#bc those baker nico photos are just perfect for an insta promo shoot LOL

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In light of the baker Nico pics, do you have further thoughts on the hischier bakery and Hughes coffee shop au 🥹

BAKER NICO PICS ILU I have not known peace since. I've been rotating that photo of Nico holding a cookie in my head for like twelve hours now. for you anon, I will wrangle all my current ideas into a bundle here ❤️

(if you haven't read the lil prompt fill hehe)

At the Little Loaf of Love bakery, all three of the Hischier siblings bake, but Nico is undoubtably the best out of all of them. Very consistent with his results, produces very trustworthy batches, never protests the 3am starts and occasional late closings. Between them Luca is the more experimental baker and Nina, on top of more management and bookkeeping stuff, is better at one-off decorations for dessert pieces

Over at A Hughes Cup of Coffee, all three Hughes brothers also work behind the counter - Quinn is the manager, somewhat against his will, and he has a special apron Jack and Luke got him as a joke (but it's very high quality). Jack is indeed the cappuccino specialist (does the fancy latte art) and recently Luke has been pushing for small batch food options (like sandwiches or bagels) to go with their drinks.

One morning while opening Jack caught Luke standing outside the front of their store--it's like 5am, nobody is out or awake except for them and the bakery across the street--and he's inhaling the scent of freshly baked bread before he turns to Jack and goes, "We should work out some kind of business deal with these guys."

At this point, Jack had already clocked the hot baker and tried to wave at him once through the window, but the hot baker hadn't seen him, and Jack is currently too embarrassed to set foot past the stoplight. And he goes errrrrr maybe.

Little Loaf is a nice mix of very Swiss baked goods and classic American desserts and Luke keeps coming back with boxes of them for Jack and Quinn to try (they're amazing) and now Quinn is bugging Jack to make relations (less amazing)

Jack already has like such a severe crush he saw Nico unloading boxes by the side door one morning and his apple watch alerted him for having an unexpected heart rake spike or something lol

Also the older Hischier brother and the sister have already been coming to A Hughes Cup for coffee like every morning, both of them very sweet and very funny, and Jack is not not upset that he hasn't seen the hot younger brother around (he kind of is) and he thinks nobody has noticed (everyone has)

Nina keeps dropping unsubtle hints about Nico. His favourite drink is cappuccino. His favourite animal is a seal. He studied in the US and then did an apprenticeship in Italy for a year. He loves cappuccinos. He secretly likes watching the Titanic. He LOVES cappuccinos.

So Jack takes the hints as they're given to him. Puts together a tray of the Hischier siblings' favourite coffees. Carefully presses a little seal sticker on the cappuccino. Tosses his hair back undoes the top two buttons on his plaid shirt and finally crosses the street to meet the hot baker on his turf.

+ Quinn's apron has an M stitched over the chest and he's like is this funny to you guys and Jack and Luke are taking pics of him wearing the apron going "extremely" and sending it to the family group chat. Assigned manager by your own brothers, embarrassing.

+ When they're finally in a "really good friends" stage Jack walks in on Nico kneading dough in a sleeveless shirt once and he turns around and walks right back out and his watch is telling him he's hitting 152 bpm, does he need to sit down???