Castiel awoke suddenly to Heat of the Moment by Asia blasting in his ear. After it was paused, the said boy still heard a distant ringing in his ears and mind. He had heard his brother, Gabriel, cackling as he left Castiels room.
"You're going to be LATE!" Gabriel called up the stairs once at the bottom.
Why does Gabriel care so much? Oh right. Beginning of the new school year and all that. It had been a few weeks already but the schools GSA was starting today for this year. Gabriel had went there and made some awesome friends. It was intriguing. This was Castiels first year of high school.
When they all got there schedules, they forgot to check the classes. 'Another time', Hannah had said with a slight shrug. But after that Balthazar lost his copy. It was the first day of school when they actually found out what classes they all had together.
Cas dragged himself out of bed and continued down to the kitchen for some coffee. His bag was down here, already packed, and he had been too lazy to change. Today he wore a long, red flannel shirt and blue jeans. He grabbed his tan trenchcoat before exiting the house with Gabriel.
Castiel lived in a smallish house with his 21 year old brother. Gabe sorked at the bakery on main street. He used to live with his mom and dad and his younger sister Anna, but his parents disagreed with certain things in Gabriels life and kicked him out. It was truely devastating and Cas decided he would much rather live wuth Gabriel. Soon after Cas moved in with Gabe, their parents (and Anna) moved across the country. Neither of them wanted Anna to be near Gabriel, or Cas now, in hopes that they'd have one not-so-screwed-up child.
After moving in with Gabriel, Castiel noticed he seemed muched happier than in his parents house.
Most weekends he spent with his friends or binging shows/movies with Gabe. Castiel also enjoyed having a weekend to himself once in a while. One those days, he would usually be found in his room listening to Coldplay or Queen or something and reading a book.
Castiel now stood at the bus stop, waiting for not only the bus, but also for Meg to show up. At the beginning of their friendship, they absolutely hated each other. Eventually they both realized they had similar likes and dislikes and became amazing friends. Cas introduced her to Hannah and Balthazar later on. Me usually called Castiel Clarence, which confused Hannah until Meg finally explained why she called him Clarence.
About 10 minutes later, the bus was stopping in front if Castiel and a red head named Charlie. Charlie was usually listening to music and never really talked to Castiel. Meg hadn't shown up so Cas sat alone at the back of the bus. There were 6 people on the bus, four littele kids and Charlie and Castiel. Not including the bus driver. Even though he hadn't been going on the bus for a long time, he knew the little kids names were Benny, Amelia, Tessa and Zach. They were all equally noisey.
At the next bus stop, a few more little kids piled on plus a newer kid. 'New' as in Castiel had not seen this kid on the bus or at school for the past 2 weeks. Apparently he had been staring for too long because the kid smiled and aat in the seat across from Cas. Why didn't he just sit with him?
Soon enough, it was the last stop. Kevin and Jo, people who Castiel didn't really talk to, came on the bus. Jo sat next to the new kid and they immediately started chatting up a storm.
I guess they know each other, Cas thought.
The bus ride seemed to go quicker than usual because suddenly they were at school. Cas' first class was music, which he had with Hannah. Hannah played the flute and Cas played the clarinet, both playing piano in their spare time.
Hannah was already sitting at the front of the class with thre other flute players so Castiel just decided to sit down rather than to try to engage in conversation. Next to Castiel was Garth, a sort of shy, but kind hearted, kid. The two boys shared a book while playing.
There was still about 10 minutes or so until class actually started so Cas took out a book to read. He'd only just started it and the chapters were short so when the bell rang, he was on chapter 6. First period went by quickly and next was French. The teacher wasn't there yet so Castiel, and a few others, stood outside of the classroom. The redhead from before walked up to Castiel and just stared at him.
"You're on my bus, right?" She asked him.
Castiel coughed awkwardly and nodded. "I am, yes."
"I'm Charlie, Charlie Bradbury." She stuck out her hand for him to shake. "I think we went to the same school. What class do you have after lunch? I have tech."
"Uh, I have science..."
Before it could get anymore awkward, the teacher came and unlocked the door. Students shuffled into the classroom and Castiel sat down in his seat next to Garth. Garth and Charlie were the only people Cas really knew in here. Jo was also in his French class.
Garth sat next to Castiel on the right. The two boys usually tended to walk to French from music together. They knew enough about each other to be considered friends but never really hung out outside of school. Garth came into the classroom a little while after Castiel, since he stopped to talk to some friends.
"Heya Castiel!"
Cas looked up at Garth and smiled. "Hello Garth."
"Uh... how's it going?" He asked sitting down. "We didn't really talk much this morning."
"Yes, sorry, I was really into the book I was reading. It's going well, I suppose. And you?"
Garth laughed. "I'm pretty swell myself! I-"
Unfortunately, the bell ramg and Garth was cut off.
"Hello class, welcome back to another day of school!" You could almost see how much Ms. Talbot hated her job. She clapped her hands together. "Now that I have your attention, let's begin todays lesson..."
Ms. Talbot went on and on about various French-things. Needless to say, Castiel was starting to regret taking this class. I was only 15 minutes into the period when somebody burst into the classroom.
"Is this French?"
Cas recognized him, it was the new kid from the bus. Everybody stared at the boy and Castiel seemed to be the only one who noticed his discomfort. The silence was eventually broken by the teacher.
She answeted in French, of course. "Oui, je m'appelle Madame Talbot. Comment t'appelle tu?"
He replied in English. "Winchester, Dean Winchester. New student and all that. I'm and aquarius and I just love taking long walks on the beach." With that said, Dean took the seat in front of Castiel and winked at Ms. Talbot.
She glared lightly at Dean and just continued teaching the class. Jo leaned over to Dean and swatted his on the arm playfully.
"Stop hitting on the teachers!"
"Never." You could practically hear the smile in his voice.
After that, class went on slow and boring. Castiel drifted in and out and didn't really pay too much attention. Since it was only the 3rd week of school, wanted everyone to get to know each other better so she assigned partners for a normal 'get to know each other' activity.
"Try to practice French phrases when you do this, okay? Okay! Here are the partners: Garth and Jo, Ash and Hester, Castiel and Dean, Celeste and-"
"Um Miss? Hi, I'm Charlie, not Celeste please. Okay? Thank you."
"Oh, sorry. Charlie and Adam..." smiled at Charlie.
And so on.
Dean turned around and smiled at Castiel. "Hey, I'm Dean."
"Castiel."
"What's your last name?"
"Why do you care?"
"Well you know mine for one thing, and second; this is kind of a get to know game thing so..."
"Right." Castiel gave himself a mental smack in the face. "Uh.. Je m'appelle Castiel Novak."
Before he could say anything else, Dean asked: "So you got any siblings? In English please."
It took Cas a few moments to answer. Should he include Anna as a sibling? Does she still count as family?
"One, his name is Gabriel and he works at the bakery in town." Cas' voice cracked slightly at 'one'. "You?"
"One and a half." Cas stayed silent so Dean continued. "His name is Sammy and he's the smartest kid ever. He's gonna go places, I swear on my life. Over there," He pointed at Adam across thr room, "is my half brother Adam. My dads drunken one-night-stand. I'm older by a week. He doesn't live with us though. Just me, Sammy, mom, and dad."
Castiel nodded. Dean could probably say a lot more about his family.
"So why did you move here?" Cas finally asked.
"My parents wanted us to move closer to Adam to get to know him. You? Or have you been here your whole life?"
"About 3 years ago. My parent disagreed with my brothers 'life choices' or some shit and kicked him out. He moved, I came with. Now we're here." Castiel then moved on so Dean didn't ask any questions. "My mom and dad moved across the country so my younger sister Anna didn't have to be anywhere near Gabriel. Anna would be 12 this year. Anyways how about some normal questions? Like, what's your favourite colour?"
"Um okay," Dean nodded. "Either blue or red. Never really gave it much thought. You?"
"Green. Favourite band?"
Dean chuckled. "Hard to pick just one but I love Led Zeppelin."
"Nice choice." Cas smiled.
"Are we really just gonna sit around playing 20 questions?"
Castiel sighed. "This is stupid. I quite dislike . I think once she tried flirting with my brother..."
Dean snorted. "Man, I gotta meet this brother of yours someday cause you keep mentioning him."
"I'm not too sure you do. He can be very annoying sometimes. But you know, he's trying. Go to the bakery sometime, you'll see him there."
Dean nodded. "Go there after school, I'll bring Sammy and you two can meet. Sammy's 10 but he's really, really smart. He'll go places for sure and I think you two will click."
"We just met and you're already asking me out on a date? At my brother's bakery?" Castiel laughed at Dean's blush. "Just kidding, of course."
"Yeah. I wouldn't bring Sammy on a date."
"The bell is going to ring soon." Cas pointed out, trying to get the topic off of dating.
It worked. "Really? Wow, time flies. See you at lunch?"
Dean gave Castiel a hopeful look. "Maybe. I have a club meeting. Are you interested in possibly joining the, um, GSA? I mean, it's fine if you don't obviously. I just mean if you are interested we could walk there together if that's okay-"
"Sure, why not?"
Castiel smiled and grabbed his backpack before they left. Soon enough, they were standing outside of the small longe, waiting for to unlock the door. Outside with them was Charlie, Kevin, and some girl Cas didn't recognize. After a few more minutes of awkward standing, came and let everyone in. Once everybody was seated, they began introducing themselves.
"Alright, hey guys. I-I'm , you may know me if you'rd in my English class. I think you all are except for you," he said, pointing at Castiel."Anyways, let's introduce ourselves. April, do you want to start?"
He pointed at the girl Cas didn't know. It was good to finally put a nice name to a nie face. Castiel hadn't realized how beautiful she was before. April nodded enthusiastically and started talking.