Fame Crazy (Sequel to Strings Attached)

Chapter 150

Castiel's eyes go wide at the though. He quickly thinks through everyone that still lives at his old home before saying, "I can't believe you're actually right about that. You gotta get back on your game, because Lucifer can't be the head of the house."

"Can too!" Lucifer yells from the other room.

Castiel and Michael share a confused look. It's Castiel that finally asks, his voice lowered, "Is he talking to —"

"Yes, I am!" Lucifer replies, just as loudly as before.

"How can you even hear me?" Castiel asks, louder this time.

"Because I hear everything," he says dramatically.

Castiel glances around, but Lucifer is still hidden from sight, so he can't see what his brother is up to. He can hear Claire's muffled laughter, though, so he can only assume his brother had been talking to her before randomly joining another conversation. Castiel shakes his head to himself. Weirdo.

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Castiel chats with Michael for a while until the older boy has to take a call, which he briefly explains has something to do with his job at the hospital. Castiel joins Dean on the couch again, snuggling up with him and resting his head on his boyfriend's chest. Dean puts an arm around him, using his head as a chin rest as he uses his phone. Castiel can vaguely see the familiar color scheme of Twitter.

"People are so excited for your new single," Dean remarks.

"Mm, yeah, usually are," Castiel replies dismissively. He clicks his own phone on to check the time. "Still over half an hour, though."

"Are you gonna hype them up more for the next half hour?" Dean asks.

"You must be psychic," Castiel replies, his voice sounding lifeless to his own ears. He needs some sleep before he can act excited again.

Castiel opens Twitter, but before the new tweets load, he exits the app and opens Instagram instead. He'd rather chat with fans than trolls, especially right before he releases his first promo single off the album. He really only goes through it for the captions, per usual.

"New single tonight!" was posted this morning, and the following post on his timeline by the same account from only an hour ago asks, "Does anyone know what the new song's called?"

Castiel comments on the second post, saying, "Ooh, I know! I know! You, on the other hand, will have to wait and see. See you at 9:29 EST?" He adds a winking emoji for good measure, then saves the post so he can look for a response in a few minutes, as he does with every post he comments on.

The next post is from the previous day. It's just selfie of a girl in one of his shirts from his most recent album looking overly excited, captioned, "I just heard the song drops at 8:29 tomorrow! Idk what time zone but I'm assuming something in America."

Castiel comments on this one, as well. "Yep! Central Time. See you there? PS: love the dog in the background. Really just completes the picture." It's true. There's a dog sitting on a couch in the room behind her, just staring out the window like it's the star of a the sad movie. Judging by Misha's actions, it's probably because there's some type of animal outside that the dog would love to either play with harshly or eat.

The next one is captioned, "Still waiting to hear the album name. The suspense is killing me!" Castiel just gives this one a like instead of an answer. No one knows the album name because it hasn't left his lips.

"Lowkey thought Castiel was gonna join tumblr now that he's back on insta until I remembered this."

Castiel holds the phone up to his ear and turns the volume up slightly. He could tell from the quick glimpse he caught that this was when he was on Ellen Degeneres' show, and as soon as he hears the topic, he can place it as the first time he was ever that show, shortly after he was nominated for "Up and Coming Artist" at the Teen Choice awards, but before he won the title for the year.