Chapter 6: Getting to know you
"Wanna go out for lunch?" Dean asked
Reece looked up from the magazine she was reading and shrugged.
"Sure, why not?"
"Let's leave in a half hour."
"I think I'll stay here," said Sam as he was watching tv
"Yeah, I see you're attached to the tv," said Reece
"Man, when you're on the road so much you never get to watch tv."
"Enjoy."
He laughed, "Trust me, I will."
Reece smiled and looked back at Dean.
"We'll go at 12:20?"
"Sure," he said and looked back at the tv
He was now dressed in jeans that had holes on the knees and a blue button up shirt over a white tee. Sam was still in his pjs. Reece looked at him again and laughed. He is so lazy. Sam looked over at her and frowned.
"What?"
"You're still in your pjs," she said
"Leave me alone, I'll change my lazy ass when you can make me."
She and Dean laughed. Reece looked once again at her father and smiled. Every one else's father looked so different. Older and more sophisticated or something but Dean : no way. He and her mom were young and still acted like it. Her mom never dressed like other parents. She always dressed in a pair of black dress pants or jeans and a regular shirt. The other teachers and parents dressed in below the knee skirts and sweaters. Everyone in her class had such different parents and Reece was happy about it. She loved having different parents. Dean and her mom were cool and her friends loved her mom.
"Now you are the one staring," he said and gave her a cocky grin, "What am I too handsome to look away?"
"Don't flatter yourself," she said with an eye roll and looked back at her magazine
They were sitting at Burger King and talking. Reece fidgeted with her bracelets as Dean ate. Dean looked at her and frowned.
"Your foods getting cold babe," he said and leaned over stealing a fry from her
She looked at him and smiled. She took a drink from her soda.
"Whats wrong?" he asked worriedly
"You see that boy over there near the door?"
"Yeah, you got a crush on him?"
"No, he has a crush on me."
Dean suddenly felt kind of mad. Oh god now I feel what the other dads felt when I hit on their daughter.
"So, ignore him and eat before I eat it for you."
Reece laughed and took a bite of her burger. Dean stole another fry and this time she smacked his hand so the fry fell down. He smiled and ate his own food.
"Leave my food alone punk."
"Where'd you learn to be so evil?"
"Mom says I got it from you." Dean looked confused at her. "Mom said "You act just like your father."
"Oh," Dean said, "So, tell me more about Reece George."
She smiled, "I like to research, and I like dogs, cats, animals. I hate supernatural baddies, stuck up people and Britney Spears."
"Lee," he started but closed his eyes, "Hailey lets you go on hunts?"
"Sometimes but I mostly do research."
Dean couldn't call her Lee after that night. That was the last thing he had called her and anytime he said it he remembers what he had done.
"What's wrong?"
"Nothing," he said snapping out of it
Hailey watched as the next class entered her art room: eighth grade. They took their seats and stared at her. She smiled at them.
"For those of you who are new, I'm Hailey. You are allowed to call me Hailey. On your first day of art I like to get to know you. So, I'm going to let you free draw and I want you to talk quietly together after I learn your names or try to anyway."
They laughed and she pointed to the girl in the front.
"Lisa," she said and smiled
Hailey felt something off about the girl but smiled and nodded to the next person. Later that day she opened the door to her apartment. Sam and Reece were Monopoly and Dean was watching tv. She smiled and sat across from Dean on the lounge chair.
"Cough up the money dude," Reece said holding out her hand
"I beginning to think you hustle Monopoly," he said and handed her two hundred dollars
Reece laughed and put the money in her pile. Dean looked over at them and smiled. They were sitting on the floor with the board in the middle of them. Reece had a high pile of money and Sam's was much smaller. That's his girl, hustling. He turned to see Hailey watching them with a large smile on her face. She turned to Dean and gave him a small grin.
"So Hailey, what do you want to play?" he asked with a grin
"Watch it Winchester. I'm going to make dinner what do you guys want?" she said standing up
"Let me help you," he said and stood up only to be pushed back down
"No, I'm cooking," she said but he stood back up
"So, I'll watch,"
She sighed and turned to Reece and Sam, "What do you guys want for dinner?"
"Please tell me we're going to order out," said Reece
Hailey hit her lightly on the back of her head, "Smart ass."
Dean laughed and said, "I agree with Reece." He received a harder hit from her
"Shut up, what do you guys want?"
"Make anything mom."
"Ok, pizza it is," she said and Reece and Dean high fived
Sam laughed as she stuck out her tongue at them.