Hey, pretty people! Here's this months update. Also—I've got Pink's concert next weekend! She's going to be fucking amazing!

Clary kicked her feet up on the chair that she had pulled closer to her so that she was reclining in one chair with her feet propped upward. It was a Friday night, which was always slower in the library. Usually she only worked a couple nights through the week, but one of the other girls had been surprised by her long distance boyfriend showing up to whisk her away for the weekend and she had begged Clary to cover her shift. A little bit of extra money never hurt anyone, and she didn't have any plans that evening, so she had said yes.

Now she was regretting it now because it was slow and her phone was on low battery so she couldn't keep watching the terrible lip sync videos that had been keeping her entertained, Lydia didn't work Fridays so she couldn't talk to her, and the only people coming into the library were students who actually wanted to study, so they weren't willing to participate in any small talk.

"Little Miss Fray," came a deep voice from the doorway, and Clary let her feet drop back to the floor to spin her chair around to face the direction of the voice.

Sebastian Verlac.

He was friends with Raphael, although not good friends. They had gone to high school together and so occasionally Sebastian would have lunch with them or go out with them when they went drinking. Clary had slept with him a couple of times during her first few months of University, and it had been good—nothing great, but good. Sometimes they would see each other around and there would be some flirting, they made out at a party a month or so ago, but Clary hadn't been interested in doing anything further so they had gone home separately.

"What are you doing in here on a Friday? Don't have anything better to do?" Clary teased as she got to her feet to stand behind the counter as Sebastian approached, resting her hands on the wooden counter top.

"I could say the same thing about you, doll," Sebastian smirked at her as he stood on the other side of the desk, tilting his head as he looked over at her.

"At least I get paid for being here," Clary responded. "And I'm not usually in this place on a Friday—what are you doing here?"

"Believe it or not, I am studying to get a degree, and it just so happens that I've got a couple of projects due in the next couple of weeks and I may or may not have only just started," Sebastian grinned.

"Typical male," Clary grinned.

"Something like that," Sebastian shrugged unabashedly. "Anyway, if you feel like you need something to liven the place up a bit, I'll be in the engineering section. I'm always down for a little bit of fun in stacks," he wiggled his eyebrows at Clary and she just rolled her eyes back, although there was a smile on her face. Sebastian walked past her, toward the steps at the back of the library, and Clary watched him go, mainly out of the lack of anything better to do.

He had a nice ass, so it wasn't a bad view.

Clary looked down at her phone—the background picture was one of her, Lydia and Simon. She was pretty sure they were stoned at the time, the photo was a bit blurry, but there faces were smushed together and they were all grinning and looking happy, and she liked the picture. The battery only had seventeen percent left, and she needed to stop turning it on, because she was on until closing, and that was still another three hours away. Just as she put the phone back down on the counter, the phone vibrated with a text and she glanced down, half expecting it to be something lewd from Sebastian.

What are you up to?

It was Jace.

The smile that crossed her face was one that she couldn't stop as she tapped out a reply.

I'm at work, picked up an extra shift.

She hadn't seen him in about a week. He had text her a few nights ago, saying that he was sorry they hadn't been able to meet up but that his work had been really busy and he had been spending a lot of time with his cousins. Clary understood—she was disappointed, but she understood. She wasn't his girlfriend, he didn't have to make time to see her.

I'll bring you dinner. That way you don't need to eat vending food.

Clary felt a bubble of excitement in her stomach, but she wasn't too sure how much of that it was because she got to see Jace and how much of that was because he was bringing food. She hadn't eaten since the leftover Chinese she had had for lunch, and she only had a couple of dollars in her wallet so she had been tossing up over a packet of noodles or a big chocolate cookie in the vending machine in the foyer of the library.

Whatever Jace was bringing in trumped anything in that vending machine. Hell, if she was being completely honest, anything Jace cooked and brought in probably trumped anything she had had all week given her and Simon's idea of fine dining was having a ten dollar bottle of wine paired together with mac and cheese.

Clary was about to respond to Jace when a first year student—they were easy to pick out with their big eyes and almost frightened expressions—came to the counter, mumbling about needing to find a book. Clary tucked her phone into the drawer and put on her most charming smile as she circled around the counter to help the girl. It ended up taking a whole lot longer than she thought it would, especially since it turned out the girl really wasn't too sure what she was looking for, and ended up needing to use a computer to find a reading list given to her by her lecturer. So Clary was straining to see the counter, keeping an eye out for Jace, while she waited for the girl to print off the list, and then they traipsed around the library to find the six books. Then she had to sign her up for a library card, because she hadn't activated her student ID there yet, and by the time she was done, Jace was standing at the edge of the counter, looking gorgeous, with a plastic bag in one hand.

"Sorry about that," Clary apologized as she finally finished with the student and came over to stand next to Jace, who just shrugged.

"It's fine, it's your job," he responded, not sounding bothered.

"In all it's glory," Clary joked and Jace shrugged again, never one to throw out smiles for no reason. He held up the plastic bag and she caught a whiff of whatever it was inside and her stomach rumbled. Jace's lips twitched at the noise—which she didn't realize had been so loud—and Clary grinned at him. "I'll just find the other girl working tonight, and we can take a lunch break."

"It's not Lydia?" Jace raised an eyebrow.

"Nah," she shook her head. "We usually get rostered on together, but because I'm covering for another girl, I'm just on with some senior who seems to really hate the world." She looked over her shoulder and Jace followed her gaze to the dark haired girl who was stacking shelves. She had headphones in, was wearing an over sized black dress that fell down past her knees and her shoulders were slumped forward as though she had given up on everything and everyone.

"What's her name?" Jace asked.

"Mildred," Clary grinned, and this time she got a half smile from Jace, his eyes glittering with mirth.

"I would hate the world as well, if I had that name," he muttered and Clary's grin widened, leaning over to nudge him in the arm.

"I'll be right back," she said before walking over to the other librarian. Jace's eyes never left Clary as she spoke with the other woman before coming back over to him. "Come on," she said, leading the way past him, and Jace turned on his heel to follow after her. They headed to the side of the library where there was a door marked 'Staff Only'. The room was reasonably small but it was colourful, with a couple of mismatched couches in one corner with some books spread out over a low table, and a small table in the kitchenette area.

"Just put it in the microwave for a half a minute or so, get it hot again," Jace handed her the plastic bag.

"Thanks," Clary grinned as she took the container out and took off the lid. It was pasta, chicken, pesto and capsicum. "Shit, this smells good." Jace didn't say anything as he sat down on the couch, watching her as she tipped the contents onto a plate and put it into the microwave. They waited in quiet for a few moments with only the hum from the microwave to fill the room until it beeped, indicating that it had finished. Clary took it out and her stomach rumbled again.

"You should have messaged me earlier if you were hungry," Jace stated with a raised eyebrow. "I would have brought you dinner sooner."

"I didn't want to bother you," Clary shrugged as she stabbed her fork into the pasta. "I thought that you might be working."

"You don't bother me," Jace responded as he propped up his legs up on the low table and folded his arms loosely over his chest. "And you always need to eat." Clary smiled at him as she ate the pasta. Jace looked around the room idly, not looking bothered at spending his Friday night at a library, watching her eat.

"Who's looking after the bar?" She asked when she was about halfway through her meal. "Don't you need to be watching people get drunker and charging them for it."

"I have other people working for me," Jace shrugged. "I'm right where I need to be." He wasn't trying to cute, that wasn't Jace, and he wasn't staring at her or giving her a flirtatious smile like some guys might be after making a comment like that.

Clary ducked her head to hide the blush on her cheeks, and kept on eating.

Now, my first thing is a Youtube video. It's only a couple of minutes, but it is absolutely fucking beautiful, my heart just...Shit. Anyway. Watch it. It's called Homophobia In 2018 | Time For Love on the channel BBC Social. Please watch it. It's just a few minutes, just a tiny bit of your day, but it's just incredible.

Okay! So I have so many songs! Okay, so Afterlife by XYLO. And then 1950 and Talia by King Princess—also, I heard that she and Amanda Stenburg are dating? Not sure if that's true, but damn cute couple if they are. Then there's Wild Love by James Bay. The music video for this is absolutely amazing, Natalia looks fucking heavenly. I can't get over that song. Then there's Skydiving, Saviour and We Were Here by Lights. And then an older one, Life After You, by Daughtry. And What's Love Got To Do With It, the cover by Prides, which I heard in Dynasty and fell in love with.

Cloak and Dagger has recently finished and it was amazing, and you should all definitely be watching it. There's also the show Castle Rock that we've just started with Bill Skaarsgard, and I'll watch anything with him in it. Movie wise, we've recently watched Game Night and Stronger, which were both really good. We're September now and there's so many new seasons of my shows starting! What ones are you guys looking forward to?

As a closing note, is anyone else keeping up with all this Jeffree Star drama and his ex-friends? I'm finding all of it hilarious. Me and one my best friends are in love with it all. Haha. Oh—and 21/08/2018 was apparently Fanfiction Appreciation Day! So, happy...That? Haha.

OMG—and everyone should watch Crazy Rich Asians. I fucking loved it.

Let me know what you thought of the story, let me know if you want a preview of the next chapter x