Prologue
"Tessa! Come on!"
Tessa hurried over to Clary, who was yelling and frantically making arm movements that people probably would've thought were impossible.
"Alright, alright! You do realize I still haven't packed, right?" Tessa pointed out.
"Shoot. Well, go pack! We can't wait to have you as a dorm mate!"
Theresa Gray was just an average girl in New York. She goes to a normal school and has normal friends, basically a normal life. Tessa was going to move to the dorms that her school offer, because her aunt... had passed, and Nathaniel Gray, her brother, wanted her to use the dorms there.
Tessa bounded up the stairs of her house, flung open the door, grabbed a suitcase and started packing. She stuffed her clothes in first, then her prized laptop with its charger, then started putting her books in the suitcase. Sadly they don't all fit, so she had to leave them behind. She stared longingly at her other books for a while, then she closed the suitcase and dragged it down the stairs.
"Tessie...!" Nate's voice drifted from the halls.
Pause. "Yes?"
"Come here for a moment."
"Where are you?"
"In the guest room."
Tessa started towards the guest room, "Why are you in there?"
Tessa peered into the guest room, but before she could process anything, she was blindfolded and pushed towards something. There was a cackling sound that was seriously annoying Tessa.
"Nate...? Is that you?"
"Yes." Tessa heard Nate answer.
"Where are you taking me? You know I don't like surprises..." Tessa was gripping her suitcase very tightly, so tight that her knuckles are probably white.
Nate didn't answer, instead, she felt herself being pushed. At the last second, the blindfold loosened and flew away. Tessa found herself sinking into a purple, swirly vortex. Her clockwork angel that her mother gave her was flying in front of her face.
"Goodbye, Tessie. The Magister is waiting."
Then everything went black.
A/N Alright... That's the prologue... I'm just trying this story out, not sure if people will like it or not... So yeah! I'll continue if it's good, and something if it's not... :) Sorry if it's short, there will be longer chapters, but then this is just the prologue :)