More customers come in; a lot more

The chime of a bell once again rang out through the diner. Jen stopped mid-sentence and the two girls both looked at each other.

"You stay here, Yuki," Jen said. "I'll go handle the customer."

"As if I'd be going anywhere like this!" Yuki huffed, motioning at her bottomless state, hidden only by her apron.

Jen disregarded her friend's comment and zipped back out into the main area of the cafe. Yuki poked her head out from the back room, intent on seeing who'd entered but not so keen on being seen. Yuki was surprised to see a group of four young women, likely only a few years older than herself, all standing by the entrance. Jen quickly attended to them, offering them menus and letting them choose their table. Then she headed over to the man sitting by himself, who seemed ready to order.

A few moments later, Jen was beelining back towards the counter, only to be interrupted by the door chime yet again. Two older women had just entered the cafe and selected a booth near the door. Jen dutifully headed over to get them settled. Yuki had to stifle an impatient whine. What was going on?! The cafe had been dead all morning, and now it was suddenly busy as could be! Jen quickly took the orders of the foursome of friends and then hurried over to the counter, finally getting back to Yuki.

"What the heck's going on?" Yuki asked, still keeping most of her body in the backroom.

"Beats me!" Jen replied. "We're suddenly more popular than Starbucks somehow!"

As if to drive the point home, the door chime rang once again.

"You've gotta be kidding!" Jen complained. Then she ripped off the paper with the taken orders and placed it on the counter. "Here, Yuki you get started on these orders and I'll go deal with the hundreds of customers we've suddenly attracted somehow."

"Me?!" Yuki complained. "Are you kidding? I'm staying back here and out of sight!"

"Oh come on, Yuki," Jen complained. "It's not like I'm asking you to go out onto the main floor! If you stay behind the counter no one can see you from the waist down anyway. And I can't do everything myself if we have this many customers!" With that, Yuki's friend hustled back over to the door, where it seemed like a group of no less than seven teenage boys had just entered the cafe!

Yuki sighed, but knew Jen was right. So, she reluctantly stepped out of the back room, making sure to stay as close to the counter as possible. The counter came well up to her belly button, so there really was no way for any of the customers to know Yuki was bottomless at that very moment. Even so, she couldn't keep the deep blush off her face as she began making five different drinks for the customers. It didn't help Yuki's nerves when the large group of boys settled into the large circular table closest to the counter. There they were, not twelve feet away from her!

Jen circled back to the counter a minute later, taking the drinks Yuki had prepared and plopping even more orders onto the counter for Yuki to fulfill. The bottomless girl kept herself distracted from her embarrassing predicament by focusing on making the drinks and grabbing the occasional pastry from the display. She moved behind the display and slid open the small door to grab the ordered croissant.

Suddenly Yuki froze. She had forgotten about the pastry display! It was a small part of the counter, maybe only four feet wide, but it was a glass display! It obviously had to be for people to see the available pastries for sale, but it also let them see right through to everything behind it, too! Meaning, if Yuki was standing behind the display to, say, retrieve a pastry, anyone nearby would have been able to see most of her lower half!

Yuki stepped to the side and looked up, worried someone might have just seen her semi-indecent state. For a brief moment, she caught the eye of one of the nearby teenage boys. But he quickly looked away. Had he seen her? Did he know Yuki had no pants on?! Her mind started racing at the possibility.

"Yuki! Earth to Yuki!" Jen called, having apparently stepped up to the counter when Yuki was distracted.

"Huh?"

"Did you finish the orders yet?" Jen began picking up the assembled drinks. And then the door chime rang. "Again?! Damn, Yuki, you should take your pants off more often. This is the busiest we've been all week!"

"Sssh! Not so loud!" Yuki whispered. But Jen was already moving over to greet the new arrivals and distribute the drinks. Yuki glanced back over at the teenage boys and was quite worried to find a few of them whispering to each other and not so discretely looking in her direction. She gulped nervously, then went back to filling orders.