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Chapter Ten

"Where the hell is Tessa? She's like half an hour late!" Jace complained where he stood against the wall of the movie theatre.

"Meeting her brother, I guess. Wouldn't have thought it would have taken this long, though. Smile, argue, cry, argue… that's pretty much all you need to do when meeting a long-lost sibling," Will remarked.

"Hey, how would you feel if your sister who deserted you years ago on the eve of your uncle, parental figure and guardian's death just randomly showed up and demanded to meet?" Cecily argued, flicking her brother on the forearm.

"Well, I would rely on you, dear sister, to help get my cheerfulness radar back up because you would be going through the same thing. And seeing as an antidote to death hasn't come up yet, I think Ella is safe in her grave," Will said, bitter tone drowning out the sarcasm. Cecily's expression dropped.

"Will, don't. Not right now," she murmured, looking in the opposite direction. Clary felt like she was intruding on a secretive discussion.

"What, so you want to do it ten minutes? Half an hour? Oh wait, we have to keep in locked away in silence until the movie is over; right? Don't want to ruin Jamie Campbell Bower's performance, do we? Yeah, I'll satisfy your ogling for two hours. Oh, and while we're at it; why don't I just-"

"Will, for once in your life, can you just shut up. It's not Cecily or Tessa or any of our faults about your problems, especially with what happened with the Ella thing, so don't take it out on us. Now, can we please just all be quiet and wait for Tessa?" Jace's sudden outburst didn't seem to please Will but shut him up all the same.

Clary cleared her throat. "So Tessa just texted me. She said that she was held up, and she'll be here in ten or so minutes. She says that we can just go right in." Will stretched out his arms.

"Well? What are we waiting for? Let's just go," he said in an irritated tone, before strutting toward the theatre.

Jace and Clary shared a look, which was just Jace raising an eyebrow and Clary attempting to do the same.

"Let's go," Cecily mumbled, walking quickly after her brother's retreating figure.

Simon sat on his bedroom floor, Maia in solitude on his bed.

"So what do you reckon this means? I never did anything to that Maureen girl. I barely even knew she existed. I mean, I guess I've seen her running after Camille and doing her bidding, but besides that…" Simon sighed, relaxing his head on the edge of his bed. Maia nodded dutifully.

"But still, you must have done something to set off this random Alicante guy. And he seemed to be important. What could some measly little guy from Downworld Prep do to annoy that bloke?"

"Your guess is as good as mine. And thank you, for that description. Totally increased my ego," Simon said sarcastically, but expression dumbfounded.

"That's my job. Ooh!" Maia gasped out in excitement. Simon glanced over at her lazily.

"Yes, Maia?" he asked sceptically. His best friend's theories were never… accurate, you could say.

"What if he's like, some bitch from a spy cooperation and Maureen Brown was in love with that guy and decided to come up with a plan to get him to fall in love with her, and-" Simon interrupted her quickly.

"Mays, as entertaining as this story is, I am not quite sure how I am involved with it. Especially not so much that I would be threatened and warned by the love interest after doing nothing but minding my own business."

"Oh, just let me finish," she bickered, face drastically annoyed.

Simon conceded, looking variously amused.

"Go on then."

"Anyway, so then she decided to pretend that her primary school crush-" at this, Simon spluttered, but Maia shushed him with a single gesture. "- And so, she came up with this story that you had robbed her, and so Mr Alicante got his friends to go over to our school, and threaten you so-"

Maia was interrupted yet again and didn't seem to be happy about it.

"I'm sorry, Mays, I am. But can I just ask; what's the point of 'Mr Alicante,' as you like to call him, being in some spy cooperation?" he asked, genuinely confused.

"Because, idiot, it makes him sound cooler and sexier. Now, if you would excuse me, I would like to explain my theory about some dick coming up to you and threatening you for god knows why. Got it?" she asked. Her tone of voice was mockingly exasperated.

"Yes, Miss."

"Good boy. Now, as I was saying-" she was cut off. Again. But not by Simon this time. It was the doorbell.

"OH, FOR THE LOVE OF-" Simon shushed his friend and hopped to his feet.

"Just be quiet for a moment, would you Maia?" he asked, rushing to answer it. She rolled her eyes and stretched out her tan legs.

The doorbell sounded yet again. "Hello?" a faint voice called.

Simon opened the door.

"Oh."

"How'd you like the movie?" Clary asked Tessa dully as they strolled toward the Institute. Tessa shrugged nonchalantly.

"It was pretty good. But I've read the book-"

"Of course."

"Oh, Ha-ha. Anyway, it was okay. It stayed true to the book of course, but the novel was better. You know you Jamie Campbell Bower reminded me of, though?" she asked.

"Jace?"

"Yeah. They almost have the same personality. And neither are too hard on the eyes either," she said, to Clary's laugh.

"I can see it. But I wanted to ask… Who's Ella?" Clary questioned. The mood quickly dropped as the smile on Tessa's face melted away like wax on a candle.

"Will and Cecily's dead sister. Will blames himself for her death. He was there, right. And he was the reason Ella had to go out to the bar and then she was attacked, and Will saw it. He's never forgiven himself for it. Enough said?"

"Enough said," Clary said, clearing her throat.

Hey... Yeah, I know. I haven't updated in literally forever. I was going to just leave this story, but yesterday I just decided to re continue writing from where I left off, and here we are. I understand if I have lost my entire following, but I hope that you'll put that in the past and hopefully review/favourite/follow... hint hint. Anyway, I hope that you enjoyed this chapter, and I will hopefully put another chapter up soon! Love you guys!