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'Deep breaths Clary' She repeated to herself, 'just breathe'. "It's Clary." she told him through gritted teeth. "Clary Fray."
"Oh, yes, I knew that. I'm..." he started.
"Jace Herondale, yeah I know." She cut in, "You're the one who came up whit the nickname The Martian." Honestly, that was the worst of her nicknames and typically the one that stuck the most.
"Really? Um, sorry. It's just...you know, you have red hair and Mars is red, you're tiny and Mars is the second smallest planet in Solar system, and well you have green eyes and Martins are supposed to be green. Plus the movie was really cool." He tried to explain while trying to sustain his laughter at the same time, and not really succeeding.
'What?!' Thought Clary, now utterly confused. 'He knows that Mars is second smallest planet? That's... odd. How does he knows that stuff?' Suddenly a voice in the back of her head reminded, 'Wait, Fray, you came here with a mission, you need that book he's holding and you will walk out of this library whit Eragon in hands, even if that's the last thing you'll do.'
"Okay let's forget about Mars. Um, I need that book. So if you could be nice enough and give it to me?" She decided to ask for it properly constantly ignoring the same voice in her head that said she could just take the book from his hands and run for Tess and her mighty (ancient) librarian computer. 'Let's do this the nice way'
"This one?" The idiot smirked. "Why?"
'Isn't it obvious?.' She thought, "Because I wanna read it, genius. Look, just give it to me, okay? Come back in two days when I read it and you can have it then, deal?" she tried to be polite. Really, of all the days he had to show up right now? When she craved that precise book?
Blondie just gaped at her. "You can read this gigantic book in only two days? Do you even have a life?" he was shocked.
'Why do people always react that way? But really the always ask the same question, no creativity these days.' Clary lost her nerves. "No, I'm a zombie. And if your pea sized brain doesn't know, let me tell you, they are lifeless creatures." She said and took the book out of his hands. She started running. But he soon recovered and managed to catch up with her.
" Look, I need that book too, okay soo..." He didn't finish the sentence, he just grabbed the book from her hands.
It was obvious that he didn't know the library at all. The idiot started to run in the opposite direction of the librarian' desk. Clary mocked him inside her head, "Bad sense of direction, Goldie Locks." and elegantly walked to the desk where Tessa was sitting and whispered something to her. Tessa just smiled and nodded. Clary hid behind on shelf, waited and listened.
"I'm sorry sir, but you cannot borrow this book. Its recognition number is damaged." Clary heard Tessa telling Jace in a professional and slightly bored voice, sounding like an old librarian you see in movies.
"What? Ma'am are you sure? Can't I just..." Jace was starting to sound panicked, the only thinking about his dad and his phone.
Oh, Clary could barely suppress laugh at his disappointed face 'You deserve that for taking my book!' she internally screamed.
"No, we don't have another copy of this book. I'm sorry sir, but I can't let you borrow this." Tessa was persistent. "Come back in a day or two and it should be fixed."
"Okay, I'll be back in two days. Goodbye." Jace gave up. 'Ha, victory!'
After he left, Clary came out of her hiding place grinning from ear to ear. "Tessa, you're a natural actress. Thank you so much for your help. Now, can I borrow the book?" Clary was almost giddy because of her victory, his disappointed expression did woke up the slightest guilt in her, but then she reminded herself that he had deserved it, for the nickname, plus she really wanted to read the book.
"Sure thing Clary. I don't know why I had to lie to that poor boy, but I do owe you for every time I had an emergency and you stayed and watched over the library so I'm glad I could help." Said Tess with a small smile on her own, she did have a bit of a mischief streak in her.
Tessa's little brother Nate, often got into fights in his school so she had to go and pick him up. As Clary was more in the library than in her own home; she volunteered to stay and watch over. She was more than happy doing it. All alone, with only books as company, Clary was in heaven.
"YAY! The victory is mine! There is one thing people should know- Clary Fray does not walk out of a library without a book of her choice in hand. Now let's go home and read you, shall we, Eragon?" She tapped the book that was safely in her bag and with her trusty headphones on she started making her way home.
For the boy she so easily defeated dough, the trip home is much trickier. It's weird how tedious a simple trip home becomes when you have nothing to listen music from, or play games on.
'God I'm so bored. How did people survive before mobile phones and other stuff? No wonder iPods were such a cool thing back then. But hey, they had other things before iPods, right? Like a century ago? Nobody uses those things anymore right? I mean, how old-fashioned you have to be to actually still use a walkman?' But Jace suddenly remembered that he had much more important things to think about. Telling his father that the book has been damaged and that he has to wait for two days is one thing. In fact. That might be the easy part. The hard part will be getting his phone back.
Besides, why can't his dad just buy a Kindle or something, every other person on the planet does that, why must he be an exception?
Okay, him, and weird redhead he confronted today.
