*Destiel High School AU* ... Dean Winchester knows the way things work: Dad holds a job for about a week because he can't stay sober for more than a day, they get back into the Impala and move to a new city and new school, and start all over again. His number one personal rule is to protect his little brother Sam. His second rule is to not provoke his father. His third is to never get attached. Castiel Novak knows the way things work: he sits down at family dinners and doesn't say a word except for grace because last year his brother Gabriel got kicked out for being gay and the year before that his parents told his other brother Michael that anxiety didn't actually exist. He's the one who sits in the back of the class and listens to music and tries to ignore the world around him. But then Dean meets Castiel, and Castiel meets Dean, and their entire lives are turned inside out. ... Possible mild trigger warnings, plausible great amounts of fluff. Contains Punk!Anxious!Cas and Angsty!Dean! Title stolen from Panic! At The Disco's song "Trade Mistakes".
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