Chapter thirty-two
Mid-May
Before they had a chance to even blink, winter turned into spring, which of course in turn brought on the anxiety and stress of upcoming final exams. And though Dean and Cas tried to hang out and go on dates as much as they could do, things kept coming up.
So it was no surprise that one Friday night when Cas and his debate team had to prep for their upcoming debate, and Dean's friends were busy with studying (as if Ash needed to study), Dean was home, sitting on the couch in his sweatpants watching reruns of Friends with his brother. Well, actually he had been watching it by himself when his brother came into the living room, flopped onto the couch and started groaning.
Then when Sam looked up and saw what show Dean was watching, he said, "Ugh Dean, why do you watch this show?" And then to make matters worse, he went and grabbed Dean's bowl of popcorn without even asking and started shoving as much popcorn as he could into his mouth.
"What's the matter with you, Sammy? Never steal another man's popcorn." Dean said and reached for his bowl back but to no avail. Sam had a pretty tight grip on the bowl and wasn't letting go.
"Jeez, Sam, what happened to you today? Your geeky world got you down?"
Sam didn't say anything but kept his tight hold on the popcorn bowl, not moving at all; he just stared up at the ceiling and frowned.
"Fine, don't say anything but I'm not switching the channel."
At that moment, someone in the show laughed and Sam groaned again and this time said, "How can you watch this? I fucking hate Ross."
"Whoa, Sam, watch your language."
Sam threw a pillow at Dean's head. "You and dad talk like that."
He was right of course. Dean and John did curse a lot. But still, Dean didn't want his brother to start cursing when he was only thirteen years old.
"Yeah but you're thirteen, you shouldn't cuss."
"Whatever I don't care." Sam said and rolled over onto his stomach, letting the popcorn bowl fall, spilling the contents. Dad was going to kill them if he came back from Bobby's and found this mess. But Dean filed that away for later. Right now, he had to find out what was going on with his brother.
"Do you want to talk about what's going on?"
"Madisondoesntlikeme."
"What?"
Sam rolled over on his back and said, "I said Madison doesn't like me."
Dean raised an eyebrow. "Who's Madison?"
"Some girl in my class."
"She isn't just some girl if you're so upset over her." Dean said, trying to urge Sam to give him more details.
Sam sat up and rolled his eyes. When his eyes fell on the popcorn lying on the floor, he scrunched up his nose in disgust, and Dean said, "Yeah, buddy, you're helping me clean that up later. Now who's Madison?"
Sam huffed, "She's this girl I like but I don't think she likes me."
"And why not?"
"Well, we're friends, right but today when I walked by her in the café, she and her friends immediately stopped talking and starting giggling."
"Okay and was Madison blushing?" Dean prompted.
"Yeah, how'd you know?" Sam asked curiously.
Dean smiled, "Sammy, they were probably talking about you and I'm pretty sure she likes you."
Sam's face lit up. "You think so?"
"Pretty sure, I mean I could be wrong but she probably likes you too, you should find out on Monday. I think I know a thing or two about the ladies."
"Like you would know."
Dean narrowed his eyes. "What's that supposed to mean?"
Sam smirked. "I saw you and Cas a few days ago in front of the house. Both of you were saying goodbye in a very very special way."
Dean felt his heart beating faster and his face warming up. Oh no, they hadn't been careful. What if dad had seen?
Dean cleared his throat. "Did dad see too?"
"Nah, he was upstairs watching some old war documentary, you know how he likes those movies." Sam chuckled and Dean smiled back weakly.
A few seconds passed in silence. Then Sam said, "Hey, I don't care who you date and I'm sure dad won't have a bad reaction either."
"Thanks, Sam." Dean smiled at his brother. Then he added, "Now, no more chick-flick moments."
"Fine as long as you give me the remote."
"Fine." Dean said and gave the remote to his brother.
As he brother surfed the channels, Dean thought about his dad finding about him and Cas. He knew that he should talk to Cas about being more careful because he could never be sure what his dad's reaction would be to his son dating another guy.
Middle of June
School was over and Dean couldn't be happier. He was done with all of his exams and classes and now all he had to do was wait for Cas to finish up his exam and then they could start off their first summer together as a couple.
When Cas ran out of the school and into Dean's waiting room, they smiled at each other and shared a short kiss. Then they walked side by side to Dean's car (well his dad's car, really) and talked about their exams and what they were going to do over the summer.
Too bad, they didn't know what was coming for them in the following months.