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INSTITUTE’S CLARY FRAY AND ALEC LIGHTWOOD: ARE THEY OR AREN’T THEY?
For a while now many INSTITUTE fans have been questioning whether the feisty redhead guitarist and handsome lead singer have a thing going on behind the scenes. Nobody can deny their sexual tension in the band’s music video for ‘You Wanna Know’. And after Alec Lightwood’s most recent Instagram post, I think we can all agree that there is no longer any question about these two. Clalec is 100% real! I’m sure it won’t be too long until they’re confessing the truth to us, in which case shippers. Prepare your ‘told you so’ tweets!
“Yeah, I still hate media,” Alec grumbled as he closed his laptop, “who in their right mind would think I’m even a little bit interested in you,” he turned to Clary who was sat by his side looking at the same article on her phone, “you’re… You.”
“Well thanks, that’s a real confidence booster,” Clary replied in a sarcastic tone.
“Hey, I’m allowed to be mean to you. You know how it works, Izzy compliments you and I just pull your confidence back down.”
Clary rolled her eyes, “and to think, I’m nice to you.”
“Will you two quit fighting?” Izzy groaned as she walked into the room, “putting up with it is tiring.”
“Well Izzy, all I’m saying is one of us is your brother and one of us is dating you, you can’t ditch brothers but you can ditch girlfriends.”
“No she can’t,” Clary shook her head, “I made her sign a contract,” she joked and stuck out her tongue.
“You know I wrote Priorities about you,” Alec glared at Clary. Of course the fighting was a joke, and Clary knew that Priorities wasn’t in fact written about her at all. But she still played along and faked a gasp.
“How dare you! If I wrote a song about you I’d call it ‘What a bitch’.”
“If you wrote a song,” Alec repeated witha laugh, “honey, you can’t even write a jingle for a commercial.”
Izzy watched as Alec and Clary stared at each other before both bursting into laughter, she shook her head, “you two are exhausting!”
”You kind of have to get used to it,” Clary and Alec jumped when they heard Simon’s voice, he was sat at the desk by his computer.
”When did you get in here?” Clary pointed at Simon accusingly.
”I’ve been in here the entire time,” Simon raised an eyebrow, “I literally… Nevermind.”
Alec let out a chuckle, which caused Clary to start giggling.
“Jesus, are you guys high or something?” Izzy mumbled as she sat down next to Clary, the two just glared at her in silence until she spoke again, “so what are you reading?”
“A stupid article that says Alec and I are heterosexuals.”
“Not the dreaded heterosexuals,” Simon jokingly yelled from his seat, the trio looked over to him as he fell onto his knees, “when will they release their hold on us? When will they let us be free?”
Izzy snorted out a laugh, “you are such a dork.”
“Why thank you my sapphic queen,” Simon bowed to Izzy once he was back on his feet.
“I’ve got it!” Alec shouted suddenly, “we have a meeting with Luke about our next music video tomorrow, right?”
“Well it’s actually today,” Izzy corrected him, for a moment he gave her a shocked look before continuing his idea.
“We’re meeting Luke about our next music video today. I have a totally cool idea. What if we like… Use the video to come out? Like you two hook up in the video, Simon and Raphael get it on and I have some good looking guy,” he paused, “why the hell am I the only single one?”
Izzy ignored Alec’s final question and stood up in joy “Alexander Gideon you’re a genius!”
“I know right.”
* * * * *
Luke was ecstatic during the meeting, as soon as they had explained their idea he had shrieked with joy, it was perfect - for both them and their fans.
“It’s like one of those vloggers,” Luke clicked his fingers together, “when they upload one of those ‘I haven’t been honest with you guys’, you know… The ones that are all in lower case so you know it’s a serious video? Well we use your song, and I suppose the lyrics ‘Noone’s ever seen me like this’ can be great marketing for it. Since, well, noone has seen you like that.”
“This is going to be awesome,” Simon shrieked.
“Let’s say it’s set in a club where you guys are the performers, with cutscenes to you with various people throughout the night. Izzy with Clary, Simon with Raphael, and Alec with Magnus Bane.”
“Magnus Bane?” Alec choked slightly, “you mean like, the actual Magnus Bane?”
“I know for a fact I can book him for your video, he’s more than eager to work with other acts in their music videos and he loves your music.”
“You want me to get with Magnus Bane in a music video?”
“Yeah.”
“Oh sweet,” Alec whispered, leaning back in his chair, “this is going to be one hell of a shoot.”
“Alec has a thing for Magnus,” Izzy leaned forward, grinning at Luke.
“He’s a beautiful man,” Alec commented, letting out a dramatic sigh, “his music video for We Are Golden is my weakness.”
Luke grinned, “I’m glad you enjoyed it,” he let out a low laugh.
Alec smiled, he knew that Luke was the director of that music video, well he did now anyway. He turned to Simon and smiled, “I told you Luke was a genius.”
”I told you that,” Simon hissed back with a raised eyebrow, “anyway, I know Raphael will be happy to do it, he’s been waiting for the day he can start referring to me as his boyfriend in public.”
“This is going to be awesome,” Izzy squealed, grabbing Clary’s hand, “the best video yet, you just know it.”