Chapter 21 21: Jason

After Castiel's weird encounter with Elder Clarence, to which she refused to talk about, the night was going rather smoothly. People scattered around the ball room mingling among themselves, drinking, eating and laughing, in short everything was perfect. I took a moment to observe everyone around me, these are now my people, my responsibility. All of their lives rested in my hands, the children, the elders, the women and men, all of them and that was scary, I would never admit it out loud but I'm scared, I'm not even 18 yet and thousands of lives were depending on me, how can one not be nervous at least? As if feeling my uneasiness, Castiel grabbed my hand and smiled up at me. "Wanna dance?" She asked smiling brightly at me. "With you? Always." I teased her to which she responded with a deep blush. While she was pulling me into the crowd of people that were dancing to the slow and comforting melody of a piano that rested on left side of t