"Welcome to the first day of the rest of my life!" Castiel said to a camera dramatically. He was wearing a plaid shirt and a backwards hat and had a really small, childish backpack slung over his shoulder. His older sister, Anna, came up behind him and rolled her eyes.
"There's no need to be so dramatic, Castiel," She said, drawing out his name like she always did when she was making fun of him, "It's not the first day of the rest of your life. It's your first day as a freshman. Trust me, it gets much less exciting." Castiel shot a look back at his older sister, who in turn raised her hands in defense, plucked an apple from the table, and walked out the door with a call of, "Peace out, bitches!"
Anna could be quite dramatic sometimes.
Castiel rolled his eyes at the camera and huffed, making a motion towards where his older sister had been no more than a moment ago as if to say, "Get a load of her,' before continuing with his speech. "Anyway, as Anna ruined the surprise, yes, today is my first day as a high school freshman. My mom bought me this camera because she said that this was the first day of the rest of my life and I was probably going to want to document that. I'm not quite sure what she meant by that, because my life is pretty boring and I'm not sure why anyone would want to go back and look at it, but I'm going to record it anyway because I feel like that would give me something to do other than sit around and be utterly boring." Castiel smiled then and blushed at something in his head, "Who knows? I might even find myself this year."
x
Castiel turned the camera on his best friend Ruby. The two of them sat under a tree with their school books scattered across the grass. The two of them pretended that they were studying, but this was really just an excuse for Ruby to go spy on the senior boys and tell Castiel who she thought was hot and who she thought wasn't. "Any boys that you care to comment on, Ruby?" Castiel asked in his best faux reporter voice. Ruby laughed at that and put her hand up as if to shield herself from oncoming press. The two broke out into giggles, which was only stopped when a group of boys walked by. Ruby looked over and rolled her eyes, "Ugh, can you believe them?"
Castiel looked over and was about to make a sarcastic remark when a specific boy caught his eye. His throat went dry and he could barely speak as the boy looked over and winked at him. Taller than Castiel, with blonde hair and wearing a football jersey. The boy was perfect, and Ruby immediately noticed Castiel's affections. "Dean Winchester? Really Cas?"
Castiel covered the camera with one hand and hissed, "Shut up!"
Dean started over towards them.
x
"Mr. Winchester!" Castiel called a few days later, camera pointed to the football player who was laying on the floor in his room, reading a magazine, "Do you care to comment on how amazing your best friend's hair cut looks?" Dean rolled his eyes, but smiled at Castiel anyway.
"What, so now you're a white mom who records everything for a home movie?" Dean asked with a light chuckle, going back to reading the magazine. Castiel scoffed in mock offense at being called a white mom.
"I wouldn't say that I'm making a home movie. I like to say that I'm documenting the rest of my life. Something great's gonna happen to me this year, Dean, and when it does, I'm gonna get it on camera." Dean laughed softly at that and shook his head, prompting Castiel to ask, "What?"
"Something great might happen to you, bud," Dean said, looking back up at the camera with a shrug, "But nothing good ever happens to me." Castiel rolled his eyes and smiled affectionately at Dean.
"Oh, stop being so over-dramatic."
x
Castiel set up his camera in the corner of a dimly lit room before whispering, "So I snuck into Dean's apartment. He's asleep so I'm gonna wake him up by jumping on him," And then he looked back at Dean as if rethinking his plan before turning back to the camera, "Hopefully he doesn't try to kill me. Let's go." The young boy slowly snuck over to Dean and waited a second as if he were mentally preparing a death speech for his own funeral if this went wrong before jumping on Dean with a call of, "FOR SPARTA!"
Dean yelped and pushed Castiel off, pinning him to the bed before realizing who it was. They both stayed like that, with Dean over Castiel and both of them breathing heavily before Dean spoke quietly, "W-what the fuck, dude? I could have killed you." Castiel kept quiet though and just looked at Dean, searching his best friend's face as if he could find the secrets of the universe there. Dean fell quiet too, eyes darting back and forth across Castiel's face before pulling him in for a soft kiss.
x
A shaking hand and a crying boy caught Dean's graduation speech.
With Castiel tutoring him, Dean had somehow gotten to the top of his class and had been asked to put together a small graduation speech for the senior class. Dean smiled sheepishly as he walked up and took the stand from the principal of the school, who looked more than a little intimidated. "Hi. So, uh, for those of you who don't know me, my name is Dean Winchester." A hoot from a rather large and intimidating group of boys proved that more than enough people knew of Dean, "I've been asked to give a speech on behalf of the senior class. "So for those of you who don't know, the only reason why I was even asked to give this speech is because of my awesome boyfriend, Cas." Ruby laughed as Castiel turned red and made a hand gesture for Dean to continue. "He's red as a tomato now, but I really do love him. And I know like, everyone has been asking where I'm going to college and shit, and I think that's 'cause all of you muttonheads want to follow me," Another hoot from the group of boys which pulled laughter from everyone in the audience, "But, uh, I think I'm just going to a community college. I mean, I wouldn't last a day without Cas to tell me what the fuck I'm doing wrong. So my younger brother, Sam, who's gonna be in the same hell hole I've been enduring in a few months, can take go to Harvard or whatever, but he doesn't know what he's missing out on. Because my Castiel is the most beautiful, funny, timeless person I've ever met, and I don't know where I would be without him. To Cas."
"To Cas," Came the call of all the seniors surrounding the young boy, making him cry harder and pull Dean off the stage with a hug.
Author's Notes: I have gotten such amazing feedback on ArchiveofOurOwn and Tumblr that I decided to just get off my lazy ass and post this to my fanfiction. I will update it soon, I hope. Thank you all so much already for all the love I've been getting and if you loved it, it would mean the world to me if you could review & share it. This also inspires me to update faster. Thank you all ! 3