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Alec Lightwood and Clary Fray had known each other for a really long time.
They had met in 1st grade, their classes had aligned perfectly and they had been an inseparable pair ever since.
Now, it was twelve years later.
They had grown up with each other, and Alec had just recently had his eighteenth birthday. Clary was on the younger side of the year and therefore wouldn’t be turning eighteen until the summer hit.
But, nonetheless they were grown. Over time, Clary had started spending much more time over at Alec’s, leading her to become more interactive with the rest of his family - more specifically, Isabelle . Alec’s younger sister.
Due to when Clary was born in the year, and Alec and his sister being less than two years apart, there was only a few months in between Clary and Izzy.
They had gotten along nearly as well as Clary and Alec had from the get go, over the next few years becoming closer and closer to each other until it led to the girls starting a relationship together. At first it was secret - the Lightwood family not having a great past with prejudice led to their children living in fear of ever doing wrong by them.
But then one day, Alec did the unexpected.
Maryse and Robert Lightwood had attended the High School prom that both students and parents together were invited to at the end of every year with both their children. Alec had been in 10th grade, a sixteen year old, and Isabelle in 8th grade at age fourteen.
Clary and Alec had gone to the prom together, as they had forever done, but Alec left with someone else as well.
During the middle of the prom, whilst everyone including the parents had been up on the dance floor, Alec had shocked everyone by kissing his crush - a boy - of two years in front of the whole school.
Everyone had been left shocked, but not more shocked than Maryse, who had ran out barely any time after witnessing the act.
Alec had been left there by his parents in shock when Robert had followed his wife closely behind, and then was escorted out of the prom by his crush - Sebastian - Izzy and Clary.
After that day, it had taken a while for his parents, especially Maryse to come around, but eventually they had both accepted him which left Alec out and proud as gay.This also meant that Clary and Isabelle could finally be open in their own relationship. When Izzy had told her mother that she was bisexual and Clary was a lesbian, Maryse had instantly taken to the belief that Alec had confused his sister with his ways and didn’t accept the fact at first, but then spilled out apology after apology once she found out how long the girls had been together and that it was indeed, serious.
And now?
Now it had been a year since their parents had found out about Izzy and Clary’s relationship and they were going strong.
Now though? Now Clary had to watch her oblivious gay as hell best friend pine over his new neighbour every day of the week without him even realising.
The two were currently sat on the porch of his house, Clary was tapping the ash of her cigarette onto the grass and Alec was with a cigarette resting in between his lips as he gaped at his fairly new neighbour unpacking his father’s truck.
The other boy Alec assumed to be roughly the same age as himself. He was asian, with strikingly gorgeous features, his face was coated in light makeup - which Alec normally didn’t like on anyone, but he adored it on this other boy. He wore it like a god . He was also wearing a black tank top that showed off his biceps and tight fitted, black, ripped jeans that showed off his ass just perfectly . Alec was practically drooling at the sight.
“Aleccccc, earth to Alec.” He heard his best friend sing from beside him all of a sudden.
Alec shook his head rapidly and turned round to face Clary. “Huh?” Alec replied to her in confusion.
“I said ,” Clary started, pausing for a deep breath. “When are you gonna to finally talk to Mr. Hot stuff?” Clary sighed, bringing her cigarette to her lips and taking a puff.
Alec’s eyebrows furrowed. “Mr. Hot Stuff?” Alec frowned. “You- you mean him ?” Alec responded in a startled tone, pointing over to the boy in the other garden.
A smirk quickly appeared on Clary’s face. “Ah, so you admit he’s hot then?”
Alec’s face flushed instantly. “I-I- Okay ! He is, yes. But what makes you think I would ever talk to the guy. He would laugh at me!” Alec exclaimed in an alarmed voice.
Alec looked at Clary as if she was asking him to invent the time machine.
“Alec! He wouldn’t. Plus, he’s literally been staring at you every time you haven’t been looking in his direction. You’re such an idiot , dude.” Clary slapped Alec’s arm in a lighthearted way.
“I haven’t been staring!” Alec replied in a defensive way, which just caused the redhead to laugh in response.
“Lightwood, you’ve been starting at his ass at any available chance you’ve had.” This statement caused another blush to show on her best friends face.
“Shut up, Clary!” Alec hissed, hiding his heated, red face in his hands.
But Clary was very right, Magnus had indeed been looking at his neighbour whenever he could.
When he and his father had arrived home from shopping, he had noticed the boy who had caught his eye from the moment he moved in sitting with what he assumed by now to sadly be his girlfriend.
And holy hell, if the boy wasn’t an Adonis .
How on earth Magnus was supposed to survive living in a house next to an angel who was already in a relationship? He did not know.
But what he did know, is that he was definitely going to be spending his days ogling the other boy.
Even if that was all he could do , Magnus thought with a mental sigh.
Before Magnus had to enter his house, he took one last long look at his neighbour.
He was possibly - no , definitely - the most beautiful person Magnus had ever seen. Even from the other boy’s sitting position, Magnus could tell he was a very tall lad, even taller than Magnus was despite himself being quite tall anyway.
Along with his height, the rest of his body matched the tall proportion also. His neighbour’s skin was fair, which was a gorgeous contrast between all his dark features, such as his dark brown, messy hair.
Admittedly, Magnus was imagining running his hands through that hair.
The boy was very muscled up; clearly he worked out a lot, Magnus noted, his long arms held biceps that were to die for (in Magnus’ opinion).
He also noticed a black tattoo that had resemblance to a symbol, peeking out from the bottom of his neighbours sleeve. Magnus began to wonder if the boy was hiding any more tattoos.
Just as Magnus was studying the other boy, him and his girlfriend abruptly stood up all of a sudden, looking as if they were about to re-enter their own house but instead stayed situated.
But of course , Magnus took this moment to properly take in his neighbour.
Particularly his extremely tall stance. And defined ass. How did he miss that ass, Magnus wouldn’t be able to stop staring at it from now on.
Unfortunately, during the time he had been eyeing up his neighbours ass, the couple decided to go back inside for real this time. Both the redhead and the boy put out their cigarettes, following each other into the house and shutting the door behind them.
Magnus let out a sigh, making his way into his own house.
It was currently night, and Magnus’ mind was going a hundred miles per second seeing his neighbour in his room from Magnus’ own bedroom window.
To say that the moment Magnus found out about their windows being opposite to each other had felt like a victory to him was quite the understatement.
Though, neither neighbour had properly seen each other so far as they were both ‘typical teenagers’ and basically always had their curtains closed. The only times they wouldn’t is when their parents would come into their rooms and open the curtains instead, scolding the boys in the process. But by that point each boys’ neighbour wouldn’t be in his room so they had never had the chance to see each other through the windows.
This time though, Magnus had entered his bedroom and froze on the spot when he had peered across to the other house.
Both of the boys’ curtains were open at the same time.
And, to top it off, Magnus’ neighbour was shirtless.
Magnus felt his mouth go dry as his eyes wandered across the dark haired boys’ toned body, staring at the boys’ abs for a bit too long.
Before Magnus had the chance to look away, his neighbour suddenly turned to face him, causing Magnus to quickly look up, meeting the other boys eyes.
The flush that instantly appeared on his neighbours face sent a warm, fuzzy feeling into Magnus’ body, and he gave the boy a soft smile.
Sadly, though, the boy rapidly reached for a new top, throwing it over him quickly to cover up his bare torso.
Suddenly, an idea popped into Magnus’ mind.
He moved forwards towards his work desk, grabbing a piece of paper and scribbling the words ‘ I’m Magnus .’ down on it.
When Magnus looked back up, he saw the frown that was now clear on his neighbours face, and quickly put the piece of paper up against the window.
The boy moved his gaze down slightly, clearly trying to read what was on the sheet despite being quite far away.
He squinted, but after a few short moments he looked back up at Magnus, mouthing a word at him.
Wait- no. Magnus thought. He was mouthing a name. Magnus’ name.
After his neighbours lips moved to silently say ‘Magnus’, Magnus nodded back to him in confirmation.
Before Magnus could do anything else, he saw the dark haired boy spin around on the spot, walking to the other side of his room.
Magnus started to think the boy had left him and was about to walk away himself, but right before he did the boy came back - with his own paper.
He waited patiently as the boy scribbled down his own thing, not having to wait long though before the sheet of paper was almost slammed against the glass of the boy’s window.
Magnus walked slightly closer to the window, leaning down and putting his hand over his eyes to help him read the writing.
‘I’m Alec. How old are you? ’ Magnus’ neighbour- Alec’s paper read.
Magnus let a smile rest on his features after he registered the name in his head. He mouthed Alec’s name back to him just as Alec had to Magnus, except Magnus added a twist.
‘Alexander’, Magnus silently mouthed to Alec.
A beautiful blush covered Alec’s face as the boy looked down with a soft smile.
Magnus smiled to himself, and then quickly wrote down his reply.
‘18. I turn 19 in a few weeks. ’ Magnus jotted down, quickly putting the paper up to the window.
Alec read the writing quickly and his face lit up with happiness. He almost rushed to write down his own response.
Before Magnus even had chance to have a thought, Alec’s paper was back to the glass.
‘I just turned 18!’ Alec’s paper said, and Magnus read it with a smile.
The two boys went back and forth like this for the rest of the night.
Alec woke up to his alarm with a loud groan.
He turned around in bed, lifting his phone up to read the time.
5:30 am.
Great , Alec thought. I have school .
With a long sigh, Alec made his way out of bed, reluctantly getting himself ready for the day ahead.
By the time he went downstairs, it was 6:15 am and Clary had already arrived. She was sat with his family and having toast and a cup of coffee. She was sat in between Izzy, who was applying a dark shade of lipstick, and his little brother Max, who was making a fuss of his breakfast.
“Lightwood!” Clary cheered as she saw her best friend wander over to the table, stealing a piece of toast from her plate before he went to make his own to-go coffee. “ Hey !” She exclaimed, reaching over to slap Alec on the back playfully.
Alec smirked in response, taking a bite of the toast as he waited for his coffee to be made.
“Sorry red, you know how I get when I’m hungry.” Alec winked at the red head and Clary let out a loud groan in response.
The rest of the breakfast was short and filled out with the families chatter, before Alec and Clary had to leave for school with Max.
This is how it had been for the past few years now.
Both Maryse and Robert worked early every weekday which meant Alec, being the eldest, was responsible for bringing Max to school on a morning and bringing him home on a night. Clary had always tagged along as the two were always together, plus Alec’s house was on her way to school anyway.
But because their school was such a far walk, they’d always just end up going straight from Max’s Elementary school to it, therefore they were always hanging around their school grounds for a while.
After the long summer, it would always just fall back into this routine.
After dropping Max off at his school, Alec and Clary headed off for their own school.
Within around twenty minutes they had arrived, bringing them up to 7:45 am.
Arriving in the school grounds, Clary tapped his arm to grab his attention.
“I’m just gonna go to the toilet quickly, wait around the shelter area for me.” Clary smiled at Alec before making her way inside the building.
The building itself didn’t open until 8 am, but the staff had to leave the toilets open to students thirty minutes before.
Alec ventured over to stand against one of the shelters, taking his phone out of his pocket and putting music on through his earphones.
Roughly three minutes into being there, Alec was startled from a daydream when he heard a beautiful voice calling his name.
“Alec?” The voice came from just in front of him, and Alec took an earphone out, turning to see who the voice came from.
When his eyes met the face of the voice, Alec froze.
“Magnus?” Alec said in a surprised voice.
“The one and only.” Magnus smirked, and god was that smirk to die for.
“You- you attend school here?” Alec questioned in a shocked tone.
If he did, Alec wasn’t sure if he’d survive the school year, honestly.
“I mean it’s the only school for quite a distance, so yeah.” Magnus chuckled, causing Alec to flush in return.
“Oh, yeah .”
Before either boy could exchange any more words, Clary came running over to the two.
“Lightwood! You asked Mr. Hot Stuff out finally!” Clary exclaimed, patting Alec’s shoulder and completely misreading the situation.
Alec’s face quickly turned a crimson colour, and Magnus felt as if he was left with a lot to unpack here.
“Wait- I thought you two were in a relationship.” Magnus stated, as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.
As soon as Magnus said that though, both Alec and Clary started coughing in a chain reaction, Clary then moving on to a laugh.
“Hold on- You though we ,” Clary moved a thumb to point between her and her best friend, “were together?” Clary eventually managed to get out between laughs.
“Yes....?” Magnus raised a brow at both of them, highly confused as of right now.
Finally grabbing a hold of himself, Alec let out a last laugh before composing himself. “ No . Definitely not. We’re both very gay, I promise you that. Red is literally my sister’s girlfriend.” Alec laughed at Magnus' bewildered expression.
“I’m sorry... I kind of just assumed when I saw you constantly together that you were in a relationship. I suppose being bisexual myself I shouldn’t have assumed.” Magnus awkwardly chuckled. But then he paused. “Wait- did you just call me ‘Mr. Hot Stuff’?” Magnus looked at the redhead with astonishment..
“Yeah , this guy,” She pointed over to Alec, “wouldn’t stop eyeing you up for the past how many weeks so I thought it was fitting.” She grinned, and Alec growled at her.
“Clary!”
“What? It’s true!” Clary shrugged.
“Well, that makes me feel better for doing the exact same thing to you since I moved in.” Magnus flashed Alec a smirk.
“See! I told you so!” Clary scoffed at her best friend, crossing her arms.
“Oh.” Is all Alec managed to get out, yet again blushing.
“Yes, oh indeed.” Magnus smiled, seemingly very content with himself. “Now, how would you feel about going on a date with me? Pretty boy.”
A smile lit up Alec’s features, and he nodded. “I would love that.”
“Great.” Magnus said, leaning over to place a soft kiss against the boy’s cheek. This earned another blush from Alec. “Hand me your number and we’ll arrange a date and time.”
And the two exchanged numbers, and did exactly that. Clary of course praising herself for being right about the whole situation to Alec.