Chapter 2

Mrs. Lovett's Pie Shop

Mr. Todd emerged from an alley and entered a wide street, on the corner of the street, he noticed a shop with many windows and on the roof of the building, a large skylight. Mr. Todd stood on the corner and gazed across at Mrs. Lovett's pie shop. Mr. Todd crossed the street and entered the pie shop.

He pushed the door open and noticed a beautiful, dark clothed lady with brown frizzy hair standing behind a counter in the filthy, bug infested interior, preparing pies. She noticed him.

"A customer!", she gasped as she rushed over to greet him.

"Sorry! I thought you were a ghost for a minute. Please sit, sir, sit! What I mean is that I haven't seen a customer for week's now.", she said, while she rushed back to the counter.

"Did you want to buy a pie, sir? Do forgive me if me head's a little vague but you'd think we've had the plague, from the way that people keep avoiding my little establishment.", she explained as she killed the bug that crawled over the bench.

"Here's your pie, love, do you want some ale to drink with that? I wouldn't blame them, these are probably the worst pies in London!", Mr. Todd had taken a bite out of the pie, but had spat it out all over the floor while she wasn't looking.

"Is that just disgusting? Here why don't you drink this, you look like you need it!" Mr. Todd took the drink and gulped it down.

"Mrs. Mooney has a pie shop, little old lady across the street , but I've noticed something weird, all her neighbors cats seem to be disappearing." Mr. Todd looked down and saw a bug crawl out of the pie he just took a bite out of.

"Tell you the truth, times are hard now days. It doesn't help when it's just me running the place.", she said as she dusted the flour off of her apron.

"Trust me deary, it's going to take a lot more than ale to wash that taste out. Come with me, I'll give you a nice tumbler of gin, eh?"