediately felt underdressed.
"Who is the reservation under?" One of the attendants at the front desk asked.
"Magnus Bane."
"Follow me sir." He said, building us to the elevator and taking us to the 14th floor.
Once we got out, I was in awe once again. The wall parallel to the elevator was entirely made out of glass so I could see the entire city. Everything looked small and the lights from the building under us along with the passing cars made the scene look stunning.
But what caught my attention the most was the table in front of me. The room was lit by candles to give it a homey feel. I looked back at Magnus and noticed that the attendant had already left.
"Well, don't just stand there. Have a seat." Magnus teased, as he walked across the room and pulled a chair back for me to sit in. I blushed–I seemed to be doing a lot of that today–and took the seat. He walked around the table and sat across from me. I looked down at the menu and soon after, a waiter came to our table.
"What would you be having today?"
I looked down at the menu. Half of the dishes were in another language. Magnus saved me from trying to find a dish by choosing for me.
"I hope you don't mind Alexander, but we would like the Coq au Vin along with some red Burgundy wine. It's my favourite when I come here." He said, directing the last part at me.
I nodded my head to show that it was fine and the waiter left soon after.
Since it was probably going to take some time before our food was cooked, we decided to spend the time getting to know each other.
"Have you ever been on a date before." Magnus asked, curious.
"No, this is my first. Why? Is it that obvious?" I asked, nervously biting my lip.
"Ha, no not at all. I was just curious."
"What about you? How many different people have you dated?" I asked, turning the tables on him.
"Oh, let's not get into that." He said, trying to change the topic.
"20?" I guessed.
He looked at me with a blank face.
"40?"
"Well you see Alexander, I've lived quite a long life."
"60?!" I asked, my eyes bulging. I mean, even if he was a few hundred years old, 60 was a large amount.
"Oh, would you look at that! Our food has arrived. " Magnus exclaimed, momentarily making me forget our topic. They put the food on our table and poured us a glass of wine. It looked delicious. I cut into the chicken to have a bite and almost moaned. It was just as delicious as it looked!
Magnus chuckled. "I see your enjoying the food." Before I could responded, the sound of glass shattering pulled my attention away. I looked on in disbelief. There was a horde of demons coming into the room from the elevator.
Somehow they had managed to knock over a huge display of glassware. I stood on guard, feeling bare without any of my weapons to defend myself with. Hand to hand combat wasn't my specialty but I could still hold my own.
Everyone was at a standstill, until finally, one of the demons hissed at the rest and they started to come towards us.
Magnus seemed to snap into action and started to fire spell after spell, holding most of them off. Whenever they managed to get too close, I used a table knife to fight them off. Somehow we were able to to hold them all off. I looked at the mess we had made. Glass was everywhere and blood was staining the majority of the floor.
Magnus waved his hands and everything when back to the way it was before we had arrived.
"At least this is a date you won't soon forget." Magnus joked.
I laughed, but then winched. One of the demons had managed to graze me in the ribs.
"Are you okay?" He asked with a frown.
"I'm fine." I replied, hoping he would drop it. But it was all for nothing since he found out about the cut as proceeded to heal me.
"I think I should take you home now. You look really tired."
I tried to hide my disappointment as I nodded. It seemed that our date was ruined and it probably wasn't likely that I would get another chance with a great guy like Magnus.
The ride home was somehow more awkward than the ride there.
When we reached my building he walked me up to our apartment. "So, I guess this is it." I said, trying to stretch our time together as long as possible.
"Yeah, I guess it is."
We stood there staring at the other, not moving. It seemed as neither of us wanted to leave.
"Alexander, I would like to take you on another date. I know this one didn't go as planned but I would love to continue seeing you, if your okay with that." He said nervously.
I was shocked. Did he actually still want to go on another date with me after our disaster of a date? I smiled wide and replied with a yes.
"Great!" He said, smiling like he had just won the lottery.
"Great." I echoed back. We stood there again, not saying anything. I didn't want to go inside, and Magnus didn't seem to want to leave either.
He took a step towards me and I finally noticed how close we were. He was less than a few inches away from me. Our eyes locked and then his wandered down to look at my lips. My heart started to race. He slowly leaned in closer and closer until our lips met. It felt like I was struck by lightning. It was a soft and fleeting kiss. A peck, really. I had never felt like that before. It was like there was a million butterflies in my stomach at once, wrecking havoc. But it was also as if the sun had come out early, just for us. We stood a little while longer before he turned around and gave me a wave.
"See you later." He said with a soft smile before he left.
"Bye." I replied. I stood by the door, processing what had just happened before I opened the door and saw Izzy standing by the doorway.
"Welllll, how'd it go?" She asked, with a mischievous smile on her face. I started to tell her exactly what I had been through today. From the dinner to the demon attack and to our possible second date. And if I accidentally forgot to tell her about our kiss? Well that was fine, it wasn't liked she needed to know every detail anyways.
Authors' Note-
I am so sorry! I don't think I did Malec justice. I hope you guys understand. Thanks for reading and feel free to leave a comment. We look forward to any constructive criticism.
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