Quite magical

Chapter Thirteen

 POV Alec

Alec couldn't help but feel a dash of sadness when Magnus told them that he had to leave. He would have loved to hang out with him just a little bit longer but apparently there was something rather important he had to do and of course Alec couldn't blame him for that.

After he was gone Alec wasn't in the mood for reading any longer so he put his book away and joined the conversation of the others.

He quickly realized that Aline seemed to be a little bit absent-minded. She wasn't talking very much and glanced on the screen of her phone every two minutes. Also she seemed to be slightly tense. Apparently she was waiting for something and Alec couldn't help but wonder what it might be. He was just about to ask her when Aline suddenly gasped loudly and made all the others look at her with a mixture of amusement and concern on their faces.

"What's happening?" Alec asked. "You look like you're about to have a heart attack."

"That's ... oh my god I can't believe this ... " Aline stammered. "She just wrote me a message."

Alec, Clary, Simon and Izzy knew immediately who she was talking about and started cheering but Jace obviously didn't have any clue what was going on. He looked so confused and weirded out by the behaviour of the others that it was almost a little bit funny.

"What? Wait who are we talking about here? What's going on?" he asked.

"Helen Blackthorn" Aline said slowly. She still looked at her phone as if she couldn't believe her eyes. "Were talking about Helen Blackthorn. A girl from our school."

Jace looked even more confused now. "And why are you all freaking out because she wrote you a message?"

Now everybody was staring at him instead of Aline.

"You seriously don't know about this yet?" Simon asked.

"Well obviously not. I wouldn't be asking if I knew."

"I ... uh ... I kinda have a crush on her" Aline explained and blushed slightly.

"For quite a long time already" Clary added.

Now Jace didn't look confused any longer. "Oh. Okay."

"But there's one thing I don't understand" Clary continued. "Since when does she have your phone number?"

"Yeah right. When did that happen?" Simon gave Aline a curious look.

"Actually it happened today in school, just a few hours ago" she told them. "There's a list at the bulletin board in the hallway which you have to sign if you want to earn some money by giving other students tutoring lessons. You have to write down your name, in which grade level you are, what subjects you want to give tutoring in and your phone number. I had just finished writing everything down when she was suddenly standing right behind me. She said that her little sister needed tutoring in one of the subjects I wrote down on the list and then she asked if I would be interested in doing it. Of course I said yes. We immediately arranged the finer details but in the end she still saved my phone number in case there's a change of plans or something like that. I didn't think that she would write me a message just like that ... I mean I hoped so but I wasn't really expecting it. That's why I haven't told you about it yet. I thought she just wanted my number because of the tutoring lessons for her sister but that message she just send me doesn't have anything to with that at all and I don't know what to answer."

"Well what did she write?" Izzy asked and leaned over to Aline so she could take a look on the screen of her phone. "Maybe we can help you."

Alec couldn't deny that he was pretty curious about this as well so he also took a quick glance at Alines phone: 'Hi. It was really nice getting to know you. You seem very ... sympathetic ;) I'm sure you're going to be a great tutor' Helens message said.