When the phone rang an hour later Sophie and I were still dressed in our pyjamas even though it was now 1 o'clock in the afternoon. I checked the caller ID. "Hi Izzy," I answered, "whoa please stop the screeching I think you may have blew my eardrum. "What! That's great Iz. See ya soon." I hung up the phone and looked at a curious Sophie. "Izzy just got her licence and to celebrate she is taking us out for ice cream!" We rushed to my room and quickly got dressed and ran out to meet Izzy in the drive way.
"How's the new house?" Izzy asked while Sophie and I climbed in.
" Oh my God Izzy! I don't know what is going on next store but right now there are at lease 10 drop dead gorgeous looking guys in Clary's neighbour's yard. Man, when the one with the amazing arms and gorgeous blue eyes winked at us, I just about fainted" Sophie exclaimed. Izzy looked at me for confirmation.
"There are not 10 boys back there maybe 5 and I am sure not all of them were drop dead gorgeous. Maybe just gorgeous." I tried to explain, "we could 'play soccer' in my back yard and you can see for yourself."I offered.
"As tempting as that offer is, I have already been tasked with taxing my brother to his boyfriend's house since he does not drive." Izzy grumbled.
I loved Izzy's brother Alec so I had absolutely no issues with taking a detour while getting ice cream to take Alec any where. In fact I loved all of Izzy's family. I spent more time with them then I did my own mother. Before Alec came out of the closet, Tessa and I used to tease Izzy that I wanted to marry Alec so I could officially be Lightwood. Unfortunately (well not really) my dreams of being Mrs. Alexander Lightwood were dashed as soon as he met Magnus Bane. Honestly I could not have given up my future husband to a better person. Magnus is amazing. I swear you will never see him wearing the same thing twice but all his clothes are bright and often sparkley. The only thing about his look that you can count on are his cat eye contacts. I have never seen him without them. He is always quick to help a friend and actually helped my mom and I find the new place we are in. Our landlord, Hodge Starkweather owed Magnus a favor. Well not anymore I guess.
Jace
"Mystery solved!" my cousin Will shouted.
"And what mystery is that?" I asked him while jumping off of the trampoline.
"Didn't you see the red head in the kitchen, worshipping her coffee? That must have been the new neighbour girl" Will stated.
"She was definitely a cutie," Sebastian said, "but it could of been the other girl that I am pretty sure was drooling"
"Of course she was drooling. If I had me to look at I would be drooling too," Will said while striking a pose and flexing his biceps. Henry and Ragnor started laughing hysterically. "The reason I said it was the red head is because when Jace and I went for our very well timed "run" yesterday there was and older version of little red getting boxes out of a truck." Will and Sebastian continued arguing but I just tuned them out and sat down in the sun soaking up the rays. Honestly, I was curious at who my new neighbour was but I wasn't going to tell Will that. I had just broke up with crazy Kaylie and was currently involved in a heavy flirting relationship with Aline at school. I was in no rush to add another girl into the mix. At least that's what I thought.
Later that evening, Will and I were watching an old Bruce Lee film when we heard car doors closing and girls giggling. Of course being the ever vigilant men of the house that we were, we had to check who was outside. We looked out the window saw a tall brunette with curves in all the right places looking down and very clearly laughing at a petite red head with a brilliant smile.
"Dibs on tall dark and gorgeous!" Will exclaimed.
"Fine by me" was all I managed to say as the red head all of a sudden turned and looked directly at the window we were currently gawking out of. Both Will and I jumped back.
"Well we don't look creepy at all" laughed Will, but all I could do was sit there and plan how I was going to meet the girl next door.