This is my kind of friday night! :D And my kind of date! You guys seriously need to try cliff jumping, hella fun! I did yesterday! Not the first time, however it was the first time going fifteen feet down into four feet of water! Can you say "Adrenaline junkie"? Plus dropping from a rope swing like five feet into about twenty feet of water is fun too, but that's so so.
_ I have a date with the most gorgeous guy ever! And he's sweet too. I really want him to be more than a fuck...god I hate chick flick moments but...I want a serious relationship with this man.
I'm nervous as hell, mostly about leaving Annaleigh with a babysitter. The girl is great, even passed all of my tests, a glass of holy water, a slice of cake and a silver fork, that was even after she got past all of the wards and the salt. But this will be my first time away from her.
The babysitter, Erika, who Castiel reccomended, promised to call if anything happened. She has numbers for everyone, me, Castiel, even Bobby and Sam...but those are for worst case scenario only.
Aside from being nervous about leaving my baby girl, I'm nervous about my date. He didn't say where we were going, only that he'll pick me up at seven, and promises to have me home by a decent time, whatever that means to him, and any way I dress will be fine.
So I wear a button up, jeans, and dad's old leather jacket.
Castiel shows up promptly at seven, flourishing a bouquet of beautiful yellow roses with red tips. 'Falling in Love.' or so a florist once told me.
"Thank you." I flush as he hands me the flowers.
"I'll put those in water for you Mr. Winchester." Erika offers, so I hand her the flowers and she shoos me out the door alongside Castiel. "Have fun."
"Where are we going?" I ask as he holds open the passenger side door for me and helps me up and this isn't the same car he was driving earlier, not by a longshot. Earlier it had been some sissy, "green", probably half electric little car, now he's driving a giant truck, floodlights on top, tires as tall as the Impala with treads as deep as my little finger is long, full cab and long bed, it more likely than not runs on diesel.
He smiles, "You'll see." His lips are slightly chapped from the cold and his cheeks are tinted a chilly shade of rose. The days are getting warmer but the nights are still cold. "You'll have fun, I promise. Just give it a chance."
"That makes me worry a little. Especially since you feel the need to drive a monster truck to get to where we're going."
"This," He says as he climbs (literally) into the drivers seat, "is my pride and joy, my baby, I built it from the ground up myself. Got all the parts from a salvage place down the road."
"I'm impressed." Hoping he didn't notice my reaction to Bobby's salvage yard.
"Don't worry, it doesn't take long to get there. But we are going off road. So seatbelt please. And if you really feel the need, the "Oh shit!" bar is right here." He reaches over to point out the handle on the ceiling just above the door.
"Awesome." I buckle myself in and then imediately grab the "Oh shit!" bar, laughing a little to myself.
"I'll take it easy, promise."
"This is what you call taking it easy?" I rub my head as it had, once again, made impact with the ceiling.
"Sorry." He laughs, over the music and the rattling of whatever he has in the bed. "But actually, this is taking it easy. Here." He reaches over and pulls my seatbelt out all the way so that it locks, then pulls it tight across my lap, "That'll keep you from jumping around so much."
"Thanks." He hits another pot hole filled with muddy water and my body tries to leave the seat, but the belt across my hips keeps me against the leather, probably bruising the flesh underneath it.
"It evens out just up ahead, then it's just two or three minutes until we get to where we're going."
"Which is where exactly?"
"Patients is a virtue."
I sigh.
Lights are shining through the trees ahead of us, so I know we're close. What we come upon though is just a small group of trucks, all parked in a clearing and a group of forty or fifty men and women, who all start to cheer when they see Castiel arrive.
He stops in an open space, and gets out before coming around, and helping me out.
A few guys part from the group and come towards us. They greet Castiel with hugs and hearty slaps on the back.
One guy stands out to me, and I panic for only a second, because I could have sworn it was Sam. But I calm down once I see that it isn't.
I shake all of their hands as I am introduced to Chuck, Tyson, Gabriel (Castiel's younger brother), Lawrence, Allen, and Dwayne (the one that looks like Sam).
Gabriel laughs with Castiel, "Where'd you find him?"
Castiel flushes a shade of pink noticable even in the dark, and mumbles, "I met him...through a patient...well...technically at the supermarket."
"Oh, so he's got a kid!" Gabriel detatches himself from Castiel, attempting to put his arm around my shoulder but failing, being at least a foot shorter, if not more. "So, how old is the kid? Boy or girl? What's it's name?"
I look over to Castiel, he gives me an apologetic look, before being pulled away by the others.
"Uhm...a girl, Annaleigh, she's seven-"
"Wow! Seven? So, what, you were twenty five, twenty six?"
"Uh...she's seven days old..." I correct him.
"Oh, damn! So what about her mom?"
"What?"
"Her mom? The chick you knocked up? She left you so soon after? I mean, it is a date you're on with Cassie isn't it?
"No, she didn't leave me, I left him, Annaleigh has two fathers."
"Oh! So it's like that! Cool, yeah, my uncle is like that too. Crazy that one is though, his kids all turned out little demons!"
"Uh...yeah..."
"So, this is a date right?"
"Uhm, I don't know."
"Oh, well, I'll get you back to Cassie." The over exhuberent little man leads me through the trees, further into the woods.
It takes a minute, but soon we can hear music blaring and people laughing and shouting. This song is one of my favorites, Pornstar Dancing. There's light coming through the trees again we come out in about four acres of open land, at the far end there's a barn that looks like it's falling apart and hasn't been fixed up in years, still, there are people running around in the loft, you can tell by the flashlights that flash through the missing slats occasionally. And in the center there is a bonfire raging, people sitting on tree stumps or on blankets and chairs spread around.
Further out, nearer the edge of the forest burns a few smaller fires, surrounded by rings of two person tents. Every person has either a bottle, can, or red Solo cup filled with what I would assume to be alchohol.
"Dean!" Castiel runs over to me, breathing heavily as he stops, "Sorry I got pulled away. And sorry you had to deal with Gabe."
The short man is no where to be found.
"That's okay. I think I actually like him." I laugh.
"That would be a first." He laughs.
"Cassie!" A woman squeals as she jumps up onto his back, dripping wet and dressed in only a bikini, breath coming out in quick, shallow clouds of steam in the freezing air. "This the new beau?" I can't be sure, seeing as I don't know her, but I'm pretty sure she's drunk.
"Anna..." Castiel peels the woman off of his back, "You need to slow down."
"Boo!" She sticks her tongue out at Castiel and then simply runs off, back the way she came, into the trees.
"Uhh, that was my older sister, Anna."
"It's quite the family you have."
"Yeah...hey, could you help me get a few things from the truck?"
"Of course." I follow him back to the clearing with the cars.
He drops the tail gate.
"Help me set up?"
"Set up?"
"Here." He hands me an electric pump and a queen sized air matress.
I hold them and look at him.
"You really think you're going to want to make your bed when you're dead drunk? No. you'll just want to fall into it and sleep."
"Castiel...I don't know..."
"I'm not forcing you to comit to anything, Erika's been paid for the full night, and well into tomorrow, but maybe just see how it goes for a few hours? Then if you want to, I'll take you home."
"Okay."
"She has five different emergency numbers, not including nine one one." He reassures me. "Everything will be fine."
A rush, that's what it is. Jumping twenty feet over a waterfall into the pool below, with all the depth of six feet, and nothing but sand at the bottom. I thought cutting off a vampire's head pumped adrenaline through my veins but this is something different. Like riding a roller coaster for the first time as soon as you reach forty eight inches. Without the restraints, without the rules, with out the parents, and without quite as much brain function as you should have when doing such a thing. But what are you going to do after ten (fifteen?) shots of eighty proof flavored vodka, a few cups of beer, those fruity, disgustingly sweet drinks Gabe had forced on you.
I meet Cas at the edge of the pool and he hands me another cup full of beer.
"Are you having fun?"
"This is insane!"
"This is Friday night."
"Are you kidding me?"
"No, this happens about every week."
"Damn. What time is it?"
He reaches for his phone on the beach behind us.
"Eleven."
"I'm gonna go back to the truck and check in with Erika."
"Okay, I'll go with you. Buddy system."
I laugh, "Okay." I climb out of the water, helping him up after me. A girl shrieks behind us as she's pushed over the waterfall.
We stumble our way back through the woods and to the truck, it takes a minute for Cas to unlock the doors, and then a few minutes for me to figure out how to open the door from way down here, thinking I can't reach the handle, before Castiel bumps into me, opening the door. Then I have to rummage through my pants, going throught the same pocket several times over before finding my phone. I press the speed dial for the house and Erika picks up after only a few rings.
"Hello?" She sounds like she was sleeping.
"Sorry if I woke you up. I just wanted to check in."
"No, that's fine, of course, everything is going great here. Annaleigh has been the perfect angel, she's slept silently so far. You sound like you're having fun. Don't worry about us."
I laugh, "That's good to hear. You can tell?"
"Only a little." She giggles.
"Okay, thank you, good night."
"Good night Mr. Winchester."
It isn't until I hang up that I notice Castiel is pressed up against me, same as he was when he opend the door. He's staring up at me.
"I really like you." He breathes.
"I really like you too." I lean down and crush my lips to his, and I can tell he's been with Gabe recently as I slide my tongue passed his blissfully chapped lips and across his own. He tastes like candied raspberries and green apples and oranges and...Cas, he tastes like he smells, not like aftershave and campfire smoke and booze, like Cas.
I sigh into the kiss as he grips the fabric at my hips, water dripping down my leg, leaving behind goosebumps.
We break apart and he rests his head on my shoulder.
"We are...hammered..."
I laugh, "Yeah. We should head back."
"Yeah, okay."
PARTY! Hell yes! :D That is not the end to their night however, this chapter was just getting long and I was bored of writing lol give me a review ;)