Tessa turned down the hallway trying to figure out if she'd already been down this way once. It was all so confusing: there were far too many halls, and doors and she had gotten lost. But she refused to admit defeat and just sit down waiting for someone to find her, because that hadn't gone over to smoothly the last time she'd tried to do that.

Frustrated she turned to the right realizing that this looked different and thinking that she must be going in the appropriate direction. She knew her room was on this floor, but she didn't quite remember where at. Of course Charlotte had offered for her maid, Sophie, to show her to her room, but she had politely declined wanting to prove that she was capable of managing herself. Since she's been her she'd been relying on others.

"How can anyone manage to find anything in this place?" Tessa asked herself quietly, but was stopped short by a soft chuckle coming from behind her. She turned to find a boy with shockingly beautiful hair and silver eyes.

"I'm guessing you're lost then?" James said with a ghost of a smile crossing his features.

"I… um… no, I just thought that I'd familiarize myself with the place." Tessa said not wanting to admit that, yet again, she was lost.

"Oh? But I thought that our dear Will had given you a tour of the place." Jem's tone was mocking. Tessa sighed with defeat.

"Fine, I'm lost; hopelessly, miserably lost. Happy? Now would you be so kind as to show me where my room is?"

"Certainly." He said while offering her his arm. The pair didn't talk much on the way to Tessa's room, they simply enjoyed each other's presence.

Tessa couldn't help, but marvel at how different the two young boys of the institute were. One dark, the other light. They were like complete opposites!

"So, you and Will? Are the two of you close? Tessa had let her curiosity bubble to the point where she had to break the silence to ask.

"When I first came to the institute as a young boy, my parents had died and this was supposed to be a place where I'd find refuge, an orphanage of sorts, I guess you can say. Well when I first meet Will he was really hard to budge, he didn't think much of me and he didn't want to. As time went on he began to open up to me, Charlotte was surprised by that: she said that he'd been cold as stone almost since he'd came to the Institute. In ways I guess he still is, but I think there's something good in him and that one day it'll come out. He's my best friend, I have to believe that he's not all bad, regardless of what everyone else thinks.

Tessa was surprised: she hadn't expected James to say all that to her. She was just about to say something about it when they'd gotten to her door.

"Well" Jem began when they arrived at her door "Goodnight Tessa."

"Night, Jem." With that Tessa went inside and collapsed on her bed, thinking about how interesting her life had gotten since she'd moved to London.

"Tessa? Tessa, come on wake up. Argh, you can't be that tired: it's well past noon, now get up!" Tessa was shaken awake by an irritated Jessamine.

"What? What do you need?" Tessa said finally opening her eyes. Jessie was dressed in a soft pink sweater with a black cardigan, and dark jeans. Clearly she was dressed to go somewhere.

"Well obviously, I'm taking you shopping. You didn't think I'd let you keep wearing my clothes did you?"

"What? Jessie, no I don't have any money."

"I know that, but I have money, more than enough to spend a measly hundred- or two- on getting you something to wear."

Tessa was about to mention that fact that she had nothing to wear to go shopping, but she was stopped when Jessamine through a handful of clothes at her face.

"Put those on- you can keep them, and what you wore yesterday- and hurry, I'll get you something to eat while you get ready."

The clothes Jessie gave Tessa were… really form-fitting. The green t-shirt was had a low scoop neck line and the grey cardigan fit her arm and hung from her body in a manner that made her feel more underdressed than she was. Jessie had also given Tessa a black infinity scarf and black jeans to go with the converse she already had. Tessa was just thankful Jessamine hadn't made her change shoes.

Jessamine was already waiting downstairs with a bagel and a cup of coffee.

"I hope you don't mind, but a put two lumps of sugar in and some cream." She said handing her the food and opening the door.

"No that's fine." Tessa said following her out the door and into a black SUV. Jessie got into the driver's side and waited for Tessa to get buckled before leaving the gates of the Institute. It was the first time Tessa was leaving the Institute since she'd gotten there and she was pretty excited to finally be getting some fresh air, even if she wasn't particularly fond of letting Jessie buy her clothes.

Four hours later Tessa and Jessie were loading their newly bought clothes into the car. Tessa had gotten four t-shirts, five cardigans, a leather jacket, five pairs of jeans, two sweaters, and three tops. As well as a pair of riding boots, a belt, some scarves and a beanie. Jessie had also bought her sleep wear, which Tessa was really thankful for, because sleeping in jeans wasn't particularly comfortable.

The ride home was particularly quiet, but not in an awkward way. The two girls were tired from all the walking they'd done and both were really hungry. Dinner was also really quiet, Henry was playing with some contraption, and Will was pushing his food around his plate. Finally the silence was broken by Sophie entering the room to deliver a message to Charlotte in a whisper. When the girl left, everyone's head snapped up and they began peppering Charlotte with questions.

"Alright, hush, everyone. It seems we have a guest waiting for us, with information about Mortmain. Will, Jem, if you two wouldn't mind escorting me to go see our visitor?"

Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry I haven't update in weeks. I got really busy with band, and then I had to go the doctors and I just completely forgot. I'm also really sorry that this chapter sucked, but I really wanted to update even though I had like zero inspiration to. Next chapter will be more interesting I pinky swear.

Until then

Disclaimer: I don't own the Infernal Devices.