SEX ED

"Good afternoon, boys and girls!" Dr. James greeted the class as they shuffled in after lunch. Health was the only class that the entire group of them, including Jenny, had together, and they sat in pairs, one couple behind the other. Castle and Kate sat in the way back and that was partly because Castle had trouble keeping his hands off of her. In the back corner, he could hold her hand and play footsy to his heart's content. Sometimes Javier would even look back at them and make gagging sounds.

Rick was in the middle of walking his fingers up her left arm when James walked in and slammed his briefcase down on the desk, causing Castle to nearly fall out of his seat.

"Mr. Rodgers," the teacher said, opening up his briefcase, "please right yourself and come retrieve these papers to hand out to the class."

Castle groaned and stood up, sending Kate a pout before making his way to the front of the room. James dropped the papers in his hands and Castle walked around, as slowly as possible, and gave each person a sheet of paper (complete with unique sound effects).

"Faster, Rodgers," James sighed, rubbing his temples. Like most of the teachers at this school, he didn't seem to have a particularly soft spot for Castle's antics. At his demand, Rick grinned and began sprinting around the room, slamming the papers one each student's desk while Dr. James pressed his face into his palms.

Finally, when everyone had received a sheet, Castle placed the remaining pile on the teacher's desk and returned to his own seat, grinning at Kate as she rolled her eyes at him. Then he saw what was at the paper and turned the shade of a beet. Kate tilted her head at him in confusion before turning her eyes to her own sheet. She matched his shade exactly.

"Sexual Education," James said loud and clear as he wrote the words on the board and turned to the class with an oddly large grin on his face. "It's something that I will not have the pleasure of teaching you. Instead, this class will be separated into two, divided by biological sex. Ladies are first, as always, tomorrow and the boys will have the day off." The boys all whooped and clapped. "And then the boys will have their turn." Groans sounded all around the room. "Oh, it won't be that bad. You'll have a teacher come in and teach you all about the human body and reproduction and all of that and then you're done. Just one forty-minute period, okay? Would you rather your parents had this talk with you?" The class was silent. "That's what I thought. Now, you are welcome to opt out of this portion of the class, though I don't recommend it. If you feel uncomfortable learning about sex in a group environment, however, you just have to have your parents sign that sheet which signifies that they will have given you 'the talk' at home. We can provide booklets and diagrams but it is very important to have this talk before you start…you know."

Castle leaned over to Kate. "I can see why he's not giving the talk," he whispered and she snorted.

"And now that the awkwardness is over," James sighed, "let us continue our talk on the respiratory system." The entire class groaned.

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"My mom would never teach me anything about sex," Kevin sighed, looking at the sheet in his hand. "Neither would my dad. They both think it just encourages kids to have sex if they know everything about it."

"That's so old-fashioned," Castle commented.

"That's my parents," Kevin retorted. "Although, it is ironic how Molly's birthday is only six months after their anniversary…"

"Mother would just laugh at me if I tried to get her to sign this," Castle said. "She would make a ton of jokes about it, too." He turned to Kate. "You're not going to tell your parents, are you? Because then they'll tell Mother and we'll both be the butt of her jokes."

"And give my dad a heart attack?" Kate scoffed. "No thanks. What about you, Lanie?"

"My mama gave me the talk when the girls started coming in," the shorter girl revealed. "Though it was mostly self-defense training."

"Against who?" Javi asked. "Me?"

"I could already whoop your ass, Javier," Lanie cackled. "I didn't need any training in that."

Javier glowered at her and the rest of the group broke into laughter.

"Well, my mama probably won't care all too much," he said. "It'll save her from the birds and the bees talk she says she's been meaning to have with me. Lord knows that would be embarrassing."

"What about you, Jenny?" Kate asked, looking at the quiet little blonde.

"If my dad finds it, he'll forbid me from ever leaving the house again," Jenny answered and rolled her eyes. "He's really overprotective."

"That's an understatement," Kevin scoffed. "He threatened to toss me out the window if I ever so much as thought of you in an 'impure manner'. He said he'd know if I did. I believe him."

Jenny giggled and nudged him with her shoulder. "He won't hurt you, sweetie," she said, hooking her arm around his. "I promise." Kevin beamed down at her and pressed a kiss to her forehead.

"You two are sickening," Javier grunted.

"It wouldn't kill you to be romantic sometimes, too, ya know," Lanie retorted. "We've been together how long and you ain't never called me sweetie."

"Thanks a lot, Kev," Javi growled. Kevin shrugged.

Castle and Kate shared a look and grinned.

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Two days later, Kate and Castle were sitting in her room; she on her bed and he on her desk chair, both just staring into space. Kate had had her class with the girls the day before and had blushed pretty much the entire time; Castle had his that afternoon and couldn't get his mind off of bananas. They both skirted the bunch in the kitchen, settling for Oreos and milk instead. But even then they hadn't spoken; it was too awkward.

And so now they sat there, doing and saying absolutely nothing, as their teen minds processed what they'd just learned.

"So," Castle said, finally breaking the silence that had blanketed them since they left the school. "Sex."

Kate couldn't help but snort at that. "Is that all you can say?" she asked him, grinning as he blushed. "Sex? Aren't you a writer?"

"Doesn't make me much of a speaker," he argued.

Kate laughed again. "Apparently not." He glared at her and she chuckled, shaking her head. "Why is this so weird? It's not like we didn't know about it before, right? We live in New York; this is definitely the kind of thing you pick up on the streets. Especially here."

Castle nodded in agreement. "Yeah, you're right! Nothing's changed; not really. I've known about this kind of stuff since I was nine and Mother's boyfriend kept bringing his 'special comics' into the house and leaving them into the bathroom."

"TMI, Castle," Kate said, wrinkling her nose.

"Sorry," he replied. "But, really, it isn't a big deal."

"No it's not," she agreed.

"And we should totally not be embarrassed by it."

"Definitely not."

"In fact, maybe we should have sex."

"Okay."

"What?" Castle's eyes widened into saucers and Kate's copied.

"What?" she said.

TBC

Sorry, that's kind of evil, but…..bye.

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