I'm starting up tech week for my show so you might start to notice the lacking of new chapters this coming week. But seriously chapter fourteen? WHAT?! Anyway, this chapter took FOREVER! Please feel free to rip apart my high school cliches. Like I've said, I never went to public or private high school so this chapter is completely based on the things I've gathered from movies and TV (and we all know how accurate those are ;D ) So this chapter may be awkward...because I have no idea what I'm doing.
Warning: Language.
Dean huffed as he let himself into his home. He let his backpack fall the floor with a loud thud and then went over to the couch and flopped down.
"Dean, how was school?" asked his mother, coming into the family room.
Dean rubbed his hands over his face, and let out a sigh.
Dean sat down in the small cafeteria next to Benny and Jo. Benny was showing Jo his newest invention. Dean grimaced, Benny was great, but he had some really weird taste buds. Dean had been on the lookout for Crowley all morning, but the short pudgy boy seemed to be holding his tongue on the whole scene he had witnessed the day before. He allowed himself to relax; he even pulled out the sandwich his mother had made him and ate it while listening to Jo verbally display her distaste for Benny's edible invention.
"Where's your boyfriend?"
Dean turned around as the voice from the sneer faced boy flooded across the cafeteria. Crowley grinned at Dean before coming over with his usual crowd of Lilith and Uriel. Even though Uriel and Lilith were both a year older than Crowley, Crowley remained the top dog around the school.
"Lover boy didn't make it today?" Crowley continued.
"Go away, Crowley," said Dean, turning to to look down at his lunch.
"Don't want your friends to find out, do you?" the boy said, and then shared a laugh with Lilith and Uriel.
"Leave us alone, Crowley," said Jo.
"Why don't you and your..." Benny looked Lilith and Uriel up an down, "minions just go eat somewhere else," said Benny.
"Shut your trap, you filthy-"
"Lilith," Crowley cut in, instantly silencing her. "No need to lose your temper or anything."
Crowley sat down at the table across from Dean. Lilith sat next to the boy while Uriel stood by, leaning on the table and trying to look menacing to the passersby.
"Leave me alone Crowley."
"Dean, I can't do that," said Crowley, pulling out a brown crumpled bag. "You have no idea how perfect this is." He took out a half squashed sandwich and took a bite, chewing thoughtfully. "I mean," Crowley swallowed, "spreading the rumor was easy." Dean eye's widened. Rumor? "Lisa was so shocked to find out the boy she's been crushing on likes dick, she just had to tell her besties."
Dean's face drained. He glanced over to Benny and Jo who looked equally shocked.
"What are you talking about, Crowley?" Jo finally said.
Crowley feigned shock. "You didn't tell your friends about your boyfriend? Wow, I'm surprised Dean."
"Boyfriend?" asked Benny, turning to Dean.
"Well," said Crowley, pushing himself up from his seat and giving a coy smile. "I'll leave you to your business. Enjoy your," Crowley glanced at what Benny had in his hand and grimaced, "lunch." They all watched him walk away, and Dean couldn't help but notice the eyes that were watching him from other tables.
"Dean, what is he talking about?" asked Jo, finally cutting into the silence that had stalled all conversation.
Dean chewed on the words in his brain. "I was going to tell you."
"What?" said Benny loudly, causing Dean to hunch down and swivel his head left and right to see the amount of attention it had brought. "You have a boyfriend?" Benny asked.
"I didn't even know you like guys. Why didn't you ever tell me?" asked Jo.
"Guys, it's just Cass. I just like Cass," Dean said, thinking that should explain it, but both seemed earnest in their pushing to know everything. We've been on one date, we were kissing and Crowley saw us, and now," Dean glanced around the cafeteria, "everyone is going to think I'm gay."
"Doesn't kissing a guy make you gay?" asked Benny to Jo while Dean was looking away.
"How would I know?" replied Jo. Dean caught Jo's eye as he turned back around to the top of the table. "That Lisa has a mouth on her," she said finally.
"You know," Dean said slowly, thinking back on the events of the day. "This explains Victor in the locker room last period."
"What happened?" asked Jo.
"He just looked like he wanted to run when I got in there. I thought maybe it was because I yelled at him last week, but...maybe..." Dean turned around again, and saw a few eyes tuned towards him before shifting away to look like they hadn't been snooping or anything. Dean felt his skin crawl.
"I gotta run to class," said Benny quickly. He got up from the table before Dean or Jo could say anything.
"I think he may be in shock."
"I'm surprised you're not."
"I don't know. You guys had a pretty intense stare down when we went bowling, and I'm a pretty good reader of people."
"So you thought I was gay?"
"No, I'd never say that. I just thought. You and Cass had a connection. Sometimes gender is just something there, it's not what really drew you to the person in the first place. Genders just an add on." Dean nodded. He looked up just in time to see a boy with a wrinkled face in disgust pointed towards him. "Are you going to be okay?" asked Jo.
"I'll be fine. You go," said Dean.
"Dean," started the girl. She picked up her empty water bottle from the table.
"Yes, Jo?"
"You know." She pulled at her hair. "If it gets bad, you can talk with me. I think Benny's a little spooked, but seriously. We're here."
"Thanks."
Dean stood up from the table and brought his tray over to the trash.
"Homo," whispered a boy next to him. Dean's head shot up to look at him at eye level.
"What'd you say?" Dean asked.
"Nothing man. Nothing."
As Dean walked down the halls he slumped over and tried to hide within his jacket. He started to notice the looks as he walked down the halls. Had this been going on all day? He'd been so set on looking out for Crowley he hadn't even noticed that the rest of the school was just staring at him like they couldn't believe it. He got a few gag faces in class when he glanced up. Lisa, a pretty brunette that Dean had been pretty close with when he was in middle school glared at him when he caught her eye in the hall. He went over to her and placed his hand on the locker beside hers, leaning on it. On any other day he knew this move would have gotten him anything he wanted; today, it was just reflex, something of normality that he was clinging to.
"Lisa, we need to talk."
She looked at him. Dean remembered in fifth grade how she'd made him a Valentine's Day card. She looked much nicer when she'd been in fifth grade.
"Talk about how you had your tongue down a boy's throat?" she asked without hesitation. "About how you've been leading me on this whole time. How you made me look like a fool."
"I just wanted to explain what happened," started Dean.
"Crowley told me enough to make my stomach turn enough, thank you very much," she said, closing her locker.
"Cass and I. Its just...I thought maybe I liked you a while ago, but it just. Cass and I..." Dean ran his hand through his hair and swallowed.
Lisa rolled her eyes then glared. Dean noticed that he could hear the smack of her gum. "Well I hope you get eaten and chewed up by this school," she said viciosly.
Dean looked at her in surprise. "What did I ever do to you?" he asked.
Her eyebrows turned downward. "You knew I liked you. You would come over here just like you are doing now, bat your lashes at me and wrap me around your little finger. But the whole time you weren't even looking at me like that were you? Were you looking at some boy? Maybe you liked Benny?"
"No!" exclaimed Dean.
"Well, Dean, now everyone knows your sick little secret," she spat.
Dean tried to figure out what to say. It seemed so silly thinking about it now. "It's not even
a secret. I just realized how I felt like two days ago."
"You make me sick," she said walking away. Dean followed behind her.
"I like Cass. No other girl. No other boy. Just Cass," he said. He didn't know how else to explain it.
Lisa turned to him suddenly in the middle of the hallway. "Two boys together, it makes me sick! So you, Dean Winchester make me want to hurl."
She turned and walked away from him there. Dean felt like he was in the nightmare where he showed up to school completely naked and everyone was staring at him.
"Never underestimate the power of an angry woman," cut in the voice of a demon.
"I swear Crowley, if you don't leave me alone I will send you through a wall," said Dean quietly. Crowley grinned.
"I like when you talk dirty," the boy said.
"You're twisted."
"I like having the brains in the operation. You can threaten me all you want, but we all know who holds the card here, right homo?" asked Crowley, making sure to make the last word louder than the rest.
"I'm not a homo."
"Better run home and tell that to lover boy," said Crowley turning away from Dean. "That's going to make his day."
Crowley left Dean in the middle of the hall where Dean stood while the first bell rang, and then the second. The halls grew silent as the sound of rushing feet dimmed away into the last squeaky pair of sneakers left alone. Dean didn't go to class, instead he went to the field and sat in the bleachers thinking to himself before heading home at his normal time.
"It was okay," said Dean to his mother. He knew she knew something was up.
"You sure you don't want to talk about it?"
"Ya, I'm going to go upstairs," he said, pushing himself up off the cushions.
"Okay. I'm making some stew and bread for dinner."
"Sounds great."
Dean walked up the stairs and entered his room. He turned on his computer and got onto his email.
TO: charliecharlie
Hi, this is Dean Winchester.
Dean erased the message and stared at the blank email with the address. He sighed and pulled out his phone and called his new top number.
"Dean?" came the low voice.
"Hi, Cass," he said, sighing into his words.
"What's up?" asked the boy.
"I just. I had a long day."
"What happened?" asked Cass.
Dean thought about what he could say for a moment. He held his tongue. "Nothing too big. Just Crowley being Crowley. I'm fine though."
"Are you sure?" asked Cass, concern flooded through his voice. Dean then noticed the beeping sounds of machines and muffled noises in the background.
"Is this a bad time?" Dean asked.
Cass paused before answering. "I'm at the hospital. My mom is - well she's in bad shape."
"Do you want me to come?" asked Dean, shifting on his bed.
"No. Just family today," said Cass. Dean suspected he wasn't the first to ask, the faces of Gabe and Balthazar flashing across his mind.
"Oh, okay."
"Tomorrow?" asked Cass.
Dean sighed in content. "Where should I go?" he asked.
"She's room 331."
"Okay."
"Hey, Dean, everything will be okay..." Cass added before the conversation ended.
"Ya, everything will be okay."
"I'll see you tomorrow," said Cass. Dean felt his heart swell a little.
"See you."
Dean hung up the phone. He didn't feel any better after that, only sicker.
"I'm not a homo."
"Better run home and tell that to lover boy."
TO: charliecharlie
Hi, this is Dean Winchester. I could really talk, whenever you can.
Thanks.
Dean pressed the send button, and sat back in his chair running his hands through his hair while the computer made a small beep notifying him that his mail had been sent.
I told you the tough moment for Dean was going to happen. I also want to do some chapters that don't have Cass and Dean together in them *GASP*
What do you think, should I just write Dean's POV chapters even if he doesn't see/talk with Cass during the chapter? Or should I do Cass' POV as well if they never see/talk to one another?
This type of chapter might happen or not, who knows...I think also, you might get the feeling of the story being rushed a little...(I kind of do), but I think that's because I'm trying to write each and every time they have any contact with the other, and if I was really writing it to the timeline of reality this story would probably have about forty or so chapters before anything happened...
Anyway, you can probably tell, this chapter took a lot out of me so THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME TO READ IT! Love you all!