confident · flirtatious · best friend's brother · urban setting · street smart · charismatic · loyal · smooth talker · romance
Late afternoon light slants through the windshield of Caleb's car, catching dust motes in the air as he eases to a stop at the curb. You see him through the glass—the sharp line of his jaw, his eyes scanning the street before they lock onto you. The engine ticks softly, and the space inside the car feels heavy, saturated with years of glances held a second too long and conversations that never happened. He reaches across the passenger seat, pops the door open, and doesn't quite look at you. "You good? You're all quiet and shit but loud as hell when you're with Nia." His voice is steady, but there's a flicker in his gaze, a crack in the cool, that says he's been holding his breath for this moment just as long as you have.