Alexander Lightwood loved his boyfriend and was learning to love his boyfriend's obsession with pop music. He even admitted that he liked some of it himself. There were times, however, when he, his boyfriend, and pop music did not mesh well together. This had been one of those times, he thought, looking back on the day.

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It was three years after the Mortal War and the majority of the Clave were gathered at the Institute for a general meeting. The excitement that Isabelle and Alec had had upon first being allowed into these meetings when they had become adult Shadowhunters quickly wore off when they discovered how monotonous the top-secret meetings really were.

Kadir stood in front of the group, informing them all of a new update in some slight tension going on between the vampires at the Hotel Dumort. It was going on 20 minutes of vampire politic talk and Isabelle wasn't even pretending to pay attention anymore, a long strand of hair being picked at absently between her fingers as she stared off at the clear blue sky outside the window. Alec was attempting to listen, mainly to keep up appearances since Jace was not yet old enough to be forced to attend the meetings and his sister clearly couldn't be counted on to do so.

"Raphael Santiago has informed us that—" It was never made clear to the Clave what Raphael had informed them of since at that particular moment one of the Nephilim's cell phones went off. Recognizing the highly catchy and offensive song from hearing it blasted from behind Isabelle's shut bedroom door, Alec glared at his sister. Isabelle shrugged, holding out her hands to show that, clearly, nothing could fit underneath her skin-tight white dress, not even a cell phone. Alec, however, didn't see this as his pocket started buzzing against his thigh a moment after the pop song had started.

"Are you brave enough to let me see your peacock? What'chou waiting for—it's time for you to show it off. Don't be a shy kind of guy, I'll bet it's beautiful. C'mon, baby, let me see, what'chou hiding underneath!"

Already looking at her brother, Isabelle saw his horrified expression before anyone else did and immediately burst out laughing, her sides seeming as if they were about to split in half. Alec rummaged desperately through his pocket, fumbling and cursing under his breath so much that it only let the song go on playing longer. His face was the same shade that old cartoons got before they exploded out the top. Finally, Alec reached his cell phone and brought it to his ear, quickly picking it up to make the song stop.

Isabelle could hardly stop laughing long enough to scream out, "I love you, Magnus!" across the now silent room. Alec, clearly mortified, said through his teeth, "I'm going to kill you…"

Maryse was the first one to break the silence from the adults, letting out a small chuckle as she shook her head, rolling her eyes at the ceiling. The room burst out into laughter at that, some sending Alec sympathetic looks over the table.

The teenager hung up his phone and dropped it back into his pocket, having made it was now silent, and muttered "Sorry…" into the table.