Like in all of my stories I want to clarify that I'm not a native speaker, so grammar mistakes and whacky dialogue may be found in this story due to that.
Part 1
Once classes were over was the best time for some students to meet with their friends who were usually split apart by classes. Such was the case for James, Mathew and Lucy, who were usually split apart during class hours.
“So, have you two watched that show I told you about?” Asked Lucy.
Lucy was a rare sight for many, she was girl but her interest were mostly shared by men, that had lead to her being rather tomboyish. Her black hair was cut short and, was rarely seen wearing girl’s clothes and unlike her pair of nerdy friends she was no stranger to the outside or sports, which didn’t made her any less nerdier than her friends but it did gave her a nice figure and tanned skin.
“Invincible? Nah, I don’t think I need another superhero show, there’s already too many of them” Mathew yawned, he was tired, one would think that it was because of hours of school but he was just tired of superhero stuff.
Mathew was like most people expected a Nerd to look like, chubby, pale, with big glasses and had a poor beard that he insisted on growing. He was nice most of the times except when it came to movies and tv shows, then he became the most pedantic and annoying human being someone could ever meet.
“But it is different I swear!” Insisted Lucy.
“Well I did watch it and I can confirm that, when I finished the first episode I was sure that it wasn’t an ordinary superhero show” James intervened
James was a shy and introverted guy that rarely talked, even when among friends. He looked like one would expect someone like him to do, he was slim, pale, had long black and messy hair that usually covered his pale face and tired blue eyes.
“You did? Then tell me, what do you think of it?” Asked Lucy.
“I mean, I knew I was in for something different once that moustache dude killed...”
Lucy would’ve stopped her friend herself to prevent him from spoiling the show to Mathew, but he was stopped by someone else. Like they were used to, an annoying trio of popular girls were mocking them as they walked past them on the opposite street.
That trio was almost like the antitheses of them, it was conformed by three popular and privileged girls, so much so that they could probably be considered so even among the rest of popular and privileged people at school. They had parents with money and were very pretty, that allowed them to get away with all types of shitty attitudes.
Hannah was the most unassuming of the three, she had medium length brown hair and eyes of the same color, being the least striking of the three didn’t meant much, she was still extremely pretty, but it was widely known that she had to put a lot of work to look like that because unlike her two friends she hadn’t been so blessed with the genetic lottery of beauty. When around her two friends all she did was agreeing with them, which lead to some people refereeing to her as a lap dog of the other two.
Chloe was tall and slim, but years of practicing sports had given her a very nice figure, that made her incredibly desired among men and more women than she knew of. Although she was quiet, those who knew her could be certain that she was as cruel as her two friends, she just liked to be so in private.
Finally was Jessica, kind of the leader of the group. Like it should be expected she was also the prettiest and her parents were nearly rich, which always made him egocentric and condescending towards everyone. Appearance wise she was average height, long blonde hair, immaculate white skin and big blue eyes that always seemed to be looking down on everyone.
“I fucking hate them” Muttered Lucy while the trio kept mocking them from the distance.
“Lets get going already” Said James, like always trying to avoid the situation as much as he could.
“I’m tired of this you know, I’m tired of them” Lucy said angrily.
“I’m sorry you have to endure this, its our fault for being with you” Mathew tried to calm down his friend.
“You have nothing to apologize for, I don’t need you to apologize!” Lucy nearly shouted “At this point what I need is just revenge!”
But when she was finished saying that the annoying trio had already walked past them and were nowhere to be seen. Without them near it was easier for James and Mathew to calm their angered friend down.
“Ugh, anyway, is the movie night still up?” Sighed Lucy.
“Of course” Replied Mathew “My house tonight!”
The trio made their way to their respective homes and didn’t do much more for the rest of the day until it was time to go to Mathew’s house. Like every Friday they met in someone’s house and it was Mathew’s turn to host the movie night.
Having the movie night be at Mathew’s house meant that they were probably going to watch something that only he liked, a movie too complex to watch while eating pizza. But this particular night Lucy managed to be convincing or annoying enough to let them watch the superhero show she told him about, a rare concurrence when it came to him.
As annoying as it was to watch the show with Mathew pointing out every single thing he didn’t liked, he ended up agreeing to watch the next episode, only after he made sure to specify that it ‘just for curiosity’ and ‘absolutely not because he had liked a superhero show’, an act none of his two friends bought.
“The next episode comes out next week” Lucy explained “Its a weekly release”
“What are we watching then?” Asked Mathew after being left baffled for a few minutes.
Both James and Lucy shrugged, they were too used to Mathew choosing the movies that they couldn’t come up with anything.
After a while the three settled on an obliviously cheesy movie of the early 2000’s that none of them really cared about, it was just background noise for their conversation.
But near the end of the movie a particular scene caught the attention of the trio, especially Lucy’s. It featured a female character, probably the love interest of the movie’s bland protagonist, tied to chair. She had been kidnapped by the movie villains and now was struggling fiercely to get free.
Despite her restraints looking pretty fake, the scene of the character struggling dragged on for a while and eventually the movie villain entered the scene and had brief talk with the prisoner, but it wasn’t the talk what interested Lucy, it was how it concluded.
Once the two characters had nothing else to say the villain ordered some henchmen to gag the prisoner, they did so by forcing a piece of cloth between her teeth which rendered all of her words to unintelligible mumbles.
“She could totally speak with that” Lucy spoke once the scene was over.
“Really? What makes you so sure?” Asked Mathew.
“I mean its just a piece of cloth, its not like she has anything inside her mouth” Lucy replied.
“Well they’re actors after all so...”
It seemed like James’ comment killed the conversation because everyone went quiet after it.
“Actually that scene gave me an idea” Lucy said.
James and Mathew looked at their friend awaiting her idea, they never knew what to expect from her.
Lucy explained her idea, as surprised as her friends were they were kind enough not to interrupt her, but their response was sharp once she was finished explaining.
“No way we do that” Said Mathew.
“Yeah... Sorry but too dangerous” Added James.
“What? Really?” Asked Lucy.
“You’re basically asking us to kidnap someone, you’ve made us do a lot of crazy stuff but there’s no way we do that” Said Mathew.
“Really? Do you even have an idea of how I feel about all of this!?” Lucy asked with disappointment.
“We’re willing to listen” Mathew replied as he crossed his arms.
Lucy sighed, she was in for a long explanation but she was willing to give it.
“I used to be friends with those three you know? Chloe, Hannah, Jessica..”
Mathew and James nodded, they were familial with that and often wondered why if Lucy used to be friend those three why were they so mean to her now.
“Like you know they cut me off, but they didn’t do it right away” Lucy said with awkwardness “Last year they invited me to Jessica’s house like we always used to do, I thought everything was going to be fine but...”
Lucy took a moment, it was the first time she told someone what had happened to her that night, but she wanted to continue the story.
“They tied me to a chair, tortured and humiliated me, all because I was friends with you two and they didn’t wanted to be friends with someone who was friend with you” Lucy explained with a shaky voice “Please don’t feel guilty about it”
Both James and Mathew knew that she meant it, but it was hard to not feel guilty after what she had just told them.
“They gave me two choices, i could stop being friends with you or they would cut me off their lives” Lucy made a pause and looked at her friends “Guess what I chose?”
Both Mathew and James hugged Lucy, what they were just told had been moving.
“Are we really going to do something crazy because of you again?” Asked James, still hugging Lucy.
“Seems like it” Said Mathew.
The rest of the night went on with the trio discussion Lucy’s revenge plan, a long and winded conversation that was surprisingly triggered by a mere scene in a cheesy and somewhat old action movie.
Monday
Monday was the day the trio had settled to enact their plan, it was anything but simple and it had involved a lot of work during the weekend, but chances of success were high.
It involved James hacking into the school’s network which was easy for him. The software was outdated and it was rarely checked on by school staff. Once that was done everyone in school was informed that PE classes would be suspended for the next week, everyone but the trio of popular girls.
Once that was done Mathew and Lucy would wait at the school gym for their victims while James waited outside in Lucy’s dad car, he was only one of the bunch that knew how to drive, and their plan needed a car to work.
“Who did we told to come first?” Asked Mathew.
“I think Hannah” Replied Lucy.
For the sake of their plan the three girls were given different hours to arrive, alone they would be easier to deal with. With that and the gym being deserted discretion was a non issue for the trio.
“Shh, she’s coming” Whispered Mathew after receiving a text message from James, who was outside the gym looking out for their victims.
“Hello?” Hannah’s soft voice echoed throughout the massive building, and nobody replied.
Either intrigued or scared, Hannah started to walk around the place, looking out for one of her classmates and she looked at her phone many times to make sure that she arrived at the right time, but that only left her more confused.
Hanna’s fatal mistake was to look inside the gym’s warehouse, there she was not met by just the sports supplies that she expected, she was jumped on Lucy and Mathew, who easily overpowered her and put her to sleep with chloroform.
Then they took her with James to the car, which was more of a van with a spacious trunk where they placed her while James took care of her. To take care of her, James had to tie her up, something that he had been practicing the whole weekend to ensure that the plan went well. Hannah’s hands were tied behind her back, her legs were tied together and she was also blindfolded, it was time for Mathew and Lucy to wait for the next one, Chloe.
To capture Chloe, Mathew and Lucy hid behind the entrance door and jumped on her after she closed it, but Chloe put up much more of a fight than her already captured friend. She was bigger and stronger, on her own she would’ve been able to overpower Lucy had it not been because she had her friend’s help.
After some screaming and thrashing the chloroform took its effect on Chloe which allowed the pair of friends to take her to the car, where james applied the same treatment to her that he had already applied to her friend.
The last one to come was Jessica, even when casually entering the room she still had that aura that only people like her seem to have, but for the first time Mathew and Lucy saw that aura disappear. What made the so called aura disappear was being jumped on by the pair of kidnappers trying to chloroform her, she could only come of as condensing, egocentric and cruel when she was free and with her two lackeys, once asleep, tied up and on the back of the car she looked just as helpless as the damsel in the movie.
“What now?” Asked James with a shaky voice, the torrent of adrenaline and fear going through him was something that he had never felt before.
“We proceed with the plan” Lucy said between breaths, all of that struggling had been worth it, but it had left her tired.
“What if we get caught?” Asked James.
“We’re not going to get caught, don’t worry” Mathew calmed him down.
“And even if we get caught it’ll already be too late, so keep driving!” Lucy said jokingly.
But James wasn’t in the mood for jokes, so he took the order pretty literally.
After a long drive that seemed much longer than it actually was the trio arrived at Lucy’s dad house, the reasons for choosing that house were many. It was the house furthest away from everything, which meant that the screams of the girls wouldn’t be heard by anyone, there was nobody there to question them since both of Lucy’s dad was working away from the city and whenever the time came for the parents of the girls to know that their daughters wouldn’t be returning home, they would be much more inclined to believe that they were at Lucy’s house than anyone else.
“So, what now?” Asked James as he unlocked the car’s trunk.
“Just follow the plan, take them downstairs, put them in chairs, you know the rest” Lucy explained.
The trio entered the house carrying their captives, Mathew had both Hannah and Chloe on his shoulders which was extremely tying and Lucy was personally carrying Jessica on her arms. Having nobody to carry around James made sure that he had made no scratches to Lucy’s dad car, thankfully he had not.
After an excruciatingly long walk, because after all the girls they were kidnapping were no feather weight, they got to the basement. There they had already set three chairs, a few benches, a lot of rope and other tools that they had prepared for the occasion.
“Okay, you do Hannah” Lucy ordered to James “You do Chloe...” She ordered to Mathew “And I’ll do her” She concluded as she looked down on the bound Jessica.
Each member of the trio grabbed rope and tied their respective captive to the chair with ease but also with care. Their hands were tied crossed behind the back of the chair, they were pinned to the back of the chair with rope running around their abdomen from their waists up to below their breasts, rope was ran over their lap to pin them to the seat and finally her ankles were tied together.
“Well, this part is over” Sighed Lucy as she walked up to a table where they have laid their tools “Which one do you think we should use first?”
“I think we should start by something like what they used in the movie” Said Mathew as he grabbed a handkerchief that had been laid on the table for that specific purpose.
“To think that it was just that scene that got us to do all of this craziness” Sighed James.
“Don’t act like you didn’t agreed to it!” Lucy said jokingly.
The three prisoners were gagged just like the girl in the movie that they had watched on Friday was, but there was a much bigger difference, unlike the actress in the movie their prisoners were properly, tightly and securely tied up.
“Do you think the gags you’ll work?” Asked Mathew.
“I guarantee that they’ll not” Lucy replied “Believe me, these three tried to used that same gag on me last year and I just kept screaming”
“Are you sure nobody will hear them then?” James asked nervously “Because the point of a gag is to keep them quiet”
“They’ll be able to scream just fine and they’ll probably do, but don’t worry there’s nobody around to listen to them” Lucy calmed down her nervous friend “Why do you think we go to my mom’s house whenever you come to my house, this place is far from everything!”
After that remark James felt pretty stupid, unless the neighbors had super hearing or the animals could speak and tell someone what they were doing, they shouldn’t worry about being discovered in that way. The house of Lucy’s dad was closer to the countryside than to the actual city.
After the trio was done with everything in the basement they went back upstairs, expecting their three captives to be waking up anytime soon, but that didn’t happened. Since the house was big and expensive, it also had an expensive security system, which was why Lucy’s dad felt so comfortable leaving his house for so long, through that security system they were able to look at the three of sleeping beauties, seeing their subtle movements and breathing was strangely comforting because it assured them that they hadn’t killed them.
“I assume all of this recordings are going to be deleted before your dad comes back” Said James as he sat on one of the big couches “I know that I have never seen your dad but I don’t want him to see us taking his car to kidnap some girls”
“I was counting on you to delete it” Replied Lucy.
“I guessed” Sighed James.
“You know what? I think you should invite us here more often!” Mathew said cheerfully as he walked around the place “I don’t care if it’s far away, this place is awesome, why didn’t you told us about it?”
“I don’t want people thinking I am, you know, like them, an entitled asshole with rich parents” Said Lucy as she pointed downwards “And also, I don’t think my dad would like it if I brought in two male friends”
“Well that sucks” Sighed Mathew
“But since he’s not here, why don’t we have some fun?” Lucy quickly said after her friend.
That was something everyone could get behind, but the sudden excitement brought over by the prospect of having fun in the massive house they were in was interrupted by a unusual, yet recognizable noise, that came from the security system screen.
“Mphghghgh!” Chloe had been the first one of the captives to wake up, and was now struggling fiercely on the chair she was tied to, making a futile attempt at getting free of the ropes.
Lucy, Mathew and James ran downstairs to the basement where even before opening the door they already heard enough screaming to be able to tell that the gag really didn’t worked like the movie portrayed it.
“Well guys, remember the plan and stick to it” Lucy said as they stopped in the anteroom to the basement.
Nicely done!
