#idontalwaysgetkidnapped

[text - simon]:: is that a no then?

Jace sighed and rolled his eyes. "You can stop looking like a kicked puppy.", he muttered after a few minutes in which Jace had studiously ignored Simon and tried to follow the strained conversation going on between Maryse and Magnus.

Alec felt his cheeks warm and he said, “Uh, thanks?” Compliments like that were not usually ones he was used to, so he didn’t know what to do with them. “Am I supposed to compliment you back? I don’t know how this works.” Izzy would know, but she wasn’t around to help him.

If he’d thought the pinning down had been strange, he was even more surprised by the kiss. Jace knew that he was attractive, most people did, but he didn’t think Simon had caught on to that attractiveness, let alone enough to want to kiss him. Jace found himself relaxing into it and closing his eyes. This was wrong, he thought. This was Clary’s boyfriend and they shouldn’t be kissing, but he’d been the one to kiss him first. After a moment, Jace pulled back with a gasp. “What was that for?”

Jace rolled his eyes and Simon tried to deny his claim. “Oh yeah, then why did I catch you looking there, huh? Don’t tell me it was just a glance.” First the kiss and now…well, he didn’t know what this was anymore. “Oh no you don’t.” Jace stepped toward him and grabbed him by the arm. “You’re going to tell me what this is about. I thought that it was Clary who you wanted. Not me.”

   “What would you have done if I had said I needed to go?” Jace asked, curious. He still wasn’t entirely sure what this thing was that was going on between them, but he wasn’t complaining about it. It was nice and he felt like he didn’t have to worry as much with Simon. “Of course as a date. You don’t think I’d take you there just as your buddy, do you?” He nudged at his side playfully, hoping to get a laugh out of him as he did it. “Unless you think it’s too soon, of course. We could have a private picnic in the greenhouse instead.”