Day 1: The Last day of Summer

Jeyne

Jeyne was sitting in the backseat next to Sansa just like they had done last year.

She was looking out of the tinted window while Sansa chattered away about her party.

She was turning sixteen very soon and just like her brothers she would get to throw a big party at Winterfell, their family estate.

Sansa was wearing black shorts, a white t-shirt with a wolf on it and white converse.

She had painted her nails purple so they would match her earrings and she looked as beautiful as always.

"So what do you think, Jeyne, should I get cupcakes or a big cake?" Sansa asked looking at her with big blue eyes.

"Well I love cupcakes" she said biting her lip "but I also like cake"

Sansa let out a sigh and flicked her long red hair.

"That's the problem, Jeyne"

Sansa had been asking and texting her questions about the party for weeks now and she had learned that it was best to stay neutral since she was just going to ask you again anyway.

"What do you like, Arya?" Jeyne asked the girl who was sitting in the passenger seat next to her father.

Arya turned around and flicked her new, short haircut while imitating her big sister.

"Well it's just too damn hard" she said with sarcasm dripping from her words.

Jeyne couldn't help but giggle and Sansa shot her a sideways glare.

"Just answer the question, Arya" she said with a frown on her face.

Arya wrapped her long fringe, with the red streak in it, around her finger before answering the question.

"Cake" she said eventually and she leaned back in her seat again.

"Good" Sansa said with a smug smile on her face "cupcakes it"

Luckily that was the moment Ned Stark pulled up in front of their school leaving no time for Arya and Sansa to get into a fight.

"Thanks, Mister Stark" Jeyne said before getting out of the car.

With one hand she smoothed down the black skirt Sansa had insisted she should buy, even though she felt it was a little too short.

"It might impress a certain ironborn" Sansa had said and Jeyne had given in.

On top of the skirt she was wearing a white shirt with a black, lace collar and she had braided her long, brown hair in a sideways braid that fell over her shoulder.

When Arya and Sansa had said goodbye to their father they walked onto the school grounds.

Arya sprinted away to the football field to meet with Gendry and Hot Pie and Sansa and she slowly made their way there too.

"I was wondering…" Jeyne started while she bit her lip.

"Go one" Sansa said in a tired voice because she probably already knew what was coming.

"Do you think that.. maybe… just maybe… if I ask.. you know… Theon… to your party that he might say yes?"

Sansa flicked her hair again and let out a sigh.

"I honestly don't know what you see in him"

"He's just… Theon" Jeyne said while a blush spread over her face and she couldn't hide a smile.

"He's a player, who has hurt you countless of times" Sansa said "there are a plenty of better boys on this school who would love to take you to my party"

"He didn't hurt me" Jeyne lied softly while she clutched her books to her chest "he just doesn't notice me"

Sansa put an arm around Jeyne while they continued walking to the football field.

"Besides I don't even want him at my party"

Jeyne's eyes widened and she stopped walking.

"Why not?" she asked quickly.

"Because I want to invite a different kind of crowd.. you know… popular people" Sansa answered.

"Like Cersei?" Jeyne asked fearing Sansa's answer.

"Yes, like Cersei and Margaery and Joffrey" Sansa said smiling and she took hold of Jeyne's hand "it'll be fun, I promise"

Theon

Theon enjoyed the collective awh that rang through the school grounds when Robb's sleek, black car entered the school parking lot.

Ned had bought the car for Robb's sixteenth birthday last year but he hadn't had the courage to drive it yet and even now he was terrified that he was going to scratch it.

One time Theon had pretended he was going to run his key across the black paint but he had quickly learned that Robb did not appreciate that kind of joke.

Carefully Robb parked the vehicle and finally he dared to breathe out.

"Told you it would be fine" Theon said and he patted his friend's back.

Unfortunately Robb was not expecting this and he accidently stepped on the gas pedal again resulting in him almost bumping into another car.

Robb give him a quick but powerful death glare before getting out of the car.

"Stop stressing out about everything" Theon said and he put an arm around his friend's shoulder "you've got a beautiful car, you've finally succeeded in growing a beard.. sort of.. and you've got that hot girl's number from summer camp so.. STOP… STRESSING!"

Finally Robb started smiling as they walked to the football field.

"I know" he said "it's just that my dad will kill me if I wreck that car"

Theon shook his head.

"You don't have to tell me about annoying fathers, remember?" he said laughing.

They were walking to the football field where the pep rally would take place.

Apparently Stannis, their school's headmaster, had decided that this was the perfect way to start a new school year and Theon had to agree with him.

There was no better way of starting the year than watching the cheerleaders and Cersei and Margaery knew how to put on a show.

"So have you talked to Talisa lately?" Theon asked his friend.

Robb ran a hand through his brown curls and pulled a face that explained everything.

"No?"

Robb shook his head.

"It's complicated" he answered shrugging.

"Whatever, man" Theon just replied and he had to admit that he didn't like his friend's secretive attitude one bit.

Theon and Robb had both been camp counselors at a summer camp in Highgarden and Robb had met a girl named Talisa who was working there as a nurse.

Apparently they had bonded over saving a kid who almost drowned in the lake.

They seemed to have forgotten that he was the one who got the kid out of the water in the first place tough but luckily Kyra hadn't.

She had been another counselor at the camp and a quiet girl at first but this changed when she got some alcohol in her.

Suddenly he spotted Kyra and her friends who were already at the football field.

"Kyra!" he shouted and the girl turned around blushing.

She waved at him shyly and whispered something to her friends who started giggling in unison.

"I'm gonna say hi" Theon quickly explained to Robb before sprinting off in the girl's direction.

He wasn't paying attention and accidently bumped into someone's shoulder.

Jeyne let out a loud gasp and dropped her books.

"Sorry" she said in a high voice.

"Nah, that was my fault" he said while he picked up her books for her and put them back in her arms "Are you okay?"

She nodded and a blush spread over her face.

"Yes, I'm fine" she said with a shy smile.

"You look great by the way" he said checking her out and he ran a hand through his dark hair.

She really did look great in her short, black skirt.

"Thanks" she said and she got even redder.

He smiled at her until Sansa let out an annoying cough.

"Yeah, keep walking, Greyjoy, you've ogled her enough" Sansa added while she crossed her arms in front of her chest.

"Of course, Milady" he said rolling his eyes at her and he went to Kyra.

Jon

Jon was waiting near the school gates and he frequently checked his watch.

"Sam, where are you?" he muttered under his breath.

Jon and Sam always took the buss together to school but this morning Sam hadn't been standing at his usual stop or any of the others.

"Come on" he muttered again and he was starting to worry.

Nervously he tapped his foot until he saw Sam running while he came around the corner.

The fat boy's face was bright red and he was breathing heavily.

When Sam had finally reached him he had to lean against the gate for a while to catch his breath.

"I'm.. so… sorry" he said panting while he wiped the sweat of his forehead with the back of his hand.

"What happened?" Jon asked.

Sam closed his eyes as if he didn't want to be reminded of that and clenched his sides that were probably hurting.

"My dad" he said eventually and he made a gesture with his hand as if he was trying to wave the question away.

Jon knew all about Sam's father.

The man was too hard on him to be honest.

He had always wanted Sam to be an athlete or a bit tougher at the very least but his cruel tactics had never succeeded.

"Let's go" Sam said and they went to the football field.

They had almost reached the tribune when Jon spotted a familiar pair of grey eyes and something that looked like a cigarette.

"Arya!" he shouted and he could hear the short girl curse while she threw the cigarette on the ground.

Jon rushed to Arya's little clique who were smoking under the tribune.

"Arya, I cannot believe you're smoking again" he said and a guilty blush spread over the girl's face.

"It's just one cigarette" she said rolling her eyes at him but Jon knew her too well to believe her uninterested attitude.

"Don't do it again, okay?" he said trying to make eye contact with the girl who just kept looking at her boots "or I will have to tell your mother"

He couldn't believe he had actually said that.

He and Arya's mother didn't really get along.

She had never been able to forgive Jon the fact that he was born and she did little to hide this.

"You wouldn't!" Arya gasped.

"Try me" He said and the girl narrowed her eyes.

She looked at him like that for a while until she gave in.

"Sorry, Jon" she sighed and she gave him a rare but genuine smile.

Jon directed his attention at Gendry now who had managed to put out his cigarette without him noticing.. or at least he thought he had.

"You look out for her, okay?" he asked pointing a finger at Gendry and giving him his most intimidating look.

"No problem, Snow" Gendry said with a cheeky smile and he put an arm around Arya "wouldn't want anything to happen to our lead guitarist"

Arya giggled and punched Gendry's arm.

"I can look out for myself" she said crossing her arms in front of her chest.

"Of course you can" Gendry said and he pulled her hood over her eyes.

Hot Pie and Gendry started laughing and Jon decided to leave them alone again.

He did promise himself to check on the Outlaws more often as Arya, Gendry and Hot Pie called their band.

They only played covers of the Brotherhood without Banners tough but they were starting to sound pretty good.

Jon climbed the stairs of the tribune until he was as far north as he could get and behind him he could hear Sam breathing heavily.

Pyp and Grenn were already sitting at their usual spot at the back of the tribune and they were wearing their black AV club polo shirts.

"Lord Snow!" Pyp shouted as soon as he was in earshot but Jon didn't respond to that.

He had been expecting some comments from his friends now that he was appointed head of the AV club.

"Hey, guys" Sam said smiling and he sat down in one of the plastic chairs taking up half the space of the chair next to him too.

"It's gonna start" Grenn said rubbing his hands together as the cheerleaders entered the field.

"Why the excitement, got a crush on Cersei or what?" Pyp asked teasing.

"No" Grenn said just a bit too quick and his face turned red.

Pyp and Sam laughed at that and even Jon cracked a smile.

He had to give it to them that Cersei and Margaery knew how to put on a show.

With their provoking dance moves and the portrayal of how wide a girl could actually spread her legs they once again succeeded in making their Headmaster look more than a little awkward as he tried to look everywhere but Cersei's ass.

The cheerleaders moved back to the sidelines of the field again after having received a deafening applause from the male half of the audience.

The football team entered the field and Stannis briefly introduced the players.

When he called out Jaime Lannister's name, the name of their quarterback, it was the other half of the audience's turn to cheer and applaud and the girls did.

Pyp rolled his eyes at Jaime and in a freakishly striking imitation he said: "this better not mess up my hair"

They laughed again as the whistle sounded and the game started.

It was supposed to be a friendly match but within minutes it was clear that that was not the other team's intention.

After a few violations a disaster happened.

At least if you liked high school football or your last name was Lannister.

Jon had seen the smug expression on Jaime's face been wiped off by a fist from a player of the other team which resulted into a gigantic fight.

The referee tried to stop it and eventually even Stannis had to interfere.

When most of the players had stopped fighting Jon could see Jaime lying on the ground holding his arm in an angle that couldn't possibly be natural.

"What's wrong with his arm?" Grenn asked standing up from his chair to get a better view and even Pyp was too shocked to answer.

Everyone's eyes were on Jaime or on his twin sister Cersei but when he thought Cersei was going to rush to Jaime he noticed that she was just fleeing the field.

"Where is she going?" Grenn asked again.

Luckily Jaime had more sibling than the lovely Cersei and it wasn't long before Tyrion had waddled to his older brother.

Jeyne

Like usually she spent the day at Winterfell with Sansa.

Sansa and she were cooking in the large open kitchen.

In the distance she could hear Rickon in the living room who was watching a cartoon show featuring some abomination which had made it his lifelong goal to be the most annoying and loud thing ever.

Bran was sitting at the dining table and was completely lost in his book.

The only time they heard him was when he told them to be quiet.

Theon and Robb were moving around them and had made it their mission to steal as much food as possible and Arya... well Arya was just being very useless since she still had no idea how to cook.

Sansa was yelling something at either Arya or Robb while Jeyne peacefully scooped out a few cherry tomatoes and filled them with mozzarella.

"Just let me do it!" Sansa said for the tenth time that day and she pushed Arya out of her way.

Theon was sitting on top of one of the countertops and he was laughing about something Robb had said.

Suddenly he got up from his seat and started walking in her direction.

Quickly she concentrated on her tomatoes again and she hoped that he hadn't noticed her staring at him.

Then she felt his body press against hers as he stood behind her and he placed his mouth near her ear.

A warm feeling spread through her body and she could feel the butterflies in her stomach go crazy.

"You look so hot today" he whispered and she could feel his hot breath tingle on her skin.

Her knees went weak and she didn't know what to say while he reached over her shoulder stole one of the tomatoes and left again.

She finally dared to breath out again and she felt like she needed to lay down for a bit or maybe drink a cold glass of water.

"Are you, okay?" Sansa asked and for a minute Jeyne didn't know what to say.

"I'm fine" she said eventually and she started smiling.

It didn't take long before the entire dining table was filled with different dishes and after having to drag Rickon away from the television they all sat down at the table.

Cat Stark checked the clock one more time with a nervous look on her face.

"He should be here by now" she muttered under her breath and at that moment the phone started ringing.

Within second Cat had gotten up from her chair and eagerly picked up the phone.

The smile disappeared from her face as she told her husband that she understood that he couldn't make it... again.

Cat sat down again with a sad smile while she tried to pretend that she didn't mind Ned's absence.

Suddenly they heard footsteps and Jon climbed down the stairs.

"Thanks for telling me dinner is ready" Jon said to no one in particular.

"Be glad you get some" Cat said but Jon pretended he hadn't heard it.

Jeyne guessed he had gotten used to it by now.

Cat wasn't Jon's mother and she would never act like it not even a little bit.

"Let's eat" Robb said and they all continued their conversations like nothing had happened.

Robb

Theon had left about half an hour ago and Robb had gone to his bedroom to do his homework.

It was a large, white bedroom with big windows and grey curtains.

There was a poster of a direwolf hanging above his bed and a map of Westeros above his desk.

His bookcase was filled with books about the history of Westeros and his family.

Most of them had belonged to his father and looked as if they were about to fall apart from all the times they had been read.

He was sitting at his desk and a grey lamp lit the words written in his textbook but somehow he seemed unable to read them.

It didn't matter how many times he read the page the words just didn't seem to sink in.

He sighed and rested his head in his hands.

For the millionth time that day he checked his phone and hoped to notice a missed call but he was out of luck again.

He had met Talisa at summer camp and she had changed his life.

She had been standing next to the lake in shorts and the mandatory yellow polo shirt they all had to wear.

Her hair was up in a messy bun and she was wearing dark sunglasses with a yellow frame.

She took the sunglasses off when she saw him tough and she looked at him with her beautiful dark eyes.

She had opened her mouth to talk to him and he had expected the sweetest words he would ever hear in his life but she had yelled at him instead

"Why aren't you wearing sunscreen?!"

Luckily she had warmed up to him during the rest of the summer and they had spent many nights gazing upon the stars while the kids were already in bed.

She was his first love and his first... you know.

He would never forget how she visited him in his cabin and he thanked the lucky stars that Theon was at Kyra's.

But like always the inevitable happened and summer had ended too soon.

She had cried when they had to leave each other and she had made him promise to call her everyday and he had kept his promise until today.

He checked his phone one more time and he was starting to worry.

Was it something he said?

Did something happen?

Suddenly the phone started to buzz and the screen lit up.

Robb quickly picked it up and he could feel his heart starting to beat faster.

"Talisa, I was starting to worry" he said trying to make his voice sound as light as possible.

"I'm fine" she said but she didn't sound fine.

"Did something happen?"

"No... Yes... I don't know" her voice sounded soft and for a second he thought she was crying.

"You can tell me everything, Talisa"

"I know... I'm sorry"

He frowned and he wished he could see her face.

"Are you hurt?"

"No, I already told you I'm FINE"

He could hear her crying now even though her voice sounded angry.

"It's better if you don't call me again"

It felt like someone had just punched him.

"You can't be serious, Talisa what is going on?"

"Leave me alone!"

She hang up the phone and left Robb without an explanation.

Suddenly he could feel the cold wind gush in through the open window.

The wind tugged at his clothes and he felt very cold and lonely.

He stood up from his chair and closed the window thinking that this was a sign that summer had officially ended which only meant one thing: Winter is Coming.