It started simply enough. The copper haired girl, Nora, made a couple of basic coffees that people would order for sure while her counterpart (Ren) watched her more carefully than he needed to. Nora seemed a little insulted by the level of attention he was paying to her to assure she didn't have any coffee herself. Pyrrha had gotten Ruby a little notepad to keep track of orders and was showing her how to use it.

Well, I hope this goes well. Couldn't I have gotten some kind of training day or something?

Ren plugged the Penny-phone into the computer. Penny said something to him in her friendly, not-quite-human voice, and he heaved a long-suffering sigh. Also it's going to take a while to get used to the talking phone.

The bell on the door ringed as it opened, signaling that someone had arrived. Ruby jumped, taken by surprise, and nearly dropped a mug that she was carrying to Nora. The customer was a taller girl, not quite Pyrrha-tall, but up there, with green hair and startlingly red eyes. She gave Ruby a friendly smile.

"New worker?"

Pyrrha nodded. "This is Yang's sister. She's our new employee. What can I get you today," the redhead continued as she led the mint-haired girl to a table, fluidly, in a way Ruby worried she would never be able to. Great. MORE expectations.

"An iced cappuccino, please," the customer explained.

Pyrrha nodded. "Anything else?"

"I'll take one of those croissant things. Why not?"

"Great! We'll have that ready for you right away!" Pyrrha took Ruby's arm and led her away from the table. "That's Emerald, one of our most loyal customers. Aside from Velvet and Coco, who I'm sure you'll meet today. They come in every weekday before work."

Ruby nodded, wary of all the new information. Pyrrha explained Emerald's order to Ren, who turned and yelled at Nora, who had begun drinking one of the coffees.

Pyrrha took the drink, which was now prepared, ready to bring it to Emerald, when the door chimed.

"Oh, there's Sun and Neptune. Ruby, do you want to see them to their table?" Pyrrha suggested, her hands full.

Ruby's eyes widened. "Um..."

Nora gave her a pleading look that seemed to say This is not hard. This is easy. You can't just leave all the work to Pyrrha.

On second thought, Nora's face actually had a normal expression and all of that was in Ruby's own mind.

She strutted over to the two new entries, both guys. One had messy blond hair and the other slicked back awesome blue hair. The blue haired one also wore a pair of completely unnecessary but surprisingly cool looking goggles.

"Hi! Can I get you anything?" she said cheerfully, trying to imitate Pyrrha.

"Yeah, a table would be great," the blond replied.

Ruby blushed. "Of course. Sorry, I'm new." She led them to an empty round table. "Can I get you any drinks?"

"Black coffee for me, and hash browns if you've got 'em. " The blue-haired boy glanced around. "No Weiss today?"

Ruby shook her head. "Nope. Okay, just black coffee and hash browns, anything for you?"

The blond nodded. He opened his mouth and out came a jumble of words and coffee types so quickly that Ruby had no time to write it down.

"Um, hehe, sorry, could you repeat that?" She asked warily. He obliged, and Ruby got it down. She smiled and walked back over to the counter.

Pyrrha tipped her head. "How was your first experience as a server?"

Ruby moaned. "I messed up!" She slumped, banging her head on the counter.

Ren sighed. "Sun's order?"

Ruby assumed that was the blond with the complicated order. "Here you go," she muttered, handing him the notepad. He took it and began preparing the coffees while Nora went into the back room to make the hash browns. "Also I forgot to get them a table."

"It's alright," exclaimed Penny's disembodied voice. Ruby jumped. "First days are difficult, friend Ruby. Your mistakes are nothing compared to the time Blake-"

"NO!" Pyrrha shouted, loudly enough for Emerald, who was sitting closest to the counter, to look up, smiling. "Penny!"

"I'm sorry. I had forgotten that Blake did not want that incident mentioned again." Penny's voice boomed from the phone as Pyrrha rushed to turn the volume down. "That's a long story," the latter sighed a little shakily, "that Blake can tell you if she wants."

Ruby perked up a little at the idea of hearing a funny story, (and the fact that the calm and collected Blake had made a mistake bad enough for that reaction out of Pyrrha) and was ready to get back to work. Some more customers had entered, and Pyrrha was already rushing to get to them, so Ruby took the coffee tray for Sun and Neptune and balanced it on one hand to appear professional.

She got all the way to the table, and then promptly spilled both cups on Sun.

She let out a stream of colorful words, accompanied by Sun's surprised cry, and Emerald once again turned to face them, this time snickering quietly.

Pyrrha gasped.

The entire cafe went silent.

And then that disembodied voice that Ruby was starting to despise boomed, "Well, that was as bad as what Blake did, Friend Ruby!"

Pyrrha rushed over to Ruby and Sun. "I'm very sorry, would you like your drinks on the house or… um… something?"

The silence faded back into friendly chatter, but Ruby was still frozen in shock, her face as red as Pyrrha's hair.

"Nah, it's fine. Mistakes happen," Sun smiled good-naturedly. "You're new?" he asked Ruby's frozen form. She nodded meekly, relieved he wasn't angry.

"She's Yang's little sister," Pyrrha explained.

Sun nodded. "Nice to meetcha, Ruby."

Neptune raised his hand mildly. "Could I have my food on the house?"

Pyrrha gave him a friendly glare and Sun whacked him.

"Hashbrowns!" Nora shouted. Glad for the distraction, Ruby rushed over to get the said hashbrowns. "Hey," the ginger-haired girl grinned at her (a little maniacally). "It's not that bad. Well, it is that bad, but at least it wasn't Cinder. Or Mercury. OR WINTER, that would be terrible. Winter's Weiss's sister, and if you think Weiss is awful, just wait till you meet Winter! Also, It's nowhere near as bad as what Blake did, she-" Nora was cut off as Ren materialized behind her, putting a hand over her mouth. She mumbled something unintelligible.

"You're fine. Sun's a good guy," he stated in his monotone. Ruby nodded.

Nora broke free, cheering, "YEAH! BRING THOSE HASH BROWNS!"

Hey! Thanks for reading! Chapter Four: Either Tomorrow or Tuesday!