A/N: Chapter two ready. Honestly it's a little bit of a setup chapter again, but I had fun writing it. I hope you have fun reading it. The only thing I own in this chapter is my character Brad.

Chapter Two: Not Much of a Home for the Holidays

"Shh...shh..." Robby bit back the urge to roll his eyes as he heard the familiar noise, holed up not in his room, but on the couch, lying quietly with headphones around his neck. "Robby's asleep…"

Not even close, nice try Mom… Robby turned slightly, maintaining the ruse, but really just sticking his face into the couch's one barely considered a comfort throw pillow.

Of course boyfriend of the week was about as quiet as a herd of elephants drunk on Don Julio, and if Robby wasn't already resigned to this bullshit, five plus years worth, he would have shot up and added his two cents. But it wouldn't get him anywhere except feeling like shit, one way or the other. He didn't know how this guy felt about the package deal, and he'd made several mistakes already when he was younger where they were concerned. None his mom knew about. He wouldn't do that to her. And if it wasn't the boyfriend, it would be Mom herself, guilt trips were something that she was good at, and unlike the old man, he actually took them into account. So no, he wouldn't interrupt her entertainment tonight. He moved the pillow again and covered his ears as he could hear what was going on behind the bedroom door, before he turned again and placed his headphones back in place. Nope. Not tonight...

Sleep was futile, so he grabbed his laptop and opened it up back to the page he had been looking at earlier. The jobs search. Trey and Cruz had blown up his last gig at Tech Town trying to pull one of their scams. That of course had fallen through with them landing in juvie. He glanced over to the growing pile of envelopes on the kitchen island.

He was only sixteen so a lot of them wouldn't do any good, and the ones he didn't have to lie about, well they were high school internships some paid some unpaid. But even if he could get them, there was one problem. You actually had to go to school. He'd given up on that last year. It was a load of crap, and he got kicked out half the time anyway because assholes couldn't keep their mouths shut and the teachers did nothing but bitch. Better to just avoid that whole scene.

"Dude come on, this'll be worth it bro. 800 big ones at least."

Taking the laptop, cleaning it off and reselling it. Well, it seemed a straightforward gig, and the money, well he needed his cut. His Mom's job search was not much of a job search, though she had found boyfriend of the week number 10,000 during the interview. But then, he'd seen a customer come in and they'd lost everything, and it hadn't just been some guy and his girlfriend. The entire family had come in, and they'd lost all of their photos, even the photos of their grandmother. And she had died the week before, seeing the kids so upset, well...he'd backed out and put in his two weeks. Lied to Trey and Cruz. He wasn't sure if they'd caught on yet, but he knew he couldn't do anything like that again if he wanted to make the deadline for rent without jail time.

So he was on the web searching for another gig. He landed on the web page for a car dealership. LaRusso Auto. LaRusso, that was familiar. He thought he'd heard his mom mention the name when they saw the commercial on TV when she actually had time to watch a movie. Oh it's that guy your dad hated in high school, used to always say he took everything from him. Never heard the end of it.

They were looking for mechanics and office assistants. You only had to be at least eighteen and out of high school. Well one out of two wasn't bad, and the other...well he could doctor something up. He wasn't bad at fakes. It was a month until December. These big places were desperate for new hires before the holiday rush. It was perfect. And the potential to piss off his father didn't hurt either.

He pulled up a document and began working on what he would need, and fixing his resume.

By the time he had submitted everything, the noise in the bedroom had ceased, and the sun was glinting through the windows.

Robby got an email within the next two days from Amanda LaRusso, asking that he come in for an interview. Along with that email, he also got a surprise delivery. Of course, he expected it to be another bill, but then he saw the return address, the names on the envelope, not Shannon Keene, but Robby Keene and Johnny Lawrence.

Dad? What the…?

He held the envelope in his hands, and they had begun to shake.

"Kid, you freaking deaf? HELLO?! I asked if there was anything to drink around here!" Of course this boyfriend of the week was one of the ones that didn't leave between the hours of one and three in the morning and shouted as well as slurred.

"I am now, thanks dude." Robby snapped. He slid the envelope out of view as he turned around. "Fridge is over there, Good luck finding anything though," He mumbled as he walked away just about to grab the soda, one of the last sodas that he'd pulled for himself off the counter but before he could….

"Thanks kid, maybe get your ears checked out huh wear those headphones a little less? And my name's not dude, it's Brad Fenton." ...The idiot swiped it.

"Sure, help yourself…Brad." Robby sighed rolling his eyes. Is there a difference: Brad, dude, ass, all sounds the same to me.

"What's your name anyway kid?"

Didn't he hear it like the past three nights when Mom told him to shut up with the elephant level noise? "It's Robby, didn't mom tell you already?"

"Oh, yeah, Robby that's right."

"Anyway...I gotta go,"

"Oh yeah, school or something."

Sure...or something. Robby went to the fridge and grabbed the sole remaining soda then grabbed his skateboard and hoodie and left slamming the door behind him.

A/N: Going based off of season one of Cobra Kai and the fact that they were in the winter months for at least the first few episodes and there was no snow in sight and the fact that I know snow is a rare occurrence in California, well that explains why Robby took his board here. Hope that doesn't pull anyone out too much.

Anyway thanks to Ally R Swan for help with boyfriend of the week's name. Fun little fact I was actually torn between the names Brad and Chad, and for those who don't know, Tanner Buchanan played the extremely cocky bully Chad Brad Bradley on Fuller House. Honestly it was a complete coincidence that those were the two names I was debating simply because they sounded douchebag enough to fit but when I realized it later, I thought it was perfect.