The cake baker and his son:

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“Issac, wake up you slept in” “I made your breakfast and lunch, Breakfast is white cake and for lunch you’ll have red velvet cake”. Issac spit the breakfast out, and gave the neighbor’s dog his lunch while he grabbed two apples from the neighbor’s window, the real breakfast and lunch. For his stealing had been a habit developed early in age, and would not to be discovered until he was long from the community and it stopped. As he made his way to school he thought about how wonderful it would be to be a chef, and have his own restaurant, but he couldn’t do that with his dad a baker, having the pressure of the family business, and the fact that his dad has always seemed to hate chefs. For his mom understood but stuck with his father, except to sneak him a recipe from a restaurant. For his mom was a seamstress coming from a poor family she wanted to be a nurse, but she married Isaac’s father who’d been her next-door neighbor for years. When Issac reaches school he rubs his second apple and puts it in his jacket, for lunch he thinks.
This routine of stealing and the neighbor’s dog eating cake for breakfast continued, each day stealing somewhere else, another treasure. He had just turned 14 a couple days ago and received a piping bag filled with frosting for his birthday.
The day continued just the same, except he was now obliged to practice frosting with his new bag, not that he ever paid attention. He puts the bag down to take a break and his dad yells at him but he doesn’t seem to care, his dad says “ if you’re not going to respect and use the gifts you get for your birthday you’re not going to get any at all”. Issac just whimpers “that’s fine with me”. He goes to his room and begins packing a small bag; that night he leaves...

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...wn to her husband, takes his hand, and as Issac and his father say there apologies, when suddenly Haydien is about to have the baby, Maryann comes to the door, And tells her to come inside that she’s a nurse, so despite the relenting they wanted to do, it was the only choice. So they go inside and Maryann delivers Haydiens baby, which was a girl, whom they named, May-Liza, his mom seemed to remember who she and everyone was and that she’d always been a nurse but never mentioned it to anyone. For The baker; Joseph went to work at his sons restaurant, May’Liza was spoiled rotten by everyone who saw how beautiful she was. Maryann and Haydien bonded through the days, for MaryAnn’s Blond hair came back and the wrinkles went away. Their family would continue to grow in the future, but for now it stayed simply bliss, and for Issac got what he’d always wanted.
The end.

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