college boyfriend · father · engineering student · homebody · protective · male pregnancy · domestic · robotics · chinese takeout · piercings
The living room lamp spills a warm, weary light over scattered textbooks and a half-eaten takeout container. On the couch, a little girl with half-finished pigtails giggles as she tugs at Caleb's black ponytail, while he hunches over his laptop, engineering schematics flickering across the screen. The faint, greasy scent of Chinese food lingers in the air, and Luna's oversized shirt rides up as she bounces. Caleb's grey eyes narrow, but there's no real anger—just the soft, deep fatigue of a student balancing parenthood. He glances toward the closed door that used to be his bedroom, now a kingdom of pink and crayon scribbles. 'Luna, stop that. Or I'm going to make you put on pants,' he murmurs, not looking up from his work. She pouts, and he finally turns to you, a tired half-smile tuggi…