Dean woke up the following Monday at 7 in the morning exactly, from his roommates alarm. Dean groaned as Castiel turned the alarm clock off.

"Oh, did my alarm wake you?" Cas questioned, looking over at Dean, who was shuffling around under his covers.

"Yes." Dean replied grudgingly, laying on his side in an attempt to get comfortable again.

"Well, I assume we both have classes at 8:30 this morning, so I'd suggest getting up and getting ready." Cas mused, walking to the cabinet full of clothes he had unpacked. He grabbed a trench coat and a few other clothing items, and went into the bathroom to get dressed, while Dean attempted to get up and out of bed. Suddenly, his phone rang, and the caller ID read 'Bobby'.

"Hello?"

"Dean! Good morning!"

Dean smiled at his brother's voice. "Sammy, how are ya? What are ya doing calling me this early?"

"Well, Bobby said your classes start at 8:30, and mine do too, so I woke up early so I could call you." Sam replied.

"That's nice of you, to wake up this early just to call me."

"You're my brother, I'd wake up at 6 am to talk to you."

Dean couldn't help the smile that erupted all across his face. Cas, who had just finished getting dressed, poked his head out of the bathroom, only to see Dean sitting on his bed, talking on the phone.

"That's sweet Sam. Hey, listen, I actually have to get ready now, but I'll drive out to visit you this Saturday, okay?"

"Alright!" Sam cried, "I'll call you every day until then."

"Alright. I'll talk to you this afternoon, how about that? At 6 pm."

"Alright! Bye Dean."

Dean held his phone closer to his face. "Bye Sammy."

As Dean hung up, Cas walked out of the bathroom. "Who was that?"

Dean looked up, a bit startled by Cas's sudden reappearance. "It was my brother."

"I didn't know you had a brother." Cas remarked, tilting his head.

"He's my baby brother." Dean explained, placing his phone down. "He's just started high school, so he won't be in college until I'm out."

"Oh. I can understand that, I have a younger brother as well. Not Gabriel, Gabriel's my older brother. I do have a younger brother who is in high school, though. Just started this year, same as your brother." Cas spoke. "His name's Samandriel."

Dean stood up suddenly, and began sifting through the small amount of clothes he had. "My brothers name is Sam."

Dean picked up a leather jacket, another jacket and a shirt, and a pair of jeans. As he did so, Cas took a small step back, leaning against the wall.

"Hey, do you want anything for breakfast? My brother's gonna stop by the dorm with food in a few minutes." Cas offered.

"Your brother Gabriel?"

"Yeah. He's actually in his last year of college here. His dorm room is upstairs, on the senior's floor." Cas explained.

The college Dean was in had four floors of dorms for both girls and boys. First floor was for freshmen, second for sophomores, third for juniors and fourth for seniors. There was also two dorm buildings for both boys and girls, as despite being a college for a relatively small town, there was a lot of students in the college.

"Uh, sure. I'm always in the mood for free food." Dean replied with a shrug, making his way to the bathroom to change. Cas stepped out of the way to let Dean past, and nodded in response.

"I will let my brother know."

Sure enough, as promised, Gabriel swung by the dorm exactly ten minutes later with breakfast. The three of them all ate the breakfast together, before Gabriel took off to his classes.

"What class do you have first? Or actually, what's even your major?" Dean questioned, glancing at Cas.

"I'm majoring in Creative Writing, so my first class is creative nonfiction." Cas replied, glancing at his schedule. "What about you?"

"I'm majoring in Mechanical Engineering. My first class is Calculus, unfortunately." Dean replied. "I hate math, I suck at it."

Cas chuckled. "Well, any type of engineering requires math."

Dean groaned, grabbing the bag of school supplies he had prepared. "Yeah, that's the shitty thing." Dean sighed, and suddenly turned to face Cas. "What's your brother Gabriel majoring in?"

Cas tilted his head. "My brother? He's majoring in business. He wants to own a candy shop someday." Cas glanced in the direction his brother had taken off in, and smiled. "My entire family thought he was crazy to pursue business. They said he should go for drama, or something like that. No one expected him to do so well as a business major, you see. But he's proving our family wrong. He loves it, though. He rubs it in everyone's faces at holidays, like 'look at me, I'm gonna graduate with a business degree'. It annoys most of our family."

"I definitely wouldn't have thought of him as a business major." Dean remarked.

Cas shrugged his shoulders, picking up his bag before turning to face Dean. "Well, everyone in my family was surprised when he became a business major."

Cas waved goodbye and took off to his first class of the day, and Dean walked off to his first class of the day, Calculus. Not too long after he sat down, a redhead girl appeared next to him.

"Can I sit here?" She asked, and Dean nodded. The girl sat down, unpacked her bags and faced the front of the lecture room. Suddenly, she turned to face Dean. "My name's Charlie, Charlie Bradbury. What's yours?"

"Dean Winchester." Dean replied, and the girl cocked her head.

"Winchester. Like the Winchester Mystery House? That place is amazing. I went there when I was 15, it's wicked." Charlie babbled, her eyes lighting up.

"Yeah, just like the Winchester Mystery House." Dean remarked. He couldn't count the number of people who had related his name to the famous California tourist attraction.

"What's your major?" Charlie asked, tilting her head slightly. "Mine's Computer Science."

"Mechanical Engineering." Dean replied. "I want to work with cars."

Charlie nodded. "That's a cool aspiration. I just want to do stuff with computers."

"That is also a cool aspiration." Dean pointed out, and Charlie waved her hand.

"Nah, it isn't that cool," she replied, "there's a lot of cooler aspirations. My mom hounded me for wanting to work with computers. She wanted me to do medicine, which is what most people in my family do."

Dean scoffed, shaking his head. "Well I say it's good you went after your aspiration."

Charlie smiled, thanked Dean, and began to focus on the paper she had pulled out.

The class soon started, and both Charlie and Dean focused on what the professor started to say.

The class went by rather quickly. The professor had dived right into the hard stuff, which Dean hadn't been expecting. Then again, this was college. It was bound to be different from middle and high school.

Dean's second class of the day was chemistry, and after that was lunch. Dean sat at a lone table during lunch, in the ginormous campus cafeteria. Many people sat outside, chattering amongst themselves. Dean saw no reason to go outside and sit in the hot sun, so he stayed inside in the air conditioning. Lunch lasted for an hour, and Dean finished his food rather quickly, so he just looked on his phone for most of the time.

Dean only had three classes today, so a while after lunch ended, he went to his third class, physics. Physics was a bore, but still incredibly hard, even on the first day. Dean had never been good at physics, so he struggled to keep up with the notes.

Once all his classes were finished, he collapsed in his dorm room. His roommate was not back yet, so Dean hooked his headphones into his phone, blasted his music through the headphones and danced for a bit, before he ultimately fell asleep, music still playing, but much softer.

Dean woke up at 4 that afternoon, his dorm room still empty. His phone had died and his music had ceased, so he plugged his phone in to charge, and then pulled his homework out. His homework took him an entire hour to do, during which not even a knock came on the door of the dorm. Dean finished his homework at a quarter past five, when his phone began to rang. He checked his phone, smiled when he saw his brother's name as the caller ID, and picked up.

"Hiya Sammy." Dean muttered, still tired but with a smile now on his face.

"Dean! How was your first day of school?"

"Mine was great, but how about yours? Was your first day good?"

"I was behind." Sam admitted, a hint of shyness in his voice. "Everyone else started on Thursday of last week, so I was behind. But I made a friend! His name's Andy, and he's cool."

"A friend? That's so good, Sam!" Dean cried. "I'm proud of you."

Dean could tell Sam had smiled in response. "Thank you Dean. I have to go, I have to work on a worksheet, but I wanted to talk to you for a bit."

"Alright. Bye bye Sammy, you have a good rest of your day now." Dean replied. Sam bid Dean goodbye and hung up, and Dean couldn't help but smile at the happiness he had heard in his brother's voice during the entire call. He had never heard his brother so happy.

Dean put his phone back on the charger and looked up a few nearby restaurants. Eventually, he decided on a burger place called Five Guys, and grabbed his phone and wallet and keys. He went to his car, unlocked it, got into his car and turned on the ignition. He drove to the burger place and walked inside.

Dean ordered a regular hamburger and a soda, and his food was out within minutes. He sat by a window, glancing out at the people walking past. Adults, children, a few teenagers with dyed hair; Dean saw a whole array of people pass by. Dean was taking in the time to look at the little details of the people that walked past, as he had never gotten that chance.

All his family outings to a restaurant were usually spent eating and trying to talk at a whisper, so as to not upset his dad by being loud. Dean shuddered at the thought of his father upset. He couldn't even begin to think of what his father was like now, after Dean and Sam had ran away. Thank goodness John was always too drunk to memorize Dean's phone number to use to track him.

Once Dean finished eating, he headed back to his dorm. His roommate was actually there, talking on the phone with someone.

"Who are you talking to?" Dean asked as he walked into the room. Cas glanced at him, held a finger up, then hung up the phone a minute later.

"I was talking to my friend Meg." Cas replied. "I've known her since ninth grade. She moved to Ohio last year, so I can only talk to her through phone calls and texts."

Dean cocked his head. "Huh, well that's cool that you have a friend to talk to."

"Don't you?"

"Other than my brother? Not really. I just moved here a few weeks ago, I hardly know anybody." Dean remarked, sighing.

"I'll introduce you to my friends, then. That way, you can have other people besides your brother to talk to." Cas spoke, unlocking his phone.

Dean put his drink down and waved his hand. "It's fine. I'm sure I'll meet people here." 

Cas nodded and put his phone down, flopping down onto his bed. "It's already eight o'clock." He remarked, glancing at the clock on the bed stand. "Have you had dinner?" When Dean nodded, Cas sighed and laid his head back. "I'll order pizza for myself, then."

"Hey! I'm still hungry enough for pizza!" Dean cried. "Order me a slice!"

Cas sighed but nodded, and picked up his phone to order some pizza.

Second chapter, and 2 thousand words!
So this story will be updated every other Thursday, so just remember that uploading schedule. Anyways, I'll see y'all in two weeks with a new chapter. And I hope y'all got a laugh out of the title of this chapter
~ Liz