Disaster Strikes!

After that, things started to take a turn for the surreal. Sophie was wearing nothing above her waist and taking orders as if it were just some normal day! The cold wind prickled her skin, made her more and more aware of her own nudity. The people in the queue - and the people in the store as well - kept looking at her. Some with amazement, some with sympathy. Some with simple lust and desire. All of it mixed together to form a heady arousal which flowed through Sophie's mind. She tried to centre herself, but it was hard. She felt hot. Her nipples were hard, and she had to keep hiding them with her arm, using one hand to work. She knew she was blushing furiously, and it was getting harder to meet the eyes of her customers.

It had never felt this real before. Not any of the times she had stripped down to swimwear and not when she had fantasised about it either. It had never felt like this. There was a buzz, a sort of excitement which filled her body and made her feel light-headed. She could feel waves of aching want expanding from between her legs. Her womanhood was responding to her arousal, and it was becoming harder and harder not to reach down and stroke it. Her mouth was dry, she couldn't believe that this was happening and at the same time, she couldn't make herself stop.

Customers came, one after another. Some of them tried to sneak a peak at her, and she had to use her arm to cover her chest. She felt so humiliated with people gawking at her body, trying to see past her arm. At the same time, she felt a charge rush through her body every time one of them succeeded. The idea of being watched, seen like this, it made her wet. Even as she bit her lower lip, even as she tried to deny that fact, she knew it was true. This was what she had wanted, wasn't it? That was what she had been going for?

Her heart was beating faster. She felt her body tingling. Her skin was hot and she wondered if she had somehow gotten a fever.

Before she could do something else, or even think too much about whether she wanted to or not. Sophie heard a loud crash. The sound whipped through the shop, distracting even the queue in front of the register. It went on for some time. It wasn't just one big sound, but was accompanied by many tiny sounds. Like a symphony of crashes and bangs. Only when it finally stopped did Sophie manage to start breathing again.

"What the hell was that?" She said. Her own nudity was forgotten for the first time that day as she pushed out of the check out. She ignored how the people mulled around her and headed towards where she'd heard the sound. It had been one of the far aisles, near the other side of the shop. As she hurried there, Sophie started to see the extent of the damage. One of the shelves had come crashing down, and food and other items were scattered across the floor! Standing near the centre of this destruction, there was a shivering fellow sales assistant. Anna looked like the sky had fallen down around her which, from a certain point of view, it had.

More importantly, however, there was a customer standing in the middle of the splash zone. He looked furious, and the reason was plainly obvious. He'd been hit by some of the falling items. He was a tough looking man in his late thirties. Muscular, but not overly so, with blond hair and dark eyes. As she approached, Sophie could hear him snarling.

"What have you done? What have you done? Stupid girl, you could have ruined my clothes with that! Do you know how expensive they are? They're worth more than your whole job!"

"Sorry, sorry!" Anna was chanting, trying desperately to calm him down, but it was clear that it wasn't working. She was looking more and more alarmed, and when Sophie finally arrived, Anna latched onto her like a rope tossed to a drowning woman.

"Sophie!" She said. "Um, I was working with the shelves and that one collapsed!"

"You were being clumsy!" The man snapped, "The accident was your fault!"

"No!" Anna squeaked, holding her hands up to her mouth. "I didn't, it wasn't my fault!"

"It was!" The man snarled. "And now you have to pay for it! That's the rules, isn't it? That's the law. And considering how much trouble you just caused, a minor punishment isn't going to do it!"

Anna shook her head desperately, but it was clear that the man was now both enraged and aroused. Sophie could tell that under his anger, he loved the idea of having Anna at his mercy. He intended to drag it on for as long as possible, and do as much as he could to her using the excuse of the shelves. At the same time, Anna looked positively terrified. Her freckled face had gone pale, and she was trembling. She looked like she was living a nightmare.

Sophie felt a flash of sympathy. Anna was in this situation because of her. She had not used the crown to change the rules when she had thought about it, and now she realised she'd left it back in the front desk. A crowd was beginning to gather around the ruined aisle.

What did Sophie want to do?