Caring Kiss

Chapter 14

Bruno
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The days after I broke into Pattersons Bakery and took their formula, I immediately open my laptop and began posting anonymous messages about their bakery. I left a ton of terrible reviews about their "Poor management," and how I ordered a pie and saw a strand of hair in it. I gossiped to  people on the streets if they have heard about the food poisoning and the fake ingredients they use.

Knowing me and how much I lie, none of it is true. I just want to rule to town and get more money because more money equals more business.

When Lilith, Oliver, and Margaret left, I walk back into my kitchen, laughing historically while opening the bag of money I stole.

$1200.

I smile and take the hidden formula out under all then money. As soon as I open it, the smell of sweet vanilla fills my nose. I exhale and smile even harder. This is gonna be great, and my employees doesn't even know the big surprise yet.

A few minutes later, Jackson walks in. I walk up to him and we do our handshake we always do when we see each other. His short, curly brown hair falls down to his forehead. He furrows his eyebrows when he see's the look on my face.

"What did you do now," he asks. And that's when I walk behind the desk and put the bag full of money on the counter.
"Remember when I told you I was talking to that chick at Pattersons Bakery?"
He nods and excitement fills his face, because we've been planning on this since we've opened. I didn't even have to finish what I was saying.
"No way bro," Jackson says as he opens the bag and see's the money.

"Yes way," I say as I'm walking over to a cabinet.
"And check this out." I show him the formula and he goes crazy, running his fingers through his hair.
"How'd you even get the keys?"

I sigh and say, " It wasn't hard at all. I invited Lilith over and put something in her cup that made her sleepy and when I put her to bed, I took her purse and took her keys, replacing them with fake ones."

"Hell yeah!"

When work starts, customers immediately fills the tables and the bar. Last weekend when Lilith left, I made a new menu full of new pies and new drinks.

I'm all over the place, taking orders and making pies, and serving food. It's just me and Jackson since we fired our other employees. We decided that it was best that we don't hire anyone else because we can't trust everyone, ( and we get more money. )
It's a lot of more work on our hands, but we're able to handle everything.

Lilith
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Me and Oliver fell asleep on the floor in Margaret's room and woke up early. We all debated weather or not we should go to work, but we can't just let Patterson's Bakery down and evening, we decided to close early since no customers were coming in. Even the old couple who's been coming here for breakfast for years hasn't come in yet and it makes me furious to see King of Pies gain all of the attention for something we should be getting credit for.

When I got home that evening. I fed Mittens and took off my clothes, makeup, and ran the bath water. My hair is a mess so I just threw in a bun so I can deal with it later.

When I laid in bed that night, I scroll through my phone, looking at pictures of my friends ( who probably hate me now,) my mom and brother. Liam hasn't said anything about what happened. Maybe he doesn't want me to feel worse than I already do. Or he's just embarrassed that he's related to me and won't say anything about it.

I'm taking a sip of my water when I notice a red dot. I furrow my eyebrows and click on it and that's when I see that my phone is still audio recording.

My eyes widened and I stop it to see how long it's been on.
"Started on March 28."

I gasp. We had confronted Bruno the day after.... So that means it was recording the whole time??!

I sit up on my bed and sent a screenshot to Margaret and Oliver and they reply almost instantly.

Oliver: Wait....
Margaret: Omg omg omggg! It was still playing when Bruno said everything??
Me: Yes yes yes !!! But I don't know yet. My phone was in my back pocket, so the audio must've been a little fuzzy.
Oliver: You're a genius Lilith!

The next morning, I decided to post the recording to all of my social media and to our town group. Ever since everything went down, I people have been posting about us. Liam had finally texted me and he says I should go to the police since he's committed a crime, but I've been scared to do so.

Getting the police involved in this sounds scary, but I have to tell someone.
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The next morning, Margaret and Olive went with me to the police station. We filed a report and told them everything that happened, how he drugged me and stole what wasn't his. Everything went fast. One moment we were showing the officer the audio recording, and the next, they told us to go home, and they'd deal with it themselves.

A couple of days went by since that happened, and it wasn't until one night at Margaret's house when she realized that we were on the news.

"Lilith! Oliver! Come here now!"

Me and Oliver both look at each other and run to her room where she is looking at the tv, mouth wide open. I look at her confused and then I look at the tv.

"Bruno Sanchez and Jackson hocks, the owner of King of Pies has been arrested this Thursday evening and is facing felony charges for robbery, and theft."

A whole crowd of people stand in front of King of Pies, chanting and trying to push through security as they are being escorted into the police cars. Bruno looks at the camera for 5 seconds and the look of anger and defeat fills his face. It feels like as if he can see me.

Oliver runs his hands through his hair. None of us say a word. We just listened until it was over. A couple of minutes later, Margaret says, "We did it." Tears begin to run down her cheeks and then Oliver says it again. "We did it."