As David made his way to the doors of the library to start the day, he was shaken from his usual morning slump by a loud clicking sound coming towards him.
"Hey, hold that door!" came a call.
When he turned around he saw the sound coming from a pair of black high heels running along the concrete footpath. David caught his breath in his throat as he took in the young woman the heels belonged to. Those shoes framed a pair of extremely large feet and slim ankles, accented by her light chocolatey-brown skin and shown off by her short cuffed slacks, worn along with a black dress shirt as part of the library's unofficial work uniform. A set of messy, dark brown bangs fell down either side of her face and framed her bright eyes and friendly smile.
"Hi, I'm Christie! I just started today," the girl introduced herself.
"...Hi," David replied awkwardly. He could already feel his face burning just from talking to this cute girl. After they went inside and Christie began her orientation, David wracked his brains for some topic to engage in conversation with her. Shy, lanky, pale and bespectacled, he'd describe himself as a geek with no hesitation and had long ago resigned himself to the idea that girls like Christie were for someone like him to admire from afar, not get to know up close.
Still, with their work meaning they'd be spending most of their time around each other, he kept some hope that he could become friendly with Christie soon as he knelt down to arrange the books on the bottom shelves. He was still thinking about it when something suddenly fell on his head.
Looking down, he realised it was one of Christie's heels.
"Oops! Sorry!" she called down. David looked up and saw her perched on a ladder, working on the top shelves. What else he saw made his jaw drop.
He was staring at Christie's huge, soft bare foot hovering above his face, her brown skin fading to a milky white sole that creased and wrinkled as she flexed her long toes.
"I have size 13 feet," she explained with a laugh, "but I wear a 14 in heels to stop them pinching my toes."
"Well... it sure shows..." David remarked, awestruck, as he watched the toes wiggle.
"Thanks!" Christie said, scrunching her toes in completely. "So can I have that back?"
"Oh, of course..." David said quickly, picking up her heel and standing up. For a moment he just stared at her foot, awkwardly holding her shoe in his hands.
"Don't be shy! It's just a foot!" Christie grinned, wiggling her toes again. With that, David cupped the heel of her bare foot in his hand and started sliding her shoe back on, dragging it out for as long as he felt he could get away with and with his heart pounding in his chest for every moment.
"Just like Cinderella," Christie chuckled as she climbed down. "Does that make you my Prince Charming?" she added, teasingly nudging David with her elbow. David blushed bright red again and stammered some half-reply out. Christie simply laughed, picked up a crate of books and moved over to another set of shelves.
Now, Christie was a smart and shrewd girl, and it wasn't lost on her in the slightest what effect she was having on David. Nor had she missed his reaction to seeing her bare foot, or how his awkwardness seemed to double now as she knelt down, letting her heels pop out of the backs of her shoes and exposing her creamy soles for the world to see. David couldn't resist taking glances at her soles repeatedly as they worked, unaware that the whole time, Christie was watching him back with a sly smirk.
So it was that Christie couldn't wait for morning break for more than one reason.
"Phew! Break time at last!" She cried, walking ahead of David to the library's back room. "My poor feet are killing me!"
"Yeah, why did you wear heels?" David asked. "Didn't you realise that you'd be on your feet all day?"
"Yeah, but I wanted to make a good impression on my first day," Christie explained with an embarrassed smile. Allowing David to move ahead, she sauntered up behind him and spoke in a lowered voice.
"If you like, you could take them off for me..."
"Why would I want to do that?" David asked nervously, now staring ahead. With a playful smile, Christie casually replied,
"Because you have a foot fetish?" David reacted as if he'd been struck by lightning. He stood straight as a rail as he entered the room, sitting opposite Christie on its old couch and doing everything he could to avoid eye contact.