Yu Chen waved her hands, "Well actually aunty I really did not want to wear heels today. So I thought that maybe I could..." Chen's sentence was left incomplete as Mrs. Mo cut her.
She said, "Well I could give you any of my shoes, but they are mostly heels. And I doubt that my shoes would fit your cute little feet." Chen felt embarrassed. She really had small feet and her shoes were mostly a five size. Sometimes, she could even wriggle her feet into a shoe of size four.
Mrs. Mo laughed upon seeing Chen's expression and said, "Darling, no need to be embarrassed. Go to Kio's room and see if he has any shoes that would fit you."
Yu Chen: "Sure aunty. But will his shoes fit me?"
Mrs. Mo: "He keeps such a closet that even girls will feel awed. Go up to his room, I'm sure he will fix up something for you."
Yu Chen nodded and thanked Mrs. Mo.
She went upstairs and knocked on Mo Kio's door. After about half a minute Kio opened the door. He seemed to have just showered as he was not wearing a shirt and his hair was dripping wet, which he was drying with a towel."
Yu Chen instantly turned around. She said, "Do you even wear shirts now?"
Mo Kio laughed and said, "Give me a break, I was just going to get dressed. Come in."
Yu Chen turned around and went inside. She saw Kio going into an adjoined room and followed him saying, "Hey Kio I was thinking if you.... What the hell!?!?!? WOW!!!"
Yu Chen's mouth fell open upon seeing what was inside.
The whole room was a walk-in closet with different cupboards for shirts, jeans, jackets, shoes, etc. Yu Chen let out a whistle, "Mrs. Mo was not joking."
Mo Kio: "About what?" He was standing in front of a cupboard full of t-shirts with his towel around his shoulders.
Yu Chen: "Your closet can leave any girl in awe."
Mo Kio: "Well thank you." He took out a white t-shirt with a picture of San Francisco on the front and pulled it on. He said, "Anyway, did mom send you to fetch me?"
Yu Chen: "No, actually I wanted to borrow a pair of shoes."
Mo Kio turned around, "Why? Did something happen?"
Yu Chen: "Nothing really. I did not want to wear heels and do not have any shoes here, so I was wondering if you have something that would fit me?"
Mo Kio walked towards a wooden rack which reached almost to the ceiling and pulled it open. Yu Chen's jaw hit the floor upon seeing that the whole rack was filled with shoes.
Sneakers, boots, sport shoes, joggers, you name it. Mo Kio brought a small ladder and climbed to the topmost shelf. He said, "What's your size?"
Yu Chen: "Umm, five."
Now it was Mo Kio's turn to be dumbfounded. "Five, god how small your feet are!?!?"
Yu Chen: "Shut up."
Mo Kio chuckled and said, "Let's see. Five... five....five...Here."
He climbed down with two pairs of shoes in his hand. One was blue sneakers and other were black boots.
He said, "These are the ones I have in size five."