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“I’M GETTING THE BIGGEST ROOM!” Michael yelled as he tugged his case into the new house, a whine escaping him when his dad, Chuck, came in and hit him playfully on the back of the head.
“No kid that’s my room. You can find another,” he said with a grin, dumping his case by the stairs and going back outside to help Castiel with his case.
“I’M NOT A KID I’M NINETE- hey where’s Gabe?” he asked before Luce popped his head around the doorway.
“He’s trying to find sweets, where else do you expect him to be?” Lucifer asked, rolling his eyes a little and sighing before giving his brother a grin, “I’m gonna go call dibs on my room!”
“DON’T BE A DICK AND TAKE THE ONE I WANT!” Michael yelled as his brother started to sprint upstairs with a rucksack over his shoulder. All he heard of Luci was a loud cackling laugh.
“What did I say about swearing Michael?” Chuck asked with a raised eyebrow as Cas dragged his case in and glanced between his father and brother with a frown.
“Not to do it- but Lucifer is gonna bagsy a room before I even get a chance to look and I’m the eldest and that’s not fair!” the eldest son replied, acting like he was the youngest instead and about to throw a tantrum
“That doesn’t give you a good enough reason to swear,” Castiel chipped in quietly from behind his father before looking around their new house in awe.
“What?!” Lucifer shouted pushing past Michael back to his dad. “bunk beds!? you want Han and Sammie to have the second biggest room?”
“Nope its up to you who 's sharing but I have six kids and six rooms and I need one,” Chuck replied matter of factly with his arms folded.
“I’m not sharing with Sammie!” Hannah cried out from somewhere else before skipping through the doorway, “He can share with Gabe or Cas or something!”
“I’m not sharing with Gabe he’ll sit up all night eating sweets!” Samandriel yelled as he pulled his case up the stairs to the front door.
“Cas can share with Sam then, that’s-”
“How about Michael and Lucifer share a room so they can both have the second biggest bedroom,” Castiel suggested with a cheeky smile, much to the amusement of Lucifer who went ahead and jabbed Michael in the side playfully.
“I bagsy top!” he cheered before skipping back through to the room and dumping his things in there.
Castiel watched as his brothers and sister made their way upstairs to pick out rooms before turning to his dad, “So I guess I get whichever room is left…”
“You do Cas, they’re all pretty big to be fair though so I don’t think there was any need for the rest of them to rush up… you need a hand getting your case up or are you okay?” his father asked, ruffling the boys hair and laughing a little as he got a playful punch in the ribs in response.
“Dad please stop.”
“No. Your hair’s always a mess anyway I don’t see why you care when I play with it.”
Cas just stuck his bottom lip out for a moment and stared up at his dad before dragging his case upstairs to go find his room and make it his own… He was actually looking forward to being somewhere new.. he wasn’t sure why but it just seemed like this whole moving thing was gonna be one big adventure now.
*
Cas couldn’t believe it, he hadn’t even been at school for a full day and already someone had him backed up against the wall and was bullying him.
“So you’re the new kid hm?” Jo asked with a smirk, shoving him back when he tried to get away and move past her. She gave Cas a good look over, he was small and had been singing annoyingly in the hallway so she figured picking on him was the best way to find out who he was.
“Y-yeah… as are my brothers…” he mumbled, staring down at the floor to avoid her intimidating gaze, Jo’s tactics were working and quite well too.
“I’d say you’re cute but you’re also kinda scrawny,” she teased in a not so nice manner, her finger jabbing at his chest before her head turned at the sound of someone calling her name.
“C’mon Jo! Do you really have to pick on the new kid and scare him?” Sam said as he got closer, giving her an exasperated look before turning to Cas in sympathy, “c’mon… you’re in my class right? Let’s get you away from my cousin here and somewhere else.” He signalled with his hand for Cas to come with him. The boy glanced at him nervously before stepping around Jo and following close at Sam’s heels.
“It um… nice meeting you…” Castiel mumbled, not really knowing while before looking away from her and whispering to Sam a quiet ‘thanks’. His hands were buried deep in his pockets and he stared down at his feet… no longer feeling like moving here was so much as an adventure as it as a horrible decision on his father’s part to move.
“Don’t mention it,” Sam replied with a shrug, “She just likes scaring people, she can be nice when she wants to be she just didn’t want to be today.”
“Okay, I guess I’ll keep that in mind, I’m Castiel by the way… I don’t think I got your name?”
“Sam, Winchester. It’s nice to meet you… I’m just gonna call you Cas I think.”
“Cas? That’s fine my brother’s do that anyway… and… Cassy but I don’t really like that…” he trailed off before pulling his collar up over the bottom half of his face and shoving his hands further down into his pockets.
“You have brothers? I have just the one, he’s a bit of a pain in the ass.”
“Mine are all annoying… I have four brothers and a sister.”
“Oh so it’s a pretty full house then… say do you wanna hang out after school or anything to get away from them a bit? I imagine things are pretty hectic which you having just moved, right?” Sam said with a smile, stopping as they reached an empty corner of the yard, leaning up against the wall.
Cas had made up his mind that Sam was a nice guy pretty quickly… that and he’d decided he definitely wanted to try and be this boys friend for the foreseeable future while he lived here. He was still surprised by the taller boys offer though and was an open book with his little wide shocked eyes, Sam managed not to laugh.
“I uh, I… yeah that’d be cool actually… it’s been really busy and everyone’s running around trying to sort things out and arguing about rooms and… yeah…” Cas let out a heavy sigh before smiling at Sam very genuinely and warmly, “I ought to ask one of my brothers though first… I uh…” he glanced around to see who he could spot. Dad would kill him if he disappeared on the first day of school and didn’t tell anyone where he was going.
“Yeah of course, your family needs to know where you’re going,” Sam replied with a nod, vaguely remembering how his dad had used to get mad if him and Dean were out even a minute past curfew.
“Okay,” he said awkwardly, glancing around and trotting over to his brother Gabe who he’d spotted perched on a wall with a lollipop in hand.
“Hey Gabe..”
“Cassy! To what do I owe the pleasure?”
“Gabe please… please don’t say pleasure like that… I uh… I’ve made a friend and he wants to hang out after school and I wanted to check with you if that’d be okay and stuff?”
“Who? The tall one with the luscious locks over there who you were just with?” Gabriel asked with a raised eyebrow, his eyes very slowly running over Sam like he was undressing him in his mind before he answered Cas. “Okay, go ahead, just remember to use protection,” he said with a small wink, giving his lollipop one more lick before hopping down off the wall he was on and walking away.
Cas stood there for… well he wasn’t sure how long because he was trying to recover from blushing so hard at what his brother had just said… just suggested. He barely knew Sam he couldn’t… think about him like that… That was just… Too much for his innocent mind.
He snapped out of it when he felt a hand on his shoulder, “Everything okay there Cas?” Sam asked with a worried look on his face, the guy had been really out of it there for a few minutes just staring at nothing.
“Y-yeah my brother just… just embarrassed me…”