Because You Were Made For Me And No One Else

like hot cakes today!!" Mr. James exclaimed, his wrinkled face br

s, you are just saying that because you were able to get the last pizza" She said h

he pretended to be hur

re magic. Keep up the good work and in year

ed warmly at him and he returned the smile before walkin

ell of fresh bread and sugar filled the bakery and the aftern

el at home. The bell rang as a woman with two little children walked into the baker

astasia said, bending down to reach the height of t

ey both shouted

ging a bag. "Here is your delicious blueberry m

ened to be their mother thanked her "Yo

ack hurrying out with her kids leaving only the fading sound of th

nd her. A sharp metallic sound

ke was coming out of the oven, it's doors hanging half brok

muttered almost at the verge of tears. It was the wo

ar but it went straight to voicemail, his recorded message

only one who always fixes her oven even when she couldn't pay right away. She didn't have the money

to put up a smile for the next customer, but even the forced

Sp

forget his potbelly protruding out. "I had ordered cinnamon rolls for my lunch meeting today and I expect

r I am so sorry, the oven brok

voice resounded in the bakery. "I bragged about your bakery saying

laced the order for it earlier today, but she had been so busy and preoccupied attending to c

n refund your money or you can take any

hing else but stopped himself, snatched a p

e small backup oven would have to carry the bakery for the next three days until the repa

me it was her older brother Cra

ough he had been tugging it all morning. Putting on an apron he walked towards the kitchen, dro

a choice" Anastasia answered wi

onytail swinging from left to right, a packet of flour in her arms. "The line at the store was in

don't know what I would

letely hopeless wit

led, snatching a bit of do

ed, laughing. "As

d through the air and the soft smack of dough on the kitchen table eased the tig

ht" Chloe said excitedly. "we will s

re the one making the

e magic in your hands than mine" Chl

into making the rolls myself" she said, pinching Chloe

best sister in the whole world" C

you are the cutest bab

ng comments here and there. But the moment

ked in carrying a half empty box and placing it on th

whispered as she signed the deliv

ssion "we will figure it ou

ter from behind "you

lt like cryi

void of people as they walked home. Anastasia looked back at the bakery, the window showing

probably my imagination"

atching TV, still her thoughts kept slipping to the broken

ents lifeless body at the hospital on the day when they were called to identify the bodies. Craig still tried as much as he could as the older sibling to provide for his sisters with the nine to five job that he does and sometimes comes back to the ba

back in the living room sipping tea by the window. The st

lmost believed it

mo

wasn't norma

*

en guys surrounding him, bruises all over his face, beaten and battered almost looking lifeless. The door opened and a man w

e man who walked in said, his voice low, deep and calm, but edged with a

y you boss" the man on the floor sta

om the man standing like a king "

d punched him, a brutal crack of fist against flesh that echoed through the r

" said the unknown man in a whisper, but the d

man's ragged broken breath and the heavy promise of something dark