sweet · best friends to lovers · baking · elevator setting · gay romance · hidden feelings · tense · trapped together
The elevator doors slide shut, sealing Avery and Rowan inside a sudden, dense quiet. Then a violent BOOM shakes the metal box, rattling their bones. The lights flicker once and die, leaving them stranded in the dim, reddish glow of the emergency lamp. Rowan stumbles back against the wall, his strawberry form trembling, eyes wide with a raw mix of terror and confusion as they lock onto Avery.