Nellie and Adam took a carriage to a place on Fleet Street, in London.
Adam took her hand and helped her get out of the carriage. In front of them, stood a small brick building. Adam walked up to the front door of the building and took out a small ring of keys.
He put onekey in the keyhole, turned it and opened the door. They both walked in. This would be Nellie's pie shop. The front of the room contained a front counter, a small oven. Around the room were booths, each containing two seats. You could tell it wasn't used in awhile, the place was dusty. With a few cockroaches crawling around.
"Well, it's a bit shabby, but it'll do. How can I ever repay you Adam?" she smiled.
Adam laughed. "Nellie I said don't worry. Just pay the rent when you can and that's it. Oh, and also be safe. I don't want you running the streets like last time. After what happened, I hope you stay safe okay?"
"Don't worry Adam I promise." she patted his hand.
"That's good to know. Well, I guess I better give you the keys for the shop." he took out the small ring of keys.
"This one, is your skeleton key. It will open all the rooms in the shop." he showed a big black key.
"This one is for the front and back doors of the shop." he showed a big silver key.
"This one is for the bakehouse downstairs" a big, heavy brass key.
"And these are for the room upstairs." He handed her two small, gold keys that shined.
"Whats the second one for?"
"In case you want to let someone stay upstairs, or rent it out. The first key is for you and the second is for them. Just keep them both."
After that Adam showed her where everything was. The bakehouse, her room and upstairs.
"Well Nellie, I trust that you're going to be alright now?"
"Yes and thank you ever so much again Adam."
"Of course anytime"
"Well, this is where I leave you. I will come back every week to make sure you're alright and settled. I have left 60 british pounds on the counter to buy any supplies you need to start off, along with my phone number and address incase anything should go wrong, just contact me."
"Thank you, for everything you have done."
"Like I said, of course anytime." he gave her a bright smile, then took her hand and kissed it gently.
Nellie Lovett blushed at this of course, men always made her blush. Once again Mr. Adam Wright put on his hat and walked out the door.
Now that Adam was gone, Nellie went to her bedroom and put her things away. Made her bed, and changed into her old work clothes from Pettigrew's.
Nellie wondered what Lillian was doing now, and was she thinking of her.
But now Nellie didn't care what Lillian did, all she wanted was to make her pies the best in London.
But how?
Well, she would think of it later, right now she had a lot of cleaning to do. She started down at the bakehouse and swept up any dust that was on the floor. She saw the big old rusty oven. She decided that she would start it up, maybe warm the room up a bit. Next she cleaned the shop and the upstairs room.
After everything was done, she admired her work. The whole shop and everything looked very nice and bright. It made her feel right at home. She couldn't stand a messy area.
Well, to celebrate she took a nice long bath. Her feet hurt because of those godforsaken boots she wore. When she was done, she put on her nightgown and robe.
It did feel very cozy but she somehow wished she had some company.
Well, she put on the kettle and made herself a cup of tea and sat down in front of the fireplace. Watching the fire always made her feel comfortable, so she drifted off to sleep.
It was about ten minutes before she was awoken by a knock on the door. She got up and tied her robe. The knock continued. "I'm coming!" she called.
She finally got to the door and opened it up.
There stood an very handsome man, with brown eyes and a warm smile.
A/N: Okay im sorry if this was a boring chapter for you lot, but it has to lead up to everything. OKAY ANYWAY, WHOOO is that man standing at the front of the shop at this late hour?? Can you guess?? Wink, wink, nudge, nudge. And a couple more questions. Is Mr. Adam Wright, hitting and or FLIRTING with Mrs. Lovett? Im just saying i think some people are going to take it that way. And FINALLY is Mrs. Lovett going to outshine Mrs. Mooney? Stay tuned to find out!!!
