"I'd rather walk barefoot than walk in these," she muttered. Then, she brightened at the thought. "Can I please walk barefoot instead?"

Victoria looked appalled at the mere thought. "Absolutely not!" she exclaimed. Victoria could feel a major headache coming soon. "Just, sit here and whatever you do," she gave Jooyeon a threatening look, "do not take off your shoes."

All the flight attendants in the room had heard Victoria, and they had to admit that she was acting extra scary today. She seemed more high strung than normal. They all glanced at each other, including Jooyeon, and were all thinking the same thing.

Victoria needed a vacation.

Jooyeon really didn't want to make Victoria anymore stressed than she was, but she really could not stand heels. "What if I fall?" she exclaimed dramatically. The other women in the room rolled their eyes. Jooyeon was always a bit dramatic when it came to things like this. "What if I trip and fall flat on my face and break my nose?" She looked horrified at the thought of breaking her nose. Her hand automatically went to cover her nose.

"Well then you could go get that nose job you always wanted," Tiffany teased.

Victoria sent a Tiffany a waning look. She sighed and turned to Jooyeon. "You are going to be fine. You say that every single day and you never actually fall." She gave Jooyeon one last look. "You'll be fine. Now go to work, you and Tiffany have a flight you're supposed to be on in an hour." 

She sighed but nodded obediently anyway. Walking out of the room awkwardly on her heels, she wobbled her way to the C Building for her flight to Japan. Tiffany followed behind her.

They finally reached Gate 120 after a long and painful trip. Jooyeon was unusually limping and Tiffany noticed as they boarded the plane. "Why are you limping?" she asked, stopping in the middle of the airplane to look at Jooyeon properly.

Jooyeon shrugged and told Tiffany she was okay. She wasn't sure why, but her feet was killing her today. Usually, after complaining about her heels to Victoria, she'd be fine for the rest of the day and would have no problem with her shoes. However, today her feet were killing her and it felt as if they were on fire.

Jooyeon took a step forward but winced and Tiffany saw that. "You need to sit down," Tiffany said, ushering Jooyeon to the nearest seat. Thankfully the passengers hadn't boarded yet (and wouldn't be boarding for another half hour).

Jooyeon sat down and grimaced as Tiffany pulled off her high heels. "You have a blister," Tiffany said after looking at Jooyeon's left foot. She looked at Jooyeon's right one and nodded, confirming her previous guess. "Yup, you have one on each foot." Tiffany looked up and called to the nearest person. It happened to be one of the pilots - Sehun. "Hey, Sehun!" she called.

Sehun looked back at her and and pointed at himself. "Me?" he questioned.

Tiffany rolled her eyes. "Who else is named Sehun around here?" He looked embarrassed as he realized his mistake. "Will you get me two band aids?" she asked him.

He nodded and ran off to the first aid kit. Once he grabbed two large band aids, he ran back to Tiffany and Jooyeon and handed them to Tiffany. "What happened?" he asked nosily. He leaned in to see what Tiffany was doing.

Tiffany applied both band aids to Jooyeon's feet before answering his question. "Jooyeon has blisters from her heels," she explained. She looked up at Jooyeon, who had been silent this whole time. "Are you sure you can serve this flight? There's still time to get someone to replace you."

Jooyeon nodded. She gingerly slipped her feet back into her deadly heels and stood up, although rather ungracefully. "I'll be fine," she said unconvincingly. "Thanks, though," she said.

Tiffany gave her a worried look, but didn't press the matter. "Alright, well, let's get this plane ready." She helped Jooyeon walk off. Twisting her head around, she looked at Sehun and thanked him.

Sehun still noticed that Jooyeon was limping a bit and felt really bad for her. That was one of the reasons why he was glad he was not a woman. Wearing heels looked painful, and he felt bad for the women that had to wear them 24/7 as part of their job, like the flight attendants.

Looking down at his watch, he realized that he still had twenty five minutes before he had to fly the plane. Immediately, he rushed off the plane. Jongin noticed this and yelled after his copilot, unsure of what Sehun was doing. "Where are you going?"

Sehun didn't answer him and kept running. Only offering, "I'll be right back!" as a reply.

Sehun must've been a very fast runner, because not even five minutes later, he was in the flight attendant's headquarters. He bust into the room, gaining the attention of everyone. He bent over and caught his breath before saying, "Noona?"

A universal, "Yes?" came from almost all of the women in the room. Sehun made an embarrassed face, knowing he should of specified which noona he was talking about. "Sooyoung noona?" About half of the women's faces fell, disappointed that Sehun wasn't looking for them, while Sooyoung just looked at Sehun in curiosity.

Seeing Sooyoung sit at her desk, he walked over to her quickly. Before she even had the chance to ask him anything, he spoke without letting her get a word in. "Do you have any flat shoes?"

Sooyoung furrowed her eyebrows, deep in thought. "Flat shoes? Like flats?" Sehun nodded. Sooyoung thought about it for a second but shook her head. "I don't think so," Sehun's face fell, but Sooyoung wasn't finished talking, "but I know where Victoria keeps her." Sooyoung stood up and walked over to the mini lockers on the far wall. 

Sehun followed behind her excitedly and watched as she unlocked Victoria's locker. He didn't even question how she knew the combination for it. "Why do you need them?" Sooyoung asked, concentrating on unlocking the locker. She swore under her breath as she missed the combination, resulting in her having to start over.

"One of the flight attendants on my plane has blisters from her heels. She's limping and I think her feet really hurt her," he explained.

Sooyoung finally unlocked the little locker, and lo and behold, Victoria's navy blue flats were sitting right there as if they were waiting for them all along. Grabbing them out of the locker and handing them to Sehun, Sooyoung asked one final question. "Why do you care if she's hurt? She has to serve either way, and it's not like you cared about anyone else before," she teased, a knowing look on her face.

Sehun just scowled and thanked Sooyoung before running out of the room. Checking his watch as he ran, he realized that he now only had ten minutes before he had to be on the plane. Sprinting even faster than before, he made it to the gate with two minutes to spare. He ran past the ground attendants and through the walkway leading him to the plane. When he got on the plane, he stopped to catch his breath.

He looked around, trying to find Jooyeon. Sehun saw her on the other side of the plane, setting up pillows and blankets on the seats for the passengers. Sehun really didn't want to walk all the way around to get to the other side, so instead, he just climbed over the seats and landed right in front of Jooyeon.

Jooyeon jumped and widened her eyes, not expecting Sehun to just pop out of no where. She looked at him strangely and he just shoved the pair of flats into her hands. Jooyeon furrowed her brows, not knowing what she had just received. But when she saw the flats, her smile nearly split her face in half. "Thank you!" she exclaimed. Without any hesitation, she slipped her heels off and slipped the new flats onto her feet. She felt relief immediately. "You have no idea- Hey! Where are you going?" 

Sehun couldn't stay there for any trivial chit chat. That would have to wait until later. As for now, he had a plane he needed to fly.

"Sehun! Wait up!" Sehun looked behind him and saw Jooyeon running up to catch up to him. He stopped to allow her to reach him. When she finally caught up to him, she gave him a shy smile. "Thank you for those shoes. My feet feel much better now." Another smile was sent his way. 

After Sehun had ran away to go fly the plane, not giving Jooyeon enough time to thank him properly, Jooyeon was determined to give him an appropriate thanks. However, when they landed in Japan, the crew of the plane had about thirty minutes to clean up and set up the plane again before they had to fly back to Korea. She didn't have enough time then either, which was why she had ran up to Sehun the moment they landed in Korea.

Sehun looked at her and acted as if he didn't care. "It's no problem, I had those laying around and you looked like you need them, so..." Lies, all lies. He was such a bad liar. Sehun was sure Jooyeon could see right through his fib. 

Surprisingly, she didn't say anything about it. She took off the shoes, leaving her only in her stockings, and handed the blue flats to Sehun. "Well, thanks anyway," she said. She gave him a cute eye smile. "You're such a nice kid!"

Sehun's smile slipped off his face the moment he heard her call him a kid. If there was anything he hated, it was being called a kid. "I am not a kid," he said coldly. "I am a grown man."

Laughing, Jooyeon just shook her head. "You're only 22," she pointed out.

"So are you." He narrowed his eyes at the still laughing flight attendant. "I'm not a child and I-"

An noise came over the intercom, interrupting Sehun's sentence. The two of them looked up at the intercom, awaiting the announcement. A crackling noise was heard before Jongdae's unmistakable voice started talking. "If anyone has seen a missing toddler, about 181 centimeters tall, short brown hair, and has on a pilot's uniform, please call the information desk. Oh Sehun is needed here. I repeat, Oh Sehun needs to report to the information desk to see his mommy immediately. She needs to change his diaper. That is all - Jongdae, what are you doing? Get off the inter-" The announcement was abruptly cut short. Near the end of it, a female voice closely resembling Boa's was heard telling Jongdae off.

Sehun turned bright red as everyone around him pointed at him while laughing. Even Jooyeon couldn't help but giggle into her hand.

Jongin walked up to the two and smirked at him. "Better hurry, Sehun-ah," he cooed. "Your mommy is waiting to change your diaper!" He laughed as his copilot turned an even brighter shade of red.

Shaking his head, Sehun took the walk of shame towards the information desk. Before he was out of ear shot, though, Jooyeon and Jongin heard him mutter something about killing Jongdae the moment he got there.

"If anyone has seen a missing toddler, about 181 centimeters tall, short brown hair, and has on a pilot's uniform, please call the information desk. Oh Sehun is needed here. I repeat, Oh Sehun needs to report to the information desk to see his mommy immediately. She needs to change his diaper. That is all - Jongdae, what are you doing? Get off the inter-"

Yong Soah looked up at the intercom, not sure what to make of that odd announcement. However, she just shrugged and continued typing the email to her supervisor. It was after her shift, and most of her coworkers had already left for the night. The ground attendants that were streaming into the room now worked the night shift.

"That, my friend, is why we don't associate with Jongdae." Soah turned around and looked at her best friend and roommate, Jiyong, strangely. He just gave her a knowing look. "Don't act like you don't know what I'm talking about."

"But I don't," she said, spinning back around in her office chair to finish her email. "Please elaborate and tell me what you're talking about."

"You and Jongdae," Jiyong said plainly. "I saw you two talking the other day and you looked pretty close," he sing songed.

Soah rolled her eyes and spun around to face him. "He was asking me a question and I was being polite." Jiyong and Soah have had conversations that mimicked this one exactly before. Jiyong couldn't' help but be protective over Soah, and so whenever he saw her being close to other guys, he always made sure to warn her about them.

Soah actually wasn't that close to other people. She had a hard time making friends. People misunderstood only because she's polite to everyone. They take her politeness as flirting, when it's really not. And Jiyong was doing exactly that. "Honestly, there is nothing going on between me and Jongdae," she said.

Jiyong just nodded, unconvinced. "Good," he said nonchalantly. "Because you've heard about all the terrible things he's done to his coworkers, right?"

"Huh?" Soah spun around to look at him again. At this rate, she'll be staying here all night because she'll never get her email finished. But that wasn't entirely a bad thing. If she was forced to stay later than usual, so was Jiyong because Soah was his ride home. "What terrible things?"

Jiyong pretended to be shocked. "Why, you mean you haven't heard about all those pranks and things he's pulled?"

Soah nodded and said, "I have, but the ones I heard weren't that bad." She raised an eyebrow at Jiyong, "Why, what have you heard?"

He shrugged and Soah could see the small trace of a mischievous smirk on his face. "Oh, you know, about that coffee incident, or that flight attendant getting embarrassed," he paused and laughed loudly, "And we can't forget about that one time-" Jiyong stopped mid sentence, as if purposefully teasing Soah. "You aren't interested in him, so why does it matter anyway?"

Soah gave Jiyong a look and he laughed. "Alright, alright, I'll tell you. Which story do you want hear first, oh young one?" he teased.

Rolling her eyes, she told him it didn't matter. "Just pick the worst one."

"The flight attendant one it is," he said, deciding on the story. "Alright, well, a few years ago, before you started working here, there was this one flight attendant. Her name was-" Jiyong looked up and called out one of the ground attendants in the room. "Yo, Sohee!" The girl looked up at him. "Do you remember that one flight attendant's name that Jongdae embarrassed in front of everyone?"

Sohee thought about it for a moment. "I think her name was Ahn Aerin or something," she said. She shrugged. "It was Hyerin's sister though. Poor girl," she muttered before going back to work.

"Right, so Ahn Aerin." He looked at Soah, "You know Hyerin, right? The flight attendant that's always bickering with Kris?" Soah nodded, vaguely recalling the name. "Okay well, Hyerin and her sister were both flight attendants at the time. Aerin however, was a crazy - I mean, she was a little wacky in the head," he corrected his choice of wording when Soah sent him a look.

"Anyway, Aerin was head over heels obsessed with Jongdae. Everywhere he went, Aerin would be right behind him. She always switched her flights with others just to serve flights that Jongdae flew." Soah's mouth dropped, a little shocked that someone could be so obsessed with another person. This Aerin girl sounded like a sasaeng fan more than anything.

Soah looked up and continued to listen to Jiyong's story. "She was addicted to Jongdae, and it was pretty scary. Hyerin tried to stop her, and so did a bunch of other people, but it was no use. Aerin was obsessed and she wasn't going to stop." Jiyong sent Soah a look, one that made her believe his story whole heartedly. It was the look she fondly called his "true story" look.

"Things simmered down after a while. Aerin quietly fangirled to herself and mostly left everyone else, besides Jongdae, alone. But then she made a huge mistake." He paused for dramatic effect. 

"What did she do?" Soah asked, mesmerized by the story. Jiyong chuckled at her, but carried on with his story.

"She told everyone that she had Jongdae wrapped around her pretty little finger. Boy, was Jongdae mad when he heard this-"

"Why was he so mad?" Soah interrupted Jiyong. She couldn't figure out why he would get upset. Sure, it was a lie, but it was a little one that talking it out with each other could've fixed.

Jiyong didn't know exactly why either, but he had his guesses. "I think Jongdae said something about her ruining his chances with other girls." Jiyong and Soah simultaneously rolled their eyes. "On with the story, so when Jongdae found out, he was extremely mad. He wanted to get her back, and who's better to plan out a prank than the king of all trolls himself?

"So he planned to embarrass her, but not just in front of his coworkers, no, he did it in front of everyone, passengers and employees included. He somehow got this blinding white banner and printed the words 'AHN AERIN IS A STALKER. SINCE SHE STALKED ME, I STALKED HER BACK. LOOK WHAT I FOUND' and under those bright red capital letters was a huge picture of her picking her nose. He strung it up in front of the airport." 

Soah's eyes widened at the revelation of the story. She couldn't believe Jongdae would play such a mean prank on someone. Sure, this Aerin girl deserved it, but that prank was way out of line and was even on the brink of cruelty. "So what happened?"

"Well she quit after that. Poor girl rushed into Mr. Wu's office bawling her eyes out and handed him her resignation letter. The scary part is, he took it all down before CEO Wu even came into work, so he had no idea why one of his flight attendants was quitting her job."

"Wow," was all Soah could muster up. She couldn't believe that something as mean as that went on without even a single consequence. "Just wow."

Jiyong nodded, smiling smugly as his wonderful story telling skills. "Hyerin was absolutely livid, but she couldn't do anything about it. Jongdae and Hyerin still have a bitter relationship to this day."

"Well let's just hope I never cross him like that," Soah said. She was slightly scared of what the innocent looking pilot could do. One thing was for sure, she was going to be extra careful around him now.