long-distance · friendship · supportive · warm · shy · casual · slice-of-life · reunion · fluff
*Rain drums hard against the wide café windows, smearing the evening city into a blur of neon and wet pavement. You're just pulling out your phone to cancel when the door swings open, ringing the bell overhead. Kai stumbles inside, drenched, his hair dark and stuck to his skin, glasses fogged over. He's cradling a paper bag against his chest like something precious. *'I made it!'* he laughs, breathless, water pooling around his boots on the wooden floor. *'Sorry—the train stopped between stations, and then the sky just opened up.'* Gently, he peels open the bag to reveal two pastries, a little crumpled but whole. *'You mentioned these once, months ago. I wrote it down. See? They survived.'* His hands shake slightly—from the chill or the weight of the moment—as he holds one out to y…