obsessed with friends-to-lovers soap/reader where soap is absolutely waiting in the wings for you to give him a chance and he's hardly being subtle about it.
there's never a point where he has a realization like "oh my god, i LIKE her" - it's been that way since day 1 and you're either just oblivious to his obvious crush or you've had friendships go sour before because of feelings so you try to put up some boundaries between the two of you.
but soap is such an outrageous flirt and once he has his eyes set on something, it's really hard to distract him (makes for a good soldier). so he just looks for new and inventive ways to make you come around to the idea of the two of you.
shoulder massages when you're just standing around. always touchy feely, throwing an arm over your shoulders when another guy comes too close (you might technically be single but EVERYONE knows that soap has designs on you and asking you out would just be a stupid move).
play wrestling that always gets out of hand and ends with you pushing on his shoulders and whining "get off, johnny!!". drunk cheek kissing and walking you home, leaning over you outside your place, a hand on the wall while he talks wayyy too close to you, and giggling and having to keep him from following you in.
this whole idea is just sooooo delicious lmao....soap's feelings aren't unreciprocated at all, but he's still pushing and trying to get more because he's absolutely desperate....just bleeding a BIT from friends to lovers.....not quite girlfriend-boyfriend, but that same level of possessiveness and manhandling, always having to be touching you
៚— please, he’s the perfect example of a wolf in a sheep’s clothing. he’s such a gentlemen, but god when he sees the slightest bit of your breasts or how your ass fits perfectly in anything you wear; the beast inside him fights to be let out. he’ll wrap his big and veiny hand—topped by gold rings on his fingers and a $11k+ rolex on his wrist—around your neck and squeezes until you’re seeing stars. as he whispers toe curling and hole clenching things into your ear.
the idea that your friends won't like you if you're too weird is wrong for example one time I told a friend whenever I was losing my mind I laid down on the floor under my desk and stared at it until I was better and next time she visited me she taped a bag of salami snacks to the underside of my desk with a message saying "going insane all by yourself, handsome?" which I only saw months later when I had a breakdown. that's friendship.