Postby Kyle » Tue Jul 25, 2017 7:32 pm
Quite a while later, but here's the final part.
Minutes later, Olivia had used the bathroom and checked her messages—just a couple. She had to resist the urge to respond to one of her friends that she’d been away from her phone because she was a “little tied up.” It was too much of a cliché.
“I’m ready to go” Olivia said as she returned to the living room. “Let’s talk about how this is going to work”
She looked at the clock. Her mom got home before her dad, about an hour and a half away.
“I get to tie you and gag you for an hour if you can’t escape, right?” Josh asked.
“I have a different idea” Olivia said. “Let’s have you work for that reward. We’ll do it like the lessons. You tie up one thing at a time. If I don’t escape in 5 minutes, you get to add another binding, and we go another 5 minutes, until you’ve got me pretty well tied and helpless. Then, if I still can’t escape, you get to gag me, and if after another 5 minutes I’m still unable to get loose, then you’ve won.”
Josh’s face scrunched up in thought. He thought about it for several seconds. Olivia didn’t think he was going to go for it at first.
“So every 5 minutes, I add another rope? How will it work? When will it be finished?”
“I’ll give you enough time to tie the rope on me without struggling. You can tie and retie it, but once you sit back and stop, that counts as the attempt, and my 5 minutes starts. You can’t retie anything I might have loosened. You’ll get some leeway to add ropes that you think will hamper my ability to free the earlier bonds.”
Olivia looked at the rope and thought about how long this would go on.
“Let’s say...we’ll aim for 6 restraints. At 5 minutes, that’ll be 30 minutes. The last one will be the gag. Then you’ll have another length of me bound and gagged, you know, assuming you reach that point. But one way or another, at 4:45, you better untie me, because discussing this with my parents would probably get a little bit awkward.”
Josh still thought it over. It was tempting. A part of him was afraid Olivia was hoping to escape quickly and be done with it. But Josh was pretty confident in his newfound abilities.
“Okay” he agreed. “Let’s do it.”
Olivia got in the middle of her family’s living room and sat on the floor. She set her phone’s timer for 5 minutes.
“I guess we’ll start with my hands and feet. You can tie them however you want. Just remember, if I escape here, it’s over right now, so you better do it good.”
Josh took the first strand of rope. After thinking over his options, he said “Put your hands behind your back.”
Olivia did so. “That’s what I figured.”
Josh crossed Olivia’s wrists and looped the rope around them several times before tying it into a knot. The rope was wrapped around her wrists horizontally and vertically. Josh was satisfied.
Next Josh took another rope and went to work on Olivia’s ankles. He crossed them too and wrapped the rope around them a few times, pulling the rope tight, and cinching it.
Josh sat back for a second.
“Remember, once you decide it’s good, I can start my escape attempt” Olivia said. “So is it good?”
The ropes were pretty tight, and Olivia figured she’d have to go at least one more round to get free, but she thought she could do it. But Josh suddenly got another idea…
“No, not yet” he said. He grabbed another rope and sat down next to Olivia.
“Hey, no other bindings just yet” Olivia protested.
“I’m not tying anything else up” Josh said. He sat down and threaded the rope around her wrist bonds first, then through her ankle ropes, and pulled until Olivia’s hands and feet were within a couple of feet of each other, and began completing the hogtie.
“We didn’t agree on this” Olivia said.
“You said I could tie your hands and feet first. You didn’t say how” Josh retorted, pleased with himself.
“I...” Olivia wasn’t entirely thrilled with this idea, but she had to admit, Josh had a point.
“Fine” she grumbled. “Are you ready now?”
“Sure” Josh responded. He grabbed her phone and hit the timer. “Begin.”
Olivia gave a few experimental tugs against the ropes to see what she was dealing with. It was going to take some intelligent wriggling to free herself from this. She turned her hands around, searching for the knots to her wrist rope. Josh had definitely learned from her. She couldn’t find the knots at all. She tried spinning her wrists around, hoping to shift the rope around to find the knot. She was still working when her phone beeped that her first 5 minutes were up.
“Crap” Olivia muttered to herself. She had made only minimal progress, if any.
Josh gleefully grabbed another rope from the pile. Olivia had to stop any struggles until he finished tying the rope on her somehow. He thought about it for a few seconds.
“Remember, I have to be untied by 4:45, no matter what” Olivia said.
Josh came up with an idea. He lifted Olivia’s torso up by the shoulders and looped the rope around her chest and arms. The rope was long enough to go around here 3 times before he had to tie it off in a knot. He made sure it was tight and right in the middle of her back before sitting back and starting the timer again.
Olivia started fidgeting around again. The new rope prevented her from moving her arms some more, and also prevented her from doing what her new plan was, to try to bend herself so she could possibly untie her ankles. It was a smart tie by Josh. Olivia squirmed around, starting to really work up a sweat, but she knew she was likely going to have to use this 5 minutes to figure out a plan of attack for the next time, and hope Josh didn’t make a good choice in how to use his next rope.
Sure enough, the 5 minutes ended and Olivia was still pretty well tied up. She shook her head to try to get her hair out of her face.
“You have 2 more ropes, then the gag, to add” Olivia reminded him. “If you can keep me tied up that long, that is.”
“You haven’t made much progress yet” Josh countered, poking Olivia in the side, causing her to jump—barely, as the rope didn’t allow much movement.
Josh grabbed another rope. He thought it over for several seconds before an idea came to mind. He moved to Olivia’s legs and looped the rope around her legs, just above her knees. He didn’t know if it would do anything, but maybe it would make it feel tighter to her. Josh pulled the rope tight, tied it, and sat back and started the timer.
Olivia gave her new restraint a quick test before going back to trying to free her hands. She wasn’t quite sure what Josh was trying to gain from this one. It did make her feel more restricted. She tried not to focus on that. Then when going to reach the knot around her ankles again, she realized it did make it slightly harder to do so. Olivia decided to work on trying to slip her hands free of her wrist restraints again. That rope was, unfortunately for her, very well tied. She thought Josh had gotten a bit careless on one or two others, but he definitely focused on that one. She had made little progress and time was running out, with more ropes to come.
The five minutes passed and Olivia thought she’d made the rope around her knees looser, but otherwise had mostly just worked up more of a sweat.
Josh went back to the rope pile and selected another one. He knew what he was going to do with this one a few minutes earlier. He tied it around Olivia’s arms and her waist. Now her arms were pinned in two places.
Olivia knew right now she had to make some serious progress and it was going to be much harder to do so. There was no way she could reach the rope around her ankles now. She didn’t have the leverage.
Josh started the timer, now feeling very confident as he could read Olivia’s expression that suddenly wasn’t confident at all.
Olivia writhed around, but now there was much less movement available to her. She simply flailed without improving her situation much. The sweat was really starting to pour down her head. This was quite a bit of a workout. She was now somewhat glad she hadn’t changed out of her swimsuit.
Josh suddenly spoke up. “You’re getting closer to losing.” It was the first thing either of them had really said for several minutes. The competitive part of them had taken over and they had both been more focused on their goals. Or, in Josh’s case, focused on watching Olivia’s body as she twisted in her swimsuit.
Olivia put up a renewed struggle, her competitive nature showing back up at the taunting. The rope around her knees felt loose, but untying it wouldn’t help her much otherwise. She started to feel like she might lose.
The timer sounded for another 5 minutes gone. Josh had one last rope to add. He grabbed one and looked at Olivia.
“What are you waiting for?” she asked.
“I’m thinking” he said. For a moment, he wasn’t quite sure what to do with this one. He decided to add this one to Olivia’s upper body too, further restricting her arms, at about her elbow height.
Olivia now could barely move her arms. The new rope wasn’t that necessary, but it made her feel all the more helpless. The next 5 minutes was a bit more successful for Olivia: she finally succeeded in shaking off the rope around her thighs. But that was about all she truly accomplished before the phone sounded.
“Great...” Olivia said, knowing what was coming next.
“What can I gag you with? Do you have any duct tape?”
“No, don’t use tape” Olivia said. “I’ve...” She thought rapidly. “I have some long bandannas hanging in my closet, on the door. Use that. And don’t start going through all my things. I do have to get untied at some point and I’d hate to have to beat your ass because you went through a bunch of things you didn’t need to go through.”
She smiled, not really going to hurt Josh, but she wasn’t entirely joking about not going through her stuff. She had a feeling that Josh was interested enough in gagging her that he’d be back pretty quickly.
“Okay!” Josh said.
Olivia was right. Josh was back within a couple of minutes with a couple of bandannas.
“Huh, why do you have two bandannas?” Olivia wondered as Josh balled one up. Just before he stuck it in her mouth, she suddenly figured out what his plan was. “Josh...w--” Her words were muffled as the first bandanna was stuffed in her mouth. Josh had the second bandanna folded up and pulled it over her mouth and tied it tightly.
Olivia tried to complain, but the cloth muffled her voice pretty well. Josh would probably argue they hadn’t talked about how she’d be gagged. Olivia couldn’t argue, but she hadn’t quite expected him to do this. It wasn’t quite uncomfortable, but she wouldn’t have minded being able to move her jaw some more. She attempted to spit the cloth out, but the bandanna over her mouth was just tight enough to prevent her from being able to do so.
“Last five minutes before I win” Josh said, the tone of triumph very evident in his voice.
Olivia grunted, but the gag prevented her from doing much else. She began a furious effort to free herself this time, knowing this was it. She jerked, twisted around, tried to find knots, pull her hands free, anything. Most everything held. She tried to spit the cloth out multiple times, almost feeling like she could, but it just wouldn’t quite budge the bandanna over her mouth.
All the struggling was for naught, though. Five minutes later, and she had done nothing but perhaps slightly loosen some of the rope around her legs. Olivia had lost. Or maybe she had won, because she was such a good teacher. She wasn’t sure how to look at it.
“Victory!” Josh cheered as the phone beeped. He checked the clock. He had almost 40 minutes before he had to untie Olivia. She rolled her eyes at his celebration.
“So, what should I do with you for the remaining time?” he asked, more to himself than to Olivia.
She glared up at him, wondering what he was going to do. She hoped he was smart enough to know to use some boundaries. She trusted him, otherwise, she never would’ve started agreeing to this. But she knew whatever he would come up with would probably be something more enjoyable for him than for her.
Josh poked Olivia in her side. She gave a slight squeal and squirmed in her bonds.
“Wait, are you ticklish?” he asked. Olivia’s eyes widened for a split second before she recovered to a neutral expression to try to feign indifference, but it was long enough for Josh to pick up on it.
“You are” he said, reaching out and running a finger along her feet. She jerked them away, causing her to turn over on her side. In her swimsuit, she had a lot of skin exposed for Josh to tickle. Fortunately, she was only really ticklish in two places—but he’d already found one of them.
“Oh, good!” Josh exclaimed, giving Olivia’s feet a more severe tickling. Olivia thrashed around and laughed uncontrollably. The gag muted her laughter, but she could still have been heard anywhere in the near vicinity due to how much she was actually laughing into it. Even tied up, she was able to toss herself to her side and made it harder for Josh to tickle her.
“This is no good” he said. He leaned across Olivia to put his weight on her and pin her down. She felt a little vulnerable now. Then he started tickling again. She thrashed around again, enough she almost tossed Josh off at one point. He kept it up for a solid minute, counting down on the wall clock, before stopping. He didn’t want to really make her mad.
Olivia’s dark hair had fallen in her face and she’d started sweating again. She was thankful for air conditioning, but writhing around tied up still worked up quite a sweat.
Josh let Olivia rest for a short time, then decided to attack another part of Olivia. He tried tickling her sides, but her arms mostly blocked that. Olivia flinched, but she was less ticklish there and it was more surprise. Josh gave up quickly. Her one-piece swimsuit still exposed a fair bit of her upper back. Josh tried tickling that. Olivia jumped as best as she could and screamed again. Josh had found her other ticklish spot. He ran his fingers along her back just below the base of her neck and Olivia squirmed and tried to buck him off. Josh moved his fingers down a bit to the top of the swimsuit. Olivia still squirmed, but she wasn’t as ticklish here and it showed in her reactions not being as wild as they were earlier.
Josh gave Olivia a short breather, then moved back to the upper part of her back and she began thrashing wildly again. In addition to stifling her laughs, the gag made Olivia breathe harder through her nose. She was glad not to have a stuffy nose. The twisting she did caused the ropes to dig into her skin, making her thankful they were soft. She wondered in the midst of laughing and jerking if she’d still have marks from the ropes. She kept expecting to finally be able to expel the cloth from her mouth at some point during all this, but the one over her mouth did its job in keeping it inside her mouth.
Josh tickled Olivia on and off for several minutes, alternating between her feet and her upper back. After a while, he had to admit he was getting a little bored with it and stopped and looked at the clock. He still had about 30 minutes before he had to untie Olivia.
“Okay, no more tickling” he said. Olivia sighed into the gag. He was thinking of something else and a thought came to mind looking at her exposed back and he ran to the freezer in the kitchen.
Olivia put up a half-hearted attempt to get free, not happy he left her alone tied up. They’d have to talk about that later. She didn’t have the energy to put a great effort to getting free anymore.
Josh came back soon. Olivia couldn’t see from her view on the floor what he was doing, but she had an idea from the sounds she’d heard from the kitchen: he had ice. And sure enough, Josh sat down and Olivia felt a sudden chill on the exposed part of her back. Even expecting it, the sudden shock caused her to jolt in her ropes.
“Here, I thought I’d help you cool off” Josh said. Olivia tried to sarcastically say “thanks” but it was muffled well enough Josh had no idea what she said. She jerked around trying to toss the ice off her and succeeded after a few seconds. Cold water was still on her back which was a little uncomfortable and caused her to shiver a little bit.
Josh picked up the ice and rubbed it down Olivia’s back, which really caused her to struggle and mumble protests into the gag. Josh kept this up for a couple of minutes, until the ice had really started to melt and make a wet mess on her back. He got up and threw the ice into the sink to melt the rest of the way and went back to the living room.
Josh still had some time left, but he was going to have to untie Olivia soon. He thought about something else to do. He had an idea to make Olivia listen to some really terrible music, but he didn’t know exactly what choices he had in her house. He raked a fingernail across her right foot, causing her to giggle and try to jerk her foot away.
“Your feet are really ticklish” he said. “I like tickling you. It’s more fun if you try to get free.”
Olivia rolled her eyes and said a couple of words her parents would not have approved of her using, which the gag thankfully made unintelligible. In fact, Josh’s tickling had made it harder for her to get free, as she was just jerking around while he did it. She did hope that at some point she’d accidentally yank a limb free, but so far all the ropes held tight.
Josh went back to tickling her fiercely without much warning, causing Olivia to jump and yelp in surprise. She tried scrunching her toes to prevent him from being able to tickle her feet, but it wasn’t much help. He held her legs with his left arm while he tickled with his right hand, keeping Olivia from being able to get away.
Josh was less merciful this time, keeping it up for a while before stopping. By the time he stopped, Olivia was sweaty and feeling very tired from all the writhing and the tickling was getting to be torturous.
Josh let Olivia’s feet go and looked at the clock. It was nearly time to release her. He wanted to keep going, but knew he should let her go.
“Okay, time’s up” he said. But he did take his time in untying Olivia. He untied the rope around her arms first, then the ones around her legs, then the hogtie rope, her ankles, and saved her wrists for last, letting Olivia remove the gag herself.
Olivia immediately reached up to untie the knot and spit out the one cloth in her mouth. She was grateful. Her mouth was starting to hurt from the gag.
“I think you enjoyed that a little too much” she said, with some dryness in her mouth making it a bit difficult to speak.
“It was...fun” Josh said, trying not to sound too excited.
“Well, you did a good job, I guess” Olivia said, gathering up all the rope. She looked at the clock. Her mom would probably be home in the next 15 minutes. “You need to get on out of here.”
Two days later, some of the kids in the neighborhood were playing another cops and robbers-style game. Josh again caught Katherine. She expected to be able to escape easily again. This time, Josh’s knots kept her bound for a good 15 minutes until the game ended.
“Wow” she said after she was released. “What happened? Where did you learn to do this?”
“I...practiced” Josh said. That was all he’d admit to her.
A few minutes later he walked over to Olivia’s yard. She was outside again.
“Your teaching helped me out” he said excitedly. “Katherine didn’t escape this time. She stayed tied up until the end of the game.”
“That’s...great” Olivia said. Her tickle and ice torture hadn’t been for nothing, then.
“You were a good teacher” Josh said. “That’s the first time I’ve ever kept anyone tied up more than a couple of minutes.”
“That’s a great thing to be proud of” Olivia deadpanned. “You seemed to enjoy the time we spent working on it.”
“You weren’t mad about any of it, were you?” Josh asked, for the first time legitimately worried.
“No, don’t worry” Olivia replied, laughing a bit. “I can handle it.”
“Do you have any other lessons to teach?” Josh asked, a bit hopeful.
“I think I taught you all I know” Olivia said. “I mean, I’m not really any expert on this. Just a few tips I learned playing the games around here. I got tied up where I couldn’t escape a few times and took some ideas from those times, plus my dad taught me how to tie some good knots. I doubt he expected me to use them like this.” She laughed again.
“But, just remember what I taught you. Cinch the knots, make sure everything’s tied tight, keep it out of reach, that’ll likely be enough. But now...since I helped you out...I think I could use some payback for helping you out.”
Olivia led Josh to where she had the ropes. He got his hopes up for some more fun, but that wasn’t what Olivia had in mind.
“I didn’t have time to coil them up properly. So...you can help me do it.”
Josh shrugged and grabbed one of the ropes. With the fun came the mundane work to go with it.