As the car drove along Michigan Avenue, Cici couldn't help but fiddle with the bit of fabric beneath her toes. She pulled Mathew's helpless little body up into her clutches, squeezing him to the point where he almost popped from the pressure as sweat and scent coated his little body from the ever-increasing temperature of her flats. The sock's fabric that had become stiff and stale in the air during the massage had the dried sweat 're-activate' as time went on, further drenching Mathew's little body. After a few seconds of gripping his little body, she would casually let him go only to repeat the process again. It was something to entertain her as they drove along, and while it was somewhat annoying, she never actually felt the need to take her shoe off and adjust her sock.

"Is this it?" Cici asked as they approached the main entrance.

"Yep! There's a museum nearby too we can visit for a little while. It's not as big as I remember it was when I was a kid, but it's kinda neat anyway." Sky replied as she turned right into the Arboretum's entrance. She followed the fork in the road to the left before pulling the car into one of the parking spots. Once the car was safely parked, the two stepped out of the vehicle and each shut the door.

"This place is really pretty." Cici said with a smile, looking around the Arboretum. She and Skylar both made their way under a stone structure supported by four pillars and began their journey along a path that cut through the center of the Leila Arboretum itself. Cici glanced off to the right, through some trees that were in the middle of a large grassy field to a building that had four large sets of cement steps leading up to the entrance. "Is that the Museum?"

"Yeah, It's called the Kingman Museum." Skylar replied with a smile, keeping close to Cici as she enjoyed the sights.

The pair crossed the street that circled the Arboretum and through the grass to Linear Park, an extremely long footpath that followed the Kalamazoo River as well as made it's way into the city of Battle Creek. They went left along the pathway and made their way toward the River, and the closer they came to the river itself, the more they could smell the oil...

"I hope they get the River cleaned up soon..." Cici said as they made their way down the path, past a sign that read 'No river use until further notice due to ongoing oil spill response.' Both Cici and Skylar knew about the event - all of Battle Creek knew what happened. A month ago in July a pipeline burst upriver flooding the river itself with oil. All month the city had been working to clean up the disaster, as was made apparent from the large equipment and people along the shoreline cleaning and helping recover what they could. "Man-made disasters like this are just terrible."

"At least you can't smell it from fifteen miles away now." Sky replied as they walked along the riverside. It was a bit cleaner up toward the city itself, which is where they were actually going to hang out. Linear Park was still beautiful, but the Kalamazoo River Oil Spill had harmed its beauty significantly. "I heard a few people calling it the 'Dilbit Disaster' or something."

"I'm never going to remember that." Cici said as they continued down the path alongside the river. "Kalamazoo River Oil Spill is easier."

The two walked alongside the river with Jackson Street at their left. They passed underneath 20th Street on their way toward the city, the heat enough to cause both girls to sweat quite a bit. Mathew had it worse though, Cici had long forgotten the lump beneath her toes as sweat drenched his tiny body. He couldn't smell the oil, of course, all he could smell were the horrendously strong fumes Cici's feet produced. Tucked safe under her shoe, he couldn't even hear her as she spoke to Sky. All he could hear was the 'squelch' of sweat as her foot would lift, followed by the defining 'thump' it made when it came back down. Again and again the process repeated, when she would lift her heel in her gait, her toes space would lessen enough to force Mathew's lungs to empty of air for a split second. Her walking controlled his breathing in this way, forcing him to cycle through her foot odor with each powerful step.

The further toward the city they made it, the better it got for the river itself. They crossed over a bridge just past Washington Avenue and followed the path a bit with the river toward their left. Off in the distance, the 'Battle Creek Tower' stood high off in the distance in front of them. When they neared the treeline, both of the girls stopped to look up at the tower and the skyline high above.

"I wish I could have seen the river before the spill." Cici said with a sigh, looking to the river off to their left. It was cleaner there then it was closer to where they started out, but it still wasn't perfect. "Never crossed my mind to actually visit it before."

"They'll clean it up eventually." Sky said, "Nothing we can do about it right now."

The two turned back toward the way they came, walking away from the tower and back toward the bridge they crossed the river on a few minutes prior. If Mat had been a normal human being, he would have died of heat stroke by now. He could hardly breathe, every forced breath of air he had to take from Cici's steps had cycled near-toxic fumes through his body as his eyes stung with sweat. His arousal had found a spot between her toes in the fabric though, which only compounded his issues. Every step she took now squished the sensitive appendage up between her digits, sending a maddening amount of pleasure into his body without recourse.

"What do you think?" Skylar asked with a smile, looking to Cici as she walked alongside her friend.

"I actually like this place more than I thought I would." Cici replied happily as they made their way back toward the car, which was miles away...

The two eventually made it back to the Arboretum, and as Cici walked, Mathew could feel his little body slipping further and further beneath her foot...