omg! continuation of the roomate!caleb x non-mc at the DAA scenario
roommate!caleb who gets jealous when you have a guy over for a group project, so he obnoxiously keeps walking out of his room and into the living room and makes noise in the kitchen while cooking. and he keeps interrupting you periodically with questions like “hey do you want chicken or beef?”, “any allergies?” “do you like tomatoes?” “anyone want coffee?”. and when you confront him later he just shrugs and goes, “what, i was being a welcoming host”
roommate!caleb who stares longingly when you get dressed up in a pretty dress for a first date with that guy from your group project. he’s speechless when you nervously ask him how you look because he thinks you’re just oh so beautiful, but he’s too scared to cross that line and ruin the friendship he has with you.
roommate!caleb who’s hands tremble when you ask him to help you clasp your necklace. you catch his gaze in the mirror and you both just stare at each other, wishing the other would say something to stop you from going on that date.
roommate!caleb who doesn’t know you’re only going on that date because you’re trying to get over him, thinking he only sees you as a friend.
do we think caleb will finally get the courage to confess? or is the bracelet gonna stay a friendship bracelet? 😭😂 (i love mildly torturing caleb lmaoo)
No, wait, because listen Nonnie, you are absolutely cooking!!!!
I want to preface this by saying that the Roommate AU takes place as a Modern AU too and I originally planned them working separately in different fields. But! BUTTTTTTT!!! I just recently watched the first Top Gun Movie and it reminded me so much of Caleb (obvi) and I had this idea:
It's doesnt even begin in you having dates and the awkward silence hovering in the air, it's what actually went down BEFORE.
It started when you both qualified in DAA's Special Fighter Pilot Program. This program consist of several other pilots from different organizations. All the best of the best. Obviously they sent you, Caleb and Gideon.
Roommate! Caleb , prodigy, boy genius, and an innate fighter at heart, of course, excels in the class. This not only gets him academic and performance recognition, but, he is, THE man. Him and Gideon become the tag team that eats everyone up. And you... You're doing the best you can to catch up.
Roommate! Caleb who comes with you and Gideon to the Airbase Pub. You are clad in your general issue uniform. But damn does Caleb make it look like a fucking fashion statement. Sure you're all in the same clothes but guess who commands eyes.
You get separated in all the socials and Caleb and Gideon find themselves surrounded by beautiful civilian club goers. For all intents and purposes, Caleb is, like all of you, just human. And all this attention and pretty ladies are a sight for sore eyes and a massive ego boost. He fails to catch you, seeing him exchanging beers with someone within the group. There is a lot of giggling and flirting that the music allowed you to hear, but you don't miss him and some girl distance themselves from the group and eventually go inside the Ladies room together. You wish you didn't see ut, wish you could bleach your eyes and forget about it. However, there is a looming feeling ij your stomach that you don't quite understand. That's bullshit because honestly you do know what it is and you have accepted long ago that you do infact, have feelings for this mf.
Roommate! Caleb that becomes someone you barely know for a while. At some point you are closer to his little sister than him. You come to a sort of acceptance that this is just how things go, you know? You don't owe each other anything, really. You are just roommates who happen to be very competent in you line of work, you became close and eventually drifted off.
"Listen, whatever happens to Gege and you, you are MY friend too and I have your back." His sister's text makes you smile. You suspect she has caught on to youe emotional constipation but doesn't force you to anything you are not ready to share.
Roommate! Caleb who is having too much fun with this popularity that even Gideon makes a face at it sometimes and just gives you a tired look.
Roommate! Caleb who finally notices you sitting alone in a booth, sipping on your drink and scrolling through your phone. He makes a way to come to you, before a familiar hand touches his shoulder and he gets dragged in a small talk. He doesn't miss the man who approaches you. He's a classmate, a representative from another organization and is in the same program. He doesn't miss the way you blush and smile. The man joins you and you genuinely seem to enjoy the conversation.
The classmate that approches you is a charming guy. Tall, good looking and a shy smile. He belongs to the more speak less, do more type of group. You never noticed how handsome he is up close. The conversation actually goes around how he admired your flight plans, and you counter how you notice how strategic and precise his flying and dogfight tactic is. You seem to observe each other a lot more than you think. You genuinely enjoy each other's company.
Roommate! Caleb who notices you and classmate guy spend a lot of time together outside of class and training. The fact that everytime he sees you, you and him are exchanging flight and simulation data, notes, and analytic analysis and it somehow pisses him off. The one time you did invite the man to your dorm rook to study and Caleb tried inserting himself, both of you basically told him that he doesn't even beed to study because he is already good enough as he is. He can't even properly hate the guy without being an asshole. Fuck.
You and Caleb had been assigned to a larger room and the bunk bed has now been two separate single bed, and he hates the way he can see you smiling as you are typing away in your phone. It's a meme you tell him, he already knows who sent it. And at some point you got irritated by all his questions that you just straight up gave him a lecture about privacy and boundaries.
"Come on, C. I don't ask you about the girls you hang out with. Mind your business." You tell him without looking up from him.
"But hey, since you wanna be up in my business, now's the right time... I need help. I need your input about what to wear for a date."
I saw a Tiktok recently saying that Sousuke Yamazaki from Free! looks like Caleb... And listen, Sousuke was one of my earliest anime husbandos if you will so.... I was thinking of him as the classmate guy hahahaha. Anyway this was not proofread, hehe
