And it immediately occured to Alec that he may have just sicced yet another person on Sparkle who was inevitably going to get all weird and threatening at him. He really needed to learn to keep his mouth shut.

Too late now, though. Whoops.

"Sparkle," he said. "He and I have been... sort of spending time together lately. Shooting at the gym and so on. And apparently Izzy was, uh, difficult to him over Parents' Weekend, so now he's taking me to a bar."

That was logical.