"Hand over the remote, Gabriel!"
"Over my dead body, Herondale."
"I can arrange that for you."
Sophie and Gideon stood awkwardly in the room as their companions fought over the TV's remote. Sophie and Cecily wanted to watch the movie, Frozen, meanwhile the Lightwood brothers wanted to watch a football match. A minute later, Cecily began -and still was- trying to take the remote from Gabriel which made it hard for him to even turn on the TV. It looked like hate for Gabriel ran in the Herondale family, Gideon thought.
"They're so annoying with their bickering," Gideon heard Sophie mutter.
"I know," Gideon agreed. Sophie looked at him in surprise, she didn't know he had heard her, "how about we take a walk while these two sort things out?"
Sophie hesitated. She was wary of Gideon and she didn't want to lead him on if his idea of a walk was a romantic gesture. "Alright," she finally decided. The pair left the room.
"Gabriel! Give it!" Cecily demanded, scowling at the tall green-eyed boy.
He simply smirked. "Come and get it freshman," Gabriel challenged as he tried to turn on the TV. However, Cecily had pounced high enough to reach the remote. Unfortunately, her body slammed into Gabriel's as she fell. The angry teenagers found themselves on the floor with Cecily on top and Gabriel below her. The younger girl began to blush, realizing how close she and Gabriel's faces were. Gabriel was blushing too. Cecily secretly admitted to herself that he looked cute when he was embarrassed.
"Well," she finally said breaking the silence, "you are not dead, but" -she plucked out the remote from Gabriel's numb hand- "I still got the remote after all."
A knock on the door distracted Jessamine from her work out exercises. She had been busy doing push-ups.
"Who is it?" she called.
She heard a faint response which sounded like Charlotte's voice. "Come in."
The door swung open, but Jessamine didn't bother turning around to look at Charlotte as she continued doing her push-ups. "What is this interesting view?" a male voice that definitely did not belong to Charlotte said. It belonged to Nate Gray.
Jessamine stopped doing her push-ups and stoop up quickly and turned to Nate. He was still wearing the same clothes from lunch with a smirk on his face as he eyed Jessamine up and down. She had a feeling she was blushing. She was only wearing a sport bra and old gray yoga pants that once belonged to Charlotte and here was Nate looking her up down.
Jessamine crossed her arms over her chest. "Can I help you?" she asked coldly.
"I wanted to apologize for offending you after lunch," Nate responded who was eyeing her chest.
"Well you did. Now leave," she demanded.
"But I haven't apologized. I had only said I intended to," he told her. He was getting on her nerves.
"Go on with it then."
He took Jessamine's hand and said, "I am sorry for offending you, Jessamine Lovelace. May you forgive me?"
She stood a bit, considering. He was handsome though not Will-handsome, but handsome enough to date. "Are you dating anyone?"
"And that is why you never should trust a duck," Will explained to Tessa, who looked at him like he insane, as Jem sat beside her on the couch smiling and rolling his eyes at Will.
"Okay," she finally responded, "you have some serious issues."
"Indeed," he said, winking at her, "a certain lady refuses to admit I am breathtakingly handsome."
Tessa blushed again, but replied sarcastically, "That certain lady is a smart one for knowing the truth." Jem chuckled.
"You're just jealous of my beauty," Will accused her as he flipped his hair.
"Is he always like this?" she asked Jem.
Jem replied, "By the end of the summer, whenever someone asks you that, you'll find yourself saying 'It's Will.' "
"You two are still ganging up on me," Will told them, pretending to be upset.
Jem just stood up and ruffled Will's black hair. "Let's go to the lounging room and watch TV," he suggested. Will and Tessa agreed. They walked to the library door and the moment they stepped out of the room, Cecily passed by them running as Gabriel ran after her. The trio silently watched the pair as they disappeared around the corner.
"I really hope Gabriel isn't planning to rape my sister," Will said thoughtfully.
Jem and Tessa ignored him. "Well, that cancels our plans to watch TV," Jem commented, "because I saw Cecily holding the TV remote as she ran."
"So he is not planning to rape my sister."
Sophie expected that Gideon would ask her questions about her scar the moment they were alone as they walked inside the school, but he did not. Instead he asked her questions about her that weren't too personal, told her about his life at University and some childhood memories about him and Gabriel's adventures. Sophie quite enjoyed his company. He made her laugh and smile. It had been such a long time ago since anyone made her laugh. Even Charlotte , her closest friend who wasn't the joking type, never made her laugh like Gideon did.
Something in her chest grew a bit. It was called hope.
Or that could have been the shock of seeing Gabriel chasing after Cecily in the hallways and they were both laughing.
Gideon blinked. "Well, we all know who's definitely getting married soon," he said and Sophie noted how serious he sounded. Without noticing, she found herself fingering her scar on her face. Would marriage ever be possible for Sophie when she had such an ugly scar? She didn't want to know.
The feeling in her chest disappeared. She had given up on hope a bit too quickly.
Minutes later, Jesamine was pinned to her bedroom wall as Nate kissed her. She was kissing back as she ran her hands through his soft hair. Not breaking the kiss, Nate lowered his hand to Jessamine's chest and slipped his hand under her sport bra. She gasped during Nate's kisses, but Nate's lips muffled the sound as he continued to kiss her and feel her boobs.
He broke the kiss and left trails of kisses on her jaw, down to her neck, to her collarbone with his hand still up her sport bra. Jessamine gasped as Nate rubbed his thumb over her tit. He pulled away and took of Jessamine's sport bra. She gasped when he began sucking one of Jessamine's boobs and played with the other earning moans from her.
"Oh Nate," she gasped.
Will arrived at the dining room early for breakfast the next morning. He was surprised to find Jessamine already sitting down, waiting for Agatha to finish breakfast.
"I'm surprised you're up early," he told Jessamine as he sat beside her on the table.
"Why so?" she inquired.
"Because you were up pretty late making love with someone," he told her calmly and enjoyed seeing her flush so red. "So who is he?" Will asked.
"None of your business."
"Yes it is. After all, we are Enemies with Benefits," he reminded her.
Jessamine was saved from answering Will's question when Henry walked in beside him an Indonesian man, who was mostly covered in glitter. Talk about horrible taste in fashion, she thought as she eyed the stranger. His eyes were almost like a cat's eyes, Jessamine noted.
"Who's the walking disco ball, Henry?" Will questioned, tilting his head. "Is he the guy Jessamine has been making lo-" Will was interrupted when Jessamine kicked his ankle under the table.
Henry didn't hear Will's last sentence, just the first. "This is Magnus Bane," he said. "Magnus, this is William Herondale and Jessamine Lovelace."
"Nice to meet you," Magnus told them. Jessamine just nodded.
As for Will, he decided to be nosy. "What's with all the glitter?" he said, "are you trying to impress a girl? Because that is the wrong way to go."
"Fortunately for me, I'm gay," Magnus said smoothly. Jessamine quickly hid her face behind her hair to cover her shocked expression.
Will just continued talking. "So you're Henry's boyfriend?"
Henry began laughing. "No, Will. Magnus is just a friend."
"Henry introduced me to glitter," Magnus added.
"What a mistake," Jessamine muttered under her breath.
The conversation ended when everyone else filed into the dining room. There was first Charlotte walking inside and she had a friendly smile before walking over to Magnus and Henry. Behind her was Cecily and a few steps behind her was the Lightwood brothers. Will noticed Gabriel was shooting daggers to the back of Cecily's head. Sophie entered next, but quickly ran into the kitchen to help Agatha and then serve breakfast. Finally, Jem and Tessa entered laughing and smiling. Will felt a pang of jealousy at the sight of them and turned away. Jessamine noticed Will's reaction to Jem and Tessa and couldn't help feel like she needed Magnus's glitter to brighten her up because she felt so dark from inside.
"Where's Nate?" Charlotte asked when everyone sat down as Sophie served breakfast with Agatha's help.
"He's in bed. He had a hard time sleeping last night," Tessa replied. Charlotte nodded. Realization dawned on Will's face and shot Jessamine a smirk. Jessamine met his smirk with a deadly glare.
Sophie and Agatha finished serving breakfast and Sophie sat down on the last seat which was between Gideon and Jem. Sophie couldn't help find the situation a bit awkward since she was sitting between the boy she loves and the boy who made her laugh last night. Everyone helped themselves to the food, some quickly putting eggs on their plate for Henry could keep the eggs for himself.
During breakfast, Charlotte cleared her throat. Everyone paused eating and looked at her. "I like to make an announcement," she said, standing up. "Everyone this is Magnus Bane. He'll be in charge of your activities for the summer for three times a week."
"What? But I was going to have a Pretty Little Liars marathon!" Jessamine whined.
Charlotte mentally sighed. "Maybe another day Jessie," she told her, "your activities will start today after breakfast. So after breakfast, get dressed into sport clothes, and meet Magnus in the lounging room. Me and Henry are going to town to do some grocery shopping. I expect you all to listen to Magnus and if you do not, Magnus will tell me and you will be punished. Understood?" Everyone reluctantly nodded.
"What about Nate?" Tessa asked Charlotte.
"If he is still tired, then he can skip today, but he will be expected to join the activities tomorrow," she replied thoughtfully. With that, everyone continued their breakfast as Magnus grinned at them evilly.
He had a feeling it would be an interesting day for all of them.
Magnus just arrived and he's already planning to make their lives a misery X'D . So what did you think of this chapter? I know there wasn't many fluffy moments (with exception of Cecily falling down on Gabriel), but the next chapter will be much more interesting. Please review and tell me your opinion!