This is it. My first day at a regular college. This is going to be bedlam compered to the lessons at the institute. I'm already a nervous wreck and I've only just woken up.
I compose myself before making myself breakfast and taking a shower. I'm just about to head out of the apartment door when I spot my stele lying on the coffee table by the sofa. I chuckle to myself when I consider drawing a fearless rune on myself.
I'm at the front of my new class introducing myself in English Literature before I know what's even happening. Yes, I decided to learn about novels... Is that such a big deal, may I ask? Well it was to Jace. All he could say was, "I'd have thought you'd have taken something more...Practical."
I liked books. They interested me and kept me from the real world for a time at least. After every event that had happened throughout the years to us I just needed an escape.
Done with my introduction I scan the area to find a spare seat. Thankfully there's one close to me so I might not have time to do something awkward, like fall over my own feet. I slide into the free chair grateful that the attention has been taken off me as the Professor starts to speak.
I sit and take notes obligingly for the rest of the lesson and when it's over I trudge back to my apartment to drop off my books. I then go to a café and order some coffee before starting to think about my next lesson.
I have a class studying Law next and it's the one I've been dreading. Law is one of the most depressing subjects - if Shadowhunter Laws are boring, then I can't imagine that Mundie Laws are anymore interesting. My mother forced me to study Law here, saying that I wouldn't learn anything valuable from books. In the end we had compromised.
The waitress smiles at me when she brings over my coffee and starts chatting to me - breaking me out of my thoughts. I nod my head and pretend I'm fully listening to her but something about her is unsettling. She reminds me of somebody.
It's a full ten minutes before I realise that I have to go, I'm going to be late to my Law class. I jump up and run out of the café but not until the waitress calls me back and gives me her number. I take it even though I don't know her that well.
Unfortunately, I bump into somebody on the way out. I'm looking down praying that I'm not too late to my class - if my mum hears about this she'll kill me - so I don't know who it is.
"I'm so sorry..." I start but my voice trails off as I tilt my head up to see his face. My heart sinks and a pang of sadness hits me all over again. Why did this have to happen? Of all the places I can move to why do I have to end up here? His face is one of pure shock and I'm guessing that my expression mirrors his exactly. There standing staring at me wide-eyed is none other than...
Magnus Bane