izzy_lightwood (![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} izzy_lightwood) wrote in ![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small} valarlogs,@ 2016-09-29 21:15:00 |
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What: Shopping time
Where: A mall
When: September
Rating: Low
Status: Complete
Celaena and Izzy hadn’t had a shopping trip for sometime and Celaena was really looking forward to it. Catching up with her bestie was one of the best things in Celaena’s opinion. Seeing Izzy stood by the water fountain, she hurried over and hugged Izzy. “Hey you! How’s you?”
“Hi” Izzy greeted Celaena returning the hug easily, “I’m great thanks. Looking forward to this, I feel like it’s been so long since I got something new. Work has been crazy lately and then Alec’s wedding planning, I am looking forward to thinking about nothing but clothes for a while”
“Me too!” Celaena grinned, linking their arms and guided them through the mall to the first stop. “A wedding! How exciting! What’s the plan so far?” she asked excitedly.
“So far it’s happening, I’m maid of honour of course and it’s mostly my job to keep my mom out of it all” Izzy grinned, thankfully it wasn’t too hard with the family being in New York.
“Of course,” Celaena grinned. “As I understand it, mom-wrangling can be the most important things to do when it comes to a wedding. Pesky creatures wedding moms,” she joked. “Has your mom tried to take over yet or have things been ok?”
“It can I think” Izzy nodded, especially their mother she could be a handful, “So far she’s been okay but once things get closer to the date and closer to her things could change”
“Well if you need anything, you know where to find me,” Celaena told her. “How’s Alec? Taking a front seat in the planning? Has he picked your dress out and stuff?” she asked.
“Of course, you’re the first one I’ll call” Izzy promised, “Alec is great, he’s so happy. It’s great to see actually. He’s definitely fully involved and we’re going to choose my dress together”
“He’s had it tough you brother, hasn’t he,” Celaena replied quietly. “I can’t imagine what coming out must have felt like for him,” she mused as they walked.
“It took him a long time to accept it for himself. I mean I kind of always knew and when I could I took the heat off him with mom and dad. They were happy to leave Alec be when they had the wild child to deal with but when he moved away I knew somehow I had to come with him” Izzy said with a happy little shrug, “I’m glad I did, seeing him with Magnus is just beyond amazing”
Celaena smiled up at Izzy fondly as she listened to her best friend talk. She often wondered what it would be like to have a brother or a sister and wondered why her parents didn’t adopt more. Then she realised that Celaena herself was a bit of a handful in and of herself. “He seems to be really happy, I’m really glad for him. And you,” she winked up at her friend. “Will you be taking a certain plus one?” she teased.
“I’ll be taking Simon” Izzy confirmed, “I’d be a terrible girlfriend if I didn’t” she grinned, “Besides it’s time he met the parents right?” She was more nervous about that than she was letting on.
Celaena grinned and bounced up and down in excitement. “Ohh! That’s so exciting! How do you think they’ll get on? Do you think he’ll be all old-fashioned and ask your dad for permission to marry you?” she didn’t know why, but Simon struck her as that kind of a guy for some reason.
“Cel!” Izzy said slapping her friend on the arm, lightly, “You aren’t supposed to suggest things like that. I’m already a little worried about it, now I’m going to be paranoid”
“Oh come on! It’s totally something he’d do!” Celaena grinned then looked at her friend with a frown. “Why are you worried about it? Haven’t you thought about it? Y’know, your future with him,” she asked gently, not wanting to upset her friend or anything.
“I have of course I have and that doesn’t worry me” Izzy sighed, “I’m worried what my parents might say to Simon, I’ve never had a ‘proper’ boyfriend. I went through guys pretty quickly back home” even if it had been mostly to help keep the heat off Alec but she worried her parents wouldn’t take Simon seriously.
“But Simon is like the ideal boyfriend, he's like...completely unobjectionable,” Celaena frowned. “There are way worse guys you could be introducing to them,” she pointed out.
“Oh I know. It’s more me that’s the questionable one” Izzy said with a wry smile.
“Hey now!” Celaena pulled Izzy round to look at her, stopping them in the middle of the walkway. “You’re amazing! And I will fight anyone who says otherwise! And I don’t mean girl fighting with flappy hands, I mean full-on ‘I’ll draw my swords and gut you’ kind of fighting. And you shouldn’t be thinking any different either, you have an incredibly successful job, friends and family who love you and a boyfriend who treats you like the goddess you are,” she smiled brightly.
Izzy laughed and gave Celaena a hug, “You’re the best you know that?” she said, Izzy wasn’t prone to lapses in confidence until it came to her parents. She knew they didn’t think highly of her, Alec was always the one expected to do well. Izzy was just a wild child who wouldn’t do much. But Cel was right, she was awesome and if they didn’t see that it was their loss. “Come on, let’s get our shopping groove on” she winked.