Quiet on Set! Parts 1-4 (fff/f, ff/m, m/f, mf/f)
Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2018 5:50 am
In 10th grade, there was a group of girls that I hung out with. A brief description:
Elyse: short. Pale, with big green eyes and a wild mess of black curly hair. She was very hyper and excited all the time. Her passion was filmmaking and made a lot of home movies.
Anna: about my height (5’ 8”). She was naturally tan with a kind, round face. She wore her long red-brown hair in bangs. She was very level-headed but definitely a “theater kid”.
Maria: slightly taller than me. She was pale with a strawberry blonde hair that she wore cropped short. She had very sharp features that made her seem model-esque. She was sarcastic and cynical.
Liz: average height. She was very pretty with long brown hair and big brown eyes with long lashes. She had quite the figure but was a complete ditz. Like, I’ve seen her eat soup with a fork.
It was a Friday evening in June, the musical had ended, and classes were slowing down so I was just chilling at home. I was passively texting with Maria since school let out. It was all awkward flirting— we both liked each other, and everyone knew it. However, I also learned that she was in a music video with Elyse, Anna, and Liz for Elyse’s video class. The texts were flying back and forth at a decent rate.
Then, a little after dinner, I sent her a text but received no response immediately. “That’s perfectly normal,” I thought, “Elyse probably needs Maria to be focused on the video.” But after a few minutes, I began to worry, “What did I say? Did I offend her? Have I ruined all chances with her?” you know, the normal teenage stuff. That was when my phone vibrated. Someone was calling.
But it wasn’t Maria. It was Elyse.
I picked it up, “Hey, what’s up?”
“JOE! WE NEED A GUY FOR THE VIDEO AND I KNOOOOW YOU’RE NOT DOING ANYTHING! COME OVER QUICK!” Elyse practically screamed into the phone.
“COOL! Be there in 15.” I shouted back.
Quickly, I convinced my sister to drive me over to Elyse’s. In my stupid teenage mind this was another chance to prove how cool I was to Maria, rushing over and helping my friends like a cool guy. We were halfway there when my phone buzzed again.
Another text. From Maria!
Maria: Hujre4klop
“That’s weird,” I thought, and sent a quick text.
Me: I think you pocket-texted me
Maria: Haha woops XD when you get here, just walk right into the basement we’ve got something special for you!
Me: Awesome! See you soon!
And in another 5-10 minutes, I was there. I was ready to help my friends out with this video and spend some quality time with Maria. I thanked my sister for driving me and told her I’d call when I need her to pick me up again, and she drove off. I walked across the lawn and walked inside, knocking first to let them know I was here. No one was there to meet me so I crossed the foyer and went into the basement, like Maria told me to.
Lights were on in the basement but it was silent, which was odd but I didn’t think much of it. I descended the stairs and walked into an interesting scene.
This half of Elyse’s basement was roomy and dominated by a couple of large, comfy couches and a TV. In the middle of the floor was, what looked like, someone completely covered with a comforter, sitting in a chair. It was obviously one of the girls, but I was curious as to which one. The other three weren’t anywhere in sight. At the sound of me approaching, the girl under the blanket shifted and I could hear a small “mmmph” from her. I couldn’t help be reminded of the one Scooby-Doo episode where Daphne was found bound and gagged under a blanket. With that in mind, I reached out and whipped the comforter off the girl.
Before me was a wonderful sight. Maria was taped to a chair and gagged with a bandanna. Her wrists were crossed behind the back of the chair and wrapped in duct tape. More duct tape was used to secure her middle to the chair. Her ankles were wrapped in tape as well and secured with more silver duct tape to the chair leg closest to me. She struggled against her bonds and tried to scoot closer to me, “HMMMPH MMPH!”
I couldn’t help but laugh because Maria was usually such a strong, dominating person but here she was stuck to a chair. But I assumed her grunts meant “Help me!” so I did my best to be her hero.
Unfortunately, I had not counted on the villains.
I was so preoccupied with Maria that I hadn’t even noticed Anna and Liz sneaking out from behind the couch and out of the closet. I was peeling the tape off her ankles when she started wriggling and “mmmph!”-ing. I looked up and the world went dark as Anna threw a blanket over me. Liz took advantage of my momentary confusion to wrap some kind of cord around my arms, effectively pinning them to my sides. I had severely underestimated the combined strength of my two friends because I was pretty helpless to do anything about my restraints. It didn’t help that I couldn’t see anything either.
Anna and Liz led me across the room, past a still struggling Maria, to another chair. They sat me down and each grabbed one of my wrists. I heard duct tape being unrolled as they began to tape my wrists to the arms of the chair. It was very awkward and uncomfortable because the cord was still wrapped around my chest, so my arms were kind of stretched at a weird angle. With my wrists taped down I felt the cord pinning my arms together slacken and the blanket was removed.
I blinked in the sudden light to look at my two captors and was a little surprised to see Elyse standing there with her arms crossed and Maria’s phone in her hand. I also noticed she was only wearing one sock. Perhaps, I thought, that was what really was gagging Maria. Elsye had a triumphant look on her face, but it was mixed with her signature hyper excited look, making her look a little crazy.
“You fell for it, Joe! Oldest trick in the book and you fell for it!” she gave a melodramatic, mustache-twirling evil laugh, “now my troublemakers are tied up and we can continue shooting with no interruption!”
“I wasn’t even here!” I tried to explain, “How was I making trouble?”
“You were distracting Maria, and we were falling behind on filming,” she said it like it was the most obvious thing in the world, “so we waited for her to come back from the bathroom and then gave her the same treatment you just got.”
“But why did you gag her?”
“Because she was being annoying and I had to call you, Joe! Geez!”
“OK. But couldn’t you have just—mmmph!” my sentence was cut short as Anna had walked behind me during this time and prepared a strip of duct tape. A strip of duct tape that was now on my mouth.
“Thank you Anna!” Elyse said with a smile.
“Yea,” Anna gave two thumbs up.
“Alright, well we have to finish the shooting! Tape his legs, so he can’t go help Maria, and put her over there,” she pointed at the opposite side of the room, “and then we can finish your shots upstairs.” Elyse said, now in director mode.
Anna complied and quickly taped my ankles together in order to get back to Elyse soon. I pleaded with her through the tape and tried to combine puppy-dog-eyes with a smolder. Not very effective. Once she was done, she dropped the roll of tape and hurried upstairs.
While Anna was working on me, Liz was dragging Maria, who was rolling her eyes so hard they might have fallen out, to the other side of the room. After she had moved Maria as far as she could, she followed Anna up the stairs.
Maria and I made eye contact from across the room. She gave an annoyed, “mmmph. Hmmph,” and returned to her struggles. They were mostly in vain, though. I had barely removed any tape and if she hadn’t made progress by now, she may be stuck there for a while.
I kept my wits about me, though. Maria was pretty thin and it looked like the girls had spent more time securing her to the chair. I was not considered strong, but I was stronger than Maria. And the girls had had to tape me up pretty quickly because Elyse wanted to get back to work. My escape would be easy, and then I could get my revenge.
To be continued…
Elyse: short. Pale, with big green eyes and a wild mess of black curly hair. She was very hyper and excited all the time. Her passion was filmmaking and made a lot of home movies.
Anna: about my height (5’ 8”). She was naturally tan with a kind, round face. She wore her long red-brown hair in bangs. She was very level-headed but definitely a “theater kid”.
Maria: slightly taller than me. She was pale with a strawberry blonde hair that she wore cropped short. She had very sharp features that made her seem model-esque. She was sarcastic and cynical.
Liz: average height. She was very pretty with long brown hair and big brown eyes with long lashes. She had quite the figure but was a complete ditz. Like, I’ve seen her eat soup with a fork.
It was a Friday evening in June, the musical had ended, and classes were slowing down so I was just chilling at home. I was passively texting with Maria since school let out. It was all awkward flirting— we both liked each other, and everyone knew it. However, I also learned that she was in a music video with Elyse, Anna, and Liz for Elyse’s video class. The texts were flying back and forth at a decent rate.
Then, a little after dinner, I sent her a text but received no response immediately. “That’s perfectly normal,” I thought, “Elyse probably needs Maria to be focused on the video.” But after a few minutes, I began to worry, “What did I say? Did I offend her? Have I ruined all chances with her?” you know, the normal teenage stuff. That was when my phone vibrated. Someone was calling.
But it wasn’t Maria. It was Elyse.
I picked it up, “Hey, what’s up?”
“JOE! WE NEED A GUY FOR THE VIDEO AND I KNOOOOW YOU’RE NOT DOING ANYTHING! COME OVER QUICK!” Elyse practically screamed into the phone.
“COOL! Be there in 15.” I shouted back.
Quickly, I convinced my sister to drive me over to Elyse’s. In my stupid teenage mind this was another chance to prove how cool I was to Maria, rushing over and helping my friends like a cool guy. We were halfway there when my phone buzzed again.
Another text. From Maria!
Maria: Hujre4klop
“That’s weird,” I thought, and sent a quick text.
Me: I think you pocket-texted me
Maria: Haha woops XD when you get here, just walk right into the basement we’ve got something special for you!
Me: Awesome! See you soon!
And in another 5-10 minutes, I was there. I was ready to help my friends out with this video and spend some quality time with Maria. I thanked my sister for driving me and told her I’d call when I need her to pick me up again, and she drove off. I walked across the lawn and walked inside, knocking first to let them know I was here. No one was there to meet me so I crossed the foyer and went into the basement, like Maria told me to.
Lights were on in the basement but it was silent, which was odd but I didn’t think much of it. I descended the stairs and walked into an interesting scene.
This half of Elyse’s basement was roomy and dominated by a couple of large, comfy couches and a TV. In the middle of the floor was, what looked like, someone completely covered with a comforter, sitting in a chair. It was obviously one of the girls, but I was curious as to which one. The other three weren’t anywhere in sight. At the sound of me approaching, the girl under the blanket shifted and I could hear a small “mmmph” from her. I couldn’t help be reminded of the one Scooby-Doo episode where Daphne was found bound and gagged under a blanket. With that in mind, I reached out and whipped the comforter off the girl.
Before me was a wonderful sight. Maria was taped to a chair and gagged with a bandanna. Her wrists were crossed behind the back of the chair and wrapped in duct tape. More duct tape was used to secure her middle to the chair. Her ankles were wrapped in tape as well and secured with more silver duct tape to the chair leg closest to me. She struggled against her bonds and tried to scoot closer to me, “HMMMPH MMPH!”
I couldn’t help but laugh because Maria was usually such a strong, dominating person but here she was stuck to a chair. But I assumed her grunts meant “Help me!” so I did my best to be her hero.
Unfortunately, I had not counted on the villains.
I was so preoccupied with Maria that I hadn’t even noticed Anna and Liz sneaking out from behind the couch and out of the closet. I was peeling the tape off her ankles when she started wriggling and “mmmph!”-ing. I looked up and the world went dark as Anna threw a blanket over me. Liz took advantage of my momentary confusion to wrap some kind of cord around my arms, effectively pinning them to my sides. I had severely underestimated the combined strength of my two friends because I was pretty helpless to do anything about my restraints. It didn’t help that I couldn’t see anything either.
Anna and Liz led me across the room, past a still struggling Maria, to another chair. They sat me down and each grabbed one of my wrists. I heard duct tape being unrolled as they began to tape my wrists to the arms of the chair. It was very awkward and uncomfortable because the cord was still wrapped around my chest, so my arms were kind of stretched at a weird angle. With my wrists taped down I felt the cord pinning my arms together slacken and the blanket was removed.
I blinked in the sudden light to look at my two captors and was a little surprised to see Elyse standing there with her arms crossed and Maria’s phone in her hand. I also noticed she was only wearing one sock. Perhaps, I thought, that was what really was gagging Maria. Elsye had a triumphant look on her face, but it was mixed with her signature hyper excited look, making her look a little crazy.
“You fell for it, Joe! Oldest trick in the book and you fell for it!” she gave a melodramatic, mustache-twirling evil laugh, “now my troublemakers are tied up and we can continue shooting with no interruption!”
“I wasn’t even here!” I tried to explain, “How was I making trouble?”
“You were distracting Maria, and we were falling behind on filming,” she said it like it was the most obvious thing in the world, “so we waited for her to come back from the bathroom and then gave her the same treatment you just got.”
“But why did you gag her?”
“Because she was being annoying and I had to call you, Joe! Geez!”
“OK. But couldn’t you have just—mmmph!” my sentence was cut short as Anna had walked behind me during this time and prepared a strip of duct tape. A strip of duct tape that was now on my mouth.
“Thank you Anna!” Elyse said with a smile.
“Yea,” Anna gave two thumbs up.
“Alright, well we have to finish the shooting! Tape his legs, so he can’t go help Maria, and put her over there,” she pointed at the opposite side of the room, “and then we can finish your shots upstairs.” Elyse said, now in director mode.
Anna complied and quickly taped my ankles together in order to get back to Elyse soon. I pleaded with her through the tape and tried to combine puppy-dog-eyes with a smolder. Not very effective. Once she was done, she dropped the roll of tape and hurried upstairs.
While Anna was working on me, Liz was dragging Maria, who was rolling her eyes so hard they might have fallen out, to the other side of the room. After she had moved Maria as far as she could, she followed Anna up the stairs.
Maria and I made eye contact from across the room. She gave an annoyed, “mmmph. Hmmph,” and returned to her struggles. They were mostly in vain, though. I had barely removed any tape and if she hadn’t made progress by now, she may be stuck there for a while.
I kept my wits about me, though. Maria was pretty thin and it looked like the girls had spent more time securing her to the chair. I was not considered strong, but I was stronger than Maria. And the girls had had to tape me up pretty quickly because Elyse wanted to get back to work. My escape would be easy, and then I could get my revenge.
To be continued…