This is going to be my first multi-chapter fic and my first modern, so please be nice. I appreciate critiques and comments, especially since English isn't my native language. I try to update regularly, but I also still have school, so don't expect too much. I don't know yet if it will be in chronological order.

I know a break-up is not really what we want from our favorite couple, but I had this idea and I wanted to just write it out. I got this idea from the movie the Break-up, but I'm not going to follow that storyline. I just borrow the basic idea: Arya and Gendry break-up, but both don't want to leave the apartment, so they keep living together…

To clear things up, this are the ages:
Arya = 24
Gendry= 27

All rights go to GRRM and the idea that I borrowed from the movie the Break-up.

"You leave me alone, AGAIN!"

"I don't fit in there Arya, you know that! You know what happened the last time I went!"

"That was three years ago, stupid!"

"Yeah that's right three years and we were already together for at least a year and still your family doesn't accept me!"

She didn't have a response for that statement; she couldn't deny it, because it was true. Her parents and siblings still looked at Gendry with disdain and she knew him already for what? Seven years? And they were in a relationship for around five years, they even lived together for more than three years and still the family didn't accept him.

The biggest problem was her mother she cared for social status and Gendry didn't come from money. She was so proud when Gendry started his own business and became a car dealer. He was always so passionate about cars, motors and that kind of stuff. When she told her mother the news, she looked at her with disgust, while Arya was so proud of her friend, her man. They weren't married and that was a reason to dislike their relationship even more, but it also resulted in hope from her mother's side. She never told Gendry that her mother tried to set her up on these social events, it was better to keep that to herself. Gendry only would feel even worse about himself.

Her mother was a problem, but her father was in a way worse. Her father always supported her in her decisions and she knew his reason to dislike their relationship had nothing to do with how rich Gendry was. She still remembered the first time she introduced Gendry to her father. Her boyfriend had been so nervous and she squeezed his hand in reassurance before she smiled to her father, "This is my boyfriend, Gendry". His reaction was not what she expected from her father, he first looked shocked from Arya to Gendry, as if he had seen a ghost. Then he narrowed his eyes to Gendry and observed him. After that the interrogation began: What is your last name? Where do you come from? Who is your mother? Who is your father? And so on. She had stilled immediately, Gendry hated to talk about his mother, who had died when he was younger and his father who left his mother and him before he was born, "He probably doesn't even know I exist," he had said before to her.

Her brothers also had trouble to accept that Arya moved over childhood crushes and was now in a committed relationship. Jon had the most difficulty, he was almost as bad as her father and insisted just as her father that he would hurt her in the end. They said that five years ago and they both still say that while her and Gendry still live together and have a stable living. She still adored Jon, but they never talked about her relationship and he never came over to her place and it saddened her, but she wouldn't give up Gendry.
Robb had troubles in the beginning and even tried to set her up with Elmar Frey! "He is more like us Arya, you will have fewer troubles with him". She could have killed Robb, but he had tried to help her even when he didn't. She would go through all those troubles for Gendry off course she would and now they were here five years later together in their own apartment. Robb actually gave Gendry a chance after that, he was the only one. These days Gendry and Robb were almost friends, they still came from different societies. Robb was next in line to take over the billion dollar business from her father and Gendry just started his own small business, which maybe had a net income of 40.000. But that was no problem, because he loved what he did and he didn't expect Arya to sit at home, so she also worked to bring money in. But sometimes when she came home, she saw her brother and her boyfriend playing a videogame or watching a sports game and drinking a beer, it warmed her heart that at least Robb got on well with him.
He wasn't the only one, Bran didn't need to give Gendry a chance, because he immediately accepted him and liked him even. She had done her first introductions and her heart sank when Bran walked in with his crutches. She almost stammered, no one had reacted as she expected and she was on the brick of tears, why couldn't they just accept her boyfriend. "Bran," her voice was softer than normal and now Gendry was the one who gave her a reassuring squeeze, "I want you to meet Gendry, my-my boyfriend." Bran looked up and holds out his hand and Gendry accepted it, which was the most welcome gesture anyone had given him that day. "Nice to meet you Gendry and I thought Arya would never fall in love with anyone." Bran laughed and then Arya did to, finally someone who accepted him. It was too bad that bran wasn't in town, for a long time. He was finishing his university to get his master in some science, that she already forgot, it was something with neuro, neurosomething.
Rickon was younger, but also protective over Arya and looked from day one with mistrust to Gendry. He still looked at Gendry as if he stole Arya away from her family, well actually that was what he thought, because he had stated that literally to Arya. "And what about Robb with Jeyne, and what about Jon when he had a relationship with Ygritte." Rickon stated that that was different, because they didn't stole them away, not like Gendry did with her. She tried to explain that it was the same, or that she maybe never was as close with the family as the rest was. Yes she wasn't in the family business and she didn't live with them anymore and she didn't go that much to their family dinner on Sunday, but that would have been the same without Gendry. While maybe not the latter, but that was their own fault, they were the ones bitching to Gendry, she would love to go to the family dinner with Gendry, but not when they made him feel even worse then he already felt.

Sansa reacted as Sansa, maybe the only reaction that went as she expected it to. Sansa dragged her to her room, when he was gone. "He is not from a high family," Arya immediately wanted to protest, sick of everyone's opinion, but Sansa held up her hand, that was her sign to stop. "As I said he isn't from a rich family, but he is actually handsome, clearly likes you and I hope he makes you happy for as long that the relationship will last." She had hugged her sister, but later on she understood that Sansa thought that it was just a fling, nothing serious, because he wasn't rich. Oh my what was she wrong.

"They will never accept me Arya," he rubbed his face with when hand in exhaustion or almost surrender.

"Bran does, just as Robb and Sansa isn't that bad," she tries, she always tries to make him come with her, to get through the torture together. He never goes anymore, not after the last time.

"Really Arya, really? Do you think that's enough? When we started dating it was clear that Jon was your favorite and you admired your dad as a God and you still do." He let go of a breath and looked at her. "You didn't even mention the others in the beginning. If only one family member disliked me, ok I could live with that. But the most of your family doesn't like me. Can you imagine what the friends of your family will think of me? Oh no wait we don't have to imagine that. They made that pretty clear!" His voice rose at the end of the sentence and she felt herself cringe. She hadn't seen Gendry so helpless before and so angry at the same time. She could feel that this was a different kind of fight than normal, but that's because of everything else.

"I don't ask you to come now! I just said that I would like for us to try again, it's been years since we really tried. We could just-"

"NO, no no no. Arya I just can't. I think I tried for a long time now and it wasn't enough. I think it should come from your family now. They just put your name on the Christmas cart and send invitations only to you. My name is never mentioned! They don't want me there Arya, they don't!"

"I know you tried stupid! But it's already a year since the last time. And I just would like to go to one of the Sunday family dinner-"

"Then go, I don't mind-"

"I mean with you! I want to go to a family dinner with you! I want you with me to these stupid social events, so I could show of my boyfriend and make sure that I don't have to entertain some stupid man who's still single!"

"So that's what you're doing?"

"Like I said I don't want to-"

"So every time you go to your parent's house you are set up? And you never told me? Why Arya? Why didn't you tell me before? Am I truly not good enough anymore?"

"What should I have said: oh my mom sets me up with people at those events, because you could have know she would do that! What would have been different if I had told you? Would you have come with me then?"

"No Arya, no I wouldn't. Because it's not my world and we both know that. But I start to realize that it actually is yours. Rickon was right all the time," a dry laugh followed and she never had heard something worse in her life, "Your family is right, we can't belong together, because a relationship between people from such different worlds can't last. And Rickon is right, because I am keeping you from them, from your family, from your old friends, from your world."

She looked questionably at him. "What do you mean Gendry?"

"I think we both know what I mean. I mean that it's probably best for both of us-"

"You're breaking up with me," her eyes widened in realization, but it soon turned into anger. Anger at him her stupid bull-headed boy, but was he still hers now? And angry at her family it's all because of them, if they just had accepted him. But in this moment she couldn't think straight and she didn't want to appear weak and she didn't want to cry in front of him.

"You know what? Fine! You're right this doesn't work!"

She stormed out of the house in her red dress; she only started to cry when she was seated in her car. She started to drive to her parent's house and the social gathering there was now. But then she thought better of it, everyone would just try to apologize but be happy from the inside and they couldn't hide that. Her mother would push her to Edric Dayne, even when he had a girlfriend now, or one of the other free men there. She didn't know where to go, she just drove around. She couldn't believe that that just happen. Did she and Gendry really just broke up, it felt so unreal.