ToBeeHoneyst: I should probably get going. It is getting late.

Impala67: C.J. Wait!

Dean knows the answer; he always knows the answer. He met C.J. in a chatroom a little over a year ago and he still refused to meet Dean in person. If C.J. was being honest with him, which seemed unlikely at this point, he would be willing to meet him. They went to the same school, they loved the same things and they talked for hours. If C.J. cared anything at all about Dean, he would be jumping at the chance to meet him, to be with him finally. But the answer was always no. Dean could not even look the boy up because he did not know his name, other than it probably started with a C and that he was a guy. Dean had talked him into sending him a nude picture once, but the boy's face was not in it. Dean did not think about it at the time but now he feels that it was probably just some naked guy C.J. found a picture of on the internet. Dean knows he needs to get out of this situation but he is so far in love that he is incapable of making good decisions for himself.

ToBeeHoneyst: Okay?

Dean looks up, realizing that he had not responded to C.J. for the past five minutes.

Impala67: Graduation is tomorrow.

ToBeeHoneyst: Yes, it is.

Impala67: Meet Me. Before or After. I don't care which.

ToBeeHoneyst: Dean …

Impala67: You don't have to answer me right now. Please, just think about it. I love you and I want to be able to tell you that in person. Please.

ToBeeHoneyst: Goodnight, Dean.

Impala67: Goodnight.

Dean logs off of the computer and makes his way down to the kitchen. Sam, his younger brother and Charlie, his adopted little sister were having some sort of argument over ice cream flavors. This is a common thing in their house, them arguing and Dean being the tiebreaker. Most of the time he sides with Charlie, because she is his best friend and he likes to see his little brother pout that he is being unfair, but sometimes Sam makes the better argument.

"Dean," Charlie looks up at him with a silent pleading in her eyes. Dean hates when she does that. She knows just how to get her way with him. "Please tell Sam here, that Rocky Road is the best flavor of ice cream."

"I can't," Dean smiles, leaning himself against the counter. "I am a mint chocolate chip man, one hundred percent."

"Thank you," Sam smiles at his obvious win. This tells Dean that Sam has already been fighting on the side of mint chocolate chip. It is a Winchester thing Dean assumes, considering that it is their father's favorite ice cream as well.

"You both have incredibly bad taste," Charlie leans back in her chair and crosses her arms over her chest. She has never been good when it comes to losing.

"Ya ain't kidding," Dean frowns, looking down at his feet. His entire house knows about C.J. and the way that he feels about him. It makes him feel like a fool, having no way to prove that C.J. is even a real person. Moron, that is a better word to describe what he is.

"Oh, my poor king," Charlie gets up from the chair and makes her way over to Dean, putting an arm around his waist and standing next to him at the counter. When Charlie was ten, her parents died in a car accident. Dean's parents, being the closest thing she had to family, adopted her without question. Charlie lost herself in make believe and eventually got Dean into LARPing. That is when she started calling Dean, her king and he started calling her, Queen C. "So C.J. refused to meet you again?"

"He has not answered me this time," Dean leads Charlie back over to the table and they sit down. "But it is only a matter of time before he messages me some bullshit excuse."

"You should just tell him you are done and move on." That is always Sam's reaction. Normally, Dean would defend C.J. but he no longer has it in him. Sam is right this time but that does not change anything. Dean is still in love with C.J. and can not just walk away from that. Can he?

[Friday 7:43 a.m. | C.J.] I am so sorry, Dean. I cannot do this today.

[Friday 8:02 a.m. | C.J.] Maybe someday but I am not ready.

[Friday 9:00 a.m. | C.J.] If you want to stop speaking to me, I will understand.

Dean wakes up to his phone alert sound. Before even checking it, he knows what he is going to see. It is going to be some bullshit excuse as to why he can not bring himself to meet Dean. Dean is at the end of his rope.

[Friday 9:12 a.m. | You] Why is meeting me so hard?

Dean can not understand why someone would not want to meet. After a year of talking and telling each other that you are in love, why not meet them? What was so wrong with Dean that C.J. could not just let them be together?

[Friday 9:20 a.m. | You] You say you love me but if you loved me, you would want to meet me.

[Friday 9:27 a.m. | C.J.] I cannot make you understand why I cannot do this. I do not want to lose you but I am also not ready to meet you. Goodbye Dean.

Dean fights back the tears that he knows are going to fall sooner or later. He has a long day ahead of him and he can cry later. As of right now, his family is arriving and he has to put on a good show. He does not have to be happy, he just has to look it.

Graduation is long and boring. Sure, Dean is proud of himself for actually doing it but his heart is just not in it. What did he have to show for High School besides a stupid diploma? He had been popular and played on the football team but he is not good enough to earn a scholarship to college for it. He was attractive, but he was gay and the only person he ever loved did not want to meet him. He is graduating High School with no scholarships and a virgin. He still plans on attending college and playing football, he just has to do it on his own and with his parent's money. None of this made him anything special.

[Friday 7:45 p.m. | Charlie] I have an idea. Meet me in the tree house.

Dean smiles down at the message. The party for their graduation is just as boring as graduation itself. They have family that came in from out of state to celebrate, which just turned into any family event. Everyone is drinking and arguing about stupid shit. It is not the kind of arguing that people expect, it is all in good family fun, but still, it is not really what Dean is interested in at the moment.

Quietly making his escape, Dean sneaks his way out back and then climbs the rickety ladder and enters the tree house. Dean's dad had built it when they were kids. It is not built for them now, but that does not stop them from hanging out in it from time to time. When Dean arrives, Sam and Charlie are sitting on their bean bags sharing a cake between them.

"You stole the cake?" Dean asks, sitting himself down into his oversized bean bag. He is surprised this thing could hold them. "Was this your idea?"

"Nope," Charlie hands Dean a fork and he happily accepts it and takes a giant scoop for himself. He prefers pie but he can not refuse cake, even if he wants to. "This is just a warm up idea."

"She has lost her mind by the way," Sam laughs, cake almost falling out of his mouth. "She hit the mother lode with this one."

"Well I am all ears," Dean leans back and begins to work on the giant piece of cake he is now holding in his hand. Hands were the perfect substitute for plates, considering that they were the first plates.

"Catfish," Charlie says the word as if it was supposed to mean something to him.

"Catfish?" Dean raises his eyebrow at her, agreeing with Sam that she has in fact lost it this time.

"Yes, Catfish," She shakes her head at him and sits herself up on her bean bag. "You know, the television show on MTV."

"The one where the guys track down people that other people have been talking to?" And then it hits Dean. She is suggesting that he contacts Catfish about C.J. It is the dumbest thing that he has ever heard but also kind of brilliant. Not that they would ever pick him for the show but it seems like it could be a valid option. Does he want to know that bad?

"You don't get a choice really," Charlie shrugs her shoulders at him. "I already wrote them. I just wanted to let you know that I had an idea and that I rolled with it."

"You did what?" Dean drops what is left of the cake in his hand and moves to stand up, stopping when he realizes that there really is not enough room to do so.

"They said that you will be hearing from them on Sunday at one," She smiles over at him. "So you need to be on Skype by twelve fifty."

And that is that. Dean tries to argue but Charlie will not let him. So Sunday at one, Dean is going to be on Catfish. He is finally going to meet C.J. He is nervous about being on television in order to meet someone, but if this is his only option, he is going to take it, nerves or not.