So! chapter 2! I hope you like it so far! :D I've been planning out chapters but I won't be able to get them written for a while as I have exams so this won't be updated for a couple of months. (well, it shouldn't be, I may procrastinate) Anyway! On with the chapter!
-FTF
More shouts from outside woke Dean from his daydreaming stupor. Looking up from his desk where he was writing an essay for his English class, he realised he recognised the voice as the man that was shouting yesterday. He looked out of the window to see Castiel sitting on the ledge outside his window hugging his knees, his eyes glistening with un-shed tears.
'Coke?' A voice broke into the bubble around Castiel and he looked up. It was Dean, holding out a bottle of brown liquid, slightly fizzing at the neck.
'Thanks, Dean.' He reached for the bottle as Dean leaned out his window and moved to sit on his ledge, which was right opposite Castiel's.
A crash sounded somewhere in Castiel's house and he flinches, gulping down the cool drink.
'I have a little brother, you know. Sammy. He's four years younger than me; I'm fifteen he's eleven.' Dean says loudly, taking a drink himself. 'Him and me, we've lived here our whole lives. My mum's name is Mary Winchester, my dad; John Winchester.' Dean looks up from the tiles into Castiel's eyes. 'Your turn Cas.'
'Cas?' a pair of confused blue eyes met smiling green ones across the alleyway.
'Cas.' Dean said his face adamant that he was using that name.
Cas smiled. 'Thanks.'
'So, your turn! Tell me about yourself.' Dean pointed his bottle towards Cas.
'Oh, uh, well my name is Castiel Shurley I'm fifteen years old, my dad; Chuck Shurley, is a tax accountant, my mum; Becky Shurley, she doesn't work. I have a little sister, Anna, she's 2 years younger than me; thirteen. And three older brothers-' He stopped and looked down, sniffing. 'One older brother.'
'Hey, hey, Cas!' Dean threw a small, blunt piece of roof tile at him and he looked up. 'I'm sorry; you don't have to tell me.'
'No, no it's fine. I can tell you.' Cas took a breath, 'Michael and Luke, my older twin brothers. They were four years older than me. They hated each other. They'd always fight and it was tearing our family apart. So when it came to them being old enough to leave home we all breathed a sigh of relief.' Cas stopped talking for a moment and looked up to the clear blue sky.
'Cas, when did they leave home?' Dean asked, quietly
'They left when they were nineteen. We didn't hear from them for about 6 months. It then became my birthday. I was 15.' Cas was crying now. 'The- the police came to my house and spoke to my parents. Only the next day, did I realise that they'd told them my brothers had died. Wouldn't tell me why or how. The next week, we were packed up and moved out of state.' Cas took a swig from his coke bottle.
'Cas, you said they were four years older than you?' Dean looked inquiringly at his friend. Castiel nodded.
'Cas.' Dean said slowly, looking up at him with shock, 'when did they die?'
Cas didn't answer for a while. He looked at the bottle in his hands and spoke: 'Michael died first, apparently. Luke, just after.'
'Cas. When was this?' Dean asks
He looks up at Dean's worried face, 'a week ago.'
'Oh, Cas.' Dean shuffles forward, bracing his feet against the edge of the other ledge. He leaned forward, grabbing Cas' knee and squeezing tightly. 'I am so sorry.' He leaned back onto his ledge and sat. 'I know! How about that tour of Lawrence now? To cheer you up?' Cas smiled
'Yes please. Let me get my jacket and I'll meet you outside in 5.' Castiel clambered noiselessly into his bedroom through the window and closed it. Dean drained his coke bottle and copied his new friend, keeping the window open, however.
Well? What'd you think? Please review, I'd love to hear what you think!
Bye for now! and if you have exams, same as me, good luck and go revise! :D
-FTF