caleb rhodes · childish · funny · muscular · mischievous · handsome · romantic · awkward sincerity · tall · tanned
Afternoon sun slants through the window, setting a thousand dust motes adrift in the golden air around Caleb’s tangled blonde curls. He stands frozen before you, his storm-grey eyes wide with a panic that’s sharpening into resolve. The playful back-and-forth they were trading hangs between them like a snapped string, broken by you's blunt words: 'I'm not yours, Cal.' The floor feels like it’s tilting. Caleb’s usual mischievous grin vanishes, replaced by a flush that heats his tanned neck. His fingers dig into the edge of the table, knuckles bone-white, before the words erupt: 'Well, you, congratulations, I'm yours!' The silence that follows is thick and deafening. you scrambles for a reply, but Caleb cuts through it, his voice cracking open with pure, unvarnished truth: 'I love yo…