HeartBLOOD

Chapter fourteen

Alec shrugged off his jacket. Yesterday he had gone to the gym after talking to Magnus and only came back when his boyfriend was asleep already. This morning, they still hadn't talked. Taking off his hood, he began to walk faster. He hated this. For some reason, they always ended up in the same situation: Both hurt because they tried to protect the other one from getting hurt. Alec knew he snapped at Magnus where he had no right to, but he wasn't ready to apologize. Considering all of their history, all of Alec's life prior to NYABM it was an overall bad situation. And he felt pathetic because Magnus got himself out of his conflict with Camille but for some reason it still felt like he just told him so he wouldn't have to cheat. Again. The worst part about it all was that he couldn't be angry at Magnus, he couldn't even blame him. Alec knew he meant well, he knew he tried but somehow fate seemed to always reveal its twisted side when it came to the two of them. Taking deep breaths he made walked into the street of Izzy's apartment- she had asked if he could come over on his day off as finally all the furniture has arrived. Besides, he needed to get out of NYABM and out of Magnus' sight. They needed a short break like they always did and Alec was convinced, they'd find their way back to each other almost immediately.

"Hey there, big bro!",Isabelle smiled widely as she opened the door and let Alec in. "Hey you!", he smiled and pulled her into a hug. "I just got the email with your pictures, you look so good!", she exclaimed and Alec grinned, thanking her and entering the apartment. "You redecorated?", he asked with a frown- it didn't look like it used to. "A bit.", she grinned, "With everything finalized I needed to add a few finishing touches." The apartment was great, when you walked through the door you had a small bathroom to your right and in front of you was a huge spacious living room with an open kitchen. On the wall hung a TV and besides it a huge picture of Isabelle with which she landed her first big modeling job. In front of the TV stood a huge black leather couch which lead you immediately to the large glass dining table and the kitchen. To the sides were two more doors, one to her bedroom and one to another bathroom. Everything was sleek, black white and gold, exactly Izzy's style. "It looks fantastic.", Alec congratulated her and dropped himself on the couch which was his favorite piece of furniture already whilst Izzy went and got them some water. Out of the crease which separated the seat of the sofa from its' back stuck a nude piece of fabric. Without saying another word, he pulled out a very gender-specific piece of ballet dancewear- a dancebelt. Gasping, he dropped his jaw. "Izzy!", he yelled as his sister returned, placing the water by the couch. "What is it?", she asked before seeing what her brother held in his hand. "Please explain yourself.", he laughed, "Because if I think this is what it is I can never look at the two of you the same way ever again." "I don't know, it must be yours- you probably left it where when you visited during summer break.", Izzy tried to defend herself. "Sissy, first of all you're a terrible liar, and second of all it's not my size.", Alec laughed and threw the dancebelt on the floor. "There are sizes?!", Isabelle exclaimed in surprise which made Alec laugh even harder:" Of course, Dummie!" "Can we just pretend you never saw that?", she blushed and put it away. "So, Simon and you did the naughty after the photoshoot, didn't you?", Alec kept asking. "If you need to know this precisely, yes. And, we are planning on doing it more often.", she said. "So you two are official?", Alec exclaimed ecstatically, which upon she nodded, smiling. "Congratulations!", Alec exclaimed and pulled her into a hug, "That's so great." "Thank you."; Isabelle smiled, still blushing, "I didn't mean for you to find out this way, the only thing more embarrassing would have been if you would have walked in on us, but I was planning on telling you today anyways." "So that's the real reason I'm here, isn't it?", he asked smiling. He was so happy Simon and Isabelle had gotten together- he believed they were a great match. "Kind of.", Isabelle chuckled, "We decided I should be the one to tell you, and I knew I needed to tell you as soon as possible because Simon cannot keep his mouth shut. And we wanted you to know before we tell everyone else." "Thank you, I appreciate that.", Alec sighed and took a sip of his water. Why couldn't things go as smoothly with Magnus as well? "What is it?", Isabelle asked, seeing the happiness vanish from her brother's face. "I don't know, Magnus and I got caught up in a crappy situation again- I mean with everything going on I had just hoped we wouldn't face difficulties at least in our relationship, but it seems like life has a thing for throwing everything it has for you into your face at the same time.", he scoffed and emptied his glass. "Okay, spill it."; Isabelle replied and also put her glass down. After taking a deep breath Alec begun laying out the entire situation from it's beginning until the one evening Magnus had finally told him. "Oh wow.", she sighed, "How come this crap always keeps happening to the two of you?" "I wish I knew.", Alec said and leant back. Suddenly he felt unbelievably tired, and NYABM had just started. "Give him time. Give yourself time. You two need to process things on your own and then you will work it out together, just like you always do.", Isabelle said and stroke his arm. If one day Magnus and Alec were to break up, she was convinced love wasn't real.