Mark 21 years old,  and Julie 20 years old, where both students at the same college, the only diferente was that Mark was one semestre ahead of Julie.Mark was a really good student, eventough he didnt fit the nerd stereotype.

                Julie was a know for being kind of crazy, if any crazy or epic happening was going on around the campus, you can be sure that Julie is involved. That was one of the reasons of why she wasn’t doing so great in her grades. She wasn’t dumb, quite the opposite, as she was really smart indeed, but she was always thinking about partying and having fun.

                Julie was gorgeous, she was always well dressed, usually overdressed to college, always wearing heels or boots, and skirts or short dresses, one way or another, she was always keeping her beautiful legs at sigh.

                Mark have always been a charismatic and funny guy, but that weren’t enough to get him a real date with her when they first met, 2 years ago, but they ended up being real good friends. Nonetheless they only became best friends in the day that Mark accidentally saw Julie transform a cup filled with water, in one filled with beer as it was completely normal.

                “How did you do it Julie?”.He asked.

                “What are you talking about, Mark??”.She answered worried, she had find out about her powers when she was a teenager, and nobody had ever discovered it.As the time passed bye, and she was more confortable with those powers, she started to make minor transformations under everybody’s noses. Nevertheless nobody had ever noticed, but she loved the hazard feeling of taking unecessary risks.

Mark then took Julia to a devoid place, and said.”You know what im talking about, I saw you, and your glass.It was water, and after you look at it, it was beer.”

Mark had really seen her doing that, there was no point in denying it. Mark had been a really close friend to her, maybe she should give it a try, and tell him the truth.She would hope that he would keep her secret.”Well…When I was 14 years old, I discovered that…that i could change turn some things, in other things…”

She then told Mark the long version of the story of how she learned about the use, and the limits of her powers by experimenting it. She was capable of turning objects and animals in other objects, she could also return then to their original form. The only time that the reversion didn’t work was the one time she turned  a fork into a glass, she accidentally dropped the glass, shattering it. The fork was a lost forever as little pieces of glass.

So she assumed that she could only revert the transformation if the object was still in one piece. She had trying it on animals too, and the funny part was that when she touched anything that was an animal she could hear the ‘woofs’ or ‘meows’ or whatever other sound the animal did. It wasn’t a really useful power.

When she finished talking, she watched the serious look at Mark’s face, she started to think that Mark would consider her a freak, that she would lose her friend, but the bright side was that nobody would ever believe in Marks words, if he ever decides to talk about her powers. Suddenly a smile appeared on Marks face as he said.

“Julie, that’s so cool…did you…did you ever tried it on a person??”

“Off course not Mark. This is completely harmless, but since I’ve never talked about this powers with anyone, I didn’t have someone to try it on either. Do you wanna try it?”

“Hell no.I must confess that im kind of curious about it. But really enjoy being a person.”

They both laugh.And her sharing of this secret, and his acceptance of it made then really close. They’ve been best friends since then, about a year ago.

***

“Mark, im screwed, I need your help.”

“What happened Julie?”

“I’ve beem skipping the Macroeconomies classes for almost a month… and I’ve just found out that the final test is TODAY. If I don’t score at least B+ I’ll fail and I’ll lose my scholarship. I know that past year you scored the highest grade on it…Well, I need you to make me a genius on Macroeconomics in 1 hour”

“What???Are you crazy Julie?This is impossible, you’d need to learn 5 whole chapters. Sorry, I cant teach you that much, in so little time.”

“Please, please, please Mark…”Julie said with that face that always made impossible to Mark saying anything but ‘yes’.

“Sorry Julie, you know I’d do anything to help you…but…its just impossible. We can try, maybe if we start now, we can get at least to half of th…”

“IVE GOT AN IDEA…”Julie said interrupting Mark. ”Do you….do you remember that thing…that thing I can do??”

Mark was showing a face that he had only half understood.

“Well, I could transform you into something…something I could touch during the test. And then you tell me the answers as I tell the questions. Well if I could hear the animals, im sure I can hear you too, and you’ll probably be able to hear me too…That is it Mark, the perfect plan. After the test I’ll get you back to normal, and I’ll be buying your drinks for a whole month,”

“No Julie, did you hear what you just said?? That plan is crazy…”

“Pretty please Mark. You are my only hope of passing this test. If I lose my scholarship im ruined….”Mark couldn’t resist Julie’s pleadings. After some consideration, he said.

“Lets say we go through with it, and im not saying ive already accepted. Will it hurt? Its safe?? Are you sure I’ll be able to think and talk to you?”

“The spell doesn’t work, it only reshapes you into an object.You’ll still be alive. It will be like a disguise.”

“Fine, I’ll do it.I’ll help you this time Julie, But only this time.And you’ll turn me back just after we leave the test, not a single second later…So…what do you have in mind??What am I going to be?”

“Hmm…I think pencil, pen and eraser are out of question, I’d be spending you during the test...Maybe some part of my clothing…that would be perfect…but today im wearing dress, I mean no offense Mark, but I wouldn’t feel comfortable with you wrapped around my whole body…”She kept looking around, thinking of the possible items that might work.Her eyes went down, meeting her platform heels. “Heels, they are perfect Mark, you’ll be touching me the whole time, in a non awkward way, they are very tough, nothing would break then, so you’d also be safe.”

Mark took a look at the heels, taking a second or two of his sight on her beautiful legs on his eye way to the shoes.’Well, I’d be able to have a very nice view of her gorgeous legs, maybe even of her panties.’ Mark thought,  a little ashamed of thinking about his friend like this, ’Besides how hard must be to be a hot girl’s shoes for a couple of hours?’

“Ok Julie, it should work. If you believe that’s the best option, I’ll trust your judgment.”

***

They went to the most deserted floor of the building, Julie checked if the women’s WC was empty, and nodded to Mark to come in. They both entered the same booth.

“Are you ready Mark?”

“No, but I think not even a hundred years would make me ready.” He said anxious.

“Here goes nothing…”

Mark didn’t feel anything. But his sight was suddenly divided in two different origins, both looking to the ceiling, he felt like he had 2 faces, he tried to move, but he didn’t succeed. He then felt what seemed to be a gigantic hand grabbing him.”Mark…?Can you hear me??”A face as pretty as enormous appeared on his sight.

“Yes, I am.It worked.And you were right, it doesn’t hurt at all.I don’t feel anything.”

“Awesome, im late for the test, it would suck to have to deal with any problem right now…I’ll hide my real shoes here on this booth, nobody ever comes to this WC.After the test I’ll get then back, and I get you back to normal.”…”Dammit, I’ll have to hurry, I have only 2 minutes to get in the classroom.”

She then took of her shoes and placed then behind the toilet. She reached for the new ones and started to put then on.

Mark saw Julie’s feet quickly approaching,  the girl’s haste, made it feel like a punch in the face. That’s when Mark realized where his face was placed, and that he wouldn’t even be able to have a sneak peak of under his friend’s dress. As soon as she finished putting him on, his vision was almost completely dark, only save by a little amount of light, but all he could see was toes.

All he could see was his lady friend toes on his face, he could smell then, and the most awkward part, he could taste then. It seemed that every part of his insole was capable of tasting her. Luckily for him, it was early in the day, and she was clean and tasting like strawberries, probably some kind of moisturizing. He was also feeling her warmth, it was like he was hugging the girl for whon he had a huge crush on.

It was only when she got up that his nightmare began. She probably didn’t weight more than 120 pounds, but now he was a small object, and all her full weight was resting on him, it felt like more than a 1000 pounds. He felt like he was going to be smashed to death. But he was doing it to help Julie, if he tell her about how it feels, she will call off the plan, and she’ll lose her scholarship.He decided to pretend that it wasn’t so bad, 2 minutes from now, she’d be sitting, he wouldn’t feel the pain anymore.

“So…how are you felling?”

“Its not the most confortable situation, but im fine.”

“She then started to walk as fast as she could with heels of that high, every step she took seemed that was going to kill Mark, and it shoved her feet deeper on his ‘tongue’, making the strawberry taste stronger to Mark. She ran upstairs, stumbling on the last footstep.”Omg Mark, did I hurt you?”

“No Julie, im fine.”He lied. Julie was clumsy, and Mark knew it.It wasn’t fair being a dick about her kicking him on the footstep.

She finally entered the classroom, she sat down, and started doing the test. Julie read the questions to Mark with her mind, so Mark would elaborate the answers. Julie was too nervous, as Mark was trying to figure the right answers, Julie was flexing her toes inside her shoes, she was also tapping her foot.It was really hard to concentrate like this.As the time passed , they hadn’t even answered half of the questions.

After one hour of test Julie got angry with the increasing wating for each answer, and Mark was getting really tire of being on her feet.

“Do you still remember we have a test to finish, Mark??How many days do you need to get those answers???My scholarship is at stake…”

“Im doing the best I can Julie.Maybe if you tapping your feet, and moving your toes all around, I can concentrate better, and answer faster.”

 “Wow, that’s your excuse??You cant answer the test because of my little toes??Come on Mark, don’t blame me.You deceived me, I tought you were good on Macroeconomie.”

“Hey you were the one who came to me asking for help.Its not easy to concentrate with you feet moving all the time, besides the last time I studied it was 6 months ago, it takes sometime to remember everything.”

“Fine, mister delicate, ill stop tapping my feet.”She said right before stepping hard on the floor one time with each feet, making Mark almost scream. But after that she indeed stopped moving her feet.

Mark could see and feel how anxious Julie was, as she started to sweat, making the strawberry taste a little more salty every minute.’Hold on Mark, its almost done, this nightmare is about to end.’He tought.
But Mark couldn’t recall the right answers with the quickness that the situation required.And after 2 hours of test, the professor started to gather the tests, and Julie had only half of the asnwers she needed, she then guessed the rest of then, and handed him her test.

Julie was really mad at Mark, she walked slowly toward the WC.Every step was a stomp.

“Im sorry Julie, I did the best I could.I know it wasn’t enough, but it didn’t give you the right of stomping on me like this, it hurts.”

“Hurts??it HURTS??Do  you know what does hurt, Mark??To place your hopes on someone, and this person to let you down.” Julie had a leaning to subtle changes of humor, and to overreacting, deep inside she knew it wasn’t Marks fault, but she needed someone but herself to blame.

“…Do you know what else hurts???This…” She said as she jumped as high as she could, landing with both feet at the same time, it was a really soft landing, for her, Mark was a comfortable shoe, but.for Make, it was the most pain he had ever felt. And even worse was the fear of her breaking his heel, he didn’t want to have the same fate as the fork.

“OOH FUCK JULIE, IT HURTS. Come on, you cant do this, you cant break me, remember what might happen. Be careful,”

Julie snapped out of  her angriness, she was really embaressed, she said.”Im sorry Mark, im really really sorry.I overreacted, but you just made me fail that test, I was angry, I was made at you.But you are right, I ought be more careful with you.No more unnecessary risks,”

As she went down the stairs, the clumsy girl almost hurt her ankle in a wrong step. Mark’s thin heel bended a little for a second. Luck for him nothing happened.

All Mark could think about now was that it was almost over, he was almost free of this weird nightmare, a few more steps and he would be human again.He would never let Julie transform him again, he was sure of it

Julie finally got to the WC, and she opened the booth where she had transformed  Mark…

“OOOH NO….FUCK…FUCK…FUCK…”She didn’t just said in her mind, she said it out loud.

“What happened???” Mark asked worried”

 “We are screwed Mark, that’s what happened…My shoes…they are gone

 “Oh god Julie, don’t scare me like that. I know you liked those shoes, but is not a big deal, you can buy new ones.”

“No Mark, I think you aren’t getting me. I don’t have a spare pair here with me, I have 3 more tests to do today, and I cant walk around the campus barefoot…im sorry Mark…I really am…”

Mark finally understood what Julie meant.

“No Julie, the deal was for being shoes till the test was over, and its over, I cant be like this for 6 more hours. Transform me back NOW…”

“I am really…really sorry Mark, but I have no choice…and I don’t wanna sound like a bitch, but in your current position, neither do you.You’ll be staying like this till the end of the day, and this discussion is over.”

“NO THERES NO WAY  I’LL BE ACCE…”

Julie slammed hard with her foot on the floor.

“I’ll repeat.THIS DISCUSSION IS OVER, Mark.Do you understand??”

Mark couldn’t argue against her, she was in a bad mood right now, he’d better not making it worse. “Fine Julie…if there is no other way…”

“Oon, how cute you are being so obedient, Mark, you’d make a nice pet shoe…”She said.”Before you complain, im just kidding, Mark

But she was indeed feeling good knowing that she was using a man as a shoe.But she would never leave Mark like this if it wasn’t necessary

“Lets go, im late for the next test”