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Ben suggested sticking around until his lunch break, and Jacob nodded in agreement. It's not like there was anything else they could be doing, and by the sounds of it, Autumn had made a solid friend. For a moment, Jake hesitated on what to do. He didn't want to be in Ben's way, but he also wanted to continue talking to him. To keep himself busy without giving Ben the obligation of having to keep him entertained, he turned to look at the books behind him. He eyed the titles and covers, having never heard of any of them. It's not that Jake disliked reading, but rather he never had the time to sit down and do it. As he was about to pick one up, his ears caught tiny footsteps getting closer until Autumn's face appeared.
"Appa, look!" leaving the book behind, Jake turned to look at his daughter, kneeling down to her eye level. She enthusiastically opened the first page of a pop-up book with a jungle scene as her small index finger pointed to a family of Pandas. What looked to be the father, mother, and baby. "That's you." she giggled, pointing to the largest panda before moving onto the smallest one. "That's me" he said and then added a sad smile as she pointed to the last one. "And that will be mom whenever she comes to visit." The last statement felt like a sharp knife to Jacob's chest, not because he longed for the woman to visit because at this point in his life he couldn't care less for her. What made his heart ache was the sadness in Autumn's face and voice as she said this, as if she knew her mother would never be visiting.
Opting to change the subject, Jacob pointed to a lonely money hanging from a branch in the corner of the page. "And who's this?" Autumn seemed to give it a few seconds' thought before giggling mischievously. "That's Dave." Jacob chuckled, assuming that Dave was the employee she had just been chatting with. "And this!" she continued on her own as she pointed to a grizzly bear on the following page. "This is Ben." Jacob raised a brow, switching his gaze from his daughter to the man stacking books. "It does look like him, doesn't it?"