★Part 1★ It starts out as just another peaceful day at the Daily Loaf, a well-kept bakery run by the stern yet good-hearted 40-Something-Year-Old Jeff Lennox... That is, until he noticed an entire tray of cookies he was selling for 95¢ each where all already all gone. At first, he didn't think of it that much assuming they where a big hit and/or someone mistook them for free samples; But the next day they where vanishing one-by-one right before he opened shop!

★Part 2★ Since Jeff hadn't hired anyone yet, and he'd been operating the bakery solo for a long time, He was sure no employees took them, although he was worried about mice in his ktchen. Jeff then made a new batch of cookies during the last hour before opening shop and put all of those chocolate treasure coins inside a sturdy cookie jar, slapped the price tag on and placed them high on a shelf so no thieves could possibly get their hands on any of them!

"At least, not without my supervision!" Jeff chuckled to himself. When a customer requested a cookie, Jeff happily got the cookies down and opened the jar and much to his disgrace, they where all gone! "Confounded...not again!!" Jeff looked as if he was going to snap and curse a blue streak (but Colorslive would immediately censor that). The confused customer wasn't a "Karen" so they understood simply that Jeff was having a strange day and politely requested somthing else.

★Part 3★ After Jeff closed up shop, he would usually take the goodies no one bought and keep some and give away the rest to close friends and family, When he walked over to one nearly-empty cabinet, he spotted a small creature covered in frosting on top of an unpurchased cake it only began to feast upon. Needless to say, Jeff panicked. "IS THAT A BABY MOUSE CONTAMINATING MY BAKERY?!" shrieked the baker. To his surprise, the creature got up on it's back legs, hands on hips and sassed back:

"I'm no baby mouse, I'm a toy cat! See my pitties?" The tiny cat started to stretch and squiggle her arms at Jeff, mocking him with "Oooohboogieboogieboogieboogie!!!". Jeff's fear went from surprised confusion to anger, as he quickly figured out who's been stealing his hard work for free. Jeff quickly hustled to his desk and pulled a flyswatter out of the drawer to teach her a lesson, but when he stormed back, the small cat already seemed to have vanished. "Maybe she'll finally leave me alone."

★Part 4★ Later that evening, Jeff was watching tv and eating supper, pondering to himself: "Was I imagining all of that? Was there really a tiny cat stealing the cookies?" As he finished the last bite of his meatloaf, he was prepared for dessert! Jeff opened a leftover box of donuts from his shop and to his unpleasant surprise, it was completely empty!! Jeff than turned to his kitchen window to see that tiny cat bobbing her head at him.

Jeff angerly pointed as the cat mocked him: "You! The Pipsqueak!!!" and as he was about to catch her, she hopped away into the night. This was only the beginning of the Pipsqueak's battle of wits. ★

★ End! ★