This is the fourth and final chapter of the Play Day series.
Mom stuck her head into Tommy’s room and said ‘Come with me.’ Tommy followed her down the hallway. She had just gotten home from work at the bank and had not changed out of her “work clothes” yet. That was not a good sign. Usually the first thing she did upon getting home was to change into a t-shirt and a pair of shorts. She was wearing a dark grey blazer with a matching pleated skirt, a white button front blouse and natural stockings. He was amused to see her shoes. She was wearing black pumps with three inch heels. Her boss had told her to wear shoes that were “more appropriate for the office” but she ignored him and continued to wear what she called her “sexy shoes.”
Mom went into Cindy’s room but he stopped at the doorway. He had been banned from her room after the Barbie incident. Mom told him to come in and sit down. He knew what this was about. He had tied up Margaret on the weekend and Cindy had a part in it. As his dad liked to say “the shit was going to hit the fan.”
‘I was talking to Margaret’s mother today at work’ she said. ‘She told me all about the game that you played on the weekend.’ Tommy and Cindy braced themselves for the lecture that was to come. It never came.
‘Margaret had the greatest time. She told her mother that you two made her very happy. She said that she got to play a special part in the game that no one else could play. Her mother said when she got home she couldn’t stop talking about how much fun she had.’
Tommy and Cindy were relieved. They had been expecting trouble since Saturday. This was a pleasant and unexpected surprise. Then she said ‘Tell me all about this wonderful game.’ Obviously Margaret's mother didn’t give her any details. If she had known more about the game she might have been suspicious about its motives.
The children looked at each other and knew that they were thinking the same thing. They couldn’t lie because if mom got a different story from Margaret or her mother then they would be found out. They had to be truthful but at the same time be selective on the details. Cindy, being the faster thinker, put Tommy on the hot seat. ‘Tommy can tell you all about it’ she said ‘it was his idea in the first place.’
Tommy tried not to let it show but he was about to panic. He wasn’t very good with words and trying to deceive his mother into believing that it was just an innocent game was beyond his abilities and he knew it. He thought for a moment and then said ‘It would be easier to show you.’ Now it was Cindy’s turn to panic. If she had heard him right he was planning to tie up mom! Even Tommy wasn’t sure why he said it but it was one of those situations where you are already in deep and you may as well go all the way.
As they went to his room he explained that Margaret was a thief and he had caught her. He needed to keep her until the police could arrive. He asked mom and Cindy to wait a minute while he prepared the room.
Once everything was ready he told her to come in. Playing her part she crept in looking around to see if it was clear to commit a robbery. He jumped out from behind the door and grabbed her. She was startled and jumped. While setting up he realized that forcing her onto the bed wasn’t a good idea. If she suspected that he had been that rough with Margaret there would be difficult questions to answer.
‘If Margaret was a real thief I would have knocked her down and sat on her’ he lied ‘but we didn’t want anyone to get hurt so I asked her to lie on the bed.’ Mom looked at the bed and said ‘That’s a big mess with all those pillows. How about I just lie down here on the floor?’
She took off her blazer and lay down on her back in the middle of the room. Tommy asked her to turn over and he pulled the ropes out from under the pillows where he had hidden them. ‘What’s next’ she said.’ Now I make sure that you can’t escape.’ He pulled her arms behind her back. Cindy was watching from the doorway. ‘Come here’ he told her ‘watch what I’m doing.’ He wound the rope around mom’s wrists several times and then cinched it twice before tying the knot. He handed a pair of ropes to Cindy and said ‘Do her ankles the same way and then her legs.’
Cindy followed his instructions while he did her elbows. If he was going to get into trouble over this he was going to drag Cindy down with him so he was making her an equal partner in the tie up. Once they were done they stood up to examine their work. Tommy told Cindy that she had done a good job “for a beginner.” At this point Tommy was ready to put an end to this. There was no way he was going to gag his mom and he certainly wasn’t going to keep her tied up for thirty minutes.
“This is interesting’ commented mom. ‘You’ve really done a good job; I don’t think I can get out of this. Is that all you did to Margaret?’ Once again Cindy spoke up first. It was almost like she was actually trying to get Tommy into trouble. ‘Oh no’ she said ‘he put tape on her mouth too.’ ‘You gagged Margaret!’ mom exclaimed ‘Why would you do that?’ Cindy was quicker again and told her ‘He said that he didn’t want to listen to her whining.’
Up until now Cindy had set him up by revealing things that were true but he had chosen to omit. This was an outright lie. She really was out to get him. To her surprise mom said ‘That was a good idea. She really is quite annoying.’ Then she added ‘I agreed to let you show me what you did to Margaret so I guess you’re going to have to gag me too.’
Tommy got out the tape and placed a strip across her mouth. Cindy was fuming as she watched. She had been hoping to get her brother into trouble but she could tell by the look on his face that he was actually enjoying this. And to make matters worse mom was encouraging him. Tommy knew that Cindy had one more thing that she could use against him so he decided to reveal it first hoping that his honesty would make mom go easier on him.
‘The last thing I did to Margaret was to keep her tied for thirty minutes.’ ‘That was his idea’ said Cindy ‘not mine.’ Mom couldn’t comment but nodded her head in a way that indicated she was okay with it. Cindy said ‘But we’re not going to keep you tied that long.’ Mom vigorously shook her head “no.” Tommy asked ‘you want to be tied that long?’ She shook her head “yes.”
Tommy suggested that she try to escape and she did. Cindy left at this point because they were having way too much fun and she was disappointed. After a few minutes of wiggling and rocking mom gave up. Now Tommy was disappointed. Watching his mom struggle was a lot of fun. Once she quit he did the same thing he had done with Margaret. He asked a bunch of yes or no questions. The rest of the half hour went by quickly.
Cindy was supposed to be the one to rescue mom as in the first game but she was sulking in her room so he turned her loose and she was gone. He tidied up his ropes wondering if he would ever get an opportunity like that again.
Play Day Notes
1) Tommy was at that age where girls were starting to look good but he didn’t know why. Tying them up gave him an opportunity to spend time around them until he could figure it out. Fortunately for him girls his age are a little more mature and they knew why they found him attractive and allowing him to tie them up would let them spend more time around “Cindy’s big brother.”
He was pleasantly surprised when the girls approached him to say that they wanted to continue playing the game. Every six weeks, when it was Cindy’s turn to host again, they sent a girl to his room, each one taking a turn. Some played the game as it was, some had suggestions on how they wanted to be tied and some wanted to be tied longer.
Tommy welcomed their ideas. As far as he was concerned making them happy was making him happy.
2) The next weekend, when Cindy was away for play day, mom asked Tommy to play the game again with a few changes. She wanted to be captured in her bedroom, on the bed and dad was going to come to her rescue.
Tommy was so excited about it that he never noticed that her blouse was very tight, her skirt was extremely short and her heels were so high she could barely walk in them. After tying her up he notified dad that it was time for him to rescue her and he went to play in his room.
When dad returned the ropes about two hours later Tommy thought “it took him a long time to untie her. My knots must have been really good.”
Mom and dad continued to play the game but they got their own ropes and dad played both parts of the captor and the rescuer.
It wasn’t until many years later that Tommy realized what they had really been doing. It came to him one Saturday afternoon when he was playing “the game” with his wife.