Chapter 2.- More Information.

"Robyn!" She looked up at the calling of her name and sighed heavily but couldn't help smile at the proud look on Jughead's face at knowing her name, just seconds after it had been called out for attendance.

"Well done, you paid attention to the teacher calling names out." He still looked overly proud of himself as he smiled at her. He looked at the seat next to her, as if looking for an invitation. She sighed again.

"Please, take a seat." He did as he was told and sat next to her, the teacher was calling for quiet and the conversations going on around the room died down to silence.

"The person sat next to you now will be your partner for the rest of the term, all projects will be done as pairs." She turned to see Jughead smiling lightly as if happy with the development. She waited for the teacher to tell them what reading to do from the textbook and the conversations to pick back up around the room before turning to talk to him again.

"I know your dad." He looked back at her in complete shock. "I thought you should know, I work as a waitress at the bar he runs. I've worked there since my family moved to town." He seemed to calm down slightly as she explained herself.

"Did he tell you to talk to me?" A burst of humourless laughter burst forward from her.

"I didn't talk to you, you spoke to me." He nodded lightly as if to concede the point. "I realised a while ago I was going to the same school as his son and let him know I wouldn't be passing along any information about you. Not that it mattered much as I don't know all that much about you, but I haven't told him anything." He nodded again, looking down at his unopened book.

"Thanks." His voice was quiet as he responded.

"Of course, I could tell him something, if you wanted me to." He looked up at her then, a questioning look in his eyes. "I know you aren't staying with him, I know you haven't for a while and I can guess the reason for it." His expression turned back to one of shock and she sighed lightly. "I don't know where you're staying, and you don't have to tell me. I know it isn't with him because sometimes he needs help getting home at night and I'm usually the person helping him. I've seen him drink and I know how he can get, my educated guess is you don't stay with him because of that." She kept eye contact with him as she explained, not looking for any response, there was a strange look in his eye as she finished talking and he kept eye contact for a moment longer before sighing as he looked away.

"How's he doing?" He looked back up.

"Good days and bad days." She shrugged lightly, unsure of how much he wanted to know. "He's trying." Anger suddenly flashes in his eyes as he looks back to her and she recoils from it strongly.

"What would you know about him trying, I've heard him say that a million times." She just nodded lightly, no longer moving away from him and his anger.

"I know, and I know he hasn't always meant it." The anger was still in his eyes as she looked back at him. "I think he does this time." He shook his head at the thought. "I don't expect you to believe me."

"I don't." She just nodded to him, expecting the response and went back to reading the chapter they were supposed to be looking at, without a word of it going in. "What would you know about it anyway?"

"Hmm?" She wasn't sure what he meant by the question and was surprised by the change in tone to something more curious than angry.

"What would you know about my dad trying and whether he means it or not?" She met his eyes and there was no anger there anymore.

"I've known your dad for a while, those times he said he was trying and didn't mean it, I saw that too. At least some of them." He heard him sigh beside her. "I've seen it all before." This wasn't something she wanted to talk about, her voice was quiet now.

"Seen it before?" She sighed heavily.

"You're not the only one with family trouble." He looked at her questioningly.

Suddenly the bell rang and Robyn had never been so happy to hear that sound and dodge the conversation that was coming. She hadn't had to talk about her family, her mum, for a long time and Jughead knew nothing about her, this shouldn't be the first thing he learnt. She hurried to stand up and grab her things before following the rest of the people out into the hallway.

"Hey, Em!" Robyn shouted into the quiet house. "You home?" The door suddenly opened behind her, making her jump slightly.

"Yeah, I'm home." She laughed lightly as she moved further into the house, heading towards the kitchen, her younger sister following her.

"I've got work tonight, I'll be leaving soon. You want something to eat before I go?" She turned to see her sister nodding to her.

"Whatever we've got." She rummaged through the fridge for a minute before pulling out some ingredients.

"Lasagna sound good?"

"Hmm, yeah. Dad home tonight?"

"Not sure, might be a late one for him." Emma just nodded to her again, used to the response she got most nights. "Will you stay here or go over to a friends?"

"Stay here tonight, I've got some stuff to do."

"Ok, I'll be back as early as I can be..."

"And I'll keep my phone on and message throughout the evening and call if I need you." She interrupted, used to the speech as well.

Robyn just laughed lightly at her sister and continued getting the dinner ready for the two of them.

"Right, lasagna in the oven. I'm going to shower and change before I have to leave."

"Ok, I'll be here." She looked into the living room to see Emma sitting comfortably on the couch browsing through Netflix.

She showered quickly and put on jeans and a t-shirt, both black, as she usually wore to work, and tied her hair back into her usual ponytail as best she could attempting to smooth down any stray hairs but knowing it wouldn't stay neat for long.

Emma was in the kitchen when she made her way back down, taking the lasagna out of the oven and placing it on the top to cool.

"The oven started beeping, so I took it out." She hurried forward to check on the lasagna before getting out a spatula from the draw.

"Thank you, go sit down. I'll bring you a piece." She nodded to her and left her to continue dishing up the dinner.

They spoke about the first couple of days back to school as they ate, Robyn smiled as her sister told her about her group of friends and which classes she was enjoying so far. She shared some small snippets from her days too but there wasn't all that much to tell.

"Did you see him today?"

"Yes I did." She who her sister was referencing and didn't want to have this conversation with her.

"And?" Emma looked at her with a strong look, expecting an answer.

"And nothing, we crossed each other in the hall, ignored each other completely." She looked at her watch and she was glad to see it was time to leave. "I've got to get going."

"Fine, I'll see you later tonight, we can talk more about it then." She sighed as she left the table to put her plate in the sink.

"There's nothing to talk about, he wants nothing to do with me and I want nothing to do with him." Emma followed her into the kitchen and met her eyes, she seemed to believe her as she nodded lightly to her. "Call if you need anything and let me know if you're going to bed before I get back."

"Will do." She smiled as Emma gave her a small side hug before she left the house.