callmeemily: ([uhoh] unconscious 2)
For the first time in months, there was something off this Saturday morning. Birds sang, the sun beat down - but there was no smell of baked goods in the air. Usually, the blocks around the Seaside Bakery would smell like cinnamon rolls and donuts until at least eleven - but this morning, there was nothing.

There wasn't even a closed sign on the door; it was locked, but to anyone who peered inside, the kitchen was dark and the usually overflowing bakery case was empty.



There was no easy explanation; Emily hadn't been at the wine tasting the night before, so there was no way she was hung over at home; if anyone asked her landlady, her room was just as it would normally be - with no one in it, at this time of day.

It turned out that she was somewhere else entirely, and those cases would remain empty.

Sunday, too - this time, there was a sign taped to the door that's handwritten - from the man who owned the Seaside. Have you seen Emily? No call, no show, didn't go home last night. Still, there were no answers.
callmeemily: ([...] judging you. sourly.)
All it takes is one jerk to make random acts of cinnamon rolls to actually Be A Thing. It's a thing that Raleigh's going to do, because when yesterday some over privileged idiot pushed in front of a little kid who had eyes the size of the world for the last one and he bought it?

Raleigh started setting a few aside every day, boxing them up first thing and paying for them out of her pocket so that when somebody looks like they're having a shitty day, or maybe she just likes them, and... Boom. Free cinnamon roll, the size of your head. There's nothing better, in her opinion, then sudden, unexpected free baked good.

That's what's happening now, in fact. Rude Guy is back, and gleeful about getting the last one - and the moment he leaves, she takes great joy in snagging one of the three boxes behind the register, and setting it on the counter. "On the house. Random act of cinnamon roll."

Rude Guy? Never going to get one. Ever. Somehow, that makes today a little brighter, even past the whole giving-away-good-food thing.

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