This story is heavily based on Love, Rosie. I came up with the idea to write it after finding Love, Rosie the movie on Amazon Prime. The characters however belong to the writer of SPN.
Chapter 1: Start at The Beginning
Dean looked the big venue filled with pastel colors and flowers. Breathe, He echoed to himself. How did he get here? He wondered as his gaze flittered across people and then toward the happy couple. Meg and Castiel.
Cas, his best friend. On top of that he had to remind himself, You're the best man. You have to give a speech as you let the love of your life, your best friend, start a life with someone else. Don't panic, Just start at the beginning. Tell them about how you first met.
He could remember the small playground outside of Lawrence Elementary.
He remembers hanging on the edge of the slide about to fall to the ground when a little boy with bright blue eyes and messy hair raised him from the edge of the slide.
"Hi, I'm Castiel." The little boy said.
Dean had replied with, "You've got a weird name."
They smiled at each other and decided to be best friends. From then on the two were inseparable.
Dean could remember all the times they shared notes and call and whispered silly secrets to each other. Or maybe how they always got in trouble by their kindergarten teacher, Zachariah for giggling during class.
Or also all the days he begged his mom and dad to let him run over to Cas's house that was only 3 houses down the street.
Dean remembered all the times they shared all their dreams of travel and escaping the little town of Lawrence.
Castiel even told Dean his weirdest dreams about the angels.
"You know how my mom talks about angels?" Little 7-year-old Castiel asked Dean.
"Uh-huh." Dean smiled along listening intently to Cas as they sat in their pillow fort listening to music on his cassette player.
"Well I keep having more about these angels." Castiel told Dean.
"Well what happened in the last one?" He asked him.
"I was an angel, I had to save you from hell because you were a 'righteous man '. I don't really know what that is but it has to be good right?" Cas asked as he gave Dean a big goofy smile and they broke off into laughs.
Dean thought about telling them about that. No, He thought to himself. Keep that as our little promise.
Dean could remember everything. The memories played so freshly as he tried to figure out what to say when the love of your life was getting married.
Suddenly he was snapped back to reality by Sam, his younger brother, tapping a glass, signaling him to start his speech. Tell them this is the happiest day of your life, He thought as he stood up for his speech. He cleared his throat signaling for attention as everyone sat down.
"For those I haven't met, Hi, I'm Dean. This has to be one of the happiest days of my life." It was an ironic statement really, when in total he has cried 3 times today.
12 years earlier
The bright lights and music blared loudly at the college party. Dean forced Cas to be here at this college party Lisa had invited him to. He tried to insist that he didn't want to go out and get hammered but Dean replied with, "There is no way in hell, you will not have fun tonight!" Dean's 18th has already past at least a year ago but he had somehow felt it was his right to Castiel hammered on his birthday.
Cas sat on a stool near the bar in the kitchen of the house. Dean had been gone for 5 minutes and trying to get drinks and he was starting to get worried.
He looked around at all the co-eds drinking and dancing as Crazy in Love played in the background.
Finally, Dean appeared but looked more drunk then when he left.
"Dean, sit down you look like your about to pass out." Cas got off the stool and gestured for Dean to sit. He shook his head and stood on one of the legs of the stool balancing himself on the bar.
"Drink this!" Dean slurred as he handed Cas another tequila slammer to go along with his.
"Dean I don't think that's a good idea." Cas tried to shout over the music. Dean douched the shot and almost lost his balance on the bar and decided to grab onto Cas's shoulders instead.
"Come on! Let loose it's your birthday!" Dean whispered in Cas' ear. It was obvious he was beyond plastered.
Dean pulled away from Cas's ear and looked him straight and the eye and kissed him.
Castiel was shocked as he wrapped his arms around Dean's waist trying to deepen the kiss.
Dean pulled away for breath and looked into Cas's eyes.
The moment was completely perfect. Cas smiled and tried to go in for another kiss but at that exact moment Dean's balance slipped as the stool went under him and he fell flat on the floor, knocked unconscious.
Sunlight shone through Dean's window as he woke up in his bed with little recollection of the night before. He remembered the party, the drinks and then blacking out.
He hears his annoying 14-year-old brother Sam open the door as Castiel step through to talk to his mom.
He can hear them talk even though he's all the way upstairs.
"It was all my fault, Mrs. Winchester, I'm sorry I convinced Dean to go to the party." Cas says in his gravelly voice.
He could hear a pause and then his mother's voice, "I would believe you Cas but I know my own son. If you carry on like this, I don't know how this will affect that doctorate you want."
Dean then walks halfway down the stairs to see his mom and Cas talking. "Why are you guys so loud?"
He asks as he's wrapped up in his comforter. He squints his eyes more to see his mother frowning and Cas looking up at him apologetically with his blue eyes.
He then leads Cas up the stairs and flops on his bed.
"Listen, Cas, Buddy I'm sorry for last night." He mutters as hides from the sunlight streaming through his window. "No, no don't apologize It wasn't that bad." Cas offers up.
"Dad is pissed and Sam thinks it's funny." He groans as he turns to face Cas who standing near the door smiling. Cas walks near the bed and flops down next to Dean. "It won't be that bad." Cas promises as he laughs at Deans bitch face.
"It was terrible; I wish it never happened." Dean groans as he looks at Cas. Cas looks worried as he tries to decipher if Dean hated the kiss, which in his opinion was the best part. "Which part was bad?" Cas asks hopefully sitting up a little in the bed.
"All of it was terrible, Let's just forget it all happened." Dean tells Cas as he hides under the blankets. Cas feels ashamed and disappointed in himself for hoping for more. Of course Dean doesn't like him it was a drunken mistake that he can forget about. But Cas couldn't.
The way Dean's lips moved against his own was some type of magic. But he had to forget. For the sake of their friendship.
At that moment Sam barged in yelling, "Dean had to have his stomach pumped!" As he laughed at his brother who threw a shoe at him as Sam ran away laughing.
Dean then curled under the blankets more and asked Cas, "How did we get home from the hospital?" Neither of them had a car and had ridden to the party with Lisa.
Cas gave guilty look and said, "My mom picked us up." Dean gave him a mean stare and groaned.
"They needed a parent's name so I gave them mine. They think you're a terrible influence on me anyway." Cas smiled apologetically as Dean sat up rubbing his eyes.
"Well I am." Dean smiled brightly. "Well now I have to spend all my Saturday's in the library helping out." He said as he looked at Dean. Dean laughed and cupped Cas's shoulder, "Good Luck."
"Well it could be worse." Cas replied with a smile, "Meg has a part time job there."
Dean looked at him, "Cas, Meg is a lost cause, she's out of your league. Hell even I want to sleep with her."
Cas looked hopefully up at Dean and said, "Well at least I can try." Dean laughed as he flopped back into the comforter.
It was a normal summer evening as Cas, Dean and some of their other friends had decided to take a trip down to the lake. Like normal, Dean and Cas played around and Dean even carried Cas on his back.
They separated as Lisa began to flirt with Dean while he was talking to Jo. Lisa led him away to whisper some secret things in his ear. Cas saw this from a distance and started to get a little jealous. Stop it. You are not dating him. The kiss meant nothing. You've got bigger things to focus on, He thought as his gaze flittered over to Meg who across the little bonfire they set up winked at him.
A little later Dean and Cas found their own spot along the fire and talked about the day's events.
"Lisa? Really? She's such a bimbo." Cas scoffed while looking at her from across Dean's shoulder. "She asked me to prom." Dean smiled as he whispered it to Cas. He stuttered nervously hoping that Dean wasn't going to blow off them going together for Lisa.
"What did you say?" He asked with a fake smile.
"Obviously, No, I mean we are going together right?" Cas smiled at his response about to respond, when he saw Meg's milky legs walk up and her appear in front of him.
"I missed you in the library today Clarence." She smiled sweetly. Cas tried to focus on responding but instead stuttered as he saw the small skirt he was wearing and low cut shirt.
"I-I-Uh, Yeah- I umm I was busy umm..." Cas lost the words as she stood above him smiling.
"Don't be a stranger." She leaned down and whispered in his ear as she walked away.
"Uh, I-I yeah, I'll see you there!" He called back as she walked away to rejoin her friends.
Dean gave him a bitch face and laughed.
"Clarence?" He asked as he looked to her then back at Cas, jealousy seeping through his words.
"It's the nickname she gave me, you know the angel," Castiel stated factually.
"Yeah, Yeah I know but that was pathetic." Dean scoffed.
"Huh? I thought there was obvious signs of attraction there." He looked confused.
"Dude, you were stuttering all over the place." Dean gave a frown as he looked down at the grass they sat on. Dean felt kind of jealous but that didn't mean anything. Right?
"Do you have any tips on how she could like me?" Castiel asks with certainty looking staraight into Dean's green eyes.
"Well maybe if you weren't a virgin." Cas lowered his head in shame.
"But maybe we can work with that, act cool around her, also make her feel like you saw something different in her. Then maybe she'll bang you." Cas frowned at Dean's answer.
"Why is it always about sex?" He asked.
"Well isn't that what this whole 'Bad girl Meg' Thing is about?" Dean asked.
"Maybe." Cas replied looking out onto the water. Really he hoped Meg might be some sort of distraction from Dean.
"She wants to go to the dance with me."
Dean looked at him in surprise then looked down and replied, "Then take her if it means so much."
"Are you sure you're okay with this?" Castiel asked because Dean looked a little upset.
He just smiled at Cas and jabbed his finger at Lisa. "Well I do have Lisa to go with."
Cas smiled a bit as they both kept this silent little agreement that they'd go with others.