Postby KP Presents » Tue Oct 01, 2013 2:05 am
Dad was standing in the doorway, but he wasn’t alone. There was a big man behind him, wearing blue overalls, and he had a black balaclava pulled over his head. He also had a gun in his hand, as he looked at all of us at the table.
“Hello, Cassie, Jenny, Mrs Craig - are these your friends,” he said, and my mind flashed back to that night he had spent with us before - when we had been trussed up tightly all night and Dad had been taken away.
I looked over at Jenny, and I could see she had recognised the voice as well, as had Mum - she had very slowly put the bowl she had in her hand down, and simply said “Please - not again...”
“Why don’t you stay in here,” the man said as he pushed Dad back out of the room, and closed the door, “and finish your breakfast. We’ll tell you what’s going to happen after that.”
I was remembering that night - the fun we had, being tied and gagged so tightly, but I also remembered the look of fear on Mum’s face when she came back that night - and I could see a similar look of fear on her face now.
As for Suzie and Alicia, they had their hands together in front of them as they looked at the gun in the man’s hand. I knew that was a real gun now - so much had happened since that night - but Suzie wasn’t sure. Alicia was though, as Jenny said “It’s all right Ali - let’s just have our breakfast.”
As for Patty - she nudged Rachel and said “I guess Uncle John has arranged another game!”
Now - about that ‘game’ the previous week at Aunt Jessie’s house. I was so glad that Patty and Rachel had found it so exciting - and to be honest, I guess Suzie and I had as well - but I had seen the look in Jenny and Alicia, and especially in Angela. It was only later I realised Dad would not have done something like that without telling Angela - but after she talked to him, she played along.
This - this was different however. This was real, and I wasn’t sure exactly how we were going to explain this to Patty - and especially Rachel.
“All right girls,” Mum said as she put the bowls in front of us, “:Let’s all have our breakfast, and then you can start to play your games, all right?”
“That’s right, girls,” the man said as he smiled at us, “You need to have a good breakfast.”
So we started to eat our cereal, but as Patty kicked me and whispered “This is going to be so good” I just shook my head a little. Yeah, I was a bit excited, and yeah I could imagine what was going to happen, but all the things Mum, Dad, Granny and especially Aunt Cassie had told me - well, I just ate my breakfast and waited.
Eventually, as Alicia and Jenny gathered the bowls and glasses, Dad came back in with two more masked men. Mum looked at him, and I could see he was worried as he said “Sit down, Jennifer - I need to explain what’s going to happen.”
“Girls, these men are going to be playing a very special tie-up game with you this weekend. I need to go to work, and I may have to stay away for a day or two, so I want you to do everything that they tell you.”
“Oh goodie goodie,” Patty said as she and Rachel clapped their hands, before Dad said “Please, Patty, listen to me for the moment. I’ve told them that you are spending the weekend pretending to be girls in the time your granny was young, and they have agreed to do the tie-up game around that theme. So you will listen to them, you will do what they say - and most important of all, I want you to enjoy the game.”
He looked at the four of us - me, Suzie, Jenny and Alicia as he said this. I could see Alicia had gone very pale, but Jenny took her hand, gave it a little squeeze and said “We understand, Dad - just promise us you’ll be home as soon as you can.”
“All right,” one of the men with Dad said, “you’re going to be spending most of the time bound and gagged, like real hostages, but we’ll make sure you get fed and have toilet breaks. As Mister Craig says, just do everything we tell you, and we’ll all get along just fine.”
Mum walked over to Dad, and said “I’ll make sure they behave - you just do what you have to do.” She then hugged and kissed Dad, as the nice man said “all right girls - we need you and your mum to come upstairs. Give your dad a hug and kiss as you go past.”
Jenny went first, hugging Dad and saying “we’ll look after them,” as he kissed her forehead, then Alicia was hugged. I went next, burying my face into his tummy as he said “Be brave for them Cassie” and then taking Suzie’s hand as we walked up the stairs. Patty and Rachel followed us, and I heard Mum saying goodbye to Dad as we were walked into Mum and Dad’s room.
“I remember you two from last time,” the man said as he looked at us. “Give me one good reason why we shouldn’t keep you in separate rooms.”
“I want us to be together,” I said quietly, “so tie us and gag us as tightly as you need to, so tightly and so well we cannot escape. But please, keep us all together.”
He looked at Patty and Rachel, then said “Even them?”
“Especially us,” Patty said in a haughty tone. “Don’t you think we’re as capable as the others?”
“Patty,” Mum said quietly as the two other men came in, carrying two duffle bags between them, “Please, just play the game as they say.”
“One thing,” Mum then said, as she whispered into the man’s ear, looking at Alicia as she did so. He looked at her as well, as she trembled slightly, then said “All right, we’ll keep a special eye on her.”
“All right girls,” he said as one of the other men brought in a number of pairs of white socks, “Put these on your hands, and then line up.”
“That won’t work!”
“Patty,” Jenny said quietly, “please remember what Dad said...”
“But it won’t - if they just use socks, Cassie can rip them open. They need to do more first - tape our hands or something!”
“She’s right,” Rachel said as she nodded her head, “Cassie’s really good.”
I could feel their eyes on me, and so I swallowed hard and looked at Mum.
“Listen - we’re all going to play the game, but you can’t watch all of us. So let us help you - I’ll take care of the two youngest kids, and Jenny can take care of our friends Suzie and Alicia. You can watch what we do, tell us if we are doing something you don’t like and we’ll change it. We can remember what you did to us that night, so we should be able to do it as well.”
“Yeah - she’s really good,” Patty sang out, as Alicia said “I’d prefer it if a friend did it, if that’s all right to you, mister robber.”
The man looked at us, then nodded and said “All right - Mrs Craig, I want you to lie on the bed, hands on your head and don’t move. Cassie, Jenny - do whatever you need to do.”
He opened the first of the duffel bags, and as Jenny and I looked in we could see they had indeed brought a lot of things. We took out tow sponges, and as he watched we used a pair of large scissors to cut them in half, then gave two halves to each of the others.
I also took out two rolls of silver duct tape, handing one to Jenny before I stood behind Patty and Rachel, and she stood behind Suzie and Alicia. “I want you to hold these tightly in your hands, and make little fists,” I said, watching as they did so before I stared to wrap the tape around their hands, making them into little silver balls.
“I really can’t use them now,” Rachel said as she looked at the silver fists her hands had become. I then helped them to pull a pair of socks over their hands and up their arms, before wrapping tape over the sick top and their arms.
“Right then,” I said as Jenny put her hand on Alicia’s shoulder, and whispered “be brave” while Suzie looked at the white that ran up to her elbow. “Jenny and I are going to take care of your hands and arms now.”
I watched as Jenny took four lengths of rope from the man, and handed me two of them. Patty crossed her wrists behind her back, singing and humming to herself as I tied them tightly together, passing the rope three times around and then twice between her arms before I tied the knot out of reach of - well, where her fingers would have been if they weren’t covered in glove, sponge, tape and sock.
Rachel cooed as I did the same thing to her, then tied the usual rope around their waists to lock their wrists in place. I could see Jenny had done the same to Alicia, while Suzie looked at me and nodded as her wrists were tied to her back. She knew what was going on as well, but was going to play along.
“Arms?”
“Arms,” I said to Jenny in agreement, as I tied Rachel and Patty’s arms to her side as I usually did - wrapping the rope around their tummy and their arms below their elbows. As I knew the men would not leave us alone together if we were not completely secured, I also tied a second length of rope around their upper arms and shoulders, before using two shorter lengths to tighten them under their armpits.
I could see Jenny had done the same to the other two, before we said “Where do you want us to be sitting?”
The two men looked round the room, then said “At the foot of the bed - you’ll all be sitting there.” So I helped Patty and Rachel to sit on the floor next to each other, near the window, while Jenny helped Alicia and Suzie to sit down by them.
“Ali, are you going to be all right,” Jenny said as she took yet more rope, and started to tie her friend’s ankles tightly together.
“I’ll cope - so long as we’re together, I’ll cope,” she said with a little smile, as between us we tied their ankles tightly together, then their legs below their knees.
“Not bad,” the man said as he looked over them. “Right - take a washcloth and out one in each of their mouths.”
“No - that’s too much,” Mum said as she looked up, but before the three men could say anything I said “She’s right - for Patty and Rachel, it is too much. Please, use some of my dad’s handkerchiefs for them.”
Patty glared at me, but before she said anything I said “Patty, it could really hurt your mouth to have a big washcloth in it for a long time. Please, trust me.”
“Well, all right,” she said as one of the men found four large hankies, “but I want everything else the same, right Rachel?”
Rachel nodded, and then they opened their mouths to allow me to push two folded hankies in. Suzie and Alicia got the washcloth, and I could see Suzie’s cheeks bulging as Jenny tied a knotted strip of towelling between her lips.
“Mlfngths,” Rachel said as she nudged Patty. I could see Jenny talking quietly to Alicia, as we were handed four cotton scarves with squiggly patterns. We folded them into triangles and tied one rover the hair of each of the four girls, before we wrapped the silver tape round their heads to keep the gags in.
“Vrrgg,” Patty said as she looked at me and Jenny. “Guess we’d better of all the way for now,” Jenny said as she went to the wardrobe, took out four head squares and handed two to me, so that we could fold them into bands and tie them over the tape.
“Well,” the nice man said as he checked our work, “I can see you really do know what you’re doing. They won’t be going anywhere so long as you all are in here, right?”
“We promised we would,” Jenny said quietly, “so what now?”
“Get off the bed Mrs Craig,” one of the other men said, “and tie your daughters up in the same way.”
We winked at the others as Mum slowly got up, walked over and hugged both of us. “You know what’s really going on,” she whispered into our ears as she did so.
“Yeah, Mum,” Jenny whispered back, “so we’ll play along for Patty’s sake.”
We then took the cit sponge that Mum gave us, and allowed her to first make our hands useless, then bind us in the same way as the other two. We were sat with Jenny next to Patty, and me next to her, before our legs were bound, and then our mouths gagged in the same way.
“Go and find something for them to watch,” the man said to the nice one, and as he went downstairs he said to Mum “Anything you wish to say, Mrs Craig.”
“Just be gentle,” she said as we all watched her hands transformed into silver balls, covered with socks, and then her arms and body bound. They did a slightly different thing for Mum - she still had rope round her waist, but they used one long length of rope and tied her arms to her side above and below her chest, before using the ends of the rope to tighten them.
She sat next to me, smiling at all of us and saying “I hope you’re enjoying this,” as he bound her ankles and legs together, not just below her knees but around her thighs as well, then gagged her. Unlike all of us, he used a head square to cover Mum’s hair, but she soon had the band of silk covering the silver band as well.
“As you all look like girls from the fifties,” the nice man said as he came back, and put a DVD into the television player Mum and Dad have, “You can all watch this until lunchtime.”
We watched the screen, then cheered through our gags as Grease started. Alicia wriggled a little, but by and large we sat still, the men taking turns to watch us as the film went on...