Elliott Meets World (Book One)

6- Svorski's Bakery

Auggie was dragging Elliott into Svorski's Bakery because he wasn't moving fast enough for him. "Come on, Elly. I want my muffin and my joke."

"Sorry, little bro. It looks like Mrs. Svorski is busy right now. How about we just go to another place?" Elliott suggested.

"I like this place. I like Mrs. Svorski," Auggie said.

"I know. I do to but—" Elliott started but was interrupted.

"Auggie! Elliott!" Mrs. Svorski smiled. She picks up two plates of bulochki.

"Muffin!" Auggie cheered.

Svorski walks to one of the tables and puts the two plates of bulochki on one table. "It's not muffin. It's bulochki. I made it just for my two boys."

She gets close to Elliott and hugs him while saying to him, "Ah, Elliott. Sit, darling."

"Mrs. Svorski, it's very nice to see you. But we can't stay very long," Elliott informed sadly.

"But I love her," Auggie said. "Pinch my cheeks, do it."

Svorski pinches Auggie's cheeks and says to Elliott, "40 years, son. Now, they're trying to push me out."

"I heard," Elliott frowns.

"Yeah, you can't put price on good neighborhood place where people come and they sit and they talk," Svorski said.

"Mrs. Svorski," Auggie reminds. She lets go of Auggie's cheeks.

"Yeah, okay. Big-deal-frozen-yogurt people want place. Contract say "no raise rent." Yogurt lawyer say "loophole." Yogurt lawyer's scum of earth," Svorski tells Elliott.

"Our mommy's a lawyer and Elliott wants to be one," Auggie informed Mrs. Svorski.

"So you want to walk in your mother's footsteps? Do you know anything about being a lawyer?" Svorski asked.

"Well, I've picked up a few things from watching mom over the years. And I feel terrible about this," Elliott said referring to what's going to happen to his favorite bakery.

"Oh," Mrs. Svorski nodded.

"Tell the joke," Auggie said. "Is not Ukrainian bakery."

"Is My-krainian bakery," Mrs Svorski finished.

Elliott would usually laugh at the joke but he felt to upset. Auggie noticed this after laughing and asked Elliott, "Why aren't you laughing, Elliott?"

"Mom work for a very big law firm and I know that she doesn't have a say in which cases we represent," Elliott informed.

"Maybe so, maybe not so. You want to be a lawyer? You tell big-deal lawyers Mrs. Svorski hopes they fall in their own loophole," Svorski told him.

"Don't you worry. My big brother and mommy will take care of everything," Auggie reassured. "Right, Elliott?"

After Elliott dropped Auggie at home he met up with Mason at an outdoor skatepark.

"...I can't believe they're trying to replace Svorski's Bareky with a yogurt shop," Mason said in shock. "I love Mrs. Svorski."

"Yeah. We love her too. My mom said she'll figure something out after she looks for her little piece of soul?" Elliott informed not fully understanding what Topanga meant.

Mason gave a look of confusion, "...Isn't your mom like a lawyer. Can't she do something about this?"

Elliott shrugged, "I'm not sure. I don't think Mom has a day in which casss she represents." He sighed not knowing what to do.