"Okay," Alec said with a firm nod. "So we'll... be open about it and dance together."

Hey, he wasn't exactly jumping on the full-scale coming-out train anytime soon either; if his parents found out, he fully intended to freak, and he hadn't been a model of calm when Jace had told him that he knew either. But he didn't know that people cared as much in Fandom as they did in the Clave, and there weren't many people in Fandom whose opinions really mattered to him the way those of his family did.

"You can still, um, dance with your other friends too, though. If you want."