Chapter 14 – I like candy
As he walked out of the room, Castiel was debating with himself.
Why did I agree with him? Why did I promise I wouldn't try to find out! I really want to know, so why… I never give up on what I want! Was it because he went all determined? Was it because I believed in him, that I would get hurt? I can't try to find out now! I can be mean, but I never break my promises! I just wanted to understand why I promised him that! But… Why promise not to find out?!
He was mad at himself. He wanted to find out, now more than ever, who hurt Dean, but he had been stupid enough to promise not doing anything. It was not just because he wanted to know, it bothered him not to know.
The hallways were deserted so he could walk to everywhere, anywhere, and no one would bother him to show just how evil they can be. He walked without a destiny in his mind, just thinking about the whole situation.
As he reached the bathroom door he walked inside. The water started coming from the tap, his hands cupped and he splashed water all over his face. When he wasn't sure what to think, the soothing feeling of water always seemed to help him think and calm down. He repeated the motion a few more times until he felt like himself again.
He buried every doubt he had and faced the mirror. The person in the mirror had water all over his face, looked tired and didn't look like him at all. His blue eyes were brighter than usual because of his blue shirt, and he used them to stare at himself. His hair was kind of combed so he took the chance to make it more like himself; he cupped his hands again and placed some water in his hair, then he proceeded to shake his head, making his hair go every way ending up even more messy than before. With one more look to the mirror, that was now full of droplets of water, he smiled and walked away from the bathroom, his face and hair with droplets falling down.
A few people passed by him with smiled directed at him but he chose to ignore them all. He didn't feel like pretending to sound impressed or amused by whatever they had to say to him. Why couldn't they understand that he simply didn't care, everything was too boring and he hated when things were that were expected actually happened. He liked to be free and do whatever he pleased, that was why he liked to rule the school, everything that happened, happened because of him, and they were always different so he was never bored by it, and now that he had found himself someone who was so different of all of them, he couldn't find out why he was that way.
He had classes to attend and he planned on going. He liked classes; he just didn't like his classmates, so he made their life as bad as he could, all with a smile in his face.
He was about to enter his classroom, that was half filled with people when his brother walked towards him, grabbing his arm and pulling him out of the doorway.
"Cassie!" Gabriel said excitedly as he pulled him. "How are you, little bro?"
Castiel shoved Gabriel's hand away and looked at him slightly annoyed.
"I'm fine, Gabe. What do you want?"
Gabriel was shorter than his brothers, but he was the most energetic of them all. Probably because of all the candy he ate, but no one questioned it... Ever.
"Can't I just come by and say 'Hi' to my baby brother?" Gabriel did his best to sound hurt.
"You can, Gabe… But you never do that… So what do you want?"
He understood that something was up with Castiel. He was pissed at something, and Gabriel could feel it.
"What can I do now to find the truth?" He asked trying to calm his brother down. It was bad when he got angry, he became too unpredictable, even to his own brothers who knew him better than anyone else.
Castiel thought about Gabriel's question for a few seconds. As soon as he got the idea, a smirk came gracing his features.
"Well… I promised I wouldn't find the truth… But you didn't." As he saw the confused look in Gabriel's face he started explaining. "I promised Dean I wouldn't try to figure who did it… But that doesn't mean that I can't ask you to find it out for me."
"Alright! I can find out!" Gabriel said excitedly as he prepared himself to leave.
Castiel grabbed Gabriel's shirt and hold him.
"You need to be careful. He can't find out that you're trying to find out the truth. You need to find a way to understand it without him knowing what you're doing." Castiel warned.
Gabriel nodded.
"No problem. I know just what I need to do." Castiel let go of his brother. "I'll see you later, bro."
Gabriel was waiting for the right moment. He didn't want to go in too soon, but he knew that he had to do it sometime. It was early in the morning and he was waiting for Sam Winchester to show up at the path between high school and middle school. He couldn't just jump on the guy when his brother was around. He needed to wait for Dean to leave to actually go talk to Sam.
He saw Sam waving at his brother as they reached the point where they go their separate ways. As soon as Dean was off, Gabriel walked towards Sam.
"Hey, Sam!" He greeted once the other boy was close enough to him.
Sam's neck gave a slight turn to make sure of who had spoken and continued walking.
"What do you want, Gabriel?" Sam asked annoyed to have Gabriel following him. It's too soon to deal with this crap.
Gabriel smiled and placed his arm in Sam's shoulders.
"I just want to talk to you." He answered.
Sam stopped walking to look at him carefully.
"That's unfortunate. You see… I don't want to talk to you."
"I know…" Gabriel told him, his head falling a bit to the front. "But I really, really, really, reaaaally need to ask you something." As Sam looked at him expectantly and gave him a slight nod as if telling him to continue talking, Gabriel looked at Sam with a bothered look. "How the hell don't you like candy?!"
As soon as he spoke, Sam threw his head down and his laughter echoed in the street.
Confused by Sam's reaction, Gabriel looked at him his face full of questioning marks.
"What's so funny?"
Sam laughed for a few more seconds, before trying to calm himself down. As soon as he thought he was done laughing, another guffaw was heard, each of them stronger than the last. It took him a minute to actually stop laughing. Gabriel was still trying to understand what was so funny about the whole situation.
"Were you really that bothered because you thought I didn't like candy?" He asked, with a full smile plastered in his face.
"Well… You didn't take the candy I offered and I've never met someone who refuses FREE candy!"
"Just because I refused it doesn't mean I don't like candy!" Sam explained with a laugh.
Gabriel blushed slightly. This hadn't been the best plan he had come up with, but it was the easiest one to follow through. He was a bit embarrassed by Sam's reaction.
"Then why didn't you take the candy I offered?!" He asked defending his idea.
Sam shook his head slightly, his shoulders trembling with the short takes of laughter that were still coming to him.
"I just didn't want to eat your candy!" As his words, Gabriel looked hurt.
"Did you think I poisoned them? Do you really think so low of me?" He asked, as his body began to shrink in fear of the answer. He didn't like to be considered so lowly. He liked to be the one who was always happy, without a care in the world. But words like those hurt him.
"No." Sam answered honestly. "I just hate when people eat my candy… So I don't go to others requesting that they feed me candy."
As soon as his words were out, Gabriel gave a relieved breath, followed shortly by a smile.
"Yeah, well dumbass, if someone asks you if you want candy, it's because they're willing to share their candy with you!"
Sam blushed.
"I know… but when I offer my candy I don't always want people to accept them." He muttered in a low voice.
Gabriel looked at him, his smile growing.
"Let's try this again…" He offered his hand for Sam to take. "My name is Gabriel. You can call me Gabe if you want. Would you like some candy?"
After a few seconds of staring to Gabriel, Sam decided himself. A smile graced his features as he replied.
"Hey, Gabe. I'm Sam. I would really appreciate some candy." He took Gabriel's hand in his and shook it.
With his other hand, Gabriel fished two lollipops out of his trouser pocket and handed both to Sam.
"Which one do you want?" he asked him politely. It's all about the attitude. If you act nice, then he will most likely befriend you!
A/N: Thanks a bunch for reading! I know this chapter is shorter but I really felt like it should stop here, otherwise I felt it would be too forced! I hope you enjoyed the chapter ^-^ There's one thing I forgot to tell yall last chapter, sugarcoatedarchangel on tumblr drew some fanart for when Dean is day dreaming about Castiel late at night! So go check it out, it's under the tag #sofknowseverything ~which is my name in AO3 and in my fanfiction tumblr (the only thing in there is about my fanfictions, when I post them I tell you there), I also have a normal tumblr you can follow me if you want destielcas~ Thanks everyone who reviewed the last chapter! I appreciate your reviews so much! They make grin like an idiot and my family thinks I'm weird because everytime I check my email I make some weird sounds ~and it's all because of you~ I'll try my best to update the next chapter soon!