A big thanks to everyone following this. I do have some bad news. My laptop took a total crap today. I have to format the hard drive and re install windows. It's gonna be a week or so before I can post anything after chapter 35 because I have to set everything back up.. Good thing I got ahead of myself on this thing and posted this chapter and the next 3 to the documents manager.

P.S. Fairy and Ezra: The next 2 chapters after this one are all Sam's reaction to the "big" news. Hope I did a good job for you.

Chapter 32

When the sun started to come up, we went to the motel Dean and dad were staying at. Surprisingly, dad was awake. I think he was expecting Dean to call him and say that he was leaving with me. He looked completely miserable and he'd been drinking all night. He looked at me when we walked into the room and then stared at the bottle.

Dean asked him if he wanted to go to Sam's graduation and he said no. I asked him why not, and he said cause Sam didn't want him there. Dean said that wasn't true and dad jumped out of the chair and started yelling. He said that he had called Sam after he'd called us last night and that's exactly what Sam had told him. He said that Sam didn't ever want to speak to him again.

I whispered to Dean that I needed to make a phone call and I'd be right back. I walked out the door and immediately called Caleb. I told him exactly what was going on and that Dean and I were gonna go to North Carolina. I also told him that I didn't think it would be a good idea to leave dad alone for that long. I knew dad would go straight back to hunting and given his mood, he might mess up and get himself killed.

I asked Caleb to stay with dad until Dean got back to him. I figured we'd be gone about 2 weeks at most. Caleb said he would, then he asked me why I was showing so much concern for my dad. I told him that it would kill Dean if anything happened to him. I said that it was my job to take care of Dean cause no one else did and sometimes that included taking care of my dad.

I went back into the room and dad was asleep in the bed closest to the door. Dean was sitting on the other bed staring at him. Dean looked at me when the door closed. I could tell by the look in his eyes that he was hurting, but I didn't say anything. He started to tell me that he couldn't go to North Carolina, but I stopped him mid sentence.

I told him that Caleb was on his way. I said that I'd made arrangements for Caleb to stay with dad until we caught up to them. We could go to Sammy's graduation and then get right back to work. Dean smiled at me and then nodded. We sat and drank coffee until Caleb arrived.

We loaded Dean's stuff into the Jeep and then headed for the east coast. We had 2 weeks until Sam's graduation so we kinda played around and did a little sight seeing on the way there. We mostly did a lot of hustling pool and card games. Even taking our time we got there a few days early.

Dean wanted to tell Sam as soon as we got back to town and get it over with, but I wouldn't let him. I thought it would ruin his graduation worse than dad already had. I still couldn't understand why dad had done that. He was all for Laura and me going to school. He told Caleb that's what he wanted his girls to do instead of being hunters.

We basically locked ourselves in the cabin Dad and Dean had left when they came to California. Dean still had a key and there was another month on the rental. Dean was a little worried that Sam would come back, but he never did. We kinda argued a little bit about what Dean was gonna tell Sam.

I won in the end. Dean didn't want to lie to Sam anymore than he already had, but I wanted to take things slow. The idea was to tell Sam as much as possible with as little detail as possible. The first part was to tell Sam he had 2 sisters and then tell him that Laura had died. I wanted him to know about her first.

Dean met Sam at a local diner in town to catch up on the last 2 and a half weeks. Dean wanted Sam to know how miserable dad was. Dean came back a little irritated, but he hadn't told Sam about Laura and me yet. He said Sam acted like he didn't care about dad.

I told him that Sam was probably going to be very angry for a long time. Dad should have been happy instead of getting mad. I knew things had to have been so hard for Sam to keep those kinds of grades and then getting accepted to one of the more prestigious Universities in the country was absolutely awe inspiring. Then he got a full scholarship to boot. I was really proud of him and so was Dean.

We spent the rest of the afternoon getting ready to go to the ceremony. I actually wore a dress and talked Dean into wearing a brand new pair of black jeans and a nice shirt. Dean hated looking "fluffy" as he called it, but it wasn't everyday your baby brother graduated from high school. I told him it could have been worse, I could have made him wear a suit and he just laughed.

The ceremony was really nice. Sam had actually won quite a few academic awards including valedictorian. I was really happy for my little brother. Kinda made me wonder what he would have been capable of if dad hadn't moved him around so much.

I snuck out as soon as the ceremony was over and made my way back to the cabin. I'd left the Jeep with Dean so he could bring Sam back. Dean had already told Sam that I'd lent him the Jeep so he could come to Sam's graduation. I was hiding in my room when they walked in.