I actually don't have anything to say, besides that this is gonna be a Gendry chapter, with a bit of Arya, so, my lovelies, enjoy!

Arya

Groaning loudly Arya rolled over on her bed, it was significantly smaller than her bed back home, and she missed being able to spread out as much as she wanted to. She was a small girl, but she took up more room in a bed then a giant. Sitting up, she stretched towards the ceiling. Reaching for her phone, Arya felt her stomach drop; she had class in ten minutes. Muttering several curses she jumped out of bed and grabbed the first outfit she found, more jean shorts and a loose blue and black tank top the slipped on with ease. Great, first day and her alarm clock had already failed her.

She ran to the bathroom to brush her teeth and comb her short tangled hair, mumbling a string of 'come on's' as she went and checking her phone every two seconds to check the time. Sprinting out of her bathroom, she heard a snore from the bedroom next to her, Ygritte.

"YGRITTE!" Arya yelled as she banged on the girls door, there was a loud sigh-groan mixture. She was probably hung over, and in that moment she was thankful that Sansa had forced a bottle of water down her throat the night before. She was still giggling as she walked back into her room and grabbed her bag, only to hear more snoring, rolling her eyes she walked back to the door.

"COME ON YGRITTE YOU HAVE CLASS IN LIKE 5 MINUTES" She yelled again, this time a loud frustrated noise rang through the door, along with the sound of something slamming against the door, and then, inside movement. Arya wondered if this was what it was like to wake a sleeping bear.

Gendry

He knew better than anyone that he didn't belong at this school, they made it clear by the way they looked at his worn out clothes and beaten up car, they made it clear by the way they whispered when they thought he couldn't hear them, but Gendry heard, he always heard.

It had come as a surprise to him, his acceptance into the school, especially when he hadn't even applied to the school. Robert Baratheon had personally chosen him, offered the boy a full ride and everything. This especially confused Gendry, what did some fancy schmancy school want with him, a poor orphan who was destined to work as a mechanic. His grades weren't the greatest, but he was clever, but that wasn't enough for a full ride.

He received the letter a week after graduation and three months after his mother passed away. Gendry thought it was a sick joke at first, and ignored it, but soon after he got a call from the school explaining some fake reason as to why Robert Baratheon wanted him at his school, and so now, here he was.

That was two years ago and almost nothing has changed, people still looked at him as if he was an alien to them, he didn't drive a BMW and his room didn't have an endless supply of booze and video games and or sports equipment in it, in all honesty, he didn't think people knew what to make of him.

Gendry didn't have many friends of his own, there were a few girls who would flirt with him, and the occasional frat douche that would ask him about sports or what girl he was banging, those were his most dreaded conversations. Then there was Hot Pie, he had been roomed with the boy his first year, and his second year oh and his third year. He was pretty sure Hot Pie was bribing people to put them in the same room, he was decently rich, and had few friends behind Gendry. It was obvious why, the fat boy was loud, arrogant and rude, but hey you can't choose who your friends are, and if he had gotten to choose he would have picked someone who didn't only refer to themselves as Hot Pie. Seriously, Gendry had lived with the guy for his whole college life and had no idea what his real name was.

He did decent in school, and was majoring in civil engineering, a major that he had switched 3 times and still wasn't sure he was happy with. Gendry had no idea where his new life with a free ride from college would take him. His teachers all liked him… some more than others. Like this one teacher, who taught religious studies, a class he reluctantly took because everyone told him it was the easiest class to bullshit your way through. But the teacher, The Red Women as everyone called her, was in some sort of cult, and only talked about one religion, constantly. She also always stared at Gendry, whenever he came or left classes, she gave him the creeps, but for whatever reason, he just couldn't bring himself to drop the only class he aced easily.

Heading to the class was a struggle all on its own, he was hesitant about skipping, because she always knew. Hot Pie would tease him for his fear of the woman, being as she was also know for being very… attractive to put it blunt. Gendry would always roll his eyes and ignore him, but it wasn't completely untrue, Professor Melisandre was good looking, but that was beside the point.

Anyway, Gendry trudged to class his mind full of questions. He questioned why he took the class every year, he questioned why the Red Woman was so interested in him, he questioned everything. He walked into the class, students all ready filling in and pulling out their laptops to take notes, like they needed it. The black haired boy went to take a seat, and looked around him; new faces and old surrounded him. That is when he saw the same grey eyes doing the same thing he was, scanning the room; she caught a glimpse of him and spun around after seeing the smug smirk curl around his face.

Class started minutes later but still Gendry caught himself glancing over at the back of the girls head, she looked familiar, at least more familiar than he had at first thought but he wasn't sure why. Arya. He thought to himself, trying to place a person to the name, but once again came up with nothing.

He was so zoned out he didn't even hear Melisandre start talking about the new gods, and how it would be there first unit. Of course it would, it always, and she talked about them so much there was no time for any other religion. The Red Woman started a power point about the gods, and started talking about the miracles people received when they prayed to them, that is when he heard a loud scoff.

All heads snapped towards the small figure a row down from him. "Something you'd like to share, Ms. Stark?" The Red Women snapped, her eyes burning into Arya, he could feel the fire from her stare, even if it wasn't directed at him.

"There is only one god" The small girl began; she chewed on her pinky like nothing had happened.

"His name is Death." She continued, Melisandre looking more and more pissed with every word that spilled out of the girls mouth.

"And the only thing we say to him is not today" She finished, letting the Red Woman continue, and start on a rant about how there must be a darkness in her to think such a thing, Arya only snickered silently. He decided then and there that he liked her. If Professor Melisandre didn't kill her, he would try and talk to her.

After the rant was over she went back to her presentation, and Gendry zoned out. Wait, what did she say Arya's last name was? Stan… No it was something like… Stark! He thought before snapping out of it only to look down at Arya, she didn't have the auburn hair most of the Starks had, but the connection was automatic once he found out her last name. The Stark's were insanely rich and ran several different chains of stores, all with the logo "Winter is Coming" he chuckled silently thinking that the girl who was dressed worse than he, a boy with maybe a nickel and PBJ to his name, was the daughter of one of the wealthiest men in the world.

Class dragged on forever, but it did end, eventually, and when it did, Gendry gathered his stuff and quickly followed after Arya who had already sprinted out of the class. "Hey" He yelled after her, she stilled for a second and he ran after her.

"There are at least 20,000 people here, why do I keep running into you?" She asked turning to face him, she was suppressing a grin, he could tell. He shook his head and smirked at her.

"I guess I'm just magnetic like that" He said with a shrug that earned him a scoff out of her. "What, you've been the one to run into me the last two times" This earned him a hint of a glare.

"Where did you hear that from… I mean that death thing?" He asked when she didn't reply right away.

"How do you know I didn't make it up all on my own?" She retorted, raising an eyebrow.

"Because I know you didn't. " He said simply, he couldn't think of a better reason, but he knew they weren't her words, or at least not totally.

"Fine you caught me" She said, looking up with her big grey eyes and the smallest of smiles upon her face. "My boxing instructor taught me." She shrugged.

"There is no way you're in boxing" He said, anger flooded her, this must be something she heard a lot, she was just so small and fragile looking.

"Fine, don't believe me" She replied trying to mask her anger as she turned to walk away. "Why should I care what you think, I don't even know your name" She headed back towards the dorms… his dorm building, he walked a few steps behind her.

"It's Gendry" He stated from behind her, his cocky smile almost evident from his voice.

" Yeah that's great, why are you following me?" She asked not turning around.

"I live down this way." He replied, only to hear a loud groan from Arya.

"Really? Please tell me you live in the basement or something like that. " Arya pleaded, obviously annoyed.

He grinned at her annoyance. "Nope, third floor"

"Ah fuck, of course you do" Arya cursed as she started to walk faster.

"What, you don't want to live by me?" He called after her, not even trying to keep up with her anymore, she was dead set to be away from him.

"No actually I'm not, the only reason Im here is to get away from assholes like you!" She yelled before storming away leaving Gendry standing there feeling guilty. She must have not had it very easy at her last school, that was obvious, she was boyish and teenage boys were ruthless.

"Hey wait!" He ran after her, she still hurried forward. "Hey, I'm really sorry can w-" He grabbed her elbow to stop her but she shrugged him off.

"Can we try this again, I'm not that big of an asshole, and I just wanted to say what you did in that lecture back there was pretty badass." He tried to explain sighing heavily as he finished, a smile trickled onto Arya's lips as she turned to see Gendry even more.

"It was pretty BA wasn't it." She said, it wasn't a question at all, she was proud of herself. "Fine you want to start again, I'm Arya, and you are?" She asked as if she didn't just hear his name seconds before, extending her hand too.

"Gendry Waters" He stated taking her hand and shaking it. "I was just about to go play some GTA until I have my next class, you wouldn't want to join would you?" He asked nervously, wait… why the hell was he nervous?

"Well since you asked nicely" Arya acted like she was thinking. "Sure" She smiled, and for the first time, the smile reached her eyes.

And so, they went, and they played violent video games, Arya's favorite, he learned. She would run over anyone who got in her way and giggled whenever he teased her for it. It was weird how the only time she giggled was when she was killing people, he had joked about this and she simply replied "I wasn't giggling stupid" Still focusing on the video game, her tongue half out in effort. He rolled her eyes and smirked at her.

"Suuuuuure" He said dragging out his words, sarcasm just dripping off his tongue, with one hand, Arya reached over and punched him in the arm. It was such a familiar action, it felt like it had happened a million times and that it would happen a million times more.

This chapter was so hard to write for some reason, I was just never happy with it, but anyway I hope you liked it!