Thanks to Viking. And yes, I'll eventually post the story of when Betty was tied up the first time.
Fall 1966
Reshuffling
Part III
A New Kind of Gag
(m+/mf)
After they untied us, Andrew and David walked off to the woods behind our house. Since there would be only two of them, and Angela elected to stay in the house to play with my sister Betty, they can be picked off one by one. Donald, who always hung out with Frank and I, would be the easiest target. Angela would be next.
I whispered to Frank, “Let’s get Donald,” when Donald was out of earshot.
Frank nodded.
***
We were in my room, just hanging out, a few minutes after being freed.
“So what do you guys want to do?” my cousin asked.
“I think we should play another game,” I said.
“Yeah. I think we should. And let’s start with you,” Frank added, looking at Donald with a mischievous look.
Donald became pale, and suddenly attempted to run.
I caught him by the arm, however, and Frank moved in for the kill.
“Guys, I’m still with you,” said Donald.
“Are you going to betray my brother,” I asked.
Donald was silent for a second before responding. “No, it wouldn’t be fair.”
“Then take your binding like a man!” Frank said.
“Well, this is awkward,” Donald as his hands were pulled behind him. “We three are always hanging out, but now I’m on the other team. How can we sort this thing out?”
“You want to switch sides?” I asked as I tied his hands with rope.
“Nah. It would be good to be on the winning side all the time,” Donald remarked.
“So you think we cannot win again?” Frank asked.
“Well, Andrew and Angela are on the same team,” my cousin replied. “Yeah. No two ways about it. You’re doomed.” He laughed.
“Traitor!” I playfully said.
He was now sitting on my bed. I tied his ankles and his knees, and proceeded to gag him. I took a wadded handkerchief and put it on his open mouth. Frank secured it by tying a knotted bandana around his mouth.
At this point, Chester burst in our room.
“Hey guys, I want to tell…” he suddenly dropped silent after seeing Donald tied up. He was silent for a couple of seconds before finally asking, “What’s going on here?”
Frank smiled. “Chet, what’s going on is revenge! Andrew and David are outside, and Angela is alone with Betty! Care to join the fun?”
“You bet! I’ll call Jay and we can get Angie,” Chester said, excited, before bursting out the room.
Frank and I laughed and talked to each other and teased Donald while we waited. A few minutes later, we heard the sounds that we had been expecting.
The door opened, and Chester and Jay presented to us a surprised and obviously befuddled Angela. She wasn’t gagged, but her hands were behind her, obviously tied. Betty was behind her, laughing and giggling.
She looked at us, bug eyed. “So soon?” she asked.
“Got a problem with it?” I asked.
She became melodramatic. She looked at my sister. “Betty, can you believe this? These brutes are taking advantage of a poor innocent beautiful girl like me!”
All of us laughed at that. “Why oh why didn’t you gag her?” I asked.
“We think that you, Tom, should to do the honors,” Chester replied. He pushed Angela towards me.
“Hey watch it! You should treat me like a lady! You Chet, are no gentleman!” she stated. She walked towards me in a kind of regal manner, which she managed to project even with her hands tied behind her.
“I want to do it, I want to do it!” Betty shouted. “I want to gag Angela!”
We all looked at my little sister and laughed.
“Well, why not?” I replied.
Angela began telling us about how she was a rich lady and that we’re all in this big kidnapping ring who took her for ransom and that how her supposedly best friend was in fact a spy for the evil men.
In the meantime, Betty took her sweet time choosing the packing that she would use on her best friend’s ‘big’ mouth. We prodded her to hurry, and she finally chose a large wad made up of two handkerchiefs.
Angela didn’t stop talking. “You won’t get less than ten million for me! That’s how valuable I mmmpphhh”
Betty inserted the wad on the mouth of the still talking Angela. She was a bit irritated, but opened her mouth even wider once she saw what Betty was doing.
“Don’t spit it out,” my little sister asked as she took a bandana. She tied it, to our surprise, loosely around her head just below the chin. She fashioned it into a headscarf that covered the back portion of her head, covering her hair.
She took a roll of duct tape. “Put your lips together,” my sister asked.
Angela complied and Betty wrapped the duct tape around my sister’s head several times. I can tell by the way her cheeks bulged above the tape that it was tight. The headscarf protected her hair from the tape. She wrapped it about six times before tearing off the tape. Betty then pulled the headscarf above the tape behind her head down so it would cover the tape from sight behind her. She took another bandana, folded it wide, and tied it over the tape, and tied it tightly at the back of the head. Looking at Angela, you would have thought that she was gagged with an over the mouth bandana gag instead of tape. It looked good. Her whimpers were tiny, and I mean tiny.
We all were full of admiration for my sister.
“That was wicked!” Frank said.
Angela merely glared at my sister, who knew she was untouchable. I directed Angela to sit on the floor. I looped a long rope around her waist and tied it to her wrists. Frank finished by tying her knees and ankles.
We then helped her so she leaned on the bed. I took a long rope, tied one end of it to hers wrists, and tied the other end to one of the feet of the bed.
We finished our work on Donald by hogtying him on the bed.
Our work was but still half done. We still have to catch Andrew and David if we were to win.
We decided that Betty should guard our two victims, while all four of us would go to the woods and hunt them. We would overpower them with sheer numbers.
The woods was huge though, and it would take forever to try and look for them. I decided that we would find them better if we split up. Frank and I would look at one part of the woods, while Chester and Jay would team up and look at another part of the woods. I was confident that it wasn’t a mistake since they weren’t expecting that we would attack them so soon after the last game. We would tell them if we found them that we were also exploring the woods and lead them to the other pair. When all of us were together, we would attack them.
So we split up. Frank and I entered one part of the hilly woods, while Chester and Jay went on another part. We searched for an hour, and we did not find them. There was no sign of Andrew and David, and for that matter, Chester and Jay.
We decided to go back home and tickle our captives. After all, even if we can’t win, who says we can’t have fun? Our plan was simply to wait for the two older boys to come back and capture them. We were sure that the twins have come home because we assumed that they also can’t find Andrew and David.
As we approached my house, I began to have doubts. What if Andrew and David actually captured Chester and Jay, and were waiting for us? Now that I think about it, it was a huge possibility. But hiding outside the house was not feasible as it was beginning to get dark.
The house was noisy. I could hear my younger brothers Barney and John playing. We quickly went up to my room. I could see Betty in a chair just outside my room reading some comic books.
“Betty!” I asked as soon as I saw my sister inside. “Is Angela and Donald still in there?”
“Yes,” she said. “Just listen.”
Frank and I put our ears on the door, and sure enough, I could hear muffled grunts that definitely came from Angela and Donald. They definitely were still tied up.
“Thanks for guarding them,” I said to her. Frank and I then entered the room.