The teacher is finally here.

"Where's the line? Make it quick! Apologies, the meeting was longer than usual, please, stand in line, everyone." — the 40-something Mr. Hawks entered the room and started the rollcall. Mandy was standing straight and looking ahead as she was supposed to at first, but then realized that she was actually a good three inches taller than she was a week before, and her position in the line was now completely incorrect!

The girl definitely did not want the teacher's attention, so she just tried to bend herself forward, so that this fact could stay unnoticed for a little while. As soon as she said her name, Mandy looked down to try and see what the problem was.

To her disbelief, she saw that her sneakers' heels had shrunk in width and rose in height, all the way to 3,5 inches! Mandy could not run like that, but she had no idea what else to do and could not come up with anything except try her best anyways.

Somebody asked if she was fine, but she did not respond as the whistle commanded the class to start running the laps. Just twenty minutes ago it would not be a problem, but now her shoes changed somehow, making her stumble almost instantly.

Several short whistles, and now Mr. Hawks was involved.

"Mandy Weston! What the actual hell are you wearing there? You want me to be responsible for you twisting your ankle on my watch?"

Mandy could not say a word. Who was going to believe that these seemingly ordinary sneakers just magically transformed into wedge high heels and that there was some stupid challenge involving wearing them for a day?

After making sure that she was not hurt, the teacher ordered her to go to the locker room and change into her actual sneakers. Knowing that they were left in her closet, Mandy burst into tears right after closing the door behind herself. She could not believe that these stupid shoes betrayed her and ruined her day instead of making it!

The girl reached for the knot that she tucked under her sneaker's tongue sometime ago, but could not find it. The laces did not have any ending anymore, therefore she could not undo them. Mandy tried pulling the sportshoes off, but they refused to leave her feet.

"This makes no sense!" — Mandy lied to herself. It made some sense. She signed up to a challenge, and now the same magic that made her shoes less practical was keeping her from chickening out. She would either last and get them off next morning or fail and spend three more days wearing them.

Coming to terms with her situation was not easy, so Mandy decided to sit for a little longer and then just go home and assume that everyone was going to forget what happened today by next Monday.

Suddenly, she noticed that the heels on her shoes were lower than five minutes ago, which meant that the effect was temporary.

"So they punish me for just thinking sexy thoughts. Huh. Knowing this is a good thing."

"I'm a good thing too!" — Mandy jumped, as Ted already invaded the girls' locker room without her noticing. — "Sorry, didn't mean to scare you. I just had to be the first to check on you."