Ethan’s Christmas; Plan B
As Ethan looked into the mirror he couldn’t help but be reminded of the great Christmas that had just passed. It was a great Christmas not because of gifts or good food or time with family and friends. It was great because he pissed his sister off. He really pissed her off, big time.
Ethan has two favorite things that he likes to do. One is to play tricks on his friends. The second, and most important, is to make his sister Karen lose her temper. Back months ago on summer vacation he had a plan to do both. He tricked his friends into tying her up thinking that they would freak out when they discovered they had been fooled and that she would be furious at being captured. His plan was a total failure.
As it turned out his friends all thought his sister was hot and tricked or not they quite enjoyed tying her up. Worse yet Karen discovered that she liked to be tied up. In the end everyone but Ethan had fun.
Since then he had made a few more efforts and each had ended indecisively. If he had upset her she wouldn’t show it or admit it so there was no satisfaction to be had. It became a competition of sorts with Ethan creatively trying to find some way that would make her visibly angry. Each time she had enough self-control to deny him his victory.
Karen was in charge of the house at Christmas when his parents were working. He wasn’t looking forward to her running things but as it turned out it wasn’t so bad. She was being lazy and slept in the first few mornings and by the time she got up she was so busy trying to get caught up on her chores that she didn’t have much time to harass him.
As Christmas day approached Ethan devised another plan, much simpler than the first, to upset Karen. The routine on Christmas day had always been to get up early, open gifts and then have breakfast. Mom had one simple rule. If anyone slept in the gift opening would proceed without them.
Karen loved to open her gifts and Ethan realized that with her habit of sleeping in she was very likely to set her alarm to get her up. All he had to do was slip into her room and turn it off once she was asleep and breakfast would be pretty much over before she woke up. Then all he had to do was to tell her what he had done and she would explode. Mission accomplished.
A few days before he scouted her room so that he could be sure to find her alarm in the dark when he slipped in. He left her room needing a new plan. She had an alarm clock. She also had a laptop computer, a tablet and her cell phone. There was no way to know which she would use and there was no way he could disable them all in the dark.
Plan B turned out to be simple to concoct but a lot of work to organize. Two days before Christmas he asked his mom if he could have his friends over for a Christmas Eve party. It took a bit of begging but she gave in. His friends agreed to be there, the idea of a gift exchange easily convinced them to attend. One day before Christmas he went out, on the excuse of last minute gift shopping, to get the rest of what he needed.
Christmas Eve all went smoothly. After a meal of pizza they cleaned up the kitchen and then they went up to Ethan’s room for the gift exchange and to play some video games. After the gifts were opened Matt was the first to notice that Ethan hadn’t received one.
‘I need all four of you to each give me a gift’ he explained ‘and in return I will give you the best gift of all.’ Then he told them his plan. They played a few video games and passed the time until the appropriate moment.
It was Karen's habit to shower before bed. When she came out of the bathroom Ethan was waiting by the door and protested about her keeping him waiting. Her reply was very rude and slightly profane and she continued down the hallway towards her room. Ethan slammed the bathroom door as if angry but she did not look back. If she had she would have seen that he did not enter. He followed her quietly down the hall. As he passed his room he pushed open the door that had been left slightly open. His team was ready and sprang into action.
Accomplices Matt and Mark grabbed her by the arms while Luke placed a large strip of duct tape over her mouth. They pulled her by her arms down the hall to her room while John went ahead to open the door. Ethan had no part in the capture other than to record it on video.
As soon as they were in the room Ethan closed the door and the capture continued smoothly until they encountered the one and only glitch. John started to lay out the ropes on the bed. Matt and Mark held Karen in place while Luke removed her bathrobe. To their surprise she wasn’t wearing pajamas! When the robe dropped to the floor she was standing there in a bright pink bra with matching panties.
For a moment the capture froze. No one moved. The boys all stared in stunned silence. Ethan continued to video but he too was taken off guard. It was Karen who sealed her own fate. She knew that they were about to panic and abort their plan due to her lack of sleep apparel. She remained calm waiting for them to dash out. Ethan began to be suspicious about her lack of resistance and realized what she was waiting for.
It snapped him back to reality and he said ‘Too late to stop now, let’s finish this!’ The boys responded instantly and in less than two minutes she was laying on the bed; her hands were bound together above her head to the headboard and her ankles were tied together and anchored to the footboard.
Ethan’s command to cover her up didn’t get such a quick response. His buddies wanted one last lingering look. Karen’s composure was gone. The shock that her underwear had created was gone. She was now embarrassingly exposed and they were enjoying it. Ethan repeated the order and Mark and Luke spread the blankets over her.
‘I’ll make sure to get you up in the morning’ Ethan said as he closed the door ‘just in time for breakfast.’ Karen wanted to sit up and curse at him but of course in her present state that wasn’t possible. She thrashed about but only succeeded in making the knots tighter. She tried to rub the tape gag from her mouth but she only had the soft pillow to work against. As she stared at the ceiling she had to concede defeat.
In Ethan’s room he gave each of his friends a USB memory stick with a copy of the video as his gift to them. Normally when a party is over people linger not wanting to go home but this group scattered in record time. Each of them wanted to get home to view the video.
The next morning went as planned. Mom and Dad waited for Karen only five minutes past the appointed time and then the gift opening began. Karen hadn’t slept in. She was listening to the irritating buzz of three separate alarms she had set, unable to get up and helpless to turn them off.
After the gifts were opened Mom went to prepare breakfast while Dad cleaned up the torn shreds of wrapping paper. Ethan slipped away.
He entered Karen’s room. She glared at him as she lay captive. He untied the rope from the headboard and used it to pull her up to a sitting position. Once her arms were no longer bound to the bed she tried to remove her gag but he jerked on the rope to keep her hands from reaching it. He tied it around her knees to keep her sitting and to immobilize her hands. Then he put his tablet in front of her and showed her the video.
As she watched he stated his terms for her release. ‘I have been trying to get you pissed off for months. Admit that I have done it and I’ll let you go now. Otherwise you’ll wait until lunch.’ As much as she hated the thought of telling him he had won she was sore and desperately wanted the gag off so she nodded.
‘I promise not to post this video on YouTube if you promise not to tell Mom and Dad what I did.’ She nodded again. He untied her and left her to get the sticky gag off herself.
As Ethan looked into the mirror he couldn’t help but be reminded of the great Christmas that had just passed. The face that looked back at him was a souvenir of his victory. It had been a week now and the swelling had gone down enough in his ugly painful looking black eye that he could see again. His vision was still a bit blurred but he could clearly see the face of a winner.