Castiel awoke the next morning to his alarm screeching on his bed side table. He rolled over and pressed the snooze button before remembering they were going to the game today so he rolled out of bed rubbing the sleep from his eyes. He padded out of his room and across the hall to the bathroom to get ready.
After his shower he threw on his favourite jeans and a plain blue shirt which matched the school colours. Castiel had almost forgotten that Balthazar was even staying with him until he walked into the kitchen where he was sitting at the small, wooden table with a plate of bacon and eggs in front of him that he was greedily gobbling down.
Balthazar raised his head to look at Castiel as he slumped into the chair opposite him "Morning Cassie and how are we on this sunshiny morning?"
His mother turned around from the stove to look at her son "Oh good morning Castiel. Have a good sleep?"
"Yeah I guess. I hate mornings. Can't we just sleep forever?" Castiel replied as his mother dropped his breakfast in front of him
"I guess you could but then you wouldn't be able to watch the game today" Balthazar replied with a smirk.
Castiel glared at him across the table his brow furrowing as his mother cleaned up the stove. Thankfully she hadn't heard the comment.
"Eat up you don't have too long before the game so you better get a move on."
"How did you know we're attending the game?" Castiel asked with confusion as to how his mother knew they were attending
"Balthazar told me this morning silly. Now eat up and I'll drive you both to the game. I don't want you to miss anything."
Once they arrived at the ground, Castiel scanned through the crowd in the bleachers for Anna who once again, found the perfect spot to view the game. She waved them over and Castiel and Balthazar strolled over to meet her.
"Hey Anna, this is uh my friend, Balthazar. He came to surprise me. Hope you don't mind I dragged him along. He knows about everything by the way."
"Oh hi, nice to meet you Balthazar." She stood and held out her hand to Balthazar
"You too Anna" meeting her hand and raising it to his lips to kiss the back of it never looking away from her eyes.
Anna giggled and blushed slightly at the gesture before sitting back in her seat.
"So are you going to tell us what the plan is?" Balthazar began as they sat down.
"Oooh yes we do need to come up with a plan." Anna stated with a little too much eagerness.
"Fine let's come up with a plan" Castiel began "But if you do anything to screw it up - either of you – I will never forgive you" he said turning his head to each friend on either side of him.
"Well that's a bit extreme Castiel," Balthazar started "But fine, I promise I won't do anything intentionally to harm your future with Dean"
Castiel turned to Anna with a stare expecting the same from her.
"Hey, if I didn't want you and Dean to be together I wouldn't have told you anything about him in the first place" She replied with a glare
"Well I guess that's true. Alright so how am I going to do this?" Castiel turned to face Balthazar "You have the most experience in this area"
Balthazar grinned in reply "I guess I do. Worked on you so I guess it will work on lover-boy too"
"Wait, you two dated? Why are you only just telling me this Castiel?" Anna turned and glared at Castiel with an 'I-can't-believe-I'm-only-learning-about-this-now' look on her face.
"Yes, we dated, he cheated, I ended it, I moved here. Nothing more to it."
Balthazar looked dejected at Castiel's words but he knew that Castiel had moved on. He had done the unthinkable and destroyed any chance he had with Castiel the moment he slept with Bella but he was content on restoring his friendship. If he couldn't have Castiel the way he used to, then he wanted to make sure he was still present in his life and that he was happy and if that meant with Dean, then he wouldn't stand in the way so he stayed silent and decided to scan the crowd for any potential.
They sat in silence for a few minutes before he saw a familiar figure emerge from the changing sheds. Castiel felt a flutter in his stomach as he stared over at Dean. He just looked so good in his tight, white and blue uniform complete with a blue cap. Once Dean reached the dugout, he dropped his gear bag and took a quick glance up at the bleachers right where Castiel was sitting. He sent a wink his way before turning and heading back out to warm up.
"Did he just wink at you?" Anna asked with a grin on her face.
Castiel was speechless "I… I think he did. Yes" He stuttered out eventually with his face as red as a tomato.
"Oh come on Cassie, I did that to you all the time and you never reacted like that" Balthazar chimed in.
"Well you're no Dean Winchester" Anna said teasingly
"Harsh words little lady" Balthazar replied with a laugh. "If you will excuse me," he said after a few minutes "I spy a pretty blonde over there who I believe could be French. I wouldn't wait up. Nice to meet you again Anna" He leaned over and whispered into Castiel's ear "Good luck Cassie. I know you're nervous but just be yourself. I'm sure you'll do great." He pulled back and winked at Castiel as he stood. "Toodles" he said as a farewell and walked off to endeavour his chances with the French blonde.
The game was a lot more one sided this time with the home team cruising to victory by 5 runs. Castiel and Anna stood from their seats and cheered with the rest of the crowd and congratulated their team on their victory.
"Geez Castiel, anyone would think you actually like baseball." Anna teased
Castiel turned and glared at her "Well I want him to do well. I have grown a liking to this sport even if it does go on all day."
The teams shook hands and departed to their individual dugouts to collect their gear before hitting the showers. Dean strutted to the dugout with a huge grin on his face that made Castiel's heart melt just to see it.
"So," Anna began nudging Castiel's shoulder once Dean had departed across the field to the sheds "What are you going to do?"
Castiel sat down on the bleachers and put placed his elbows on his knees resting his head in his hands. "I have no idea. I've never approached anyone before. One would think this would be easier seeing he's already kissed me but apparently not."
Anna giggled "Well I guess we can just sit here until he comes out and then I'll leave you to it." She turned her head to where Balthazar was whispering in the ear of the blonde who was blushing at whatever he was saying. She signalled her head in their direction "Looks like Balthazar is a bit of a charmer."
Castiel turned his head to see Balthazar's progress "Yeah he is, that's why we didn't last long." Castiel said solemnly turning back to face the field "He was always trying to get in someone's pants. If you were pretty or had an accent he went after you. I can't believe I actually fell for it" He paused at the thought "Oh well I've moved on and obviously so has he. He is a good friend though even though he did betray my trust."
"If you say so. I hope Dean doesn't take forever. I don't want to be sitting here all day waiting to help you with your love life."
The grounds were emptying and soon it was just Castiel and Anna waiting in the bleachers with no signs of Dean.
"What the fuck is taking him so long?" Anna questioned clearly aggravated by the long wait
"You can leave if you want. I'm sure he won't take too much longer."
"It's fine Castiel. I'll wait with you till he shows up. If he does at all"
Finally a figure appeared from the sheds but it wasn't alone. Dean emerged wearing his blue letterman jacket with the brunette Castiel recognised from his first day hanging off his arm. Castiel's heart sank I should've known he didn't want anything from me. He's deep in the fucking closet and isn't going to come out for someone like me. He cares too much about his fucking stupid reputation.
Anna could obviously sense the inner turmoil Castiel was going through as Dean trekked across the outfield laughing with the girl and placed her hand on his shoulder. "Castiel, I'm so sorry. I don't even know what to say"
"Just don't…" He said coldly shifting so Anna's hand slipped off "Just don't say anything. I should have known" he stood up and stormed down to the bottom of the bleachers and walked off back to exit leaving Anna dumbfounded still in her seat.
"Dean fucking Winchester" she started before storming over to him.
Castiel heard raised voices but took no notice of who they belonged to and instead chose to run home as fast as his legs would carry him. He stormed up the stairs with tears in his eyes and slamming all the doors in his wake before collapsing on his bed before pushing his face into his pillow where the tears started to fall. Fuck Dean Winchester. He can go to hell for all I care.
A/N I'm not a huge fan of baseball but I have a basic understanding so please bare with me with the games :P Thank you to the kind people who reviewed :) I have been sitting on this story for a while so I had the first few chapters already written out before I decided to publish it so the updates will be a little more far between from now. Thank you too all the people following you guys are making me keep writing :)