Room 401, Saturday Evening

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It was officially way too loud everywhere. In town, in the common rooms, just everywhere. In the world. Ever.

All Alec wanted to do was quietly read his book on demon poison, but no. He had to be subjected to an endless loop of child shrieking. And, considering he'd only ever gotten along with one or two children even when he was a child, it was probably for the best that he keep his distance. 

So for the sake of not going crazy, he was fiddling with that weird mundie music device they'd given out in Seven Deadly Sins class one week and trying to figure out how to make it work. It didn't look like it had any music on it, which couldn't possibly be right, because what was the point, then? And anyway the headphones fit strangely in his ears and the whole thing was just a disaster. Maybe he should go to the library or something. Or New York. Or overseas. Just to be safe. 

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IT FELT WEIRD. VERY, VERY WEIRD.

"You haven't even met him," Alec reminded Jace. Not that that should really matter. There was no way he ever would've liked Natalie even before he'd met her, so.

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"Are you really going to try that argument with me?" Jace asked. "What's that saying about pots meeting kettles?"

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"Well, that was different." Nope, it was exactly the same. Identical even. "I didn't really judge Natalie until after I met her. I was just suspicious."

Wrong. So wrong.

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"You are such a liar!" Jace said, laughing because it was so ridiculous. "You still haven't given Natalie a fair chance and I'm not even dating her."

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"Well, that's because you're you." WHATEVER THAT MEANT. "I've given her enough of a chance to know what I need to know about her."

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That earned Alec an eye roll. "Just let me do my thing, alright? I'm not going to destroy Glitter or whatever, don't worry."

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Alec sighed. "Okay, fine." He was pretty sure he would live to regret those words. "...Is it unfair to ask that you make an effort to be nicer to him than I am to Natalie?"

Yes. Completely.

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Jace lifted his eyebrows. "What do you think?"

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SIGH. "I think we should make sure to remember that Isabelle already got to him," he said diplomatically. "Whereas she never got to speak to Natalie."

That had to count for something, right?

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"You'll be lucky if I don't get Natalie to judge along with me," Jace told him. Oh lord, could you just picture the blonde, tawny-eyed, haughty judginess now?

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Wait, somehow the visual was even more horrifying now. WHAT HAD HE DONE?

"Oh, like Natalie would agree to do that," Alec dismissed. Hopefully. She wouldn't, right? Surely she didn't dislike him that much. "I think you have to actually have the person's best interests in mind before you go to judge a friend of theirs. Generally speaking."

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"Natalie has my best interests in mind," Jace said. "It's transitive property."

Now he was just screwing with Alec.

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Crap, he was right. "Still, that implies that she likes you more than she dislikes me," Alec said. "Which may or may not be the case. I've been pretty difficult to her."

'Difficult' was a pretty good word for it, yes.

Or that she disliked him so much that she was willing to talk to his maybe-date just to mess with him. Which he supposed was also a possibility.