Jace was in the library looking at the stack of books. Jace's phone 'dinged' signaling that he got a text message. He looked at the caller ID. It was from a number he didn't recognize at all.
Delete it. It's probably pointless. One part told him, another part told him, Check it. It could be hilarious.
Two minutes of thinking, he opened the text message. An image of Alec appeared on his screen.
This Alec, however, looked more pale than usual. He had a small stud in his left nostril, a silver ball on the dip above his upper lip, and one silver ball in the corners right under his lower lip. His hair seemed darker than usual, his hair was straighter, and went a little past his shoulder. He seemed younger and somehow…more innocent, yet had this look that somehow said, 'give me your soul'. The caption said, 'We were seventeen, okay?'
Jace, for some reason, couldn't take his eyes off the picture. Maybe it had to do with the whole piercing thing and that it was a whole different look on Alec.
A more wild side, if you will. Magnus never seemed to bring that side out of him. Maybe it was the whole trip to Mexico that brought it out.
"What are you looking at?" Clary asked, causing Jace to nearly jump out of his seat. He had been so engrossed in the picture that he never noticed Clary walk up to him.
"This picture." Jace said and showed Clary the photo.
Clary grabbed the cell phone and looked at it. She recognized that it was Alec. "Ashley was right. He does look cute. Like a pierced baby doll." She grinned. Maybe if Alec had kept those piercings in and if he wasn't gay, maybe… Clary's eyes widened and nearly dropped the phone, what the hell am I thinking?
Jace cringed, and looked away. He didn't need to hear his girlfriend going on about how his brother looks cute. Some small part was jealous, jealous that his brother got piercings before him and how he can seem to pull it off.
Jace looked towards Clary who was staring at the photo on his cell phone. She might have been drooling. He grabbed his phone back, startling her a little.
"Stop staring at the picture of Alec. It's kind of creepy," Jace said.
"I'm sorry. It's just that…he looks…you know...free," Clary suggested.
Jace nodded. He seen those pictures that Alec had sent him. He knew Alec was happy, but the way his face looked, it seemed like he was forcing himself to smile and to look happy. Either that or he was trying hard not to laugh at the clothes Magnus was wearing. Jace would accept that option too. He looked at the picture and grinned as a thought formed in his mind.
Alec was staring at his reflection on his cell phone's screen. If someone looked closely, they could see little holes from when he got piercings.
He wasn't surprised that Magnus never noticed, or Magnus noticed just never mentioned it or he chalked it up to something really funky that happened to him, or he never got around to asking about it.
His bedroom walls are painted black and had red trim. The wall behind him had quotes he wrote; the left wall where his bed was pressed against looked like a river of blood, and the entire right wall were covered in different colored scissors of sizes.
His cell phone dinged as he got a text message. His first thought was, Adrianne? His heart started beating rapidly, his palms started to sweat a little, and he took some deep calming breaths. He opened it, only to read the text that he got from Magnus.
When did you get piercings?
Alec stared at the message. Oh now you text back. Really? Alec stared and replied back with, what the fuck are you on? Before he could erase the message, he ended up sending it. A minute later he got a reply with the picture of him having the piercings. He had a feeling that it was Jace who sent the picture.
He stared at the picture. I was seventeen. He replied and wondered if he should walk down to the store to get some cake. He loved cake; he loved it more than Magnus. Was that a bad thing?
How come you never told me?
Alec stared at the message. Oh gee, coming from the guy who told me NOTHING about his past. Why should I tell you about mine? He replied, and he mentally cursed himself for even sending that, even if it was true.
He didn't get a reply. I won. Feels so damn good. Alec thought and grinned. He briefly wondered if there was cake in the fridge. He sat up and left his room, to look for some cake.
Magnus stared at the picture of Alec with the piercings on his face. Some small part felt betrayed that Alec never told him about it, but another part knew that he deserved that his own boyfriend never told him getting piercings.
Wait, who took this picture if Alec didn't? Magnus thought, looking at the picture. It was kind of obvious that Alec didn't take the picture. Someone else did. Why did Jace send me this picture anyway? That was the confusing part and he noticed that it was forwarded, by a number that even he didn't know. The caption said, 'we were seventeen, okay?'
Some weird feeling bubbled in his stomach, and he found himself dialing the unknown number.
After two rings, a voice answered, "Hello?" Magnus almost dropped his phone in shock, since the person that belonged to the voice was a female. "Alec, if this is another prank call, I swear I'll gouge out your eyes with my thumbs."
"Sorry, wrong number." Magnus lied and hung up. Where the hell does Alec meet these people?
Great, he was getting jealous, because Alec has a friend who was a girl.
Alec can have a friend, that's a girl, who takes pictures of him. Magnus thought, because as far as he knew, Alec was into guys. At least that's what he's being telling himself.
A/N: I was considering deleting this story, but here's the part where Ashley sends the picture to Jace, who in return sends it to Magnus, who in return texts Alec about it.
If you want a chapter that explains what really happened in Mexico, just send me a request if you want.
Who is Adrianne? You ask. You'll see, I say.
I think its OOC.