Alec Lightwood watched the raindrops smash against the car window, drowning out the voices of his family and getting lost in his own thoughts. He was furious that his parents were making him, his sister, and his brothers spend their school holiday some place in the countryside where there was probably nothing at all to do. His siblings hadn't taken the news well either, but Alec found it worse than they did because his parents had invited the Bane family to join them.

Magnus Bane and Alec Lightwood had known each other since they were little because they used to live next door to each other and their parents were good friends. The boys were best friends, did everything together and were inseparable at the time. They were similar, but also very different, and somehow that made them the perfect friend for each other. Even when Magnus moved half an hour away, they stayed best friends and were always over at one another's homes. But then as the years went on, their friendship changed because of two things: Jace and High School.

When the Lightwood's adopted Jace, Alec was thrilled to have a brother nearer to the same age as him than Max was, and he and Jace became close instantly. But Magnus didn't like Jace and had claimed that Alec would do anything Jace asked him to, and he felt like Jace was replacing him. No matter how many times Alec reassured Magnus that he would always be his best friend, it didn't work. They grew apart and only spoke to each other a few times a week, if that.

And then, when they started High School, they became strangers. Magnus, being the confident and charming guy he was, became the most popular student there whereas Alec was too shy and reserved to make many friends. If they passed each other in the corridor, they barely glanced at each other.

Magnus used to be a nice, sweet kid. Now, he was bitchy and thought that he was better than everybody else. Everybody knew that he had a reputation of going from person to person, dating somebody only for a week or so until he got bored of them. But still, nearly every girl and boy in school felt special if Magnus singled them out and thought they would be the exception, the one to change his slutty ways. None of them ever were the exception, of course.

Magnus' friends were horrible people and more than once had bullied Alec; he was their favourite target because they saw him as weak and geeky. Magnus never joined in when they were taunting Alec, but he didn't stop them either, he just sat there and let them bully his old best friend, like he couldn't care less.

Alec detested Magnus now, hence why he was so angry about his mum and dad dragging him onto the 'holiday' with the Bane family.

Alec had no idea whatsoever about how he was going to survive these next two weeks.

So, I know this is quite short but it is just the prologue, after all. Please review and let me know if you're interested in it so I know whether or not I should continue writing it! If I do continue, the chapters will definitely be longer than this.

Charlotte xo