A smirk now clearly plastered on Michelle's pretty face, her nose wrinkles as she presses her advantage...
"So, if you don't like feet, you won't be bothered if I just slip my shoe off," she says in an apparently innocent voice. But she knows exactly what she is doing! In your peripheral vision, you can just make out the creamy skin of Michelle's bare foot, slipping out of her open toed flat. It's too much for you! Finding your eyes wander downwards, much like a moth to the light, you manage to suppress a moan from escaping your lips, but only just!
Michelle's foot is, like her, petite and sexy. Her pink-painted toenails bounce lightly off the ground, almost as if to mock you! And she is mocking you; she knows full well that you are hypnotised by her bare foot, powerless to even wrench your eyes away. After a few seconds or so of admiring her gorgeous foot, you can't help but wander what her bare sole would look like - incredible no doubt!
"You're in love with my feet," she says sing-song manner, as before. "You can't even look away!"
It takes a considerable effort to break from this trance; as you raise your eyes back up to meet hers, you feel admittedly weak and vulnerable. Is there even any point trying to deny it...feasting your eyes upon her beautiful foot for that long has made it practically impossible to assert any kind of authority over this girl. She knows it and you know it: she's calling the shots now!
"I've gotta tell you James, I find shoes sooo uncomfortable. I'm only wearing these shoes 'cos I thought I would have to. At college, I would walk around barefoot most of time, even on campus. You wouldn't mind if I worked barefoot next to you, would you?" The petite brunette giggles a little at you, clearly enjoying how much she is teasing you.
"Er...um...I mean, it...it's not a...um - a, problem...er," you babble incoherently back at her, rather bamboozled by her assertiveness. The mention of the word 'barefoot' made you flicker your eyes downward once again...
Now Michelle is slowly grazing her foot against the wheels of the office chair, spreading her cute toes so that you can't help but admire how dainty, how elegant her foot is...the creamy colour of her skin makes it look so lovely, so delicious! She must take good care of her feet, you muse, especially as there's a fragrant, pleasant scent wafting up towards your nose. It's hard to tell whether it's from her foot, or her perfume in general, to be fair.
"I take that's a yes then," she says smugly before beginning to slip off the other shoe.
This is getting out of hand! If you allow Michelle to run roughshod over you like this, you'll have absolutely zero authority over her, making it impossible to perform any of your mentor tasks! What would Kim say if you admitted to her that you weren't able to act as a strong role model, or were unable to carry out any performance management tasks? The whole point is to be tough on a newbie to make sure they hit all their targets; unless Michelle's sole (literally in this case!) target is to work barefoot while teasing her mentor, you're not going to realistically get her to do anything!
Can you allow her to take over like this and make your mentor role redundant, or do you somehow find the resolve to separate work from your foot fetish?