Mia leaned back in her chair and sighed. Today had going by at a snail's pace. No amount of computer work passed the time in any fashion. She was out of here in thirty minutes, but her mind was fried. She let her eyes start wandering, looking at anything to stave the boredom. One of her co-workers was talking to someone just out of her line of view. Mia tried to listen in on their conversation, but she couldn't make out what they were saying. She sighed once again and was about to turn back to her mundane work when someone walked into her sight. It was the person her co-worker was talking to.
It was the new girl Cassie. Cassie was a beautiful girl who was attractive from all angles. Well-kept hair, the perfect amount of makeup, cute clothes, gorgeous manicures, and from the little Mia had seen of her, Cassie was highly intelligent and a fit person. She wasn't without her quirks though. Cassie frequently walked around barefoot in the office, leaving her blue and white converse at her desk. It wasn't uncommon to see Cassie's feet seemingly stained black in filth, though she did wear her converse most of the time.
Cassie was wearing her converse this time. They appeared well taken care of on the outside, though if Mia looked closely, she could see wear marks on them. Mia had seen Cassie's shoes close-up before when she brought them to Cassie as a favor, as Cassie had left her shoes accidently when she left work. Mia leaned under Cassie's desk to grab the pair of shoes when a foul stench had reached her nose. Both disgusted and morbidly curious, Mia grabbed Cassie's blue converse and investigated the shoe. The bottoms were mostly worn away, a telling sign that these shoes had been used for years. The tops of the shoes were clean, matching the look of a brand-new pair of converse. When Mia looked at the insoles inside the shoe, however, she was taken aback. The formerly white insole was stained gray. An almost black footstep was clearly visible from the heel to the toes, and it glistened with sweat. There were chunks of black grime built up on the insole under where Cassie's toes normally rest, as well as under the ball of her foot, her sole, and her heel. It had been flattened under Cassie's bare feet and picking at the black gunk with her fingernail yielded no results. Mia had the gall to bring the shoe to her nose to smell inside of them. She immediately gagged and became lightheaded, overwhelmed by the powerful stench. It had smelled of rotten cheese and vinegar, and it was so strong that she could smell them even after setting the shoes down. At the time, Mia had given the shoes to Cassie who stood on the blacktop next to her car. Mia watched her lift her light blue pedicured toes off the blacktop and slip her blackened, filth stained bare soles into her blue converse. Mia couldn't believe someone would have such dirty feet, such disgusting shoes, and would wear shoes without socks regularly.
Now, as Mia looked at Cassie's blue converse, Cassie turned so her back was facing Mia. Cassie lifted her shoe, showing the worn bottom. The original pattern had mostly faded away, yet Mia didn't feel any desire to look away. Cassie giggled in the background as she set one foot in front of the other. Cassie popped her shoe off her heel and dragged the shoe behind her using her sky-blue toes. Her foot was bare as it always seemed to be, and her sole was stained black. Mia's eyes were transfixed upon Cassie's bare foot, watching as she began to play with her shoe. Cassie lifted her foot out of her shoe, suspending in the air facing towards Mia and scrunched her sole. Sweat glistened on her dirty bare foot, and her sky-blue toenails were just barely poking underneath the ball of her foot. Cassie loosened her foot and stretched her foot, showing off the dirt on her foot. Mia stared, engrossed in the dirt spread from Cassie's heel to all five of her toes. There were specks of grit and dust across her sole, and between her toes there was visible gunk built up. Then Cassie scrunched her foot slowly once more, bringing all the wrinkles coated in dirt and sweat to fruition. She loosened her foot and stretched her toes, then scrunched once more, stretched her toes, scrunched, over and over in and endless cycle. Mia was caught in a trance, unable to look away from Cassie's foot.
Cassie broke the cycle and stepped onto the ground lightly. She dragged her bare foot across the obviously filthy carpeted floor, grabbing any loose grime with the sweat coating her foot. She placed the ball of her foot down and leaned on it, lifting her heel high into the air. Mia stared at her blackened heel and sole, patiently waiting for Cassie to lift her foot once more. As Mia watched, Cassie began grinding the ball of her foot into the filthy carpet, slowly grinding her foot left, then reversing direction and grinding right. She slid her foot forwards, laying her entire sole onto the carpet, before repeating the actions and sliding her entire foot against the carpet, accumulating filth. Cassie slid her foot left across the carpet, then right, before planting her foot and viciously grinding the ball of her foot once again. She moved to her heel, planting it onto the carpet and grinded it on the floor. Cassie set her entire foot against the ground before rubbing forwards and backwards against the carpet, making sure to keep her heel, sole, toes, and the ball of her feet contacting the ground. Cassie giggled once more, lifting her sole into the air. She scrunched and loosened her toes over and over with Mia's eyes glued to it, exposing a new layer of grime and filth glued to her soles and toes with sweat.
Cassie lowered her foot into her converse, only to play with it. Mia felt her gaze fixate upon the converse, aware of the sweaty, smelly, and grime coated nature hidden inside. Cassie dragged her shoe back with her foot, then slowly brought it forwards, then back once more. She pulled her foot out just barely, wrapping her toes around the lip of the blue fabric. The edges of Mia's vision began to swirl, yet Mia heeded it no attention. Cassie ran her toes around the opening of her converse, scrunching slowly and sporadically. Mia's vision began to tunnel, the edges of her vision turning black and everything but the focal point of her gaze blurred. She felt light-headed and her head began pounding as her body went numb. Yet, Mia couldn't look away from Cassie's shoe. As Cassie slipped her toes into her shoe once more and began dragging it back and forth, Mia's vision faded away for a split second.