Chapter 2

Jon Snow Stark POV

I'm on my way back with Robb and Talisa. We're going straight to their new apartment, which is a 7 hour drive from the beach. I don't mind, I'll drive for a couple hours at the halfway point. It'll give me good practice, as I applied to Robb's school in the spring. I'll find out if I got in by December.

We had a good time at the beach, but most of it was uneventful. We just swam, talked, watched fireworks and played games as a family. Robb and I smoked a little here and there with Talisa, but only when we knew the family wouldn't see. My parents try to do something like this every summer so we can have family time.

We pull into an apartment complex finally, Robb took over driving in the last hour. "Is this the place?" I ask him.

"Yep," he responds. "We're on the second floor." We start to unload boxes and walk up to the apartment. It's a cute little place, it's one bedroom but it has a decent amount of space.

"You don't mind if I sleep on the couch?" I ask.

"Not at all," Talisa says, setting boxes down. "We'll go grocery shopping tonight and you can get whatever you want, we could really use the help moving in." That really means a lot to me. I think Talisa is really good for Robb, I think she'll be a great mother.

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Robb ordered a pizza for dinner after we unloaded the boxes and unpacked most of them. They don't have any internet connection set up, so we just played Monopoly. I miss having time with my brother like this, it's still hard for me that he isn't home anymore. We're sitting out on his front porch drinking beer after Talisa went to bed. Robb took some beer home after the beach trip.

"Have you talked to Daenerys lately?" Robb asks me. He knows I'm dating her, I texted him about it immediately.

"Yeah, I text her every day," I say. "She's helping Jaime and Cersei Lannister move into their new apartment."

"They're moving into an apartment?"

"Yeah, it's close to where they're going to school."

"Are they still fucking?" He asks me.

"I have no idea if that's true," I say. The thought of that makes me nauseous. "But probably. I don't ask Daenerys about all that."

"I hope you did okay this year, while I was at school," Robb says after a pause. I think he feels guilty for leaving me with our siblings. "I know me leaving couldn't have been easy."

"It wasn't," I respond. "Sansa dated Ramsay Bolton, and I beat him up when I found out he was pressuring her into sex."

Robb just sighs and puts his head in his hands. "God, Jon. I'm so sorry. You know I would have murdered him if I had been there."

"I know," I say. "I'm still worried about her. She barely eats and she lashes out at me if I try to ask her about it."

"I noticed on the beach trip that she was barely eating. Have you told mom?"

"She would fucking kill me if I did. I don't want her to see me as another parent, I want her to trust me." Robb just nods, but I don't think he agrees with me.

"You know you could have told me what was going on," Robb says. "I would have been more than happy to help."

"I didn't want to disrupt your newlywed life. You guys seemed really happy."

"We are, but my family comes first. Call me if anything bad like that happens again. I feel bad that you had to deal with it on your own."

"Thank you, Robb." I'm glad he's willing to help, and we definitely leaned on each other when he was still at home. I just miss him a lot, more than I'll ever admit to anyone.

Daenerys Targaryen POV

I'm helping Cersei and Jaime move into their apartment while Jon is helping his brother and sister-in-law move into theirs. We're on our way, it's about a two hour drive. That makes me happy that it isn't too far, so it won't be too hard to visit. Cersei's hair is growing out a little, she still regrets cutting it all off. I feel like she and Jaime's relationship has gotten a little tense. It makes sense, they went through a lot this past year.

"That's campus," Cersei says, pointing out the school she and Jaime will be going to. "Our place is just a couple blocks away."

"Awesome," I say. "How big is the place?"

"Two bedrooms, one bathroom," Jaime says. "Not too big, but great for a starter apartment."

I'm helping them unload their boxes, but they've already started carrying them up the stairs. As I walk up the stairs with a box, I can hear them talking by the doorway of the apartment.

"Are you feeling okay?" I hear Jaime ask Cersei. She just nods. "This will be a great fresh start for us. We can put everything from last year behind us and start our lives together." He kisses her forehead and hugs her. I don't think they know I could see and hear them. I want to comfort Cersei, but Jaime is way better at that than me.

We're playing drinking games in the evening after unpacking a lot of stuff. Cersei and I went and picked up Chinese, and Jaime is making breakfast tomorrow.

"How excited are you guys to start school?" I ask.

"So excited," Cersei says. "We have orientation in a few days and then we'll be seeing what parties are happening before school." She's drinking so much. I think about saying something, but I know she'll just yell at me if I make a comment.

"I'm going to try out for the football team," Jaime says. "I probably won't get in, but it's worth a shot."

"Yeah, high school and college sports are comepletely different," I say. "I know I definitely won't be able to do college cheer."

"I'm excited to write and do reporting," Cersei says. That makes sense, her major is journalism. "But I'm still mad at you for staying behind." She says that in a joking way, but I know she's not joking. I feel guilty for staying behind, but I had to. It was either turn my back on Cersei or turn my back on my dad, and I couldn't do that. Cersei has Jaime, my dad really only has me and a couple distant family members.

I wake up in the middle of the night on their couch, and I realize I really have to go to the bathroom. I walk down the hall to their guest bathroom, which is in between both bedrooms. When I get out of the bathroom, I can hear giggling coming from what is supposed to be Jaime's room. It's clearly Cersei, and I hear Jaime moaning. I rush back over to the couch and try to fall back alseep, hoping they didn't hear me going to the bathroom.

Did they really have to do this with me here? Obviously I knew this about them, but Cersei's never told me up front. She could have tried to be a little more discreet, they don't need to christen the apartment tonight.

Sansa Stark POV

Arya's fencing competition went well, even though she didn't win. I had to pretend I understood what was going on, but it was still fun to watch her. She was upset that she placed 4th, but I thought that was really good. There will be more competitions, I just wish she wasn't so hard on herself. Being hard on myself didn't turn out well for me.

I'm going shopping for back-to-school outfits at the mall with Margaery today, school is in about a month. I'm terrified for this year, I don't even think I was this scared for my freshman year. Cheer camp is next week where we welcome the new members, learn the new routines and polish up the old ones. We didn't make it far enough for summer competitions this year.

"Are there any guys on the horizon this year?" Margaery asks me.

"No," I respond. "Ramsay ruined my life, I still need to get over that."

"He didn't ruin your life, Sansa," Margaery says. "You're being dramatic."

I really feel like he did ruin my life. I feel even more disgusted with my body than I did before we started dating, I can't believe I did some of the things I did with him. We keep looking at clothes, but I don't feel like anything will look good on me.

I'm trying on a yellow dress in the fitting room, and all I can think about is how fat I look. I start to tear up. "Did you try it on?" I hear Margaery call out to me.

"Yeah," I say, wiping my eyes. "I'll be right out." I walk out and Margaery is standing in a matching top and skirt that she tried on.

"You look so cute," she says. "You should totally get that."

"You think?"

"Totally. I think you look adorable." The dress is cute, but I look fat in it. That's no surprise, I look fat in everything. I guess I won't be able to eat much before school starts.

I end up leaving the mall with the dress and a couple pairs of jeans. I got the straight cut, the skinny jeans show off my legs too much. I'm afraid if I look too good, Ramsay will try to get back together with me. I'm so scared to see him, I'm not even looking forward to cheer or anything else about the school year. My anxiety about seeing him outweighs all of that.

A/N: Let me know what you thought of this chapter! And also… I'll be introducing a new canon character in the next chapter! Anyone want to guess who it is? Hint: They're an adult, not a teenager :)