Fame Crazy (Sequel to Strings Attached)

Chapter 167

After his song with Taylor Swift hits number one in over fifty countries, he's rather optimistic about his next song. He only gives his fans a twenty-four hour heads up about it, but he knows it's long enough to get word to spread.

Fans aren't quite sure what's going on with him. After the drastic change between his first single and his recent collab, he's got them confused, to say the least. Hopefully this one will clear things up, because it seems for the most part, people are expecting another snappy song from the new punk!Cas, and that's far from what they're getting.

The author is too lazy to write an entire song, but it's basically about accepting yourself and not trying to be someone you're not just to make other people happy. Maybe the author will write this song someday, but right now, that's all you're getting.

It comes out at 10:00 pm Eastern Standard Time, which is a decent release time in all the time zones in America, and his American fans are really his biggest concern. He loves knowing there are people in other countries who like him and his music, but not enough to take them into consideration for this. He has a much bigger local audience than his international one.

He joins a fan's Instagram livestream while he waits for its release, and he's not surprised to find this fan staring at a computer, waiting for it to start. She's reading something aloud, seemingly tweets about him, not paying her phone any attention, and unlike everyone watching the livestream, she's oblivious to the notification that he joined. He decides to keep commenting until she looks.

"Hi!"

"Are you waiting for the video?"

"So am I."

"I think you're gonna like it."

"Or idk I like it but might just be me."

"Hello?"

"Notice me!"

"Brianna!"

"Notice me senpai!"

"I'm beginning to feel ignored."

"It's like high school all over again."

"Helloooooo?"

"I wish I could scream at you but that only works if you look at the screen."

"I'm genuinely enjoying these tweets though."

"My dog is trying to eat my phone brb."

He drops his phone on the table next to the couch he's sitting on, turning his attention to his dog. He pats the cushion next to him, welcoming Misha to join him, but the dog just sits on the floor, reaching his head towards Castiel as much as his body will allow. Castiel pets him with one hand, grabbing his phone with the other. The girl whose livestream he's watching is freaking out, apparently having realized Castiel was here. He turns the volume up a few bars so he can actually hear what's happening.

"I can't believe that actually happened, oh my god! Is he coming back? He said he's coming back, right?"

Castiel chuckles to himself and types out, "I'm still here. My dog is just an attention whore."

After the short delay while the message gets sent through, it's clear that she sees it, because the worried look is gone, replaced by a huge smile. "Oh my god, Castiel! Hi!"

"Hi, Brianna!" He adds her name because he knows people like screenshotting the the responses he gives them, and it feels more special with a name.

"Hi! Again! Um..." She laughs awkwardly. "There are so many things I want to say to you and I can't think of a single one."

"Then I'm gonna start with, 'I love you hair!!!'" It's nothing super special; it's just long, blond, and seemingly naturally wavy, almost rivaling Blake Lively's hair.