It was kind of cold on the afternoon of September 7th, 2017. Honest and Shadow were walking to the cafe. They planned to get to the cafe and get changed before waiting for the new maids who would be arriving.
When they got there, Sonic was sitting at one of the tables, asleep. When the bell above the door jingled, Sonic lifted his head. "About time you guys got here. I'm starving!" Shadow just narrowed his eyes at him and disappeared into the back room.
"No one's even here to make your food right now, so just hold on," Honest told him. She struggled to open the door, but Shadow opened it and she thanked him before disappearing inside as well. Sonic put his feet up on the table when no one was there to witness him.
Shadow and Honest barely had any time to get ready when a herd of customers and maids came through the front doors. You see, the cafe was where most students headed as soon as school let up. What the cafe offered for consumption was a million times more edible than what the school cafeteria offered them.
One of the new maids was a lost-looking, green pineapple with crazy, sticky-uppy hair.
"Hey, Manic! Welcome to the cafe!" Honest exclaimed when she saw him by the front door. When everybody else stormed in, he stayed behind. Shadow followed Honest to go see him.
"H-Hey, Honest. Hey, Stripes-"
"That's Scourge's thing. Just call me by my real name," Shadow said, interrupting him.
Honest giggled at Shadow's being overly concerned about nicknames. Manic was pretty shy and awkward when he wasn't around his brother or sister, Sonic and Sonia. It wasn't... strange more than it was just a fact.
"Here," Honest said, opening the door beside them that led to the back room. "Your uniform should be in one of the closets. I'll help you find it and get changed."
"Thanks," he said in response. He followed Honest into the room. When the door closed behind them, Shadow stood there.
"So... I'm not a part of that?" Shadow was confused why Honest didn't let him come, too. Shadow looked around. They had lots of new waiters... wait. Were they called waiters or waitresses? They were a mixture of guys and girls, but they all wore dresses, so... @.@ Uh, anyway, yeah. There were a lot of new maids there to wait on tables, so Shadow thought that him and Honest were going to show them where to go, but she left him out there. Maybe he should wait? He did.
Eventually Honest emerged with Manic in tow. He was now in a pink dress and apron much like Shadow's own. He still wore his red and white sneakers, though. Honey never thought to design shoes for them.
"You're a waitress, right?" Oh, so that's what they called them.
"We call him a waitress?" he asked to be sure.
"Yeah," Honest confirmed. "It's technically cross-dressing. He is dressing as a waitress, therefore we call him what he is dressed as. Like calling a trick-or-treater a skeleton because they're dressed as one."
"We do that? Hm.." Shadow just stared at the ceiling tiles in wonder. "I am," Manic answered.
"Alright then! Just follow what we do, I guess." Honest went to a table with a couple of fan characters plus an extremely uncomfortable-looking Dina.
Dina was possibly one of the newest fan characters made by the Author. She was a white hedgehog with pink-tipped white hair and pink eyes. She wore blue and green clothes and wore boots similar to Silver's, but blue and white. Honest couldn't really make an accurate guess about her personality yet, seeing as though she had only been drawn a few times, but she didn't seem mean.
"Hey, Dina!" Everyone at the table looked up at Honest. "And assorted fan characters."
Manic brought out a notepad and a pen out of nowhere. "What do you want?"
One of the characters, an orange and blue hedgehog that looked awfully like Sonic, thought for a second. "I just want a bagel with cream cheese and a grape juice."
"O-" Manic began to write but was stopped by Honest. "We don't have grape juice!"
"Well, can I have mango?" "No." "Pomegranate?" "No." "What about orange?"
"We have apple juice!" Honest exclaimed. Of course they had apple juice. Honest loved apple juice. She drank it all the time. "Hm.. okay." Manic jotted that down.
Dina spoke next. "What kind of pies do you have already made?"
Honest pointed to a display shelf near where Rouge was speaking with a customer.
"It looks like apple- maybe peach- and some sort of cream pie," she reported.
"Oh, well then I will have a slice of the apple-maybe-peach pie and coffee," Dina said.
Manic wrote that down as well. The last of them, a grey and white cat, ordered as well, and Manic ran to the pass-through, sticking the sticky note onto the top of the counter. Amy saw it and took it, disappearing. Manic walked back to Honest. "Now what?"
"To the next table!" Honest pushed the green hedgehog across the room, dust flying up from where his shoes met the tile floor. Shadow followed them silently.
"Wait," Honest said suddenly, putting an arm up to prevent Manic from walking any further. "Is that-" She pointed to an orange-red... Bubsy creature sitting at the table they were walking to. "Sega's Custom Character??"
Sure enough, sitting at one of the tables was CC. "Why is he even a character??"
Shadow laughed. "It actually is him! I mean- he is a character, just.. not an important one."
"Are you kidding? He," Honest leaned to his ear. "He isn't even real!!"
"But he's sitting right over there," he replied, pointing.
"What are you two talking about?" Manic asked, butting in.
"N-Nothing! Nothing at all! Let's go take this table's orders.." Honest steered him towards Sonic's table where he sat with Amy across from him.
"But I thought we were going to go to that table..?" he said, taking a step in the direction of the Custom Character's table.
"B-But-" Manic turned Honest around and took her to CC's table. Shadow followed, though reluctantly.
Blaze was happily dozing off in a chair near the counter. New maids meant more opportunities to sleep soundly knowing that no one job was left unfilled. And so sleep she did. Rosey was there as well that day. While Manic, Honest, and Shadow darted around taking orders, she made sure Amy and Key were getting the orders made.
Honey was no longer the sole employee at the cash register. Rouge had nearly begged Sticks to work for her, but there were two things she didn't agree with. One was the fact that she would be required to wear a uniform which made fighting virtually impossible, and the other was that she would have to work with a "robot", the cash register. Every time Sticks went to go pay for her meal, she would be watching the mechanical money-storer instead of Honey to make sure it didn't try to attack her. It never did, but that would never convince Sticks that it wouldn't in the future. Any chance she could get to stay away from the cash register, she would take.
Instead, in her place, stood Snow. She was okay with working there just as long as she got to wear a cute uniform. Honey made sure it was definitely that. It had bunny ears hanging off of it everywhere, an extra-long bow in the back with stray ribbons that almost touched the ground, and it was purple and white to match Snow's eyes and ears. She was happy with it, so now she was the last person you would see upon leaving the cafe every afternoon.
"Blah, blah, blah, blah, shorto keki," Honest sang, leaving the kitchen with a giant, strawberry cake in her arms. "Blah, blah, blah, pudding!" She dropped the humongous dessert onto Sonic's and Amy's table. "Take as much as you want. Here's a knife."
Honest fished a butter knife out of her apron and passed it to Sonic.
"Thanks, but- do we really have to cut the cake ourselves?" Sonic asked.
"Yup! Sorry. We have a lot of orders right now," Honest replied, running across the room towards the kitchen. Sonic and Amy looked around the cake at each other.
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Kind of an abrupt end, but I wanted to get a chapter of this published along with the eight chapters of {w/Snow} and the chapter of {Limited Edition}. Please vote for this chapter if you enjoyed it! Check out my other stories and add this story to your library and reading lists! :33