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Kam rummaged through his cousins draws looking for it. He knew his cousin Darren had took his lucky baseball card and hide it somewhere in his bedroom. "Have you seen it, yet?" He asked his friend Larry who came to help him look.
"Not yet. Are you sure he has it?" Larry asked, while looking in Darren's closet.
"Of course, he does. I heard him brag about it one day. I want it back." Kam said, still searching for it.
"Then ask him to give it back." Larry turned around to add that suggestion to his friend.
"I already tried that option." Kam paused and looked at Larry. "He said he couldn't confirm or deny he has it when I questioined him. He then left it at that."
Suddenly both of them heard a car pulling up and parking.
"Damn, it's Darren. He is back sooner than I expected." Kam said in a panic.
"What do we do? He is going to ask why we are in his place, let alone his bedroom." Larry asked.
"He can't know it was us here." Kam said, not wanting to get caught. He knew there was one option they had left not to be noticed, but it was a risky one.
"How is he not going to know we were here? He is already in the house. There is no way to leave without him noticing." Larry started to panic as well.
Kam pulled out two small blue gummies from a wrapped paper he had in his pocket. He handed one over to Larry. "I brought these with me in caas he came back early."
"How will these help?' Larry asked Kam, confused.
"it will help hide us. Darren won't even know we are here." Kam dropped his in his mouth and started chewing. He swallowed. He saw Larry do the same. The effect happened immediately. His body began to shrink rapidly. His skin changed color and into something else. His body began to fold in on itself. By the time the change was complete, he heard Darren entering his bedroom. They forgot to put things back before he arrived. He would for sure know someone had been in his bedroom.
Darren came into his bedroom after a good long time at the gym. He saw some of his things thrown all over the place. He realized someone had been in his house and bedroom. He went to look under his bed and pulled out a shoe box. He lifted one shoe up to see the baseball card was still there.
Darren looked around the house, but couldn't find his cousin anywhere. He knew it had to be his cousin wss snooping around his place since he had the spare key to his house. He called his number, but it went straight to voicemail. He came back to his room to find a pair of new sneakers on the floor.
"I don't remember buying these." He said as he picked them up. He sniffed one and found it had a fresh new scent. "I must have bought them and haven't worn them yet." He ressoned. He tried them on his sweaty bare feet. "They feel so good. I wonder where I bought these from. I need to get another pair just as comfortable." He walked around in them for a little bit. He then stuffed the sweaty socks he wore to the gym inside the new sneakers. "Time to mark these with my scent." He laughed ss he went to go shower.
Larry was disgusted at what he was. He was a literal sneaker. Seeing Kam's cousin's foot pressing down on his face and walking on him was both painful and degrading at the same time. He step felt like he was being crusheed by a mountain, but without death. The foot sweat didn't help either. He couldn't move on his own or speak. He was powerless at the mercy of the size 13 foot just wearing him like a common shoe. the stinky sock at the end was the absolute worse. It really was no escape from the strong foot odor. It began to saturate all his insides with the strong and sweaty scent.
Kam realized too late the error of turning into a sneaker. He remembered how Darren would many times where his shoes sockless. That sweaty bare foot was evident of his fate if they didn't change back to normal. Being walked on by his cousin wasn't pleasent one bit. It was almost unbearable. He thougt they could change back while he showered, but a stinky and sweaty sock changed that plan. With it stuck in them, they would be unable to change back just yet.
Two Weeks Later............
Darren looked down at the pair of sneakers. They were his most comfortable pair he owned. He literally worn them every day since he discoverd them. He loved to wear them sockless since they look good that way on his feet. They also felt good sockless as well. He picked up one and sniffed it. The aroma was delightful. His foot scent had marked his sneakers well. He put them on his feet and went to go hang out with his friends.
"I don't think it was smart to change into shoes to hide from your cousin. Ugh, it's been two weeks already, and he hasn't stopped wearing us. I smell so horrible, stinky bare foot." Larry thought to himself. He still waan't used to being sneaker even after two weeks. He held on to his humanity, but he didn't know for how much longer. Each day each step was withering away his old life. Soon, he will be nothing but a dumb sneaker under it's owner's foot. A fate he wasn't looking forward to.
"Why does he have to wear us sockless. We need just one full day for us to change back." Kam mentally anguished over the decision to be a sneaker. When his cousin wasn't wearing them, he would place them in a show box under his bed. They would be trapped until the next morning when his cousin would take them out to wear them. This was a constant for two weeks now with no end in site. He wondered how Larry was holding up. Hopefully, they will get an opportunity at some point to change back and escape from being owned by his cousin completely unaware.