Hi guys! another chapter for Adopted! Yay! I hope you enjoy it! ooooh! i got clockwork princess on thursday and I've finished it, while i was reading it in last period of school yesterday I kinda started to cry... THE FEELS! but it's not all bad :)
anyway i don't own anything Cassandra Clare owns em' i own the plot!
The car pulled up in the shopping centres car park, Alec saw that Isabelle was squirming in her seat, he guessed that she was excited about shopping.
I don't get why girls are always excited to go shopping? Alec thought, I mean all they do is buy clothes, why are clothes something to get all excited over…
Alec got out of the car last.
"Okay I'll take Max, Isabelle and Jace" Vicky said "Jeffery you take Alec and Magnus."
Alec internally groaned.
They walked into the shopping centre and they went different ways Alec, Magnus and Jeffery walking down one end of the centre Isabelle, Max, Jace and Vicky walking down the other.
Alec followed Magnus and Magnus's father to a cluster of chairs and tables.
"What do you usually wear?" Jeffery asked.
"This" Alec answered, gesturing to the clothes he was wearing.
"It speaks!" Magnus said, smiling.
Jeffery gave Magnus a look, telling him to shut up.
"Okay" Jeffery said "Magnus is good at shopping he can help you find some better clothes."
"I'm not good at shopping" Magnus said "I'm great at it!"
"Okay so Alec go with Magnus and meet me back here when you're done" Jeffery told him "I just have some errands to do."
Jeffery handed Magnus a credit card and whispered something in his ear that Alec couldn't catch.
"Come on Alec let's go shopping" Magnus grabbed his arm and pulled him off into a store.
Alec was looking at all the clothes in the men's section of the store.
All the clothes in here look so ugly! Alec thought, people actually wear this crap?
He looked at a shirt, it had and explosion of colours on it and looked like it sparkled too.
"How about these?" Magnus asked throwing a pile of clothes into Alec's arms.
Alec looked down at the all the brightly coloured clothes in his arms. He scrunched his face up in disgust and dropped all the clothes onto the floor, "No" he said.
"Why not?" Magnus asked bending down and picking the clothes up off the floor.
"Because I don't want to look like you" Alec said, crossing his arms over his chest.
"What?! You won't look like me if you wear these clothes, you'd look fabulous!" Magnus said walking to the clothes racks, Alec followed him, "Oh wait looking Fabulous will make you look like me!" Magnus put the clothes back on the rack and turned and faced Alec "What's so wrong with looking like me?" He asked.
"The clothes you wear are clown looking, I don't want to look like a clown" Alec told him.
Magnus gasped and nearly fell over the clothes racks "A clown?! You call fabulous fashion clown looking?!"
Alec nodded.
"Well fine!" Magnus said throwing his arms up dramatically "do you want me to buy you freaking black sweaters, grey t-shirts and jean, not skinny jeans, just jeans?!" Magnus asked.
Alec nodded.
"Fine then!" Magnus walked over to a shelf and pulled down jeans, t-shirts and sweaters by random.
"There!" Magnus said shoving the dark clothes into Alec's arms, "happy?" Magnus asked.
Alec nodded.
Note to self: Do not call Magnus's clothes clown looking, he will get pissed off. Alec told himself.
Magnus took the clothes from Alec's arms and dragged him to the counter and dumped the clothes on it. The cashier looked at the pile "Magnus this isn't what you'd usually buy" He said "it's just so plain!"
"No Jordan, It's not for me" Magnus said "It's for him" Magnus pointed at Alec.
"What is he you're new boyfriend?" Jordan asked.
Alec looked up with a horrified look, while Magnus laughed.
"No Jordan he's not my boyfriend, he's my new brother" Magnus explained.
"Kay" Jordan said, he started scanning the items of clothing. Once he was done Magnus payed and they walked out of the store, their hands full of shopping bags.
"We need to get you some shoes" Magnus said.
They walked around the shopping centre for a bit until they came across a small universal store.
"Oooh! I love this store! And they sell shoes!" Magnus said, Magnus pulled Alec into the store.
Magnus picked up a Black pair of converse sneakers.
"What sized shoe are you?" He asked.
"Eight and a half" Alec answered looking around the store, there was the clerk at the counter with a tone of tattoos and piercings flirting with a short red head girl, Alec thought she looked familiar.
"Perfect!" Magnus said, walking up to the counter and standing behind the small red head.
"Oh My Glitter!" Magnus said "Clary?!"
The small red head turned around and Alec recognised the bright green eyes, small freckly and heart shaped faced. It was Clarissa Morgenstern the sister of Jonathan Morgenstern.
"Magnus!" She said giving him a hug. Alec saw the clerk glare daggers at Magnus.
She let go of Magnus and looked at Alec, Alec pretended to be interested in a pair of red shoes.
"You're Jace's brother right?" Clary asked.
Alec nodded, He didn't really talk to Clary much at the orphanage because he thought that she would be horrible like Jonathan, but Jace said that she's nothing like Jonathan.
"Cool" she said smiling brightly at him, he didn't return the smile "tell Jace I said hi!" she said skipping out of the store with her bag.
After they paid for the shoes they walked back to where they were meant to meet Jeffery. Jeffery wasn't there yet so they sat down in some chairs their bags filled with clothes surrounding their feet.
"So…" Magnus said "Tell me about yourself" Magnus put his elbow on the table resting his chin in his hand.
"What's there to know?" Alec asked "Isabelle already told you everything."
"Not everything" Magnus said.
"What do you want to know?" Alec asked.
Magnus thought for a moment "What's your favourite colour?" he asked.
"Green" Alec replied, green was mum's favourite colour the little voice said in his head, "Why do you even want to know stuff about me?" he asked, trying to shake the little voice out of his head.
"Well if you're going to be my brother I should at least know some stuff about you" Magnus said.
"Okay…" Alec said, "What's your favourite colour?" he asked.
"Blue" Magnus answered.
"What's your favourite food?" Magnus asked.
Alec was about to say pasta, his mum's pasta the pasta she would always make on special occasion, but instead he looked away. He didn't want to answer any more questions, they bought back to many memories of his parents. Even if they were just simple questions about colours and food.
"Alec come on!" Magnus said "It's just a simple question, you answered my last one!" Magnus whined.
Alec laughed inside his head, Magnus probably thought he'd gotten through to you, the little voice said, ha! How wrong he was.
Alec shook his head trying to clear his head from the little voice.
Alec watched the people pass by the table.
About half an hour later Jeffery came back, but not alone, Isabelle, Jace, Max and Vicky were with him and they were all carrying bags.
"Guess what?!" Magnus said to them as they came over.
"What?" Isabelle asked.
"I got Alec to talk!" Magnus said, smiling triumphantly.
Alec rolled his eyes and looked away.
"Really?!" Jace asked "Prove it!"
"Alec's favourite colour is green!" Magnus said.
Max smiled widely "Yes! Yes it is his favourite colour! You did get him to talk!"
Why is everyone making such a big deal out of me talking? Alec thought, I mean I talked to Max this morning, heck! I even laughed and I never laugh!
"Okay how about we go home, these bags are heavy" Vicky said.
Everyone agreed and they walked out of the shopping centre to the car. Everyone dumped their bags in the back where Jace and Alec sit, so they had to climb over the bags to get to their seats. They drove home and Isabelle would not stop talking about all the new clothes she bought and how awesome they were.
They pulled up in the driveway and Jace and Alec had to wait until everyone got their bags out. After everyone got their bags out Jace and Alec got out picking out their bags and closing the door and they walked into the house.
Vicky bought hangers into Alec's room so he could hang up his clothes. Alec pulled his clothes out of the shopping bags, surprisingly Magnus got all the sizes right, well they were a little big but Alec didn't mind.
Alec was done putting his clothes away in ten minutes. He closed his closet door and walked out of his room to Jace's. He knocked on the door.
"Come in!" Jace said from inside his room.
Alec opened the door and stepped inside, he saw Jace surrounded by mountains of clothes.
Alec opened his mouth to say something, but Jace threw a pair of pants at him.
"Before you say anything" Jace said "there isn't that much clothes!"
Alec rolled his eyes, why does everyone like clothes so much?
"You should see Isabelle though she has like triple this" Jace said.
Alec sat down on the floor and started to help Jace put the clothes on the hangers.
"I saw Clary at the shops" Alec said after about twenty minutes of silence.
"Really?!" Jace asked, sounding really excited "What did she say?" Jace climbed over the mountain of clothes and jumped on top of Alec "What did she say?!" Jace started to shake Alec's shoulders like crazy "Tell me! Alec! TELL ME!" Jace was screaming at Alec now.
Alec pushed Jace off him "She said to say that she said hi."
Jace's face broke out into a massive smile "she said hi…" he said dreamily.
Alec started laughing at Jace. Jace was so in love with Clary that he practically drools over her saying hi.
"What are you laughing at?" Jace asked "OMG YOU'RE LAUGHING!" Jace screamed.
This caused Alec to laugh even more at Jace's expression.
"What are you laughing at?" Jace asked.
"You're obsessed with Clary, you practically drool over her saying hi" Alec said in between laughs.
"I do not!" Jace yelled, shoving Alec a little.
"Yes you do you're so obsessed with Clary, if one of her art pencils fell off a cliff you jump off that cliff to get it back for her!" Alec said laughing even more.
"That is so true!" Jace said.
Alec laughed so much that tears started to fill his vision, Jace started to laugh along with Alec.
Alec and Jace controlled their laughter and finished hanging and putting away Jace's clothes. Alec and Jace walked out of Jace's room and down stairs, Jace occasionally pushing Alec into the wall when Alec would make a comment about his obsession with Clary.
Alec realised that when he was talking or laughing with someone other than people outside his family the little voice was never there.
They walked into the kitchen and found Isabelle and Magnus looking at a magazine, Vicky making some sandwiches or something like that and Jeffery looked like he was trying to teach Max about boats.
"What are you two doing?" Jace asked Magnus and Isabelle.
"We're looking at a fashion magazine" Isabelle said.
"Ugh!" Magnus said "are they trying to bring those shoes back?" Magnus asked Isabelle pointing to a pair of really high looking heels with random patterns on them "they died as soon as they came out they are a fashion no, no"
Isabelle nodded her head in agreement "They are so ugly."
"So totally un-fabu" Jace said.
"Fabu?" Jeffery asked.
"It's an abbreviation of fabulous" Jace, Isabelle and Magnus explained at the same time.
Jeffery's face lit up in understanding and he went back to teaching Max about boats and the different types of propellers.
Alec gave Jace a look.
"What?" Jace asked.
"Fabu? Really?" He asked "you could've said any other word but you said fabu."
"What it's a good word" Jace said.
"No…" Alec said shaking his head.
Magnus, Isabelle and Jace gasped.
"Yes it is" Magnus said throwing his arms up in the air, nearly hitting Isabelle in the face, "Fabu is the bestest word of all words!"
"okay…" Alec said.
"Alec you should love the word fabu!" Isabelle said "I mean everyone uses it."
Jace shook his head "Not everyone only girls and gay guys, I only used it because it fitted the situation" Jace explained.
"See Alec! You can totally use fabu!" Isabelle yelled.
"Yeah Alec you can use fabu!" Jace said "gay guys use it!"
Alec glared them and walked out and went up to his room and threw himself down on his bed.
Isabelle and Jace basically told everyone I was gay! Alec thought, more Jace than Isabelle. He started hitting his head against the pillow.
Alec was wishing that the pillow was a bit harder, like concrete hard.
Stop it Alec! He told himself, just ignore the little voice.
There was a knock at his door.
"Alec?" Vicky said from the other side, "Can I come in?"
Alec didn't respond just stayed faced down in the pillow, apparently Vicky took that as a sign to come in.
Alec felt the bed sink down a little, Alec knew that meant that Vicky had sat down on his bed.
"Alec?" She said "Alec are you okay?"
He nodded into the pillow hopping that it would make Vicky go away, sadly it didn't.
"You don't seem okay" Vicky said "is it because of what Jace said?"
Yes, Alec thought.
"Because that doesn't really matter, I mean looked at Magnus he's obviously gay and we still love him" Vicky said, patting Alec's back.
Oh wow! The little voice said, she's already dropping the 'L' word after two days, I mean she doesn't even know you!
Alec slammed his head into his pillow, hitting the headboard as he did.
"Alec!" Vicky said sounding a bit shocked.
Oops! Alec thought as the little voice laughed, forgot she was here.
"Alec!" Vicky grabbed him and pulled him up into a sitting position, She was examining his head "Are you okay? Why did you do that?" she asked.
"It's…" Alec started, but closed his mouth.
"Alec, why did you hit your head on the head board?" Vicky asked.
Alec shook his head, the world kind of spinning, he didn't mean to hit his head down on the board it was an accident the head board just jumped out underneath his head.
Maybe you did want to hit your head on the board? The little voice said. Alec shook his head trying to shake the voice from his head.
"Alec" Vicky said, placing a hand on his shoulder, "Why do you hit your hurt yourself?" She asked softly.
Alec didn't answer just looked down into his lap.
"Alec" Vicky said "come down stairs and have some lunch with everyone, I understand you don't want to talk about this."
Vicky got up from the bed Alec didn't move instead he reached out and gripped her wrist.
Vicky's POV
"C-can you n-not tell anyone ab-bout this?" Alec asked his blue eyes big and pleading, he looked like a little kid.
"I won't Alec" Vicky said.
"I-I didn't m-mean to hit m-my head, I just…" Alec looked as if he was struggling with the words and trying to hold back tears.
Vicky sat back down on the bed facing Alec "It's alright" she said softly.
Vicky heard the boy let out a choking sound, it took her a moment to realise that he was crying. She reached out and put her arms around him. "It's okay Alec" she whispered, softly patting Alec's hair.
"I j-just don't know h-how t-to cope with it all" Alec stuttered out into her shoulder, Vicky could feel his tears soaking her shirt.
"Shhh" Vicky said, rocking him back and forth "it's alright."
Vicky's comforting only seemed to make Alec cry harder "Alec what's wrong?" She asked, because to her Alec didn't seem to be crying about hitting his head anymore.
"Y-you r-remind m-me of m-my mum" Alec stuttered out, crying even more.
End of this chapter next one will be up soon... maybe on easter I don't know...
I know this chapter isn't that good but I just can't seem to get my head on right I've kinda been focusing on other things.
I've been writing the sequel to different, i just don't know what to call it yet so I'm open to suggestions.
So yeah please tell me what you think you know how much I love earing what you all have to say! :)
- Kate.