They Want Me Back When It's Too Late (Jessica and Brian) novel Chapter 160

Chapter 160

After ending the call, she called Jacob back and subtly reminded him not to tell Samantha about buying pastries for Jessica. Otherwise, if Samantha found out he was taking time off just to buy pastries, they wouldn’t like him.

Jacob had no idea about Madeline’s malicious intentions and was simply pleased to get off school an hour early.

The driver received the call and came to pick him up. Jacob clutched the money in his pocket and headed to the pastry shop.

“So many people!” Jacob was dumbfounded when he arrived. His classmate had told him this shop’s pastries were especially delicious, and his mother had loved their lemon scones when she was pregnant.

But the line was incredibly long. Yesterday when his classmates brought him here, he’d given up after seeing the crowd.

Today, he’d specifically asked for time off and left school an hour early, but there were still so many people.

Jacob dejectedly walked to the back of the line. The driver offered, “Mr. Jacob Atkinson, why don’t you wait in the car and I’ll line up to buy them for you?”

“No.” Jacob shook his head. “I want to buy them for Mom with my own hands.”

The people in line noticed how young Jacob was and had seen him get out of the luxury car. They immediately started whispering about him. “Whose child is this? So sweet! At such a young age, he already knows to buy treats for his mother.”

“I wish I had such a handsome and thoughtful son,” someone added.

“I’m so jealous of his mother!” Several young women in line couldn’t help squealing with excitement.

Jacob was truly adorable, even more handsome than the child models in magazines.

A few people couldn’t resist taking out their phones to snap photos, but the driver beside him stopped them.

Jacob basked in the compliments from the people around him, secretly pleased with himself.

He was such a good son to Jessica. He couldn’t help imagining how touched Jessica would be when she found out he’d waited in this long line just to buy her favorite pastries.

The late afternoon sun still beat down fiercely at four or five o’clock. June weather was already hot and muggy

Standing in the crowd, Jacob felt beads of sweat forming on his forehead. As the line inched forward, he shuffled along with everyone else.

It was almost five o’clock when his turn finally came. “I’d like ten lemon scones, please!” Jacob called out to the shop owner.

His classmates had told him this shop made the best lemon

scones in town. They were so popular that each customer could exclusively buy ten at most.

“Oh, sorry, kiddo!” The shop owner looked surprised when he saw Jacob. “We’re all out of lemon scones for today.”

Jacob’s face fell, and he had to bite his lip to keep from crying. He’d been waiting in line for over half an hour.

“No more lemon scones, but would you like something else?” the owner asked.

Fighting back tears, Jacob wiped the sweat from his forehead and stood on his tiptoes to peer into the display case. “I want the yummiest ones.

He pointed at several different pastries. “I’ll take this one, and this one. Oh, and that one too. And that one over there.”

Jacob pointed out several items, all beautifully decorated pastries that looked absolutely delicious, regardless of how they might faste.

The shop owner smiled warmly and got ten of each. “That’ll be three hundred dollars. Will you be paying by card or cash?”

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