"Kill me, Ness," Avery moaned as she looked at the fat stack of cake orders in front of her.
Marianne, the bakery owner, had taken on way too many orders at once. She opened the shop a few years ago and ran everything with only her and her brother who ran the counter. As the business took off and became more popular, she was able to hire a few more people but there weren't nearly enough for this sort of rush.
She developed new recipes and made things like cookies. Vanessa did breads. Avery did cakes. Marianne's brother Marcus worked the counter and handled the financials.
Since they were all human and needed breaks, everyone got two days off a week and left other people to cover their duties while they were gone. Danny, a teenage part-timer, helped with this issue as well by working the counter for a few hours twice a week after school and on Saturdays.
