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Emily looked at the crumpled bills on the counter, slimy from Judy’s buttery fingers, and scrunched up her nose. “Can’t someone else go today?” she asked, but no one else would go and she knew it. The question floated out of her mouth and into the bakery, where it was lost in the purr of a food processor.
“Get me a vanilla,” Judy shouted. “Carol wants mocha.”
Emily choked back another complaint, flattened the slippery money, and dropped it into the front pocket of her apron.
“And bring
all the candy
back,” Judy added, as if Emily was a stupid, dishonest child.
Emily made a face at Judy’s fat bottom, which quivered like two overfilled jelly donuts inside her black, spandex, just-barely-work-appropriate pants, and reached under the counter for her purse.
Sure, she thought,
I’ll bring it back. Candy is exactly what you need.
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