Ah and now I've finished the 12th Chapter, "Tag" I hope you like it because it was pretty fun to write! Be warned it is also the longest chapter of the story thus far.
"Howdy." She wore a big smile across her face as she handed him his coffee cup. "Was that Dean? Or were you talking to a girlfriend and didn't want her to hear another girl talking to you."
Sam sputtered his sip of coffee, which really was more creamer and flavoring than coffee. "It was Dean. I don't have a girlfriend." He looked down at the cardboard holder around his paper cup. He could see black ink through his fingers. While holding the cup in his other hand he pulled off the cozy, seeing a sequence of numbers with a name written in permanent marker. "I think someone wants you to be their girlfriend though."
Tea looked up from her soda. "Hu?" She looked at the cozy in his hand blushing. "Oh uh..." Words couldn't form in her mind. Glancing back at the café, she saw the guy behind the counter mime putting his hand phone to his ear. Tea smile faltered but she dipped her head ever so slightly before turning to Sam. "Sorry I didn't know... He kind of got the worn cup." She giggled. "You can keep that if you wish, he's not my type."
Sam shook his head as they walked away. "So what is your type if it's not him?" He dropped the cozy in the nearest trash can out of sight of the coffee shop.
They proceeded to walk over to a little park where several red benches surrounded a playscape. The playscape itself had several different levels to it. The highest level reached up to about ten feet into the air with a winding slide coming off of it.
Tea looked at it watching the kids playing there slide down then scamper through the obstacle of layers up to the slide again. As she watched she thought about the best way to answer. In truth she really didn't have a type per-see. She looked at a guy's eyes first, then his smile and then the rest just fell in place.
"Are you still with me?" Sam poked her playfully in the ribs not knowing how ticklish she was in that region. "Or have I lost you?"
Tea jumped away from his finger with a squeak. "Sorry." She held her hand over her mouth to keep from making the same noise twice. "I'm still here, just thinking." She looked up at him. "Please don't poke me there."
Sam laughed. "I didn't know you were so ticklish." He took a mouthful of his Frappachino. "And now I do so no worried." He held up his hands the best he could in surrender. "So are you going to answer?"
Nibbling on her lip Tea sighed. "Well... I guess... He has to have nice eyes." She stumbled over her words. "I mean not necessarily a specific color... er gah I don't know." She threw her hand that wasn't holding her soda into the air. "Guys can look great in every way but if they have dull eyes... Well that is no good for me."
A bit confused Sam nodded slowly. "Okay so you really look at eyes. Did that guy not have nice eyes?" Silently he hoped he wasn't getting too personal or sounding like he wanted to know for his own benefit.
"Oh I don't know. I wasn't paying much attention." She looked so scatterbrained. Every few seconds her eyes would gravitate to the children as if she really wanted to take their pictures.
"So how do you know he wasn't your type?" Sam bit back a laugh. "If you weren't paying attention then you would never know. I mean logically at least."
Tea turned to him with complete focus and seriousness in her tone. "You sound like a girl's gay best friend." With a gulp of soda, she quirked a smile. "But know worries I know you aren't into guys."
"Not saying you are wrong or anything but why would you say I'm not? Dean sure has his doubts sometimes." Sam stared at her intently. "I mean don't take it the wrong way. I am so completely not, I'm just curious."
Tea giggled. "You appraise girls in a way only a strait guy can." She made her words sound like she had just recited the quadratic formula. "Er well maybe appraise isn't the right word for you. For your brother it is dead on but for you... you're unique."
"Isn't that what parents tell their kids to make them feel special about themselves?" Sam chuckled lightly. He was really starting to like Tea more than he thought possible. "Either that or the way a teacher tells a kid that he's stupid without letting the whole class know."
"No." Tea rolled her eyes and shook her head in disagreement. "What I mean to say is even though you don't look at girls like they are a piece of meat you also don't give them that 'I so look better than you' look." Her own words made her laugh. "You do have this way of checking girls out without them knowing though."
Sam full out laughed, something he hadn't really done in a long while. "So wait how... you didn't answer my question about not paying attention and the guy not being your type."
"Shoot." Tea snapped her fingers with an inward sweep of her arm. "I was trying to use my powers of changing the topic to distract you."
"You failed." Sam was laughing again, so much so that he was beginning to feel the strain on his abdominal muscles. "Now come on, out with a real answer."
Tea licked her lips. "Do you believe in love at first sight?" She turned her eyes and locked them to his. "I'll answer your question just humor me," she said when she thought he wasn't going to give her an answer.
Sam thought for a moment. He didn't really know what was supposed to happen during a love at first sight experience nor did he ever give it much thought, which he figured meant her didn't believe in it. "No..." He started off slowly. "I mean it sounds crazy right? Seeing someone for the first time but knowing you are going to fall in love with them. That could happen to someone just walking down the street when the person they saw might not have even seen them back. I think you really have to get to know someone first."
Tea thought about her response for several seconds. "I don't think it's like that. I think it's more of you see a person, like really see them, not just a glance, and they obviously see you as well. And then you immediately know you have a connection with them."
"And that makes them soul mates?" Sam lifted an eyebrow. "That just sounds... well down right crazy because he had seen enough of it. But saying such things would hint about the job and he really didn't want to do that.
"You don't believe in soul mates either?" Tea sounded genuinely shocked. "I mean I guess I could go for not believing in love at first sight but not believing in soul mates is truly crazy."
"Why would you say that?" If they had been having this conversation five years earlier before Dean had visited Stanford, Sam probably would have been agreeing with her instead of doubting. But then he went with Dean to find their dad and when he got back everything changed.
"Well I mean everyone has a soul mate. You can't deny that." Tea huffed. She set her eyes on an empty bench and without saying anything walked over to it expecting Sam to follow her. "There is someone in this world that God has put on earth just for one person." She continued once they were both settled into the bench.
"What if that one person dies before you get to settle down with them? Does God just expect you to live your life alone after that?" Jess pressed against the ceiling of their apartment in Palo Alto with blood dripping from the gash along the middle of her stomach danced in his mind's eye. He blinked shaking the memory from his brain.
"Obviously in that situation one would not be with the right person. So God being absolutely the wonderful father that he is alleviated said person from the other." Tea giggled at her word choice for about a millisecond before putting on a straight face.
"Not to offend you or anything but that's just stupid." Sam never in the time that he knew Jessica after they started going out did he think she wasn't the girl he wanted to marry and grow old with even though he had strong feelings for both Madison and Ruby afterward he never felt as strongly toward them as he had with Jess. Looking back on the two now, his feelings for Ruby were probably an infatuation with her blood mixed with the loneliness from looking Dean for four months and Madison might have worked out if he hadn't had to put a silver bullet in her heart.
"Pft." Tea blew air out of her mouth making her bangs and a few stray pieces of hair that had escaped from her pony tail flutter. "Just think about it, if God put someone on the Earth for you then he has plans for it to work out."
Sam laughed. "But that doesn't make sense. There are so many people who die daily. They won't be able to work it out with their soul mates if they've ever met their significant others."
With a shrug Tea finished off her Sprite. "What do I know I'm only nineteen?" She got up and made the short trek to a trash can not ten feet away then back to sit by Sam.
"So you are saying that you haven't found your soul mate yet?" Sam looked at her quizzically.
"Not with the boys I've dated. And if one of them were to be my better half, God sure does have a very strange sense of humor." Tea shook her head making her pony tail fly and almost his Sam. "I mean sure some are great guys and one is even my best guy friend. But there is one that I wouldn't doubt became wife beaters, if they ever get married."
"You dated guys like that?" Sam looked shocked. But it also made him think. He thought from the moment he met Tea that she had a good head on her shoulders even in her young age. He would have never thought she would have gone out with that kind of guy. But another thought entered his head saying he really didn't know her all that well since they had only met around midnight that same morning.
"Yeah well he started out real sweet. He even got tight nit with my family and came camping with us a couple of times. But he ended up just wanting..." She bit her lip. "Well you know to sleep with me. The first time his parents left him alone, he thought he was going to get something." She laughed joylessly.
"Ah I see." Sam completely understood now. "What a jerk." He chose his final word carefully remembering the scolding she gave Dean earlier. Not that he was one to curse a lot. But his tongue had regrettably gotten looser in that department since he had started hunting again.
Tea shrugged. "Yeah but that's the past." She got up stretching a little. "So does Dean want us back? Or can we just take our time?" Glancing at the palyscape she realized that as they talked all of the kids had disappeared.
She didn't even wait for Sam to answer before she danced over to the jungle gym. With a quick sweep of her eyes she found no one else there and climbed up on the first level.
Sam laughed as he watched her trapeze around with her camera bouncing lightly against her. "If you fall not only is it going to hurt you but you might break your camera." Sam finished his drink and tossed it in the same trashcan then went to where Tea was but on the ground. "Here I'll go put it on the bench if you want to keep playing."
Tea gave him a bright smile that he had only seen coming from a little girl before. "Than you so much. Don't drop 'em." She lifted the strap over her head and lowered the camera down to him which wasn't much at all since his head and shoulders and half his torso came up above the floor of the second layer.
He accepted the camera and took it to the bench where Tea had left her messenger bag. Before he put the camera down he turned it on and snapped a picture then turned it off and gently placed it on the bench.
"So question." Tea looked down at him from the third level.
Still standing on the ground Sam craned his neck to look up at her. "That wasn't really a question at all." It was hard for him to look up at her because the sun was almost directly behind her and a little to the right.
Tea laughed. "No silly I was saying I'm going to ask you a question. It was just a warning." She shook her head. "The question is, are you too dignified to climb up here and play tag?"
"I'm pretty sure we aren't supposed to be up there." Sam wrapped his hands around one of the colorful metal poles. He couldn't recall a time when he had actually played on a jungle gym before. Every once in a while his dad would use parts or the whole thing as a training facility for his sons. But actually playing on one wasn't something he could remember doing. Plus he was pretty sure that they would be thrown out if any of the kids and/or parents came back.
"Nuhu." Tea shook her head looking even younger. "There's this sticker plaque thing that says children from one to a hundred and one welcome." She twirled around going to one of the poles supporting the next layer. "It says so right here. Come up and see."
Sam sighed he took his time walking through the levels up to her, at some places he had to duck down so that he wouldn't hit his head on the bottom of the level above him. He walked over to where Tea stood and looked at what she was pointing at. "This says three to twelve." Sam shook his head looking at her. "Can you read?"
With a smile, Tea rapt him on the shoulder. "Yes I can read and by the way, tag you're it." She flew up to the next level before he even realized what had happened.
"Are you serious?" Sam laughed at her childishness. "How old did you say you were?" He looked up to see her using one of the side rails for a bridge as a tightrope.
"You are the one who came up here." She jumped off the railing and onto another section of the fourth level. "And I said we would be playing tag when I asked you that question. If you didn't want to play you shouldn't have come up."
Sam laughed. "Answer me this, how old are you?" He kept his eyes on her as she moved along the fourth level like a ballet dancer.
"Right now?" She tapped her finger against her lips. "Humm I'd say about five." To compliment the words she held out her had with her fingers spread wide acting just like a little child. "Why how old are you?"
Without meaning to he laughed again. He actually found her childlike acting cute, it rather fit her. "Well I'm twenty seven which means that I really shouldn't be up here."
Out of nowhere came a loud, ""Ahure teru troublesome game." Tea's phone started to ring loudly. "Tataka wazu hard to game." It was the ring tone that Tea had made especially for Ren. "Jyuuta inuke dashite Jiyu ueno runaway."."
Tea jumped in surprise. She rushed to the nearest slide as the ringtone began again. Quickly she got to her camera and the bag she had left on the bench. "Yuppers rhymes with peppers." What a pause she let the person on the other line talk. "Are you serious?" Tea sounded the same as when they first met without any trace of the childishness there. "Oh my goodness Renny there's no way."
Sam watched her talk with a smile. It was weirdly interesting to see her transform from a five year old to a grownup in a matter of seconds.
Tea sighed. "Okay Ren you win. Foe-Shoe! Love you long time!" She still held a little bit of her youth in what she said. "Okies dear, I've got to go. Yes I know I know. I'll text you later. Bye bye." She hit the end button on her phone and placed it back on her bag.
"Who was that?" Sam leaned against a pole watching her as she got back on the playscape. "You sounded like you didn't want to keep talking."
"My B.F.F. Ren." Tea climbed up to the level he was on but kept a bridge in between them. She had played tag enough times to know even though someone may seem like they aren't playing but will end up playing once another got too close. "And its rude to talk on the phone in front of people."
"Oh? But it would have been fine if you talked to her. I would have understood." Sam was still figuring out if he wanted to continue playing the game, or really even start it since he was still 'it' and had yet to make a move to get her. "You seemed to enjoy the conversation for a while."
Tea let out a snort of laughter. "She was telling me about her oh so wonderful boyfriend once again. Oh and his friend that she thinks I'd be good with. She said she would call me when they had time to see if we could all get together in San Marcos." Tea rolled her eyes. "I don't have a clue why she thinks I'm still in Texas let alone why I would want to try dating an Aggie."
Sam looked at her confused until she explained the rivalry between the University of Texas and A&M University. She also had to explain how she and most of her family were Longhorns, the UT mascot. "Oh I get it."
"Yeah I was going to UT before I dropped out and decided to hitch hike around the U.S." Tea nodded. "Renny goes to Stephen F. Austin while her boyfriend goes to A&M."
"So you don't like your best friend's boyfriend? I thought it was like in the girls' code or something that best friends had to approve of the boyfriend." Sam scratched his head. He then realized he probably shouldn't have asked the question figuring the answer would just confuse him even more.
"Oh she's been dating him since high school, before he chose A&M. I like him as a person." Tea answered. "I just don't like him very much on Thanksgiving Day."
"What happens on Thanksgiving?" At this point Sam was just trying to get her to keep talking so he could figure out the quickest most efficient way to tag her back.
"The big football game between the two schools is played." Tea watched him for any indication. "In Texas football is a religion, specially high school and college ball. It's quite crazy at times. But yeah, Thanksgiving is the biggest game between UT and A&M. They've been having it for ages."
Sam nodded. He wasn't much of a football fan or much of a sports fan at all. But if the opportunity came up he never turned down kicking back with a few beers and turning on a game.
"So are we going to play or are you going to continue to stand there calculating out your next move?" Tea raised an eyebrow his way. "Cause I'm not going to lie, I'm pretty awesome at this game, meaning it is going to take a lot to get me."
"Just answer me this." Sam looked at her, he figured he could more than likely get to her and tag her without much problem. "Please don't be offended but why are you acting so childish?"
Tea giggled. "Tag is the simplest, probably most fun game there ever is. And it isn't really childish. I mean I've gone and played with friends in the yard in front of the Texas Capitol building in Austin on many occasions."
"You mean college friends?" Sam raised an eyebrow. He stood up getting ready and taking a step closer to her. "You've actually played it there?"
"Are you kidding me?" Tea noticed his step and took her own to counter it. "Of course I have. Push I've gotten a game of extreme Duck-Duck-Goose together. We played on the courtyard with the big Texas Tower and there were about thirty college students playing along. It was freaking sweet."
Sam raised an eyebrow. "But those are kids' games. Why would you play them on a college campus?" Sure while in college he himself had done some pretty juvenile things but all that had come to a screeching halt once he started hunting again.
"Why not?" Tea grabbed one of the poles and swung herself around giving Sam the opportunity to edge ever closer. "I mean sure they say you can only be a kid once but why not try to keep that going for as long as you can? Seriously if grown-ups spent more time playing around, not only would the world be a hell of a lot more cheerful but I'm willing to bet the grown-ups would be healthier too."
By the time she finished her speech Sam was right next to her. He smiled when she realized he was there. He extended his arm and touched her shoulder before launching himself off the third level letting his legs take the impact when he hit the ground. "Tag, you're it." Sam grinned up at her laughing.
Tea barely had registered what happened before she was on the move trying to make her way down to catch him.
So this is actually the longest story I've ever written which makes me happy that I'm still writing it. So once again Dong Bang Shin Ki has been pulled into the story as a ringtone. This time it is their song Runaway which has it's own single if anyone wants to know and or listen to it. I suggest or if you really want you can youtube DBSK Runaway and you can see their great looks.
And now to REVIEWS! I got 2!
Ominous Blue: Thank you very much I like writing it and hope everyone enjoys reading it.
K.T.: Aw, yeah I'm not quite sure because I've been writing fanfictions for a while but I think I actually got the idea of replying to reviews on the next chapter page from someone else. But I think if someone puts time into reviewing to my story I should thank them and address what they say specially if something is questioned or misunderstood. As for Sammy being cuter... hum yeah I'd say that. I love his personality more cause Dean can be a dick at times. But I don't know though cause they are both awesome looking. As for the demons... hehe they will come into play soon no worries there probably within the next two chapters. And thank you very much. I'm glad to be helping you. I hate when seasons are out and reruns aren't running. Fortunately America has a TV station called TNT and they play Supernatural from 9-11 every weekday morning, which is actually how I first got into the show cause I was too lazy to get the remote and change the channel.
Okay so as for the preview I think unless I just write so much within five days (which has happened before) I think I'm going to stop doing them. The reason I had them before is because when I start writing I will write a bunch then I figured I'd better post it so I typed up a lot and cut it into chapters so I already had the next chapter typed up meaning I was able to post the preview. Well the lot of writing has caught up to me and now I'm writing chapter by chapter then posting. So I barely know more of what is going to happen in the next chapter than you readers do. :D
So hope you enjoyed reading and I will have the next chapter up by the 10th!