"No... It’s nothing. I just realized that I haven't bought the things I wanted to bring with me when I visit Grandma tomorrow."

In truth, she had already bought the pastries, but they had been thrown into the trash by the Hall family's people.

"Oh," he said, "I've bought it for you. It's on the coffee table."

She turned to the coffee table in the room and saw a familiar shopping bag. Was that... The shopping bag from the pastry shop in the mall that she had gone to earlier that day? Could it be that he... had bought exactly the same things she had for her?

"Are those the same things I bought today?"

"Yeah," he replied. "I also added some other items."

"But how did you... uh, how did you know what I bought?"

Even if he had seen her through the security cameras, at most, he could only have seen the shopping bag, right?

"I just went through the transaction statements in the mall and figured out what you bought."

Serenity finally understood. For other people, this was not such a d