"You really are a terrible shot, Cas." Anna shouted as she ran past her brother, who was struggling to fire his paintball gun. "Shut up, Anna. You know I've never done this before." Castiel said, turning the gun around to make sure it wasn't clogged. He pointed the gun toward his stomach and checked the top of the gun. "Try firing it again," Gabriel said from a few feet away. Castiel looked at Gabriel, then the gun. "Are you sure that's safe?" "Yeah," Gabriel said with a small smirk. "It's probably clogged, anyway. And even if it did fire, they don't hurt!" "Okay," Castiel said, firing the gun. A paintball shot out of the gun and hit Cas square in the stomach. He fell the ground with a shout, his gun sliding across the oily floor of the paintball range. Anna and Gabriel burst out laughing as Cas groaned in pain. "Dammit, Gabe!" He said, coughing. Anna walked over to her younger brother. "Really, Cas? You believed Gabe? C'mon, you know he's always pulling tricks on us." she said, holding out a gloved hand for Castiel. Castiel grabbed her hand and Anna pulled him up. At that moment, the buzzer sounded and the lights in the arena came on. The opposing team started cheering. They won. Castiel rolled his eyes. "Sorry, Anna. That was probably because of my lack of skill." Anna snickered. "Whatever. We do this for fun."
"Nice job, Cassy." Lucifer grunted, pushing past his youngest brother. "Hey, chill out, Lucy!" Gabriel chuckled as he followed Lucifer. Lucifer turned and grabbed Gabriel by his collar. "What have I told you about calling me that?" he snarled. Gabriel smirked. "I don't know. Why don't you tell me again?" "I told you to never call me that. You obviously missed that memo, right?" Lucifer let go of Gabe's collar and looked past him at Michael. "C'mon, Mike." Lucifer turned and started heading out of the arena. Michael looked at the rest of his brothers and his sister, and back at Lucifer. "Hey, wait for us! Dad told us to all stick together!" he shouted. "I think it'd be fine if we split up for a little bit..." Castiel told his brother. Michael looked down at him. "Uh, not you. You're only fifteen." he said.
Castiel sighed and looked at Anna. "Um, Mike? I think Cas would be just fine with me and Gabe." Anna said with a small smile. Michael bit his lip. "But Dad said-" "Who cares what Dad said!" Cas snapped. "We'll just meet up in front of the statue on the street when he comes to pick us up. What time is he supposed to pick us up, anyway?" "Eleven." Gabriel told Castiel. "Okay. So at ten to eleven, we can just meet up somewhere. That gives us..." Castiel checked the time on the digital clock on the wall. "...almost four hours to do whatever we want. Right? That's four hours, right? Who's in?"
"I am!" shouted Lucifer from the doorway. "So'm I." Anna chimed in, with a half smile. "Me too!" Gabriel said. Everyone turned to look at Michael. "What about you, goody two shoes?" Gabriel asked softly. Michael sighed. "Alright, fine. But make sure you're all at the statue at ten fifty sharp, got it?" "Yes!" all of the siblings said in unison before parting ways.
The Angelico family always was a close bunch, though they were all completely different people. Michael was nineteen, twenty in a few months, and the oldest. Gabriel always teased Michael by calling him a "daddy's boy." Michael truly was a daddy's boy though. He always sucked up to their father and never wanted to disobey him. He and Lucifer were the closest out of the siblings, but their morals constantly clashed. There was Lucifer, the second oldest. He was nineteen as well, but he just turned it. He was hotheaded and rebellious. Lucifer felt he was old enough to be on his own, though he still lived at home. The next oldest was Gabriel, who had just turned eighteen. He was the prankster of the house, trickster if you will. He had the best sense of humor out of the Angelico kids and he loved pranking his family. Next came seventeen year old Anna. She was the smartest out of all of the siblings. She was at the top of her class at Lawrence High School, and almost all of her classes were Advanced Placement classes. Her brothers thought of her as a know it all, and Michael was especially annoyed by her smart-alecky tendencies. Recently Anna and Michael had been arguing because Anna was going against their father's requests more and more frequently. Despite constantly going along with Lucifer, Lucifer couldn't stand Anna. Finally, Castiel was the youngest. He was fifteen, almost sixteen, and he was also very intelligent. He was very close with Anna, and she often helped him study. He was the most shy out of the siblings, but he was also very loyal to his friends and family. Like Lucifer, he was a bit rebellious when it came to his father's orders. Since he was the youngest, he always felt like he was stepped on at home, and he thought he could be independent and liked to get things done the way he wanted them done.
"So, what do you want to do?" Anna asked as she, Gabriel, and Castiel walked down the street. It was just past five o'clock, and it was winter. The night had already begun and a sharp chill ripped through the air. "Do we have money?" Cas asked his sister. "I have... thirty bucks." Gabriel said, checking his wallet. Anna pulled a crumpled twenty out of her jeans pocket and a few singles. "I have twenty seven." she told her brothers. Cas checked the pockets of his oversized trenchcoat, passed down by Lucifer. He pulled out two twenties and a ten. "I have fifty." He looked at his siblings. "Do you ever spend your money, bro?" Gabriel asked. Castiel looked at the bills in his hand. He turned his head back to Gabriel. "No." Gabriel snorted and shoved his wallet back in his pocket. "So, we have..." He started counting on his fingers. "Ninety bucks altogether?" Anna raised her eyebrows and laughed dryly. "Ninety? Where'd you learn to count, Gabe?" she snickered. "It's one hundred and seven." Castiel corrected Gabriel. "Well excuse me for not being the nerds of the house. Sheesh." Gabriel said, his cheeks reddening slightly. It may have been from embarrassment or the cold.
"So what are we going to do?" Castiel asked again. "Let's just walk around and see what's around that we can do." Anna suggested. They were suddenly distracted by the sound of two people arguing.
"I'm telling you, Dean. We're never going to get away with it!"
"Oh, stop being such a wuss, Sammy. Everything will be just fine."
"I'm not being a wuss. I'm thinking logically."
Anna, Castiel, and Gabriel watched as two guys around their age walked into a deli across the street. They couldn't quite see what was happening inside, but they got a fairly good idea when the shopkeeper threw them out less than a minute later. They heard one of them say to the other, "I told you so." They then listened as his companion told him to shut up. "We could walk around aimlessly in the cold... or we could have a little fun." Gabriel chuckled and headed toward the two boys. "Don't you dare prank them!" Anna snapped at her brother. Gabriel ignored her and continued walked across the street. "C'mon, Cas." Anna said, following him. Castiel followed Anna.
"Damn, I thought this fake would work." One of the boys said to the other. "Dad told you it was cheap. I don't even know why you'd show him that." The other one said. "Listen, Sammy. I told you already. Dad's cool with this stuff and I just thought he said that because he didn't want us using it to buy beers." "You didn't even tell him that you were going to use it for beer." "Well, maybe he guessed!"
"Hello, gentlemen." Gabriel suddenly interrupted their conversation. He smiled and nodded at the two guys. They just stared. "Who're you?" The shorter one asked. "His name is Gabriel." Anna interrupted, shoving past her brother. "He's my brother and he's a bit of a jerk." The shorter one suddenly raised his eyebrows at Anna. "Well, then. Who are you?" He grinned widely at Anna and drew his shoulders back, showing off his chest muscles under his navy blue shirt and open leather jacket. Anna just stared at him. "I'm Anna." she said, crinkling her brows. "This is Castiel." she added, gesturing to Cas. "Well, I'm Dean and this is my younger brother Sammy." the shorter one introduced himself and the other boy. "If you're younger, how come you're taller?" Gabriel asked Sam. Sam snickered. "Ha! Well, I don't know. I guess I'm just lucky." He smirked at Dean. "Ha ha, very funny. Just remember that good things come in small packages." Dean scowled at Sam and glanced at Castiel. "Why're you so quiet?" he asked. "Oh! Uh. I d-don't know." Castiel stammered. "He gets quiet around strangers. Isn't that cute?" said Gabriel. Dean chuckled. "Yeah, it's adorable." He winked at Castiel. Cas turned red and looked away, pretending to be mesmerized by the tattered stickers covering the door of the deli.
"So what are you three doing tonight?" Dean asked Anna. "We actually don't know. We were trying to figure that out when Gabe decided to go make some new friends." Anna said, shooting a look Gabriel's way. "I love new friends." Dean said, smiling broadly. "So I think all of us will get along great!"