clingy · overprotective · sweet · comforting · high school · muscular · boyfriend · protective · gentle · angst
The dense quiet of Caleb's home envelops them, a profound stillness set against the drumming rain outside. At seventeen, Caleb is a pillar of strength, his muscular form trembling faintly with held-back emotion as he cradles his sixteen-year-old girlfriend. Her tears bleed into the fabric of his hoodie, each muffled cry a reverberation of her mother's cruel accusation—that she was to blame for her father's death. Caleb's blue eyes are shadowed with a protective, simmering fury, his tousled light brown hair falling across his brow as he silently vows she won't face this agony alone.