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According to google Fontina, Gruyere and Gouda are good kinds of cheeses for fondue so that's the first thing Castiel packs into his cart in the grocery store. Gabriel has invited himself over for dinner and for one reason or another cheese fondue is on the menu for tonight. He leaves the cart as he walks over to the bread section. Coming back with a delicious selection of sourdough levain - if he may say so himself - he finds his cart missing.
On second glance not missing per say, but it's moved across the isle from where he's sure he left it and is now also containing bacon and ground beef, something Castiel knows he didn't put in there. As he's looking into the cart, questioning what to do a man (who is ridiculously gorgeous which makes Castiel trying to interact in a reasonable manner all that more difficult) strides up, gives Castiel a strange look, puts another couple of items in the cart and walks off with said cart.
Preferring to avoid unnecessary conflict, Castiel just looks as the unfairly attractive cart napper walks away with his cheese. Maybe it wasn't even Castiel's cart. Maybe the man had gotten the exact same cheese as Castiel and he just misremembered where he left his cart after all. Totally plausible.
Although with another look around Castiel finds a cart close to where he originally left his own with nothing but cheddar, Gouda and Havarti in it. Feeling relatively confident this is in fact the unfairly attractive cart napping strangers original cart Castiel decides to just start over. He loads the bread in a new cart and goes back to the cheese section. Once it's packed in the new cart he goes off to find peanut butter and jelly.
Much to his surprise, once he's returning to his cart with parts of his next PB&J (they even had the grape jelly), unfairly attractive cart napper is standing by Castiel's new cart, looking like he's ready to walk off with it once again. Once was enough, besides this time he can't replenish the wares in his cart as easily.
“Stop stealing my cart! That's the last of my favorite sourdough and you can't have it!” He hurries to catch unfairly attractive cart nappers attention before he can yeet off again.
“What?” Unfairly attractive cart napper says with a very confused look on his (adorably freckled) face.
“That's my cart. Stop stealing it!” This would have been a perfectly reasonable place to stop talking but for some unfathomable reason Castiel keeps going. “Your ridiculously good looks may have gotten me flustered enough to let you get away with it once but that cart contains the last piece of my favorite sourdough and you can't have it!”
“Oh shit, did I take the wrong cart? You're right, this isn't even close to what I put in mine. I'm so sorry.”
“Yes, twice!”
“What?”
“Your cart, formerly known as my first cart, is over there.” Castiel points. “You may want to look at the cheese though cause there was some overlap but not the same altogether.”
“Oh wow, sorry. I'm just coming off the night shift and haven't slept. I'm knackered. I'm not making excuses just, you know, honest mistake. I thought I left my cart here and I guess I wasn't really paying attention.”
“Well alright, just, don't steal my cart a third time please.”
“Promise I wont.” Unfairly attractive cart napper says and gives Castiel a look.
Castiel is about to walk away to finish his shopping when the other man continues.
“Sooo you think I'm attractive, huh?”
“I believe my exact words were ridiculously attractive. But yes. I would think most people would agree with me.” Castiel answers somewhat flustered.
“So can I make up stealing your cart twice by making you home cooked bacon cheeseburgers? I have most of the ingredients but I think I got the wrong cheese.” Unfairly attractive cart napper asks.
“Uhm, yes, maybe?” Castiel answers more than somewhat flustered.
“I'll tell you what. I'll give you my number and let you think it over. And text me if you want, no pressure. I'm Dean by the way”
“Hello Dean, I'm Castiel.” He answers as he takes a ripped of piece of paper from unfairly attractive cart napper's Dean's shopping list with a phone number hastily scribbled down on it.
Castiel decides to take Dean up on the offer. After all he loves burgers and Dean is as previously stated, unfairly attractive. And he seemed nice enough after he stopped accidentally stealing Castiel's carts. If they don't click no harm done.
As it turns out they do click, really well. Dean's burgers are fantastic and in the end Castiel even shares his hard-gotten sourdough bread with him. They both think it's delicious.