Fame Crazy (Sequel to Strings Attached)

Chapter 163

Castiel finally braves the Twitter world on the day his secret collab with Taylor Swift is being released, not to look at reactions to that, but to see what his family is up to. Per usual, his feed is mostly tweets from Lucifer being a dork.

"How long do you think I could hide a cat in my room before anyone figures it out?"

"What if unicorns evolved into horses because other animals were always hunting them for their horns? #science."

"For the first time in Novak history, everyone else is out of the house rn and now I'm scared some monster is going to jump out of the closet help."

He retweeted someone asking him for a happy birthday with the words, "Hope your birthday is as fantabulishious as you!"

For once, Lucifer actually has a somewhat serious tweet, and while it's lightheartedly said, it seems rather sad to Castiel, though he may be looking too much into it.

Someone tweeted at him, "If @YourFaveSatan isn't in YouTube Rewind and at Vidcon, I'm rioting." Supportive fans like that are the best. No tearing anybody down; just raising up their favorite celebrity. A-plus for this person.

Lucifer's response was, "Probably not tbh. There's a difference between 'YouTuber' and 'random guy who posts videos on YouTube' and I'm pretty sure I fall into the second category."

He's clearly underestimating himself, because everyone loves Lucifer. He's definitely succeeding in the YouTube world, even more than some other YouTubers that accept the title proudly. Seven million subscribers is pretty amazing. It's ridiculous to claim that he's not one of them, and, of course, Castiel would love to tell him that. Unfortunately, he's still trying not to be a nice person, even though it's annoying and he hates it and can't wait until he can stop.

Fortunately, Samandriel and Claire seem to have his back, because they both tweeted reassurances — a brief "Lol nope, that's a lie," from Claire and a more thoughtful, "You must be on drugs or something because you're definitely a YouTube like the rest of them," from Samandriel.

Castiel can't help but find it strange that Michael didn't weigh in on this. The two of them are — or were, at least — best friends, and Castiel doesn't see that changing. Michael needs to get his ass back to Twitter, stat, and go be a friend.

Moving on through his feed, he finds a post from Gabriel that just says, "Sam's convinced pizza isn't a breakfast food and I've never been more disappointed in someone in my life."

Castiel wants to retweet it because yes, pizza is totally a breakfast food, but knowing his life, even something this little would be controversial for him to weigh in on. At least he can give it a like without people drawing conclusions — hopefully.

Next is a tweet from Lucifer, who retweeted one from the one and only Jacksfilms himself. Jack had tweeted out, "I just found out Castiel Novak has no idea I exist and I've never been prouder."

Lucifer responded to it with, "I'm so conflicted rn."

Castiel taps the original tweet and replies with a simple, "Alexander fuck you then." He's sure most people going through his replies — which apparently happens a lot — are going to be very confused, but the occasional Jacksfilms fan will understand the joke, and that he's not as oblivious to the guy as he sounds. And yes, the entirety of that last chapter was to set up this pun that maybe three people will understand.

Back to his feed, he finds yet another tweet from Lucifer. He always finds it amusing that for every other tweet he sees, there's at least five from his older brother.