Castiel knows there's no chance of avoiding the questions the girls are going to bombard him with, so he tries to figure out how much he is going to tell them. Just thinking about all of this makes is stomach go wild. He feels like puking, but there's this silent voice in the back of his mind that tells him that talking about it will make it a bit better, and his friends always have great advice. Seriously though, who is he going to kid, Charlie knows him since kindergarten, he can't keep anything secret from her.

Math and chemistry pass rather quickly, and then it's time for lunch. He packs his stuff in a hurry, knowing that Dean always takes longer to get into the cafeteria. Castiel's heart jumps at the thought of seeing Dean, but Cas' mind ignores it. He needs to figure things out before he can handle seeing or even talking to the boy.

Castiel thanks his mum for giving him lunch to bring to school this day, due to that he's the first on the table and seats himself with his back towards Dean's and Lisa's table. His heart stings a bit at that, he pushed that feeling towards the back of his mind as he sees Charlie and Anna. They're making their way towards the table, both holding a tray with food. Before they manage to sit down Castiel starts:"I have to talk to you."

Charlie raises her eyebrow and sits down before speaking:"Has it got to do with that bruise on your nose?"

Castiel touches his nose, he had completely forgotten about it. "Kind of."

Now that Anna is sitting as well, he starts talking:"Dean and I met to study in the library." Charlie opens her mouth to interrupt him with a dirty joke, but Cas shuts her up with the motion of his hands and continues.

"I didn't even get to the library, because Alistair came after me and pushed me against the locker, hence the bruise."

"That fucker!" Anna says a bit to loud and the heads of some of their schoolmates turn towards their table. Anna makes a shooing motion and they all look away.

"Yeah," Cas sighs,"Anyways, Dean saw it, I kneed Alistair in the groin and we ran to Dean's car."

Charlie raises her hand to give Cas a high five and a massive smile.

"Dean took me to his house and gave me an ice pack, and we started studying like we planned to do."

"Did you do anything else?" Anna asks.

"Something that involves to pairs of lips?" Charlie adds with a wink.

Castiel doesn't answer but his blush is more than enough for them.

"Oh my!" Charlie exclaims and grins like the Cheshire cat.

"Was it that bad? Is that why you are so moody, cause Dean, the soccer-player is a bad kisser?" Anna whispers wide eyed.

Castiel vehemently shakes his head:"No. It was great.. he is great..."

"So where's the problem?" Charlie asks now very confused.

"Gabe likes him."

"Didn't you say he was okay with it?" Charlie asks now even more confused.

The boy sighs:"You know my brother, he's a liar. I can see it in his eyes. He's heartbroken."

"That sucks ass."

Castiel agrees with Anna:"I have to stop seeing Dean."

"Cas, you still need him for tutoring." Charlie points out with a sigh. "You can't fail this class."

The boy lets his head fall onto the table and mumbles:"I didn't think about that."

Anna pets his hair affectionately, "We'll figure something out, right bae?"

"Exactly!"

Castiel groans as the bell rings, signaling the end of the break and the beginning of the last two hours for the day.

The three stand up to leave the cafeteria. Castiel's eyes are fixed on the floor, his thoughts spinning with supersonic speed, as he crashed into something solid. A familiar smell of leather and cinnamon envelops him. Before he manages to mumble an apology, strong hands are wrapped around his arms and a warm voice says:"Easy there, sunshine."

The lips that belong to the voice are smiling as the slightly taller boy looks down on Cas.

"Oh, hello Dean." Castiel presses forth.

"Hey." Dean whispers in a soft voice. His green eyes sparkling.

"I have to go." Castiel states, trying to keep all emotions out of his voice. Dean immediately lets go of Cas' arms, hurt obvious in his face. Castiel's heart gives a painful twitch at that sight as he walks past Dean and out of the cafeteria. Instead of´going to his English class he goes to the nearest toilet, where he plans to lock himself into a stall. Sadly he doesn't get that far. With his luck the next person he literally runs into is Gabriel. He really needs to start paying more attention when he walks, Cas thinks to himself.

Gabe looks at him, not the way Cas expected him to after their little banters in the morning. Before Gabe says anything else he asks his brother what's wrong.

"Nothing." Cas grumbles, although the 'nothing' isn't very believable as tears start running down his face.

Gabe guide him the last few steps towards the toilets. He checks if anyone else is in there, while Castiel tries to calm his breathing. Gabe then locks the door to the toilets, before he moves to embrace his big brother. At that Castiel starts to sob, and tries to wiggle his way out of Gabe's strong hands.

"No." Gabe states, matter of factly, and Castiel stops and let himself be held.

"Breath in with me, okay?"

Castiel nods against his brother's shoulder and focuses on his breathing.

Once he has calmed down, Gabriel let's go of him and demands to know what's wrong. No matter what Gabriel does to coax the truth out of his brother, nothing's working.

"I'm sorry. I will tell you when I'm ready. I promise." A small, reassuring smile crosses Castiel's lips and is mirrored on Gabe's face.

"Wanna skip the rest of this hour in the parking lot?" Gabe asks, "I even share my candy supply with you."

Castiel smiles and together they walk outside to fill their stomachs up with candy.