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On Sundays, Jonathan, Joseph, and Josuke are present. However, what’s weird about today is that at 7:00 AM, 2 hours before the store opens, he came to the bakery driving a large truck.
Josuke and Joseph just stared as Jonathan parked the vehicle and stepped out “Hey, big bro! What you got inside the large truck?” Before Jonathan replied, he opened the door to the back of the truck, revealing the new contraption to his brothers. Joseph’s and Josuke’s eyes lit up with joy and excitement.
“I bought crane games! I’ll buy more of these if this becomes popular!” Jonathan went inside the truck and carefully lifted one of the crane games with his bare hands. Jonathan was the strongest and the brother with the biggest build. While Jotaro and Joseph were certainly huge, Jonathan beat them in terms of bulk.
Joseph and Josuke helped Jonathan by carrying the other crane game in the truck. “1, 2, 3 LIFT!!” they both yelled before gripping the crane and carrying it to the bakery. It was extremely heavy, they don’t know how their beast of a brother carried one by himself. While Jonathan is already way ahead of them, they had to walk slowly, in fear of dropping the machine. They had to walk at the same time too, to prevent imbalance.
Josuke, being the leanest of the bunch, felt his legs already wobbling. However, his willpower had prevented him from dropping the machine entirely. He groaned as he lifted the machine higher as his strength could allow him.
Near the entrance of the building, there were already 2 heavy-duty trolleys. Josuke yelled out “IF THERE WAS A TROLLEY ALREADY THEN WHAT WAS THE POINT OF US CARRYING IT FROM THE TRUCK?”
Jonathan gently plopped the machine onto the trolley, “Well you guys need to exercise more! You guys are getting lazy! I want you all to be big and strong, like me!” He said that kinda-condescending sentence in such a sweet way that nobody could really get mad at him. Actually, nobody had ever gotten mad at Jonathan for any reason. You really can’t get mad at a man who acts like your grandma most of the time. And not the nagging grandmas, the ones who’ll make you cookies and warm milk when you’re sad.
Joseph and Josuke sucked it up and had finally reached the entrance. They plopped the crane machine onto another trolley and pushed it inside the bakery. They placed the crane games near the wheel.
Jonathan left to go to the employee’s room and went out carrying an even larger box. Seriously is this man on steroids? Joseph and Josuke looked at the box terrified before Jonathan told them that it was only filled with plushies. The 2 younger brothers sighed in relief, they almost thought that their older brother was an actual monster.
He cut open the box to reveal large amounts of different plushies, ranging from cute animals to cute desserts with faces. If Jotaro were to see that cute pink dolphin plushie, he would have combusted. Joseph’s eyes widened as he saw a very familiar-looking plushie. It was a frog plushie, one he remembered doodling often when he was in middle school. They used to have a pet frog, and she just died a few months ago. Joseph loved the frog a lot, It accompanied him when he got lonely. His younger siblings thought he was a pain in the ass and it left him alone most of the time they were home.
“J-Jonathan did you make my fwoggy sketches into p-plushies??” Joseph was already sobbing at this point, he was blowing furiously onto his handkerchief which seriously disgusted Josuke. But well, even Joseph needed to have his moment.
“Yup! I thought they were cute so why not-” Joseph fucking leapt and enveloped his older brother into a tight hug while wiping his snot and tears on his shirt. He didn’t say anything, he just cried and cried.
“Joseph I’m glad that you like it but my shirt is now wet…” Joseph let go of Jonathan and continued to blow the rest of his fluids on to the terribly stained handkerchief.
As Jonathan went back to the employee’s room to get an outfit change, the 2 brothers proceeded to put in the plushies in the crane game. After Joseph washed his hands, of course, they don’t want anyone to get diseases from their plushies.
So they went to work, they divided the number of plushies into 2, half goes in the blue crane game and half goes in the pink crane game. This took them quite a while, but they managed in the end. Inside the box, there were stickers too. Perhaps to make the crane games look more vintage.
Joseph almost cried again when he saw his doodles and to his surprise, Josuke cried as well. It was a sticker of a duck with a very rad pompadour. “Finally! Equality!” he sobbed into his sleeves. If he begged Jonathan enough he may be able to make it into a plushie.
Jonathan came into the room to see 2 grown men crying over plushies and stickers. Hmph! That’ll show them not to call him a crybaby anymore! He went towards them and patted them on the backs.
“So, I presume you guys like the stickers as well?” Jonathan said with a cheeky smile. Joseph just nodded and Josuke, not ready to give up his pride just yet, looked away and muttered: “Yeah, it’s very cool I guess…”
Jonathan held a bunch of board games in his arms and said: “Come on guys! Don’t cry! Let’s play a game before the store opens okay? So you guys want to play monopoly or life first?”
After 2 hours of Joseph constantly being bankrupt in monopoly AND life (because of his poor life choices of course) they opened the cafe.
The crane games proved to be a huge success, not only are they making extra money but the excitement on the customer’s face when they get an adorable plushie just warms the heart of the brothers.
Later on in the day, while Jonathan was serving cocoa to a customer, he noticed a man enter the bakery with a twin trolley and 2 older children by his side. After leaving the said customer’s table, he couldn’t help but look at them with awe. Jonathan adores children after all.
The toddler on the left side of the trolley has long flowing brown hair and he was wearing a cow print. While the toddler on the right side was wearing a beanie and a tiny cute green sweater. Then there were the 2 older children, one of them had thick blond hair and looked a bit fatigued. He was being carried by who Jonathan assumed was his father. The last one was probably the oldest, but he was probably no more than 5. He had an adorable bowl cut and large doe green eyes. He looks very happy and Jonathan felt like the child just radiates rainbows and sunshine.
He saw that child looked at Jonathan in the eyes and timidly waved at him. Jonathan, whose heart had clenched at the super adorable sight, waved back while trying to prevent tears from spilling. He headed back to his station and saw another employee tend to the rambunctious family.
Later on, as he was heating a blueberry muffin, he looked to the corner of his eyes the child with the bowl cut walking away from his table and near the crane machine. Jonathan was afraid and kind of angry, Who would let his small toddler walk away on his own? What if he went missing for goodness sake?
He looked to the table where the other kids resided and saw the 3 other children bothering their father, which was why he didn’t notice his oldest child leaving the table. He had to give props though, raising 4 children on his own (he assumed) seemed very difficult. He couldn’t blame the man, he looks like he’s trying his best.
It was the first time he took a good look at the father. He seemed to be around his age but a tad bit older. Or was it fatherhood that made him look more mature? He doesn’t know.
The man has messy blond hair and he had the brightest golden-brown eyes Jonathan had ever seen before. His eyes looked tired as though he could sleep any moment but he looked extremely happy as well. That might be what’s preventing him from succumbing to sleep.
He did his best to entertain his 3 kids and to keep them quiet. He threw the child wearing the beanie to the air, and caught him again as he was descending. The child was in a fit of giggles and Jonathan couldn’t help but giggle as well.
He just remembered when his little siblings were just little babies and he would gently tickle their sides. Just seeing them burst out in laughter made his day. If he were to think about that he might just cry again. Oh, wait! The other child!
As he quickly looked back at the child, he’s still there. Phew! If he went missing Jonathan would’ve panicked and possibly break down. However, he noticed afterwards that the child looked very upset and that managed to pull at Jonathan’s heartstrings. He passed the muffin onto Josuke and Jonathan left his station to go to the little child.
As he reached the kid, he can see the kid grinning widely at a certain plushie “I wan fwoggy! I wan cute liddle fwoggy!” Then the kid started crying, making Jonathan want to cry too. Not now Jonathan! Be strong for the baby!
“What’s your name?” Jonathan kneeled and wiped the kid’s face with his handkerchief.
“My name is Giowno! It’s my 5th birthday but Padre looks very busy so I wan to get the fwoggy myself! But I don’t have coins!” Giorno continued to sob into his handkerchief and Jonathan ran back to the counter. Before Giorno could realize what happened, Jonathan bolted back to him holding a small blue coin purse.
“Don’t worry Gio! I’ll get it for you!” Giorno beamed at him with a big adorable smile that almost blinded Jonathan. The boy hugged Jonathan’s neck and began to thank him. Jonathan gave him a few pats in the back and proceeded to play the crane game.
After a few tries, Giorno looked at the machine in excitement as he saw the crane grab the frog plushie he wanted. Jonathan held it and gave it to the birthday kid “Happy birthday Giorno! Here is my present for you!”
Giorno held it tightly against his chest and began to cry tears of joy, this time Jonathan followed suit. “T-thank you so much, sir!” He hugged Jonathan again, much tighter this time and he hugged him back. Ah, this will be the second time today someone soiled his shirt with snot and tears. He doesn’t mind though, Jonathan felt extremely happy as well.
When they pulled away from each other, Jonathan realized a crowd had formed around them. They looked as if their heartstrings got pulled as well, the cute sight was irresistible after all. However suddenly, a man was pushing his way around the crowd to the front. It was Giorno’s father and he looked extremely relieved to see his son wasn’t kidnapped.
“Oh, Giorno you're here! Thank god I thought you went missing!” Giorno went to his dad and hugged his leg. He then showed his father his new frog plushie.
“Look, look, padre! That man won me a fwoggy!” Giorno pointed to Jonathan and he was extremely worried. He doesn’t want Giorno’s dad to assume anything after all. He hoped to god the man didn’t think he was a paedophile.
The man just smiled tiredly and carried Giorno on his back. He walked towards Jonathan and said: “Thank you, sir, I wasn’t able to attend to my son because I have 3 other children running around. I really am a careless father...”
The man, Dio, looks genuinely upset and Jonathan felt a pang in his heart “No worries sir! It’s Giorno’s birthday, right? We have an ice cream birthday cake and I’m willing to give it to you guys, it’s in the house!”
Before the man could complain, Jonathan ran towards his station and yelled: “WAIT IN YOUR TABLES OKAY??” He then opened the freezer and realized he didn’t even know what the kid likes!
“GIORNO DO YOU WANT HONEYCOMB OR NUTELLA?”
Giorno stood on the table and yelled back as loud as he could “NUTEWWA!” Everyone in the bakery just gave a loud aww at that.
Jonathan quickly whipped out the cake and lit up a number “5” candle. He approached the table singing happy birthday and soon the whole bakery sang along too.
He placed the large cake in front of him and his eyes went wide with pure happiness. When he saw Giorno’s toothy smile once more he couldn’t help but smile alongside him. “Make a wish first, Giorno!” With that, Giorno clasped his baby hands together like a prayer and went ahead to blow the candle. He chuckled a bit when he saw that Giorno couldn’t dim the fire.
His dad blew the candle behind him “Good job, Giorno! Let’s cut the cake now.” His dad helped Giorno cut the cake and they were distributed with the other kids. They ate it up so quickly and it was such a sight to see honestly. Jonathan's heart felt so much joy that it might just combust.
The Star Bakery is a place that serves desserts and happiness.