#Chapter 11: Sweet Forgiveness

“Guess what it is?” Nathan smirked slightly as he held the little cardboard box out to me. “I promise you won’t want to pass it up.”

I looked up at Nathan a bit skeptically. He just smiled back at me and shook the box a little. Finally, I took it with a sigh and opened it up.

And when I did, my eyes went wide.

“This is…” I picked the sweet chocolate muffin out of the box and looked at it. I hadn’t had one of these muffins from the bakery in our town for so long, but I instantly recognized the signature powdered sugar topping and the oversized chocolate chips poking out of the top.

“It’s from Jerry’s,” Nathan said with a grin. “Well… Just Jerry, now.”

“What do you mean?” I asked, cocking my head. The little bakery in our town was known as “Jerry’s”, and it was named after the little old man who ran it all by himself.

Nathan shrugged. “The bakery closed down quite a long time ago,” he replied, sounding somewhat wistful.

I felt a bit sad at this. That bakery was one of our favorite place