'Only if it was a really gay spider,' said Magnus, and he yelled as Alec punched him in the arm. 'So would that give me the proportional gayness of a spider?' 'I’ve read Magnus’s stash of comics,' said Alec, 'so I actually know what you’re talking about' A small smile played around his mouth. 'I hope you told him you were bitten by a gay spider,' said Simon. 'Turned you gay?' She sounded incredulous. Once he asked me what I thought had turned me gay.' 'My mother seems to have accepted it,' Alec said. But, Simon admitted to himself, his own recent estrangement from his mother made him more curious about Alec’s answer than he would have been otherwise. Aside from the occasional exchange, Simon had never talked to Alec much. 'I thought your parents were okay with you, you know, coming out,' Simon said, leaning around Isabelle to look at Alec, who was - as he often was - scowling, and pushing his floppy dark hair out of his eyes. 'Please never say those words in front of my parents,' said Alec. 'I think of myself as a freewheeling bisexual,' added Magnus.
