Beautiful

lasagne, because why not

Alec groaned as he opened his eyes and squinted through the dim light that was shining through his bedroom window. As he turned his head, he felt a hand against his arm and everything flooded back to him. He sat up slowly, with some assistance from Magnus, and rubbed his tired eyes.

'Hey there, sleeping beauty,' Magnus said quietly as they smiled at each other.

'What's the time?' Alec asked, slightly disorientated. Magnus grinned lightly.

'It's 6:30 pm, you've been asleep for about an hour and a half. You woke up in time though, Maryse has made lasagne and-'

'Lasagne! Oh my god, Magnus, you've got to try it. It's amazing!' Alecs' sudden burst of energy shocked Magnus, and Alec caught the expression. They both started laughing and eventually he pulled Magnus off the bed. They were now standing about half a meter from one another, giving Magnus a perfect view of the others' amazing torso.

'Hold up,' Magnus chuckled as Alec started towards the door. He turned and  frowned at him.

'What's wrong?' 

'I appreciate the thought, but you can't go down there without a shirt on. Really Alexander, what were you thinking?' Alec blushed and looked down, smiling slightly.7o 

'I keep forgetting,' he mumbled. Magnus smiled and was about to make what Alec thought would be a smart remark, but they were interrupted as Maryse pushed open the bedroom door very slightly.

'If either of you are naked, then cover up quickly please!' she shouted through the gap before she fully opened the door and walked in. She gasped at Alecs' bare chest and beamed, looking between the two of them. 'I didn't actually think that you would, but I can see what the two of you have been doing the last hour and a half...' Magnus snorted and attempted to stifle a laugh, which attracted a glare from Alec.

'Mom! Nothing h-happened! I, just, I kinda, um, well-'

'He fell asleep on me,' Magnus explained, redeeming himself. 'That's all that happened,' He smiled mischievously at her, as if their was some secret joke he didn't know about. There probably is,  Alec thought and groaned internally as he looked at Magnus and grinned thankfully at him. Magnus winked back and Alec blushed deeply. 

'I'm gonna get a shirt on,' he announced, receiving a playful pout from Magnus. Maryse saw the gesture and decided that was her cue to leave. 

'Both of you be downstairs in a minute otherwise it will be gone!' she threatened, grinning knowingly at them both as she turned and carefully shut the door. Alec exhaled and Magnus laughed. 

'Thanks for talking to her. I don't know how I cope with her when she and Izzy are like that,' Alec muttered.

'Aw, come on. It's absolutely hilarious, and it just shows that they care, Alexander,'

'I know,' Alec said as he walked over to his draws and pulled out a black shirt. Magnus walked towards him and peered over his shoulder, into his draw. Alec raised his eyebrows in confusion, and Magnus looked at him seriously. 

'We are going shopping some time this week and Izzy and Jace are coming. No arguments.'

'But Mag-'

'No but's either,' looked at Alec intensely, and he just rolled his eyes.

'Fine,' he agreed and Magnus' face lit up. 

'Yay! Now come on, I'm hungry,' Alec laughed quietly as he pulled on his shirt with ease. Damn, how can he look so good putting on a shirt? Magnus thought but changed his mind by the time it was on. It hugged his figure, showing his biceps slightly bulging and his torso to die for. Alec caught him staring, but Magnus exercised heroic self-control. 

'And... I'm back,' he said, watching as Alec blushed. 'Let's go,' He grabbed his confused friends' arm and dragged him out of the room.

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'When he was three...' 

Alec groaned as he sat with his head buried in his arm. The dinner had started of fine, with him sitting next to Max on one side and Magnus on the other, but then Izzy, Jace and Maryse thought it would be funny to humiliate him in front of the guy he had known a day, and who he already had a massive crush on.

'I had left the stove on, and he thought that he knew how to turn it off. So being the young, innocent Alec he was, he went and grabbed a handful of dirty clothes from the laundry basket, and dumped them on the stove, thinking that he could put the stove out! Of course, this didn't work, and he ended up burning a ton of clothes, including my favourite, very expensive, crystal embroidered, Gucci dress!' Magnus inhaled sharply as Maryse finished, and he turned and stared at Alec. 

'Your apparently innocent brain wrecked a dress worth $2,500 dollars! I'm pretty sure that's impossible,' he shook his head in mock disgust and Alec blushed. 

'I was three years old! I didn't know, did I!' The whole table burst into laughter at the very embarrassed eighteen-year-old, even Max, who tended to just sit and smile. Betrayal,  Alec thought. Luckily for Alecs' patience, the laughter did finally die down, and Magnus sighed.

'Maybe Alexander's had enough teasing for the day,' Magnus grinned. Thank you, God!  Alec thought as he looked in gratitude at Magnus. From opposite the table, Jace was whispering, 

'Oh Alexander, I love you, I want to kiss your feet, and wash your body with sandalwood!' Izzy was giggling, but they were both cut off as they saw two deadly stares from Alec and Magnus. They were both blushing for a change but still managed to look like they wanted to kill both of them. That told us Jace thought. 

'Why don't you tell us about yourself Magnus?' Maryse intervened. She was very good at breaking the tension in situations. 

'Yeah, why don't you Magnus?' Alec smiled smugly at him. 

'Well, what do you wanna know?'

'Everything,' Izzy and Jace said together. They smiled and Jace continued talking.

'If you wanna have a chance with my brother, we've got to know stuff about you,'

'Oh my god!' Alec interjected. 'What is it with you lot? I don't talk about your sex lives in front of everybody, do I?' 

'Sex life, hey?' Izzy teased. Magnus looked shocked and slightly amused and Alec crumbled on the inside.

'Oh god, that came out wrong. I, um, what I really, um, meant was...' he gave up. 'You know what I mean!' Everybody chuckled.

'It's fine, don't worry Alexander.' Magnus turned to face the Lightwoods. 'Why don't I start with telling you the basics. I'm eighteen and I'm a fashion major. I'm an only child and I live with my Mom because my Dad died when I was three,' he said this with a small smile on his face as he heard everybody gasp quietly. A chorus of 'sorrys' went around the table before he spoke again. 'It's fine, my Mom I are super close, and I don't even remember my father that much anyways. My hobbies are art, music and fashion I guess, even though looking fabulous comes naturally to me,' he said with a lazy smile on his face, and everybody grinned. They like him, Alec thought. That was always a good start. 

HEY GUYS! THIS IS QUITE A FUNNY CHAPTER AND I HOPE YOU ENJOY! I ALWAYS LOVE A SUPPORTIVE MARYSE AND THIS IS WHAT IVE GIVEN TO YOU. PLS COMMENT THOUGHTS, LOVE YA!

-BO X

P.S. WILL, JEM, CATARINA, TESSA AND RAPHAEL WILL ALL BE INVOLVED SOON!