Chapter 1
Amy Jensen had completed her third year of college majoring in Business with a minor in Advertising. She actually had earned enough credits so that she could graduate with Bachelor's Degree in Business and the end of the first semester that coming fall.
It was the summer between Amy's Junior and Senior years and she had planned to spend a few weeks with her mother's longtime college friend at her summer home in a remote area of south central Missouri. Her mother's friend, Susan, was in her early forties and along with her husband Mike, ran a very prosperous advertising business in St. Louis area.
After building the business up over the years, complete with a competent office staff, they could now take much of the summer off and spend time at their rather large country home and nearby Lake House. The summer home was located in a very remote area in a county, about thirty miles southwest of their lake house which was on the Turkey Bend area at the Lake of the Ozarks. They also used that Lake home and their rather large boat there for entertaining business clients which gave them a legitimate reason to spend some time there and at their other home, particularly in the summer.
Amy had always liked her mother's friend Susan since she admired her aggressive business attitude, desire for high fashion, and in particular, her penchant for very-high heels. Susan had turned sixteen in 1984 about the time that spike and stiletto high heels came back into fashion for the second time after their introduction in the late fifties that ran into the mid-sixties before the hippy culture effected both clothing and footwear fashions. Therefore, she was the right age to enjoy their renaissance in the mid to late eighty's when spike heels reappeared. She continued to wear very high spike and stiletto heels of at least 4-3/4 inches through and past the nineties even though they weren't the mainstream trend at the time. She had even much higher heels that she wore for 'special occasions'.
Amy coincidentally turned fourteen in 2003, about the time that high stiletto heels and their variants starting returning the third time, for what appears to be a much more lasting trend. They will probably not be, in the foreseeable future, entirely 'out of fashion', but rather a stable segment of whole fashion scene. During this last period of high heel popularity, Susan had graduated into wearing 5-1/4 inch stilettos in public almost exclusively as they became a trademark of the high end fashion portion of their advertising business. She even appeared in some of their videos and photographic layouts as a model using her ultra-high heels as the focus of big time glamour fashion promotions for some of their clients.
Taking Susan's lead, Amy had also become somewhat of a high heeled devotee starting with a pair of 3-1/2 inch spike heeled opera pumps for her junior high school graduation ceremony in 2003. Her mother finally relented and allowed her to start with such a heel height as most of the other students' parents only allowed them to buy 2 or 2-1/2 inch kitten heels for the ceremony. Amy's 3-1/2 inch spike heels dismayed some of her classmates since it was just the time when high spike heels were coming back in fashion and all fourteen year old girls wanted their first "heels" to be the highest possible.
Susan had helped convince her mother to allow Amy to wear the 3-1/2 inch heels on the grounds that the higher heels were more fashionable at the time and that this occasion was essentially Amy's coming out party. Although it was never discussed, Amy believed that Susan probably bought the shoes herself since they were much higher quality than what her mother probably would have bought.
Amy practiced for a month wearing the heels and began her first foot training exercises to adapt to high heels in general. Susan had directed her to the quality sites on the internet which were devoted to the foot and ankle training aspects of standing and walking in high heels. Amy had quickly adapted to wearing higher heels because of those high quality sites and other published training materials provided by Susan. In fact, in that month prior to graduation ceremony, Amy had quickly trained her feet and ankles to accept a heel height of 4-3/4 inches. She knew that Susan, at the time, wore at least 4-3/4 inch heels regularly and because she was fully developed and had the same 6-1/2 shoe size as Susan, there may be a time in the future she would let her try on and wear some of her beautiful high heels. Amy was also the same height as Susan at 5' 4" and had similar shapely figures.
As it turned out, Susan did let Amy wear her 4-3/4 inch heels later that same year when Amy would visit their home in the West County area of St. Louis. Amy's parents lived in South St. Louis County, but because of Susan's work and Amy's school over the years, she didn't get together with Susan, or her husband Mike, often during that period. Susan and Amy communicated via Email over the years and became very close and in some respects Amy almost considered her more like an older best friend rather than her mother's best friend. All of these events, of course propelled Amy into the world of very-high heels.
In recent years, Amy had spent a few days during her college summer breaks, at Susan and Mike's summer home and enjoyed the time with Susan in particular. Amy noticed that Susan had developed a shapelier figure than hers, although she didn't flaunt it, at least not in front of Amy. She never mentioned it to Susan, but figured she must be in some sort of physical training at home or at a gym.
During those summer days, Amy would always want to see Susan's massive high heel collection that took up an entire huge spare bedroom closet specifically designed for that purpose in their summer home. She also had many duplicates of those same shoes at their home in St. Louis County and at their lake house for wearing to work and other occasions.
Amy always loved to review Susan's latest purchases and to admire the newest choice in shoe and heel styles thinking that she could someday have of her own collection as well. Also In recent years, all of Susan's size 6-1/2 heels, mostly spike and stiletto, were custom made with the heels that were 5-1/4 inches in height. This was at least a half inch higher than any non-platform heels available in retail shoe stores; even with the resurgence of extra-high heels in the mid to late 2000's. They were also about a half inch higher than the typical internet sites selling, non-platform, five inch heels, which usually turned out to be something even less in height for a size 6-1/2 shoe.
Amy had continued her high heel training over the years and learned to gracefully walk in Susan's 5-1/4 inch heels while visiting at their summer home. All of her high heels were 4-3/4 inches as she refused to buy any dress shoes of lesser heel height. Amy, or Susan for that manner, did not buy or wear standard platform soled shoes as they did not want to have their heel height 'synthetically' raised by platform soles and besides, they both thought platforms were somewhat ugly in appearance.
Last summer, Amy had met a young man at Susan's and Mike's house on the lake. He had worked for their advertising agency for about two years and was there for business purposes as he was entertaining some potential clients for the advertising business. Actually, they had planned that so called 'accidental' meeting since they knew that Amy was between boyfriends and they wanted her to meet this young man. They thought she may be interested in him if nothing else because of his knowledge of high heels and their influence in high fashion advertising.
Steve Mason was very "clean-cut" and had done an excellent job over the first two years with the company by landing some high fashion advertising clients. He actually was the one who inspired Susan to do some high fashion photo shoots in some ultra high stiletto heels for a high fashion video shoot. His knowledge of promoting high fashion advertising with emphasis on stiletto high heels should, intrigue Amy to at least possibly notice him, they both concluded.
Their conclusion was right because after the 'accidental' meeting early last summer, Steve and Amy had continued to date throughout that summer, and as regularly as they could later in the fall, while she was going to school at the Columbia campus of the University of Missouri and Steve was working in St. Louis. They got together during the winter as often as possible on weekends and holidays in St. Louis at his apartment or at the lake house at the Lake of the Ozarks which was less than an hour and a half drive from Columbia. Amy was staying in a dormitory at college, since it was included in the full scholarship over her college years; so other than an occasional evening in Columbia, they spent most of their spare time at Susan's and Mike's lake house.