Moving On (Destiel)

6: How to drag the Destiel moment out just because

"Finally, you decided to show up again, bitch", Charlie greeted him as her way of saying "I was worried".

It hadn't took long for him to leave the parking lot before she spotted him, and even less for her to sprint to him, somehow managing not to make it look like she was a kindergartener at all – it just fit her, so nobody questioned it. 

"I got suspended for a couple of days", Cas explained when they entered the building.

"For what?", Charlie wanted to know, and Cas could tell from the cluelessness in her voice only curiosity led her to ask him that. She didn't realize it made him uncomfortable.

"What? You don't wanna tell me? Why?"

Cas bit his lip. "Why not?"

"That's my question."

Cas blinked, trying to catch up with their conversation. Charlie took his silence as an answer while it really was just him trying to process what she said. 

"Please, Cassie. ", She begged and made big eyes, kind of like a little girl who's trying to convince you to buy candy for her. 

And, because Cas is Cas, he couldn't say no to a little girl. "It's no big deal."

"If it's no big deal you wouldn't have gotten suspended for it", Charlie said, clearly convinced she had him wrapped around her finger already, and she didn't have to play her role for it anymore. "Whatever you did, I wouldn't judge."

Cas laughed at that, bitter and hard. It was funny to him for her to assume something like that. "What I did? I didn't do anything!"

Charlie raised her eyebrows.

Cas sighed. "Look, it's no big deal, okay?"

Charlie waited. As it became clear that she wouldn't get an answer, she slightly smacked Cas's arm. "Spill the tea, honey."

Cas looked at her as if concerned for her sanity. "But what tea? And why waste it?"

Charlie wanted to say something, then she shook her head. "It's... never mind. A saying. A saying saying you better say what's on your mind, for the saying's sake."

Cas's eyes grew wide, his head an empty space. "My brain disintegrated a week ago", he declared.

"Why?" That was all Charlie had to say to that, absolutely accepting his theory.

"School", Cas said, stopping at the hallway they had to part. "I hesitated to go, and my smart brain used that short time to get lost and not to have to put up with all the stress."

"Is that what you always use as an excuse to explain your dumbness? Your apparently smart brain left you hanging?"

Cas just stared. Maybe that's what it felt like to be Gabriel when Cas decided to be salty again. "Usually not. Maybe I'll use that from now on, though. I'll keep it in mind."

"Good luck with that, if it's not existent", Charlie joked.

Cas paused for a second. "How did we come to this point of our conversation?"

"You said your brain disintegrated."

"Ah, right. Well, it's true."

Nothing. Awkward silence.

Charlie raised one eyebrow. "Saying?"

If she uses that word one more time... "That basically... means", He said, avoiding that word, "That I will not be able to follow your tongue-twisters."