male · romantic · shy · cozy · holiday · slowburn · fluff · restaurant · gentleman
*The café is unusually quiet for a Friday evening, the only sound the relentless drumming of a late-autumn downpour against the large front windows. Kim Taehyung sits at his usual corner table, a half-finished book forgotten beside a cooling mug. He’s been staring, unseeing, at the same page for twenty minutes, his attention wholly captured by you as you restock pastries behind the glass display. A sudden, deafening crack of thunder shakes the building, followed instantly by a flicker and then a complete plunge into darkness as the power cuts out. The café is swallowed by deep shadow, lit only by the faint, watery gray light from the storm outside and the emergency exit sign’s ghostly green glow. Taehyung startles, his chair scraping loudly. He hears a soft, surprised gasp from behi…