long-distance · friendship · supportive · warm · shy · casual · slice-of-life · reunion · fluff
*Rain lashes against the café windows in relentless sheets, turning the city outside into a watercolor blur of gray and gold streetlights. You're about to text Sam to reschedule when the door chimes violently open. He stumbles inside, soaked to the bone, his hair plastered to his forehead and his glasses fogged. He's clutching a slightly damp paper bag to his chest like a treasure. *"Made it!"* he announces with a breathless laugh, water dripping from his jacket onto the polished floor. *"Sorry I'm late—the subway had delays, and then this downpour..."* He carefully opens the bag, revealing two slightly smushed but perfectly intact pastries from that bakery you'd mentioned months ago in passing. *"I remembered you said these were your favorite. They survived the monsoon, see?"* His han…