The Sounds In Silence

Ch.3

Dean can feel Jo pull her hand away from him and hears a low pitched muffled voice through his earplugs. He quickly puts his hand down and does a quick room check before finally looking at the boy who has his hand out in front of him to shake. When him and the boy lock eyes he is able to take in his slim figure and facial features. The boy has wildly placed black hair and has very intense light blue eyes. He quickly takes his warm hand in his while he states his name and then catches sight of adam bouncing his foot 2 rows over and covers his eyes again. As class starts, he can only hear a low muffled voice making noise that he learned was his teacher talking long ago. Although he can't hear what the teacher is saying he tries to look at the board before seeing that the boy next to him (wasn't able to hear his name) was bouncing his leg. All at once, Dean feels furious and hits his desk, but that gives him little relief, so he starts pinching at his left hand. All he can see even with his eyes closed is the anger that he can feel while all he can focus on hearing is the sound of a stray pen clicking on the opposite side of the room. He soon can't breath and tenses up while trying to stiffle his crying. His episodes fill him with anger and sadness that just leads to him becoming more vulnerable to annoyances and that soon becomes a vicious cycle of self hate. As the panic attack fades away he looks at his hand and sees the blood, it isn't a lot but it is enough to make Dean feel as though he has failed as he sees the other small circular scars that littler his hand and arm from pinching. Dean rushes to his feet and storms out of the room with tears falling from his face and knows that Jo will be able to find him.
   As they sit on the park swings, Jo cleans the small hole in deans skin and puts a band-aid over it to keep him from picking it open the next time he gets stressed. After sitting in silence for about 20 minutes, Dean finally asks "so what was that guys name that sat down in garth's old spot?" "His name is Castiel" "Oh, thats...unique" "yeah, he seemed to really like you...the way he looked at you made me feel like I was intruding on your introduction" Jo smirked.  She is one of the 5 people that know how Dean is not fully straight and is always trying to get him to get another boy friend.
   "Will you come home with me?" Dean begs. "Sure thing kiddo" jo nods as the get up and make their way to deans baby.

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As Castiel goes through the rest of his classes, he discovers a few interesting things. One, Dean is in about half of his classes on both A and B day. Two, Dean is absent from classes A lot. And Three, As cas suspected when he saw him running, Dean has a huge attitude problem.
   As school comes to a close, cas runs into the theatre room only to see most of the kids packing up to go home. "Crowley said that we could go home early today if we finally decided what musical we were going to do" Kevin says with a hopeful look on his face. Kevin is one of the 3 outed kids and is a super smart when it come to school. It is a miracle that his parents let him do theatre during his tight schedule...
   "Hello, boys... and girls" the teacher sighs as he slowly walks to the center of the circle of kids.
   "Hello KING", we all shout back
"Oh why thank you!" He says in his English accent sounding like he is in a slightly better mood while fanning his face dramatically with his hand. "Okay, so start throwing ideas out there!"

"PIPIN!" Kevin shrieks

"INTO THE WOODS!" A freshman says

"KINKY BOOTS!" Charlie screams while hitting Kevin's shoulders

"HEATHERS!!!" A girl shouts from the back

"CARRIE!" The emo girl in the front mutters

"Alright, alright settle down...in case some if you havent noticed, we attend a Catholic school" Crowley says while rolling his eyes "So try thinking about more appropriate options like the first two suggestions"
   "How about Bye Bye Birdy" Castiel says and is immediately echoed by the rest of the classes enthusiastic cheering.
   "I guess, Bye Bye Birdy is our musical for this year, now get out of here and make sure you are all here tomorrow to get your crews established!" Crowley shouts as kids start running out into the hallway.
   As Castiel sits on the side walk to wait for Gabriel he sees a kid pacing back and forth a few yards away. "Hey, you Okay?" Cas shouts over in the boys direction while standing to his feet. "No! My brother is being a selfish dick!" the kid yells as he quickly walks over to castiel and makes a pouty face. As the boy comes closer, Castiel notices just how young, but tall the kid really is. "Hi, I'm Sam, Sam Winchester" he says while sticking out his hand for cas to shake. "Haha well sorry about your brother, but hi I'm Castiel" he says while taking Sam's hand. Just then, Gabriel speeds up to the curb and leans over to open the door. "Hey Cassie, who's your friend" he says with a lolly pop from this morning's payment in his mouth. "Sam this is my brother Gabriel, Gabriel this is Sam" Castiel says before starting to get in the car. "Nice to meet you sam, if you need a ride we could drop you off at your house", Gabriel says having to lean down to make eye contact. "Really? Yes that would be wonderful! Thank you!" The shaggy hair boy said as he opened the back door and leaned down to get in while saying his address to Gabe.
   "So, are you excited for Bye bye Birdie?" Castiel questioned Sam. "Yeah, just a little bummed that the plays always have to be so clean, this is probably the most crazy musical the school has done in what...7 years? And that is only if the principal approves!" Sam complained while crossing his arms across his chest. "Yeah, I hear ya, last year we tried to do Pipin but got shut down due to all of the sexual jokes. Man some time Naomi can be such a bitch right?" Castiel shrugged. " Yeah I know right! She is always getting on my brothers case for missing class even though she knows what is going on" Sam stated as he glared out the window. "Wait who is your brother?" Cas tilted his head a little in curiosity. "Oh he is the quarter back, Dean" cas' eyes widened, and opened his mouth to reply, but was cut off by the car stopping at a rather large building that Cas was pretty sure was a bar. "This is where you live!?" Gabriel asked with his eyes wide. "Yup! Thanks for the ride, I'll see you tomorrow Castiel!" Sam shouted as he got out of the car and walked in.
   "Well hot damn, how old is that kid" have said while continuing to look at the doors of the building. "I think he is a freshman, I have like 4 classes with his brother" cas said as he thought about Dean and what had happened in class. "Well someone likes sammy's big bro!" Gabriel said in a singing voice while starting to drive home. "Do not!" Cas claimed before looking in the rearview mirror to see a pink blush running across his nose and cheecks. "Sure baby bro, keep saying that" Gabriel reached over to shove Castiel and pulled into their two story house.

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Dean wakes up at 3:20 to see 5 missed calls from Sam. As he runs to put on his shoes after hearing the first message, he hears Sam call his name before the moose of a kid bangs on his door to be let in. "I'm sorry sammy, I had a rough-" dean starts, but is interrupted by Sam pushing the door the rest of the way open and plopping down on Deans bed. "I was really angry, but get this! There is this boy in theatre named Castella? Something like that-" "Castiel" Dean corrects him. "Oh right Castiel, thanks...wait How do you know him?" Sam squinted his eyebrows. "Well, I saw him during my... morning run in football and then he was in my math class till I ran out..." Dean ends it sadly. "You ran out again? Dean you need to figure something out. Tell your teachers and maybe the people who annoy you?" Sam asks with a pleading look in his eyes. "I've tried that before, but nobody seems to get it...they get offended by me wanting them to stop the simplest things and don't even realize that those small inconveniences for them make me want to...to You know." Dean started playing with the band-aid on his hand. "Alright, but I say that you give it another try, maybe trying to befriend Castiel and who knows having him know about your problem up front will help you?" "Yeah, thanks sammy". Sam gave him a quick hug and started to leave before shyly asking "Hey, do you know anyone named Gabriel? He is a Junior I think" "Yeah, he is a real joker. His locker even has a huge sticker on it that says trickster and you can pay him to pull these awesome pranks on-...why do you ask" Dean can see a small patch of red peak over Sam's cheeks. "Nothin' in particular...thanks!!!" He said running out of deans room before slamming his own door.
   Dean then takes his black pouch out of his pocket to put his earplugs back into their place among the other ear buds and bandages that he keeps with him at all time.
   Maybe tomorrow will be better...

Yeah, so there is another chapter, so thanks for reading and I hope my grammar and spelling doesn't bother you that much!