Just always be waiting for me

“This is just you profiling. There is absolutely no way that that’s what the cards mean.” Lia was fair to question it as Cassie has background info on her.

“You asked for a reading? Also you’d have been able to tell if I was lying.” Cassie couldn’t help but be amused by the cards Lia had drawn: two of swords, the fool, and the five of pentacles.

About ten or so minutes ago, Lia had asked Cassie to do a reading on a multitude of things, the more recent one was on Lia and Michael’s relationship. Bad idea.

Damage has been dealt and Lia would rather die than let anyone find out that she asked for a reading on the two of them together. Unluckily for her Dean had walked in on them.

Lia is nothing, but quick thinking and so she found her way out because luckily Dean had walked in on them.

Dragging him to take the seat across from Cassie, Lia rests her chin on his shoulder, “Cassie’s doing readings. Do one.”

“A reading on what? It’s not like they’re real or all that accurate.” Dean watches Cassie as she shuffles the tarot cards.

Upon noticing him staring, she throws in a few tricks, “It’s just for fun and on anything really. Your future, your career, you in the present, your relationships to name a few.”

Hearing the last option presented, Dean plays along for the amusement of the other two and chooses, “Do one on our relationship.”

“Alrighty then, choose three cards.” Cassie does a perfectly practiced card spread, mimicking her mom when she would do one for her clients. The set up was an r5 relationship spread.

He picks out the first five cards in front of him, watching Cassie in a way that makes Lia just a bit sick.

Purely for the dramatic effect, Cassie turns the cards over slowly. One by one are the cards revealed:

Position one: The Hermit. Position 2: The Fool (reversed). Position 3: The Two of Cups. Position 4: The Four of Cups. Position 5: The Five of Cups.

Cassie kept a poker face, wanting to be all dramatic and all, but the cards were a bit funny as they all had a twinge of accuracy to personal events.

“The Hermit being in first position is a sign that you may need to prioritize yourself for more. Also focusing on a relationship isn’t the best idea at the moment.” Cassie holds back a laugh as she does a simple explanation.

“...What’s the point of this again?” Wanting to do this reading less and less, Dean lets out a heavy sigh.

Lia, already intrigued, urges Cassie to continue, “The Fool Reversed essentially means that the connection of your relationship was rushed and jumped the gun due to being blinded by love.”

Jumped the gun because Cassie had to yk jump on top of a guy holding a gun and then promptly go into a relationship 5 (???) minutes after.

Listing on the rest, “The Two of Cups is telling you that the relationship is very well balanced and is good at supporting one another’s emotional health. The Four of Cups is signalling that someone in the relationship is starting to grow emotionally distant though and that they are mentally checking out. It may lead to them leaving the relationship due to closing themself off emotionally. Lastly, The Five of Cups tells us you or your partner is stuck in the past. You or they are trapped in a feeling of guilt and grief. This may be the cause of what the Four of Cups was revealing.”

Dean doesn’t know how to react. How does one react when their girlfriend does a reading that says their relationship is coming to an end? He looks back at Cassie who seems to be holding back a laugh, after all the reading was just for fun and isn’t fortune telling.

“So Cassie, are you planning on breaking up with Dean or…?” Lia, ever the instigator, prodded.

Cassie shook her head giving into the need to laugh, “Obviously I’m very biased in this reading so I just used the base meanings instead of going in depth.”

“ Yet, they all fit in a very twisted way. How mean of you Cassie, tsk tsk.” Lia pretended to scold.

Meanwhile Dean is very quiet in all this, even leaving the room while the two girls joked and started a new reading on Briggs and Sterling. He knows it was a silly party trick and not real, but it got him thinking. Overthinking. It’s only been a few months since Cassie had an unwilling hand in her mom’s death, so maybe she was stuck replaying those moments. Dean has been there for her for every nightmare, every panic attack, but what if that wasn’t enough? 

Logically he knows Cassie won’t break up with him, she also hasn’t been distant like what the cards said. However, he still didn’t like the prospect of a fortune telling scam telling him that he was gonna break up with the girl he loves.

It was maybe a few hours later and Cassie hasn’t found Dean yet after he disappeared. She checked the pool, his room, and the garage, but still no Dean. She ran into Sloane as she touched base in the basement because maybe he’s there. 

“You need something Cassie?” Sloane looked up from a recreated murder scene.

Cassie continued to glance around the room, “Have you seen Dean?”

“I haven’t. I saw him in the garage an hour ago, there should be 82% chance of him still being there. If not there’s a 34% chance he’s by the fireplace, 18% chance he’s in his room, and a 48% chance he went to the bathroom when you looked into the garage.”

“Right. Thanks. I’ll go check again.” Cassie waves to a not-paying-attention Sloane and circles back to the garage.

Lo and behold, there Dean is. Bench pressing weights with his face that screams he’s overthinking.

“You okay Dean?” Cassie asked, not really because she couldn’t tell if he was upset or not, but to more or less announce her presence.

“Fine.” Dean grunts out.

Walking to take a seat beside him, Cassie prompted, “Is this about the reading from earlier?”

A bit too quickly Dean replied, “No.”

“Uh huh. You know I’m doing much better and that we’re okay right?” Cassie bites down her smile, trying to take his worries seriously.

Placing the weights back onto their rack, Dean sat up and wiped his sweat, “I know. I said I’m fine.”

“So you’re not sulking and hiding down here?” Cassie handed Dean his water bottle.

Dean took it and didn’t respond.

After some silence,  “The reading was stupid.” Dean stated, “I know it’s not real. I don’t know why I’m treating it like it is. It’s stupid- I feel stupid.”

“You know that’s not true for one. Another thing is that I love you. A card reading is not going to make or break anything. Anything I can do to cheer you up?” Cassie comforted him.

“I’ll get over it.” Dean sighed, tired from the unnecessary emotional weight he put on himself, “though I wouldn’t mind watching something with you right now. Maybe that one movie you’ve been talking about nonstop?”

“Sounds like a plan. I’ll make some popcorn, you go freshen up.” Cassie placed a kiss on Dean’s cheek before leaving the room.

“Yes ma’am.” Dean replied with a smitten smile. Wow, he is whipped for his girl.

And so the day comes to an end, Cassie and Dean are cuddled up under the covers. The most perfectly popped popcorn and freshly brewed tea to accompany them as they watch The Amazing Spiderman 2.