Chapter Thirty-six

Early September (First day of school)

"This year is gonna be epic." Asher said with a mischievous grin from the backseat of Dean's car.

As Dean turned right, he glanced at Castiel out of the corner of his eye and gave him a small smile, to which Castiel responded with his own smile.

Asher decided to interrupt the moment. "Do you guys even hear me? It's our senior year, it has to be-"

"Epic." Dean and Castiel shouted at the same time and then burst out laughing.

Asher did not appreciate being mocked and glared at both of them as Dean drove onto the parking lot and began to park his car. Asher's prissy mood lasted for a bout of ten seconds as a new female student had just walked by the school parking lot.

Asher commented, "Wow, I want to know who that is."

"What about Al- "

Asher's facial expression turned stoic right away. "Dean, that's not happening. Please drop it."

Dean threw his hands up in the air. "Okay, okay. Do you even know this new girl's name?"

Asher shook his head. "No but I have great deductive skills, I'm sure I'll find out her name by lunch." And then he scattered off to his first class.

"Deductive skills, my ass." Dean said as they continued to walk toward their lockers.

Castiel looked the direction Asher had gone and when he was sure he was out of earshot, he said, "He still likes Alfie, doesn't he?"

"Yeah, but that ain't gonna happen."

"Why not?"

"Alfie's got a girlfriend."

Castiel arched an eyebrow "I had a girlfriend before I went out with you. It's called being bisexual or pansexual. Sexuality is fluid."

Dean rolled his eyes. "Jeez, Cas, I know what it's called. I'm bi too. I'm just saying that Alfie's in a relationship with Melanie, he's not going to break up with her."

"Yeah I know. I just feel bad for Ash." Castiel sighed, "Well, I have to go to first my class." After he gave Dean a short kiss, Cas ran off to his first period.

Later that day (at lunch)

It turned out that Asher did have good deductive skills. Maybe not Sherlockian level deductive skills, but definitely some deductive skills as he had found out who the new student was. Or maybe he had found out who she was because the teacher had asked the new girl to introduce herself but no one had to know that. Either way, he had found out the new girl's name and had invited her to lunch with his friends.

The new girl's name was Ruby and she had transferred for her senior year to Lawrence High because her parents travelled a lot for work. She then warned Dean and his group of friends not to get too attached as she would most likely be gone before the first semester even ended. Dean thought it was a pretty weird thing to say as they had just met her but he didn't say anything as he could see that Asher really liked her.

Later that day (After school)

Since Dean was a senior and didn't have many classes but his brother was a freshman and had a much longer schedule, Dean was stuck waiting in the library for his brother's school day to finish.

As it happened to be the first day and Dean didn't have a lot of homework yet, he spent the time hanging out with Jo in the library. Well, his AP teachers had already warned him that there was going to be a lot of work this year and that they better start studying now. But hey he was a senior; he could relax a bit before the teachers really started on piling on with the homework. So he spent the time hanging out with Jo in the library and doing pretty much nothing. During that time, he had found out that Jo also thought what Ruby had said was pretty weird and that she was a bit wary of agreed with her but at the same time told her that they were probably too paranoid for no reason. Ruby was probably just making small talk.

After Sam was done with his classes and Dean had driven them home, the brothers changed and then decided to eat some dinner as their dad was staying late at work that day. As Sam sat at the table and worked on his homework (how he had homework the first day as a freshman, Dean did not know but decided not to ask) and Dean heated up some leftovers for lunch, Dean asked Sam how his first day of high school had been and how he had liked the school so far.

Sam responded that he liked most of his teachers, even the tough ones. He also told Dean that his friend, Gabriel from middle school was in some of the same classes as him, which he was glad about and that he made friends with another kid named Sully.

Then Sam decided that it was enough sharing on his part and decided to ask Dean about his day. He was most interested in the new girl as he asked Dean who she was and what her name was.

"Ruby." Dean said absentmindedly as he placed the heated lasagna on the table and passed a plate to Sam. "Why?"

Sam closed his notebook and pushed it to the side as he accepted the plate. "No reason." But his reddened ears and neck told a different story.

"Aww, you like her." Dean said teasingly, reaching to pinch Sam's ear. Sam waved Dean away and piled some lasagna onto his plate.

"No, I don't. I was just wondering who she was, I haven't seen her around before."

"Well, good. She's too old for you anyway." Dean said and got a helping of lasagna for himself.

Sam snorted but didn't say anything else and the rest of the evening passed by quietly.