This choice: The girl doesn't feel Jack, he's stuck • Go Back...Chapter #8It's Mat, not Jack by: Tisch   Having been caught underneath the foot of the student re-entering her shoe, Jack was confident that in no time he would be safely taken out and given an inspection. However, as time passed and he remained in the same spot, albeit with the girl's foot shifting on him every so often, that hope faded. Jack came to realize through the passing time that she hadn't known that he was there and was completely oblivious. Jack wanted to move around and try and stimulate some sort of physical sensation that would alert the student of his presence, but that came with some risks as well as some limitations. For one, if Jack successfully moved, the girl could think of him as a bug or some other annoyance and simply squash him without thought. On another hand, she may just keep her foot resting there thinking he would go away on his own, leaving him to likely either suffocate or succumb to exhaustion beneath her foot. Thirdly, because of him being pinned under her foot, Jack couldn't move very well, not even well enough to make either a tickle or pinch that would alert the unaware student. Therefore, he was stuck as he was and had to hope that he would catch a break over time.
Unfortunately, that was not to be the case. The entire class period passed by, and Jack had neither gone further into the shoe or given breathing room to slip out from under the giant foot. He remained tightly positioned under the fabric-covered appendage and was beginning to grow tired from its pressure on him. Though Jack couldn't imagine things would get much worse than they currently were, he was wrong. Once the class period ended, the girl got up to walk out of class. Consequently, her foot rose and fell into the ground, smashing Jack.
*STEP*
*CRUNCH*
*STEP*
*SQUISH*
Jack was brutalized under the giant girl's foot. He had no idea how she had yet to feel or become aware of him. How could she step on him so many times and not have the remotest clue that he was there? The fact was, she actually had been feeling him, but didn't think he was of any concern. As with what most people would suspect, the girl thought Jack was just a stupid itch or metaphorical pebble in her shoe. Thus, instead of giving it an inspection, the girl continued walking. For Jack, it was as if he was becoming a new human alternative to a floor mat. Being ground up under the student's foot was exhausting and painful, and Jack wanted little more of it. Though he would get his wish, Jack wouldn't get to experience relief. Rather, it was numbness.
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Ten minutes passed and the student Jack shared a class with made it to her next class on the opposite side of campus. She noticed that the sensation coming from inside of her shoe had ceased, which gave her relief. She sat down in the nearest available chair and twisted her foot into the ground.
*SQUELCH*
Under her right foot, there was a little man that was pummeled into the sole of her shoe. He, at this point, had no grasp of the world around him and was gradually fading into oblivion. The last thing Jack recalled before fainting was the white and grayish socks the girl was wearing. This would be the last sight he would see before the girl would settle her foot all the way down on the sole, concealing him entirely under her foot.
The girl would continue on with her day normally, attending two more classes before returning to her dorm room. There, she kicked off her shoes and got to work studying. She wouldn't come to realize until later that there in fact had been something in her shoe. Between that realization and her initially throwing off her shoes, Jack had remained inside of the girl's shoe, plastered against its bottom. When the girl found Jack inside of her shoe, she winced in disgust and plucked him out with a tissue before tossing him into her room's garbage can. Jack would be thrown out into the residence hall's trash collection the next day and never seen again...  |
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