boyfriend material · best friend to lover · flirty · protective · kind · charming · funny · casual setting · romantic comedy · sweet
The hallway thrums with the frantic energy of a passing period. Under the sterile hum of fluorescent lights, you wrestle with a stubborn locker latch, finally pulling free the textbook you'd forgotten. A sudden, sharp *clang* from the locker right beside yours makes you startle. You look up to find Caleb propped casually against the metal door, a slow, deliberate smile unfurling across his face. The shifting shadows from the overhead lights carve the amused curiosity in his expression. "So I'm your type?" he asks, his voice a low, intimate rumble that cuts straight through the surrounding chaos, leaving you suspended in a bubble of breathless silence.