Postby Mister Mistoffelees » Sun Aug 03, 2008 6:22 pm
My very first story post here at this fine community, and I hope you enjoy it! But first, some details...
The characters in the story are two of my Snowden Snoops characters from my alternate universe at the Girl Detectives in Trouble forumer site. Not to crassly advertise the site here, but I have a series of girl-detective tales there (the addy is on my profile) involving various young-lady detectives getting in various perils while making my fictional town of Snowden safe from various malefactors. This tale is not one of those stories, but a little exercise I did with two of the younger characters. This tale does make mention of events from a couple of the tales, and if you need or want any details on those backstories, feel free to PM or email me. They're one of my favorite subjects!...
First of all, our lead character, one Miss Serenity Mabrey. The tale is a retrospective of a particularly interesting event in her young life (over at GDIT her charater just turned 13 this winter), when she was a precociously-bright young fifth-grader. She's quite tall for her age and still is, with a slim build which belies extraordinary athletic talent (particularly basketball and soccer). At the time of the tale you're about to read, she has not-quite-shoulder-length black hair, a light, freckled complexion, and eyes of a striking gray-green color. As well as being a fine athlete, she's also a gifted young scholar in all the top sections of reading, match, and so on. And as the tale opens, recent events are rather weighing on our athletic young scholar Serenity...
Next, Serenity's neighbor and lifelong friend Joey Housely. Shorter than Serenity and stockier, with an unremarkable build, unruly medium-brown hair, and bright hazel eyes, he has a interest in TUGs which he shares with his year-older brother Jimmy, who has a long history of "playing pretend" with Serenity's two-years-older sister Felicity. Joey has a knack for trouble (he's actually one of the "bad guys" in one of the GDIT adventures), and is at best average academically and athletically. But strange things happen when you spend a lifetime next door to each other! So on with my little tale...
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A Bind of My Own Making
By Serenity A. Mabrey
You know what I think? I think that every boy in the world likes to tie up girls! I don’t know why, but they do! Well, at least the boys who live next door to me and my family. Their names are Jimmy and Joey. Jimmy is a class above me, while Joey is in my class, and I’ve known him all my life. And all my life he and his brother have wanted to tie up me and my big sister Felicity! Felicity is two years older than me, which makes her a year older than Jimmy, but believe me, that has never stopped him! And Joey! Even as far back as I can remember, he’s been chasing me around our yards trying to catch me and tie me up! It wasn’t anything mean, you know, just the four of us playing pretend games, like cops and robbers or cowboys and Indians, but they had their own versions of the game! Bounty hunters and girl fugitives, or aliens and humans, or their favorite, bank robbers and tellers! It was always the same kind of game, though, they would be the bad guys and we would be the victims they caught and tied up. Well, at least Jimmy caught Felicity and tied her up! Poor Joey would always try to catch me, but I was always faster than him and he could never catch me! I’d run around and tease my sister after Jimmy caught her and tied her up to a tree or a chair or laid her on the ground and hogtied her. Poor Joey must have thought he’d never catch me, because I was always faster than he was because I have longer legs than him, and could run longer because I play soccer and basketball and he only plays Little League baseball (but I can hit and run bases better than he can too!). But then something happened which changed all that, and a whole lot of other things too.
Well, of course you heard about the time I was kidnapped when I was back in between fourth and fifth grade when I was ten, the crazy old professor who stole me so I could replace a daughter of his who had been killed a few years before. Most of what happened to me ended up in the news, especially after I made my statement to the court when they were sentencing poor Dr. Newland. I still write and talk to his other daughter Luci, even though she knows now that I wasn’t really her little sister Mary back when I was with them. And of course I stopped the guy who really did kill Mary and hurt Luci, and killed all those other girls Dr. Newland had stolen to be Mary for Luci, but since I still get nightmares about that I won’t say anything more about it.
One thing that changed from all that was the way I dress. Before, I didn’t like to be dressy at all! I maybe had two dresses I wore for church things, and a couple skirts and tops Mom made me wear for things like school-picture day, but nearly all the time I just wore comfortable things like jeans and sweatshirts and tees and shorts and sneakers and flip-flops. But Mary Newland was always kind of dressy. I know this because when Dr. Newland was taking me to where he and his family lived, he showed me pictures and videos of the real Mary with Luci, and she was always wearing a nice skirt and top or a sundress or even a nice comfortable jumper, and even a couple really dressy dresses! Well, of course when I was with them as Mary, they made me dress like Mary did, and I guess it sort of stuck to me after I was rescued and brought back home. Anyhow, every once in a while I just had this feeling like I wanted to dress nice, and I ended up having Mom buy all sorts of nice outfits for me. My best friend Abbie Dwight (and you probably have heard of her too, the one that fugitive killed her whole family when she was barely seven years old and Mrs. Dwight in town adopted her) started calling them “Mary days” because I dressed like Mary Newland did, and you know what? I actually kind of like to dress nice a lot of the time now! Not all the time, I still like my jeans and sweats and sneakers, but sometimes I like to feel a little dressy!
I don’t get why the other thing changed for me. Well, you can imagine that when I was Dr. Newland’s prisoner, he kept me tied up a lot in his RV so I couldn’t run away from him. And no, he didn’t do anything sick to me even though he could have, mostly because he started thinking of me like I really was Mary. He even called me Mary while he was taking me back there! Well, he always kept my foot chained to a bolt in the floor of the RV so I couldn’t run, and most of the time he kept my hands tied too. At first he kept them tied behind my back all the time, which I hated whenever my nose would itch and I couldn’t scratch it, and of course it scared me to know he could hurt me and I couldn’t fight back. Then too he kept my mouth gagged a lot of the time the first few days so I couldn’t yell for help, which I really hated because he always stuffed a cloth in my mouth and taped it in so I couldn’t get it out, and keeping my hands tied behind my back kept me from taking it out, which I guarantee you I would have if I could have gotten at it! But then he mostly drove at night on like real back roads where there wasn’t much of anybody else, so he didn’t have to gag me so much. Then he would just tie my hands in front of me palms together, which let me write in my secret diary whenever he was driving or asleep or busy doing something else. I actually learned to write pretty well with my hands tied together! Well, then it was all over and the FBI rescued me, and I never really thought much about it for a while. I just figured it was all over and I wouldn’t ever have to deal with being tied up again.
I really can’t tell you what came over me! Well, it was fall, and we were back in school in Mrs. Entwhistle’s fifth-grade class, and everybody except Abbie thought I was weird whenever I came to school in a dress or a nice skirt and top. Well, there was that whole thing about Dr. Newland’s trial, and of course they were charging him with all sorts of things he didn’t really do (nobody listened to me when I said he didn’t do all those things, but I guess they thought since I was only ten and didn’t know any better I didn’t remember it all right, which I did, by the way!), and I was getting more and more nervous all the time about having to testify in the trial (which it turned out, of course, that they never really had because he changed his plea) which maybe was what started it all.
Anyhow, one day I was coming home from school on the bus, and of course Joey was on the bus too because he’s my next-door neighbor like I already told you, and I was having one of those “Mary days” like Abbie still calls them. It was a little gray bibbed sort of skirt, a little above my knees with a few pleats (I still don’t get very much into miniskirts because I still think my legs are too skinny), and I wore a thin white sort of long-sleeve t-neck top with it (it was the beginning of October and it was a sort of chilly day), with white tights and a nice pair of black-patent-leather mules (you should have seen Mom when I told her I liked those shoes!). I even had my hair pinned back over my ears (see, Dr. Newland had cut my hair short when he captured me so I’d look even more like Mary, and I was kind of surprised to find out I liked it short!), and had a necklace Dad bought me for back-to-school. Even I thought I looked pretty good in the outfit (except for my skinny legs of course!), and I must have been right because Joey just kept staring at me the whole way home, not really talking like he always did but just looking at me. Anyhow, when we got off the bus at the end of our road we walked toward our houses, then all of a sudden Joey asked me if I wanted to play pretend with him when we got home! That was what we called our tie-up games, “playing pretend.” Well, he hadn’t even asked me to play pretend ever since I got back from being kidnapped, and I sort of thought he wasn’t interested in it any more. I wouldn’t blame him since he never caught me! I was about to tell him no when all of a sudden I just wanted to so much, I don’t even know now why! So I told him I’d come over as soon as I got out of my school clothes (see, I got home before Mom got finished at the college and had a key to let myself in because I got home before either Felicity or my jerkface little sister Charity), but he stopped and said he didn’t want me to change out of my school clothes and that he wanted me to play in what I was wearing. Well, of course I thought that was kind of weird and I told him that, and he said he wanted to play robber-and-teller with me dressed up real pretty like a real teller might. Well, the way he was looking at me, I felt my heart just literally turn over inside me!
Okay, I guess I better tell you right now that I like Joey. I mean, I like-like him, sort of. Okay, so it’s not really “sort of,” I’ve always sort of like-liked him even when we were real little, and ever since then, well, let’s just say I like-like him even more! But all that time, he never said anything to me that made me think he liked me at all that way, and then all of a sudden there he was saying I was pretty! So I just decided right there that I’d do what he wanted and play pretend in my new outfit. I just figured I’d run him down just like I always did, I guess.
Well, while he went and fetched his brother’s clothesline and other stuff he kept hidden for when he wanted to play pretend with us, I sort of hid out like I always did when we played. I was a bank teller who ran away when the robbers broke into the bank, and he would have to catch me before I went to the police and reported him, that was the way we played the game that afternoon. There’s this big old shed out behind their house that was his dad’s workshop and we pretended it was the bank, and I hid behind it and waited for him to find me and start chasing me.
I still felt that strange but good kind of funny about him saying I was pretty, and sort of thinking that maybe there was something really real happening between us, and I must have not been paying much attention to our game, because all of a sudden there he was behind me grabbing my shoulder! Well, you can bet I ran as fast as I could when I felt him grab me, and at first I pulled away just like I always do. And that’s when it happened!
I was rounding around the back corner of his house with him still way behind me, and I felt my ankle turn a little. It wasn’t really bad, I turn it worse all the time in gym or playing soccer or basketball and don’t even hardly notice it. But right then something just made me stop! It wasn’t really my ankle, like I said I turn it worse all the time, but something made me just stop and drop down on my rear and grab at my ankle like it really hurt. I sort of think now I actually wanted it to hurt! Well, of course Joey was right there in a second, but instead of just grabbing me he knelt down and asked if I was all right, if I’d hurt myself. Well, what else could I do? I just told him it wasn’t bad and I’d be okay in a minute, and he stood there and kept telling me he could go get his mom and she could wrap it up or something or take me to the hospital to have it looked at, but I said I’d be okay, which of course I really was, and I felt really weird about it because I sort of began to realize that I really wanted him to catch me and that was probably why I fell down! Anyhow, I finally said it felt better and got up, and he said he’d give me ten seconds to run and start the game again, but I told him no, which really seemed to disappoint him. And then, I don’t know why I said it but I did, I told him that he had caught me fair and square and I was his prisoner. Well, of course his face all lit up! I don’t think he expected to catch me, and there I was saying he had caught me when I could have run away again! At first it was like he didn’t know what to do next because he’d never caught me before, so I sort of gave him a hint by putting up my hands and making a real scared face for him and telling him to please not hurt me, I’d do anything he wanted if only he wouldn’t shoot me with his gun. That sort of woke him up. He made his hand into a sort of finger pistol and pointed it at me and told me to march back up to the bank (which was his dad’s shed of course) where he’d keep me with the rest of the bank workers. I made sure to limp a little so he wouldn’t think I was faking my turned ankle, which I sort of was but didn’t want him to know it. After a few seconds, we were at the shed door, which Joey unlocked with his dad’s key (he keeps it in their kitchen by the back door of their house) then pointed his finger pistol at me and told me to go inside. I still had my hands up and my scared face on, so I did. He was so excited he was shaking!
Well, there’s actually a lot of space in the shed, enough that he has one of their old kitchen chairs and an old stool inside with his workshop tools and stuff. I was starting to get a little nervous knowing Joey was going to tie me up, but I’d already told him I was his prisoner and I didn’t want to disappoint him. He stood there for a minute thinking about what he wanted to do, and I figured he’d want to tie me to the chair like Jimmy did to Felicity all the time. I told him in my scared-prisoner voice that he could put me anywhere he wanted as long as he didn’t hurt me, and that seemed to kick-start him. He told me to sit on the stool, which was just tall enough with my long skinny legs, and I did as he said, with my hands still up. I think he was afraid to actually start tying me!
Then I thought of something. Every time Jimmy caught Felicity, she would ask him real disgusted if he wasn’t going to tie her up for once, which of course meant he always tied her up. Well, I thought that maybe he needed sort of prompted, so I asked him in my scared-prisoner voice, “You aren’t going to tie me up, are you?” That seemed to wake him up again, and he put on this real mean bank-robber voice and told me yes, he was going to tie me up like the rest of the bank workers so we couldn’t call the police. I made all scared for him when he said that, and then he told me to put my hands together behind my back. I said something like please don’t tie me up, but I did what he said and held my hands behind my back for him. He was so close behind me I could hear his breath which sounded real ragged like he was so nervous, then he moved my hands so my wrists were crossed behind my back. Then he started looping the rope around my wrists, and I kept up my scared voice, telling him please don’t tie me up too tight, and since he finally understood that I was just play-acting with him he made real mean and said he’d tie me up as tight as he wanted to keep me from calling the cops, and he looped the rope around and around my wrists and finally knotted it off. I was feeling kind of weird, sort of thinking of the times Dr. Newland tied my hands behind my back, but it wasn’t really the same. I was real surprised to feel like it was sort of fun, that it was sort of exciting to play Joey’s prisoner! Well, he finished tying my hands and I said in my prisoner voice that he didn’t have to tie me any more, that I wouldn’t try to run away and set off the alarm. As soon as I said it, I knew I was hinting at him to tie my feet too! Well, he sure got the hint, because he told me to put my feet together, which I did. He put about four loops of rope around my ankles and tied a knot, and he was done. I asked him in my prisoner voice if he was done tying me up, and he said he was, but he wasn’t using his bank-robber voice, and I must have looked at him funny because he got right back into it, and said he was going outside the bank to cut the phone lines. While I sat there he went out and closed the shed door, and I could hear him lock the lock. I was locked inside!
Well, that made me kind of mad. It was one thing to let him tie me up, it was another to lock me in the shed! So I started wiggling my hands to get loose, and I found it was kind of easy to get loose, the way he tied my hands wasn’t very good and I could get out easy. I was just about to when I saw him looking in the window of the shed, and his eyes were real big and excited, and I realized he really liked watching me squirm my hands. That made me a little less mad, and I decided to play along with him, so I squirmed my hands and my feet like I was trying to get loose but couldn’t, and all the time he was just gawking at me so much!
Well, it got a little boring after a while, so I finally pulled my hands out of their ropes, which brought him around inside the shed in a minute. He looked real disappointed that I’d got loose so quick, and he made to pick up the ropes off the floor so he could tie my hands again, and then he grabbed at my hands to pull them back behind my back again. That made me mad again but I wasn’t sure why, so I just told him to stop right there, not in my prisoner voice but my real one, and he just stood there stuttering with his mouth hanging open while I untied my feet. And wouldn’t you know it but the ropes left dirt marks all around the ankles of my tights! They were practically black from the dust and dirt in the rope! Well, I just took the ropes out of his hands, and I told him I didn’t like what he did with locking me in the shed and I wasn’t playing pretend with him anymore. Well, he looked just like he was about to start crying and said he was sorry, so I sort of felt sorry for him and told him I would again, but there were going to be some rules he had to follow or I really wouldn’t ever play pretend with him again. First of all was that he couldn’t ever lock me in anything again, that it made me feel like I felt whenever Dr. Newland locked me in the RV and I didn’t like it at all. Second rule was that if we played pretend, I got to choose what I wore so my nice clothes wouldn’t get messed up like my tights did. And the third rule was that he had to use clean rope and stuff, so I wouldn’t have marks on my clothes that I might have to explain to Mom if she saw them when she did laundry, or worse, whenever Felicity did the laundry. And my fourth rule was that he couldn’t tie me up weird ways or ways that hurt, like hanging me from a tree by my hands or feet or tying me to a bed with my hands and feet all apart. He looked like I’d beat him up or something, and I think I hurt his feelings by being mad at him, so I told him if he followed my rules I’d promise to be any kind of prisoner he wanted me to be, like to act scared if he wanted me to act scared and stuff like that, and to let him tie me up any way that wasn’t weird or hurt me, and not get myself loose, at least very quick, and since I remembered the way he was looking at me when I was squirming around I promised I’d squirm around for him whenever he had me tied up. Actually, that last promise was sort of easy since it felt kind of fun to squirm around but I wasn’t about to tell him that! He seemed to feel better after all that, so I put the ropes back in his hands and went home.
Well, that was just to scare him, so he’d follow my rules for playing pretend. There still wasn’t anyone home when I went in, which was lucky because if Mom or Felicity were there they’d have asked me how I got my tights so dirty and I didn’t have any answer for them! I was going to go back and play again, but I didn’t want to mess up my nice clothes so I ran to my room and changed into my favorite Washington Mystics sweatshirt and some old jeans and a pair of socks and my sneakers. I put my skirt and top on top of the pile in the hamper, but I put my tights all the way at the bottom so maybe Mom or Felicity would miss seeing them next time they did laundry. Then I went back to play again with Joey, just to see if he would follow my rules.
Well, I went in the back door into their kitchen just like I always did, and there was Mrs. Housely of course, and I asked her if Joey could come out and play some more since Mrs. Entwhistle our teacher hadn’t given us any homework like she always did on Friday anyway, see, it was Friday and she never gives us any homework on Friday. Well, she yelled for Joey like always, and you should have seen his face when he saw me standing in the kitchen! Then I asked him if he wanted to play outside, and his mouth practically fell open! So we went outside and he had this look on his face like he was afraid to believe what looked like it was happening! Well, I walked around the corner of the house so Mrs. Housely couldn’t see us (we were always careful to play where no one could see us from the kitchen window), and I turned around and told Joey I had an idea of my own for playing pretend. When he heard that, I thought for a moment his eyes were going to fall out! Which would be sad because actually he has nice eyes, if you know what I mean!
Anyway, I told him I had an idea so that we could play way up in the woods on the hill behind our houses, like Jimmy and Felicity did a lot of times (and every time they did Felicity would come back home and complain that her clothes were a mess from it!). I told him that I would be an Olympic track star training for the cross-country run up on the mountain trails and he would be a lonely old hermit who lived on the mountain who wanted to capture a wife from some girl who went up on the mountain and didn’t know any better. I think I remembered that from some movie on Lifetime or something like that! Anyhow, Joey was so amazed that I wanted to play that game that he actually asked me if I really meant it! Actually, I sort of have to admit that I liked the part about him capturing me for a wife, but I didn’t tell him that! I just said that yea, I wanted to play the game. I told him to go find some place on the hill to hide, and in ten minutes I would come jogging up the hill on some of the old pathways we’d made from playing up in the woods all our lives. He was so excited he actually forgot to take the ropes, so I actually had to remind him!
Well, of course he went running up the kill like crazy, he was so excited to have me actually want to play! But I sort of had a trick for him this time! See, the last time I sort of let him catch me, I didn’t put up any kind of a fight. This time I was going to be different! After all, I was going to be an Olympic runner (and someday I really do hope to be able to play women’s basketball or soccer in the Olympics), and Olympic runners wouldn’t just sit down and let somebody capture them, at least I think they wouldn’t. I was going to make him really capture me!
Well, ten minutes went by pretty slow! I stretched like my coaches always told me before playing a game (but they meant soccer or basketball, not the kind of game I was about to play!), but I was (I have to admit) so excited about it that everything went real slow. I had my watch on, and when ten minutes were up I took it off and put it in my pocket so Joey had an easier time tying my hands. I already knew he needed all the help he could get at that! Anyway, after ten minutes I started jogging up the hill wondering where Joey had hidden to try to catch me.
I made sure to run past all the thick trees, you know, the ones he would be able to hide behind the best. I went nice and slow (at least slow according to me) so that he would have a good chance to catch me, and I tried to sort of follow where it looked like he had been walking. I didn’t want to just run up and down and not have him capture me!
Well, I was up pretty far, so that I could look down from the hillside and see the whole roof on both of our houses, and was starting to get pretty warm, and of course I was starting to wonder if he really planned to catch me, when all of a sudden I heard footsteps running behind me, and there he was behind me running to catch me! He had taken one of the ropes and made it into a big lasso or whatever you call it, and he was making like he was trying to throw it over me! Well, that was seriously dumb, because he isn’t exactly a cowboy and can’t throw a lasso very well, and besides I was pulling away from him. After a couple minutes, and him trying to throw that stupid lasso at me, he finally yelled out that I had to slow down if he was going to catch me. Well, I just yelled back that if he really wanted to capture me and tie me up (I put that last in as a sort of a reminder of what he’d get to do if he caught me) he’d have to catch up to me. He stood there and pouted for a moment, but then he really started running after me, so hard that he might have actually caught up to me if I didn’t speed up. And that was something that was bothering me right then, whether I should go ahead and speed up or go slow enough for him to catch me. I wanted for him to have to work hard to capture me, but I didn’t want it to be so hard he gave up! I thought about doing another fake turned ankle, but I thought he might be suspicious if I did it again. Well, you know I was running while I was thinking these things, and I must have not been paying much attention to what was going on around me because all of a sudden, well, let’s just say I had my problem solved for me!
He was still trying to throw that stupid lasso around me, and he just kept missing, I was half running half thinking, then all of a sudden I felt something tug at my ankle and pull me back, and I saw that stupid lasso caught on my ankle just before I went flying flat on my face! He missed most of me, but caught my foot! Well, I reached down to take it off when he tightened it up real tight on my ankle, then tied the other end around a tree beside him. I was stuck! All I could do was try to pull the lasso loose before Joey was on me, and of course I wasn’t close to fast enough!
I was pulling at the loop of the lasso when Joey grabbed me and threw me face-first down on the ground, a real tackle! All of a sudden I wasn’t feeling so bright about wanting him to really have to capture me! I was faster, at least if I didn’t have my ankle lassoed to the tree, and I was smarter (at least until stupid me let my ankle get lassoed in the first place!), but if Joey had one advantage over me it was that he was stronger. It was a sort of wrestling match, with him sitting on top of me trying to grab my arms while I tried to throw him off and get my ankle loose while at the same time trying to keep him from getting my arms. I might have been able to crawl away if my foot hadn’t been lassoed, and Joey sat on me with all his weight and I couldn’t get him off me, and didn’t you know but sooner or later he was going to get hold of my arms, which he did. He got hold of my left hand by my wrist, and held it behind my back with one hand while he tried to get the other one. I did my best to keep my other hand away from him, but I was getting tired trying to get him off me and after a few minutes he managed to get hold of my right arm and pull it behind me. He said I had to stop fighting him because he had my hands, but I told him back that I wasn’t really caught until I was tied up. Well, as soon as he let go of one of my arms to get at his rope I pulled my arm away, so he had to work all over again to get hold of it while he had the rope in his teeth. I figured I could keep this going all day because he’d always need to use a hand to use the rope so I could always keep one hand free.
Then he actually did something smart! Instead of trying to grab both my hands at the same time, he wrapped some rope around the left wrist he still had. Now my sweatshirt had ridden up while we were wrestling around on the ground, and he must have seen the belt loops on my jeans, because he took the other end of that rope and tied it through a belt loop on my right hip. I would never have given him credit for having the smarts! Well, it wasn’t real tight, and I was able to get at the knot on my belt loop, but it gave him time to grab my right wrist while I was trying to undo the other knot. He grabbed my right wrist and pulled it behind me, crossing it over my left wrist and using another rope to tie them together. He really had caught me this time! Well, of course he stood there for a while gawking at me while I rolled around on the ground trying to get my hands loose and pulling at the lasso on my ankle. I didn’t play a scared prisoner this time, this time I was a mad prisoner, mad that the old hermit had caught me and tied me up. I yelled at him to untie me, told him stuff like my friends would find me and he’d end up in jail, and he’d better let me go if he knew what was good for him, that kind of stuff. I don’t remember it all, mostly I remember him gawking down at me with the biggest eyes I’d ever seen on him! And I remember that seeing him like that gave me a really weird but nice feeling, sort of excited in a way.
After a few minutes of all that, he pulled me up to my feet. He said that if I was a good prisoner and didn’t try to kick him, he’d loosen my ankle from the lasso. He said too that if I wasn’t a good prisoner, he’d just leave me fastened to the tree and let the bears eat me and look for another wife in the woods. Well, I still played the mad prisoner, but I just stood there and made my best mad pout at him and told him real angry that he better not hurt me. That gave him time to loosen the rope from the tree, and I stood still enough to let him take the other end off my ankle. Then he told me he was taking me up to his cave up on top of the mountain and he was making sure I couldn’t run away from him. He hadn’t unlooped his lasso, he just loosened the loop enough to slip it off my foot, so it was still looped like a lasso. Well, he got behind me holding my one arm, and all of a sudden he was putting that stupid lasso around my neck!
Well, that just scared me to death! See, when Dr. Newland first kidnapped me he had done the same kind of thing, put a rope around my neck like a leash to lead me to the RV. He didn’t actually use it, though, I was so scared stiff he could just pick me up and carry me to the RV without it. But I can still remember that rope around my neck, how it felt like it was cutting off my air and I couldn’t breathe, how I was terrified that he could hang me up by my neck and kill me and I couldn’t stop him, and boy did I just totally lose it on Joey! I screamed at him to take it off, and at first he must have thought I was still play-acting because he just looked at me. But he still didn’t tie my hands very well, I just ripped them right out of the ropes and ripped that leash off my neck in a second! Well, I was so mad at him, I just started yelling at him that I wasn’t ever playing pretend with him again, that if he was my real friend he wouldn’t have done that to me like Dr. Newland did, that he was totally awful and mean for doing that to me and I totally hated him. I threw all his ropes on the ground, and looked down at him so mad before I started to run away.
But then I saw his face, and he was literally crying! His face was already all wet, and his lips were blubbering and shaking like they do when you cry real hard, and he said he was sorry. Not the kind of sorry like you say when you have to so you don’t get in trouble, but real pathetic, his voice all shaky and choking. He said he didn’t mean to hurt my feelings, that he didn’t know it would upset me so bad, and said he never ever wanted to hurt my feelings or make me mad at him, and he said he couldn’t stand for me to not be his friend anymore, and all the time he was just crying like a baby! And all of a sudden it felt like my heart was just melting inside me, seeing him there crying to me sort of made me want to cry too (and anyone who knows me knows I don’t cry all that much!), and all of a sudden I wasn’t mad at him at all, all of a sudden I just wanted to reach out and hug him and tell him I wasn’t really mad, and that I could never really hate him (and I can’t, but don’t tell him that!).
So that’s exactly what I did, well, almost. Okay, so it was something actually totally different, but that’s what it sort of felt like. I just reached out and grabbed his hand (even though it was all wet from him wiping his face with it), and I made him sit down on the ground beside me so I could talk with him, not playing or anything like that, but friend to friend. Well, I told him I didn’t really hate him, I was just mad at him putting that leash on me, and I said I was sorry that I hadn’t told him that before (I really only told Mrs. Derry my counselor and Abbie of course about everything that went on) so it wasn’t really his fault. So I sat and told him about what happened with me and Dr. Newland (not everything, but the stuff that sort of scared me about playing pretend with Joey), and sort of tried to make him understand why I had to have all those rules about our game. I told him I really liked playing, that it was actually real fun but there were some things that still scared me, and I promised I wouldn’t get mad when that happened but just tell him when I was scared and why. He was still upset, but then I told him we were always friends and we’d always be friends, and that got him to stop crying. I asked if he was okay and he said he was, and then I asked if he wanted to keep playing the game. And that really got him to smile again!
He asked if I wanted him to give me time to run away again so he could catch me, but all of a sudden I didn’t have the heart to go through all that again, so I just said he’d already caught me. He was still apologizing about that stupid leash, and he said he only did it because he would have had to have a way to lead me up to his cave on top of the mountain. He said that if he was real close to me I could beat him up because I was an Olympic athlete and he was just an old hermit, so he needed some way to lead me away. Well, I thought about it for a minute and then I had an idea. I held my hands out in front of me, pressed together, and I told him he could tie my hands together in front of me with the long rope and use the rest for his leash, only the leash would be fastened to my hands instead of my neck. He smiled at that (which made me feel like melting inside again, but don’t tell him that!), and in a few moments my hands were tied in front of me and he was walking me away with the leash on my hands. Actually, it was kind of funny since even with my hands in front of me he didn’t tie me very well, and I had to be careful to not let him pull too hard on the leash because if he did the ropes would come all the way off my hands! So I just left a little pull on the leash, walking along behind him keeping up my mad-prisoner thing, yelling at him that he’d never be able to keep me and I’d get away and boy would he be sorry when I did, and kind of twisting my wrists in the ropes so they wouldn’t fall off.
Well, after a while walking up the hill through the trees got him tired (I was too, but that was from squirming around on the ground before and blowing up at him because of the leash), so he said we were going to stop while he rested. He found a tree that looked right to him, and he made me stand with my back to it, then wrapped the long leash around my chest and tummy to fasten me to it. Then he took another rope and tied my feet together, and another one and tied it around my body and the tree like he did the leash, and this time he was pretty good, there was no way I could get loose from the tree with all that rope wrapped around me. He said he had some supplies up ahead and he would have to keep me quiet so I couldn’t yell for help, and right then he pulled out this big hanky (actually it looked more like a bandanna like I use sometimes to tie back my hair) and lifted it up like he was going to put it in my mouth like a gag.
Well, that wasn’t going to happen! I really hated it when Dr. Newland gagged me (okay, he did it with tape which was really awful because it always hurt when he pulled it off my mouth), so I just told him right there that there was no way I was letting him gag me. His eyes got big and wet again when I told him that, and I remembered I’d promised to not just yell at him when that happened, so I calmed down and explained about how I hated it when Dr. Newland gagged me. But he wasn’t giving up, he told me he just wanted to tie it over my mouth so I would only look gagged. But I still told him no, I didn’t like the idea of anything over my mouth. Well, this time he was the one who looked mad, he just pouted and sulked. And then he walked away! He went right down the hill and left me tied to that stupid tree! Well, I yelled at him to get right back here, and he yelled back that he would be back in just a little bit. Okay, I decided, he was going away to watch me squirm against the tree just like he did when I was in the shed and when I was on the ground a little bit before. So I squirmed a little, but I figured out real fast that this time I couldn’t get myself loose, and I couldn’t hear him anywhere close, so I just stood there and waited for him to get over his little mad and come back to untie me. Well, it was really irritating after a while because my bangs (I wore bangs back then) were getting in my eyes and I couldn’t get them out very well. I was starting to wonder if he really had left me alone up there!
Well, just as I started to think that, I heard someone coming up the hill, and I yelled out if that was Joey because I really didn’t want to have to explain this to anyone else like Felicity or Mom or Joey’s brother Jimmy (who would probably have liked seeing me like that anyway, but I didn’t want him to see me). Nobody answered, so I began to worry a little that maybe it was even someone else besides them, like maybe someone who really wanted to steal me again, and I got scared real quick until I saw it was Joey with a big water bottle in his hand. I yelled at him a little about not telling me it was him and not someone coming to really steal me, and he said he was sorry, and I decided it was okay this once, I just asked him as nice as I could to not do that to me again because it scared me, and he said he promised. Well, then he opened the water bottle, and that’s when I realized I was getting real thirsty, and there he was with a big drink.
But before I could ask him to please give me a drink, he put the bottle up to my lips and told me he got the drink for me. Of course I thanked him, and when I tasted it the water was real cold, with little slivers of ice it was so cold, just the way I like it (warm tepid water—YUK!). He told me he’d put the bottle in the freezer when I went back home to change clothes just in case I wanted to play again later, because he knew I liked my water real cold. Well, that just made me want to melt all over again! I never thought he’d do something like that for me! So I told him thank you and it was real thoughtful of him and I really appreciated that, and you just should have seen him smile when I said that to him! I think it was then that I really knew I like-liked him, because he would think to do something like that for me. So I asked if he was going to take me up to his cave now, just to let him know I still wanted to play the game with him, so he put on his hermit act and told me he was going to do just that, and he untied me from the tree and untied my feet, but kept my hands tied with the leash on them. They were still real loose, so I had to keep my wrists twisted like before to keep the rope from falling off them if he pulled too hard. I tried to keep up my mad-prisoner thing, but my heart was just so full of Joey being nice to me with the water that it was hard to be mad at him!
Well anyway, soon we were up at an old dirt road way up on the hill which made it easier to walk along, and soon we were at a big old wooden set of doors which were part of the old mine tunnels that were dug into the mountainside. The doors were set inside a big huge wooden frame, and the frame had lots of old nail heads sticking out of it. Joey looked around a little to decide what to do next, then he made me sit down inside the frame and stick my legs out in front of me. He took some of the rope and tied my feet together and then my knees, but before he tied my knees together he asked if it was okay. I was glad he asked, so I told him okay and he tied my knees together too. When that was done he took my hands and put them up over my head and tied them to one of the nails in the old frame so I was sitting with my legs tied and my hands over my head. He said (in his hermit voice) that he was going to keep me there until I agreed to marry him, but first he wanted me well fed so I could be a good wife to him. He pulled a couple granola bars (the chewy ones with chocolate chips that he knows I like) out of his pocket, and he fed them to me while he was telling me how I was going to keep his cave and give him a bunch of kids and all that kind of stuff, and I could have got loose any time but I just sat there and let him feed me. And it seemed to me that he was having a hard time keeping up his hermit thing, just like I was having a hard time keeping up my mad-prisoner thing, and finally he asked if I wanted to quit playing the game. I noticed that the sun was real low and everybody was probably home by now, and I’d forgotten to leave a note for Mom that I was playing with Joey, but to be honest I didn’t want to go home yet! So I told him that I was still his prisoner and he wasn’t letting me go until I agreed to marry him, and I squirmed a little to pretend I couldn’t get loose from the ropes even though I could. I think he was getting nervous that somebody like Jimmy was going to come up and find us, and I guess suppertime was coming, so I decided to end the game the only way I wanted to end it.
I put my head down and pouted, then sniffled a little like I was crying (but I wasn’t, I was just play-acting), and I said since I couldn’t get loose that I would go ahead and marry him. I can’t wait for him to really propose to me someday so I can remind him of that! He actually smiled at me, and I said that he better untie me now because I agreed to marry him. He untied my legs first, then let my hands down from the nail. I could have gotten my hands loose myself, but I let him untie them instead like I couldn’t get loose, and we walked down the hill to our houses together. He asked me if I liked playing, and I said I really did, especially after we figured out how to play it right. Then he got all shy and asked if I wanted to play again sometime, and I smiled and told him we didn’t have any homework that weekend, so maybe we could tomorrow! He was real happy at that, and I almost felt like holding his hand, I was so happy, but I didn’t because I didn’t want him to get any wrong ideas (well, actually, I guess they would have been right ideas!). And when I got home Mom and everybody was there, and she told me to leave a note next time I went next door to play, and there was Felicity looking at me like she knew what we were really doing! I don’t think she knew, and I wanted it to be just mine and Joey’s special secret. I should have known better!
Welcome to Snowden! Enter at your own risk...
Postby Mister Mistoffelees » Mon Aug 11, 2008 7:16 am
Part of the exercise (I was trying my hand at first-person POV) was to tell the above story from Joey's point of view, and the result is below. I hope you enjoy it...
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My Side of the Story
By Joseph J. Housely
I don’t even know why I’m writing this, except that Mom and Dad think I’m some kind of sicko, Jimmy thinks I’m nothing but a dork, and Serenity, heck, I don’t even know what Serenity thinks! All I know is that she thinks I ought to write stuff down so I can think about it. She says she won’t read what I write, so I could just lie and say I’m writing stuff when I’m really not, but it’s what she wants so I guess I can’t really do that anyway. I just don’t get her! And that bothers me, and maybe it shouldn’t, but it does, because…
Because I like her, okay? Yeah, I mean it that way too! You know what I mean, I don’t have to say it! But I’m the only person who’s supposed to read this anyway, so I guess I can say it. But saying it or writing it down makes it different some way, like sort of official. But I can’t help it, I like her too much to not do anything she wants me to do so I guess I’ll write all this stupid stuff down because she wants me to.
She wants to talk about playing pretend. Heck, that’s all Mom and Dad want to talk about now, and all Jimmy wants to do is make fun of me because of it, and what am I supposed to say about it? That I like it? Yeah, duh, I do like it! That’s why everything is such a mess! About the only person acting cool about it is Serenity, so I guess I can do it for her sake.
I’d do anything for her sake, but I’ve never known how to say that to her without it sounding stupid! And that’s easy to do compared to her because she’s like the smartest kid in our whole class and I’m just your average stupid guy! Well, maybe not so average considering all the trouble I’m in because of our playing pretend. If it wasn’t so weird, I wouldn’t catch so much heck because of it! I want to say h-e-double-L instead of heck, only Serenity doesn’t like me to cuss so I won’t. I guess it’s good for me, because I know she has more sense than I do. She’s got more everything than I do, like brains and looks and humor and all that.
Yeah, I said it! She’s pretty! In fact, she’s beautiful, the most beautiful girl I know in the world! Jimmy and other jerks tease me about that, like she’s way taller than me and she’s skinny and she’s got freckles, but I don’t care! There’s just something about her that makes all that stuff beautiful when it might not be so beautiful if it was another girl besides Serenity. And that’s why I like playing pretend with her, duh! Because she’s pretty and she’s been my friend all my life and it’s just fun!
It used to be that she wouldn’t let me catch her whenever she played with me, but then one day back in fifth grade she did! I never expected it, especially after when she got kidnapped that summer by that **** professor (I just put those stars where the word should be, but I think you know what I wanted to write there! That was the worst time in my whole life, almost a whole month she was gone and nobody thought she would ever come back. When I saw about those other girls who looked sort of like Serenity being killed, I was sure she was dead too, and I just couldn’t take it, and it still feels too bad thinking about that to really say anything about that. When she came back I didn’t care if I never caught her playing, just so long as she was back and okay!
Well, she was mostly okay, I guess, except that she was a whole lot more nervous than she ever was, which was weird because of how confident and strong she always was. And I shouldn’t say this because it sounds bad when I don’t mean it that way, but in some ways it was even better when she came back than before! Most of all it was how she looked. She’s always been the prettiest girl in the world, but when she came back she would get all dressed up some days and she was even prettier, like totally beautiful! Abbie Dwight, her like best friend, called them “Mary days” because of the name of the girl that **** professor wanted her to replace, but I don’t like thinking about that but about how pretty she looked in a dress! She never used to wear dresses except for stuff like school picture day and church because her mom made her, but after she came back she dressed up sometimes, which made me want to play pretend with her more than ever, but I knew I shouldn’t because of that **** professor kidnapping her for real. But then she would wear a nice dress and all I could think about was playing pretend!
I still remember the first time I ever caught her. She was dressed as pretty as I’ve ever seen her, in some kind of gray dress with white tights that made her legs prettier than ever. That’s another thing I don’t get, that she thinks her legs are ugly because she says they’re too skinny and stuff. I don’t think that! Anyway, it was in fifth grade that day, and she was just so pretty I couldn’t think of anything but that old game my brother Jimmy and I would play with Serenity and her big sister Felicity, who’s pretty too but not as pretty and not near as nice as Serenity. It was bank robbers and bank tellers, we’d pretend to be bank robbers who captured and tied up the tellers. Jimmy always caught Felicity, but I could never catch Serenity because she’s faster than me. Sometimes Jimmy would let me help tie up Felicity, which was fun but not as fun as I thought it would be to tie up Serenity. Well, I knew it wouldn’t be nice to want to play pretend with her after all that with that **** professor kidnapping her for real, but I couldn’t help it so I asked her when we got off the bus if she wanted to. She thought about it for a minute and said yes, which was amazing to me! I wanted her to wear that cute dress she was wearing but she said no, so I sort of explained why I wanted her to wear the dress, which was that she was dressed pretty like a real bank teller would, and she just smiled and said okay! I sort of realize now it was because I told her she was pretty, but I still don’t understand why that meant so much to her because she has to know how pretty she is! I mean, her mom and dad have told her that much, I think! But anyway, she said she’d play with me so I went around to the side basement door where Jimmy hides all the rope he uses to play pretend with Felicity. It was kind of old because Felicity wouldn’t play with Jimmy anymore, but it was still where Jimmy left it and I took a bunch of it out and went to find Serenity.
In the game she’s a bank teller and I’m a bank robber who has to catch her before she goes and gets the police. She usually starts running from behind Dad’s work shed so that’s where I went first, and there she was just standing there like she wasn’t paying attention, just thinking or something, so I reached out and grabbed her shoulder. That made her jump and she started running before I could get a good grip on her. Just like always, she started pulling away because she runs faster than me. I started to think it would be just like every other time we played except Jimmy and Felicity weren’t there so I could at least help Jimmy tie up Felicity, when all of a sudden she fell down, and when I saw her grab her ankle I knew what happened, that she’d turned her ankle. I wanted to catch her, but not like that! I hate seeing her get hurt, which is why I’ve never gone to any of her soccer or basketball games, so I was anxious to see if she was hurt bad. She said she was okay, and she was right there, but I didn’t want to catch her just because she fell and turned her ankle so I told her I’d give her ten seconds to start up again.
Then she up and said I caught her fair and square and she was my prisoner! I couldn’t believe it! Well, I guess I was so excited to finally catch Serenity that I kind of wasn’t sure what to do next! I never thought I’d ever get to actually tie up Serenity! She must have guessed I was sort of too excited to think because she put her hands up like she was surrendering, and she got this real scared face and voice which was prettier than I ever thought even she could be! She said, “Oh please, Mr. Bank Robber, I give up! I’ll do anything, just please don’t shoot me with your gun!” Yes, I remember exactly what she said! Well, I didn’t have a gun, so I made my hand like a gun and I made like real mean and told her to march right back up to the bank. I was too excited to even think, marching her up to the work shed with my finger in her back like it was a real gun, except I didn’t like that she was limping because of her turned ankle. Like I said, I hate it when she’s hurt! I had the key to the shed, and she stood there with that real pretty scared face and her hands up while I unlocked the door and marched her inside. I was so nervous the ropes all fell out of my pockets when I went to get them out!
All of a sudden I realized I didn’t know how I wanted to tie her up! I guess since I never had gotten that far with her I just hadn’t ever thought about it! Well, then she said “Please, Mr. Bank Robber, I’ll be good! I’ll sit anyplace you put me!” I thought about making her sit on the floor like a real bank robber probably would, but the floor was kind of dusty and dirty and I figured she wouldn’t want to get her dress all dirty so I didn’t. There was an old kitchen chair Dad kept in the shed and I thought about putting her in that, but that would have been complicated and I didn’t know if I could do a good job tying her to it so I didn’t do that either. There was an old stool Dad got from some old bar that closed down, so I told her to sit on the stool which she did. It was just tall enough for her to not have to jump up to sit on because she’s so tall, and she sat there with her hands still up while I tried to think of what I wanted to do next. Then she said, “You aren’t going to tie me up, are you?” sort of begging, and all of sudden I wasn’t sure just what to do, if she really didn’t want me to tie her up. Then I saw this sort of smile on her face like she was teasing, and I remembered that was how Felicity would be with Jimmy. So I made like real mean and said yes, I’m going to tie you up like the other bank ladies so you can’t call the cops, and I told her to put her hands behind her back. That was about the only thing I knew I wanted to do with her, and I was kind of nervous that she’d try to fight back or just not do what I said or something like that, especially when she said “Please don’t tie me up, Mr. Bank Robber,” but she made a little sigh and held her hands behind her back for me. I was so nervous my hands were cold! Well, I wasn’t sure just how I wanted to tie her hands, but I knew I didn’t want it to hurt her and I figured it wouldn’t hurt as much if her wrists were crossed so that was how I did it. I put her wrists over each other and she didn’t fight me when I did, and I took a rope and started wrapping it sort of horizontal around her wrists. Then she said “Please don’t tie me up too tight, Mr. Bank Robber,” and I started worrying that I was tying her too tight! I said back at her that I was going to tie her up as tight as I wanted to, but really I didn’t want it to hurt her or leave any marks on her wrists. I remembered that Felicity always complained about that to Jimmy whenever he tied her up, so I figured Serenity was that way too. I used the whole rope on her hands and tied a knot. Then she said “Oh please Mr. Robber, you don’t have to tie me up any more, I promise I won’t run away and set off the alarm!” From the way she said it, sort of teasing in that scared voice she was using, I thought she might be sort of asking me to tie her feet, which I really wanted to anyway! So I took more rope and told her to put her feet together. I saw she was wearing really nice shiny black shoes, and I figured that was why she’d fell and turned her ankle. Anyhow, I didn’t want to hurt her ankle any more so I didn’t tie her feet too tight either. Then she said, “Oh, Mr. Robber, I’m all tied up and I can’t escape, are you finished tying me up?” I told her yes, I was making sure she couldn’t get away while I went and cut the phone lines, so I left her there on the stool and went out of the shed. I was thinking about her saying she couldn’t escape, so I thought maybe she wanted me to lock her up like a real bank robber would, so I locked the door behind me and went to watch her through the back window of the shed.
Whenever Jimmy and Felicity would play too, I would always watch Felicity after Jimmy tied her up, the way she would wiggle around and try to get herself loose and make noise through the gag Jimmy would put on her mouth, and every time I watched Felicity I’d think about how Serenity would look tied up and wiggling, since Serenity’s so much prettier than Felicity, so I went around back to look at Serenity through the window so I wouldn’t be standing there in the shed staring at her. There was an old saw horse Dad had in back that I climbed on so I could look in at Serenity, and I was right about how pretty she looked wiggling her hands behind her back and her feet tied together! Then all of a sudden she pulled her hands loose from the ropes and untied herself! I ran back to re-capture her before she could escape again and set off the alarm, at least that was what I told myself, really I just wanted to get her tied up again! I unlocked the shed and went in and grabbed the ropes and grabbed her wrists to tie her up again, but she made me stop! She was mad at me and started yelling at me that she didn’t like being locked up and she didn’t want to play anymore! I didn’t know what I did that was so wrong, but I said I was sorry anyway and she stopped yelling at me. Then she started up telling me all these rules I had to follow if she was going to play pretend again. First of all she said I wasn’t allowed to lock her up anymore, and she said it was because when she was kidnapped that **** professor would lock her up in his RV and chain her foot to his floor. That made me feel bad about locking her in the shed because I didn’t really think about it, so I said that was okay, I wouldn’t lock her up inside anything anymore. Then she said she got to pick out her clothes to wear when we played so I wouldn’t mess up her clothes again. I saw where the rope left makes on her hose or tights or whatever they call them she ewas wearing on her legs, but I liked playing with her when she was dressed up nice! It felt kind of weird Serenity getting all bothered about her clothes getting messy, because Serenity never was the kind of girl who worried about that kind of thing and there she was yelling at me about getting her clothes messy! It wasn’t like her! But I didn’t want to make her mad so I said okay, even though I really wanted to play with her when she was dressed up like she was that day. She told me I had to use clean rope and stuff on her when we played so she wouldn’t get dirty, and that not like the way she was before! I liked her being dressy, but it was weird like I said for Serenity to worry about being messy! She never was before! I remember Mom saying once before that **** professor came that Serenity was a tomboy, and she explained that it meant a girl who acted more like a boy than a girl. I guess not caring if you’re getting dirty is part of being a tomboy, and I sort of wanted her to be like that again but to still dress up in dresses and stuff, but maybe you can’t have it both ways like that so I told her okay even though I didn’t know where I was going to get clean rope for her! Well, then she had another rule, that I couldn’t tie her up any weird way! I didn’t know what that meant, and I was getting a little mad at her having all these rules, so I asked her what she meant by that. How could I know if she meant even tying her up at all? Then she said it meant things like hanging her up or tying her to a bed, things that hurt or were kind of dirty, and I guess that was all right, but I was getting tired of all the stupid rules! She must have seen I was getting tired of it because she started making rules for her too. She said she would be any kind of prisoner I wanted, and she wouldn’t get herself loose, at least right away like she did then, and best of all she promised she would wiggle around whenever I tied her up. She must have noticed I liked seeing her wiggle around! And then she went home!
I went back to the house feeling like crap because I got Serenity all mad at me and I didn’t even know how. Mom asked if something was wrong, so I must have looked like I felt, and she asked if me and Serenity were fighting. I didn’t want to get into all that so I just said no and went to my room. I don’t get it about girls! You can get them so mad at you and they won’t tell you why, and if you ask them what’s wrong they won’t tell you, like you’re supposed to read their mind or something! How was I supposed to know she didn’t like being locked up in the shed? If I knew, I wouldn’t have done it! I liked that Serenity looked more like a girl—and the prettiest girl in the whole world too—than ever, but I sure didn’t like the way she was acting like one! I just laid down on my bed and watched some TV for a while and tried to figure out just what Serenity thought about me when Mom yelled to come out. I went out there, and there was Serenity just like nothing happened! She was out of her dress which I didn’t really like and in jeans and a sweatshirt and sneakers like usual, and her hair wasn’t pinned back like it was before, but anyway, there she was asking me if I wanted to play outside. And the look on her face was like she was asking me if I wanted to play pretend again! So I said yes to her and we went outside, and when she went around to where Mom can’t see us from the kitchen I couldn’t believe she wanted to really play pretend again! But she did, she said she had her own idea of a play-pretend game we could play, and I couldn’t even believe that she really wanted to enough to have her own idea! Anyway, it was a really good one, she was a marathon runner and I was an old hermit who wanted to capture a wife for me, and I’d try to catch her when she went running up on my mountain! It was smart to come up with a game we could play away from the house so nobody could find us, but like I said, Serenity’s really smart! I was supposed to wait up behind a tree or something and surprise her when she ran past. That could be a problem because she runs faster than me, actually she runs faster than just about anybody, so I had to find a spot where I could surprise her and catch her before she could run away.
Well, I had a great idea, at least it looked like a good idea when I thought it up. I couldn’t catch her if she ran, and she’s actually pretty strong for a skinny girl like her, so I thought up the idea of a lasso like rodeo cowboys do. I could throw it, and even if she ran faster I could catch her with the lasso. I used my longest rope to make the lasso out of, and waited until she came running past the tree I was hiding behind. Well, as soon as she knew what I was doing she ran even faster, I thought she might get away until I got lucky and I caught her foot with it once. She fell down, and for a minute I was afraid I hurt her ankle again, but when she wasn’t crying or anything like you’d think if she was hurt, I took the other end of the rope and tied it to the tree trunk and went to finish capturing her.
And that’s something I didn’t think of until later. She was running like she hadn’t turned her ankle at all! I mean, she was limping when I marched her into the workshop, but then she was running like she was just fine! Some day I’m going to ask her straight ot if she was faking turning her ankle that day! Anyhow, to get back to the story, she was trying to undo the lasso from her foot which gave me enough time to run over and grab her. She was on her back trying to undo the lasso, so I jumped on her and turned her over on her face so I could get her hands behind her back so I could tie them. That’s the best way to tie up a girl, with her hands tied behind her back Serenity is even prettier than usual! I don’t know why, but I really like seeing girls with their hands tied behind their back, especially Serenity! Well anyway, I got her on her front and I tried to grab her hands, but she knew what I was going to do and fought back. I ended up sitting on her back fighting to get hold of her hands so I could tie them. It was totally cool to wrestle with her!
But there was a problem. Every time I got both her hands so I could tie them, she got loose when I went to get my rope out. It was getting kind of ridiculous not being able to get hold of both her hands! What I wanted to do was get her wrists sort of pinned together and hold them together with one hand so I could use the other hand to get out my rope and start tying her hands, but she was too strong for me to do that! The way it was, she could have gone on all day and I wouldn’t have gotten her hands together!
Then I thought of an answer! We were wrestling pretty hard, and let me tell you Serenity’s pretty tough to wrestle even when she’s face-down on the ground! Well anyway, I said before she was wearing one of her old sweatshirts, and while we were wrestling it sort of rode up on her and I could see part of her bare back. I don’t know why, but I even think her back is pretty! But while I was sort of looking at her bare back under her sweatshirt, I noticed her jeans too, at least that she wasn’t wearing a belt, which gave me an idea. If I could get hold of just one of her hands, I could use a little bit of rope and tie it to one of her belt loops, which should hold it long enough for me to get hold of her other hand and tie them together. And it worked! I wrapped some rope around her left wrist while she was yelling at me like she was my real prisoner, “You better let me go, you dirty old man! When I get loose you’re gonna be sorry you ever tried to capture me!” As cool as it was to capture when she was the scared bank teller, it was really cool to capture her when she was fighting back! Well anyway, after a little while I got hold of her other hand and pulled it back over her other wrist and started tying them together. I thought I tied her pretty good that time, because I left her one wrist tied to her belt loop so she couldn’t move her arms around so much. All the time she was kicking and jerking around underneath me trying to knock me off her, but I was straddling her back and she couldn’t get me off, and it was so exciting I couldn’t hardly stand it!
Then once I had her hands tied behind her back, I got up off her so I could watch her wiggle around and try to get untied. I was sure I had her tied up tight that time! Her hands weren’t just tied, they were tied to her jeans, and her foot was still tied to the tree with my lasso. She was rolling around on the ground with her sweatshirt rode up to where I could see her bare back and her belly which was really cool, and she kept yelling at me like she was still the athlete and I was the old hermit, like “You better untie me! When my coach and my friends find us they’re gonna throw you in jail for the rest of your life! I’m gonna get myself untied, and then you’ll be sorry!” This was the most exciting capture ever!
Finally I thought I’d better get her up off the ground so her clothes wouldn’t get so dirty, and besides I could march her up the hill to the old mine tunnel gate that was going to be my hideout. I got real excited when I marched her into the shed before, there was something about her walking right there in front of me with her hands tied behind her back that was really cool, and I was really looking forward to doing it again, even though she wasn’t in a dress but just her jeans and a sweatshirt, but I remembered that I was supposed to be an old hermit and she was an Olympic athlete, and it would be pretty tough for an old hermit to march an athlete like her up the hill even if she was tied up. Besides, when I went to help her up to her feet she made like she was trying to bite at me and kick at me, so I knew she planned to fight me marching her up the hill. Then I had an idea I thought was a real good one, but it turned out to be the worst one I ever had! I was telling her I’d untie her foot if she was a good prisoner, but if she was bad I’d just tie her to the tree and let the bears eat her up. Well, I took the lasso off her foot and loosened it from the tree. She stopped fighting enough to let me get the lasso loose without her running away, and then I opened the loop of it real big. See, I was going to loop it around her neck like a kind of leash, and I’d march her up the hill in front of me while I held the leash so she couldn’t fight me or run away, so I put it over her head and then her neck.
She just went crazy! She started yelling, not like the prisoner but really mad, and she ripped her hands out her ropes right there and ripped the lasso off her neck! At first I thought it was just her still play-acting, but her face when she turned around was so red like it gets when she’s really mad, and she threw everything down on the ground. She said “I hate you, Joseph James Housely! You’re awful and you’re mean and I’m never ever playing with you again! If you were my real friend you wouldn’t have tied up my neck like Dr. Newland” and then I realized I’d hurt her feelings. I never wanted to do anything she hated, but when she yelled at me about tying up her neck like that **** professor did, I felt like a total jerk! I didn’t know much about what he did to her, but I knew she’d been real scared when that **** professor first caught her, and when she said that about me doing something to her that he did, well, I got upset. Okay, I started bawling! I couldn’t stand thinking I did something like that to her when I never meant to hurt her feelings or anything like that at all, and I couldn’t help starting to bawl. She said she hated me and she didn’t want to be friends with me or anything, and I was just kicking myself for doing something that dumb! I figured I totally messed up and she would never be my friend again! I tried to tell her I was sorry, all I could say was I was sorry I hurt her feelings and I never meant to make her mad and I didn’t want her to not be friends with me anymore. I don’t know exactly what I said because I was crying, but it was sort of like that. I know I told her over and over again I was sorry!
But then she stopped yelling at me, and then she told me she was sorry! She said she thought we needed to have a talk, and then she held my hand! She actually held my hand! She pulled me down to sit down on the ground beside her which I did. She let go my hand, which I don’t blame her because it was all socked with my snot from crying. I was scared of what she was going to say, like I was afraid she was going to say we could never be friends again. But she didn’t! I remember everything she said when we were sitting there. She told me about how that **** professor caught her and kept her tied up and chained in his RV while he took her away to be his new daughter, and that was why she got so mad about my lasso, that he’d done that to her when he first caught her, which made me feel more like a jerk than ever! She said that was why she had to have those rules for when we played pretend, because thinking about being that guy’s prisoner still scared her. She promised me that if I ever did something dumb that scared her again, she’d try to not just yell at me but tell me why she didn’t like it. And then she said, and I remember it exactly, “Joey, I’m sorry I said we weren’t friends anymore. We’re still friends, okay? You know we’re always going to be friends, always and forever! You know that, don’t you?” And she smiled at me like I never thought she’d ever smile at me again, and asked me if I was okay. I felt a little better knowing we were still friends and that she didn’t really hate me. Then, she was still smiling, and she actually asked me if I wanted to keep playing! She actually still wanted to play pretend again, even after what I did to her! Of course I wanted to keep playing!
I was still feeling kind of bad about doing something that scared Serenity, so I asked her if she wanted me to give her a head start so she could make me catch her again. It was only fair to let her make me catch her again after being so mean to her (even if I didn’t mean to be so mean), but she said no, we’d just start again from where he caught me. I tried to explain to her that the only reason I did the lasso thing on her neck anyway was because she was supposed to be an Olympic athlete and I was just some old hermit and I needed a way to keep her under control so she wouldn’t get loose and try to kill me. I was still telling her I was sorry for that before, and all of a sudden she said she had an idea. I asked her what, and she held her hands together out in front of her and said I could tie her hands together in front of her and use the long rope as a leash on her hands instead of her neck. I would have rather tied her hands behind her back because it’s cuter that way, but it was still pretty cool to have her tell me a way she actually wanted to be tied up, so I said okay and took the long rope and wrapped about four or five loops around her wrists and knotted it off, and took the long end and wrapped it around my hand like I would a leash, and I started pulling her up the hill after I asked her if it was okay for us to start again and she said yes. She started yelling at me when I started up the hill again, but after a second I knew she was just playing the game again, yelling stuff like “You’ll never get me up on your mountain, I’ll get away and then you’ll be sorry,” and other stuff like that sounded real cool when I knew she was just playing and not really mad at me.
But that hill is steep up near the top where the old mine tunnel gate was, and I had to stop after a while. Besides, the way we were, Serenity was tied up behind me and not in front of me, and it was more fun to be able to watch her all tied up! So I stopped and said I had to rest and I was going to tie her to a tree so she couldn’t run away, and she said okay, not in her play voice but her real one, and stood with her back against a tree and her hands down in front of her. I took the end of her leash rope and wrapped it around her body and arms and the tree trunk until I ran out of it, and knotted it off. She looked down at herself tied to the tree and said she was tied up pretty good this time, she didn’t think she could escape from the tree, then she went right back to her play voice and started yelling that I better not hurt her, that she had friends who would find her and kill me and stuff like that. It was exciting seeing her like that tied to the tree and yelling when she couldn’t get loose, so I took a short rope and tied her feet together, and then another rope and tied her legs to the tree trunk, and one last one to tie up the rest of her body that wasn’t already tied to the tree. She stopped her play voice a minutes and said, “I’m already tied up tight, Joey! Don’t you even want me to be able to squirm for you?” I told her she’d have plenty of time to wiggle around later when I got her up to my hideout, and that now it was more important to keep her quiet so nobody could hear her and come to rescue her, and I got out this big old hanky I always kept around in case I ever caught her when we played, and folded it over across the corners so it was a big long strip, and I started to put it up to her mouth when she stopped me. She yelled no way, she didn’t want any kind of gag and she’s stop playing if I did, but then she stopped yelling and calmed down like she promised she would, and said that the **** professor made her wear gags a lot, like the kind where you stuff cloth in her mouth and cover it up with tape or stuff like that, and I tried to explain that I didn’t want to do that, I only wanted to tie it over her mouth so that she would only look gagged, and she could just pretend she couldn’t talk and only make noise and stuff like that, but she still wouldn’t let me do even that. She said she didn’t ever want anything over her mouth, and I got a little bothered. I mean, it wasn’t like I was going to stuff her mouth full and then seal it all in or something like that, I just wanted to have the hanky over her mouth so she would look like she was gagged, which I thought would make her eyes look even prettier because her mouth was covered. She has real pretty eyes too, sort of gray and green together like I’ve never seen any other girl have, with big long eyelashes that make her eyes the prettiest I’ve ever seen! But she still said no, she wouldn’t let anything get put over her mouth, and I started feeling a little mad that she wouldn’t let me do anything at all with the hanky, so I told her I was going to get some supplies from camp and I’d be back.
I ran down the hill to the house, and Mom was in the kitchen making supper and she asked if Serenity went home and I told her no, we were thirsty and I wanted to get a drink. She reminded me I’d put a bottle of water in the freezer before we went out again, so I grabbed that and a couple granola bars and left, and Mom called to me to be nice and make sure Serenity got a drink and a snack. Actually, it was for both of us! Yes, I know it’s supposed to be yucky to share a bottle like that, but not when you’re sharing it with Serenity! It had got real cold in the freezer, and I knew Serenity would like it that because she always complains about tepid water, and I sort of figured out that tepid meant warm. See, that’s Serenity for you, so good with words and stuff that I don’t really know until I learn it from her. Anyway, it had little bits of ice in it the stuff was so cold, so I knew she’d like it. I was feeling pretty good about myself going back up there with real cold water I knew she’d like!
But then she yelled at me again! She was all mad because I left her there all alone and anyone could have found her and how could she know I wasn’t somebody trying to steal her again, and I really felt bad because she’d been stolen in real life by that **** professor and being left alone had scared her about that. I told her I was sorry and that I didn’t mean to scare her like that, and then I gave her the first drink from the bottle, and then all of a sudden she got real sweet on me again, saying thank-you for the drink and stuff, she said “It was real thoughtful having a cold drink for me, Joey. You really are sweet, you know that?” She never talked to me like that before, real sweet and kind of mushy, and she smiled at me. She’s smiled at me before, you know, but something about that smile was different, it made me go all mushy inside and you know something? I’ve never looked at Serenity the same since then, because that’s when I first got the idea that I liked her for something other than a friend but as something more special. I could have sat there all night just letting her smile at me like that, but then she asked if I was going to take her up to my hideout, and she still had that sweet sort of thing in her voice which was making me all mushy inside. I didn’t want her to know I was feeling that way, so I started up as the hermit again and told her yes, I was taking her to my hideout and keeping her there until she agreed to marry me. Something about that made her smile even more! So I untied her feet, then took off all the rope I had tied around her, and led her up the hill with the leash on her hands. She tried to keep yelling at me about me not getting away with this and I was going to be sorry I kidnapped her, but it was like she wasn’t as interested in that anymore, so when I got her up to the mine entrance that was my hideout I wasn’t quite sure what to do next, if she was bored with the game or something. Then she looked at me with this sad face and I wasn’t sure if she was mad or something again, but then she said “Sir, I’m already your prisoner, you don’t have to pen me up or anything, I can’t escape because I don’t know where I am! You don’t have to pen me up!” After a second, I realized she was hinting that she really wanted to keep playing the game! That made me feel better, so I told her to sit down inside one side of the opening, which was made up of these huge old wooden timbers, that I wasn’t going to put her in a pen or a cage but I had to make sure she didn’t try to run away from me. I told her to put her legs together out in front of her which she did, and I took my short rope and tied her feet together. As I tied up her feet, I could sort of see her legs moving inside her jeans, and thinking about it got me all mushy inside again, and all of a sudden I wanted to hold them together and tie them too. I didn’t know if that would count for her as some sort of weird way of tying her up which she didn’t like, so I stopped and asked her if I could tie her knees together. She said yes, so I took another rope and tied her knees together over her jeans, and when I was tying them it sort of sounded like she was breathing funny so I asked her if she was okay, and she said she was so I finished tying them.
Her hands were still tied in front of her, and of course it would be stupid for the old hermit to let her sit like that the way she could just reach out and untie her legs, so I told her I was going to tie her hands over her head to one of the nails that was sticking out of the big old frame. That was so she could tell me no if she thought that was weird, and she said “Please, sir, I promise I won’t run away!” but she nodded at me when she was saying it, so I picked up her hands (and that made me all mushy inside too!) and I tied the leash part to an old nail way up above her head, and wrapped up the end so she couldn’t reach it while she sat on the ground.
While I was doing that, I saw I didn’t have her hands tied very good, in fact so bad she could have gotten her hands out any time she wanted! But she never did do that, and as I looked I saw there were rope marks on her wrists, and the only thing I could figure was that she’d twisted them around so they were tight. Maybe she really does like being tied up! I decided maybe she liked playing, so I told her I was going to feed her so she would stay healthy and be a good wife to me and stuff like that. As I fed her a granola bar, I told her about how she was going to keep up my cave and have a whole bunch of babies for me. She didn’t say anything but ate the granola bar as I fed it to her, and after a while I just sort of ran out of things to say so there we were just sitting there, with Serenity tied to the doorway and me sitting beside her.
I was getting kind of nervous with us both there not talking, and I was afraid she wasn’t having any fun so I asked her if she wanted to stop playing. She said, “But sir, you said you were going to keep me prisoner here until I agree to marry you!” And then she started wiggling around on the ground, and twisting her hands like she couldn’t get loose even when she really could, and I realized she was doing that for me, which made me even mushier inside! I tried to say something, but I was all of a sudden afraid I’d say something stupid and get her mad at me again, so I just sat there and watched her wiggle until she started to pout and put her head down like she was sad. She said “I’m never going to get away, am I? I’m always going to be your prisoner!” And she made her voice kind of quivery like she was going to cry, but before I could do anything she said, “So I surrender, sir. I’ll be your wife!” I don’t know why, but her saying that just made me so excited I didn’t know what to do! Then she said, “Since I’m going to marry you, you don’t have to keep me tied up anymore, do you? I can’t be your wife if you keep me tied up!” I asked her if she was done playing and she said yes, it was really fun but it was almost suppertime so we better go back home. I untied her legs, because I figured Serenity would just pull her hands loose like she’d done a couple times already while we were playing, but when I got done untying her knees and feet there were her hands still tied over her head! I wanted to ask her about it, but I decided it might come out stupid and get her mad at me so I didn’t, I just loosened her hands from the nail and untied the knots while she held her hands in her lap for me. I pulled her up to her feet when I was done, and she helped me roll up all the ropes before we went back down the hill together. While we were walking back down the hill I wasn’t quite sure what to say so I asked her if she liked playing pretend with me. She said “I loved playing pretend with you, Joey, especially after we got everything all sorted out and we know how to play right.” And there was that something mushy in her voice again, which excited me but got me kind of scared too, and all of a sudden the only thing I ever wanted to do was play pretend with Serenity! It was hard ro ask her if she wanted to play again, but when I asked she smiled and said “Joey! You know we don’t ever get homework on the weekends! We can play pretend all day tomorrow!” That was so cool, and then she said she would come over tomorrow after her soccer practice in the morning and think up another pretend game to play. She waved real sweet at me when she went to go home, and I never felt as mushy as when I watched her run to her house. I went inside and there was Mom asking me if I had fun playing with Serenity, and I said yes but nothing else so I didn’t say something she might think was suspicious, and she said, “You two are so cute together! Maybe someday I’ll see you two married!” I almost fell over when she said that because I was afraid she’d caught us playing, but she just said “But for now, go wash your hands before dinner, young man! Were you two out there tearing up my garden making mud pies again?” I couldn’t tell her what we were really doing! But it was a real good night knowing I was going to get to play pretend with Serenity the next day, which we did! It’s the best game of all!
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Postby Mister Mistoffelees » Sun Feb 08, 2009 4:47 pm
I found this bit of Serenity's story hiding on an old flash drive and decided to post it up for you. It explains a little more of what goes on between Serenity and Joey, and how it all started once upon a time when she and Joey were...
Story Two: Caught!
By Serenity A. Mabrey
You know how you can get when you think you have everything figured out and then something happens and you realize you were a total idiot to think you had it all figured out? Well, there was one time I really felt like a total idiot about mine and Joey’s game, and now I hardly ever get a chance to forget about it!
It wasn’t all that long after Joey and I started playing our games together, still in fall not very long before Halloween. You sort of have to know a few things to really understand what actually happened, though, so I’ll sort of set the scene.
It was still before Dr. Newland’s trial for kidnapping me and for the murders of Cassandra Perdue and Mackenzie Christopher (even though he didn’t commit them at all), and I was, well, you might say kind of nervous about testifying in court about it. See, I knew what really happened, how it was that Gary Slattery guy who had followed Dr. Newland and stolen and killed those poor girls after Dr. Newland himself stole them from their families, and I was worried that people like the prosecutor would get mad at me if I said what really happened, that that guy had killed the two girls and that I’d killed him myself to keep him away from Luci because I’d learned to really love her a lot (I still write letters and call her, and now that she has a computer I email and text her too). She’s doing a whole lot better, talking to her mom a lot more now, and might even go to college now that she got her GED or whatever they call it when you go back and finish high school. Well, I better get back to my story, even though I like to talk about Luci, she’s really sweet but I was talking about something totally different! Anyway, I was kind of nervous about all that still, and one thing that I started doing a lot when I was nervous about all that was to dress dressy for school. Abbie calls them “Mary days” because she knows I started liking being dressy sometimes because of having to be Mary Newland for Luci.
One other thing I did a lot too was to spend a lot of afternoons at Abbie’s apartment over close to the college. It was a brand-new apartment over Mr. and Mrs. Pillsberry’s new garage beside their brand-new house, and everybody calls it Abby-Abbie Abbey after Abbie and her sister (actually stepsister, but the Dwights are the only family she has now so I just call her her sister) Abby. See, after that guy John Michael Walton, the escaped convict who kidnapped Abby and kept her as his prisoner, killed Abbie’s whole family and almost her too, Mrs. Dwight (actually, she’s Mrs. Miyazaki now after marrying Dr. Miyazaki from the communication department at the college, but I still know her as Mrs. Dwight, and besides, “Mrs. Dwight” is a whole lot shorter to say or write!), anyway, she adopted Abbie and brought her home to live with her and the other kids, but she didn’t do so well with them. Anyhow, Abby was doing real bad too because the guy had gotten her pregnant while she was his prisoner but she miscarried pretty quickly, and besides, it had been real bad for her to have that sicko do all those sick things to her while he had her prisoner. It was Mrs. Derry (she’s sort of a social worker or counselor who really works at the college but decided to help Abby and Abbie, and even talks to me too after Dr. Newland) who had this idea that Abby and Abbie should sort of live together to help each other get over all the stuff the guy did to them. See, Abbie’s old family had been only her, her mom and dad, and one big brother, and ending up in a house with two big sisters and three big brothers was sort of too much for her. So anyway, Mrs. Derry had that idea, and Abbie and Abby moved into that new apartment (Abby said Mrs. Pillsberry had been one of her teachers her senior year of high school and they liked each other a lot), and they both did real great living together, but Abbie got kind of lonely after school because Abby was usually at work or at the college. Abbie’s other big sister Tricia (who’s really smart, but even weirder than she is smart!) and her buddy Krysten Parker would sit Abbie after school until Abby got home, and a lot of days I would just stay there with Abbie so she had someone to hang out with and do homework with (see, Abbie really doesn’t like homework so I sort of help her with it), and we’d always watch Bettina Bright on TV when we were done. And I sort of have to admit it felt nice to have a friend to hang out with.
Anyway! I didn’t stay with Abbie very much after all this stuff with Dr. Newland and court happened, mostly because I think I just wanted to be alone to think about all that stuff. Then, of course, Joey and I started playing our games, so that was an even better reason to not stay at Abbie’s place.
We’d gotten pretty good at the game, and yes, I had a lot of fun being Joey’s prisoner! There were only two things about it that really bugged me. One was that Joey always wanted to put a gag on my mouth every time we played, and every time I had to tell him I wasn’t letting him do that. He still asks about that when we play! And I just keep telling him no! Well, the other thing was that every time I dressed nice, he wanted me to stay in my nice clothes to play. Well, I still remembered what happened that first time, how he got my tights messy with his filthy old rope, so I always told him no to that too. Felicity had found my tights that one time and asked me about it, and I told her something about slipping in a mud puddle. She didn’t say anything, just gave me that look of hers she always gives when she doesn’t believe what I’m saying. So whenever Joey wanted me to stay dressy for the game, I always said no.
Well, you see, we were almost finished soccer season, and my basketball coach Mr. Dimmes told me to start working on my footwork for basketball season. When you have legs as long as mine, sometimes you don’t quite know exactly where your feet are going! One thing he suggested was that I start jumping rope to make myself more agile and to help my vertical leap, and so I went and bought a nice jumprope to do what he said. I jumped rope for a half-hour every day, and I was actually getting pretty good at it!
Well, there was this one day that I had on a brand-new outfit for fall, and even now I think it’s my all-time favorite outfit! It was a tight, sort of thin little black long-sleeve turtleneck sweater, a brand-new skirt (sort of a miniskirt, but not too mini because let’s face it, my legs are way too skinny!) that was black-and-orange diagonal striped, and I wore it with a pair of orange tights and black patent-leather loafers I saw at Payless at the Allen Valley Mall one day. You should have seen how strange Mom looked at me when I told her I wanted those shoes! See, I’d never been all that into shoes until all that with Dr. Newland and being Mary, and sometimes I think Mom regrets all that. I know Dad does when he finds out how much I spend shopping for clothes! I remember I had my hair brushed back behind my ears, and I pinned it back with these really nice orange barrettes which went nice in my black hair. Trust me, if I ever find another skirt like that that fits me, it is so mine!
Well, of course Joey saw me in my outfit and wanted to play after school, and like always I told him no, but on the way home from school I remembered my new jumprope. Of course I took good care of it, and kept it clean, and I realized it would work for the game. I was about to tell Joey about it, but then I decided to surprise him with coming over in my school outfit. I was first home again like always, and I left Mom and Chelsea Parker (who Mom hired to sit my jerkface kid sister Charity after school, but I kind of think it was to keep an eye on me too since I’d been so nervous lately) a note about where I was, and dug up my new jumprope from down in the basement where I practiced. I was sneaking out just as Chelsea Parker was getting there, and I was pretty sure she hadn’t seen me carrying my jumprope.
You should have seen Joey’s eyes light up when he saw me in my outfit! I went into the kitchen where Mrs. Housely always was, or at least seemed to be, of course I left my jumprope on the deck outside where she wouldn’t see it and start asking me stuff. She called for Joey to come out like always, and she told me I looked really lovely, something like that, and maybe that’s why that’s always been my favorite outfit! Well, he came into the kitchen and his mouth just flopped wide open! Mrs. Housely asked him if he didn’t think I was just lovely in my outfit, and he could hardly even talk! She asked if I was sure I wanted to play outside in such a lovely outfit, and I said we were just going to sit around a little in the sun and then go back in. I guess she believed me because she just told us to have fun, and pretty soon we were out back around the back corner where Mrs. Housely couldn’t see us. I got the jumprope and told Joey he had to tie my legs with that because it was clean, and he went back in the basement and came back out with a bunch of brand-new clothesline, like right out of the package. He said he’d bought it down at the Wal-Mart a couple weeks before after we made our rules for playing the game, and he was waiting for the chance to get it out when I was dressed up. It was so sweet of him to remember! Usually he can barely remember his own name! He’d forget his head if it wasn’t attached to his neck, and there he’d remembered what I said about clean ropes! Well, we were thinking about what game to play, and he came out and said we could play stalker and supermodel, I was supposed to be some hot model and he would be a crazed fan who was stalking me to be his. I must have blushed or something, because he said I was pretty enough to really be a model! What was I saying about him being so sweet? And so dumb! Anyway, I agreed, and we set it up like I was doing a photo shoot in the woods with this new photographer when all of a sudden it would turn out that the photographer was really my stalker Joey! Among other things, it meant I didn’t have to run much in my new loafers!
Well, of course he made a really good stalker (not to mention a cute one!), and I did my best shocked-and-scared prisoner thing when he pulled a cap pistol out of his belt and pointed it at me, and I asked him what he was going to do to me, and asked him to please not tie me up (he likes it when I beg him to not tie me up), that I’d do whatever he wanted if only he wouldn’t tie me up, and he said in a real good crazy-man voice that he’d do whatever he wanted to me because I was his prisoner forever, and he started pushing up into the woods with my hands up like I’d surrendered to him.
The problem was my shoes! See, they had these sort of chunky soles (I know, why am I bothering with heels when I’m already too tall!), and I kept stumbling as he pushed me up into the deep woods, and if I fell my outfit would be a total mess! And then I really did turn my ankle, not a little bit but bad enough to hurt for real, and Joey said it might be a better idea if I was his prisoner down closer to the house, and I said he was probably right so I let him push me down into the yard instead. There was this little tree in his backyard where nobody could see it from the Housely kitchen window, and I let him push me against it and put my hands behind my back around the tree. Of course I did my scared-prisoner thing while he tied my hands behind my back with the new clothesline, you know, like “oh please don’t tie me up, it hurts, please I won’t run away or anything like that,” which I know he likes. After that he took my jumprope and tied my feet together with it. I’ve noticed he really likes to tie up my feet, and I’ve also noticed he likes touching my legs when he does it! What a pervie! Not that I’m complaining! Felicity would just tell me it takes one to know one! Ha ha! Anyhow, it’s easier to tie feet than hands, at least it’s harder to get your feet loose than your hands! Well, I did the same thing while he tied up my feet, like “oh please, you don’t have to tie my legs, I’m already helpless, please don’t tie me any more!” the way I know he’s crazy about! Did I say already how much I like being his prisoner?
Well, you know how much he likes to see me squirm around when he ties me up. So I did again after he finished tying me to the tree, even though I knew from feeling the ropes that he hadn’t tied my hands very well and I could get loose real easy. He gave me that same big-eyed stare while I squirmed some against the tree, then he went running away to watch around the corner while I squirmed some more for him. I think it’s because he gets embarrassed watching me squirm, he gets sort of embarrassed at liking it so much so he runs away and watches someplace where I can’t see him watching me. And please don’t tell anybody this, because it’s sort of secret, but I sort of like squirming around when he has me tied up, like, well, maybe I shouldn’t be saying anything about it. I just sort of like it, okay?
See, I was squirming around against the tree, and I admit it was kind of fun, and I must have not been paying attention to things because all of a sudden I heard laughing! Somebody was laughing real hard, and as soon as I heard it I knew just who it was! It was Abbie Dwight!
See, what you have to know about Abbie is that she has like a totally unique voice! What happened was when that Walton creep grabbed her and her family back when she was little, after he was done doing all those sick things to Abbie he took a knife and literally cut her throat! Nobody really knows why she didn’t die, but she didn’t anyway, but one of the things that it did was wreck her voicebox. The doctors managed to fix it up enough that she can talk, but for some reason I don’t really understand it left her with about the same voice she had when he hurt her, and it’s never really changed since, except that they managed to smooth her voice out so it isn’t so ragged-sounding. We were in fifth grade and she sounded like a first-grader! In fact, she still sounds like a first-grader, with a real high voice, a little squeaky, and her laugh is just so high you can’t believe it! So when I heard her laughing, I knew it couldn’t be anyone in the whole world but Abbie!
OMG, I felt my face turn so hot I couldn’t even believe it! I just knew my face was as red as a beet, because it felt just like it does when I’ve been running or playing too hard and I’ve seen how red it gets that way, sometimes Mom gets worried that something’s wrong with me and keeps telling me she’s going to take me to a doctor to make sure I’m all right. Well, that was just how hot my face felt when I knew Abbie was there laughing at me! It sure didn’t help that I was right in the middle of standing there tied to the tree pretending like I was helpless and squirming around against the tree and I felt like—anyway, I think you can understand why my face got real red, can’t you?
Well, I started trying to say something to her about how it wasn’t what it looked like, but I knew that would be just totally stupid since it really couldn’t be anything else but what it looked like! And you could tell she knew it, too! Anyway, she stood there with this huge grin on her smarty little face, and then, “I can’t believe you let Joey Housely tie you up! He must have sneaked up on you!” Well, just as I was wondering if I couldn’t use that as some kind of excuse, you know, like he grabbed me when I wasn’t looking and did this to me, she got this really really weird look on her face, like sort of laughing and sick at the same time. “You let him catch you? Even after everything that happened?” She was talking about Dr. Newland, of course, keeping me prisoner, and all of a sudden I felt so confused I could hardly even think!
Well, I tried to tell her it wasn’t anything weird or sick, that it was just playing, and then I saw her just grin real huge, and I felt my stomach turn over! I knew just what she was thinking! See, Abbie’s a really, I guess you’d say open kind of person, she doesn’t try to act one way when she really feels another way like so many of my other girlfriends do, so I could tell just what she was thinking!
“You’re in love with Jo-ey!” she teased, and all of a sudden, I think it was sort of from what I was thinking and feeling right before she caught me, I just felt totally embarrassed and humiliated, like she’d caught me doing something dirty that just made me feel totally, I guess you could say sort of indecent.. All I know is that my face felt so hot I thought it was on fire! I wanted to say something, but my head felt like totally scrambled, and anyway she was saying something about me even letting him tie me up in a skirt and tights, and she called me Mrs. Housely, and for a second I even felt like crying!
Well, what I did do was sort of yell at her that I wasn’t in love with Joey, and as soon as I heard myself say it I just felt totally awful, like I’d said something really mean about Joey, and I actually got scared that he might have heard me say that wherever he was standing watching me. I just started babbling about stupid stuff I don’t even much remember, and I was trying to look and sound like I didn’t feel like crying, and I just yelled that I could get loose any time I wanted to, which I could but didn’t want to in front of either Joey or even Abbie, for some reason. I think she must have figured out that I was upset, because her smile sort of fizzled out, even though she said “Then go ahead and get loose, Mrs. Joey Housely’s Girlfriend!” and then she went away looking real thoughtful, like she was trying to figure something out.
I don’t know what it was. I think it was Abbie using that word, you know, girlfriend. I think that sort of mixed with what I’d been feeling before Abbie came, and her saying I was in love with Joey, and anyway I was all mixed up inside from Abbie catching me like that. All I know was that all of a sudden I started crying. Not a little, either, like anyone does when they feel sort of down, but like totally letting-go kind of crying. I don’t know quite what I was thinking, only that I was sort of swirling inside, like a big storm was going on inside me. I turned away from where Abbie had come from my house in case she could still see me, and I was so upset I couldn’t even get my hands loose like I always could any other time, and there I was crying so hard I could feel myself shaking from it! I remember thinking I was dirty and awful and all sorts of nasty things, and the only thing I could really think was that I’d told Abbie I didn’t love Joey and how much I hoped he hadn’t heard me say that. And I do remember thinking that Joey would hate me if he heard. See, it was because of all this that when I learned about what Leslie Morgan felt about me (I can’t really tell you how I found out unless I want to get arrested for treason or something, but I really did learn exactly what Leslie felt about me), I understood exactly what it was, and why I didn’t get all weirded out about it. Let’s just say I knew what it felt like to think you’re a totally awful person, and I couldn’t let Leslie think anything like that about herself, even though she’s been feeling that for so long! Anyhow, that’s something that happened later, so I’ll let that drop for now. Anyhow, I just felt so totally awful I was crying harder than I ever had before in my whole life! So bad I hadn’t heard or even seen Joey come up to me. My eyes were so wet I wouldn’t have seen him anyway even if I’d been looking!
But there he was, and he looked more worried and scared than I’ve ever seen him, and there he was untying my hands and asking me why I was so upset. Usually I would have untied my own feet, but I was so upset I just kept wiping at my face to try to stop crying while Joey untied my feet for me. He was asking if I was scared which I wasn’t really so I shook my head no, and he asked me if Abbie had said something to hurt my feelings, and that was when I started pulling myself together, because I realized she really hadn’t said anything mean but Joey sounded so mad at her. All of a sudden I sort of guessed that he hadn’t heard me tell her I wasn’t in love with him, and it felt like that storm inside me was letting up, and I managed to tell him it wasn’t Abbie’s fault, I was just sort of upset. He asked if he was what made me upset, and that’s when I knew he hadn’t heard me because if it was the other way around I’d have been so mad at him I couldn’t have even looked at him! I managed to get my eyes a little dry, and I could see how he was looking at me so worried, and there was something about his eyes, so worried and soft and sweet, and I felt like I really was melting inside like I’ve sort of said before but never as much as right then. He asked me again if it wasn’t him or Abbie, what made me start crying so bad? How could I tell him when I wasn’t really sure myself? I couldn’t say anything! He asked me if there was anything I wanted to talk about, I guess trying to figure out what was wrong with me.
And then he was holding my hand. I felt it, and I looked down and there was his hand sort of wrapped over mine, and that storm inside me started up all over again! I was so mixed-up and upset about being so awful I felt my eyes just sort of boil over like they do when you’re going to start crying (again, in my case!), and he must have known it because all of a sudden he was pulling me along to the step to their back deck and pulling me down to sit beside him. He let go my hand and I started crying again, and then all of a sudden there was that stupid hanky he always wants to tie over my mouth! But no, it wasn’t about that! He reached up and started dabbing at my eyes with the hanky, and he asked if I wanted to myself, so I took the hanky and wiped at my face until I felt my crying start to slow down. I could finally see again, and there he was looking so worried and sweet, and all of a sudden I was telling myself I had to be looking totally ugly with red eyes and a wet red face and a runny nose like I always get whenever I cry (which lucky for me isn’t very often!), and I couldn’t imagine why he would look at me so sweet! Well, looking at him helped me start to stop crying, and when I’d about stopped he asked me again why I was so upset.
I felt it coming at me again, but I made myself not cry again. I just told him I didn’t really know, that maybe it was all that with Dr. Newland and court but I didn’t really know. I told him it was just something that happens with girls sometimes, a bunch of little things get all out of control and we cry sometimes, which isn’t really me but I hoped it would be enough for Joey to not worry about me.
And then he asked me if it was playing pretend that got me so upset, and before I could answer, he said if it was, we didn’t have to ever play again because he hated to see me cry like that. And all of a sudden my heart felt like it wanted to swell up and melt inside me, because I knew how much he liked playing pretend with me and the thought that he would give it up to keep me from getting upset was almost too much for me to take! And it was right there, sitting on Joey’s back deck step beside him, twisting his hanky up in great big knots in my hands and seeing him looking at me so sweet, and saying he’d give up his favorite thing in the world if it would make me feel better, that I told it to myself the very first time. I remember it as clear as if it’s happening right now, maybe because I’ve told it to myself every single day since.
I love Joey Housely.
I know, I tell people I “like-like” him, you know, like it’s just a sort of puppy-love thing like Mom says, or I’m “crushing” on him like other girls say about their boyfriends or their hopeful boyfriends, but that’s not what I tell myself. I tell myself what I told myself right there on that stoop with him looking so soft and sweet at me. And you know, I still have that hanky because he let me keep it in case I started crying before I got to my house again, and every time I see it in my drawer I say it to myself again.
I LOVE YOU, JOEY HOUSELY! Now, if I could only tell him!
Welcome to Snowden! Enter at your own risk...
Postby Mister Mistoffelees » Fri May 29, 2009 7:48 pm
If you happen to be intrigued by Joey's transformation into "Joely" in The Family Feud, I thought you might like to see how "Joely" came to be created, or at least discovered, by the Mabrey sisters! A little ditty entitled...
Some Like it Knot
By Joseph J. Housely
With help by Serenity A. Mabrey
(This story is not to be read by anybody except me and Serenity or I’ll kill them!)
Part 1
I’m never taking another bet in my whole life, not even with Serenity, and I don’t care if she knows it which she does! She might think it’s funny but I don’t!
It’s what I get for playing her at horse. She’s so good at basketball it was cheating to even bet me! Anyhow, it was a weekend when Mom and Dad were out on some ‘marriage encounter weekend’ or something like that, and Serenity’s Mom and Dad were on some weekend trip for the university alumni association. That meant that Jimmy and Felicity were in charge at our houses, which meant that everything was pretty much out of control. Lissy Mabrey spent all weekend talking to Chelsea Parker and Lana Morgan and of course her new boyfriend, and Jimmy spent all his time at Leslie Morgan’s house. Him and Leslie and Cora Peabody, and he thinks I’m a pervert? Uh-huh! At least Serenity’s crazy kid sister Charity was away too at Meredith Howland’s house all weekend with her and their little buddy Jilly Burton.
The bet was that the loser had to confess their worst secret and do it. Well, I was all ready for that one, which is probably why I was stupid enough to take the bet! See (and I promised Serenity I wouldn’t tell anybody else in the world about this so you have to keep it secret), I happened to know that Serenity’s worst secret was that, well, let’s just say she doesn’t mind getting spanked! Maybe that’s why she always gives her mom such a hard time, because she doesn’t mind if she gets in trouble enough to get spanked or switched! You might even say she kind of likes it! See, I remembered once from way back when we were little kids, like back in fourth grade, that her mom wanted her to do something and Serenity got all snippy about it and her mom just dragged her off down the hall like a shot! I sort of sneaked up the hall to see when I heard a loud smack, and when I peeked around the corner I saw Serenity over her mom’s knee, and her jeans down around her knees in nothing but a pair of flowered pink panties on her butt. I could see Serenity’s face, but I don’t think she saw me and I know her mom didn’t, because she was yelling at Serenity that she wasn’t going to stand for Serenity disrespecting her in front of other people like I wasn’t even there. Well, I figured Serenity would be upset and crying over getting her butt smacked, but from where I was I could see she wasn’t crying at all, in fact it almost looked like she almost even liked it! Well, I tiptoed back down the hall before her mom got done spanking her, and when Serenity came back out I acted like I never saw any of it and I never mentioned it. Well, we made the bet when we knew both our parents were away for the weekend so I was already making plans for us to play pretend in a way that let me spank and switch her. I was going to be a kidnapper, and she was going to be this rich bratty like heiress who acted real snotty all the time and I was going to spank her to make her behave right! Well, Lissy came up to me a day or two before and told me she’d heard about the bet and asked what I was going to do to Serenity if I won. Well, I told her my plan and she said she’d help me, and so that Friday after her parents left she sneaked over (so Serenity wouldn’t see her) and gave me this little bag, and when I looked in I saw a pair of flowered pink panties like Serenity was wearing that day I saw her mom spank her. I was going to make her wear those panties and spank her butt while she was wearing them! It was a really cool game I had planned!
So what happened? Duh, she beat me in like about five minutes! Stupid me was playing horse against the best girls basketball player in the whole stupid middle school! H-O-R-S-E and she won and I lost! Which meant that I had to confess my worst secret to her and we had to do it!
I’m not really allowed to be in Serenity’s bedroom, but I wasn’t about to confess my secret in front of anybody! I didn’t even want to confess it in front of Serenity because I knew she’d think it was the sickest thing in like the whole world and probably not want to be around me forever! I tried to think up some other worst secret while she pushed me up the hall to her bedroom, but my mind was a total blank! She sat me down and said, “Okay, Joey, spill it! Tell me your deepest darkest secret!" I couldn’t even talk, I was so embarrassed! She’d hate me if she knew! She stood over me with her arms crossed, looking like she was getting impatient, and finally she just said, “Well, Joseph James Housely, if you won’t tell me your deepest darkest secret, then I’ll tell you your deepest darkest secret! You can’t hide anything from me!” I was just sitting there kind of confused, and then she went right to her clothes closet and pulled something out. She was turned away from me when she did it, but when she turned around, it was like my heart stopped. She was holding a dress! I remembered it from like last year or the year before, it was a nice light-blue dress with short sleeves and a thin little ribbon around the waist and kind of a short skirt. I think she wore it for the winter award assembly because she was winning an award for community service or something like that. Well, I just felt like melting into the floor! “You like it, don’t you?” she said with this strange smile on her face, and I said I did, I remembered it looked real nice on her, which it did, you know! She said, “Well, I’m going see how it looks on you, Joey! Or should I say Joely! That’s a pretty name for you to have for our playing pretend this weekend, isn’t it, Joely?” I felt like I was about to pass out!
I asked what she thought she meant, like she was totally wrong about my secret, but she just gave me this look like she does when she knows you’re trying to BS her, with her mouth pulled to one side and her brow raised, and I felt like total jello because she wasn’t wrong! It’s something I’m totally ashamed about and I don’t know why I like it, but it’s true, and don’t you ever tell that to anybody or I’ll kill you! And I mean it! “Oh come on, Joey!” she said real sarcastic. “You can’t lie to me! I actually saw you back in fourth grade!” I just felt like totally hollow inside, like I wanted to just fall apart and die right there, especially because I knew what she was talking about! See, there was this one time back in like fourth grade when my Aunt Jessie on Mom’s side came to visit for a week and brought her kids. Cousin Danny, who’s two years older than me, was pretty cool, but there was my other cousin too, his sister Crissy, who was my age and could be real snotty. Anyhow, me and Jimmy wanted to play pretend with Crissy and Danny even said he’d help, but she got all snotty about it and said she’d tell on us if we tried it. After the week was done, Aunt Jessie and Danny and Crissy went back home, but Aunt Jessie forgot to take all the clothes back home. Danny forgot a couple pairs of shorts and a tee-shirt, but Crissy left behind a white top and a little pink skirt along with a pair of shorts and some socks. Maybe it was because I was still mad at Crissy for not wanting to play pretend, but one night when I couldn’t sleep because it was too hot I pretended we caught Crissy and tied her up. What I did was to put on her top (it had a button and some little flowers on the collar) and her skirt and a pair of her socks (the short white kind that goes just over your ankles), and I sat down and tied my feet together with the string out of my swim trunks, and I tried to tie my hands too but I couldn’t do it very good. I don’t know why, but it felt good to look down on me and see me dressed up in Crissy’s top and skirt and socks! Well, Serenity told me that whole thing (but she didn’t know that I did it a lot of times when I was alone until Crissy’s stuff didn’t fit anymore), and when I asked how she knew she said she was having a sleepover that night with Abbie Dwight and Tessa Armistead and Janine Baker, and they sneaked around the neighborhood that night, and she could see me through my window shades wearing Crissy’s clothes and tying my feet. She said she never let those others see me like that, and I asked her why she never said anything to me either and she said it was she thought I’d be embarrassed to talk about it, and she’d decided that this was going to be her way of making me talk about it after all that time, to sucker me into a bet I’d lose and let her make me tell her about it. I thought she’d hate me about it, but she was cool about it in a weird way! She said it was part of starting to be a couple, that couples had to share their secrets and she knew I’d be too embarrassed to admit to that one so she just decided to trick me into it! Actually, I was kind of glad she did it because I always was afraid she’d catch me or hear about Jimmy or Mom or Dad catching me, and now I didn’t have to worry. I told her all that, and she said it was all right, that she had a secret that she wanted to share too that weekend that was kind of weird too. I said it was okay, but didn’t say I already knew what it was, and then she said it was time for me to pay up on the bet. I said it was bad enough confessing I liked wearing Crissy’s clothes, but she said I had to do my secret too, not just say it. Well, I looked up (I was too embarrassed to even look at Serenity when she was telling me all that), and there was Lissy too, with a big grin on her face! She said she followed Serenity and her friends that night and saw me too, and when Serenity told her about the bet she told her she’d help out a little. Then she pulled out that bag she gave me from behind her back, and told me they weren’t for Serenity but for me! “If you try them on, you’ll find out they fit you!” she said laughing, then said she’d leave us alone for Serenity to collect on her bet. When I saw Serenity rooting through her drawers and closet, I knew I was in trouble!
It wasn’t just the dress I had to wear! She put down the pink panties with it, and got out a little white bra and a couple pair of footie socks, then reached into a drawer in her dresser and pulled out a pair of white tights and a pair of her old shoes, the black ones with the strap on them. She shoved all that in my hands and pushed me out to the bathroom, and told me I had to put it all on. She told me that first I had to put on the panties and then I was supposed to come back out so she could help me put on her bra. I felt weird taking off all my clothes, and I was kind of scared to put on the pink panties, but then Serenity yelled in that if I didn’t put them on she’d come in and put them on for me, so I just sort of swallowed hard and put them on. They didn’t cover me up all that good but just barely enough, but it felt kind of exciting in a weird way having them on me. They were made of cotton material sort of like my briefs but a lot thinner, and just the way they felt on me was actually kind of exciting! Then Serenity told me I had to come out right now in nothing but the panties, and when she saw me she started giggling and said she could tell I liked wearing them, which was actually kind of obvious, which was why they didn’t cover me all that good! Anyway, she made me turn around and put the bra on my chest, and hooked it in the back because I couldn’t reach it. She told me to turn around, and when I did she stuffed a pair of her footie socks in each bra cup and scrunched them around until the bra looked right to her. Her bras aren’t very big, because she isn’t either (I don’t mind that but it always seems to bother her!), so one pair of footies in each cup filled them up. She told me to go back in the bathroom and put on the dress and the tights.
Well, I couldn’t get the stupid tights on! I couldn’t even get my feet down in them, and Serenity must have heard me complaining because she came in and told me to go sit on her bed and she’d help me. She showed me how to scrunch them up so you can get your foot in the toe, and then pull them up your legs a little bit at a time so they look right on your legs. They got thinner as I got them up my legs, and they fit real tight over my butt and my belly! And yes, it felt exciting to me feeling the tights on my legs, and Serenity giggled and said I was having too much fun but she’d take care of that after I got dressed. After she helped me get my tights on, she made me go back to the bathroom and put on the dress and shoes. The dress was pretty easy to put on, it sort of slipped over my head and it fit pretty good, the skirt was a little longer on me than it was on Serenity, but that’s only because she’s taller than me. It took a while, but I managed to reach behind me and tie the little ribbon behind my back in a bow, which made it fit tighter over my waist. Last was the shoes, which were kind of hard, not because they didn’t fit (I have small feet anyway and she’s taller than me, so our feet are about the same size, and don’t you go making any jokes about small feet!) but because I couldn’t get them under the strap. Finally I figured out to unbuckle the strap and then put my feet in, and when I figured that out they went on pretty easy. I buckled them back up, and before I opened the door I saw myself in the mirror on the back of their bathroom door. It looked weird to see me standing there wearing a dress, but it also felt really exciting, if you know what I mean! Then Serenity told me to come out and I opened the door, and there were Serenity and Felicity standing there laughing! Lissy busted out laughing and she said “You look so cute, Joey!”
Serenity said “No, he’s not Joey this weekend, she is named Joely and she’s my prisoner!” This kind of startled me, and I told her it was bad enough I had to wear a dress and tights in front of her and Lissy, but she said “When I saw you, you had your feet tied, so we’re tying you up too just like before! This time I get to tie you up! And I bet I tie you up better than you tie me up!” And then I saw she had a bunch of clothesline and scarves and cloth belts like from bathrobes, and I knew she meant it! She said “Okay, Joely, it’s time to put you in my hideout and lock you all up! Hands up and march yourself to the basement right now!” She pulled out a little water gun and pointed it at me, and I figured I had to go along with it. I mean, I couldn’t exactly run out of the house in that dress, could I? So I put up my hands and started to walk to the basement steps.
It was then I found out how hard it was to walk in her shoes! They didn’t have a high heel, but they felt kind of wobbly on my feet, which having my hands up didn’t help! Felicity started laughing again, and said “If he—I mean she—can’t walk in maryjanes, she doesn’t stand a chance in your pumps, ‘Ren!” BTW, ‘Ren is Serenity’s nickname, like Lissy is Felicity’s. I like calling her Serenity better because it’s prettier! I didn’t know what those kind of shoes were called until Lissy said that! It wasn’t bad enough I was wearing a dress in front of Serenity, I was wearing maryjanes too! Then Lissy said, “He may look like a Joely, but he’s got a long way before he walks like a Joely! We’ll have to teach him!” Serenity laughed and said it was a good idea, that she was going to teach me how to act like a girl while I was her prisoner. She said “You like dressing like a girl, Joely, so I’m going to teach you act like a girl too!” Lissy asked if she could help, and Serenity said okay, and I almost felt sick! I knew I was going to be embarrassed, and being excited about it only made it all worse! Anyway, Lissy walked in front of me down the stairs in case I fell, and Serenity followed me with the squirt gun pointed at me. I started getting the hang of walking in those shoes after a little while, and I got downstairs without falling or breaking anything. Then Serenity got out a rope, and I knew I was really in trouble!
“Turn around, Joely!” she said, holding up the rope. “You’re my prisoner, so your hands have to be tied!” So I turned around and she told me to hold my hands behind my back, which I did. But instead of crossing my wrists behind my back, she put my hands palms together and started wrapping rope around them, then she tied a couple loops between my wrists which made it tight and knotted it off where I couldn’t reach the knot. She told me to try to get loose, and after a couple minutes I realized I couldn’t! I was really tied up! She said “See, Joely? That’s the way to tie somebody’s hands so they can’t get loose! Now you can’t fight me while I teach you to be a real girl!” I said I didn’t want to be a girl for real, and she said I didn’t have a choice because I was her prisoner, and she wasn’t going to take any of my smart remarks so I had to wear a gag too! And then she took out a hanky, and I recognized it was one I gave her a long time ago, the time Abbie Dwight caught us playing and Serenity got all upset and started crying, and I gave her my hanky so she could wipe her eyes. “Don’t worry, I washed it!” she said, and told me I had to open my mouth. I did, and then she wadded it up and shoved it into my mouth, and then she took one of her own bandannas and tied it through my mouth so I couldn’t spit out the hanky. It felt kind of weird, and if I wasn’t careful the hanky would get in the back of my mouth and make me throw up. She must have seen that, because she said “Now you know why I don’t like gags, Joely. See how they can make you throw up? Dr. Newland would make me wear a gag like that all day sometimes, and he’d put tape over my mouth instead of a bandanna, which sucked even worse!” She smiled at me real nasty, and she said, “Do you want to have that gag out of your mouth, Joely?” I nodded and tried to say yes, but the gag wouldn’t let me talk right! “Too bad!” Serenity laughed, which made me kind of mad. She knew how much gags suck and she was going to make me still wear it! “If you’re really good and learn how to act like a real girl, I’ll take it out, but if you’re bad it stays in all night!” I thought she was just teasing, but I wasn’t sure! “Now, are you going to be good and act like a real girl, Joely?” It wasn’t as if I actually had a choice, so I shook my head yes.
Actually, I was already planning to wait until Serenity and Lissy were asleep, sneak up to like the kitchen and find a knife to cut my hands loose, then get back in my own clothes and get home and stay locked in my room until Mom and dad came back! And just as I was figuring that all out in my head, back came Felicity with this big smile on her face. “Just in case you had any ideas, Joely, I locked up all your clothes where you can’t get them, and locked up all the sharp knives so you can’t get yourself loose! So get used to being a girl all weekend, Joely!” I must have looked mad or something, because Lissy looked at me and laughed, and said “I don’t think I ever want you mad at me, ‘Ren!” Serenity just laughed and said “Too late!” and then looked me over. “We’re missing one more thing,” and Lissy just kind of went “oh” and went back upstairs. I knew it was something even more embarrassing to me, but Serenity just went on talking. “First of all, Joely,” she said, “you have to learn to walk like a girl! You just slump around like any boy, but now that you’re a girl you have to walk like one! Just wait until you have to wear heels, you’ll really have to learn to walk right by then!” I must have shook my head because she said, “Oh, for what I have planned you’ll even want to know how to walk like a girl!” That sort of scared me, but of course I couldn’t say anything about it because of the gag stuffed in my mouth, and before Serenity could tease me any more down came Lissy with a little box in her hand. She grinned and laughed and opened it, and it was a wig! A girl’s wig! It was kind of reddish-brown with bangs and about shoulder-length, with the ends sort of curled in. “It came from our Aunt Joy,” Lissy said as she got it out and sort of smoothed the hair down. “She had cancer and the chemo made her lose all her hair, but thank God she got cured and her hair all grew back. I asked her if I could borrow it, and she told me instead I could just have it because she had no intention of ever getting cancer again. She can be funny that way.” I knew all about their Aunt Joy of course, who’s really smart and funny almost like Serenity, but that still didn’t make me feel any better! “Sit down Joely,” she said to tease me, and Serenity got out a chair from by the basement door. It’s a real nice basement, all done up like a second living room with everything, and real nice furniture. Serenity grabbed my arm and sat me down in the chair, and took a long rope and tied it over my lap so I couldn’t get out of the chair while Lissy put the wig on my head. I’m still not sure how she got it to fit on my head, but after a couple minutes she picked up this little hand mirror and showed me my face. I almost didn’t recognize myself with long hair and a gag in my mouth!
So then Serenity untied my lap from the chair and stood me up. “Time to learn how to walk, Joely,” she said. She said you don’t just put one foot in front of the other, you had to put a foot out and then sort of put your weight on that hip, then do the same with the other foot. She showed me how, talking about how to do it while she walked around me. The way she was walking made me so excited I couldn’t even think! Then she said it was my turn now, and I tried to do it like Serenity did. I didn’t think I did a real good job of it, I felt real wobbly and it felt real weird to put my weight on my hips like Serenity showed, but both of them said I did a real good job at it, especially considering I had my hands tied behind my back all the time. They made me walk up the stairs and around the living room and up and down the hall and through their kitchen that way, and after a while I started getting the hang of it. I even managed to walk back down the stairs on those maryjanes without stumbling once, even with my hands tied behind my back, but then they made me do it all again.
I was walking in the living room, starting to feel pretty good about being able to walk like a girl, when all of a sudden their doorbell rang! I nearly jumped to the ceiling and even Serenity and Lissy were kind of startled. Serenity grabbed me by my arm and ran me down the hall into her room while Lissy got the door, and I could hear Mrs. O’Hara saying Dr. Mabrey (that’s Serenity’s mom and not her dad, by the way) wanted her to drop over a few times just to make sure everything was okay with Serenity and Lissy, and boy did Serenity look scared when she heard that! I thought about it for a second, and then I was scared too, because what if Mrs. O’Hara came in and saw me all dressed up like a girl? But Lissy was cool, real cool, and said they were fine, and even asked Mrs. O’Hara if she wanted to come in. She said no, that she wanted to stop over at my house and check on Jimmy and me, and Lissy told her she thought Jimmy was at Leslie Morgan’s place and I was down in the basement watching TV with Serenity, and that Charity was at Merri Howland’s house for the weekend. At least that last one was true! Mrs. O’Hara seemed satisfied, so she left without coming in and seeing me in a dress!
“I think we’re going to have to keep your prisoner Joely down in the dungeon,” Lissy said after Mrs. O’Hara left, and Serenity agreed. They made me walk down to the basement, which was what they meant by the dungeon, and I kind of surprised myself that I just automatically walked the way they taught me, with my hips, and they both said I did a good job walking like a girl! I sat down in the chair Serenity had tied me to before, and they looked at each other a second, and then Serenity said, “I see we have to teach you a few other things about being a girl! There’s an art to sitting down in a dress, isn’t there Lissy?” And she smiled real nasty!
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Postby lasse672000 » Sun May 31, 2009 11:46 am
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Postby Mister Mistoffelees » Thu Jul 23, 2009 11:17 am
Part 2
About the only good thing about the next part, that evening, you know, was that I didn’t have my hands tied for some of it. See, the next thing they decided I had to learn was how to sit down in a dress or a skirt. I already sort of knew that, I saw girls sit down in dresses or skirts before, but if it got my hands untied then I was willing to go along with it. So Lissy untied my hands, but Serenity said I didn’t get to have my gag out and said I’d be punished if I went to take it out of my mouth. I mean, come on! I get the point! She doesn’t like gags, I promise I won’t keep bugging her about wearing a gag for me when we play pretend! But no, she made me keep wearing it, even while they taught me how to sit and stand in a skirt! I sort of stretched it out a while to keep them from tying me up again for a while, and I got pretty good at swishing my skirt beneath me when I sat down, and keeping my knees together when I stood or sat down. It was pretty easy, but you know what? It’s real work being a girl! Felicity left us alone for most of that, then after a while I smelled food being cooked. Serenity said Lissy was making us TV dinners, and after a while she came down the stairs and said supper was ready. Serenity made me walk upstairs the right way, and they made me sit down right at the dining room table—they made me do it three times until they said I did it right!—and just when I started wondering if they were going to let me eat because the gag was still in my mouth Serenity finally took it out. But she wasn’t done with me! She tied my feet together and tied my lap and chest to the chair before Lissy brought out the dinners. Mine was my favorite, Salisbury steak, but it wasn’t the big one like I like, but the regular-size one! I asked why, and Lissy told me “Because you don’t want to eat like a pig in front of company! Not every girl is Taylor Jensen, you know!” See, Taylor Jensen is a girl in town Serenity knows who has so big an appetite she’ll eat anything that doesn’t eat her first, but she’s almost as skinny as Serenity! She’s another one that is real tall, so I guess all that stuff she eats goes upwards instead of outwards! “You sort of learn to not eat so much when there are people around!” So all I got to eat was that little dinner, which didn’t even come close to filling me up, and as soon as we were done Serenity made me put my hands behind my back, and she tied them like she did the first time before she untied me from the chair. It was getting dark outside, and I was getting afraid that Jimmy might come over and catch me in my dress. Maybe Felicity saw that because she called the house and told Jimmy that she and Serenity were keeping me over here as a big game of pretend, and he must have said okay because she hung up and smiled at me real nasty and said I belonged to both of them the whole weekend. I was actually kind of happy to hear that!
They made me walk back down to the basement, but they said I didn’t walk like a girl enough so I was going to be punished. I didn’t quite know just how I could be punished any more than I was already, but boy did I ever find out! They made me lay down face first on the love seat, and Lissy took the maryjanes shoes off my feet before tying them together, and in a minute they had my feet tied to my hands in a pretty tight hogtie. While I was laying down there, Serenity stuffed my mouth with a pair of panties she said was part of the package the pair I was wearing came from, pink like the ones I was wearing, and then she slapped tape over my mouth to keep it in. I tried to ask what they were going to do, but the gag kept me from making words, and besides, I found out what they were going to do quick enough. When you’re hogtied the bottoms of your feet are up in the air, and both Serenity and Felicity started tickling me all over, especially my feet! I couldn’t kick their hands away because I was hogtied, and I couldn’t roll over enough to keep Serenity from tickling my sides until I couldn’t hardly breathe I was laughing so hard! They’d stop long enough for me to catch my breath, then they’d start up tickling me again! Finally it got so bad I was about to pee myself, so they untied me and let me go to the bathroom, but said I had to sit down on it like a girl does. It meant pulling down my tights, and then my panties, and hiking up the skirt of my dress, and it sort of occurred to me that it takes a lot of work for a girl just to pee! And you know what, I started thinking it really wasn’t fair! Anyhow, they made me keep my gag in, so I couldn’t say anything while I used the bathroom and put myself back together again. First pull up my panties, then fix my tights, straighten out my skirt, and after that was all done I came out, just to find out they decided it was bedtime so I had to change again! Well, at least after they made me take a shower! First they picked through their drawers to find something for me to wear to bed, and they picked out one of Felicity’s old nighties, a little pink thing they called a babydoll, which was kind of tight around my chest and looked like it would be real short on my legs, and made of some real light stuff which was like silk They picked out that and another pair of panties, and that and a towel and a pair of pink girls’ bedroom slippers was all they let me take to the bathroom to get dressed in after my shower. At least they took the gag off me!
It was weird in the shower. I was still kind of scared being dressed like a girl, but it was exciting too, just like it had been all day. Even in the shower they had picked out girl stuff for me to use, like this fruity-smelling body wash and shampoo (they took off my wig but still told me to wash my hair), and a girl’s deodorant after I was done. I put on my bedclothes (at least they didn’t make me put on the stuffed bra again), and looked at myself in the mirror without looking at my face. I was ashamed and scared and really excited all at the same time, especially knowing I was going to be in those clothes all night. While Lissy took her shower, Serenity marched me downstairs and made me sit in the wooden chair, and tied my hands behind my back and the back of the chair sort of like she did the first time she tied my hands, only with my palms out instead of facing each other, and there was no way I was going to get loose. She told me what she was doing all the time she was tying my hands, and said if I did it this way the next time we played, she wouldn’t be able to get loose like she always does. Then she tied my feet to the chair legs, and I found I felt all embarrassed because my legs were apart in that skimpy little nightie and panties. Then she went upstairs and left me sitting there alone for a while.
I’d been excited more or less all night after I had to dress and be tied up, but it was most of all while I was downstairs in the basement tied to the chair wearing nothing but a babydoll nightie and panties. Every time I’d wiggle, you know, to get comfortable in the chair, it only got worse, and looking down on myself in the nightie only made it worse, so I was about to completely lose it just when Lissy and Serenity came downstairs with snacks and drinks. While Lissy laid the stuff on the coffee table and turned on the TV, Serenity untied my feet from the chair legs and undid my hands. She made me walk across the room and sit down on the love seat like they taught me, then when I sat down she tied my feet together and tied my hands in front of me. We ate and talked (it wasn’t too hard to eat and drink with my hands tied in front of me), mostly about Felicity and her boyfriend Chris Dunleavy, who Lissy wasn’t getting along with very good at the time, let’s just say he was acting like a jerk to her after they’d got real close at camp that summer. And listening to them talk, it actually started to make me actually feel sort of like a real girl, because I could see where Lissy was coming from about Chris Dunleavy! It was getting late after a while, and Lissy said it was time for everybody to go to bed. Everybody thinks Lissy’s kind of wild, but she’s not. It would have been easy to stay up all night and have parties with her parents gone and Charity away, but instead it was kind of a quiet night with just us. And I think she loves Serenity a lot more than she lets on with other people! But then it was bedtime, she said, and they made me go use the bathroom before bed, Serenity untied my feet so I could go, then tied my feet again while Lissy set up the love seat as a bed (it’s one of those roll-out beds as well as a love seat). Well, after she tied my feet again, Serenity untied my hands, but only for as long as it took to tie them behind my back again! She checked to make sure the rope wasn’t cutting off my circulation in my hands after they tucked me into the bed, then they said goodnight and turned off the light. It took a while to calm down enough that I wasn’t going to, well, you know, but after a while I managed to fall asleep. I didn’t think a day could be weirder than that one, but boy was I wrong!
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Postby Mister Mistoffelees » Thu Aug 06, 2009 8:24 am
Part 3
I had the weirdest dreams that night sleeping down in Serenity’s basement all tied up and wearing a nightie and panties. The one I remember best is the one where I walked into school in a dress and everybody asked me who I was like I was a new kid in school, then Serenity showed up (in a sweatshirt and a pair of jeans) and held my hand and introduced me to all her friends as her new girlfriend Joely. She made a point of dragging me to see Leslie Morgan and Cora Peabody (who are sort of seeing each other, if you know what I mean), and Serenity was all smiles and teasing them that they weren’t the only girl-girl couple in school anymore, that she and I were a girl-girl couple too and that we should double-date or something like that. Leslie was sort of suspicious, but Cora (who’s like really totally gay but pretty much okay) was all friendly talking, and then one moment when Leslie wasn’t looking, she sort of winked at me and said maybe we could get together sometime. I didn’t get a chance to see how Serenity dealt with that because that’s when I woke up, Serenity herself was in the room carrying a change of clothes for me and telling me it was time to get up, it was going to be a really big day for us. I felt sort of stiff and sore from laying in the bed all night with my hands tied behind my back and my feet tied, and she helped me to sit up on the edge of the bed so she could untie my feet.
I knew it was going to be more girls clothes I had to wear, and I actually sort of liked that! It was a white blouse with sleeves that weren’t short sleeves or long sleeves, but were sort of in-between that stopped at about my elbows, and the bra and panties of course, and a pair of short white socks, and a short denim skirt I recognized as Serenity’s from a couple years ago. They made me go up and take a shower and brush my teeth again which I did, then put on my panties and socks and skirt, but Serenity had to help me put on my bra and fill it up right with more rolled-up socks, more this time than before so I looked a little “bigger” than I did the day before. Serenity sort of smirked and said even I was bigger than she was! Anyhow, I put on the blouse (it was weird having the buttons on the wrong side!) and tucked it into my skirt, and I went out to the living room where they made me sit down out in the dining room. I walked just like they taught me and sat down the right way, swishing my skirt under me, and Felicity brought out breakfast, which was pancakes and that microwave sausage that never tastes quite right. While we all ate, Felicity and Serenity gossiped like last night, mostly about Abbie Dwight and Jaden Ross, and after a while I started talking too. But breakfast was over pretty quick, and while Serenity took the dishes out to the kitchen Felicity made me put my hands behind my back and tied them, then went and got the wig and put it on me. Serenity came back and said she was ready, and I didn’t know what she was talking about until Felicity made me get up and walk to Serenity’s bedroom, where she made me sit down at her, I think they call it a vanity, which had a mirror on it. But what scared me was what was on the little tabletop, which was a bunch of makeup! I told them I didn’t want to wear makeup but they said I didn’t have a choice, and since they were two against one and anyway I was tied up and I wasn’t about to run out of the house in a blouse and skirt I had to let them do makeup on me! They undid a couple buttons on my blouse, then they started with something they called ‘foundation’ which they sort of rubbed all over my face and neck. I couldn’t do anything about it because my hands were tied behind my back, and the next thing they did was brush this stuff they called blush on my cheeks which made my cheeks just a little bit pinker than the rest of my face, and when I finally let myself look in the mirror my face actually was starting to look kind of pretty! Then they took out lipstick or lip gloss or whatever you call it, Felicity made me open my mouth and she sort of drew on my lips with it, then took out a tissue and made me bite down on it to take off the excess stuff I guess. She buttoned up my blouse again, and when I could see in the mirror I really looked just like a real girl! Serenity took out this stuff she called eye shadow and put a little bit on my upper eyelids, then this weird little brush she used on my eyelashes which made them look longer. And even though I didn’t want them to do all that makeup on me, I was getting so excited I thought I’d lose it again!
It was sunny that morning, and they made me go out on their back porch and sit and talk, and I was terrified that Jimmy or somebody else might see me out there in a skirt and my hands tied behind my back. They looked me over and said I looked really cute, then after a while we went back inside and I saw Felicity go off to the phone and make a call while Serenity tied my feet, putting the rope over the short socks. I was terrified she was calling Jimmy to tell him what they did to me! Serenity was all laughing, but wouldn’t tell me what Lissy was up to! “Don’t complain,” she said, “at least we aren’t making you wear a gag! It would mess up your makeup!” Then Lissy came back and said “She’ll be over in a few minutes!” I asked who, and she said it was Hannah O’Hara who lives next door to them. This freaked me out! I didn’t want Hannah to see me dressed like a girl and made up! But I was all tied up, so I couldn’t really do anything about it, and soon enough there was Hannah coming in the front door, and I was so embarrassed I nearly puked! Hannah is a senior and really cute (but not as cute as Serenity!), with long blonde hair and hazel eyes and glasses. She had a sort of casual top on, blue with the same sort of half-long sleeves that I had on my blouse, and a pair of denim capris and sneakers. She grinned down at me, and said “I didn’t think you guys were serious!” I couldn’t say anything I was so embarrassed, and then Hannah smiled at me. “But he—I mean she—turned out really cute! What’s her name again?” and they told her Joely, and she said it was a cute name for me. “But don’t you think she’s a little overdressed for the mall?” That just totally freaked me out! They were taking me to the mall dressed like a girl! I told them it was totally crazy to do that, but Serenity just smiled and said I was still her prisoner and I’d do anything she made me do!
They decided I was sort of too dressy for the mall on a Saturday morning, so Serenity and Felicity thought over what I should wear, but Hannah went back to her house for a minute while Serenity and Felicity talked, and came back with a pair of shorts and an Aeropostale sweatshirt and a pair of Keds sneakers like she wore for cheerleading at the high school, and they all thought that would look good on me. Hannah said that dressing like a girl wasn’t all about dresses and skirts, and they decided I would have to wear the shorts and Aeropostale top and the Keds. But then Felicity looked at my legs, and said “We need to do one more thing!” They made me go to the bathroom and Serenity took off my skirt and socks, then Hannah and Felicity came in. Hannah ran some water in the bathroom sink and Serenity wet my legs and put shaving cream all on them! They shaved my legs! I wanted to fight, but it wasn’t a good idea with them using a razor on my legs, so I had to let them do it! “Your legs will look so cute in gym class now!” Serenity said when she was finished, and I didn't have any idea how I was going to explain it! I didn’t have much hair on my legs anyhow, but enough you knew it was there, and now it was shaved off! “Just tell your buddies you have a skin disorder!” Hannah said, and everybody laughed except me!
Serenity dressed me in the socks and shorts and Keds while Hannah and Lissy laughed at me, and when Serenity pulled up my shorts and fastened them I was almost too excited! She untied my hands, but only long enough for me to change into the sweatshirt and they tied my hands again as soon as I did. Next came accessories, like a necklace I gave Serenity for her last birthday, and one of her old pocketbooks, and they pinned the hair of my wig back behind my ears with a couple little gold barrettes, and when they were done Hannah up and told us it was time to go to the mall! She’d pulled her car up in the Mabreys’ driveway right in front of the garage door, so they walked me down to their garage and let Hannah put the car in it (they didn’t use their garage to put their cars in so Hannah could do that) and let me get in it inside the garage. But as soon as I sat down in the back seat, Serenity took out rope and tied my feet together.
I was really scared about going to the mall dressed up and made up like a girl, and I told them I didn’t want to go, but Serenity said that it was part of the bet, that I had to really go out in public like a girl. Hannah was driving down through town, and every time I saw somebody I knew I was so scared my chest hurt that they might recognize me in makeup and girls’ clothes! Serenity saw that and said I shouldn’t worry because I didn’t look like me but like a real girl, and that if I acted right at the mall nobody would be able to tell I was a boy! So all the way down to Center City and the mall, they sort of coached me in how to sound like a girl, but it didn’t go very well and Hannah said I should just whisper with just a little higher voice than I usually use and they would say I had laryngitis or something. And all the time we were driving to the mall and I was sitting there in the back seat of the car all tied up with my hands tied behind my back and my feet tied together, and it started exciting me again! Serenity just laughed and said it was a good idea for me to be wearing the sweatshirt because it covered up most of my shorts so people couldn’t tell I was excited and guess I was a boy in girls’ clothes. I asked how they were going to cover up that my hands and feet were tied, and Hannah said she knew a good place to park where nobody would notice. She was right, it was still early enough that there weren’t all that many cars at the mall and she parked way off in the farthest corner of the parking lot. Serenity untied my hands and feet while Felicity got up and opened my door. I didn’t want to get out but Serenity pushed until I was out, with the sun shining real bright. Worrying about people finding me out got me a whole lot less excited than I was, even when Serenity put her old pocketbook over my shoulder and showed me how to carry it. And all the time I worried that people I knew were going to be in there and they would recognize me!
We all walked to the mall and went in at the theaters, and Serenity said she wanted to watch a movie tonight when we came back. That was too much! I wanted to yell at her that that wasn’t part of the deal, but we were right at the doors and people were there and if I yelled they’d know I was really a boy! Serenity saw me and knew just what I was thinking, but all she did was say “It’s time you got out more, Joely! Maybe we’ll even meet some cute guys tonight!” Hannah and Felicity laughed their butts off at that, and I was about to run back to the car but they stood all around me so I couldn’t. We started walking the mall, and I asked in my whisper voice where we were going, and they said don’t worry about that. I was afraid people would all be looking at me like I was weird, but nobody seemed to notice me! I just sort of let them lead me along, hoping I didn’t see anybody we knew, and when they took me into this store called Claire’s which was full of necklaces and bracelets and all that, I felt a little better because none of my friends would be in there. But they made me shop for more necklaces and bracelets, and Serenity teased me real quiet that they would be for tonight when we were coming back dressed a lot nicer to flirt with guys, which scared the crap out of me! They made me try on a whole bunch of bracelets and a few necklaces and tried a couple of headbands for my hair, and when they decided I had enough for later they made me go up and pay for it! I told them I didn’t have any money but Serenity dug into the pocketbook they gave me and pulled out some money they put in there for me to use. I was scared when I went up to the counter with the stuff, but the girl at the register didn’t seem to notice I wasn’t really a girl, she just took my money and gave me my change.
That made me feel less scared that I could fool a real girl that I was a girl too, I wasn’t so scared as we went back into the mall. We just walked for a while, then we went into this store called Deb which was a girls’ clothes store. Hannah sort of went off and looked for stuff for herself, but Felicity and Serenity pulled me around looking at dresses for me! They would fuss over a lot of them, and put up a few in front of me to see how I looked in them, then finally they picked out three from a clearance rack (Felicity said she wasn’t going broke buying me clothes) and made me go over to the fitting room to try them on! I was actually going to have to undress inside that little stall! It was hard, but I managed to change into the dresses and come out and let them see me in them, and they decided I should buy one that was dark blue and really kind of simple, it had a little belt and a real short skirt that really showed a lot of my legs! They said it looked cute on me, then they pulled a real mean one on me and called the sales girl over to ask her if she liked the dress on me! She said it fit me real good and really flattered my figure, and then she asked me if I liked it! I didn’t think I’d really have to say anything! I remembered to whisper sort of high, and at least Serenity spoke up and said I had laryngitis when the girl couldn’t hear what I was saying, and she got all sympathetic and said she hoped I got better real soon. I was actually kind of glad to get back into my shorts and sweatshirt and pay the girl at the register, but when I came out Serenity was talking to the cashier about me, that I was a cousin of hers who was real shy and didn’t go out very much and she and Felicity decided to take me out and buy me real nice clothes and just have a good time, and the girl said I had real nice friends to do that for me, and I whispered that it was nice of them. I hoped we were done, but we weren’t!
Next they took me to the shoe store, the Payless, and they made me try on practically every single pair of girls’ dress shoes in my size in the whole stupid store! While they shopped for me, they shopped for themselves too, but still picked out my shoes for me. They called them slings, and they fit my feet all right, but they had high heels! They could tell I was bothered by that and Felicity told me they were only two-inch heels, but they looked huge to me! I knew I’d never be able to walk in them and I said so, but they said they’d teach me to when we got home. With all my clothes for that night bought and paid for, I hoped we were done, but now they decided to stop at the Baskin-Robbins in the food court for some ice cream, and that’s when it happened! I saw someone we knew! We went up to the counter, and there was Tessa Armistead standing there saying hi to Serenity and Felicity and getting ice cream of her own! I wanted to just plain die! I knew I was going to get found out!
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Postby Mister Mistoffelees » Fri Jan 22, 2010 8:38 pm
I was a little surprised to hear some requests to resume this long-forgotten tale, so I give you the fourth part of "Some Like it Knot," in which Joey/Joely has "her" transformation stretched even further...
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Part 4
I felt like I was going to die when Tessa saw us and said hi to Serenity. I don’t mind Tessa very much, but standing there in my girls’ clothes and makeup I knew I’d just die if she figured out it was me! Tessa’s not bad looking, almost as tall as Serenity, but with brown hair and sort of brown eyes and a little heavier than Serenity, and sort of a smart mouth too, if you know what I mean. She’s the type that if she ever found out I wore girls’ clothes she’d tell everybody and never let me hear the end of it! And the first thing out of Tessa’s mouth was who was that girl with her and Lissy and Hannah!
Well, at least Serenity didn’t squeal on me, but this time I was Hannah’s cousin Joely instead of Serenity and Felicity’s (because Tessa didn’t know Hannah well enough to know her family like she did Serenity and Felicity). The rest of the story was the same, the stuff about me being too shy to go out and them taking me out to shop and have fun. I didn’t say anything all that time, and she asked if I talked, and Hannah sort of nudged me like a cousin would and I whispered that I sort of had a sore throat, and just when I knew I was busted Tessa sort of smiled and sighed and said that had to be tough and she hoped I’d get better soon and that ice cream might be just the thing for my throat. Tessa went to sit down at a table right close to us, and Hannah told me to go sit with Tessa while they got my ice cream, they knew what I liked and they’d get it for me. I was scared witless!
But it turned out all right! Tessa did most of the talking, and mostly about Serenity, probably because she figured I didn’t really know her. She talked about Hannah a little too, how they were all counselors together at Camp Evergreen and how she and Hannah had worked in the same cabin and Hannah was pretty cool. I could tell she wanted me to say something, so I whispered a few things about how Hannah was my favorite cousin and how I looked forward to being with her that weekend. I got scared again when Tessa said I didn’t look very much like Hannah, and I had no idea what to say but Hannah came up right them with my ice cream and told Tessa I was a cousin on her dad’s side , which sort of shut Tessa up about it. After that it got sort of nice for a while, Tessa and Serenity and Felicity talking to me like I was Hannah’s cousin, and I sort of relaxed. Until I had to go to the bathroom! I think Serenity sort of noticed that, because she up and said she had to go! Tessa got up too, and the way Hannah was looking at me sort of told me I was supposed to go along too. To the girls’ bathroom!
You know what? Girls’ bathrooms are a lot nicer than boys’ bathrooms! There were a couple pretty nice chairs, and a couple pictures on the wall, and I was thinking that it was a real rip-off that we boys didn’t have our bathrooms done nice too! Then again, I guess guys would just tear it up so that was sort of that. Lucky for me there was a stall already free, and I practically ran in there before any of the girls could get it! When I was done I wanted to just go on out, but Serenity made me sit down while the rest of them took their turns, and Serenity sort of whispered to me that girls usually fixed their makeup or clothes in the mirror (it had a real nice mirror too) before we went back out. So we fixed ourselves up in the mirror before we went out, and with Serenity’s help I did okay. We talked in the food court for a while, and when Serenity told Tessa we were coming back that night to go to a movie and check out cute guys, Tessa said “You know, that’s sort of mean to Joey!” Then she turned to me and explained that Serenity had a boyfriend named Joey Housely who was a little weird but actually kind of nice, and the way she talked made me almost feel like Joey was somebody else! And it didn’t hurt that she made me sound nice too! Serenity just said that he wouldn’t know and that she was mostly coming back because Lissy was and she wouldn’t really be serious about any other boys anyway. It felt kind of weird them talking about me like I wasn’t there, but I sort of remembered that Tessa didn’t know I was me! But after a while, Lissy and Hannah decided it was time to go home so we went back out to the car. And when they saw there still weren’t any cars close by, they shoved me into the car and tied me up again! I was a little mad at that at first, but by the time we got home I was almost too excited again!
Hannah parked her car inside the Mabreys’ garage again like she did to pick us up, which made me feel a little better. By then I wasn’t even trying to get myself loose, which would have been a waste of time anyhow because Serenity had tied my hands with them palms-out like she’d done last night and I knew there wasn’t any point trying to get untied from that! At least they didn’t put a gag in my mouth! They must have thought I learned my lesson last night!
But they weren’t done teasing me! After they all got their stuff and my stuff into the house, the three of them grabbed me and threw me down on the floor face-down. I tried to fight back but I was outnumbered, and anyhow I think I already told you that Serenity’s real strong for being as skinny as she is! So they ended up putting me in a hogtie again, and when they took off my shoes and socks I knew they wanted to tickle me again! Which they did! All over my legs and the bottoms of my feet and my sides and my neck, and I almost passed out from how bad all three of them tickled me at the same time! By the time they decided they were done it was getting into the afternoon, and I was sweaty as a pig! So they untied me and took off my wig and told me to take a shower, and reminded me to use their face cleanser on my face to get off the old makeup. Serenity walked in even while I was showering and brought me in more clothes, and through the frosted glass I could see it was just an ordinary sweatshirt and jeans and white socks, not too different from what I normally wear except for the fresh pair of panties and the bra! And yeah, I admit it—while I was in there showering thinking about wearing those panties, I lost it! Real bad, too, if you know what I mean! So I actually felt kind of tired when I got done the shower, but wouldn’t you know that putting on the panties and bra started getting me excited all over again! Not so bad this time because I was wearing just jeans and a sweatshirt over my panties and bra, but still! I remembered to still walk like a girl when I came out, and Lissy yelled at me that I took all day in the shower and what did I think I was doing in there. I wasn’t about to tell her!
And of course they tied me up again! They sat me in a dining room chair, and Serenity tied my hands palms-out behind my back while Lissy tied my feet and my knees together. Lissy went out and made pot pies for supper while Serenity took her own shower, and by the time she and Lissy both got done their showers the pot pies were ready. They left me alone while they showered, and I just wiggled around a little in the chair, which was still enough to get me even more excited. Then they both came out in nothing but bathrobes, and boy, the look of Serenity (okay, and Lissy too a little bit!) in her bathrobe almost made me lose it again! Yes, I like wearing girls’ clothes, but I like girls too, you know! Well, they didn’t untie me to eat, Serenity laughed her butt off while she fed me (I was lucky to not get it all down my front she was laughing so hard!), and when it was over Lissy put the dinner stuff away while Serenity went to her room and brought back the clothes they bought for me. It was time for me to dress up again! This time, before they untied me they closed all the curtains and blinds and made me take off my clothes in the living room! Lucky for me Hannah was back at her house for a while!
After I was down to the bra and panties, they dragged me off to Serenity’s room where they put my makeup back on, then dragged me out into the living room and made me dress in front of them! Serenity at least helped me on with my pantyhose (they said they were “sheer” but I don’t know what that means, they just felt exciting on my legs and over my butt!), and smiled at me and said they made my legs look real cute! Maybe I ought to see if she’s hanging around with Cora Peabody too much! But she gave me a little peck on my cheek, too, which of course was too exciting itself! Next it was time for me to put on my dress, the one I bought at the mall, and then Lissy sat me down and put my wig back on my head and she and Serenity brushed it and combed it and pinned it back like before. I put on the bracelets and necklaces they got me, and when they showed me in the mirror I have to say I looked pretty good! Of course, that was the easy part!
The shoes were pure hell! I fell over the minute I tried to stand up in them, and while I was there sprawling on my butt I heard four girls laughing! Not two—four! I looked up, and there beside Serenity and Lissy were Hannah O’Hara and her sister Maggie too! They’re not really blood relations, Hannah’s mom married Maggie’s dad a few years ago, but they always call themselves just sisters. Maggie’s tall and skinny like Hannah, and even wears glasses too like Hannah, but she has wavy black hair and big black eyes, which is because she’s half Italian half Irish, and don’t tell Serenity I think Maggie’s just almost as hot as Serenity! (Serenity here—I read this, you total worm, and the next time we go out like this, so help me, you’re wearing stiletto heels!)
Oops…well, like I said, Maggie O’Hara’s only almost as hot as Serenity is what I meant! Anyhow, they were both dressed up, Hannah in a tight pink, I guess you call them leotard tops and a denim miniskirt and white sandals, and Maggie was in a black minidress which looked a lot like mine! And they were there with Serenity and Felicity laughing their butts off at me for falling down! I got sort of mad, and told them I didn’t know how to walk in heels, so they spent the next hour teaching me to walk in heels, the last part with my hands tied behind my back to teach me more balance, at least that was the excuse they made for tying me up! Then Hannah checked her watch (Serenity gave me one of her old ones to wear) and said it was time for us to go! And you talk about a nightmare!
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Postby Mister Mistoffelees » Fri Jan 22, 2010 8:46 pm
In Part 5, Joely's adventure takes a very unexpected turn...
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Part 5
The trip down was pretty much the same as the trip down in the morning. Hannah pulled her car into the Mabreys’ basement, and they made me sit between Serenity and Felicity with my hands and feet tied. The only thing that kept a gag out of my mouth was my makeup! Well, that and Maggie trying to teach me to talk like a girl. Actually, she did a pretty good job of it. She taught me to talk just a little bit high with a little bit of a lisp, and they all said I sounded pretty much like a real girl by the time we got to the mall. But still, this time I was even more scared than I was in the morning, because night time is when the kids hang out at the mall more than the morning, and the worst thing I could think of was that somebody I knew would see me and find me out!
It would have been nice if we had got there just a little bit before the movie, but no! We were there a whole hour before the show, just so they could walk around. And it was still hard to walk in heels! I got the hang after a while of mostly walking on my toes, which really started to make my calves ache after a while. At least I didn’t have my hands or feet tied while we were there.
And it didn’t take long for guys to start noticing us. Well, at first I was just thinking that of course they were noticing Lissy and Serenity and Hannah and Maggie, but then Serenity pinched at my elbow and pointed to a guy, and after a second I realized he was gawking at me, and I almost felt sick! A guy looking me over! Serenity must have known what I was thinking because she leaned over and whispered “Well come on, Joely! You are really cute!” “I think it’s your legs!” Maggie sort of laughed too, and after a moment I saw that he really was staring at my legs! I was about sick, and then it occurred to me that he couldn’t tell I wasn’t a real girl, which actually made me feel a lot more comfortable. I thought it would be no problem, that we’d walk around a little, watch a movie, then go home and that would be it.
And then it happened.
Serenity saw them first, and just looked at me and laughed. A bunch of guys were up ahead at the food court, which I didn’t worry about until I recognized them. They were guys from our town! I couldn’t quite place the two high-school age ones, but I recognized the third right away as a guy from our own class. Logan Witt!
We weren’t like actual buds, but we were in the same section and we got along okay. He’s big into hunting and fishing, and there he was in a camo shirt and camo pants and a camo ball cap, and there was Serenity going straight toward him! I was dead!
He looked up and saw Serenity, and asked where I was, not knowing I was right there! Serenity said I was sick and couldn’t come to the mall, and for a second he sort of teased her about going out with him while I was sick, but that was only as long as it took for him to see me!
I was sort of hanging back with Hannah and Maggie and Lissy, but as soon as they saw Logan was staring at me they pushed me right up to him beside Serenity. I almost fell down on my heels they pushed me so hard! I was about to die!
I thought he’d bust out laughing when he recognized me, but instead, he got all shy all of a sudden, shuffling his feet and asking Serenity who I was. Before either of us could say anything, Hannah did her thing again about how I was her cousin Joely visiting and that whole thing about me not going out much, and all the time he was just staring at me with wide-open eyes and shuffling feet and his mouth half open, and I realized he was hot for me!
He finally managed to talk to me, asked if I had a boyfriend, and I had no idea what to say! Then he said “You probably do ‘cause you’re so hot, Joely!” Part of me thought it had to be some kind of joke, but I could tell all of a sudden he wasn’t kidding, he actually thought that not only was I a girl, I was a hot girl! Serenity kind of nudged me and half whispered “talk to him, Joely, I think he likes you!” So I sort of whispered in my laryngitis voice, with a little bit of the lisp Maggie taught me that I didn’t have a boyfriend, and he smiled and asked if I wanted one! Serenity was about to laugh her butt off at that! I didn’t know what to say! Hannah finally bailed me out and told him I wasn’t from around there, then she turned around and said “but if you wanted to be her boyfriend for tonight I don’t think she’d mind, would you Joely?” I was just about to die when the other guys (Hannah said later they were Logan’s big brothers) yelled at him to come on, and he smiled at me and said he’d see me later on. He kept watching me over his shoulder as they walked away until they were lost in the crowd, and as soon as they were gone Serenity laughed about Logan having a crush on me! I was sick to my stomach! I must have looked it too, because Serenity put her hand on my shoulder and whispered in my ear “See, Joely? You really are a girl to be able to fake out Logan! Stop worrying and enjoy the night!” And after I thought about it for a minute, she sounded kind of right! If I could fool a guy I actually know, maybe I could get away with pretending to be a girl!
So we walked around the mall for a while until it was time to get our tickets for the movie (I don’t even remember what movie it was!), and as we walked around and talked and stuff, I started feeling strange again, only a different kind of strange. It wasn’t so much like I was excited that way, but instead it just felt good being part of the gang, I guess. And after a while it actually started sounding like natural to be called Joely and to answer to it, and it just kept getting easier and easier to walk in those heels like a girl, and talk like Maggie taught me, and I guess the bast way to describe it is to say it almost felt like I was a real girl! When we went to the bathroom in the theater after getting our tickets, I wasn’t near as scared as I was before, almost like I was supposed to be there! The only scary part was when the Witt brothers came in and sat right beside us, and since I was at the end Logan just up and sat right beside me! After a while Serenity (who was sitting on my other side) got that look on her face like she’s got a really crazy idea, and she whispered in my ear that I should hold Logan’s hand and see how he reacted! I’d put some sort of hand cream on my hands that Serenity gave me when we were in the bathroom, and all of a sudden I thought why not, right before Logan up and held my hand! I pretended it was nice, and just looking at him I could tell he liked it, and that’s how we ended up spending the whole movie! Serenity thought it was hilarious, and boy did she laugh all night about it after we left the mall! Bot not after Logan asked for stuff like my number and email, and Hannah sort of put him off by saying my parents didn’t allow me to give out my phone number, but that I had a Facebook page and we’d let him know about that.
In fact, when we went home (and yes, I had my hands tied behind my back and my feet tied all the way there), we got on Felicity’s computer and made up Joely’s Facebook page, with my picture and everything (a picture of Joely, and they made me change into my afternoon top and shorts for the picture), and I was getting friend requests from guys as soon as it went up! Serenity just laughed and said it was because I was a very cute girl!
But the very cute girl had to go to bed after we finished making my Facebook page, which meant I had to shower and shampoo and get into the same nightie they made me wear the night before. It excited me, but it also felt kind of comfortable, like I was getting used to dressing like a girl. I didn’t even fight when Serenity tied my hands behind my back again after our snack. She didn’t even bother tying my feet, just tucked me into the downstairs bed and said good night. I’d had a whole day of just being a girl, and somehow I really liked it, not just because it was exciting but just sort of felt nice too. I was actually looking forward to being Joely again tomorrow! I should have known better!
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Postby Mister Mistoffelees » Fri Jan 22, 2010 8:56 pm
And so Joey's first sojourn as Joely comes to an end...if you enjoyed it, and wish to read more of The Adventures of Joey/Joely, or of Serenity and Joey's play dates, let me know! Check out the poll above, or send me a message...
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Part 6
The next day was Sunday. Normally our family goes to church on Sunday (we go to the Methodist church and Serenity goes to the Episcopal one), but with our parents still gone we didn’t have to go. At least that was what I thought! Then Serenity came downstairs just as I was waking up and yelled out “Time to get ready for church, Joely!” and I about had a heart attack! Then there was Felicity too saying we were getting ready for church, and I was about to panic! I spent the whole time showering trying to figure out how to get out of it! They’d left me new panties and a bra with the rolled-up socks and a bathrobe, and I didn’t even think, just put them on (and I even managed to put on my bra without help!) and went into the living room, where Serenity and Felicity were waiting with my clothes.
It was a dress, of course, or sort of a pleated skirt with a sort of extra front to it that covered up my chest and had straps that crossed down my back. They also had a pair of white hose which they made me put on first, then they sat me down at Felicity’s vanity in her bedroom and did my makeup and put on my wig. They didn’t put as much makeup on me as before, Felicity said because you don’t wear as much makeup to church as you do to the mall or even to school. Then came this plain but kind of puffy-sleeved white blouse I had to put on, then the dress over it. The last thing they put on me was the maryjanes they made me wear the first day. I was excited, you know, but also just felt kind of nice too! I just smiled when Serenity told me how nice I looked for church! That still wasn’t something I liked, so I asked if we were really going to church while we were going back into the living room.
Felicity just laughed. “As if! I’m not wasting a Sunday without Mom and Dad to just go anyway!” Serenity was laughing too, and said “We just wanted to get you into nice church clothes, Joely, to see how nice you’d look!” That felt better! So I just asked what we were doing today while we went back into the living room, and all of a sudden I realized that I was walking and talking just like a girl without them making me, and I even sat down in one of the living room chairs just like a girl! It was almost as if I really was a real girl! Then they answered my question!
“You’re still my prisoner, Joely!” Serenity laughed, and all of a sudden there were the ropes right there! I don’t know just what I was thinking, but I just stood up and asked them how they wanted to tie me up. They both laughed and said every way they could think of!
First they just tied my hands behind my back, with my palms out like Serenity likes to do it. They straightened my dress a little after Serenity finished tying my hands, then Felicity took out her camera-phone and took my picture! I asked why and she said it was for my new Facebook page! I didn’t have much of a choice but to let her take my picture, and after she did she took a few more pictures of me in that dress, like one tied to a chair, one laying on the floor in a hogtie, one kneeling looking up at the camera, and a few others. After a while they got mean on me and put a gag in my mouth (Serenity just said since we weren’t going out it didn’t matter if they ruined my makeup), which they wouldn’t let me take out all morning! It was a hanky stuffed in my mouth with one of Serenity’s bandannas tied through my mouth to hold it in, and it worked pretty good to keep me from being able to talk.
They spent the rest of the morning putting me in different clothes and taking my picture all tied up a whole bunch of ways. When they had me in a pair of Felicity’s old capris and a blouse, they even tied me to Felicity’s bed with my hands and feet spread apart to the corners of the bed! My favorite tie was when they hogtied me in nothing but the bra and panties, and I don’t know how I didn’t just plain lose it! Of course they never put that one on my Facebook. But they did put on the one where I was in the blue dress I wore the first day and tied to a post on their back deck!
Then it was lunch time, and Felicity made us tomato soup and grilled-cheese sandwiches. Right then I was tied to a kitchen chair in a simple little denim skirt and pullover top and knee socks, with my knees tied together but my ankles tied to the chair legs, and rope around me above and below my bra and my hands tied behind the back of the chair, and they untied my hands so I could eat, and finally took off my gag! Like I said, I know now why Serenity hates gags! It doesn’t mean I don’t think they still look cute on her, though. They really do.
While we were eating, Felicity was just grinning like an idiot, and I noticed that Serenity was starting to act a little bit nervous. I thought that maybe it was because the weekend was almost over, but it wasn’t! You won’t believe what happened!
After we ate, and Serenity and Felicity put away the dishes while I just sat there still tied to my chair, I heard Felicity tell Serenity that it was time and to go get ready. I heard Serenity kind of grumble, but she went up the hall, I guess to her room. While she was there, Felicity turned around my chair facing toward the living room. “You know, Joely,” she said, using my new name like it was naturally my name, “you’ve been a real good sport this whole weekend, and you’ve turned out to be a really nice girl. You should be proud of yourself. You’re pretty and polite and nice—no wonder Logan Witt got a crush on you! Who wouldn’t have a crush on a girl as perfect as you are, Joely?” I told her thank you, and just then Hannah and Maggie came back into the house, dressed casual, you know, in sweaters and jeans, and Felicity looked up at them and told them it was just in time. I got a little scared at that not knowing what they were going to do to me, but Felicity looked at the clock and yelled out “Quit stalling, ‘Ren! It doesn’t take you this long! Get your buns out here right now!” I heard footsteps in the hall, and when I looked, there was Serenity in nothing but her underwear! She only had on her white bra, a pair of blue bikini panties, and a pair of footie socks on her feet! I think my heart must have stopped when I saw her! “Let’s just get this over with!” she sort of grumbled, standing in the middle of the living room with her face all red.
“First things first!” Felicity laughed, and she pulled out a bunch of ropes! I couldn’t believe it—they were going to tie up Serenity in nothing but her underwear! I don’t know how I didn’t lose it even with my body still tied to the chair! “Turn around, hands behind you!” Felicity sort of teased, and Serenity just sighed and turned around and held her hands behind her back. Felicity crossed her wrists and tied them that way, with lots of rope all over both wrists, not too tight but better than I usually did tying her hands that way. She just sort of looked at me while Felicity tied her hands, with her face red like she was embarrassed. “You know what to do!” Felicity ordered Serenity, and she just walked over to where I was sitting and kneeled down beside me, her face even redder, and her sort of breathing funny. “Now see, Joely,” Felicity said as she came over too, “I think you deserve a reward for making such a nice girl, and I couldn’t think of a better reward than making ‘Ren show you her deepest darkest secret! Besides,” she sort of laughed, “she’s been awful mean to you this weekend and needs to be punished!”
This made Maggie laugh out loud! “You mean you’re spanking her butt? How is that her deepest darkest secret?”
Felicity just laughed. “One, she likes being spanked! Two, the punishment is making her wait for it! So you just stay kneeling there, ‘Ren, while I tell them how much you like being spanked and switched!” Serenity was so red-faced I thought she’d faint or something! “You just wait there while I go cut a switch for you, young lady!”
While Felicity was out cutting a switch for Serenity’s behind, she just sat there not even able to talk she was so embarrassed! Then Felicity came in with a big long twig from one of their bushes, and put it on the dining room table. “Time for your punishment, ‘Ren!” she said and picked her up and laid her over my lap which was still tied to the chair. The way she was laying in my lap, she knew I was excited, but the way she looked I knew she was excited too! Her head and neck sort of hung over on one side and she was sort of half on her feet, half on her knees, with her behind sticking up in the air right in front of my right arm! I had to work not to lose it right then! “So how many, guys?” Felicity laughed. “How much by hand and how much by switch?” Hannah and Maggie agreed to ten by hand and ten by switch, and Felicity told me to go ahead and spank her. Serenity looked up at me with this really strange look on her face, like she wanted me to do it but not. She bit her lip a little (which I really like when she does) and blinked, and I took a deep breath and did it. I spanked her! Ten times right on her bottom! When I was done, I could feel her breathing real ragged, and it felt like she was really super-excited! And we weren’t even done! After I was done spanking her and Felicity picked Serenity up off me and onto her feet, Felicity untied me from my chair and let me stand up. Then she made Serenity bend over the dining room table looking right at that switch, then she picked it up and gave it to me. “Now for your switching, ‘Ren,” she laughed, but then she told me to wait five minutes, and the whole time she made Serenity stay there bent over the table! Finally, after five whole minutes, she let me switch Serenity with the switch she’s cut, ten times! She gasped each time I switched her, and a couple times I missed her panties and got her legs which left little narrow marks on her, and I stopped after the tenth one. I understood why Felicity had tied her hands like that, crossed over each other, because every time I spanked or switched her she tried to cover up her behind with her hands, but tied the way they were she couldn’t do it.
Then we were done, and Felicity let Serenity get up from the table where she was bent over, and when she got up I could see her eyes were big and wide, and she was breathing hard, and she kind of looked away like she was real embarrassed, and I could just tell she was so super-excited! Felicity untied her hands then, and told me it was time for me to change back to being just me instead of Joely.
She had left my stuff in the bathroom and told me to shower and get all the makeup off my face. I did, and pretty soon I was dressed in my old clothes, still feeling so excited from being Joely and getting to spank and switch Serenity with her hands tied behind her back. I came out of the bathroom and there she was coming out of her room in a pair of denim shorts and a hoodie sweatshirt, and she looked okay but with her face still a little red. I told her I was sorry if I hurt her when I spanked and switched her and she said it was okay, that really she did kind of like it (but the way she smiled when she said it showed she really liked it a lot!), and she told me again how nice I was as Joely and that she wanted to do that again some time.
We came back out into the living room, and there were Felicity and Hannah and Maggie all giggling and saying that we were the kinkiest couple in Snowden, but we just laughed too because at least we knew each other’s deepest darkest secret, and we still liked and cared about each other just like before. Serenity’s parents came home not long after that and they told Felicity when they saw me and Serenity together that they hoped she’d been a good chaperone, and she said yes. They asked Felicity and Serenity how things had been while they were away and they both said okay, nothing special. That’s what I told Mom and Dad when they came back later, none of them ever really asked anything more about it so I guess we fooled them. That night when I got ready for bed, though, I forgot for a second and waited for Serenity to bring me my nightie and tie my hands for bed! I guess that means I’m looking forward to being Joely again!
The end
P. S. Serenity here! Okay, I admit it! I like being spanked and switched, okay? Don’t ask me to try to explain it, I just do somehow! It’s not like I want to be beat up or something, it’s just…well, it’s sort of hard to explain. And Joey’s always nice about it and doesn’t do it real hard, and…why am I even talking about this? I sound like a total pervert!
But Joey does look really cute as Joely! I really did have fun going out that way, and I think I can sort of talk Hannah and Maggie into letting Joey keep some of his Joely things (including that dress which was so hot on him!) over in their bedroom, so that the next time, we don’t have to be quite as sneaky! And I can’t even look at Logan Wittless (what I call him) without laughing my butt off! To think he has a crush on Joey and doesn’t even know it! Well, see you next story, ‘kay?
--Serenity A. Mabrey, Total Pervert!
Welcome to Snowden! Enter at your own risk...
Postby dex » Sun Jan 24, 2010 1:53 am
*sigh* so sad that all good things must come to an end. Still, many thanks for the brilliant novella.
Being bisexual is the worst of any world because you don't really belong anywhere, because you are never sure of yourself or those around you. You can't trust in anyone, their motives or their intentions. And because of that, you have no true identity.
Postby vantran » Fri Jan 10, 2014 1:45 pm
This story is wonderful but now unreadable
Postby Mister Mistoffelees » Sun Apr 06, 2014 5:55 pm
Finally I have the re-post done on this tale, with all the bad codes from the old forum reboot cleared up. Hope anyone who comes here enjoys the tale!...
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Postby xtc » Mon Apr 07, 2014 12:52 am
Ah, another man in pursuit of the mutant punctuation marks!
Isn't it good when readers unearth one of your old stories that they'd like to be able to read more easily?
Makes the effort worthwhile.
Postby Mister Mistoffelees » Fri Mar 13, 2015 6:02 pm
To my friend seeking this tale--here it is! Bump!...

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