Postby KP Presents » Thu Jan 03, 2013 3:07 am
The party - the party was great. I loved the games, the dancing, and of course the presents, but all I really wanted to do was get home, so when Mum picked me up from school I was almost beside myself with excitement.
Mum was wearing a big heavy coat, with her brown leather boots visible under the hem, the straps tightened to make them fit against her legs. I jumped into the car and as Mum started it I said “Is everyone else home yet?”
“I think Aunt Cassie has been held up at school,” Mum said as she drove down the road, “it was their party as well, so she had to clear up afterwards, but she will join us soon. Jenny should be home by the time we get back.”
Jenny was indeed home, and had changed into a pair of grey joggers and a matching sweatshirt. She was sitting watching television when we came into the house, calling out “Dad says tea will be ready in a few minutes,” as Mum took off her coat to reveal the grey cowl necked sweater she was wearing over a long sleeved blue top and grey leggings.
“Great, I’ll give him a hand,” she said as she walked into the kitchen, her boots clopping on the floor. “How was school, squirt,” Jenny said as I jumped onto the seat beside her.
“Not bad,” I replied as I watched the panto with her, and then she handed me a card. “Alicia gave me this for you,” she said as I opened it, to find a white card inside.
Please come to my 11th birthday party
4 pm, Monday 31st December,
My House
Suzie Holderness
“After that,” Jenny said as I read the card, “Alicia says we’ve all been invited to a New Year party at Holderness Manor. Dad has already said we’ll go.”
“Go where,” Dad said as he came in, wiping his hands on a cloth.
“The party at Holderness Manor - Cassie has bagged an invite to Suzie’s birthday party before that.”
“Of course we will - I’ll talk to Suzie’s parents to see if they can bring you along afterwards. Anyway - both of you, in the kitchen. Your tea is ready, and I want you to have eaten before the others get here.”
We both jumped up and ran into the kitchen, sitting at the table as the door opened and Granny came in, talking her coat off as she did so. “Hello girls,” she said as she smoothed down her knee length blue skirt, “Ready to have some fun later?”
“When the others get here and they have eaten,” Mum said as she put the kettle on.
It was about seven o’clock when Aunt Cassie finally came to the door. “Sorry I’m late,” she said as she took off her leather jacket, “I had a terrible time getting away from the school. I take it I’m the last one?”
“You are,” Dad said as they walked into the front room. I jumped onto the couch next to Mum, while Jenny sat on the other side of her. In the chair was Granny, who had a mug of coffee in her hands as she looked around the room. She was wearing a pair of baggy black leather boots and a long sleeved blouse with a floral patterned scarf tied around her neck.
Aunt Connie and Uncle Dave were sitting on two of the dining table chairs. Uncle Dave had on a shirt and trousers, while Aunt Connie was wearing a purple whirly patterned dress with sleeves down to her elbows. She had a little bump at her tummy, and a new pair of grey suede boots were on her legs.
Aunt Cassie was wearing a pair of black leather trousers with felt ankle boots, and a white roll necked sweater that had a blue scarf folded into a triangle and tied around her neck so that the point fell on one shoulder.
“Well, now that we’re all here,” Uncle Dave said as he stood up, “We can begin. We’re going to make you all nice and comfortable, as well as quiet, while John and I take care of a few things. Jennifer, why don’t you come and sit next to Cassie - you both get to sit on the chair this time.”
“How thoughtful,” Mum said with a slightly sarcastic tone as she stood up and walked over, sitting herself down as she looked at us. “Hands behind the back of the chair?”
“If you would be so kind,” Dad said as he walked behind her. The four of us watched as Uncle Dave and Dad guided the hands of Mum and Aunt Cassie behind the chair back, and then did something to them before they tied them together with some rope. “Are you going to tie them to the back,” Mum said as she looked over her shoulder, and then she nodded as Dad did just that.
“Well, at least we get a nice comfy seat this time,” Aunt Connie said as Uncle Dave walked in front of her and put her ankles together, using some rope to tie them tightly to each other so that the grey suede squeaked slightly against her rope, then took them to the side and tied them to one of the front legs. As for Mum, Dad tied her ankles to each of the front legs, and then they both had their waist tied to the back of the chair with a long length of rope.
“Gag us when the others are ready,” Mum said as Uncle Dave and Dad looked at me and Jenny. “Ready, Poppet,” Dad said as he handed me a pair of white socks, while Uncle Dave handed one to Jenny.
“Can we get the full works,” I said, and Dad nodded as we put the socks on our hands and stood up, turning to face Aunt Cassie and Granny as we crossed our wrists behind our back. I giggled as I felt the rope pulling against my wrists, while Dad tied them tightly together and then tied them to my back with rope around my waist. As he cinched the rope between my arms and back, he tickled my sides, making me giggle and wriggle as Jenny watched from beside me.
“You two are going to lying on your tummies on the floor,” Dad said as he wrapped some rope around my arms and stomach, “so we’ll make you nice and secure, and then ask you to wait while we take care of Granny and Aunt Cassie, all right?”
I nodded as I felt my arms been pinned to my side, and then sat down on the couch next to Jenny as Granny and Aunt Cassie stood up. “So where do you want both of us,” Granny said as she looked at Dad.
“Put these on first - everyone gets the same, Mum,” he said as he handed them some socks to put on their hands, and then we watched as they had their wrist crossed behind their back and tied together, and then rope around their waists to hold them in position. They were then helped to sit on the floor, to one side, and as we all watched Dad and Uncle Dave tied their upper bodies together with a long length of rope, passing it around them, and then between their backs and their arms as they were tied together.
“You know what this reminds me of, Mum? The time John held us both hostage in the bedroom until Connie returned with a ransom of sweets from the shop,” Aunt Cassie said as Uncle Dave crossed her ankles and tied them tightly together, the rope sinking into the black felt, and then tied her legs together below her knees.
“Oh yeah, I remember that day,” Aunt Connie said as she tried to wriggle round in her chair. “I especially remember the fact he tied me up in my own room and would not let either of you go until he had checked every single sweet was as demanded.”
“Good thing I did check,” Dad said as he finished tying Granny’s legs together below her knees, and then pulled her skirt down to cover the rope, “Or else I would not have noticed you had pilfered a few.” Standing up, he came over and started to tie our ankles together, crossing them as the rope went over the socks we had pulled up over the cuffs of our pants, and then our legs below our knees, before we were helped to lie on the floor and placed in our favorite hogties.
“This is great,” I said as I looked up and smiled at Mum, “How much longer do you think you and Aunt Connie will be able to play these games, Mum?”
“We’ll play that by ear, dear,” Mum said with a smile as Dad folded six handkerchiefs into pads. “Right,” he finally said as he handed three to Uncle Dave, “Time for you all to enjoy some nice, peaceful quiet girls’ time together. Open wide now.”
One by one, we had a pad pushed into our mouth, the cotton tickling my tongue as it went into my mouth, and then we had one of Dad’s old ties pulled between our lips to keep it in place. I wanted more, though, and nodded like mad when Dad produced two rolls of our favorite white tape, and wound it round the head of each of us, sealing in the gag as we mumbled.
“You know what would look nice,” Uncle Dave said a she looked at Granny and Aunt Cassie on the floor. Dad nodded as they removed the scarves from around their neck, folded them into bands and then tied them over their white bands.
“Stttt,” Mum mumbled as she looked at Dad. “Give me a minute,” he said as he left the room, returning with four more scarves that he tied over the mouths of all of use. I looked at Jenny as we wriggled a bit on the floor, while Dad said “Right - Dave and I need to sort something out, so just hang in there, all right?”
“Lrrtsn,” Granny said as she looked at the two men leaving the room. As he passed the music player, Uncle Dave pressed a button, as we heard the sound of Micky Bubles singing a Christmas song….
We all sat or lay there, laughing as we tried to talk to each other, and occasionally a squeaking sound as we tried to move our legs - especially from Mummy, Granny and Aunt Cassie, as the leather they were wearing rubbed against the rope, or the chair. We didn’t want to be free either as the music played - it was great just to be together, and to share this. I felt like the luckiest girl in the world, to have such a great family.
We were like that for two hours, before Dad and Uncle Dave freed us - we both had the last day of school tomorrow, so we needed to go to our beds.
The days that followed that seemed to pass in a blur - after all, Christmas always seems to come far too quickly, but there was one thing about Christmas morning that Mum and Dad never really liked - the fact that Jenny and I tended to get up earlier than usual.
Much earlier than usual - I think my personal record is two in the morning, so when Dad said to us on Christmas Eve “We need to find a way to make sure that you two stay in bed tomorrow morning,” we both looked at each other and then at him.
“Oh no,” Mum said quietly, “You know how we feel about you two sleeping tied up. We only allow it when you’re really, really tired, and this is not one of those nights.”
“But it’s a special night, Mum,” I pleaded, “and you just have to stop us getting out of the bed. We promise we’ll be good…”
Mum and Dad looked at each other, before Dad said “all right, we can do this - but I want you two to sleep in the same bed, so we’ll use the double bed in the spare room. I want you to go and change into your pajamas, brush your teeth, and make sure you each have a pair of bedsocks on, all right?”
It was about ten when he said this, and to be honest, I was a little tired, so we both nodded and went upstairs. Fifteen minutes later, we were sitting on the spare double bed, waiting for Mum and Dad. I had on a new pair of light blue cotton pajamas, while Jenny was wearing her old Tigger ones. We both had a pair of white bedsocks on our feet, and as they came in we saw Dad was carrying two lengths of rope and two pairs of fingerless mittens.
“I’m only going to do a simple tie,” he said quietly, “and I want your word to me and your mother you will not try and get off the bed until we come in in the morning.” We both nodded as he gave us the mittens, and we put them on our hands.
Dad then handed one coil of rope to Mum, and we watched as they both made a lasso and then passed it over our heads, Mum for me and Dad for Jenny, pulling it gently so that our arms were pinned to our sides. “Lie down,” Dad said, and when we had done so they tied our wrists together, palm to palm, in front of us, then took the rope down and around our legs above our knees, then round our ankles. When they had finished, we looked like a pair of parcels tied up for the postman.
“Now,” Dad said as he held up a roll of the white tape “One strip over your lips, and that is enough. That means you can breathe when you fall asleep, all right?”
“All right Dad,” I said, and I kissed him and Mum as they leaned over and hugged me before the tape went over my mouth. Jenny got the same, and as we snuggled together on the bed Dad said “Good night, Girls,” turning the light off. Jenny and I mumbled a bit for a while, but then my eyes just seemed to close themselves…
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