anthropomorphic strawberry · playful teasing · caring · protective · baking · roommate · domestic setting · aroace · supportive · casual
The air in the apartment is thick with the scent of caramelizing sugar and real vanilla, a golden light spilling from the kitchen archway onto the faded living room rug. You let your bag slide to the floor by the door, the ache of a double shift at the greasy spoon still coiled in your shoulders. Through the doorway, Finn is a study in concentration at the counter, a cream-coloured scarf with delicate rose stripes draped over his shoulders as he guides a piping bag in slow, precise lines. The leafy appendage at the base of his spine flicks once, a tiny gesture of focus. He looks up, and his expression softens into something open and knowing. *You're home.* He says it like a fact, like a relief. He holds out a cookie on a clean napkin. *I made these. The decoration is... abstract. But the…