Chapter Three.

DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN THE INFERNAL DEVICES. ALL RIGHTS BELONG TO CASSANDRA CLARE. I DO, HOWEVER, OWN ALL CHARACTERS' THOUGHTS AND ACTIONS.

A/N: PLOT DEVELOPMENTS ARE HAPPENING. #WESSA

Okay, so here are my responses:

danie (Guest): I like writing mean Jessamine ;)

Sarah (Guest): I feel like half of the Infernal Devices fanfictions out there portray Jessamine as one of Tessa and Sophie's best friends and the other half portray her as Tessa's enemy. But I prefer writing mean Jessamine because Tessa already has Sophie.

tsphonia: I don't know, I feel like the teacher/student AU is really overused sometimes, just not in TID fanfiction.

The songs for this chapter are:

Basket Case- Green Day

Chapter Three.

TESSA GRAY'S POV- Friday, 3 October

It's the end of the first week back at college, and I'm glad I only have two more classes before the weekend. I have quickly grown fond of all my classes and my professors, and my classmates are all really intelligent and I love hearing what they have to say. That is, except Jessamine. It turns out that she's in my Classics to Modern Literature class too. So now I have to deal with her once a day. In Classics to Modern Literature, there are a lot of class discussions, which I hate participating in. I prefer to listen to what others have to say. Today's topic is the difference between the way classics and modern novels show romance, and Jessamine is the first to speak up.

"I, like, really don't like the way classics have romance play out. The characters, like, never have sex and basically only kiss. How do they show their affection?"

I'm really annoyed at what Jessamine said, and I don't know what comes over me, but I raise my hand, and since Professor Herondale is excited about me participating for once, he immediately calls on me.

I start out slowly, saying "Not every novel needs to have sex in it to be interesting," and I somehow end up giving a whole speech about the sacrifice in A Tale Of Two Cities, and the way protagonists in classics show their love through their words and actions, while in modern romance novels, it's hard to find a book without sex in it. It just shows how love used to be shown as something so coveted, while now, people hook up all the time just to have sex."

When I'm finished with my rant, the whole class just stares at me in shock. I guess once I started talking about a topic that I am so passionate about, I just got caught up in expressing my thoughts that I blocked out my surroundings.

After class, Professor Herondale compliments me on what I said in class. I am completely flustered, and say a quick thank you before leaving the room. I don't want to say anything, only to embarrass myself and have it occupying my thoughts at 2 am.

After all my classes are finished for the week, I go home and finish up some work for my classes, until I decide that I'm at a good place, with the work for the next weeks of all my classes done, except music theory. I just can't seem to find the right notes, and don't have any inspiration. This is going to keep me up all night, so I decide to my information from a good book, and tea- lots of it.

A/N: I'm so sorry it's short, but the next chapter is Will's POV! Also, I've been on vacation and I'm super busy with school starting soon. My chapters will most likely begin to get shorter but I will try to update at least once a week!

-thebooknerd01 (tiffany)

[26 august 2015]