It Just Keeps Getting Worse by The Unknown

Erica ran towards the creepy building, her feet were aching with each step. This place made her curious and she wanted to check it out. All of a sudden, she froze in her tracks; Erica couldn't move her feet. She looked down to see what was wrong. Her sneakers were stuck in wet cement! Erica grabbed her ankles and began to tug on her feet, but the goo held them down in an iron grip. She thought to herself, "How can this get any worse?" Suddenly, her sneakers began to sink fast into the cement. Erica untied her sneakers and tried to pull her feet out but they were jammed tightly inside the shoes. She realized that from all the running, her feet and ankles had to be swollen. With all her might, Erica pulled at her swollen feet, hoping that she could free herself. At the last moment, she got her feet out and jumped to solid ground. Erica turned to see her sneakers sink all the way into the cement. She then began her journey to the building. The dew on the ground felt ice cold beneath Erica's stocking feet. Inside the building, the room was very dark and bare. On the wall, she found a huge red button. She pushed it and suddenly, the lights flickered on and a weird, gray layer appeared from the floor. Erica, now a bit scared, began to step back. However, her feet wouldn't move a bit. She began to yank her feet free, yet it felt as if her socks were plastered to the gray floor. Erica then had a thought. Trying her best to bend down with stuck feet, she felt the floor. It was Velcro. She realized that a very strong layer of Velcro held only her socks down, not her feet. So, Erica tried to take her socks off, but the tight floor didn't allow her to. Then, she did the next best thing; she tore them off her feet. As soon as Erica's bare feet touched the soft floor, a door appeared from nowhere. Outside, Erica stopped for a minute. She looked at the soles of her bare feet; they were swollen and beet red. Therefore, she decided to rest for a minute. After a while, Erica had the strangest feeling in her feet, as if that they were floating. She seen that a mysterious, pink, sticky bubble was encasted around her feet and caused her to float to about 10 feet in the air! At first, Erica was scared, but she soon got the hang of it....until it popped. Erica landed straight on the balls of her feet, causing them to hurt even more. After that, a buzzing sound was coming from behind her. A group of angry-looking hornets were heading for her. "Oh no", she said. "Time to beat feet!" She went to leave, until her bare feet were pulled from beneath her. Erica saw that sticky remains of the bubble were caught on her bare soles, holding her to the ground. Erica pulled on her stuck feet as hard as she could, but the strands soon stretched, becoming harder and tighter on her soles! Erica realized what the bubble was; Sticky bubble gum! Suddenly, a hornet strung her in the neck. Erica soon stopped struggling and passed out. When she awoke, Erica was lying on a conveyor belt. Ahead about 50 meters, there was a large grinder with deadly spikes. Suddenly, a rumble came from beneath Erica's bare feet; the belt began to move at an alarming speed towards the spiked grinder. Erica then attempted to jump off the deathtrap, yet she was yanked back on by her ankles. Confused, Erica lifted up her pant leg to see a horrific discovery. A pair of heavy iron fetters were placed on Erica's feet! On each shackle, a link chain lead back to a spot on the belt in which they were welded to. Erica began to pull on her shackles, but there was nothing there; no lock or a place where the shackle separates. There was no way to remove them. Erica's bare feet were stuck with no way out! The grinder was only a matter of feet away. Nervous and panicked, Erica began to look around. Right above the grinder, there was an iron pipe. Erica tried to jump to grab it, but the heavy fetters weighted her bare feet down. With her last ounce of strength, she grabbed it and pull herself around it. The chains began to tug on Erica's ankles, yet she held on. Then, the grinder spit out sparks below Erica's feet; some even burned her bare soles. When it stopped, so did the tugging on her feet ; she was free of the shackles. The grinder had cut the chains and fetters off her ankles! Relieved, she jumped down and ran out the door. She now was in front of a huge lake. Erica seen land across it. So she headed into the water. It was clear and warm. Just out of curosity, Erica dove to the bottom. All that was on the bottom was some junk and a huge pile of seaweed. Disappointed, she headed towards the surface. She then saw something weird. The seaweed was growing extremely fast, as if it was following her. Erica kicked her feet faster and faster to beat the seaweed, but as she reached the top, something grabbed her by the feet and dragged her down. The seaweed had entangled itself on Erica...twisted around her ankles...across her bare soles.....even between her toes. The tight grip on her feet couldn't be broken. On the bottom, Erica found a rusty knife and began to cut the seaweed off her ankles. She quickly swam to the surface and climbed upon land. Panting, as she began to move again, her feet became unable to move . There was a sticky, black substance on the bottoms of Erica's bare feet that stretched further and tigher than before. "Tar.." Erica mumbled and soon thought of how to free herself. She reached for a little pile of water from the lake and poured it on top her stuck feet. Quickly, the tar weaken and Erica was on her way again. The passage led outside and soon after that, she heard growling and barking. Behind her, 2 mean looking dogs snarled at Erica. She then took of like a bullet, running as fast as her feet could carry her. The dogs continued after her in hot pursuit. Erica ran up a strange looking hill, the small rocks on the road brusied and cut her bare soles, but she ignored it. At the top, she began to run down the other side when Erica stepped in a puddle of grease. Erica's feet slid out of control! She flew down the hill at an alarming speed. She screamed out in pure terror! Suddenly, Erica felt that she was being pulled back. She stopped sliding. As happy as she could be, Erica began to ahead on, but she couldn't remove her bare soles from the ground! She looked down in horror at her feet; the thing that stopped her from sliding, yet held her bare feet prisoner was a white pile of glue. She soon heard the growling of the dogs again. In a panic, Erica grabbed her ankles and pulled on her bare feet; it was no use. She couldn't lift them up 1 inch! It felt as if the bottoms of Erica's bare feet were welded to the ground. The dogs ran towards Erica and in anger jumped towards her. She covered her eyes, rolled into a ball, and screamed, preparing for the worse.....but nothing happened. Erica looked up. The dogs...the angry beasts were gone, however, her bare feet were still trapped. Erica suddenly reached into her pockets, praying, "Let it be there." "Let it be there." It was! She pulled out a tiny bottle of nail polish remover and quickly poured it all over her stuck feet. Would it work? Erica wiggled her feet and they were able to move again. She let out a sigh of relief. She looked ahead and seen the best thing of the entire nightmare: a huge gate with the sign EXIT. Tears rolled down her face, tears of happiness and freedom. As she headed towards the exit. Suddenly, 2 metal hands popped out of the ground ,grabbed Erica's bare ankles and dragged her to the floor. It was trying to pull her into the ground! Erica's tears of joy became tears of anger. The hands held Erica's bare feet in an iron grip, but she refused to give up. She began to punch the hands. This made her hands hurt, but Erica didn't care. Amazing, the hands began to break and then, they shattered into a million pieces! Without thinking twice, Erica opened the gate and began to run home. When she finally got there, she let another sigh of relief. She opened the door and began to go to her room. She was tired both physically and mentally. On the way, her mom called out to her. She asked Erica, "What the hell happened to your feet?" Erica looked at her bare soles; they were pure black and very dirty from her heels to the tips of her toes. Erica laughed and walked away to her room.

End.