Part 6:
I continued to slowly spin as I dangled from the climbing frame. Each time I passed Lauren I could see her devious grin through the gaps in the pink headband blindfold. Finally my spin stopped leaving me facing my captor.
"Ready?" She smiled as she drew her arm back and prepared to throw.
My eyes squeezed shut in preparation for the impact. There was a pause... then the sound of Lauren swinging her arm. I clenched my body preparing for the ball to strike me but nothing. Behind me I heard the sound of the ball bouncing off a wall.
"Shit. Hang on!" Lauren cursed. I opened an eye and peered through the headband to see an annoyed Lauren reaching for another ball. She grabbed a second ball and lined up another throw. Again I shut my eyes and braced.
Again, nothing. The ball whizzed harmlessly past me as I gently swayed.
"Oh for frghhhh!" Lauren once again groaned in frustration.
This time I opened both eyes. Through the blindfold I could see her clenching both her fists and waving her arms in anger. It was almost calming to see even with my completely immobilised she still couldn't hit me. Her over-exaggerated gestures of frustration were comical. I couldn't help but let out a slight giggle through my tape gag.
"Mmhmhmhmh" I sniggered.
Despite her audible groaning Lauren heard my giggles. She halted on the spot and glared over at me. Her face looking very annoyed. She paused.
"Pffffff hahahaha" she burst out laughing. "Ugghhh I'm hopeless aren't I?" she chuckled. We shared a giggle together as I nodded in agreement. "Mmmph hmmm".
"Oh well" Lauren interjected. "It's not like I'm in a hurry right? I mean I'm not going anywhere. You're not going anywhere. So I've got all the time I need to get it" she smiled, enjoying reminding my of my helplessness. She grabbed another ball from the rack.
She took aim and threw the ball. Finally she hit her target. Although the throw lacked any power with the ball harmlessly slapping off my taped arms and falling to the floor. I gazed down as the ball rolled back towards Lauren.
"Ugghhh it's no use" she gave up. The ball rolled towards her. She raised up her bare foot and slapped the ball with her toes sending it flying towards me. It smacked sharply against my tied legs sending me swinging backwards.
"Mrrghhh!" I winced in pain.
"Yessss!" Lauren celebrated. "Finally!" She raced over to the rack and grabbed 2 more balls and placed them down on the floor. I watched as my back and forth swinging began to slow down.
She took a step backwards before running forwards and smacking one of the balls with her bare foot. The ball flew towards me, whacking me in the chest just above my tightly wrapped arms.
"Wooohoo!" Lauren cheered as she jumped up and down. Once again I winced in pain, groaning and wriggling as I swung backwards.
Before I could even finish my groans she kicked the second ball. This time the ball flew upwards towards my face. It slapped me square on the nose, pushing the pink headback up onto my forehead.
"MMMRRRGHHHH!" I flailed in pain.
"Oops! Sorry" Lauren chuckled. She paused and watched me as I squirmed and wriggled hard into my makeshift straitjacket. My feet wiggled helplessly below as I desperately tried to touch the floor.
"Well. I'd say we're even now!" Lauren smiled. I abruptly ended my groans, unable to believe what I was hearing. Here I was completely defenceless and yet she was showing me mercy.
"I'll get you down" she added as she approached and began untying the rope that held me suspended from the climbing frame.
Suddenly I dropped to the floor, cluncking down onto the single high heel and the fuzzy sock. Lauren placed her arm on my back steadying me as I stumbled.
"Here, have a seat" she calmly spoke as she reached behind and pulled a seat up behind me. She placed her hands on my sides and gently lowered me down onto the seat. It was a plastic, 4 legged chair from one of the classrooms. I gazed up at Lauren.
She turned around and began grabbing something from the floor. I watched her back in anticipation. I prayed that she would be grabbing scissors.
She swung back around to reveal she was holding the ropes that had previously suspended me.
She took the first rope and began wrapping it around my waist and around the back of the chair. She positioned the rope so that it sat just underneath my criss-crossed arms. She walked behind the chair and dragged hard on the ropes, pulling me tight against the back of the chair. The rope harness that she had used to suspend me remained tightly bound across my chest and shoulders. As I leaned back, the rope harness dug into my back.
"Mrrrgh hmmmm!" I yelped as my eyes bulged.
"Sh sh shhh" Lauren whispered as she knotted the rope behind the chair.
Once she finished knotting the rope she grabbed another and wound that one around my body and the chair also. This time the rope was positions just above my crossed arms. Again she knotted it behind the chair.
She walked around to stand in front of me and inspect her efforts. She grabbed parts of the ropes and pulled on them, ensuring they were tight enough.
"Mmm. Perfect" she muttered as a smile grew.
"Mmmphh hmmm!" I complained as I swung my legs upwards towards her drawing her attention to my un-matching footwear. She knelt down and grabbed both my ankles.
"What's wrong? Does it annoy you that these don't match?" she mocked as she wiggled my legs.
"tell me what you'd prefer then? I can give you the other heel?" she held up my heel'd foot.
"Or I could give you the other sock?" she held up the socked foot.
"Mmmrrgghhhhh!" I moaned as I yanked my legs out of her hands. What I really wanted was to be untied!
"Well if you can't make your mind up then I'll leave you as you are!" she snapped back at me. Still kneeling down, she reached over and grabbed 2 more ropes and began tying my legs to the chair legs. She wound each rope up and down my legs ensuring they were tightly anchored to the chair legs before knotting them tightly.
"There we go. Problem solved" she smiled up at me. She stood up and walked behind me. I turned my head to follow her but she walked out of my eyeline. Behind me I could hear her rustling.
Suddenly, her hand grasped the rope harness where it ran across my shoulders. She began yanking and tugging at it. I could feel her tying another rope around it. She dragged the rope down the back of the chair, winding it around the 2 ropes that held me on the chair. She finished by passing the rope under the chair and out between my legs where she left it lying. I tried to lean forwards to gaze down at it but it helped pin my back to the seat.
Lauren re-emerged wearing her satchel and dragging a second chair, the same type as the one I was tied to. She positioned the chair directly in front of me, about 1 metre away, and sat down on it. I watched warily as she sat. She made eye contact and gave a friendly smile.
"You've picked drama as one of your classes right?" she casually asked.
"Mpph hmm?" I nodded, suspicious of her inquiry.
"I kinda wish I did too" she muttered as an aside. "anyway, let's play out a little bit of a scene then" she chirped. "Ok?"
"Mph hmm?" I nodded again. She began explaining.
"Ok, so you're a secret agent right? And you've been tasked with sneaking into and evil villain's lair. Let's say the villain is... Miss McLeland ok? So she has this big evil lair right? And you sneak in. But she captures you and decides to put you in her dungeon. So she straps you up in a straitjacket, and she stuffs a big pink stress ball into your mouth and tapes it up. Then she takes you to her dungeon and ties to a chair and she decides she's going to leave you there whilst she's carrying out her evil plan. Following so far?" Lauren enthusiastically explained.
"Mphh hmm..." I nodded. I I felt a mixture of emotions as Lauren laid out the scene. Was she mocking my predicament? She continued.
"This is where I come in" she proudly pointed to herself.
"I'm also a secret agent. On the same side as you. And because you have gotten captured they send me in to stop Miss McLeland and to rescue you from the dungeon. So I'm in the secret lair and I sneak into the dungeon and I find you sitting all strapped up and captured. You beg me to untie you but I don't. I leave you so I can try stop Miss McLeland all by myself so that I'm the hero! You're annoyed at me as I leave you but you can't stop me because you're still all tied up, and really you're just grateful that I'm here to rescue you. Still following?"
"Mpph hmm" I unenthusiastically responded.
"Good! So here's where our scene is: I've not long left you to go fight Miss McLeland when suddenly you hear the dungeon doors open. You can't believe that I've already defeated her and I'm back to rescue you so soon! But instead you see Miss McLeland enter. She's captured me too! And now she's tying me to a chair as well!" Lauren gasped!
I stared at her as I sat tied to the chair.
"Maybe it'll help if I get a bit more in character!" Lauren grinned as she reached into her satchel and drew out the 2 rolls of duct tape from earlier.
She squeezed her legs together and began winding the duct tape around her ankles. I watched in complete bewilderment as she slowly wound the tape up her legs, mummifying them. She leaned forwards and bit off the tape and patted her hands down her legs to ensure the duct tape was nice and smooth.
Next she reached back into the bag and pulled out a piece of pink cloth. She unravelled it revealing it to be a pair of pink ankle socks.
"I found these under Miss McLeland's desk!" she grinned. "They were tucked inside her running shoes. It seems like something that evil Miss McLeland would use right?"
"Remember! You're angry at me for getting captured and not rescuing you first! And you're afraid because evil Miss McLeland has us tied up in her dungeon!" Lauren reminded me.
She opened her mouth and rolled the pair of socks inside her mouth.
"Aarghhphhhh" she groaned at the realisation of the presumably awful stench from Miss McLeland's running socks. Once she was satisfied with their placement she grabbed the duct tape roll and began winding it around her mouth. I watched as she rolled her head allowing the duct tape to wrap around her mouth and chin. Similar to how she had secured the pink stress ball tight inside my mouth.
"Mrrrggpphhh!" she moaned as she tested her gag. She continued winding several more times before she ripped the tape and flattened it down.
"Hmmmphhh" she shrugged as she sat forwards and searched the satchel again. This time she drew her hands out and proudly showed me a pair of handcuffs. She must have found them in the drama department prop box.
"Mmmphh!!!" I wriggled, attempting to warn her against wearing the handcuffs. Having used them as a prop in the past I was aware of how infamously unreliable the key was at unlocking them.
She slapped the handcuffs onto her left hand then placed both hands behind the back of her chair. I continued to warn her.
"Mmmphhh mmmphh!!!" I frantically shook my head.
*click*
The handcuffs locked over her right wrist. She slouched down in the chair.
"Mmmmphhhh" she gazed up at me, clearly smiling behind her gag, enjoying her new predicament.
I shook my head at her. I couldn't believe that she had tied herself up. Now we were both screwed and would be left in our predicaments until the morning!
I continued to show my discontent and anger with her.
"Mrrgghhh!!!" I continued to shake my head. Lauren sat and sulked. To her, we were now playing out her scenario.
"Mphh hmmm hmmm" Lauren pretended to cry.
Suddenly, the long cylinder of tape that was her taped legs began to shimmy towards me. I looked down at her bare feet which peeked out the bottom of the mounds of tape. She was using her toes to crunch and drag her legs forwards.
She slid her feet closer towards me until her foot was on top of the rope which was on the floor between my legs. The rope which was connected up the back of my chair to the back of my tight rope harness.
She spread her toes and grasped the rope in between her toes.
"Mppphhh?" I looked up at her. Despite the thick tape gag I could tell she was grinning menacingly. Had she not been gagged she probably would have added a "mwahaha".
She began to pull her legs back towards her, slowly tugging on the rope with her feet. The rope slowly tightened up the back of my seat, pulling back on my harness, dragging me backwards into the chair. The knots in the harness dug into my back.
"MMMMRRGHHPHHHPHHP!!!" I yelped. Once again my eyes bulged. My feet flailed on the floor, desperately trying to reach the rope and stop Lauren from dragging it. My hands helplessly squirmed by my sides. Despite Lauren also being tied up, she had still given herself a way to torment me.
"MMMRRPGGPHHHHH!" I continued to cry.
Lauren joined in the crys.
"MMMPHHHH!" she mockingly moaned, still tugging on the rope.
We both screamed and groaned into our gags, as though we truly were captives locked up inside Miss McLeland's dungeon.
To be continued...
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