*STRETCH*

"Ouch" Mindy woke up in the middle of the night. The stretching pains in her feet resumed again. The doctor Markus took her to said that her feet were growing rapidly. From size 3 she jumped to size 5 in two months. Dave was too busy with school and could not do anything about it. Mindy herself was partially grounded for a scene during soccer training, which she disliked with all her heart.

"Ok…I need to call, Dave, I can't take this anymore…" She whispered to herself. She took her phone from her nightstand and dialed Dave's number.

"Hello." Dave replied with a sleepy voice.

"Dave, I know I said this a lot now, but the pain is really bad right now. I need a massage…" She mumbled in to the telephone.

"Ok, I have a plan….it will hurt your feet a little, but I will manage to do something." Dave suggested.

"So, what do you want me to do?"

"Sneak in to my place, right about now"

Mindy looked at her feet and thought for a while, until Dave interrupted her thoughts:

"Well, what are you waiting for?" He asked.

"Ok, I'll try…" She mumbled putting her shoes on and trying to stand up. Her feet seemed heavy and she could barely walk, but still decided to sneak to Dave's house. She put her sneakers on and climbed down from the window.

"Alright, I can do this…" Mindy said running through the back streets looking at her feet. She fell a few times in order to get over cramps that stretched her arches. She thought she would not manage to get up after the last cramp, but she stood up and could barely walk.

"Ok, I can do this, I am almost there…" She whispered to herself clenching her teeth. The knuckles of her feet were popping and cracking with every step.

"Gah… Ouch!" She yelled and fell on the ground when the pain in her arches and knuckles became unbearable. She looked up and saw that she was near Dave's house. She took her phone and tried to call him.

"You payment is past due, in order to make a payment…"

"Ah, come on!" Mindy yelled and got up again. The pain was so strong that she could not remember how she managed to climb to Dave's window without falling down.

"Mindy…" Dave looked at the girl who opened her eyes. Dave was unlacing her sneakers.

"Dave, hurry up, they hurt…" She whispered with a weak voice.

Dave noticed and started to massage the arch of her right foot even before taking her socks off.

"Finally, oh…" Mindy sighed and suddenly asked: "Dave, what is going on with my feet?"

"Mindy, you are growing, there are going to be much longer in a year, I would say size 7-8. You'll have to get new shoes". Dave explained massaging the upper sole.

"The knuckles, please, do the knuckles…" Mindy whispered closing her eyes.

"Wow, they are swollen, hang on there, I'll get some ice…" Dave said taking ice cubes from his freezer, putting them in to a cloth and applying to Mindy's foot.

"Thanks… Now the other one, quick… It's worse…"

"We'll have to wait before the swelling goes away."Dave said examining her other foot."

"What do you mean? It's killing me, ouch." Mindy moaned.

"Alright, it's going to sting a little, but I'll take your shoe off." Dave agreed.

"Ha, I've suffered worse. D'Amigo beat the sh** out of me, remember?" Mindy smiled, but the moment Dave took her shoe off she barely held herself from yelling.

"Easy there… Are you ok?" Dave noticed Mindy got pale.

"Something's… Ouch…" Mindy barely pronounced putting her head on the floor.

"Alright, seems like it's the blood flow… Are you with me, Mindy? Mindy?!"

To be continued…