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Chapter 9: Does this have to end?

"Will you please stop laughing at me!?"

"You forgot your shoes? How does someone do that?"

"I told you it was Ragnor's fault!"

Seeing the look of exasperation on Magnus' face made Alec make himself stop laughing and take the other guys hand.

"I'm sorry, it's just you looked completely adorable, you normally look amazing, not that you didn't" he added quickly, "and well put together, and there you were stood in front of me with no shoes or coat on."

Alec soon realised that Magnus wasn't listening to him but was just smiling up at him

"What are you smiling at?" Alec asked, smiling just as wide himself.

"Us. This. Walking to Hogsmeade with you holding your hand. It's perfect and I don't want it to end."

Alec all of a sudden stopped walking grabbed Magnus' waist and pulled him in for a kiss, it was perfect. Neither of them seemed to care about the gawping students walking past them. The students knew that Magnus was Bi, his love life seemed to be what fuelled the schools need for gossip, but no one had known, or even guessed, that the one and only Alec Lightwood was his new beau.

Once Alec released Magnus they just stood there, foreheads touching and breathing deaply. Once they had both caught their breath they continued walking, both grinning like Cheshire cats and neither noticing, or caring about, the stares of the other students.

The rest of the trip to Hogsmeade was like any other date students have there. It started with lunch at Madam Puddifoot's Tea Shop, where they were surrounded by other couples from the school, all two absorbed in there prospective partners to even bat an eyelid and the new number one piece of gossip at the school.

The next stage in the date was to take a wallk to the shrieking shack. This was more for the time that it takes to reach the shack and to walk back than it was to actually see the shack itself. The walk was an opportunity for them to get away from other people and for them to be alone. They walked it all hand in hand getting to know each other, what they liked, disliked, Magnus' various names for the teachers at the school, Alec's life as the starring Gryffindor Quidditch player, the terrifyingness that was Izzy.

After the walk they ended up in the The Three Broomsticks for a butterbeer before they headed back to school, it was here that they were given the news about their new status of "cutest new couple."

It was Izzy who broke this news to them, they'd sat at the corner table in the pub when she plonked herself down on one of the spare seats.

"You will not believe whats happened!"

Alec quickly moved his hand from where it had been resting on Magnus' thigh, to which Magnus gave a short laugh.

"What mystical thing has happened Iz that means you had to come and tell us about it now?"

"You're the main gossip around school! Did you really kiss Magnus on your way here! Aline said it was very romantic and like something from a book! Half the school thinks its genuine between you two and the other half think it is a publicity stunt, but who would do a publicity stunt for school? Its ridiculous…!"

Both Magnus and Alec just sat there staring at her as she carried on her ramble both in disbelief, and wondering when Izzy was going to breathe, they'd both forgotten about what they must have looked like from the outside, the flamboyant Ravenclaw and the cold closed off Gryffindor.

"…A lot of guys and girls seem heartbroken to have missed their chances with either of you. A lot of people are also talking about how cute Alecs smile is." And she was done.

*blink*

*blink*

*blink*

*blink*

"Alec? Magnus?"

*blink*

*blink*

"You done with this big brother?"

Izzy took the remainder of Alec's butter beer and drank till the two bemused guys started to function again.

"Where the main piece of gossip?" Alec couldn't believe it, he was never gossip, and he never even listened to gossip. "Why?"

"Because were unexpected, people like the unexpected."

Alec turned to Magnus who was grinning at him. "You're okay with this?"

"There's no point not being, it's out in the open now."

Alec gave a small sigh, Magnus was right, it's not like he could deny it if anyone asked him about it.

They walked back to Hogwarts as a trio, they invented a game were they counted how many people they saw staring at them.

"There's one"

"Do I get extra for every time they blink?"

"That guy walked into a tree staring that has to count for an extra two points."

"Only if I get extra for that guy who walked into the person in front of him."

"It's only fair"

"I WIN!"

"Why do you win?"

"That person just walked in to the lake."

All three of them were still laughing as they walked up to the castle. Magnus walked with them all the way to the fat lady portrait, which Izzy took as her cue to leave.

"This has been a very fun day, thank you" Alec pulled Magnus in for a hug that he hoped wouldn't end.

"Why are you thanking me Alexander?"

"Because you've made my life a lot more exciting."

Magnus pulled back from the hug and looked at the guy in front on him, he should be the one thanking him, so he did, the way he knew would get the message across. He reached towards Alec and placed his lips on the other guys and it felt like it always did, like he was where he was mean to be.

It was gentle at first but then he felt Alec's hands reach under his coat and around his waist pulling him in and making the kiss more intense. His own hands reach for Alec's waist to steady himself. Alec was the one to pull away first his eyes wide and breath unsteady. He grabbed Magnus hand and started to walk, only stopping when he found an empty side corridor he then gently pushed Magnus against the wall and kissed him again, with as much intensity as the last all the time pushing his waist into Magnus' keeping him against the wall.

Neither of them knew how long they were there for it felt both like hours and also seconds. But neither of them wanted it to end, but they knew it had to. They eventually, and reluctantly, walked away from each other and to their own towers both still feeling the other on their lips.

Alec was smiling when he made his way up to his room. Passing Izzy and her sly comment of "you've been a while."

His smile dropped when he saw what was on his bed…..

…a howler.

Gossip travels fast.

Sorry for the ending

Hope you enjoyed it, I tried to make it a bit longer than the last couple of chapters

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Love BobIII xxx