"Oh, really?" she says with an almost mocking softness. She brings up each leg in turn, pulling off her socks. They slip gracefully off her soft feet. You look back at her face before her attention returns to you.
"Yeah..." you say. "Why do you ask?" Her expression is strange, a mix of amusement and suspicion. In your embarrassment, your gaze drops to the floor, where her socks lie in a pile near her cute bare feet. She wiggles her red-painted toes into the plush carpet.
"That." Your eyes bolt back to her face, but it's too late. "You keep looking at my feet," she says. "Why?"
Your knees trembling, your throat dry, you scramble for an answer you know will never come. Your panicked mind knows only to get away, only to hide. "I'm not!" you say, too loudly for it to be the truth. "I don't like your feet," you say to the wall.
Chrissy says nothing. She just gives you that same strange stare for an endless moment, before suddenly turning away. For a split-second you think you may be safe...until she speaks again.
"Wait here," she says, and you find you can only acquiesce. "Patricia!" she calls, marching off down the hall. You watch her soles as she leaves. For a moment you sit there, the horrible realization creeping up on you, of just how bad this could get if she told Patricia...or her friends...or the rest of the school... Your stomach lurches, and you swallow hard.
And then you see them. Chrissy's white socks, still lying in the pile by her bed where she left them; one turned inside out, inviting you.
You automatically take half a step toward them, before you remember that being caught smelling Chrissy's dirty socks would surely cement your fate of being labelled the "foot freak." But if Chrissy really does believe you and drops it, you'll have to be on your guard from here on out, and this would be your last chance to get anywhere near her feet.
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