Chapter 42 Unexpected Encounter

The air was thick with the smells of fresh bread, ripe fruit, and roasting coffee, making her stomach growl with hunger. Eleanor moved towards the shelves with bread, but Harper intercepted her or her cart. Shopping carts rattled and rolled across the floor as families and individuals like Eleanor and Harper moved around the aisles in search of the perfect ingredients for tonight's dinner. "I thought you were taking a break from bread. Are you really sure you want to follow through with this diet plan, seeing that the scent of freshly baked bread already has this effect on you? With that, Harper disappeared to the left aisle, where there was a colorful array of fresh produce, with pyramids of apples and oranges and baskets of leafy greens. They looked so beautiful that Harper felt like she was offending the salesperson who had arranged them by taking from them. Eleanor followed suit, picking exactly what Harper picked. "What was it you said Xander wanted again?" Harper asked, remind