05 - Double the Fun
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By James
Saturday March 24th 2001 09:33:30
Double the Fun: Part 1
Hi everyone, James here again. I think its time for another story.
This stories pretty long, so I've broken it up into two parts.
As I stated in my last post (Mar 11), the last game we played during term break was on the Thursday of the second week.
Thursday crept up on me pretty quickly, I'd been busy the last couple of days with work, so time just flew by. Beth kept herself busy by going shopping on Tuesday and Wednesday with some friends of hers. I was surprised that she came home empty handed on both occasions.
On Wednesday evening, Jodie left a message on our answering machine when our family went out for dinner. She said that some of her relatives were coming down tomorrow from Brisbane for two days. She'd been asked to baby-sit twins on Thursday, as the adults wanted to go to the city and mingle in the casino. She agreed, and asked me to keep her company on the day.
I thought that it'd be fun seeing that I'd never babysat anyone before, and after talking it over with my parents, I was given the go ahead. Seeing as it was pretty late when we got the message, I thought that I'd give her a call in the morning.
Jodie didn't mention anything about Beth being able to go, so I didn't tell her about it.
I slept at around midnight that night, and it seemed like only a minute had passed before the phone rang, and I saw my clock was reading 8:45. I was about to pick it up, but someone had already answered it, so I fell back into bed again. This time, less than a minute passed before my mum came into my room saying the call was for me.
It was Jodie. She was calling in regard to the message she left last night. I told her that I could go, and she was rather happy about that. She told me to come over any time before 12:00, so we could have lunch together. I told her that I'd probably be at her place by 9:30, so I could get a lift from my dad when he left for work that day. Mum was already backing out of the driveway at that time, so I couldn't ask her to drop me off.
I quickly finished the conversation so I could get up, and get ready, as it was getting close to 9:00, and dad would leave at quarter past. I quickly dressed myself (the usual, jeans and T-shirt), and freshened up in the bathroom. I got ready quickly and even had time for a quick snack before I left. Beth was still asleep, and dad left her a note on the kitchen table telling her where I was.
I arrived at Jodie's house on time, and she answered the door. She looked at me, and then behind me and asked, "Where's Beth?"
"She's not coming. You didn't ask her, so I didn't tell her."
"What? When I ask you, I'm asking both of you, silly boy"
"Well just give her a call, and see if she can make her own way here."
I entered the house, and settled down in my favourite spot on the couch in the lounge area. Jodie wore a loose fitting T-shirt, and shorts when I arrived, but changed the shorts into jeans a few minutes later.
I enquired into the whereabouts of the twins, and she told me that Mark was showing them something on the computer. She excused herself and went into the kitchen to call Beth. She came back a moment later, and told me that she was probably still in bed as no one was answering on the other end.
She called out to the twins, Lisa and Caitlin, to come out. We heard running footsteps come out of the study, and two small figures emerged from the hallway. They were both dressed in white T-shirts and denim overalls cut off at the knees, and were barefoot, like the rest of us. I couldn't tell them apart as there were no differences in the way they dressed today.
I greeted them, and they did the same. I asked them the usual questions; how old were they, where were they from, which grade etc. After all this, I found out that they were both 10, and had just celebrated their birthday two weeks ago. We sat around, and I told them everything they wanted to know about me.
After this, Jodie called Beth again, and this time she did receive an answer. Beth said that she would come later on in the afternoon, and added that she was rather angry at me for not telling her about it.
While Jodie was on the phone, the twins asked me if they wanted to play the game that Jodie had played with them. My immediate thought was that Jodie played a tie up game with them, but this was put to rest when they mentioned "Go Fish". I wasn't very keen on playing a childish game, but thought that it would be better than turning on the TV and seeing Bert Newton staring at me.
I won the first game, much to the displeasure of the twins, who proceeded to playfully throw their cards at me, and accuse me of cheating. I laughed, but I was silenced as I lost the remaining games.
Jodie had been keeping an eye on the game when the call finished, and gave a few tips to the twins along the way. We finished up and Mark walked in. He wore basically what I was wearing, jeans and T-shirt.
We lay around for a while, thinking of something we could play, the twins didn't know how to play Monopoly, and teaching them would take forever, so we were stumped.
Eventually, Lisa came up with team tag, which was basically hide and seek where one person would start as the seeker and when he found someone, that person would also become a seeker, and the winner would be the last one to be caught.
It was a fairly simple game, and everyone seemed to want to play. So we decided on who would be the first seeker by playing rock, scissors, paper. Mark, Lisa and I put down rocks, Caitlin and Jodie scissors. So, those two battled it out, and after three draws in a row, Jodie triumphed and Caitlin would be the first seeker.
Caitlin stood in the corner facing the wall, and covered her eyes with her hands and began counting to 50. We all split up, and I decided to hide upstairs. No one else followed me up, and I hid in Mark's closet. No sooner had I gotten myself into a comfortable sitting position, that I heard footsteps coming up the stairs. I slid open the closet door slightly, and it made this horrible squeaking noise that totally gave away my position. Caitlin came rushing into the room and swung open the door and tagged me.
Now that I'd become a seeker, I knew that no one else was upstairs, and I told Caitlin this, but she didn't trust me and continued her search upstairs, while I headed back downstairs to find the others. I bumped into Lisa in the lounge, who at first claimed to be Caitlin, and I almost fell for it, before the real Caitlin came running down the stairs, yelling out "tag her, tag her". I did, and Lisa reluctantly became a seeker. I didn't find anyone else, as Lisa found Jodie in the study, and Caitlin found Mark hiding in the kitchen.
Seeing that I was the first to be caught, I would be the seeker for the next game. I did the same as Caitlin did in the first game, and covered my eyes with my hands and counted to 50. I heard numerous footsteps going up the stairs, and that's where I headed as soon as 50 was up.
I found Mark hiding in the very same spot where I was hiding for the first game. He went downstairs, while I stayed upstairs. I heard a noise coming from Jodie's room, and went in to investigate. There was a bit of shuffling noise coming from her closet, and I quietly tiptoed towards it, and flung open the door. To my surprise, I found Caitlin there rummaging through the backpack where Jodie kept all the tie up gear and stuff.
"What are you doing?" I asked her.
She quickly set aside the backpack and said, "Nothing."
I tagged her, and she followed me for the rest of this game where I found Lisa in the bathroom, hiding in the shower. Mark found Jodie hiding under the stairs.
We played this game a few more times before Jodie had to prepare our lunch. Mark went in and helped her. The twins headed upstairs, and I turned on the TV, and thank god, Bert Newton wasn't on. The news was on, and I eagerly awaited the sport segment to see if my footy team won.
Five minutes later, Lisa came down and headed into the kitchen. I heard Jodie and Lisa talking, before Lisa walked into the lounge.
"James, can I ask you a question?" she sheepishly asked.
"Sure, what is it?"
"Come with me," she said, grabbing my hand and pulling me off the couch.
I followed her upstairs into Jodie's room where they had the backpack on the floor, and Caitlin sitting beside it.
"Umm, James. Can you tell me what this backpack is for?" Lisa asked quietly.
I tried to stutter out a reply, “Umm...err...we use it for...stuff.”
I was still shocked when Caitlin asked, "What stuff? What do you need all that rope for?"
"Umm…-well, we...why don't you ask Jodie?" I said, trying to pass the question on to somebody else.
"Jodie was too busy, and asked me to ask you." Lisa said.
"We just...play around with it." was all I could manage to get out.
"How do you play?" Lisa asked.
I looked at the bedroom door, and I desperately wanted to bolt out that door and out the house to avoid the question.
Both of them looked at me and after a long pause, Caitlin piped out, "Do you play tie up with it?"
I was stunned. I fell back against the wall, and I slowly nodded my head.
"Cool!" Caitlin said. "Can we try it out, James?"
From one shock to another, I really wished that I could make myself magically disappear from them. "What do you mean?"
Caitlin stood up. "I mean, could you tie me and Lisa up. I wanna know what it feels like."
My heart was racing and my palms were getting real sweaty. "Are you sure?"
Both of them nodded their heads, and I complied, much to their joy. I told them that I would just tie them back to back, and tie their ankles and what was it. They agreed, and sat down on the floor back to back.
I don't know why, but my hands began shaking as I tied Lisa's ankles. Normally, I would be enthusiastic at having to tie someone up, but this wasn't a normal situation. I'd only known these two for about two hours, and they were asking me to tie them up.
I tied Lisa's ankles loosely, and she tested them by wriggling her feet. I did the same to Caitlin. I found the longest piece of rope I could find and wrapped it around their small figures fairly snugly. They wriggled around for a bit and Lisa turned to me and echoed that classic line, "You'll never get away with this!"
Caitlin did the same and they both giggled. I laughed and said in a deep voice, "Oh yes I will!"
I made sure that they were OK, they said yes, and asked me to leave them alone for a while. I told them that I'd be back in fifteen minutes and that I would help Jodie and Mark in the kitchen.
I found Mark in the kitchen, and Jodie was nowhere to be seen. I asked if he needed any help, and he asked me to cut the cooked beef into thin slices.
This took a fair while, as it was a pretty big chunk of beef. Mark disappeared about ten minutes later, and I quickly finished it off, and hurried off back to check on the twins.
I rushed up to Jodie's room, and I was shocked to find that they were not there. I initially thought that they'd escaped, but after calling out their names a couple of times and receiving no answer, I began to get worried.
That's when I noticed a piece of paper on the floor where the twins were sitting before. I picked it up and it read:
"If you want to see Caitlin and Lisa alive again, the price is $1,000,000. Bring the money to the underground sewers (the basement) by sunset. Come alone."
PS. The money's in the closet
It was written in Jodie's handwriting, and I was really beginning to get worried seeing that this was probably their first time, and I thought that this might be a bit too much for them.
Anyway, I searched the closet, and found a plastic bag with a big $ sign on it, loaded with scrap pieces of paper. There was also a mini water pistol attached to the bag. This was a sign that Jodie was prepared for a water fight. The gun was empty so I filled it up in the bathroom and was on my way.
I crept down the stairs slowly, carefully trying not to make any noise. I was barefoot, so that helped. I tiptoed to the basement door, and turned the knob slowly. The door didn't squeak like the one in Mark's room, and I had no trouble opening the door. I slowly and silently tiptoed down the stairs, with water pistol in my right hand, and the stash of "money" in the other. I bent down to see if I could get a clear view of the basement.
The first thing I saw was Jodie talking to Mark, but I didn't see any sign of the twins yet. I crept further down, I was too busy watching Jodie and Mark and I missed a step and fell down the stairs, crashing down onto the basement floor. Jodie and Mark were given a fright, as they both jumped in the air, and looked at me.
"So you finally arrived, James." Jodie said, in a sort of evil voice.
"Where are the girls?" I asked.
"Where's the money?"
"It's right here," I said, holding up the bag. "Now where are the girls?"
Jodie smiled, and stepped to one side. A large flat sheet (the ones for beds) was covering something underneath it, and I saw a bit of movement under it.
Jodie removed the sheet and revealed Caitlin and Lisa. Both were still tied back to back, but were also tied at the ankles, knees, and their hands were tied behind their back. Both of them were also gagged with a white cloth over their teeth.
The twins looked up at me, and a sigh of relief came from both of them.
"Are you girls alright," I asked them. They both nodded.
"But that's all going to change if you don't hand over the money." Mark said, pointing his water pistol at the twins.
"Alright, alright. But how do I know that you're really going to let them go if I give you the money?"
None have us had ever done any play acting before, so I was surprised as to how smoothly this was going.
"OK, we'll release one of the girls, you give us the money, and then we'll release the other one. Fair enough?" Jodie said.
I nodded and Jodie proceeded to until the twin on the left. I didn't know who it was yet. She ran to me and hugged me around the waist, and said, "Oh thankyou very much!" I asked her which one she was, and she said Lisa.
"Now, hand over the money." Jodie ordered..
I tossed the "money" over to her and she picked it up and inspected the contents.
"Now let my sister go," Lisa demanded.
"Oh I don't think so, you see, if I let her go, how am I going to make my getaway. There'll be cops all over the place, so I need a hostage, and this lovely young lady will do just fine." Jodie said, running her hand down Caitlin's cheeks.
"Hey, we had a deal." I said.
"Yes we did, I said that I'd let her go, but I didn't say when did I?"
"You lying bitch."
"Call me what you like, but I'm keeping this one for the time being." Jodie said. "Come on, let's get outta here."
Jodie untied Caitlin's ankles and knees and helped her up. She grabbed her right arm and ordered her to move, and she obeyed. Mark kept his water pistol pointed at us until they reached the top of the stairs, where they shut the door and locked it.
"Now what are we going to do?" Lisa asked.
I ignored her question. "How'd you end up down here?"
She explained that Jodie had walked into her room and found them tied together. Jodie then asked them if they wanted to play a game that involved them being tied up. Basically, it was the game that Jodie suggested Beth and I play on the Monday, but never got round to it.
I made sure she was OK and she assured me that she as fine.
There was no other way to get out of the basement other than the door. I tried to think of another way out but I didn't need to when Jodie unlocked the door, and told us that lunch was ready, and that we'd continue the game after lunch if we liked.
We had roast beef and egg sandwiches for lunch, and we talked about the game. The twin's were enjoying the game, especially Caitlin, who liked playing the hostage. I was rather enjoying it too, having never role-played before. We finished off our sandwiches and did the washing up.
We all agreed to continue the game from where we left off. Lisa and I headed back into the basement, and before Mark locked the door, he whispered, "Look inside the sheet"
He locked the door, leaving us with that little hint. I searched the flat sheet and found a little piece of paper saying "They keys are under the stairs"
Lisa looked excited and rushed towards the stairs, looking for the key that would release us from this prison. She looked and looked, and I joined her, but we didn't find the key though. We looked again and again but still couldn't find it, and we concluded that Mark had tricked us. Lisa and I sat dejected on the steps thinking that we'd never get out.
But then it struck me. The note said "under the stairs" which didn't actually imply that it was on the floor. So I looked underneath the steps and found the key sticky taped underneath the top step. I couldn't reach it myself, so I gave Lisa a boost, and she managed to pull the key down. Lisa rushed up to the door and quickly unlocked it.
I grabbed my water pistol and followed her up. She waited for me at the top of the stairs.
"Where'd they take Caitlin?" she asked.
"I don't know. Let's look around."
I took the lead, seeing as I had the water pistol, and Lisa followed in close behind. We looked around downstairs, but didn't find them. We crept upstairs and looked through the rooms one by one, but we didn't find any of them.
"Where could they be?" Lisa said confusingly.
We were in their parent's bedroom, and we saw out the window some movement in the garage. Their garage could be accessed via the backyard through a door. Mark appeared from the garage and walked into the house.
We silently waited for any sign of footsteps coming up the stairs. There were none as Mark reappeared from the house holding a box of tissues, and disappeared into the garage.
"That must be where Caitlin is." Lisa said, tugging at my shirt. "We have to go rescue her."
"We will, but how?" I thought for a moment. "OK, how about this."
I explained the plan to Lisa. She would casually walk up to the garage pretending that she didn't know that they were there. They would capture her, and while they were busy tying her up, I would sneak up behind them, with water pistol in hand, and capture them. This plan relied a little bit on luck, as both Mark and Jodie had to be tying up Lisa, and not have their water pistols with them.
Lisa was happy with the plan, and we decided to go ahead with it. She put on her shoes and socks first before heading outside, and I put on my shoes.
We were all set and we went through the plan one more time. She understood it and we set the plan in motion. I hid behind the door leading to the backyard and Lisa walked out. She was a little nervous, but she kept her composure. She strolled up to the garage and walked straight past the window making sure that Jodie and Mark could see her.
They did, and both of them immediately came rushing out of the garage. Lisa pretended to be shocked, and tried to run and call out. But Jodie ran up to her and hand gagged her and used her other arm to grab her waist. Mark grabbed her flailing legs and together they dragged her, half kicking and screaming into the garage.
So far, so good, I thought.
I crept up quickly towards the garage door, bypassing the window, and took a quick peek inside and withdrew my head. I saw Caitlin, with her wrists bound behind her, ankles and arms tied, and gagged with the same white cloth tied over her mouth.
Lisa was sitting on the ground next to her sister, and Jodie was interrogating her.
"How'd you find us?" she demanded. Lisa crossed her arms and said nothing.
"Where's James?" Again Lisa didn't say anything.
"Fine! Be stubborn. Tie her up." she ordered Mark.
I looked around the corner again, and saw that Mark was busy tying up Lisa, but Jodie wasn't doing anything. She didn't have her water pistol on her but it was within arms reach though. I had to think of something fast, Jodie had her back to me, and Mark didn't have his water pistol anywhere to be seen, so I took a chance and rushed into the garage.
They were both surprised to see me, Jodie tried to reach for her water pistol, but I pushed her back, so she couldn't grab it. Jodie fell onto the ground and almost squashed Caitlin in the process.
"All right, crookies. Hands up. It's all over." I commanded.
"I don't think so, copper." Mark said.
He pulled out his water pistol from behind him and fired a few shots at me, but luckily all of them missed and I returned fire. I hit him in the stomach with my second shot, and he gave up. Jodie looked defeated as Mark dropped his water pistol and put his hands in the air. Jodie did the same. I ordered them to the back of the garage and they obeyed.
I looked at Lisa, who had her hands tied behind her and was gagged with cloth, and said triumphantly, "It worked!"
She let out a victorious hooray from behind her gag. I untied her hands, and she pulled the gag down. We untied Caitlin and she hugged Lisa and me for freeing her.
Caitlin looked at Jodie and Mark and laughed, "See, I told you that you wouldn't get away with it!"
"OK guys. Games over. We win. Let's pack up this stuff." I said to Jodie and Mark.
Jodie and Mark both admitted defeat and congratulated us on our win. We gathered up all the rope and headed back to the house. Jodie didn't pack up the rope, and just dumped it on the floor at the bottom of the stairs.
It was almost 2:00 and Beth would be arriving soon.
Part II will be posted at a later date.
Hope you all enjoyed the story and thanks for reading. Any comments?
James
Australia
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James' stories
- 01 - At Jodie's House: the Second Story (f/mm)
- 02 - The Man in the Vampire Mask (?/f, f/m)
- 03 - Beth and I (m/f, f/m)
- 04 - A Strange Old Day (f/fm, fm/f)
- 05 - Double the Fun (fm/ff)
- 06 - Double the Fun - Part 2 (fm/fm)
- 07 - A Day At The Movies (?/fm)
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