Hey guys :) So this is my last update of the year. I've got quite a lengthy A/N below, but in case you guys don't want to read my droning on and on, then I want to wish you guys a safe and a happy holidays and I will be back next year xxx
Also, I have posted several new stories, including a werewolf one called Put Your Heart On Mine, and a biker one, Wrong Side Of A Parallel Universe. I definitely have my favourite AU's. Haha. So check those out :)
Clary's actual birthday was on a Monday, but the celebration was on a Saturday. Clary had thought that they were going to go out for brunch and then maybe out for drinks at a club—maybe even the beach, since it had been so long since they had been. It turned out that her friends had other plans, though. So Kaelie came over, with a brand new dress that Magnus had apparently put together just for her. It was gorgeous—and tiny—a silver slip of a thing with purple designs and a deep v neck that showed pretty much her whole chest, and an even deeper back. Kaelie had given her a kiss on the cheek and then disappeared, and that was when Simon had pounced on her, putting both hands firmly over her eyes.
"What the fuck is going on?" Clary shouted, trying to keep back her giggles as Simon pushed her forward gently.
"You need to step up," Simon told her.
"Now?" Clary questioned, stopping short and lifting up her leg. Simon obviously hadn't been expecting her to stop so quickly, because he bumped into her and started laughing, and even though she couldn't see, Clary could hear Lydia laughing somewhere behind them.
"Nope, just a little bit further," Simon prompted. Clary shuffled her feet along the ground, not wanting to hit into something. "Now," he told her, and Clary stopped again, lifting up her foot. She found the edge of something and lost her footing, but there were arms around her waist, steadying her. "Duck your head—duck!"
"Ow!" Clary winced, instinctively trying to pull away from Simon's hands to try and figure out what it was she had bumped her head on.
"She can probably look now, it's not like she's really going to see anything," Raphael piped up.
"And you've probably fucked up her make up," Lydia commented, not sounding particularly happy.
"You guys...Hired me a town car? How...Sweet?" Clary looked around from where she was now sitting in the backseat. "Uh, you realize we're just in the street down from our apartment? You literally just had me blinded to come down the elevator and get in a car?"
"Well, Magnus said to blind fold you!" Simon protested as he got into the car as well. Raphael slid in on the other side of Clary and Lydia got in the front seat.
"So Magnus is involved in all of this as well?" Clary lifted an eyebrow and Raphael reached over to slap Simon upside the head with a huff.
"Ow," Simon tried to reach in front of Clary to slap Raphael back, and Clary rolled her eyes as she held up her arms, attempting to create a wall between them, to stop them from fighting.
"Seriously, no one would think that you're adults," she muttered. "Anyway, now that you have successfully smuggled me into the car, can you tell me where we're headed?" Simon looked as though he was about to respond, but this time it was Lydia who turned around in the front seat and shot him a glare. He intelligently decided to close his mouth and looked out the window, while Raphael smirked at Clary, slipping an arm around her shoulders and giving her a quick side hug.
It took twenty minutes to get to their destination and when they pulled up and Simon opened his door, Clary let out a snort as she slid across the back seat and looked up.
"So all of this mystery was to take me to Magnus'?" Clary lifted an eyebrow.
"Well, kind of," Simon added with a shrug. Lydia linked her fingers together with Clary's and lead the way into the apartment building. Magnus' apartment was a lot nicer than where the students lived, and it was bigger, given how well his clothing boutique did. They took the steps up the outside of the building to the second floor and as they walked along the concrete landing. As they got closer to the end, Clary could hear music playing faintly, and there were three people outside, all of them smoking. When they got closer still, Clary recognized two of them as Magnus' friends, and one of them was Sebastian Verlac.
"Hey, girl," Sebastian gave her a smile as he pulled the cigarette out of his mouth and stubbed it out in the ash tray on the wooden hand railing. "Happy birthday," he leaned forward and gave her a kiss on the cheek and a hug.
"Thanks," Clary smiled, returning the squeeze with her arm around his waist. Raphael opened the door and the music became a whole lot louder, and she realized that Magnus' apartment was completely filled with people.
"Surprise, biscuit!" Magnus cried as he came to the door, a mojito in his hand and his other one reaching out to grasp Clary's. His nails were painted dark with some sort of gold jewel pressed into the thumb nail, and he spun Clary around in a circle, making her red hair flair out, before tugging her into his side. "I know you wanted something low key with friends, but you can do that any time you want! This is your birthday!" Clary shook her head with a laugh as she looked around.
There were people from some of her classes, Lydia's roommates minus Shanae—who was currently on the outs with the other girls since she had been caught screwing one of the other girls ex-boyfriends. There were some of Magnus' friends who had become her friends in the time she had known the Indonesian man, and there were some of their other university friends. Unfortunately, there was also Maureen, who almost instantly attached herself to Simon's side, like a limpet.
"Hey, babe!" Helen Blackthorn cried out, coming over with her girlfriend in tow, a gorgeous dark haired girl who was an exchange student at their university from Beijing. Helen was in one of Clary's art history classes, although she was getting a degree in photography rather than painting. "Shit, you look good—"
"I have the best taste when it comes to clothes," Magnus bragged and reached forward to give Clary a firm kiss on the mouth which tasted strongly of tequila, so she was guessing that he had been drinking for some time. "You know that gorgeous hunk of a man I brought home a few weeks ago?"
"Alexander?" Clary asked with a lift of her eyebrow. "Yeah, I remember you screaming his name several thousand times that night we were here." Magnus grinned, not looking abashed at all.
"Yes, well, if you're looking for an apology, there won't be any here," Magnus sung out. "Anyway, he's coming tonight. I think that I might just have to investigate that whole specimen further."
"Ooh, has Mags got a crush?" Clary teased and Magnus just fluttered his eyelashes.
"Maybe," he shrugged a shoulder. "Anyway, we need to get you a drink, babe! It's your birthday! If you don't need to be carried out of here, then you haven't celebrated it right!" Kaelie came over to her, given her a kiss on the temple and handing her a drink. Clary looked down at the blue concoction with a questioning look, but Magnus just put his finger underneath the cup and tapped it a few times, indicating that she should drink up.
Kaelie and Lydia barely left her side the whole evening, which was great. It felt good to drink with the girls, dancing with them in the lounge of Magnus' home, where he had pushed the couches and the coffee table towards the walls to make room for everyone. Kaelie kept on bringing blue drinks for Lydia and Clary to drink, and as the girls got more and more drunk, it seemed a lot less potent than it initially had been, a sure sign of how drunk they were getting.
Maureen was still attached to Simon, and unfortunately, her best friend looked rather miserable. But he had made his bed, so he had to lie in it, and while usually she would try to save him from her clutches, tonight was her birthday, and she was going to have fun. At one point, her and Lydia were in the bathroom together, attempting to fix up their make up, and they fell into the bath, giggling and making out. There were a lot of times when they were drinking together that the pair of them ended up kissing, and Clary didn't mind at all, given how soft Lydia's lips were. That lead to a slurred heart-to-heart where Lydia said if she didn't love penis so much, she would consider going steady with Clary. Clary had responded that that was the sweetest thing that anyone had ever said to her, but she was exactly the same. She wouldn't be able to be committed to Lydia in the way that she deserved, because she too needed penis in her life as well.
Alexander—or Alec, has he preferred to go by—showed up an hour or so before midnight, and then both he and Magnus disappeared after just a couple of drinks and a game of beer pong. Clary liked what she had seen of the guy so far; while it didn't seem as though he talked all that much, and he didn't seem to smile much either, but he had kind eyes.
Kaelie and Clary listened at their door for a while, laughing as Magnus got vocal once more, really not caring that his apartment was filled with people.
Clary had no idea what time she left, but she knew that she left with Sebastian. She had lost track of Kaelie, and Lydia was making out with some gorgeous dark skinned man. Sebastian called them a taxi, and they went back to his place, where he lived with another two guys. The apartment was quiet, however, so his flat mates must be out, which was good, because Clary was too drunk to care about keeping her voice down.
"Shit!" Clary squeaked as Sebastian picked her up, her dress hiking up her thighs and her hair bouncing around her shoulders. She let out a laugh as Sebastian stumbled slightly, with the sudden shift in weight and also from the alcohol impeding his judgement, and Sebastian laughed as well before he managed to get them over to wall, pressing her up against it and then bringing their lips together.
"You're so fucking hot," Sebastian growled as they kissed. It was sloppy and Clary wasn't particularly keen on the taste of beer that was on his tongue, but she ignored it, because she was horny. She and Sebastian had slept together quite a few times over the past year and a half that she had known him, and while the sex wasn't mind blowing, it was still good. He pulled off her dress, throwing it onto the ground. If Clary was a little more sober, she would try to be more careful with the dress, given Magnus had only just made it, but in her state, she didn't even pay attention to where it was thrown.
In the end, it turned out they didn't even end up having sex.
"Shit," Clary sighed as Sebastian put her on the ground and spun her around, so that she was facing the wall and her hands were braced against it. She felt his fingers fumble between her legs until they finally slid inside her. It wasn't the best angle, but it was enough to get her off, as she stuck her ass out and spread her legs further apart. She'd only come once, and barely that, when Sebastian was grunting behind her, and she could feel him jerking off behind her, before coming over her lower back and her ass.
They fell into her bed, not bothering to clean up before they fell asleep.
So usually this is the point where I tell you guys some movies and songs that I'm super into. Since this is my last post, I had some other things I wanted to say. But I did see the new Halloween movie, and The House With A Clock In Its Walls and Venom, and they were all good, although Venom was a bit of a let down. Also, anyone else a GallaVich supporter? I stopped watching Shameless a few seasons ago, when it started spiraling, but holy shit, tumblr when crazy with the reunion, and that totally made my day. It was amaaaazing. These two boys deserve each other, and I'm so glad they got a very...fitting send off :)
Right, well...
This year has been hard. I feel this year has been bad for everyone. There have been the numerous mass shootings, it feels as though there is just one natural disaster after another and there is the continual, completely legitimate distrust of authorities who are meant to be the ones protecting us. There are so many things that I could write in here and specifically comment on, but I don't want to make this a political statement, just a statement that wherever we are in the world, we are all struggling. There are so many people struggling at the moment, but today, my heart goes out to the people of Brazil, all people in the Jewish community and to the beautiful LGBTQA members of the world, especially the transgender community, and specifically those in America.
There have been good things as well, though! The rescue of the boys in Thailand, the proud, unapologetic statement that Colin Kaepernick's Nike campaign made, the decriminalization of homosexuality in India, the incredible organisation and unity in the March For Our Lives and the utter love and support shown by so many people in this world toward one another. This was just demonstrated yet again in the past few days with the non profit Muslim organisations who set up the online funding for those in the Jewish community affected by this one of the most recent horrific attacks.
This year has also been hard for myself personally, as I'm sure some of you are aware from my posts. My mental health is probably the worst it's ever been, I'm dealing with some relationship issues with my husband, I lost the friendship of someone that I considered very close after a betrayal that left me spinning and over the past few months, it's been the one year anniversary of the deaths of three people, who all died within a month of each other. I consider myself pretty open with you guys about my problems, and a big reason for that is because I know how lonely this huge world can feel sometimes. I just hope that with me putting myself out there, if you guys are dealing with something similar, then hopefully you know you're not alone. While I don't always have the best words, if any of you ever want to PM me just to get things off your chest, I'm here. I don't always know what to say, but sometimes just putting your problems into words can help, and I am more than happy to be that person for any of you xx
Alright.
Well.
That was all very intense, but I felt it was necessary. I'm sorry if it felt as though I was crossing a line with any of it, but that's why I said at the top that if you didn't want to read all of this, just read by first authors note!
Anyway.
I hope every single one of you has a safe and incredible and happy holidays with the people you love the most, and I will be back next year, probably early February. Here's to a better next year xx