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Chapter 5: Red Hands, Red Eyes.
Maya stared into Samantha's computer screen, eyes wide and mouth open. Her face might say she was shocked to see what she had seen, but it was no shock to her. Because that's what she Commanded Joe to do, 'Download a foot fetish video now. Put it in the common folder, and watch it now.' What she expected was for Samantha to see it eventually, and both of them would confront Joe. But what she didn't expect was Samantha to open that file in front of him. And poor little Joe, like a confused initiated. He fled from the scene. If there was any doubt in Samantha's mind, that would confirm his guilt.
'This is even better,' she thought. 'Now we will confront him and make him confess to this. I will desensitize Samantha to his fetish slowly. Double Dom. Mental High-Five.'
A smile seeped out of her face, and she realized Sam was staring at her. Maya looked at her in confusion and said, "What the hell was that?"
"I know," Samantha replied. "He might've downloaded it and mistakenly put it on here." Maya just nodded her agreement to her. They both fell silent for a minute.
"And that is foot stuff," Samantha started, and she scowled, her face slowly turning into disgust, "What a creep, huh?"
"You know what, we should just confront him. Ask him directly what the hell was that. Maybe it was not him. Maybe it was someone else," Maya said.
"It clearly is him. Did you see how he flushed and ran away? It was him, I'm telling you," she said. "Wait a minute, what do you imply by that? Only us three share that folder." She wagged her finger in Maya's face, "It was not me."
"Okay. Okay. I know but..." she smiled, put her hands into the air facing Samantha, and said, "But, you know, innocent until proven guilty."
"Yeah, I say we leave it and move on."
"What?" Maya blurted out, "No, I say we ask him. I can't keep it inside. Just imagine how awkward it will be."
"No. He clearly was embarrassed by it. I know a little bit about this stuff. This is far more common than you think."
"But..." Samantha didn't let her finish the sentence.
"We live in a world full of freaks. What's one more freak in our life? At least he was never creepy with us. Take the win and move on."
"How do you know that? The movement you turn, how do you know he is not looking at your feet?"
"Why do you have to say that?" she made Italian hands and waved them up and down. "Now, whenever I put back towards him, I'll only think of him staring at my feet. Or worse, him wanking to my feet."
"We would hear that. But we should confront him."
"Doesn't matter, I'm not asking him, and neither are you. And we're done with this topic. Do you understand?" she said, and Maya nodded. Samantha turned to face her screen and said, "I have to work."
'The hell I don't,' she thought. 'I didn't make him like this so I can leave him be. If I leave him so, someone else will make use of him. I'll ask him. I'll use him. I just wanted you to join me. Now, he's all mine.'
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Joe stared at himself in the bathroom mirror, eyes reddened, and water running down his face. He threw water on his face to hide the tears streaming down his face. He threw some more water as someone just walked in. He took out his handkerchief and wiped his face. He left the bathroom to face his eventual humiliation. 'They might think I'm a creep,' he thought. "You are a creep," he said out loud. He swiftly looked around. Luckily, there was nobody in earshot to hear him.
He walked into the cabin, and Sam's and Maya's heads whipped toward him. They both smiled, but Maya's smile had something mischievous in it. He flushed and gulped. He expected a tirade of questions, accusations, and outright disgust. Nothing like that happened.
"Do you want to explain it to me now?" Samantha asked. She continued as if nothing out-of-ordinary had happened. He frowned at her. 'Was that some kind of test? If I go near her, will she play it again to embarrass me?'
"Uh, No. Didn't you say you have to leave early today? When is it?" He asked
"Yes. Thirty past four is good," she replied
"It's Four-Fifteen, now. We will not have enough time to do that. So, we'll do it on Monday."
"Sure," she said with a smile.
'Is she mocking me?' He thought. 'What if she is? What can you do? Just be happy that she is only mocking and not reporting you for inappropriate behavior.'
Then all three of them returned to their computer screens. Joe acted as if he was working. He was just looking at the clock on his screen, begging it to move faster. That's when he heard a soft thud of a shoe hitting the floor. He followed the sound. It was Maya who let the shoe fall to the ground. They were brown boat shoes, and she was wearing blue socks. The moment his eyes fell on her socked foot, pleasure filled him. He felt the shaft being erected. She tapped her foot from side to side to find where it fell. She struggled to get it onto her foot when she found it. She wriggled her toes and shoved them into the shoe. She crossed her feet at her ankles under the chair. He had clear visibility on both of her shoe soles. She played with her shoe, now. The mouth of her shoe swung back and forth onto the heel of her foot. He was hard as a rock. He reprimanded himself for looking at her feet. He reluctantly got his eyes off her feet. He looked up to see whether they noticed him or not. None of them were looking back, but he thought he saw a hint of a smile on Maya's face. He could only see very little of their faces, he might've imagined it.
'If that was not an imagination, what is she smiling at? Does she know I'm looking at her feet?' he thought. Then he told himself that she couldn't know.
Samantha stood up, turning off her computer at Four-Thirty. She said goodbyes to both of them and went off. Even that fifteen minutes seemed like an hour. When she left, his attention went back to the clock on his computer. Within a minute, he couldn't help but look at her feet. She still was playing with her shoe. He stared at her feet until the same shoe fell to the ground again. He swiftly turned his head. He noticed Maya swirling her chair back without putting her shoe back on. He looked up from his computer to her.
"So, Joe," she said.
"Hmm." He replied.
"You like feet?" she asked softly. It felt more like a statement than a question to him. He stared at her bluntness. He gulped, and he felt his throat as dry as a desert. He couldn't answer her straight away. He could only make some strange noises.