Wednesday Morning:
Charlie was awakened by a pillow to the face that Macy had thrown at her. "Hey! Wake up!" Macy said bouncing on her knees beside her friend.
"What the hell Mace?" Charlie laughed trying to push her friend away, but Macy stood up before she fell off the bed. However, she stood up only to fall onto the floor landing on her butt.
"Owww!" Macy laughed rolling over on the floor.
"That's what you get for waking me up." Charlie smiled, still thinking of Dean and… her wonderful dream.
"You are such a bitch!" Macy laughed as she got up, rubbing her sore butt. This is one of the many things that would start their playful friendly banter.
"And you are such a skank-zoid!" Charlie shot back in a valley girl tone twirling a lock of her hair around her finger acting as if she were chomping on a piece of bubblegum.
"And yet we each got ourselves a decent boyfriend. How did we manage that?" Macy smiled looking to the ceiling with a squinted eye and her finger on the side of her face as if in serious thought.
"A decent boyfriend for Macy?" Charlie smiled widely. "Who?"
Macy smiled building up with pure giddy excitement. "Sly!" she squealed doing a very enthusiastic and high foot stomp, repeatedly.
"Oh my god! How?" Charlie asked completely shocked, but totally happy for her friend.
"Blade called, he wanted to meet up at the Chinese restaurant and… I went. But…Blade didn't show. Sly was there and we wound up talking. A lot." Macy explained with a huge smile. "Did you know that he could have gotten into MIT?"
"Yes, I did. Maybe if you weren't too busy looking at his ass, you would have heard that four months ago." Charlie smirked throwing Macy's pillow back at her. A few moments later, "Hey!" she said offended. "What do you mean we each got ourselves a decent boyfriend? I'm single."
"Yeah, probably not for long. I've seen how Dean looks at you. Girl, he wants you. And he wants you bad. Mmm-hmm." Macy smirked crossing her arms confidently.
Charlie blushed and looked away from her friend's gaze. "He does, doesn't he?" she smiled biting on her lip.
"I just told you he did." Macy threw her pillow back at her friend who was still sitting in bed.
"So what are you going to do today?" Charlie asked catching the star shaped lavender colored pillow and hugging it to her chest.
"Hmmm,…nothing. Why?" she asked flopping down on her bed. "Owww!" she laughed. "I forgot my butt still hurts."
"Dumb-ass!" Charlie laughed. "Well among… many other things that happened last night, I got a call from the junk yard guy and the damn Barbie car is ready to be crushed today." she smiled widely so excited.
"Seriously? Yeah." Macy punched the air above her head excitedly. "What time?"
"Around nine o'clock." Charlie smiled and then looked at the clock. "Shoot! I gotta get breakfast!"
"With who? Dean?" Macy taunted doing a squirmy dance as she sat on her bed.
Charlie nodded with a huge smile, "Yeah, and Sam, too." Then she grabbed some clothes to change into to get ready for the much anticipated breakfast with the Winchesters.
"Hurry up, Sammy! We gotta get goin'!" Dean yelled getting impatient as he found Charlie's number on his phone.
"Dude, seriously. I just got in there a few minutes ago." Sam said annoyed coming out of the bathroom already changed. "Plus I just got…up." he continued, but paused when he saw his brother wasn't listening to word he was saying anymore.
"Yeah, you soon ready then Charlie?" Dean asked into the phone.
"Dude, I just got up like ten minutes ago." Charlie said into her phone. "You gotta give a girl sometime to prepared for the day."
"Is that your boyfriend?" Dean heard Macy say in the background. The he heard the phone be muffled by her hand.
"Shut up, Mace." Charlie said with a clenched jaw tossing Macy's star shaped pillow back at her.
"It is your boyfriend!" Macy smiled widely running over to Charlie. "SHE LOVES YOU DEAN!" She made loud kissy noises towards the speaker as Charlie tried to push her away from being anywhere near the phone.
Dean had to laugh at that.
"Don't pay no mind to her. She just forgot to take her MEDS this morning." Charlie glared at Macy.
"Oh no, darling. I already took them." Macy said putting on an elderly lady's voice, then back to her normal voice. "She wants to kiss your soft lips! MWAH! MWAH! MWAH!" She laughed exiting the room to meet up with Sly before Charlie could throw her thick, heavy pumps at her.
"I'm sorry about her. She has no censors whatsoever." Charlie sighed majorly embarrassed.
"Don't worry about it. I rather quite like the thought of you ki…" Dean started to say before Sam throw a pair of Dean's stinky socks at his back.
"So do not want to hear what you think in that perverted mind of yours." Sam glared wide eyed at his big brother and then continued to pack up his stuff to put in the trunk of the Impala.
"Don't be such a dweeb Sammy!" Dean chuckled.
"Okay, so meet you at the café in like 20 minutes or so. Cool?" Charlie asked not wanting to be held up much longer.
"Yeah, cool. We'll meet ya there." Dean smiled.
"Okey dokey!" Charlie smiled and then hung up. Then flopped back onto her bed. "Guh, he is just too damn…much man for anyone to handle…But… maybe... nah!" she giggled to herself with silly thoughts.
"Soon ready Sammy?" Dean asked stuffing his phone into his pocket.
"For the last FREAKING time…it's Sam. Let me spell it out for you. Sam: S-A-M. Say it with me now: Sam." Sam said clearly annoyed with being called Sammy.
"Bitch."
Sam couldn't help, but smile. "Jerk."
About 15 minutes later, Sam and Dean were sitting at the café waiting on Charlie.
"I think I'll get the morning paper." Sam said actually getting bored. So he walked down the block and paid $0.75 to the guy in the newspaper stand, then headed back to the café where Dean was still waiting.
"Find anything interesting in there?" Dean asked sipping his morning coffee as he sat across from his brother.
"Nah, nothing like what we do." Sam smiled. He was beginning to enjoy this running around whole country thing again. He had Dean, the Impala (which was always home), the music (which can get annoying, but he was used to it), and the scenery to pass the time with. He couldn't have asked for a better way to spend his time after what happened to Jessica. Now if they could just find Dad.
"Let me see the obits." Dean ordered Sam to hand them over while licking the last bit coffee taste off of his lips. Dean loved his morning coffee to the last drop.
Sam handed his brother the section of the newspaper with the obituaries in and resumed looking through the rest of the newspaper.
After a few moments, "There's nothing interesting in here." Dean said tossing the newspaper back at Sam. "Did you find anything thing that seems like our type of gig?"
"No, I got nothing." Sam sighed.
Dean smiled smugly, "I get to pick the next case anyway."
"Whatever Dean." Sam smiled as his phone buzzed. He pulled it out of his pocket and the screen indicated that he had a new e-mail. He looked at it and then, "I got a potential case."
"Nah, it's my turn to pick man." Dean complained.
Sam looked at his childish big brother annoyed. "In this e-mail from this girl, Rebecca Warren, one of those friends of mine. I went to school with her, and her brother, Zack. She says Zack's been charged with murder. He's been arrested for killing his girlfriend. Rebecca says he didn't do it, but it sounds like the cops have a pretty good case."
"Dude, what kind of people are you hangin' out with?" Dean asked making a face.
"No, man, I know Zack. He's no killer." Sam clarified.
"Well, maybe you know Zack as well as he knows you." Dean countered.
"They're in St. Louis. We're goin'." Sam tried to finalize.
"Look, sorry 'bout your buddy, okay? But this does not sound like our kind of problem."
"Dean you didn't think this gig was our type of problem. It is our problem. They're my friends." Sam reasoned.
"St. Louis is eight hundred miles away, Sam." Dean complained.
"You've driven a lot further for a lot less." Sam shot back with logic with a slight head tilt and wide eyes.
"Hey, what's goin' on guys?" Charlie said happily sitting between Sam and Dean.
"Nothing, we were just waitin' you pretty Butterfly." Dean smiled his sweet smile at her.
"Awww, aren't you just so freaking cute." she cooed.
"I think I'm adorable, but if you say I'm cute, then so be it." he winked at her.
Charlie blushed, while Sam called over the waiter.
Soon enough they all their desired and varied breakfasts setting before them.
"So where are you guys headed next?" Charlie asked knowing that they'd soon be leaving. "You know, to write you next 'article'?" She forced a smile with air quotes.
Sam and Dean looked at each other before it was silently decided that Dean would answer her question. "Uhh, St. Louis." he glared at his smiling little, huge, dork of a brother.
"Well, I wish you guys luck in writing your next 'article'." Charlie laughed lightly looking at the food on her plate.
"We'll need all the luck we can get." Dean smiled biting into a slice of beacon.
About a half hour later, a car skidded to a stop beside the table that Charlie and the Winchesters were sitting at. "Yo! Charlie, let's go. We got 15 minutes to get to the junk yard." Macy said hanging out of Sly's passenger window.
"Shoot! Okay boys I'll see ya around then." Charlie while quickly gathering her things and started to Sly's car.
"We'll take ya." Dean said quickly slapping a few bills onto the table and getting into the Impala.
"No, it's alright. Sly and me can give her a ride." Macy said about to get out of the two-door car, but Charlie was already sliding into the backseat of the Impala. Macy smiled, "She's got herself a boyfriend."
"What are you going to be doing at a junk yard?" Sam asked turning to face Charlie.
"Crushing Barbie's car."
"You weren't kidding when you said you were taking it to the junk yard?" Dean smiled back at her in the rearview.
"I don't say stuff just for fun of saying it. I mean what I say." Charlie smiled leaning up against the back of the seat.
Exactly 12 minutes later, the two cars pulled into the dusty drive of the junk yard and saw a few other cookie-cutter cars. Charlie looked at them and instantly recognized one of them as Dylan's car.
"Yeah, I kinda…" Macy shrugged, "called Pam and told her that she could have her car back." She giggled as they all walked further into the junk yard where Erwin was standing arguing with Pam.
"Got your camera Mace?" Charlie smirked pulling her own camera out and started to capture video as they continued to Erwin.
"Do you really think I'd forget it on this unforgettable day?" Macy giggled again as Sly put his arms around her from behind.
"You cannot crush that car it is mine!" Pam screeched pointing at the pink car just waiting to be crushed into a little cube.
"Do you have the pink slip to that car?" Erwin yelled back getting to his boiling point with the young girl.
"No! But that is my car! Someone…stole the pink slip out…" Pam continued to yell.
"Pam! Stop it! This is a lesson remember! I'm sure Mom will find out and send another car down here shortly. Just this time, don't be puttin' the pinks on the line." Dylan yelled at Pam in a harsh undertone with his right arm in a sling.
Erwin rolled his eyes and looked beyond Pam to see: Charlie, Dean, Sam, Macy, and Sly. "Just the girl I wanted to see. Are you ready to get this done?" he asked
"Yeah, crush away!" Charlie smiled widely.
Dean stood behind her and was totally enthralled by any movement she made. 'Man, I'm gonna miss seeing her everyday … Maybe … Nah … She wouldn't … Would she?' He thought and pondered seriously over and over in his mind.
"1!...2!…3!" Charlie and Macy loudly counted down as Erwin smiled with his thumb hoovered over the big green button that was just waiting to be pushed. "Wooooooo!" the pair of friends cheered as the machinery started to work and got closer to the pink plastic piece of crap.
"Nooooooo!" Pam yelled dropping to her knees crying. "Why?"
"Get up, you spoiled brat." Dylan said pulling her up to her feet.
The plastic started to crack and splinter everywhere and the windshield was smashed down onto the front seat. The breaking of the glass was instantly followed by more of Pam's annoying howl-like whimpering. Then the sound that Charlie has been waiting for the bending of the frame as the machine pushed the vehicle enough to cause it to curl up onto itself.
"That's all there is to show." Erwin smiled glad that the whimpering blond will soon be out of his junk yard.
Charlie dug the Barbie car's keys out of her pocket, "Hey Pam! Here you go. You can have these. I have no need for them." she tossed the keys to Pam.
"Arrrrggggghhhhh!" Pam screeched after she caught the keys and then stomped her feet rushing by Charlie. She stopped when she reached Dylan's car. "Let's go, Dylan! Today!"
Dylan laughed, "Uhh, I'm sorry about up there at Piney Prospect. I didn't know what was going to happen. If I had known before hand that I in turn would have 'killed' you too, I would never have done that. I'm sorry."
"How'd you know what was going to happen?" Charlie asked.
"Dean, he told me what had happened…before with Fanny and Peter. Again, I'm sorry." he sighed.
"DYLAN!" Pam yelled honking his car horn.
"Like I said I'm sorry." Dylan said with a nod then left.
"Macy, let's go. We got things to do." Sly smiled turning her to face him.
"Alright, see ya around guys. Later Char." Macy smiled, then the couple left.
"So it looks like I'm going to be needing a ride into town." Charlie smiled at Dean and Sam; mostly at Dean though.
Dean looked to Sam, who was confused by the look that his older brother was giving him; then he looked back at Charlie. "No."
Charlie laughed lightly through her confusion. "What? No, I don't ride into town?"
"Yep, that's right." Dean smiled.
"Why do I not need a ride into town?" Charlie asked crossing her arms, kind of getting pissed.
Dean smiled and looked over to the still very confused Sam and back at the now pissed Charlie, "Because you have the chance to come with us. To write our next 'article'." he bit on the side of his lip looking into her eyes.
"N…N-No. I can't. I have school to finish and I just started. I…" Charlie started.
"So take an early spring break." Dean pulled his back with a sexy smile that Charlie easily read as 'I know I'm going to get my way'.
Charlie shifted her weight from foot to foot a bit, looking between the brothers. "You…you don't play fair."
"I'm a Winchester. We don't play by the rules." he stepped closer to her.
Sam laughed under his breath and turned back to walk to the Impala shaking his head.
"No Dean, I…I can't…do that." Charlie said in a normal voice that turned to a whisper as he stepped closer and closer to her. "I…I have school and,… and…"
Dean smiled knowing that he finally got her all flustered and bothered. "And what else is holding you here?" he leaned in closely to her. "Because I won't be here."
Charlie opened and closed her mouth to speak, but no sound came out as she was too flustered by this very handsome and confident man. Then of all times her phone rang again.
"Are you gonna get that?" Dean smirked as he got even closer to her.
Charlie looked up into his green eyes that in the morning sunlight were specked with gold near the edges of his irises.
"No." she nodded firmly. Both leaned into one another and kissed softly. "I might need another reason to go along." Charlie nodded as she pulled away from him breathlessly with her hands smoothed out across his upper chest.
"Okay…" he started catching his breath, "How about because you would miss me and I don't want you to worry too much about me?" he smirked.
"You are too conceited, Mr. Winchester." Charlie smiled with flushed cheeks.
"And you Butterfly are too pretty." Dean smiled genuinely.
"Damn right, I'm too pretty." Charlie pulled back and put her hands on her hips. "Too pretty for you."
Dean laughed and wrapped his arm around her shoulder, then started back to the Impala. "So what do ya say? Wanna join the adventure on your early spring break?" Dean asked while he thought to himself. 'Please say yes. Please say yes. Please say yes.'
'I want to, but…I could switch over and do my schooling on the road…maybe?…Umm, I don't know!' she was weighing out the options in her head.
"Don't have all day." he stopped and leaned against the front of the Impala as he looked at her with a look that damn near tempted her to…well, you know…jump him, but she normally isn't that type of girl.
'Damn, he's so freaking hot.' She fidgeted with her hands inside the pockets of her jacket, "…Sure, but I need to get some stuff first." she smiled biting on her lip. "So I'm going to need a ride into town anyway."
Dean pulled her close to him and smiled, then leaned in a kissed her again longer and deeper than before.
"Oh please! I know, we just ate a decent breakfast and all, but I don't want to see it again." Sam complained sitting shotgun.
"Let's get this show on the road." Dean smiled as they both got into the Impala.
They stopped off at the dorm hall and Charlie quickly got some stuff together for on the road. Within the hour, the Winchesters and Charlie were headed off to St. Louis, Missouri. Sam looked more into the arrest of his friend as much has he could. While Dean and Charlie would steal glances at each other in the rearview and both would either laugh under their breath or giggle (BTW men so do giggle!) and look away as they all listened to some classic rock station playing in the background with all the windows down, hugging the curves of the road doing about 80 mph.
A/N - That's it! That's the ending of this story! Hope that you love it as much as I had fun writing it! Thanks for reading my story!
Dedicated to 'Charlene D.' well because it's her character!