Pet Shop of Embarrassment (Literature)

It wasn’t even 9 am yet, and already the summer sun was baking up quite  the humid heat. Strikes of gold from the sunrise still streaked the  receding clouds and blended beautifully into the brightening azures of  the morning sky and through the vibrant emerald leaves adorning the  trees. A flock of pleasantly-warbling sparrows fluttered overhead on a  gentle breeze, to rest among the many daisies and other lush flowerbeds  the town kept tended this time of year. Truly a majestic morning, the  kind that had to be seen to be believed!

Unfortunately, all Candice could see was the teetering tower of cardboard boxes in her arms.

“Ack!”  Candice yelped as her next step was too shaky and the stack abruptly  shifted, threatening to topple! “Agh! E-Emma? A little help please?  Hello?!”

The rich redhead barely nodded in acknowledgement, eyes  glued to the smartphone in her one hand, while with the other she very  slowly tapped out the passcode to open the pet shop’s inventory garage.  “Sounds like a ‘you’ problem, honey,” she drawled over her shoulder.  “Kind of on the clock right now. Oops.” She smirked and began putting in  the passcode again. “It’s two fives. I hit five-four.”

“Ugh!”  Candice groaned and carefully shifted her grip to keep a hold on the  boxes before her fingers fell off. So much sweat beading down her head  and almost into her eyes! Loads of pet snacks, dishes, chew toys; this  was a heavy load for three people, yet here she was, carting it around  all by herself so as not to ruin Emma’s manicure. Good grief! Last week,  when Candice had heard she would be getting a fellow Eager Meadows  student as a coworker, she’d thought nothing of it. Never in a thousand  years would she have guessed her coworker would be Little Miss Daddy’s  Girl herself. It was like the universe itself had gone out of its way to  annoy Candice! Why did Emma even need to work? Her ‘Daddy’ practically  blew his nose using wads of hundreds! Maybe she wasn’t the only one  totally over that brat’s attitude…

The feeling was mutual.  Finally, while still totally focused on her phone, Emma put in the right  code, causing the garage door to give a metallic cough before  rattlingly ascending. As Emma ducked under, immediately relieved by the  cool A/C, she muttered to herself, “Can’t believe I gotta work with this  freakin’ bubble butt dork. Of all the luck.”

Boxes unevenly  teetering side to side - and nearly catching on the door! - Candice  slowly staggered after Emma into the shade, hardly able to enjoy it to  the same degree. “Emma, please?!” The top of the stack grazed the garage  door again and Candice nearly fell over! “Help?! This is your JOB,  y’know?”

“It’s yours too. And you’re doing it fine enough,  sweetie. Ugh.” Emma stopped in her tracks with a scowl, having almost  walked into a dog bed laid out on the garage floor, upon which a fiery  orange corgi was perking its head up at the two girls coming in from the  heat. With a curious yip, the pup hopped off the bed and began sniffing  around Emma’s legs. “Ew. No.” Emma took a wide step back, then another  to put distance between herself and the scrappy little corgi, and the  second step successfully made him switch targets to Candice.

Unable  to see him coming, Candice almost jumped and lost her boxes as the  corgi came up and began greeting her with a few yips. “Hi! Hey Rocket,  hey boy!” Candice cooed as nicely as she could under all the strain.  Truthfully, she was relieved the corgi only took a single sniff while  threading around her legs before getting bored and trotting back to his  bed. Puffing loudly, Candice again readjusted her grip. “Come ON,  seriously, could you just take a box?! We’ve got so much to do before  the store opens!”

Candice couldn’t see past the boxes, but she  could very clearly sense Emma’s supercilious stare. “And break a nail?  Ruin my image? As if.” A thought made Emma smirk. “Of course, if you  want help…”

The quick tone shift made Candice freeze. “Wait, no! I don’t mean-“

“Too  late!” As Candice squirmed, Emma gracefully darted behind the dorky  blonde, grabbed the sides of her uniform’s dark green skirt, and yanked  it down to her knees!

“Ah!” Candice’s knees unconsciously buckled, as her skirt plummeted and her dainty yellow panties were revealed! “Emma!!!”

“Pfft!”  Emma could barely contain her snickers. Candice’s panties were  obviously a size too small, with about an inch of ass crack peeking out  and a gaudy pink heart across the right cheek! “What’s wrong, dork?  Running out of frilly stuff? Ha!” Emma gave a curt smack on Candice’s  panties’ heart decal and chuckled to herself as she strolled through the  inventory door and into the shop itself.

“Ugh!” With her legs  splayed out and her skirt caught around her ankles, Candice very  awkwardly tried waddling closer to where she figured the countertop was,  but she only made it two or three shuffling steps before giving up and  carefully setting the stack of boxes on the ground. The relief was  immediate, but too little too late. “Dammit, Emma… had to be Emma…”  Breathing hard, Candice continued to mutter to herself as she positioned  herself behind the stack and bent to pull her skirt back up her legs.  “…of all the people… having to put up with her…” Candice sighed and  chided to herself that all the complaining and sniping was only going to  make things worse for everyone. Might as well button up and make the  best of things… or at least the ‘least miserable’ of things… Besides,  there was still way too much to take care of before the store opened:  restock the toys, mop the floor, fix that bent screw by the fish  section, check the register-

Candice froze mid-checklist with a  glance out the door into the shop itself. Out in the middle of the  store, Emma was pressing her face against the parrots’ glass cage!  “Oooh!” Candice heard the redhead’s muffled voice. “These are pretty! I  wanna pet one!”

“Wait! Emma, don’t!” Candice yelled. “You can’t  just- WHOA!” In her moment of panic, Candice totally didn’t register  she’d only pulled her skirt up to her knees! As soon as Candice moved  her leg to run at Emma, her skirt caught and Candice tripped and went  sailing forward! “AGH! Oof!” Candice landed hard on her front as she  slid into the store, practically face-planting on the turquoise tiles!  Immediately, all the movement sent the puppies and birdies in cages on  the nearby wall into barking and squawking chaos, and it wasn’t a large  store, meaning soon all the enclosures along the walls and spotting the  center were a storm of loud animal sounds! “Ugh…” Candice groaned to  herself. Of course she fell then and not before! As the clamor died  away, Candice gingerly picked herself back up on scraped elbows, luckily  remembering her half-dressed state before standing up in view of the  windows. Her skirt had slipped back down to her ankles with the fall,  and the front of her yellow panties had rolled down just slightly enough  to tease her lack of shaving over the past few days. Candice quickly  adjusted on both accounts, keeping low to make sure she stayed out of  view of the windows. No way did she want anyone outside to see her like  that!

Meanwhile, Emma hadn’t spared more than a sidelong glance  at the disheveled dork. She’d managed to coax one of the parrots out of  its cage and to perch on her finger, and was admiring its strikingly  vibrant red, yellow, and blue plumage. “Hmm,” Emma mused amusedly as she  lifted her hand like she was raising the parrot like a glass at a  toast. “I like this one. I’ll put it on Daddy’s account.” Lifting the  bird higher as it fidgeted on her finger, with her other hand Emma  produced her smartphone to snap a quick pic of her new best friend.

FLASH!

SQUAWK!  SQUAWK! The sudden burst of the camera flash startled the parrot, who  immediately flapped off Emma’s fingers and started attacking her!!

“AH!”  Emma hurriedly covered her face with her arms, dropping her phone as  the agitated parrot squawked louder and flapped in her face! “Get off,  you dumb- AH!” The bird swooped back and forth in front of her,  scratching her arms and at her bright green top with its sharp and  grabby toes! The fabric of Emma’s shirt started catching on the parrot’s  toes as it flapped fast and close, before a button popped free and  bounced before rolling out the inventory door, observed by a half-asleep  Rocket nearly moving to chase after it. A moment later, before Emma  could even register the button flying off, the parrot snagged the second  button and sent it pinging away into the hamsters section! Totally  undone, Emma’s shirt flew open, without a bra beneath, revealing her  bare breasts! “AH!” Emma yelped, feeling the cold A/C on her naked  chest!

Candice finally intervened, whistling for the parrot’s  attention before gently guiding the bird back into its cage and nudging  the door shut. Hurriedly, Emma dropped her arms and covered her exposed  boobs with a hand on each, before realizing she was probably in view of  the windows and dropping to a crouch behind a display! Just great…  Hopefully no one passing by got a good look at her tits…

She knew  she shouldn’t, but in spite of herself, Candice cackled. “Sorry, Emma!  Guess it wasn’t meant to be! Ha ha…” Candice continued chuckling as she  turned back into the inventory, just barely dodging the razor-sharp  glare Emma shot at her, as she lifted her phone out of a loose pile of  fur.

“…dumb dork… better watch that fat butt of hers…” Emma  murmured as she shook as much fur off her phone as she could before  disgustedly dropping it on the nearby counter. With the buttons torn  off, her shirt wouldn’t stay closed over her ta-tas, and as such, she  tied her shirt up with a sloppy knot to make it into a makeshift crop  top. Crude work, and it left her midriff exposed, but it’d keep her  girls covered, which was the more important thing. But if the shopowner  went and saddled her with a fine for what *their* stupid animal did to  her uniform, ooh there’d be hell to pay… She turned her glare to the  parrot, who was already pecking at a saltine like nothing had happened -  almost smugly, she thought. Dumb bird.

Before long, Candice  returned to the main store floor, hefting a cardboard box full of pet  toys in one arm and pushing forward a custodial mop and rolling bucket  with the other. “Okay, but seriously, we gotta get ready to open. I’ll  get going on the toy stock.” Candice paused, staring at the aquatic  corner near the front of the store, before sliding the mop and bucket  Emma’s way. “It looks like there’s some excess water around the fish  tanks. Mop it up real quick?”

“Yeah, yeah,” Emma grumbled and  grabbed the mop as it rolled up, brusquely sloshing the water around as  she got to work, as Candice began taking toys out of the box and neatly  arranging them on the shelves. Emma’s lacking history of manual labor  shone through pretty quickly, as she lifted the mop out of its bucket  exceptionally carefully, so as to not dribble water onto her new pumps,  and once she got going, she didn’t do more than push water around until  things were arguably worse than before! Ugh, Emma silently huffed at the  colorful fish staring vacantly back. This was NOT how she wanted to  spend her summer!

Candice’s annoyingly-chipper voice cut through  Emma’s thoughts. “Y’know, we’re not even that far behind schedule!” She  sounded almost proud. “After this, a couple more checks, maybe toss some  snacks around, we might actually be good to open!”

With a retort  on her tongue, Emma finally glanced back at Candice, only to  immediately swallow said retort. Candice was beginning to stock toys on  the lower shelves, and was apparently reaching way to the back of the  shelf. As such, she was bent over pretty far, so far her bubble butt  made a perfect heart shape through the tight skirt fabric. Even more  enticing: unbeknownst to Candice, bending like she was doing caused said  skirt to roll up further than she realized, teasing Emma with another  flash of yellow panties, and even the bottom of Candice’s butt cheeks.

Suddenly, the idea of cleaning something didn’t sound so bad to Emma…

“Hey,  when you’re done by the fish, could you maybe take a quick look behind  the- WAHH!” Candice shot upright so fast she nearly clocked her head on  the shelf, as Emma started attacking her butt with the wet mop! Cold,  soapy water soaked the back of Candice’s skirt and rushed down her legs,  causing her to slip and brace herself against the shelves! “E-Emma?!  What are you doing?!”

Emma giggled as she scrubbed! “You got a  big dirty butt! I’m just trying to help you out! Oh, almost missed a  spot!” Giggling harder, Emma pushed the mop harder against Candice’s  sopping behind, every scrub causing Candice’s skirt to roll up inch by  inch! Slowly but surely, against Candice’s incessant stumbling and  squirming, Emma pushed Candice’s skirt up past her thighs, then enough  to reveal the bottom of her panties hardly concealing her buns, before  the skirt was rolled all the way up to Candice’s waist, her bight yellow  panties back on full display! “Oops!” Emma laughed. “Ah well, better  make sure EVERYTHING’S clean!”

“Emma! S-stop!” Candice sputtered  as Emma continued to scrub her backside, her panties soaking and  clinging coldly to her skin! “Emma! EmmAAAAH!” Candice squealed as  Emma’s next jab shoved the mop right down the back of her panties!  Coarse mop bristles scrubbed freezing soap and water right between her  butt cheeks! “Gah! Wuh! Stuh!” Candice lost her grip on the shelves and  her pleas turned to gasps and groans as Emma ‘washed’ harder, back and  forth along her cheeks and often rubbing in between! The friction and  the frigidity, the soap soaking through and under against Candice’s  privates, Candice’s brain felt like it was melting!

With Emma’s  vigorous ‘cleaning,’ Candice’s drenched undies were gradually pulled  lower and lower, until they were around her thighs and Candice’s entire  bountiful behind was revealed! The booty-ful sight invigorated Emma  further, as she watched those bulbous butt cheeks bounce and ripple with  every squirm of the dumb dork’s hips, and inspired her to once or twice  run the mop not-too-gently between Candice’s thighs! Candice yelped  louder with that, and all the water dripping soaked her panties even  further and bid them to slip lower towards her knees!

“Your  panties come down so easily!” The redheaded tormentor grinned wider and  side-eyed to the windows to see if they had an audience, but it was hard  to tell for the moment. For now, she wasn’t ready to give up playtime!  “Don’t worry,” Emma turned back towards her prey and made a point of  lavishly running the mop up and down Candice’s sudsy butt crack. “We’re  gonna get this bubble butt of yours squeaky clean!” As Emma’s laughter  and Candice’s squeals got louder, so too did the clamor of the animals  surrounding the scene! Dogs barked, parrots cawed, it even seemed like  the hamsters were squeaking!

All the commotion quickly brought  the attention of Rocket, who bounded into the store yipping along with  the menagerie before his little puppy eyes witnessed a sight most  unpleasant: the mean lady who stank of too much artificial fragrance was  attacking the nice lady with glass on her face! This wouldn’t do at  all! Over the cacophony and her own triumphant cackles, Emma didn’t hear  Rocket as the corgi began to growl, before the pup raced towards her  and pounced, biting down on the hem of her skirt!

“Wha?!” Emma  turned away from Candice as soon as she felt Rocket tugging hard on her  skirt! “Hey! Stupid flea-bag, let go!” By the time the mop had dropped  from Emma’s hands and clattered on the floor, Rocket had tugged her  skirt down her hips to reveal more than few inches of her panties! Emma  tried to grab onto her skirt with one hand and push away Rocket with the  other, but Rocket was resilient, and her hands were too wet and soapy  to grab a hold of the smooth suede fabric! “No! NO! Down, you stupid-  STOP!” Emma shrieked ineffectually as Rocket kept snarling and shook his  head to bring Emma’s skirt lower and lower down her milky thighs, until  he tugged hard enough to whisk it all the way down to her ankles!

“Eek!  My skirt!” Emma exclaimed, burning red upon seeing her panties on full  display - frilly and white, the exact kind she ridiculed Candice for  usually wearing! They were an older pair, snug on her hips these days,  and one she never intended anyone to ever see!

Rocket kept  gnawing and thrashing and tugging Emma’s skirt, pulling the garment taut  against her ankles! The pulling and the soapy water spilled all over  the floor caused Emma to stagger off-balance in an unsteady wide-legged  stance! “Ah! Stop it!” Each of Emma’s attempts to reach down and pull up  her skirt nearly sent her slipping, forcing her to stay upright and  basically trapping her with her pants down in the middle of the store!  Part of it, too, was pure surprise! This little ratty dog was WAY  stronger than he looked!

Meanwhile, Candice was slowly picking  herself off the shelf after Emma’s assault on her rear abruptly ended.  She was quick to pull her panties back up, but hesitated before bringing  her skirt back up all the way upon hearing something through all the  animals’ ruckus. Skirt around her thighs, Candice wheeled around with  wide eyes and a dropped jaw upon witnessing Emma’s predicament!

“Candice!” Emma barked as she fought to keep her balance. “Don’t just stand there, you idiot! Control your dumb dog!”

Candice,  however, was actually pretty unnerved. She’d only been working in the  shop a week, maybe two, but she’d never seen Rocket be aggressive like  this! “I-it’s not my dog! It’s the owner’s! Um… down! Down, Rocket?” Of  course, Rocket paid no mind, continuing to growl and pull and… hiss? No,  that wasn’t the dog… Emma’s skirt was starting to tear! But Candice  seemed to be the only one who noticed? Emma kept flailing and cursing as  seams split between Rocket’s teeth! The skirt wasn’t going to hold much  longer! “Emma!” Candice called out, “you gotta-“

But before  Candice could complete her warning, Rocket growled louder and gave  another hard yank, so hard the distressed material finally tore!  SHHRRRRIP! “WHOA!” With the skirt pulling her ankles abruptly getting  torn away, Emma immediately began slipping and stumbling backwards!

“Emma!”  Candice yelped on instinct and reached out a hand to try and catch her,  but was too late to do anything but watch on as Emma staggered  backwards on the soapy tiles!

Finally, Emma came to a crashing  halt when she backed hard into a tall shelf lined with fishbowls!  “Oooh!” The hard impact rattled the whole shelf, and even sent a bowl  near the top shelf skittering to the edge, before it finally slipped and  fell down! Emma shook and head and struggled upright just in time to  notice the shadow over her head getting closer. “Oh crap!” Quickly, Emma  stepped forward and held up her arms to just barely catch the bowl out  of midair! “Whew…” Emma sighed in both relief and pleasant surprise,  looking down at the terrified goldfish swimming safe in her hands. That  was a close call!

Were it so easy. Emma tried to take another  step away from the shelf, only to stop. Some pulling around her hips  stopped her from moving. “What the-?” Emma quickly turned her head and  spied the issue, as well as her bare ass! “Oh crap…” The shelf Emma had  backed into was the shelf with the loose screw Candice hadn’t fixed yet,  and when Emma hit it, it’d snagged right under the waistband of her  panties! It was a deep snag, too, completely jabbed through the fabric,  pulling it well away from her body to give a clean peek of her pale  buns!

And if that wasn’t enough: Rocket’s shrill bark snapped  Emma’s attention back forward. The little scoundrel shook his head and  tossed the shredded skirt to the side, apparently no longer satisfied  with it and ready for more! With another bark, the orange menace made  like his namesake and shot towards Emma!

“Oh CRAP!”  Instinctively, Emma tried to dart away, only to again get pulled back by  her panties still trapped on the shelf! She thought to reach back and  pull them free, but both her hands still cradled the fishbowl, and with  Rocket speeding her way, there was no time to put it down or figure out  anything! And so instead Emma tried again to run away from the shelf,  intentionally stretching out her panties and hoping they would break  before Rocket reached her! So what if the screw tore a hole in her  underpants, they’re a pair she rarely uses anyway! She just had to get  away from that little orange monster!

Unfortunately, it didn’t  pan out quite how Emma wanted! Before long, the fabric began to tear,  alright, but the size of the hole being torn was way bigger than she’d  anticipated! Emma’s panties tore all up the backside before the elastic  finally snapped and the tattered mess of fabric plummeted right down her  legs!

“AH! Dammit!” Emma cursed as she looked down and saw  herself naked from the waist down! Quickly, Emma lowered the fishbowl in  her hands to cover her exposed crotch, but with the glass and water,  all she did was magnify the image of her bare pussy for anyone passing  by to see!

All Candice got from her position was a good view of  Emma’s bare butt, but still, the sight of Emma’s tight round cheeks was  enough to get her giggling despite herself! “Wow, Emma,” Candice heckled  in a tone similar to that which Emma used when harassing her, “not your  lucky day, is it?”

“Sh-… Shut up, you-“ Emma was interrupted by  another shrill bark, and her eyes went wide. Rocket was almost on her!  “GAH!” Finally freed, Emma made to sprint away, only to immediately slip  on the floor still soaking wet with sudsy water! “WAHHH!” Emma’s howl  mixed with that of the puppies on the wall as she tripped and went  sailing forward, her feet kicking up out from her sundered undies and  the fishbowl flying out of her hands!

Candice’s laughter  evaporated on the spot as she saw the poor fishy flying through the air!  “I- I got it!” Hurriedly, Candice raced closer and, with a little jump,  grabbed the fishbowl out of the air and hugged it to her chest! “Whew!  Gotcha!” Candice assured the little fish, before a mighty crash brought  her attention back at Emma!

For Emma, it was like the fall was  happening at half-speed. She processed everything so fast - her falling,  the loss of her underpants, the fishbowl flying away - until finally  she made out exactly where she was going to land: right in the mop  bucket!

SPLASH!

“Grrgh! Mmmfpthrr!” Emma struggled and  flailed her arms, submerged up to her waist in the bucket, spattering  water and soap suds all over the nearby shelves and all across the  fronts of the nearby cages and the raucous animals inside! She was bent  nearly all the way over the yellow bucket, bare booty aimed straight in  the air and wiggling and jiggling like mad as she kicked and thrashed  and slipped over and over trying to lift herself up and out! “Gltthth!  Cnnditttth!”

Before long, yipping and snarling all the way,  Rocket charged up to Emma and pounced again, nabbing a mouthful of  Emma’s soaked blouse and rearing back with enough vigor and momentum -  combined with Emma’s thrashing - to pull the drenched redhead up out of  the bucket. Her soaked cherry-red hair swung back like a banner, sending  an icy wave of water arcing back and knocking into the parakeet cages!  “Stttplttth! Ack!” Emma gasped, panting both for air and from pure  anger! She landed hard on her bare butt in the middle of a soapy puddle  with a loud icy smack that stung her cheeks! As she shoved sopping  strands of hair and globs of bubbles out of her blinded eyes, Rocket  continued to growl and pull at her shirt! A few more good tugs from the  vicious little pup, and the knot keeping Emma’s shirt together came  undone! The blouse immediately fell away from covering her boobs, and a  few more tugs from Rocket pulled it all the way off Emma’s shoulders!  Candice’s jaw fell open. Save for the stretch of green fabric caught  around her elbows, and for her drenched socks and sneakers, Emma was  basically naked in the middle of the store!

Steaming with so much  anger it was almost as if the water on her bare skin was coming to a  boil, Emma fought against Rocket’s pulling until she could pick herself  up to sit on her knees, where’d she became practically petrified in her  rage with her hands flapping uselessly at her sides. Even with globs of  soap rendering her half-blind, looking down at her own body, the pink of  her nipples, the unmistakable lines of her private parts, the water all  over her skin making her shiver, it was so… utterly inconceivable! This  should not be happening to HER! Butt-naked and drenched with filthy mop  water?! And this stupid mongrel attacking her?!

“AGH!” Emma  yelled at such a pitch that made even the hound dogs whine! “You dumb  DORK! So stupid! This stupid job!” Rocket growled and pulled so hard  Emma was jerked back slightly, which only made her growl twice as loud!  “And this freaking FLEABAG! Get OFF ME!” Blindly, Emma shrieked and  swatted her hand back until finally she shoved Rocket off her shirt!

As  Rocket skittered to his feet and shrugged off the impact, however, he  quickly determined a much better target. As Emma continued to angrily  cry out and wipe her face, she leant forward a while, unconsciously  sticking out her round, vulnerable butt, and making those cheeks seem  all the plumper, all the more desirable a mark. Emboldened, Rocket once  again barked and raced towards Emma with his mouth open wide, before  clamping down hard on Emma’s ass!

“YAAAAAAGGGGGGH!” Emma screamed  at a pitch higher than Candice had ever heard her reach before!  Immediately, Emma shot to her feet with her hands flying back to her  butt and the corgi latched on her left cheek! Rocket was persistent, and  it took a few hard hip-shakes to get the rotten pup to finally let go!  And the second the pup hit the ground, he shook himself off and jumped  up snapping again for another taste of spoiled-redhead tushy!

“AH!”  Emma yelped and threw her hips away from Rocket’s mouth before roaring  again! “SCREW THIS!! I’m out of here! You bitch, this dog, UGH!” Rubbing  her eyes with one hand and her bitten butt cheek with the other, Emma  stomped forward, all the while cursing, “Dumb dork! Dumb dog! I hate  this job!” Enraged as she was, as she pushed open the door, she hardly  heard Candice calling out to her that she was going the wrong way…

Blazingly-bright  sunlight and humid heat immediately washed over Emma and stung her  eyes. “AGH!” She recoiled and covered her face, and when she dropped her  hands, the hazy half-blindness and humidity like a cloud around her  added to how unreal the moment suddenly became. She was outside on the  sizzling-hot sidewalk, out in public, with people walking this way and  that… and she was naked… People turned her way and became a crowd that  seemed to grow with every infinite-feeling second. More and more  pedestrians stopped and stared in confusion at a most peculiar sight: a  redheaded girl screaming her lungs out, buck-naked and dripping wet in  the middle of the sidewalk! Emma froze, stupefied, arms locked in flared  positions at her sides, leaving her each and every curve and pinkish  place totally exposed for all to gawk at! All these strangers stopping  and looking at her boobs, her pussy, knowing she should be embarrassed  but still seething with anger, it’s like Emma’s brain simply could not  compute! Naked and wet in broad daylight?!

Emma was snapped out  of her moment of pause by another loud snarl, as Rocket leaped up and  nearly chomped down on her booty again! Rage rekindled, Emma cried out,  “Agh! Get this dumb dog away from me!” and swung her hips out of harm’s  way, before taking off in a sprint down the road, the little orange  terror staying hot on her heels! “I-I’ll get you for this, Candice!”  Emma swore over her shoulder as she streaked, screaming “GET AWAY!” over  and over, both at the dog chasing her, but also to the numerous  bystanders and their countless phone cameras flashing, capturing the  bizarre spectacle of a nude redhead being chased by a vicious ball of  orange fluff!

When Candice ran outside after Emma and Rocket, she  did so with the intention of catching them and pulling them back in  before they made too much of a scene or too many people saw them. By the  time Candice made it to the door, however, both Emma and Rocket were  already half a block away, and be it the distance or something else…  Candice just stopped and watched them go. It was weird. Very rarely did  Candice find herself on the other side of a situation like this. It was  hard to say how it felt, watching Emma streak naked, seeing all the  confused people on the street turning right into her full monty as she  ran and snapping pictures of her tight yet jiggly tush before she got  out of view. More than anything, though, Candice felt a smidge  emboldened. Good, Emma getting what she deserved! Let her be the one  humiliated for once! As Emma reached the end of the block and kept  running and swinging her hips away from the gnashing mouth of the  pursuing Rocket, Candice let a smile blossom on her lips…

…until she turned to walk back into the shop, and into the crossed arms of the very bulky and very surly shop owner, Mr. Devin.

Candice’s  pupils shrank to little dots as visions of all the bedlam and broken  shelves and water everywhere flooded her mind, as well as the other  employee who just ran soaking wet and nude out of the shop. She’d  realized, too, with all the chaos going on, she’d forgotten to hike her  skirt up the rest of the way, meaning she was standing in Mr. Devin’s  shadow with her skirt around her thighs, her yellow panties in full view  of both him and the people milling around the shop. Through the  dumbstruck, Candice made out more than a few comments and camera snaps  directed her way…

Sheepishly, Candice pulled her skirt up, but  while a thousand apologies built up in her brain, her mouth stayed  frozen open, noiseless. She didn’t need to say anything. After a moment,  Mr. Devin jerking his thumb over his shoulder was all that needed to be  said. Head lowered, Candice marched back into the shop, as Mr. Devin  flipped the sign by the door back to ‘closed.’

—

The next  morning, both girls were rung into a conference call providing each with  their totally-expected dismissal notices. Candice took hers with  dignity, and with numerous apologies. Emma said nothing the whole time  and hung up immediately when the news was shared. Candice apologized for  a fourth time before following suit.

Candice never did figure  out what exactly happened to Emma after she ran off. All she knew was  about an hour after the incident, Mr. Devin came stomping back through  the front door with Rocket cradled and sleeping in one of his  baseball-mitt-sized hands, while he pulled Emma by the wrist with his  other - still naked, of course, her body beet-red, maybe with  embarrassment, maybe just sunburn. Her hair had dried in frizzy tangles,  and she’d lost her shirt and one of her shoes, Candice noticed, before  pretending to politely look at the floor when Emma passed by, cupping  her free hand over her crotch while her boobs bounced freely. Still,  Candice couldn’t help but sneak a peek at the redhead’s  almost-as-reddened rear end for extra bite marks, though she couldn’t  tell for sure if any where there. Emma must have made it pretty far  through town. A lot of people must have seen her in her birthday suit,  way more of a crowd than the stuff they usually got up to in school.  It’s a wonder she didn’t get arrested or even just ticketed for running  around town for so long sans clothing. Later, Candice did accidentally  find a few videos trending on social media, some of which censored  Emma’s nudity, but a surprising majority only blurred out her face and  kept all her goods fully revealed, even zooming in on her bouncing bust  and/or butt cheeks as she passed. Plenty left everything in. This was  gonna be a tough one to live down.

Again, it was hard to pin down  exactly what feeling it was stirring in Candice’s heart, then or after  the call. As nice as it was to see Emma get a taste of what she dealt  out, Candice couldn’t shake the feeling she should have gone after her.  Heck, she could have gone and pulled Rocket away when he was pulling off  Emma’s clothes and biting her heinie, but she just sat there and  watched. Maybe it was how Emma had yelled at her like it was HER fault  somehow? Even though Candice hadn’t lifted a finger against her? Just  the heat of the moment, or could Candice have done something? Blegh,  what a mess…

Candice sighed up at her bedroom ceiling. As nice as  it was to have been on the other side of that bind for once - or at  least the worst of it - Candice realized she was too familiar with the  receiving end to avoid feeling sympathetic, and also more than a little  guilty for not helping out… though she couldn’t say Emma *didn’t*  deserve it… Well, whatever, nothing to do about it anymore. Best she  could hope for was that in getting familiar with the receiving end, a  shred of sympathy might find its way into Emma next time she tried  anything… though something told Candice not to hold her breath…

At  any rate, it was time to find another job. Candice spent the afternoon  skimming her shortlist of positions she’d been considering before  choosing the pet shop, as well as the classifieds, until she stumbled  across an opening that actually made her really excited! It was local,  it was a favorite spot of hers, and cherry on top: it was a place she  was 99% sure she was the only one in her school to know about. Hopefully  that meant no more bad surprises. Candice was definitely looking  forward to something with less ‘excitement.’