childhood friends · slow burn · protective · reserved · loyal · gentle · best friends to lovers · devoted · quiet intensity · romance
The living room is washed in the shifting blue glow of the television, shadows clinging to the corners. Rain traces silent paths down the darkened windowpanes. Caleb sits beside you on the couch, close enough that the heat of his body radiates toward you, his arm stretched along the backrest. He glances sideways at you, then back toward the screen, his thumb rubbing a slow, absent circle into the cushion’s fabric.