Made Alive
Castiel looked at the door. It said room number 189 just like his information sheet but there was a girl in the room, she was about 5'1", dirty blonde hair, slightly curvy, hazel green eyes, button nose, cupids bow lips and wearing a "I am sherlocked" hoodie and jeans along with red converse. She looked up when she saw him in the doorway
"Hi you must be Dean's new roommate!", she said somewhat cheerfully, "I'm Sam, his friend"
"um, my name is Castiel. Is…Dean here?" he was hoping that this Dean guy wasn't going to have his girlfriend or whatever around all the time
"Yeah he's just getting his last box out of the car, and don't worry I'm justing helping him move in then we'll probably be out of here", she added as if she could read Castiel's mind. Just then a man walked in carrying a cardboard box of what looked like cassette tapes, he was a little taller than Castiel, he had the same dirty blondish color hair as Sam, with a smattering of stubble on his face, a leather jacket, button up shirt, a band t-shirt and his eyes, goddamn those eyes. They were the color of grass in the summer sun, of candy apples or emeralds, and they shone in the bad campus dorm room lighting like the most beautiful things Castiel had ever seen. It was going to take all his strength to not get lost in those eyes.
"Hey Dean, this is your roommate, Castiel" Sam said from her position on Dean's bed
"Hi my name's Dean as I guess you've gathered", Dean said as he held out a hand for Castiel to shake. Castiel took it and shook. Dean's hands had callouses but were still oddly smooth and warm. "Me and Sam are gonna finish unpacking our rooms and then later we're going out to dinner you wanna join us?", Dean asks casually, as if Castiel isn't just some stranger he just met
"Uh sure I guess" Castiel really didn't feel like talking much and he really hoped Dean would just finish unpacking and then leave, even though it was his room also and he had a right to be there, Castiel just wanted a little peace and quiet his first day of junior year
"Alright awesome we'll pick you up at 6:00" Dean said and then less than five minutes later he and Sam were gone. Castiel sank onto his bed exhausted. He didn't think transferring schools would be just as stressful as it had been entering college freshman year, but he guessed that the fact that University of Chicago had a completely different atmosphere from what he was used to at North Western might be a factor in the stress. Also the fact that he had a very attractive guy as his roommate, who was clearly take, didn't help at all. Castiel got up off his bed and decided to start unpacking his stuff. He hadn't honestly brought that much stuff but it was still enough that it would take at least twenty minutes to fit everything in the room. He opened his first box which had sheets, a comforter, pillow and a throw blanket for the bed. After he did that he started unpacking his clothes and putting them in the small closet provided for him. Next was the textbooks, he put these on the book shelf above the desk, or in the desk itself. After he did that then he got to his personal effects. First he took out his small blue radio which he plugged in and also put on his desk, along with his laptop and a desktop lamp he'd brought from his old dorm, which was covered in all kinds of nerdy stickers such as "I break for hobbits" and "adopt a tribble today!" after that he put his alarm clock on the small bedside table, and put all of his non-school related books on the bottom shelf of that, then finally his small amount of art supplies. His family had never really encouraged that much extracurricular stuff except for maybe the odd music lesson, but they'd stopped talking to him anyways so might as well enjoy himself. Castiel spent the next hour sketching how the light hit different areas of the room and starting his reading for English class, when right at 6:00 Dean Winchester came in and as promised dragged Castiel out of the dorm room and out onto campus where Sam and some guy (6' dark hair greenish grey eyes, jeans, button up black leather jacket) were waiting by a tree
"Cas," Dean said, and Castiel decided to no correct him on the nickname "this is Sam's boyfriend Andrew, he's also a junior here except he's a science major"
"Pleased to meet you" Andrew said as he held out a hand for Castiel to shake
"So where are we going for dinner?" Sam asked, "We could go to Salonica, the Valois, Z & H, Medici, etc"
"How about Salonica, that way we can show Cas Powell's" Dean said,
"Do you mean the book shop Powell's?" Castiel asked surprised
"Yeah do you know it?" Andrew leaned on Sam as he said this, which was quite comical seeing how he was at least a foot taller than her
"Yes my job application there just went through, I start work Wednesday" this launched an interesting discussion about whether or not Powell's was a key part of Hyde Park's heritage or just another book shop and before they knew it they had walked the few blocks to 57th street. They walked to a building that was at the opposite end of the street as Powell's, the building had a blue and brown awning with the word Salonica written in a pretty white font. The inside of the building was just as charming with a diner like style and a counter at the front that sold mints, gum, candy, cigarettes etc.
Maybe, Castiel thought as they were seated, college wouldn't be as bad here, he'd already made what seemed to be a circle of friends and the fact that one of them was rather attractive and possibly single didn't hurt either.