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Alec made his way into the back of the starbucks shop and sneezed. There were boxes bundled on top one other, dust covering the lids of the boxes just slightly. Alec rolled his eyes. They seriously needed to clean this up. He walked to the small changing room and pulled his apron from the hook. This was going to be a long day.
Alec tied his apron and made his way into the front shop. Jace had already started cleaning the counter. Alec patted his back when he walked past him and pulled the chairs down from the tables and onto the ground. He whipped down the tables and then walked to the door, turning the sign from ‘Closed’ to ‘Open’.
“Reckon it’s gonna be a busy day?’’ Jace asked from where he leaned against the counter with his hands.
“It’s New York.’’ Alec mumbled, looking through the window to the streets. People were hurrying to get to their busses or arrive at their jobs in time. “It’s always busy.’’
“True. Hey, Izzy told you about the dance battle coming up right?’’ Jace asked him.
Jace was the dance captain of the New Yorker dance group “The Hipsters’’. His sister Izzy was a part of the dance group as well. She loves dancing, she says it makes her feel calm and yet sexy at the same time.
“Yeah, she did. She’s been practising her butt off. I swear to god, Jace. If she sings ‘Hit me baby one more time’ ONE more time, I will actually hit her.’’
Jace laughed his ass of at Alec’s expression, who in return gave him a glare. The door jingled, a sign that the first costumers were dripping in.
Alec made his way to the check out while Jace went to prepare the coffee machine. He smiled politelt at the girl.
“Good morning, how can I help you?’’ He asked.
The girl turned beet red and bit her lip, giggling. “I-I’d like to have the Pumpkin Spice Latte and a blueberry muffin.’’
Alec nodded and mentally rolled his eyes. Girls really couldn’t tell that he was attracted to boys, could he? He gave the order through to Jace who started on it and Alec turned to the next costumer.
That’s how time flew by. Girls would make loving eyes at him, their boyfriends, if they had one that is, would glare the entire time at him until he would awkwardly pass the order to Jace. Alec had gotten off his break when a man in suite came walking in, talking loudly to his phone.
“I told you a million times, Steve! I need the report today. I am on my way back to office now, it better be on my desk when I get back.’’ The man looked up at Alec. “One Mocha Light Frappucino with a dot of whipped cream and three strawberry meringue cookies to go. Pronto.’’
Alec stared at the man in front of him with arched eyebrows, but gave the order through to Jace anyway. When he turned back the man was standing in a corner of the shop, still on the phone. The sunlight made it seem like he was an angel going on a business meeting. Alec caught himself starring at the man, it wasn’t like he couldn’t help it. The man’s black hair was styled up in a a quiff, the ends of the hairs a blond colour. His skin tone was almost golden-like, as if the sun had kissed him on the day he was born. His brown eyes were a chocolate kind of colour and his lips were pink and plump, waiting to be kissed.
Alec felt a rough pat on the back and he turned around to a smirking Jace who had the man’s order ready. “Get your head together, dreamboy. This is for your beautiful business man.’’
Alec just scowled at him and grabbed the bag with the cookies and the coffee cup and walked over to the man. Just as Alec wanted to tap the man on the shoulder, he turned around and bumped into Alec, causing the coffee that Alec was holding to spill all over his expensive looking suite jacket. He heard Jace trying to stiffle his laughter in the back and made a mental note to kick his ass for that later.
“O-Oh my g-god... I-I’m so sorry. I-I can fix it!’’ Alec was so embarrassed and tried to rub the coffee stain out of the jacket but that only seemed to make it worse.
The man on the other hand had been ready to scream at the poor boy, until he actually saw the boy’s face and decided not to. The boy, ‘Alec’ he read at name tag, was rambling with apologies and looked like he had just driven over his neighbours favorite dog.
“It’s okay.’’ The man cut off the rambling and offered a small smile. “I’ll drop it of at a clean store, no big deal.’’
“Way big deal!’’ Alec argued. “I can drop the jacket of too if you like. It was my fault after all. I’ll pay the bill too. That’s the least I can do!’’
“It’s okay, kid.’’ The man said but Alec shook his head.
“I insist.’’ Alec said stubbornly.
The man chuckled and eventually took the jacket of and handed it too Alec. He then reached into his bag and took out a business card that he gave too Alec as well.
“Call me when the jacket is clean, I can always come back here and pick it up.’’
Alec took the card from the man and smiled at him. Magnus Bane it read, followed with his telephone number and the address of his office. Magnus smiled back at Alec and smirked.
“Do you believe in karma?’’ Magnus asked as he let his eyes trail down Alec’s body.
Alec raised an eyebrow, not understanding where this was going. “Uh, maybe?’’
Magnus’ smile grew bigger and leaned closer to Alec, whispering in his ear; “Good, because I know some good karma-sutra positions.’’
Alec felt Magnus’ hot breath against his ear and shivered, a red blush covering his cheeks as he registered what Magnus said. Last thing he knew was Magnus grabbing the bag of cookies, winking at Alec and leaving the store without his coffee. Alec still stood there with the jacket in his hands and swallowed. He looked down at the jacket and carefully folded it up, walking to the back of the shop and gently putting it in his bag.
He then looked back at the business card he had received and found himself repeating Magnus’ name over and over again. A smile came onto his lips and he put the business card in the pocket of his pants. He would be looking foreward to seeing Magnus again.
Little did he know that at the other side of the city, Magnus had arrived in his office and was chewing on a cookie well looking out the window, looking down at the busy street and watching people and cars race by. He smiled at the thought of Alec and he couldn’t wait to go back to the starbucks.