Postby KP Presents » Wed Jun 06, 2012 2:19 pm
I looked at Cassie, Cassie looked at me, and then we both looked at Mum. She was sat on the couch, her hands on her lap as she stared at both of us, while the man standing behind her had his hand on her shoulder.
"That's right,” whoever was behind us said, "This is a game for you two and your mummy - isn't that right?" Mum looked at him, and then slowly nodded her head. "Yes," she said quietly, haltingly, "We're going to play a game. You'd like that, wouldn’t you?"
I turned my head to look at Cassie. "You heard mum, Cassie - it's a game, and we're all going to play. I want you to just kneel quietly, and listen to the two men, all right?" I looked at mum as I said this - I could see it was not a game, but I had to keep Cassie calm.
"A game? Like the ones we play," she whispered, but I just nodded. As afraid as I was, I didn’t want Mum to know what we had been doing.
"All right, girls," the man behind us said, "Here's what's going to happen. We're going to do something to your mum, then to you. When we're finished, you will be sitting next to each other. I'm afraid you won't be able to do much, but I promise you it will not hurt, all right?"
We both nodded, and I could see that gleam in Cassie's eye that came when we started playing. "All right," the man said, "the first thing we need to do is fix your hands together behind your back. Watch mummy as we do it to her first, and you'll see there's nothing to be afraid of."
Well, we both knew what that felt like, but we did as we were told, watching as the man behind Mum pulled her hands behind her back. I watched as he picked up a length of white cord, shook it loose and then used it to tie her wrists together. As he did this, Mum started crying, saying "please, don’t hurt them," even as I saw her arms been pulled back.
"Now, who's going first," the voice behind me said, so I said "I will. Cassie, watch what I do and then do the same, all right?"
"All right," Cassie said as I stood up and moved my hands behind my back. I felt something soft been wound around my wrists, and then as they were drawn together I took in a deep breath. I had no idea what he was using, but it felt soft against my skin, even if what he was doing was tighter than I had felt before. "All right," the voice said as he gave it one last tug, "Your turn, little one."
"My name's Cassie," she said as she stood up, "what's yours?" "I'll tell you later," he said as I looked at him for the first time. He was a little shorter than the other guy, and I could see red hair under the stocking over his head. He guided Cassie's wrists behind her back, crossing them before he wound white cord around and between them, pulling them gently, yet tightly together.
I turned and looked at Mum, watching as the man took the longest length of rope I had ever seen and wrapped it around her arms and body, pulling them into her side as her jumper stretched over her chest. As he passed it round her arms, under her chest and over her shoulders, she looked at me. "Are you all right," she mouthed, and I nodded, as I felt something been tied round my arm.
Looking to my side, I saw that he had tied the end of a length of rope around it, just above the elbow, before winding it round my body a couple of times, and then round my other arm. As he pulled the rope, I felt my arms been pinned into my side, and as he passed it between my body and my arms I had the sinking feeling I would not be able to use them for some time.
I looked over at Cassie, who was trying to twist her arms round. After he finished with me, the man took another length of rope, and tied it round Cassie's waist, pinning her wrists against her back before passing the rope between her arms and back, making sure they were held in place.
"All right," the man with Mum said, "All of you now have your wrists and arms pinned so that you cannot move them. The next thing we need to do is make sure you cannot move your legs - you two come and sit next to mummy here." We both walked over and sat on the couch next to Mum, me on her left and Cassie on her right."
"Please, just leave us alone," Mum said, but that just made the two men laugh. "I've heard of you," I said as I looked at the two of them standing in front of us, "You visited a fri... A girl I know at school, last week."
"Oh," the taller of the two said, "Little smaller than you, blonde hair?" I nodded, and then heard him say "I remember her - she cried the whole time, even when we had to keep her quiet." He knelt down in front of me and looked into my eyes. "You're not going to cry, are you?"
Mum and Cassie looked at me as I shook my head and said "No - I'm not going to cry." In fact, I was secretly rather proud - I was capable of doing something Alicia was not, and some day I would tell her that.
Cassie smiled as he then picked up a length of the white cord and looked at Mum. "All right, mummy - cross your ankles and I'll show your kids what's going to happen next."
Mum started sobbing as she crossed her ankles and he pulled the cord tightly round them. There was a funny squeaking sound, which made both Cassie and I giggle as the cord rubbed against Mum’s leather boots. He quickly wound it tightly round and between them, before tying the ends off behind her ankles. He then picked up a second cord and knelt in front of me, passing it round my black suede boots. I watched as the material was pulled in under the rope, and my ankles were held firmly together. Finally, he passed it between my legs and tied it off. Cassie was last, the rope going over her white socks as they were held firmly together.
She seemed completely unfazed by what was happening - I mean, it was tighter than anything she or I had experienced, and I knew we would not get free, especially as the man then pulled some rope around Mum's legs above her knees and tied them together. He did the same to me, and then to Cassie, the rope going round her bare legs just above her knees.
"Right, girls," the man said as he stood up, "We'll start the game in a few minutes, but until then you sit quietly with mummy." We watched as the smaller man sat in a chair and looked at us, while the other one went out of the room for a few minutes.
"You're been very brave girls," Mum said as she looked at both of us. Cassie smiled, and so did I - this was real; not a game, but we were treating it as one.
"All right," the other man said as he came back in, "There is one more thing we need to do before we start the game, and that is to make sure you can’t call out or talk for a while. Mummy first."
"No, no, please, you canmmtmtt," Mum said as he pushed something he had balled up in his hand into her mouth and then tore a strip of grey tape off the roll. He pressed that down over Mum's mouth, and then covered it with three more. He then went not to me, but to Cassie, and untied the yellow scarf from her hair.
"Open wide," he said as he folded it into a band, and as Cassie opened up he pulled it into her mouth, taking the ends behind her back and tying them together over her hair. "All right," he said as he stroked her cheek, "just sit quietly now."
He started to walk over to me, but Cassie said "nnn - iwenttblkmm.” He walked back over and looked at her, saying "I said you had to be quiet."
She stared back at him, and then looked at Mum, before saying again "Ptttpvrmthlkmm." He looked again at her, then at Mum, before he tore a strip of tape off the roll and stuck it over Cassie's mouth. Mum screamed "NNNNNN", but Cassie seemed to just smile under the tape and look back at her and me.
"And what are we going to do with you," he said as he looked at me. "I want to be like Mum as well," I said, so he took a handkerchief from his pocket, folded it up and pushed it into my mouth, before putting a couple of strips of tape over it.
Satisfied, he stood up and turned the television on. "Keep an eye on them," he said to the other git as he walked out of the room, "I'm going to have a look round."