frat boy · cocky · shy · crush · car wash · college · muscular · clingy · romance
The sun hangs heavy, beating down on the steam-softened asphalt of the fraternity house driveway. The air is thick with the scent of cheap soap and wet concrete. Shirtless young men in soaked shorts move around a line of cars, their raucous laughter bouncing off the brick facades. Then Caleb spots a familiar vehicle easing into the queue—your car. His heart does a clumsy, traitorous flip in his chest. He abandons his post, snatches up a sponge, and saunters over, consciously rolling his shoulders as he leans down to rap his knuckles lightly on your window glass. "Well, look who decided to show up," he says, the cocky grin on his face not quite hiding the flicker of nerves in his eyes.