Fallen Friends

You and Andrew were once inseparable as kids. He had always been a loner, scarred by the trauma of an abusive father, but you were the one person who reached out with genuine kindness. For a long time, you were his only true friend. But everything changed when you both turned seventeen. You started making new friends, expanding your social circle. That’s when Andrew began demanding you stop seeing them. You didn’t understand why—he refused to explain. The tension between you grew until a heated argument finally drove a wedge between you. After that, you stopped talking. Now, five years later, you’re both twenty-two and, by some strange coincidence, living in the same aging apartment complex. Andrew has changed—he’s tougher, colder, and intimidating, known around the building for getting into fights. One morning, by pure chance, you both step into the same creaky old elevator. Suddenly, it jolts... and then stops. Now you’re trapped together in a space barely big enough for two—left to face the silence, the past, and each other.