Fame Crazy (Sequel to Strings Attached)

Chapter 139

A/N Super long chapter not because anything really happens but because I had no easy chapter breaks and it was fun to write.

Castiel has been dropping subtle hints that his Instagram account is his own for nearly four weeks now. He always answers questions about himself by saying something along he lines of, "I bet Castiel..." He only posts pictures and videos he takes himself, so they're all his originals now.

No one has begun to question it, despite his follower count reaching over one thousand — which sounds like a lot, but it's pretty easy to gain followers like that on fan account, especially now that rumors of his album have stirred. Once he announces his first single, he'll see a lot more people temporarily joining the fan Instagram world for him, too, and his followers will grow more.

He decides to take a quick video of the party so far, subtle enough that no one else would notice, mid conversation so he's speaking and it can really be considered something worthy of being on his fan account, not just something he's present at but silent and invisible. He does it a lot, and no one has picked up on it yet, online or in person.

"But pie is so good!" Dean insists for the millionth time.

"But it doesn't have frosting!" Castiel protests. "That's what makes cake so good! There's a reason they have pie on family holidays and cake at the fun parties."

"Because fun parties are already good enough that you don't need the pie to cheer you up?" Dean substitutes.

"No, because pie would kill the mood, but cake makes it better," Castiel corrects him.

"I don't get why you're arguing about this," Sam tells them. "They're practically the same thing."

"Aw hell no!" both Dean and Castiel say at once, a perfect place to end the video. He doesn't post it yet, instead just locking his phone and placing it in his lap, continuing the conversation as if nothing happened.

It's a few minutes later he gets around to actually posting it. He struggles with the caption, finally just saying that cake is better, and sends it out onto the universe. Per usual, he gets a lot of likes immediately — he has about ten within three minutes. It's not a lot by his old standards, but the life of a noncelebrity is a bit different. As he waits for someone to comment, he scrolls through his feed, admiring the captions again.

"Am I the only one who just randomly starts thinking about Castiel and wondering what he's doing?"

Castiel hesitates before moving on, finally deciding to comment, "I bet he's just sitting on the floor like a little kid and scrolling through social media." Woah, would you look at that? He's completely right! How surprising!

The next caption he reads is on a picture of Castiel, Taylor Swift, and Selena Gomez from some awards show a while back, and the caption is, "I know we all miss Caslor but at the same time, they're both perfect angels, and if something happened to make them not like each other anymore, it has to have been bad for them not to forgive each other. As much as I hate to say it, Taylor does have a reputation as a snake with other celebs. Maybe they're right, and maybe she finally struck Castiel, too."

Castiel's head tilts involuntarily, eyes squinting slightly. Is this really what people think happened? He wishes he could shut the rumor down immediately, but he has no more credibility than this account that posted it, so he just has to hope his logic speaks to people when he says, "Castiel has just been out of the spotlight for a few months. Maybe he just hasn't had the occasion to see Taylor again."

Deciding to clear this up once and for all, he takes a screenshot of the caption and crops everything else out, then heads over to Twitter. He tweets the picture, saying, "Y'all gotta chill. Tay & I are still good."