Chapter 5 – Movie Night, Half Birthdays and Art Club

"Look Camille, I'm sorry but I really had to finish this project." Magnus said into the phone, "It's really important I literally only just finished." The boy laid on his bed snorted at the last part and Magnus swatted him on the head as he listened to Camille's reply.

"You're going to hell." The blue-eyed boy whispered to which Magnus responded with a roll of his emerald eyes.

"I'll make it up to you, I promise." Magnus said to his girlfriend, he sighed at her retort but then she hung up and he threw the phone onto the bed.

"Magnus Bane, you liar." Alec said with a deviant grin on his face, "You finished that dress days ago."

"I can't deal with her drama tonight, besides, she deserves it for not letting me see you all week." Magnus sighed. It was true, every time Magnus had been talking to Alec, Camille had intercepted and stolen the taller away, she had even taken to ringing him in the afternoon and then talking till late so they couldn't talk through their windows.

"Break up with her then." Alec answered, he tried to sound casual as he ate a piece of popcorn. They were sat on Magnus' bed watching a film – by watching it was more like the film was playing but neither were paying attention to it.

Magnus sighed, "If only it was that easy."

"It is that easy." Alec replied. "She's being a clingy psycho tyrant, she makes you unhappy and dictates your life."

"But I lo-"

"What you 'love' her?" Alec raised his eyebrows and used air quotes around 'love', "Because you could have fooled me."

"Alec…" Magnus sighed, "I've had this conversation with both Cat and Ragnor."

"Then listen." Alec's blue eyes were pleading as he looked into Magnus' emerald one, "If all three of us have said it then it's important."

"Yes, but you and Cat haven't had relationships before." Magnus pointed out, "And Ragnor only talked to me about it because Cat asked him too." Alec rolled his eyes, his friend was stubborn alright, Magnus took the chance to change the topic, "Anyway, how're you and that mystery girl?"

"Mystery girl?" Alec blinked at him.

"The one you like." Now it was Magnus' turn to roll his eyes.

"Oh… yeah, she's fine. We're closer at the minute." Alec mumbled, avoiding Magnus' eye-contact.

"Does she go to our school?"

"Yes…" Alec answered reluctantly – the 'girl' was Magnus after all.

"Do I know her?"

"Better than you probably think…"

"Is she pretty?" Alec's eyes darted to his friend, there had been something in his tone that didn't sound right but he looked fine, his face perfectly composed.

Alec felt himself got lost in Magnus' eyes, green with flecks of gold when he smiled and laughed. He answered involuntarily, "Beautiful."

"Do I have lessons with her?"

"Maybe one or two." Alec shrugged, "I don't know."

"What does she look like?" Magnus asked, he wanted to know who had stolen his friend's heart.

Alec sighed, how could he describe Magnus to himself without giving it away? "S-he's got these beautiful green eyes, I could get lost in them. She's got an elegant facial structure, I can't really describe her and do her appearance justice, but it's more than her appearance that I like. She makes me laugh and she's always there for me, she's just amazing."

"It's not Agatha is it?" Magnus asked thinking of the Liberian at the school's library. She was fifty something, had green eyes, her face was lined with wrinkles and her brown hair was streaked with grey, she loved books but rarely liked people, however Alec was an exception. She let him keep books out longer than the rest of the students and she'd talk to him and smile at him, Magnus suspected she had a crush on him but Alec reassured him that she didn't.

"No. Agatha isn't beautiful and their eyes are very different." Alec shook his head and scrunched up his nose, "This girl's eyes are different with little gold flecks – they're really beautiful."

"I hope you tell her how you feel one day." Magnus said.

Alec looked over at Magnus, wondering if he knew it was him, but his gaze was firmly set on the TV. Alec smiled sadly, ate a piece of popcorn and whispered to himself, "Me too."

The next day was Saturday and Izzy's half birthday. So Alec went home after the movie and he and Magnus talked through the window whilst Alec wrapped Magnus' dress in tissue paper, ready to give to Isabelle. Now, Alec was sat nervously, the present on his lap, as his sister opened Jace's present. It was only the three of them since it wasn't an official birthday and their parents had work overseas – their younger brother had gone with them.

"No you didn't!" Izzy gasped as she unwrapped Jace's present. The present was her favourite perfume, some fancy chocolates that she loved and a bath pampering set, Izzy grinned and set the presents down, then she hugged Jace.

"I knew they were all your favourites." Jace shrugged, but he sent a smug smile over to Alec who glared, they were really competitive over who was the better big brother.

"They are! Alec, you have some serious competition." Izzy said with a smile as she went back and curled up in the armchair she had been sitting on.

Alec simply smiled back and took the present to her. She began opening it carefully, making sure not to rip the tissue paper, he was fairly confident she would like the dress, as Magnus had promised it was knee length and not too low at the front but also fun and flirty like Isabelle liked.

"Oh Alec," Izzy held it up by the straps and gasped, "It's beautiful!"

"I'm glad you like it." Alec smiled. "Magnus made it for you."

"It's amazing." Izzy she put the dress down gently and then launched herself at Alec, she gave him a huge hug, her hair tickled his nose but he hugged her back. "He made it for me?"

"Yup." Alec nodded, "I actually asked him to help me find a dress for you but he said none of them were right and insisted he make it so we got the materials and he made it within the week. He's really talented."

"No kidding, I can't wait to wear it." Izzy laughed as she pulled away from Alec, she turned to Jace, "I'm afraid Jace that Alec has won the competition." Jace glared at him but it wasn't serious and Alec stuck his tongue out back at him, they laughed.

"You could go over and thank him, I'm sure he'd love to see how the dress fits and stuff." Jace suggested.

"Okay." Izzy nodded, "But, Alec has come too."

Alec agreed and Izzy ran up to her room to put the dress on, once that was done the two siblings went over to Magnus' house. They waited on the porch after ringing the doorbell.

The door opened and a woman in her late-thirties stood expectantly, her caramel skin glowed in the sunlight, her thick black hair was bound in a ponytail, her face was youthful but you could see signs of aging in the small smile-wrinkles around her eyes. Wrinkles that were crinkling up as she smiled and pulled Alec into a hug, her green eyes sparkled.

"Alec!" she smiled, she smelt like exotic flowers.

"Tiara!" Alec grinned back, "This is my sister Isabelle, Iz this is Magnus' mum."

Tiara pulled Izzy into a big hug too, "Oh, I remember when you were little and ran around after Maggie and Alec, you've gotten very beautiful over the years, Isabelle."

"Thank you." Izzy answered, they followed Tiara inside the house and into the kitchen, she went to the stove and stirred the pot on it.

"Is Magnus home?" Alec asked. "He made this dress for Izzy and she wanted to thank him."

"He's up in his room." Tiara answered, "Just go on up."

"Thank you." Izzy smiled and the two of them left her in the kitchen, tending to whatever she was cooking.

Alec led the way down the hall to Magnus' room and they waited silently for a moment. They could hear Magnus typing on his computer and humming under his breath, they counted to three and jumped into the room like ninjas, startling Magnus in the process.

"Geez!" Magnus stared at them, a hand over his racing heart. "Don't do that again!"

"Sorry." Izzy said, she hung her head guiltily but the cheeky smirk was still plastered to her face, making her apology insincere.

"We did have a reason to visit." Alec said as he flopped on Magnus' bed, Izzy sat on the edge and Magnus remained in his computer chair.

"And that would be?" Magnus quirked an eyebrow.

"To say thank you!" Izzy grinned and jumped up. "This dress is amazing!"

To demonstrate her point she twirled around and the skirt on the dress billowed around her, the different layers moved gracefully on the air and hung nicely on her figure, it wasn't too low or too high a neckline and the elbow-length sleeves drew attention to her thin waist.

"I'm glad you like it." Magnus smiled.

"I love it!" she confirmed, "I'm considering asking you to make me more clothes, I really love your style."

"Thank you, I love yours too. It's fun and funky…" Magnus went on but Alec wasn't listening, they were talking fashion and he couldn't follow the conversation, instead he looked at the easel in the corner of Magnus' room, it was a beautiful picture though not yet finished. He recognised the blue eyes as if he were looking in a mirror, they were his. He didn't know what it meant that Magnus was painting him, probably for his art project Alec mind quickly supplied the excuse, but Alec felt a trill of happiness ripple through him.

He decided to tune back into the conversation, Izzy was speaking, "Yeah, I'd love you to come. It's only a little celebration with a few other friends but it would be great if you could pop over, we need to finish talking about clothes and it's be more fun for Alec."

"What would be more fun for Alec?" Alec asked.

"Magnus coming over later." Izzy said. "It starts at six."

"Okay, I'll be there if you're sure. I might be a little late I have art club."

"Clary has that too, I'll text and ask her to ask Simon to give you a lift too." Izzy smiled.

"Okay." Magnus smiled, he got up and they made a move towards the door, "Do I need to bring anything?"

"Nope." Izzy smiled. "Just yourself."

"Okay." Magnus nodded, "I'll see you then."

Magnus sighed as he stared at the girl sat in front of him, he was at the art club and they had to draw a portrait from real life, though he was excited for the gathering later. He had been assigned to draw Clarissa Fairchild, he didn't mind because she was funny and they were fairly good friends, they had the same art lessons in school and usually sat together and chatted whilst painting. He normally could draw well but his mind was scattered, he had drawn Clary's features but he couldn't get the eyes right – she looked crazed in his photo.

"You're nose does not want to be drawn today." Clary sighed as she reached for her rubber. "It looks like an aubergine."

"If it's any conciliation, I can't get your eyes." Magnus told her. "I don't even know what they look like."

Clary laughed, "Let me see?" Magnus nodded and show her the picture, she widened her eyes as she saw it. "Magnus, it's amazing but yeah, I get what you mean about the eyes. I look slightly possessed."

"Slightly possessed." Magnus repeated as he spun the book around, "I think you look fully possessed."

"And here I was trying to be polite." Clary smiled, her eyes glinted under the studio lights.

"Your eyes are just so complicated." Magnus pouted, "They're a beautiful green and they have little gold flecks…" Magnus trailed off, what had Alec said, beautiful green eyes with little gold flecks. The girl Alec liked might be Clary. "Hey, you're friends with Alec right?"

"Lightwood?" she quirked an eyebrow but kept sketching.

"Yeah."

"Yeah, we're friends – we're actually pretty close at the minute, why?" Clary's green eyes met Magnus' over their easels.

"Just wondering." Magnus answered coolly, trying to mask his excitement. He returned to his drawing. Clary went to his school, they had a few classes together, she had the eyes Alec described, and they were quite close – Magnus was certain he knew it was her Alec had been talking about, he vowed he'd help them get together even if it was the last thing he did.

But there was still a little part of his brain that wanted him to be who Alec had described.

W/M: Okay, so it was kind of a filler chapter.

I've set this is America and it's in 'high school' but I know the American education system is different to the one here, so I have no clue when 'football season' is and when prom and 'homecoming' (?) and stuff like that is, so anyone who goes to school in America or knows a bit about it, can you please review and tell me or PM me about it?

It'll help me write this fic better. In my head, this is set around the end of summer/ start of autumn but I'm not sure if that's right with the football games and stuff.

Also thanks to all you for reviewing, following, favouriting and reading.

Anyway, what do you think?