By Alice's Personal Slave

Just like any other day I was bored. I sat in my bed leaning back against the head rest scrolling through Instagram on my phone. My phone vibrated and gave me a new notification. A new post from my friend Alice, I dropped everything I was doing and immediately went to her page and liked the post as soon as the picture popped up. To be blunt, I was literally obsessed with Alice. We had been friends since middle school, and I had the biggest crush on her ever since I laid eyes on her. Unfortunately, I never had the courage to express my true feelings, so sure, we became good friends, but that is all it has ever been since middle school and I am afraid that’s all it will ever be. I keep looking at all of Alice’s old pictures on Instagram, and I start touching myself as I do. After about fifteen minutes my phone vibrates again. It’s a message from Alice.

            Hey wanna come over, I’m bored?

            I respond, Sure omw.

I spring up and get dressed as fast I can. I stumble and trip in the direction of the door and slide my shoes on. I run out the door and towards my car surely forgetting something. I drive towards Alice’s house thinking about every reason that she could be inviting me over. Is it possible that she likes me too and is letting me know how she feels, or maybe she’s inviting me over to watch a movie, I hope there’s cuddling involved if that’s the case? My mind cools down as I think back to reality. She’s probably just calling me over to be her camera man, at least that’s what the last ten reasons have been. I pull into Alice’s driveway and step out of the car. I notice a few packages sitting in her entryway and pick them up after ringing the doorbell. I can hear the slap of her bare feet as she walks towards the door. The door swings open and I’m greeted by the smiling face of Alice. Her hair is reminiscent of a phoenix, red on the top and blonde at the bottom. She’s dressed very casually in a pair of leggings, a classic rock t-shirt and as usual barefoot.

“Uh, hey. Special delivery” I say jokingly trying to be funny as usual.

Alice smiles, “You’re here” she grabs both packages out of my hand and tosses them onto the table near the door. “Come on, I have something to show you.” She grabs my wrist and starts dragging me towards the living room. She sits down on the couch and I get ready to sit down next to her. “No wait, don’t sit down yet, let me show you this thing first.”

Alice pulls a small remote out of her pocket. “This is what I wanted to show you.”

“What is that supposed to be?”

“I told you I was bored didn’t I, well this combined with you is hopefully the answer to solving my boredom.” She said pointing at the remote and then at me.

“What do you mean? What the heck is that thing anyway?”

“Were about to find out” Alice said, “Hopefully this thing works, it just came in this morning.” She pointed the remote at me and pressed the big round button in the center. She smirked and looked at me as if she expected something to happen. She held the button down for about thirty seconds and by the end of that time, her smirk turned to a frown.

“It doesn’t work!” She yelled, “This piece of junk!” She threw the remote across the room, surely breaking it. I looked at her with a confused look and she started to storm out of the room. “I’m going to go use the bathroom, you just stay put okay, since that didn’t work, I guess we’ll have to do something else.”

Alice left the room, and I was left to my own bewildered thoughts. I sat down on the floor, and leaned my back up against the couch, I shut my eyes and thought about what she could have possibly been trying to do. I open my eyes and my entire head starts to hurt. A sudden wave of pain rushes through my body, and my vision becomes blurry. I try to scream out, but I can’t move anything, not even my mouth. The pain becomes too much and the bright light pouring in from a nearby window fills my vision. I blackout. Upon waking up, I notice that the weird headache and body pain that overtook me is gone, but I feel as though I had been run over by a truck. I stand up and stretch, as I allow my eyes to readjust to my surroundings.

Whe-where am I, I think to myself.

The floor beneath my feet stretches out for miles, and it looks like a much larger version of the wood floor in Alice’s house. I look to my left and notice four massive table legs extending into the air. I look behind me and see a large cave like opening right where Alice’s couch used to be.

Wait a minute, tha-that is her couch, holy shit I’m the size of a bug, I have to get Alice’s attention, she’ll be able to help me.

Just as I think these loud tremors begin to shake the floor that I’m standing on. I run under the couch. A distant door opens, and the tremors continue to get closer.

“Since that didn’t work, what do you wanna do inst-….ead. Huh…I guess I weirded him out and he left... Looks like he forgot his wallet and keys though, so he must have just gone for a walk or something.” Alice walks to the front door and opens it. She walks outside and calls out my name. After calling out a few times, she comes back inside. “I mean he has to come back, right? I guess I’ll just go back to watching Netflix until then.”

I stay under the couch shaking in fear wondering what I should do.

There is only one option, I think to myself, I have to get her attention, but how?

I decide that there is only one way to do this. I just have to start at what I can get at and make my way up. I walk over to where Alice has one of her feet planted on the ground. The other is resting atop the coffee table. I walk over to the front of her foot and face her toes. The sound of a show starting up on Netflix can be heard in the distance and Alice sighs.

“I wonder when he’s coming back.”

I run towards the gap between her big and second toe and start hitting it as hard as I can, which I am sure to her feels like nothing. She scrunches her toes as a reflex to the feeling and I am stuck, wedged in between the gap of her toes. I can tell she’s been at work all day as the smell is overpowering and too much for me to take. I fight against the strength of her toes and I manage to free myself just for a second, but it is only an instant before her toes grab me again.

She doesn’t even know I’m here; she’s just mindlessly using me as her foot’s fidget toy.

I start screaming and hitting her foot harder trying to get her attention.

“What’s that noise, it sounds so far away.” Alice says this as she looks around for the source. Eventually she looks down at what she had been toying with down at her feet and realizes that the source of the noise was me. “Its you!” she exclaims. “That means it-it worked! The shrink ray worked.! To bad I broke it though,” she said as she shrugged her shoulders, “Guess that means your stuck like this; you belong to me now anyway. Were going to have so much fun.”

Alice places me down on the ground and lifts her foot above my head, she lowers it toward me, and I scream up to her “PLEASE ALICE DON’T DO THIS, I’LL DO WHATEVER YOU ASK, PLEASE DON’T CRUSH ME!!!”

Her foot stops, pinning me down but not applying enough pressure to crush me. She lifts her foot and stares down at me.

“Get the picture? Listen to everything I say little bug, or you’ll find your self-nothing more than a stain upon my perfect sole.” Alice laughs and points down at me. “You should see just how pathetic you look right now, little worm. I can tell the full realization of your new reality hasn’t kicked in yet, but it will, just give it time. Who knows, you might grow to like being my tiny slave.” She picks me up and places me down on the coffee table. She plants both of her massive size 10 feet in front of me. “Oh, and by the way, it’s Goddess, you worthless insect, don’t let me here you slip any other names when referring to me again, got it?!”

“Why don’t you go ahead and make yourself useful little slave. I’ve been on my feet all day at work and they could use some attention, so get to it, clean, massage and worship them. Meanwhile I’m going to finish my show.”

I stand still for a moment, still dumbstruck by the rush of words that I just heard. I can’t believe that she knew, and I can’t believe that she finds me that pathetic. Why would she want me to be her slave, and how the hell am I supposed to do anything with two feet that are three times the size as I am.

“I’m not feeling any rubbing or cleaning down there, do you want me to crush you? I suggest you get to work, or your going to make your new Goddess very angry.” Alice didn’t even look down at me as she said this, she just kept staring straight ahead at the TV.

“Ali- I mean God-goddess, how to you expect me to do anything to your feet at my size? Rub them sure I can try, but clean them, worship them, how do I do any of that.”

“Ugh, you must be really fucking brain dead or something, did the shrink ray do something to your intelligence too? Clean my fucking feet with your tongue obviously. And let me put it real simple for you, give this task everything you’ve got because this is a test loser. Pass and I guess I’ll keep you around as my little slave so you can entertain me, be my insole, my seat cushion, foot worshiper, and all around just my personal little plaything and bitch. Fail and I have fun hearing your bones crunch as I squish the life out of you and wipe off the remains with a napkin. With that said I’m done talking, interrupt my show again and I’ll role the credits on your life little bug.” Alice presses play and continues to watch her show. She plants her feet down on the coffee table extra hard this time, surely to make a loud and terrifying thud for me. I look at the feet in front of me and squeak out two more words as I approach.

“Yes Goddess.”

“Alrighty my little slave, times up. Let’s see if you earned the right to call me your new Goddess, or if you’re going to end up nothing more than a bug that I extinguish beneath the might of my perfect foot.” Alice lifted up her feet and examined them. She looked pleased with the first foot that she examined and moved on to her other one. Her smirk of approval quickly turned to a face of anger. “What the fuck is this puny worm?! There is still a ton of shit in between my big and second toe on this foot. Did you want to be crushed?”

“No Alice, it wouldn’t come off when I was licking it. That layer of toe jam was honestly just too thick. Please don’t crush me, I-I’ll get it off, just give me a rag or something, I’ll make that last part of your foot shine. Just please don’t kill me.”

“It’s Goddess, you pathetic little bitch! And fine I guess since we were friends for a time, I’ll give you this one chance to redeem yourself. Get that shit out from between my toes. And you don’t need any rags, you dumb piece of shit. Use your tiny teeth and nibble it off my foot!”

I can’t do anything but comply. The tone in her voice was like ice, and I knew I was walking on eggshells. I walked up to the area between her big and second toe and looked back up in her direction for just a second. Her eyes hadn’t left me. She was waiting for me to get the task she had ordered done, and I wasn’t going to keep her waiting any longer.

I bit down on the black substance covering the inside of her toe gap. I was met with a jelly like texture that tasted absolutely vile. A combination of dirt, sweat, and lint filled the inside of my mouth and my first reflex was to gag. I kept on chewing at the gummy toe jam and eventually chewed the piece up enough to swallow it. Alice’s cold dead look telling me she meant business was gone. It was replaced by uncontrolled laughter from my new Goddess.

“How’s it taste bug? I bet it’s super yummy and delicious. Is it sweet, salty… wait don’t tell me, I think your face is giving away the answer. It’s sour as hell isn’t it. Well you did always like sour candy, so this should be a treat for you. Looks like you still got a nice portion left too so keep on going. Eat up my slave, because you won’t be getting any other food for the rest of the day.” Alice had a grin a mile wide across her face. I still couldn’t fathom how she- how anyone could do this to another human being, let alone a human who she used to consider her friend. I went back to finishing my task and got several more mouth fulls of Alice’s toe jam. By the time I finished I had layers of it caked on my tongue and stuck between my teeth. All I could taste or smell at this point was the horrid odor of Alice’s dirty work feet. I started walking away from the space in between her big and second toe after a while. For whatever reason she was no longer paying attention to me. I had only taken about ten more minutes finishing up with eating the rest of her to grime. Upon walking to the left and looking up at Alice I saw that she was casually on her phone probably posting or scrolling through Instagram, the very same app that got me into this predicament in the first place.

“What the hell are these dirty old socks doing stuffed in here?” Alice stated confused, “And where the hell did, I put that tiny slave of mine last night?” She sighed, “Oh well, I guess I’ll just have to worry about that little shit when I get home, I gotta get to work. I can’t afford to be late.” As Alice said this the shoe I was in started to move. The sock blocking the entrance was picked up and discarded. It was replaced by a sight that terrified me. Five toes started coming toward me, each of the nails painted a brilliant purple, with just the slightest chipping beginning to start. I was frozen for a moment, but then adrenaline kicked in. I started running in the opposite direction screaming for Alice’s attention.

“ALICE, IM IN HERE! ALICE, PLEASE DON’T PUT THE SHOE ON! ALICE, PLEASE STOP YOU’LL CRUSH ME!!! ALICE!! PLEASE NOTICE ME!!!” I ran for my life but there was no escape. Her foot was closing in fast and I was running out of space in the shoe to run to. I made it to the very edge of the shoe, but just as I did her toes wrapped around me. I was grabbed and buried beneath them. My body was wedged snuggly in the gap underneath Alice’s toes, and my head luckily stuck out just enough so I could breath, however the air that I had to breathe wasn’t going to be pleasant. My head was conveniently placed in between her second and big toes, and I knew I was going to be subject to all of the smells that came with that. I pounded against her toe and she barely seemed to notice. It simply made her scrunch her toes a little bit squeezing me. Alice started to walk, and each foot rise and fall, was like a drop ride at a theme park. Luckily, I hadn’t eaten anything in a while, otherwise, I likely would have gotten sick. I heard Alice grab some keys, and then a door opened and slammed. She locked the door and headed toward her car.

If she was going to work, it was going to be a long day for me. Alice had worked as a manager at a pet rescue facility for nearly a year now. She made decent money doing it too, at almost twenty dollars an hour, which wasn’t bad for a person our age at 21. What I did know about her job, however, is that she is on her feet nearly all day. She probably walks a total of ten miles some days at work, and I would be acting as her personal insole that entire time. To make matters worse, she was wearing her shoes barefoot, a trademark Alice thing to do. And sure, at normal size I would have thought it was kind of cute and innocent, but now, I wish she would have chosen to wear socks today. Now I’ll be soaking in and forced to drink every bead of sweat, and I would surely be covered in any gunk that her foot got on it throughout the day. Alice started driving toward work, and it was weird feeling the pressure that she applied as she worked the gas pedal and the break. I always used to call Alice a lead foot, and I was right in calling her that. Each time she hit the gas or the break I was scrunched up and crushed against the sole of her well-worn tennis shoes.