“Do you think these cinnamon rolls taste like homemade?” Dean’s got a tube of Pillsbury cinnamon rolls in hand, tossing it up before catching it in his other hand, looking lost as all hell.
“No, Dean. They’re good, but no.” With a shrug, Dean puts them in his cart anyway, right beside the lima beans.
Castiel rolls his eyes, but carries on, pausing at the mouth of the next aisle to let a mother with three small kids pass. He smiles at her when she thanks him, then turns the corner. He grabs a box of Oreos off the shelf—double stuffed, what else?—only to have them snatched from his hand.
“Those are poison. You can’t have them.” He tosses them in his own cart before steering his way around Castiel with a straight face and eyes dead ahead.
“Jackass,” he mutters, grabbing a new box off the shelf and tossing them into his cart. Instead of following Dean, he turns back the other way, sneaking down the aisle and turning into the next before Dean notices.
He finds himself in the candy aisle, and despite Dean travelling in the other direction—or so he thought—he finds the actor with his hand in one of the containers, scooping out gummy bears like a five-year-old.
“Dean,” Castiel hisses, looking up and down the aisle for employees. Dean glances up, cheeks stuffed with bears, and eyes wide. He grins around his mouthful and pops in another gummy. “What the hell are you doing? You have to pay for those!”
Dean’s face drops, panic bleeding in, and he doesn’t move, just standing there like a kid caught with his hand in the cookie jar—which, he kind of is.
“What?” he asks, a garbled sound around the gummies. He chews and chews as Castiel rolls his eyes, moving along the aisle like he doesn’t know the man-child with the mix-matched cart full of crap. “Castiel!”
Castiel ignores him, walking to the front of the store. He’s done shopping, and there’s no point sticking around as an accessory to a crime.
What he just saw confirms what he already knows; Dean takes what he wants without a thought to the consequences. Sure, he’s nice on the outside, but what did he expect from a rich boy with a God complex?
It makes him sick to think he was falling for it; that bullshit nice-guy act with the pretty words and the flirty smiles.
Castiel unloads his items onto the counter when it’s his turn, smiling at the cashier when she asks if he needs bags. This is normal, this is nice, and he doesn’t need Dean coming in and screwing this up.
He doesn’t bother turning around, but the voice in his ear sends his heart racing and butterflies fluttering in his stomach. For fuck’s sake, no!
“Goodbye,” he says, short and clipped, and without another acknowledgement. Dean chuckles, and the low, rumbling sound boils his blood. Who the fuck does he think he is?
Then he’s gone, leaving his heaping cart behind as he walks out the door, not a single thought for the poor, underpaid employee who will have to re-shelve all his mismatched crap.
“Jackass,” Castiel mutters.
Stick close to the SPN Media Big Bang Tumblr @spn-mediabigbang to see more art by @lost_souls_25 (on Instagram) (mid-April) and the full fic posting in late April to early May. This fic by allmystars is a contemporary romance story based on Ten Things I Hate About You."