[2 Years Ago]
"Okay... next question" Sandra says to Delilah as she pulls out another note card from the stack in her hands. Delilah nods, tapping her bare feet on the floor, which are covered in her pink satin ballet flats.
Delilah and Sandra, her roommate and best friend, are inside their dorm in college. It is a calm Tuesday afternoon, and Sandra is helping Delilah go over study notes for her upcoming graphics design quiz the upcoming Thursday. Delilah is casually dressed in her faded, white CM Punk T-Shirt, white leggings, and her now 1-year old pink flats. The same flats that Sandra bought online for her before they graduated from high school.
"Ready, Del?" Sandra asks her friend. Delilah, nervously nods, tapping her feet with more anxiety. Sandra can hear the tapping of her heels on the carpet floor and chuckles, saying "Jeez, Del, relax. This is why we study!"
"I know, I know..." Delilah says back, rubbing both of her hands through her hair. "I dunno, I'm just extra nervous for this quiz. Professor Deckard said that it's for about 35% of our final grade for the semester. I've been distracted lately."
"Well, snap out of it!" Sandra says, adding a snap of her fingers for good measure. "Come on, here we go... Next question..."
Delilah nods once more, adding "Ok, go for it."
"Alrighty... 'RGB is to ppi as CMYK is to'... what?"
"Fuck..." Delilah whispers, and as her nervousness begins to show, she unknowingly slips her left flat off of her foot. Her sweaty sole hits the floor, and she flexes her black-polished toes towards the ceiling before slipping the foot back into her shoe. "Ummm... come on, Del, come on, it's not that fucking hard" the 19-year-old quietly says to herself.
She slips the left flat off once again, and this time, her toes press onto the back of it. The flat begins to rise from the force, becoming more vertical with the bar of the chair she is sitting on.
"Come on, Del, you can do it. Just get right 2 more questions, and we can take a break." Sandra says in a manner of incitation. Delilah ponders, and finally answers "... Um, Dots per inch, right?"
Sandra looks at the notes, and pouts. "Damn, Del... I'm sorry, but you're CORRECT!" Laughing, she looks at Delilah as she sighs a grunt at Sandra. Del then says "Ugh, Goddamnit, Sandz, don't do that!"
"Ah, cheer up, at least you got it right. I'm just trying to take some of that panic off ya."
"Ugh, I knoooow. I'm just so nervous!" As she says that, Delilah slips her foot back into her flat again, and proceeds to cross her left leg over her right. "I've been so distracted lately, and I feel like it's affecting my studies."
"I haven't honestly noticed anything." Sandra says back to her. "Are you alright, Delly?"
"Yeah... well du-I-I... I think so. I dunno, Sandy, I just..."
"Come on, it's alright, you can tell ya girl." Sandra says with a big cheerful smile. "We've been telling each other everything ever since we were 10. So, what's on your mind?"
Delilah nods, and with a few rotates of her ankle, the flat bends with her toes flexing inside of it. Taking another sigh, Delilah says to her "Well... I just... I really miss Mac."
"Well... that I can realize. Seeing how you crossed out the name "Mac" in the last answer of your notes. Hahahaha."
"Dude, I don't think we've EVER been apart from each other for this long. Ever since the day that we've met."
"Well, yeah, you both have been pretty much inseparable. I get jealous sometimes, you know?"
Delilah giggles, and pokes at Sandra's knee with her foot on her crossed raised leg. "Aw, don't be, Sandz. You know you're the only girl for me!"
"Oh, stoooop" Sandra says with a sarcastic tone, followed by a giggle. "To be honest, I dunno how you both are able pull off being apart like this for so long, especially considering all the guys around here trying to slide in your DMs. Haha!"
Delilah makes a disgusted grunt, saying "Ugh, God, thanks for that reminder. I swear, guys here are so fucking relentless." Her leg bounces with a subtle anguish, and her toes flex even higher to the point that her arch makes the flat bend even more around her foot. "Why can't they just realize that I'm friggin' taken? I even tell them that."
"Haha, remember that one guy, Heston? From the dorm 2 buildings down?"
"Oh, my God, Sandz, do you have to remind me? He just couldn't take a damn hint."
"Just imagine what Mac would've done if he was here when he tried to kiss you..."
"Nothing, since he would've saw me knee that prick in the balls, anyway. Ha!"
"Hehehe, he'd be proud! He might ask you to do that to him next. HAHAHA!"
That quip almost makes Delilah spit out the orange juice she is drinking, and the contagious laughter that bellows from her spreads to Sandra. As they both laugh, Delilah's flat begins to shake and slip off her heel from the movement of her uproarious chuckles. "Oh, fuck, I can't breat-breathe, hahahahaha! Nah... haha, nah, I don't think he would be into that kind of thing, Sandz. Hehehehe."
"What things is he into, if you don't mind me asking?" Sandra asks with interest.
Delilah, knowing exactly what her boyfriend likes, tries not to expose him. With a jiggle of her foot, the dangling flat plummets down to the floor, turning over. With her exposed toes now free, Delilah bounces her leg in a meta-pondered fashion, playing the role of oblivion to perfection. "Ummm... hmmm..." she gestures as her toes scrunch hard, making a popping noise. "You know, I'm not really sure. He might just be the typical guy who's into breasts and stuff like that."
"Ugh, how boring." Sandra says. "There are other parts of the body of a woman that can be cute and sexy, you know."
Delilah raises an eyebrow, and asks "Oh, yeah? Like what, professor?"
Sandra laughs, and says "Well, there's butts, obviously. Um, hands, ears... uhh, legs... I dunno, feet, maybe?"
Delilah's eyebrow raises even more. "Wow... feet? Really? Haha, oh, man, feet?"
"Yes, feet. Haha, come on, Delly, don't be so naive. Guys are into feet, too!"
"Oh, no, it's not that, it's just... I didn't know you had all this knowledge on what guys like. Wow... so... like, guys are turned on by feet?"
"Yup... it's actually the most common fetish. I did some research. Haha."