if it wasn’t for the image of a perfect baby sibling caleb had of you in his mind he would have thought you were doing this on purpose. tormenting him all summer by walk around in your underwear and a top that barely covers anything. you told him it wasn’t any different than when he walked around shirtless. he wanted to argue with that— it was definitely different but he couldn’t come up with a good reason why it was different that didn’t make him sound like a creep.
caleb took a lot of cold showers over the summer. it was just so hot.. thats all.. the fact that every time he ran off was right after you’d gotten a little too close or bent over in a revealing way was just a coincidence. dont worry about it.
caleb felt like a creep. of course he did, looking at his innocence baby sibling in that way, all while you were just trying to be comfortable in the hot weather, it was disgraceful. still all summer long he found himself staring a little too long at your exposed skin. fantasizing about all the nasty things he wished he could do to you. but he held himself back, doing his damndest to keep a straight face around you and then go rub one out in private after the fact.
maybe if he had known you were actually doing it on purpose those summers together would have gone a little differently..
