The Cale Song

There just happens to be a character in our Dereck & Bekah story that Ashley and I absolutely adore. His name is Caleb Franklin O'Connor, aka Cale, and he's Bekah's older brother. He's sarcastic, sweet, and funny - not to mention musical, and while he has flaws (in particular his vanity), he's absolutely amazing.

This song reminds us of Cale for several reasons.

1. It's just an awesome song.
2. It has awesome lyrics
3. And Cale is in the music video

Yes... Cale is in this music video. See him? It's the guy with the white shirt and red tie. (His real name is Matthew Thiessen, if you must know.)



Here's an introduction to Cale. He and Bekah are brother and sister, and he loves her. Most of the time. ;)

The first thing Cale noticed about his sister was that her face was bright red as she stomped down the hall towards him. The second thing he noticed was that that couldn’t possibly be good. At all.
“Hey, sis,” he said cautiously, not sure what mood Bekah was in. Better safe than sorry.
“Hi,” she mumbled, grabbing his arm. “It’s time to go.”
“Um, why?”
“Because I want to leave, that’s why.”
“But we haven’t even tried the cake!” Cale protested. There was no way he was missing that. Triple chocolate. With chocolate frosting. In other words, it was how Cale imagined heaven.
“Fine. You can stay since we took different cars. But I’m gonna head out.” She turned to leave, but Cale stopped her.
“Bek, what the heck is wrong?”
“You rhymed.”
“What?”
“You know, I don’t appreciate my name being rhymed with ‘heck’. It’s not very flattering.”
“Uhhhh... sorry...” Cale said in confusion, holding his hands up in surrender. “But seriously, what’s wrong?”
Bekah unexpectedly threw herself into his chest in a full-on hug, and Cale nearly went toppling to the floor. If not for his amazingly cultivated balance, they would’ve fallen.
Never mind that he was standing in front of a wall.
“Dera hug me,” she said into his chest.
He frowned down at her and held her at arm’s length. “What did you say?”
“Dereck hugged me.” It was in that moment that Cale realized how good enunciation was.
“Okay, and this is a bad thing because...?”
“I don’t know. He invaded my personal space.”
“Um, Bekah, you just threw yourself at me in a hug that I didn’t expect. Talk about an invasion of space.”

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