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Caleb pulled out his phone, scrolling through his Instagram feed until his eyes practically popped out of his head at the sight of Ofelia’s latest picture. He would be an idiot not to realize that his best friend was one of the most beautiful girls he’d ever seen, and he had to gape at the picture for a few seconds before he could form any words.

“Uh... I don’t think you look like Satan. But like, too hot to be legal? That might be a lot closer,” Caleb admitted, quickly shutting his phone screen off before he started so much that he made things awkward.

Caleb stood behind Ofelia, a hand resting on her shoulder as she scrolled through Facebook pictures. It had been a few weeks since the babies had been born, and Kenzi and Cobie were busy -- understandably so. But he got Ofelia’s annoyance, too, and he would never tell her that her feelings were wrong. Everything about this, from Cobie telling Bailey about the baby before Ofelia, to her having to find out during an honesty hour that they were engaged... The past few months had kind of put Ofelia on the outside, and he was the one person trying really hard to make sure she still felt like she was the most important to somebody.

“Are you sure you want to block them? I mean, the babies are pretty cute, and they should be growing into their shark onesies that I gave them soon, so I bet there’ll be pictures,” Caleb reminded her, his hand going from squeezing her shoulder to absentmindedly playing with her hair as Ofelia scrolled through the pics. She seemed to calm down enough to leave blocking them for another day, though, and Caleb went to find her favorite movie and a glass of wine, trying to take her mind off the fact that the proof she’d been replaced by her best friend had been right there on her screen just a few minutes before. 

Send me a ship and I’ll tell you:

who the fuck put the peeps in the microwave: Is this even a question? Unless Ofelia is in a weird mood where she wants to act like a commoner this is totally Caleb lol. 

who forgot to put the cat outside before sex: Caleb probably forgot to put the DOG out and Ofelia yells at him to make sure the dog goes outside. 

who posts vines of the other doing embarrassing shit: Neither, Ofelia doesn’t let anyone see her doing anything embarrassing besides Caleb so he’s not gonna jeopardize that by showing it to the world, and Ofelia doesn’t want the world to see how much of a loser she’s dating :-p 

who breaks the most phones: Ofelia probably breaks hers on purpose so she can get a better newer model lol 

who dies first: Caleb probably gets eaten by a shark and Ofelia just moves into the Davenport mansion while she mourns ll 

which one I could see as being lactose intollerant: idk if anyone’s actually lactose intolerant but I could see Ofelia trying to instate soy milk in their home instead r something because she thinks Caleb gets too gassy from real milk

who thinks they can do something really well even though they can’t: Caleb doesn’t actually think he’s that good at stuff but he jokingly talks himself up a lot and then Ofelia can laugh at him when he does something embarrassing 

who is more likely to get kicked out of the bed: Neither, Ofelia would be more likely to do it but like she knows Caleb has shitty history with Candice so she wouldn’t. 

Caleb held his phone back from his ear as Ofelia practically shouted into it. He knew that she’d gone out with Cobie, one of her first outing’s post-pregnancy, and he could only imagine all the girls letting loose and having a good time. He’d picked up the phone expecting Ofelia to be drunk and needing a ride home, not expecting this. “Um, O? You know you called Caleb, right? Not Danny or David or Cam or... you know, whoever,” Caleb asked, his heart hammering against his ribcage as he rattled off the names of all the other guys who he’d watched moon over Ofelia since he’d joined Mystery Inc. 

But she repeated into the phone that of course she knew it was him, and Caleb didn’t know what to do. She was just drunk, right? She didn’t actually think they were perfect for each other, she couldn’t possibly. If Ofelia had really felt that way, she’d had every chance to tell him before... Swallowing hard, Caleb tried to brush it off, acting like it was less than his head was making it. “You girls totally couldn’t handle it if I was there for the party too, I’m too fun -- I didn’t want to overshadow Cobie on her big night,” he teased, then added, “Call me if you need a ride home later, though.” 

This was quite possibly the worst thing Caleb had ever considered doing in his life. Bailey J had just broken up with him, accusing him of spending more time caring about his roommate’s feelings than hers. He swore up and down they were just friends, that he’d have taken this much care of anyone that he was close to and that Ofelia was just a little more high maintenance than most, but all his explanations (or excuses) had fallen on deaf ears, and now he was alone. And despite the fact that he’d sworn he’d find a way to prove it to Bailey that he wanted to fix things and make things work between the two of them...

His chest hurt, from feeling like he was losing people. Every time Caleb tried, it seemed like it always turned out he couldn’t keep both of them in his life -- he was going to have to choose one or the other. And could he ever really give Ofelia up? Or was it time to stop pretending that he hadn’t been half in love with her before he’d decided to commit to somebody else instead?

Caleb looked down at his feet, feeling guilty even though everyone else had assured him this wasn’t his fault. Ofelia wanted to leave; there was nothing he could do to stop her from packing her bags and moving to New York, no matter how much he wanted to. Still, it made him sick to his stomach to hear her putting words in his mouth -- to know that she thought that he was trying to chase her away, when that was the last thing in the world he ever would have wanted.

“O, that’s not true!” he exclaimed, frustrated. He knew there was no sense trying to disagree with her at times like this, but he couldn’t let her just walk out when there was so much to say. He couldn’t let her move away thinking that he didn’t care when he did, more than even he seemed to realize.

“I didn’t even know there was anything to end! You never said anything until you were already gone,” Caleb reminded her, his chest puffing out and then retracting as he tried to take a deep breath to steady himself. It came out sounding more like a sad sigh, though; he didn’t want Ofelia to go, but he didn’t know how to make her stay. “I never wanted... hurting you, making you feel like you couldn’t be here. All I ever wanted was for you to be happy, and instead it’s like the total opposite.”