She sneaked in the room. Her mother sat in the sofa, as she had promised. Still sneaking, the girl went over to her mother, put an arm around her neck and whispered: “Don’t make a sound, or you’ll die! Stand up and put your hands on your back!†in her ear. Her mother nodded and complied.
They were rehearsing a school play and had come to the scene where the villainess was about to capture and tie the hero up. She was having great difficulties with this scene and her mother had agreed to play the hero against her villainess. Even though it was only a school play, she wanted it to be as “real†as possible. That was why, she told herself over and over again, she now enjoyed stuffing her mother’s mouth full of wadded up handkerchiefs and tying a scarf around her head. Then she obviously just had to follow it up with ropes around the elbows, wrists, knees and ankles. Maybe, but just maybe, she went a little bit too far when she hogtied her mother as well, but no one complained.
She left her mother tied up that way, for a couple of minutes and then went to untie her. She had been unsuccessful in freeing herself, because her daughter was a master knottier, even though she was only 10 years old. In all fairness, she had been practicing knotting almost every day for the past 6 months or so, ever since she learned she was about to be cast as the villain in the play. Why they wanted a girl villain no one explained, but it soon became obvious. One of the last scenes of the play, required her to be tied up, and as it had been written by boys (among them a boy she was dating). The rest was somewhat obvious, she thought.
“Now, let’s jump to the scene where I get captured!†she said to her mother.
“Yes, yes, all right! Take it easy, will you!†she said with a smile, as she took the wadded up handkerchiefs from her mouth. “You are really getting much too good at this tying up lark, you know!†Then she said with as manlike a voice as she could:â€O.K, the game is over! Give yourself up, you heinous criminal!â€Her daughter put her hands in the air and surrendered. She was tied and gagged much the same way, that she had tied and gagged her mother, a little while ago, including the hogtie.
When it was time to be freed, her mother scooped her up of the sofa and carried her to bed, where she only released her from the rope connecting her wrists with her ankles. As an afterthought, the rope around the elbows came off as well. Her hands were released for a second or two, only to be retied in front of her. Last, but not least, a blindfold was put over her eyes. Her mother said “Good night!†and left her lying on the bed with her clothes on.
The morning after, when her mother came to wake her up, she was tied up the same way as the night before.