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"Okaeri goshujinsama."

Michiru, in an elegant shrine maiden's uniform with her hair tied in a loose side braid, greeted the customers at the door. Smiling, she guided them to a side table and took their order. When she turned from their table, her smile dropped from her face as she glared at the four people who were a constant pain in her life. Motoki, Taiki, and Yaten, or the "Idiot Trio" as she liked to call them, were at one table, thoroughly entertained just by watching her, while Haruka was alone at her table, observing Michiru with dark eyes that followed her every move. Haruka, having noticed that Michiru was now staring at her, gave a womanizing wink, and chuckled when Michiru crinkled her nose and gracefully stalked to the kitchen.

In the kitchen, Michiru looked at the clock and realized that her break had officially started five minutes ago. Wanting to finish her previous order before going on break, she handed the order to one of the chefs, and waited for the dish to be finished since there weren't a lot of customers that day. Otherwise, she would have gone right back out to the café to serve more people. Patiently waiting, Michiru started when someone called her name.

"Michiru-san, I can handle this order. Please, go on your break," Kakyuu called to Michiru as she appeared from the locker room, fully dressed in her uniform. Michiru let a grateful smile show, and thanked her as she went into the break room. Kakyuu was a part time employee who worked only when her busy schedule as a college student let her, so Michiru wasn't as close to her as she was with the others. Although, Kakyuu seemed to be a lovely and friendly woman who always tried to help everyone, as if to make up for her inconsistent working hours, there was still a polite distance between Michiru and Kakyuu.

Michiru was interrupted from her inner thoughts when an arm was suddenly draped across her neck.

"Michiru-chan! Did you and that hot blond customer have hot steamy eye sex today too?" Minako asked with spirit, as she wiggled her eyebrows in a playingly seductive manner. Michiru rolled her eyes, an action that was contradicted by the slight blush that had settled on her cheeks.

Minako was a fellow maid that Michiru had grown close to. The same age as Michiru, Minako was a very bubbly girl unafraid to speak her mind, especially when it came to things like love. She liked to call herself the goddess of love, though Michiru and the rest of her friends always asked how Minako could be the goddess of love if she hadn't experienced it herself. Minako constantly denied their assumptions, with a sly smile and a wag of her finger though it fooled no one. To Michiru, Minako seemed to be the epitome of a maid with her outgoing and vivacious personality. She was one of, if not the most popular maids in their café. She also was always on board with their boss's ideas for cosplay themes, and even helped think of them.

In spite of how they went to the same high school, they never hung out outside of Maid Latte. Michiru supposed it was due to how they each had their own personal circle of friends: Minako with her volleyball team friends and Michiru with Usagi and Ami. They still said hi to each other in the halls and in the sports festival, when the volleyball team was responsible for spiking balls at contestants of the obstacle race, Minako, as captain, had ordered a less ferocious barrage for her fellow maid noticing her sick state. Minako actually reminded her of Usagi, and she had a feeling they would be fast friends if they ever met.

"No, Minako-san. I didn't have 'eyesex' with Haruka-san. I told you, there's nothing going on between us," Michiru replied. Minako held the conviction that Michiru and Haruka harbored a passionate love for each other, and would eventually become a couple.

"Really, Michiru-chan? He is always there watching you," Rei sighed from her position on the couch, "I'm jealous. You're the only one out of all of us who has an actual love life."

Rei was also a maid that Michiru was close with, but she went to a different private high school. Like Minako, she had a very fiery personality, though she tried to put on a aloof façade. Rei's enthusiasm usually broke through her façade around her friends, because she was extremely close with the few friends she had. Lots of girls at her school admired her, but she tended to be very distant from them. In this way, Rei and Michiru were very similar. Rei also kept her job as a maid a secret, because her grandpa wouldn't approve seeing as how he was the owner of a shrine.

However, looking at the three of them together, Michiru couldn't help but muse how different they all were. One was a shrine maiden who was a maid to earn pocket money, another was a bubbly girl who was a maid for fun, and then there was her, working for money that her family needed. Despite the fact that Rei and Minako had shared pretty much everything -Michiru was sure they still kept some things secret- amongst them, Michiru still maintained her distance on her personal history like she did with everyone.

Minako quickly tackled Rei too with a pout on her face.

"But you have Yuuichirou. I have no one!" Minako sighed dramatically, "Why don't guys notice a girl as beautiful as me? Maybe they're intimidated by my beauty!"

Rei scoffed, "Yeah right. They're probably scared by your personality."

This started a round of loud bickering between them, and Michiru let out a soft giggle, highly amused. Michiru looked up as Makoto, their boss, excitedly skipped over and plopped next to her, ignoring the fighting two.

"Did I hear correctly? Is that hot blond's name really Haruka?" Makoto asked, her eyes shining with unbridled hope.

Michiru was momentarily caught off guard before she realized why Makoto was asking.

Makoto had started Maid Latte, because she absolutely adored cute things, and what better way was there for her to enjoy cooking and girly things then to open a maid café? When Michiru had sat down to be interviewed for the job, she had been hired as soon as Makoto heard her name.

Makoto was an avid drama watcher, since she was a sucker for sappy romances, and her favorite drama was by far Last Friends, where the lead characters just so happened to be Michiru and Ruka.* Although Michiru had never watched it herself, she knew the basic gist of it from Makoto's ramblings about it.

Michiru was only thankful that Haruka wasn't a motocross racer, or at least to the best of her knowledge she wasn't. But she doubted it was hardly legal for a highschooler to be a racer.

As Michiru reluctantly opened her mouth to affirm Makoto's question, Rei and Minako answered for her.

"His name's Haruka! It's perfect!"

"They should totally go out!" All three of them finished animatedly and laughed.

Sensing that this would develop into a Haruka session, Michiru silently extrapolated herself from the group of fangirls, and hurried to the kitchen. She joined Kakyuu, Vesta, and Ceres, other workers, and shared a knowing glance with them.

Michiru would always try to keep her job as a maid as a secret, but she had to admit, she loved her job.

A/N:

*Last Friends is the name of an actual Japanese drama. I haven't watched it but apparently the main characters Ruka and Michiru share many similarities with Haruka and Michiru.

In my defense, I said I didn't know when I would update. For anyone who still remembers this, thank you so much!

This is just a short chapter giving background, but today I sat down and I created an outline for the next 4ish chapters! Still, no promises.