After a long and boring car journey from the airport, we finally arrived at the hotel.
As I walked through the huge front doors, with Simon on one side of me and Jace on the other, I looked around, taking in the stunning building. I spun around, admiring the marble and gold interior and the high-ceiling that had palm trees and other beach-related things painted on it.
"Woah!" I remarked as Jace chuckled at me. "I know right? This is the biggest one of their hotels," Alec informed us. "It's amazing," Magnus and I said simultaneously. We turned to each other and laughed - I could tell we were going to be great friends.
Maryse and Robert had wandered off to see to our rooms so we all stood together in the lobby talking about our plans for the holiday. "I'm going to swim in the sea!" Max told us all excitedly. "That sounds amazing! Can I come with you?" I asked, ruffling the nine-year-old boy's hair. "Of course! You all can!" he said, turning around to look at everybody. They all smiled at him and said they would.
"Well, I don't know about you guys, but I'm getting a tan," Isabelle told us, examining her skin. Isabelle tanned so easily, she could be out in the sun for five minutes and come back in bronze. I, however, burned very easily as I had such a pale complexion and had to slather myself in sun cream anytime there was the tiniest hint of sunshine.
"You do that, Isabelle. I'll be under my umbrella in my SPF 50, pale as a ghost," I said. Jace laughed and wrapped his arm around my shoulder. "Sorry, Clare. I'm with Izzy here," he said, almost apologetically. "Oh shut up! You're already tan!" I snapped jokingly, waving my hand at his golden skin.
"I don't need to tan," Magnus said, gesturing at his olive skin tone. Before I could reply, Maryse came over and Jace dropped his arm from my shoulder. I pouted and then quickly turned it around.
"Okay, guys, I got your keys." Maryse said when she reached us. "Izzy and Clary will be on the second floor and the rest of you on the third floor," she said smiling. Isabelle rolled her eyes and then took her key from her mom. I was surprised to find that I was getting my own room, I guess I'd figured I'd be sharing with Izzy.
I took the key from Maryse and waited while everybody else got theirs. Maryse very deliberately placed Magnus' key in his hand as if to highlight that he wasn't to share with Alec. I doubted that would stop him.
Once everybody had their keys, we all made our way into the elevator, leaving Max behind with Maryse. Izzy and I got out at the second floor and wished everybody goodnight. Jace gave me a kiss on the cheek and Simon did the same to Isabelle, then they watched us leave before the doors closed behind us.
Fortunately, our rooms were pretty close to the elevator and were inter-connecting so we could open a door and walk straight through into the other person's room.
I went into Isabelle's room for a bit where we sat and watched television, waiting for our luggage. When it finally arrived, I gave Izzy a hug before going back into my own room, quickly changing, brushing my teeth, and falling on the bed exhausted.
The next morning, I woke up to the sound of someone knocking on wood. "Clary?" Isabelle half-yelled. It may be her father's hotel but I'm sure she could still get in trouble for shouting at...I rolled over to look at the alarm clock on the night stand: 10:17am. That's actually very reasonable, I thought to myself before climbing out of bed and opening my door to let Isabelle in.
"Finally!" she said, walking over to my unmade bed and plopping down on it. "What do you want Iz?" I asked, rubbing my eyes and closing the door she'd came through.
"Get changed. We're going to breakfast and then heading down to the pool," she told me, standing up and beginning to open my suitcase on the floor. I couldn't be bothered to unpack last night.
"Which of the bikinis do you want?" Izzy asked me, rifling through my luggage. Before we came on holiday, Isabelle made me go shopping with her and chose a couple outfits for me to bring, including a couple bikinis.
"Um I don't know, the pink one, I guess," I shrugged my shoulders. "Perfect!" Isabelle said, pulling it out. "Jace will love it!"
I felt a blush growing on my cheeks and a smile forming on my face. "Are they meeting us for breakfast?" I asked. "No, they're already at the pool so you better hurry up!" Izzy said, throwing the bikini at me.
"Fine, fine, I'm going!" I walked into my bathroom and shut the door. I washed my face, brushed my teeth, put sun-cream and the dusty-pink bikini on and pulled my hair up into a bun on the top of my head.
I opened the door and walked out as Isabelle squealed. "You look amazing!" she told me and handed me a sundress and flip-flops, in the same colour as the bikini, to put on.
I grabbed the beach-bag Isabelle had packed for me and together we left the room.
After an amazing breakfast, Isabelle and I made our way down to the pool. As we stepped through the doors, I instantly noticed Jace's golden head bobbing above the surface of the water.
The sunlight was reflecting off the water, making it glisten. Sun-beds and chairs were scattered all around, some in the sunshine, some under umbrellas. The pool was quite quiet, with maybe 15 or so other people. Beside the pool there was a little walkway that led straight down to the beach. I was itching to go down it and feel the sand under my toes.
Isabelle and I spotted Simon by the beach and walked over to him. I took refuge under an umbrella and Isabelle chose a sun-bed in the sun between Simon and I.
She pulled her black dress off, revealing her scarlet strappy bikini underneath. I chuckled in amusement at the look on Simon's face and then turned my attention towards the pool.
Jace was looking my way and motioned for me to join him. "Bye guys, I'm gonna go see Jace." I stood up and pulled my mid-thigh-length dress over my head so I was only in my pink bikini set.
I took my sunglasses off and left them on the sun-bed before I started walking over to the pool. I watched as Jace's mouth opened and his eyes widened, and I realised with a jolt that this was the most Jace had ever seen of my skin.
I reached the water and sat down on the edge beside where Jace was standing, still gaping at me. "Like what you see, blondie?" I giggled.
Jace gulped. "Uh yeah. Very much," he nodded. I smiled and bent down to kiss him. Instead, Jace placed his wet hands on my waist and pulled me into the water with him. My legs found a place above his hips and he supported my thighs, putting his mouth over mine.
Alec coughed beside us and we broke apart, laughing. "Sorry Alec," Jace said sheepishly. "Can you really blame me though?" he asked, smirking at me, as I unwrapped my legs from around his waist. I blushed and took the time to admire his naked chest. He really was beautiful.
"Not really my type man," Alec responded, swimming away and over to Magnus. Jace and I both started laughing before he pulled me underwater and we swam to the other side.
"Wanna get out for a bit? I need a drink," Jace asked me. "Yeah sure," I said, smiling up at my boyfriend.
Jace bought me a strawberry smoothie from the pool bar and then took my hand as we walked over to where Isabelle and Simon lay.
"I told you he'd love it," Izzy said in a sing-song voice as I lay down. "What?" Simon asked, looking up from the comic he had been reading. "The bikini," Isabelle said in a 'duh' sort of way.
"That I do," Jace said, shooting me a smile.
We all fell into a comfortable silence after a while, Isabelle sunbathing, Simon reading, Jace doing both (always an overachiever) and me lying on my back enjoying the atmosphere.
Isabelle and Simon left to get in the pool, leaving Jace and I behind. After a while, I realised that I hadn't heard the sound of a page turning in a few minutes so I looked at Jace out of the corner of my eye.
"You're staring, Jace," I said, turning to face him, lying on my side. His eyes travelled down my body. "Aren't I allowed to look at my sexy-as-hell girlfriend?" he asked with a smirk. No one had ever called me sexy before. Beautiful, gorgeous, pretty, sure. But never sexy. And with Jace looking at me like that, I felt it.
Before I could say anything, Magnus shouted from the pool, "Hey, you guys! You coming in? We're playing a game!"
Jace looked to me and I nodded before we stood up together and walked over to join the others.
So much fluff!
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