Victoria's+Tale

__**Don't put all your eggs in one basket**__

On a warm and sunny day in June, there was a man and a woman who were madly in love with each other. Mark, the groom, was a tall handsom man, who in his college days was quite the partier. His dark curly hair, and pale skin tone enticed Zoe to no end. He was very giving and put other's needs in front of his own. Zoe, the bride, was a petite blonde who always had her nose in a book and was never the type to party. She had never found love in anyone before she met Mark. His hopless love for her made the butterflies in her stomach fly every time she saw him. Even with their differences, Mark and Zoe found love between each other. Mark and Zoe were busily planning their wedding. They had previously enlisted Nona’s Bakery to bake and deliver their cake. Nona's was a bakery in the quaint little town of Creedmoor, and was notorious for their decadent cakes and bakery items. But Nona was also infamous for being lazy and ruining perfect wedding cakes. The couple had gone to Nona’s in the latter part of the month, spending countless hours drawing up plans for their decadent wedding cake, and discussing cake and icing flavors. After numerous visits, and only one week remaining before their wedding, they finally derived their final plans. Their plans called for a massive 8-tiered red velvet cake. The icing was a luscious creme cheese, that was ornately decorated with hundreds of petite roses that were an array of shades of yellow. The top layers were very fragile, as the were made of blown sugar. This cake was so large and so expensive that Mark and Zoe asked Nona to make a few replacement layers for the top in case a layer was damaged in transit. Nona agreed and went busily on her way baking and decorating the cake as the wedding was only one week away! On the day of their wedding, Mark was recovering from his harebrained bachelor party that resulted in quite a ridiculous hangover while Zoe was cautiously trying to get dressed for her special day. Nona on the other hand was loading their beloved cake into her car. Mark and Zoe’s wedding cake was so large that it wouldn’t fit in her car! Nona decided that instead of making 2 trips, one with the first part of the cake and the second with the replacement pieces she would be lazy and cram every available space in her car with the couple’s cake. Nona, being the nonchalant person she is, was fiddling with her radio, trying to find her favorite song when she ran a red light. She collided with another car, totaling her car; and the cake! When Nona arrived to the reception in a taxi, covered in icing and cake that was thrown about during her crash, Mark and Zoe were furious. They had trusted Nona to bring their wedding cake, and to be sure it got there safely. Because Nona was so lazy, their wedding cake was destroyed. Moral of the story? Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.