One more gift?
Dean knew that Benny knew because the living room window had now been shut, the books were picked up from the floor and Cas’ phone was now on the coffee table instead of on the floor.
Dean decided that he would just have to go and deal with Benny because he needed to get Cas back home before his parents freaked out.
“Don’t even say anything.” Dean muttered as he went to the kitchen to start on the coffee, Cas was still fast asleep.
“I wasn’t going to.” Benny looked at Cas’ phone on the table. “But there are a few missed calls from his boyfriend.”
“So?”
“He has a boyfriend, Dean.”
“Yeah, me and Cas are just friends, you know that. Besides I'm straight remember.”
“Name which guys you would go gay for, including Cas.”
Dean glared and set his jaw. “Fine, Dr Sexy and Cas. That’s it.”
“Clint Eastwood”
“Three, three is normal.”
“Aaron from the bar, you were totally ready to go home with him.”
“I was not.”
“Dean, you moped about for the rest of the night.”
“Four then.”
“That FBI agent who poked around here a couple of months back, do not tell me there wasn’t something there.”
“We were just friendly, stop looking too much into it.”
“Fine, but if he came up to you ready and willing what would you do?”
“Five.” Dean sighed. “Wait, six. There was this guy who took my motel room last year remember?”
Benny immediately started laughing. “Is that why you lifted the sheet up?”
Dean blushed but laughed. “Yeah and he makes the list. But it doesn’t prove anything; everyone has a go gay for list.”
“No. I’m sorry but once your "would go gay for" list exceeds five people, you're bi. get over it, Dean.”
Dean glowered at Benny but let it go.
That’s the exact moment when Cas padded into the room.
“Morning Hot Wings.” Benny grinned.
Cas glared.
“Still not a morning person, huh?”
“Where’s the coffee?”Cas croaked.
Dean wordlessly handed him a steaming mug.
Cas nodded a thank you and sat down on the counter.
“How’d you sleep?” Benny asked.
“Fine.” Cas answered, sipping his coffee.
Dean cleared his throat awkwardly.
“I was thinking you could stay here for the weekend, Cas. Instead of wasting our Saturday driving back home.”
“What are you doing?”
Dean looked to Benny and shrugged. “Nothing much, we could go and catch a movie if you wanted.”
Cas shook his head. “I've already been to see the ones that are out with Balth.”
“How is Balth?”
“We broke up.”
Benny choked on his coffee and spluttered it a bit.
Dean gave him a look to say ‘get the hell out of here if you’re gonna be a dick’.
Benny went back to his room, smirking at Dean.
“Why’d you break up?” Dean leant on the counter, in front of where Cas was sat.
“It just wasn’t working out.” Cas shrugged.
“You’ve been together for more than a year, you can’t just say it wasn’t working out, Cas. There’s gotta be more to it than that.”
Cas looked down. “That’s it. We were at my house last night and we had a fight but then a talk and decided that it would never work out.”
“But why would it never work out?”
“He said he didn’t love me and I-.”
“What?! That punk little shit said that to you?!”
“Dean, listen. Jesus! I said that I didn’t love him and he said he didn’t love me. Not in love with each other. Sure we care for each other but it was never really romantic.”
“Then why did you let it go on for so long and why break it off when you did? Cas, dammit, you’re hiding something.”
“I'm not.” Cas glowered and jumped off the counter, grabbing his phone and keys from the coffee table.
“I know you, Cas. I know when you’re lying and I know when you’re hiding something. Just tell me so I can help.”
“If you know me so well, figure it out!” Cas slammed the door behind him and ran down the stairs to the lobby and then to his car.
“Dammit!” Dean yelled.
“So we’re not going to the movies?” Benny shouted from his room.
“Fuck off, Benny!” Dean slammed his bedroom door.
Cas drove angrily all the way home.
Why did Dean have to be so nosy and why did he have to know when Cas was lying? It wasn’t fair.
He needed to talk to Sam.
Cas parked his car back in the garage and went over to Sam’s.
“You look awful.” Sam commented when Cas came to sit on his bed.
“I know, I didn’t shower, and I slept in these clothes. Everything is going to shit, Sam.”
“What do you mean?” Sam closed his laptop and sat beside Cas on the bed.
“I broke up with Balth last night; well we both kinda broke it off. It’s confusing.”
“Why’d that happen?”
“We were just at my house and I told him that I was in love and he freaked thinking I meant him and then I told him it wasn’t him and he got offended.”
“Fair enough.”
“I know but then he started saying it was Crowley, and then he thought it was you and then he guessed and I asked him how he knew and he said he’d always known but thought I’d grow out of it or something. It’s stupid.”
“Was he really mad?”
“No, because he was never in love with me either. It was never really romantic to be honest.”
Sam nodded. “You gonna tell me who you’re in love with?”
“Dean.”
“I thought so.”
“Who else knows? Dammit.” Cas groaned and looked at his feet.
“Pretty much everyone apart from Dean.” Sam chuckled. “You two are so blind to each other it’s hilarious.”
“It’s not funny, Sam. I can’t deal with it.”
“Look, Dean’s far enough back in the closet that he’s found Narnia but I'm pretty sure even he’s noticed his feelings for you.”
“No, I'm just his brother’s friend. He sees me as a kid.”
“That’s not true, is that where you were last night? Dean’s?”
“How’d you know?”
“Balthazar called me asking where you were and you weren’t at home and you weren’t here. Where else would you go?”
Cas nodded. “I broke into their apartment.”
“You’re a dumbass.”
“Yeah, Dean thought I was robbing him so that was fun.”
“Baseball bat?”
“Yeah.”
“He’s a paranoid dick.” Sam laughed, remembering when he did the exact same a few months ago as a prank.
“What am I going to do, Sam? He’s 21.”
“You’ve waited this long, wait a little longer. I bet the minute you turn 18 he’ll be all over you.”
Cas smirked. “You think so?”
“Duh. Wanna have some lunch?”
Cas nodded and followed Sam downstairs to where Mary and John were watching TV.
“Hey boys, any plans for today?” John asked.
Sam shook his head. “Not really, we’re about to have some lunch.”
Cas called Dean on Tuesday night when he couldn’t sleep and he apologised for storming out of the apartment and Dean apologised for being too nosy when it came to Cas’ love life.
Dean came to visit just before Cas’ 18th birthday; they had an early party for him since Dean was over. They all went out bowling, watching movies and then a big family meal. At the end of the day John gave Cas a beer and they all sat and watched the game together.
Dean eventually decided he wanted to go to bed and went up, coming down five minutes later, looking straight at Cas.
“Are you coming or what?”
Cas smiled and gave the rest of his beer to Sam, going upstairs to join Dean.
They lay as they did back in Dean’s apartment, Dean lightly tracing Cas’ ribs.
“You were born later than expected right?”
“No, two weeks premature. Why?” Cas scrunched his eyebrows at the random question.
“Screw it, turn around.”
Cas sighed but turned to face Dean. “What?”
“Since today is your 18th birthday.”
“It’s not, my birthday is next week.”
“Not in my books, you’re 18 today.”
Cas rolled his eyes. “Go on.”
“I want to give you your present.”
“You already got me one.”
“A different one, I didn’t want anyone to see this one. It’s more personal.”
Dean’s heart was racing; it felt like it was in his throat.
“What is it?”
“Remember back when you were 12 and I taught you how to kiss someone?”
Cas nodded.
Dean grinned but half closed his eyes, leaning forwards.
“Oh.” Cas’ breath caught but he shakily put his hand on Dean’s cheek which was red hot.
Dean closed his eyes completely.
Cas tilted his head to the left and leant closer; leaving Dean sometime to pull away but when he didn’t Cas met his lips.
Dean instantly pushed forwards harder and grabbed the back of Cas’ neck.
Cas melted into Dean’s touches and pushed against him, to get more of Dean.
Dean pulled away out of breath.
“Happy birthday, Cas.” He grinned.
“I liked that gift.”
“I hoped you would.” Dean blushed and lay back down, pulling Cas down with him.