Previously…

Cecily asked him, "So, did you have fun?"

"I'm tired," he told her in a bored tone.

"That doesn't answer my question."

"I know." He closed the door to his room in front of her face. "Goodnight, Cecy, and let me sleep."

"Sleep is for the weak," he heard her sing before going to her own room.

"Hypocrite!" he shouted and she laughed in the distance.

Tessa was in her theater listening to her teacher, Mrs. McGrath talking about the joys of acting, and that she would like for them to act as well. As in improv. As in like right now.

It was one of the classes she had with Will and Gabriel which made the whole period rather amusing with their incessant banter. She sat in between the two because putting them right next together would cause a war, surely. But yet, their arguing never seemed to cease, even if she was in the middle of the two.

Mrs. McGrath called up the students she wanted to come up. "Tessa Gray," she said first. She groaned mentally. Why did every teacher pick her for improv? Was she just an easy target?

"Gabriel Lightwood." Meh.

"Jessamine Lovelace." No.

"And William Herondale." How convenient.

They all stood in the front of the stage. Tessa rocked back and forth on her heels, standing closer to Gabriel and farther away from Jessamine and Will. She smirked at Tessa and Tessa gulped.

"Okay, for this scene, the topic is unrequited love."

NO, Tessa thought with widened eyes. NO, PLEASE, ANYTHING BUT THAT.

"And, I want there to be at least one kiss." Tessa nearly threw up then and there. NO, WHY WOULD YOU EVEN SAY THAT. The class looked uninterested and she was feeling woozy.

Maybe she should pretend to pass out to get out of this situation.

She desperately wanted to get off the stage and go home.

"Gabriel loves Jessamine, Jessamine loves Will, Will loves Tessa, and Tessa loves Gabriel. Got it?" Mrs. McGrath said quickly.

They all blinked.

"What?" Everyone in the classroom said in unison.

The teacher sighed, pinching the bridge of her nose and briefly checking the clock. She said slowly, "Gabriel loves Jessamine."

They both grimaced.

"Jessamine loves Will."

She looked satisfied, whereas Will did not.

"Will loves Tessa…"

They both didn't know how to respond to that.

"And Tessa loves Gabriel."

They both exchanged a look.

"And action!" Mrs. McGrath shouted, sitting in her director's chair. Tessa and Will stood off to the side awkwardly, both avoiding each other's gaze and the scene. Tessa stared at the ground. Wood, she thought uncomfortably. I love wood. Right now, she'd to anything to distract her from Will and Gabriel and Jessamine.

She would actually do anything to get off of this stage.

Gabriel tried not to grimace as he looked over at Jessamine, who was grimacing. He whispered to the teacher, "Can we use fake names?" She shrugged.

"Susan," Gabriel said, shifting. "I've been madly in love with you for the past few years, will you please marry me?" he asked in monotone. Good for Gabriel, Tessa thought. Cutting it to the chase. Very good.

"No! I cannot!" Jessamine cried out. Tessa covered her mouth and bit down hard on her bottom lip to keep herself from laughing outright. She was being overly dramatic. "Alas, I am in love with someone else! Therefore I cannot marry you. I'm so sorry." What the hell? Was she (obviously fake) sobbing? What?

Mrs. McGrath didn't seem too impressed, but she said, "Erm, okay. Switch." Gabriel walked off to where Tessa was, and where Will was getting off to go to the front.

Jessamine threw herself at him. The audience was snickering and Tessa really, honestly, tried with all of her might not to do so. But it was too good. The teacher even had to hide a smile. Will just looked 1,000% done with Jessamine.

"Jonathan!" Jessamine sobbed. Will stared at her as if he was almost scared of her. Tessa pinched herself hard in the arm. Don't laugh, don't laugh, don't laugh.

"Susan…?" Will looked at her oddly. The audience laughed. But Jessamine was too in-the-zone to notice. Tessa facepalmed herself.

"Jonathan, I love you," Jessamine said, sobbing into his shirt.

"Uh, there, there," he awkwardly patted her back which erupted more laughter from the class.

"I love with you with all of my heart and soul, Jonathan. I've turned down many many many rich suitors just for you." She stroked his face.

Will tried not to recoil from her touch, anyone could see that. "Susan," he announced, "I'm afraid that I do not love you. You are a," he coughed, "um, kind girl—really. But yeah, no." He shook his head. Tessa couldn't help herself. She laughed as well as many other students.

Jessamine deflated. "What," she spoke softly. But then her voice rose. "What?"

Tessa heard him whisper, "Jessamine, control yourself. Improv, remember?"

"Oh, yeah," she nodded. Ditz, Tessa rolled her eyes at her.

Mrs. McGrath seemed relieved that Jessamine would be walking off the stage. "Switch," she announced.

The kiss, her teacher's voice echoed in her mind. It was either Will or Gabriel. Tessa swore incessantly in her mind.

Tessa walked up to Will. Jonathan, she reminded herself. He better choose a really pretty name for her or else he's going to—

"Isabelle," he started. Good enough. Her heart was already racing from being at the front of the stage. Did she have stage fright? Because she was literally going to die. Immediately he kissed her and Tessa could no longer process any more coherent thoughts.

His lips were soft against hers and it took her four seconds to respond. Will cupped her face and deepened the kiss, wrapping his arm around her waist and pulling her closer to him. And then he pulled away. The class was whooping and Tessa's face felt like it was on fire.

She momentarily forgot what she was doing and where were they at. Then she remembered she was in theater. She was playing Isabelle and he was Jonathan. Tessa was struggling for air. Her voice was meek when she said, "Yes, Jonathan?"

The class had settled down gradually and he was running his fingers through his hair. Tessa's heart was going to explode at any moment. She was going to faint. Something was going to happen. 'Jonathan' had begun pouring out his love for her.

Tessa interjected, "Jonathan, it doesn't matter…"

"I know that if you hate me it is because I have forced you to. I know that you have no reason to give me a second chance to be regarded by you in a different light. But I am begging you for that chance. I would do anything."

Tessa was impressed by his improv skills. But of course, it was unrequited love. "No, it isn't possible…"

"It is, it must be," he immediately said. "You cannot hate me as much as all that—"

"I don't hate you at all," she said, with great sadness.

"Then there's a chance," Will said. "If you do not hate me, then there's a chance that you might—"

Tessa wasn't exactly sure what she should interrupt but she said it, hoping it wasn't too cliché. "I am sorry, Jonathan," she spoke. "I do not love you. I love—er, um—Stephen! I love Stephen."

"Switch!" Mrs. McGrath said, a twinkle in her eye. Will walked off the stage, winking at Tessa. She flashed a grin at him.

Gabriel walked right up to Tessa. She pretended to look absolutely delighted to see him. "Stephen," she greeted. "I've been awaiting your arrival." She hit herself. That sounded stupid. But so far it's been kind of a mash-up of time, so…

"Have you, now," he spoke, sounding quite bored.

She nodded once. "Yes. I have been meaning to tell you something. You see I've come to admire you over the past few months. I was wondering that you might, well, reciprocate those feelings?" She pretended to sound hopeful, her voice getting higher per word.

Gabriel gave her a grim look, shaking his head. "I am so very sorry, um—Isabelle." He took her hand. "My feelings for Susan are too great. You're a very lovely person, but I'm afraid that I cannot love you. It would be unfair to Susan. Although I hope we can still be friends," he suggested.

Tessa sighed, looking down. "I understand, Stephen. Thank you for your honesty. And I hope so too."

"Give them a round of applause, students!" Mrs. McGrath exclaimed, causing everyone to follow her orders.

Tessa was blushing once more and she whispered to Gabriel, "Good Lord. That was probably the worst thing to happen at school ever."

He grinned at her. "Oh, come on Tessa. I'm not that bad, am I?" She laughed, shaking her head.

"Seriously though. You and Jessamine?" she whispered.

He shuddered. "Just imagining it is dreadful enough." She giggled before taking a seat next to him and Will who gave her a thumbs up. She smiled shyly and Mrs. McGrath asked who they thought was the best.

No one rose their hand, just blurted out their thoughts at once. What really made Tessa laugh though was the fact that literally no one said Jessamine's name.

"Will and Tessa!"

"Tessa and Gabriel!"

Those two statements floated around the classroom. Will nudged her. "Seems like you did a nice job, Tess."

She rolled her eyes. "Please. It was either that, or Jessamine." Will scrunched up his nose at the sound of her name.

Mrs. McGrath gave the three of them a look of approval and the three of them smiled at each other. "Good work, you three," Mrs. McGrath praised.

Suddenly Jessie stood up. Will rolled his eyes. "What about me," she demanded, stomping once.

The teacher turned around to face her and attempted a smile and everyone kind of said, "Ehh…" Jessamine scowled and sat back into her seat.

Then her teacher continued on with class—or at least the last fifteen minutes of it.

A/N: This took me a while to write. Sorry I didn't update sooner. I went to the movies yesterday and saw Oz The Great and Powerful. It was kind of cheesy, but nevertheless, a good movie. I liked the ending though with the whole projector and the Wicked Witch(es?)

Anyway, this is based off of tealshoelaces's review. And this wouldn't be their first kiss, they've kissed before. But not under good circumstances, really.

But yeah. Review please :)

Disclaimer: I do not own The Infernal Devices or anything else mentioned in this story because I did actually use some Clockwork Prince dialogue here, so. Yeah.