Jannie Higgins

Mmmm... THe smell of freshly baked bread,
I get to smell it all the time
After all I am the baker.
I love making diferrent types bread.
Whole Wheat, Rye, Baguettes,Brie,
Any type of bread I can think of.
I just love when the kids come.
Their faces just light up when I give them their little treats
That's why I am the famous baker in town.
Actually, I'm the only baker in town.
If I couldn't bake I'd just die
That is not how I died though.
Just so you don't get the wrong idea
I'll tell you how it happened
The school teacher Sylvia Miller came to buy some pastries
She was having a manners class with her students
So I got to nkneading some dough for the pastries.
We started to have a conversation
It went on so long I forgot about the baking bread I had put in the oven earlier
It caught on fire
A spark flew out of the oven and landed on a sack of flour,
And set it ablaze.
I took a bucket full of water from the water barrel to try and douse it
When I turned it was spreading on my counter and up the beams.
Sylvia was still in the bakery frozen with fear
I told her to run and get some help
She snapped out of her shock and ran out
At this point the place was starting to come down
I was losing oxygen quickly
I made my way as quickly and carefully as possible to the door
I got out the place just as the entrance started to collapse
Then I passed out with a look of relief on my face
I woke to find myself in bed
Sylvia was sitting in a chair next to me
She told me the doctor was on her way.
That's when I remembered about my bakery
I asked her what happened after I passed out.
She told me thst people came to put the fire out
They got the fire out but my bakery was completely destroyed
I couldn't believe it
The shop my great-grandfater built was gone
Then the tears came.
There was a knock on the door
It was doctor Mary-Lou Jefferson
She checked my pulse and heartbeat
She told me that they were slowing
Mary-LOu said I probably last until the next afternoon
She told me to rest, then left.
Sylvia told me she would visit the next day
I closed my eyes to sleep...
And a calm washed over me
I knew I had died.