Throughout my entire life I have jumped around from friend group to friend group, often having an entirely different cast of people in my life by the time a year had passed. It wasn't that I couldn't form relationships, it was much more that I enjoyed meeting new people. Unfortunately, this meant that old friends would often fade away into the background until they became strangers once again. By that point, rekindling that old flame seemed like far too much trouble and they would go from a stranger to completely non-existent in my life.
There has always been one exception to this, however. From a very young age, my best friend has been a girl named Katie. We met in pre-school and have pretty much stuck together ever since. The strangest thing is that I couldn't tell you why we were still friends. She definitely wasn't my only friend in pre-school, yet I drifted apart from everybody else as would soon become the norm. This didn't happen with Katie though.
For a while I thought we were just drawn together, practically destined to remain friends until we were old and grey. Soon enough, that thought was replaced by another. It was completely possible I was drawn to her and she simply allowed it. Just like me, Katie enjoyed meeting new people. It wasn't especially hard for her to draw guys in either, not with her stunning looks. She had beautiful blue eyes and long black hair which fell over her shoulders, not to mention she also had a curvy body type.
It took a long time for me to become aware of my attraction towards her. In fact, I blame a lot of my attraction on a certain realization I had. It was during class in my senior year of high school, having recently turned 18. One day whilst in class, I caught myself gazing at a girl who sat at the front of class. I wasn't gazing at the girl herself though, I was actually staring at her shoes. Now that I had realized what I was doing, I began to search my memories and recalled other times where I had been staring at a girl's shoes. I had been doing it a lot and I hadn't even been aware of it.
That day, I went home from class and immediately googled why I was subconsciously staring at specifically girls' shoes, which led to my discovery of foot fetishes. It wasn't long before I was jerking off to pictures of girls' feet online. Something about the smoothness of their soles and the way their feet arched affected me in a way nothing else ever had. Naturally, I eventually became somewhat bored of staring at feet on Google images. My mind drifted to Katie, my childhood friend. I had never seen her feet, not in all these years of friendship.
My imagination began to run wild as I envisioned what Katie's feet might look like. I pictured her slowly sliding off her socks and revealing her perfectly pedicured toes, completely unaware of what she was making me feel. The concept alone made my heart pound. Never in my life had I thought of Katie in that way, not until today. Ever since then, my heart would pound whenever me and Katie hung out. I'd occasionally steal glances at her shoes and socks, but not frequently enough that she would notice.
Over the course of the next year, my newfound fetish would build like a volcano inside of me. It wasn't just feet that I got off too, it was specifically Katie's feet. Each and every time we hung out, I would gaze longingly at her shoes and be reminded that I have never seen them. Not knowing what her feet looked like was causing a pressure to build up inside of me, a pressure that I wasn't sure I could contain for much longer. Sooner or later, I would end up revealing my fetish to her.
One day after school during our Senior year of highschool, Katie had invited me over to study. This was completely normal and we had done it many times before. We went up to her room and she removed her shoes, revealing her black socks underneath. Obviously I was staring intently as she removed them. This time however, I had gotten careless. As she finished removing her first shoe, she tossed it in my direction and turned to see where it had landed. That was when she caught me staring at her foot.
"Um, Sam?"
Her voice broke me out of my trance-like state quickly. Panicked, I looked up at her. "Uh, yeah? Sorry, wasn't paying attention."
"Yeah, I could tell. Anything you want to tell me?" Katie didn't bother removing her other shoe. She sat down on the floor and crossed her legs, laughing nervously, "I've seen you looking at my shoes in school. Now I've seen you staring at my socks too."
Naturally I wasn't too sure what to say in this situation. Do I play it off or do I reveal everything to her? I glance around her bedroom nervously, searching for a possible way out of the situation. Playing it off didn't seem like a possibility, she had already caught me staring at her shoes in the past.
"Katie, I, um..." She gazed at me intently, "I have a foot fetish."