Silent Night 2020 – Part 2
11th December
We all watched
as Mum and Dad left the room, hoping that they had managed to get what they had
wanted from the photograph. We certainly
had done all they asked us to do – with their help of course.
I was wearing a
blue dress with little coloured hearts on it, while my twin sister Cora was
also wearing a blue dress – but hers had white butterflies printed on it. Anyway, Mum and Dad wanted to take a special
picture of us, and we both agreed – and then we saw the rolls of red and green
tape.
Dad asked which
colour I liked, and I picked red – which left Cora with the green tape, but she
likes green anyway. Mum then told us
both to hold our hands out in front of us, before Dad tore free the end of the
red tape – and taped my wrists tightly together.
Cora giggled as
she watched – and then she giggled again as Dad used the green tape to make
sure she could not move her wrists apart either. He then told us both to sit down in front of
the tree, before he arranged our legs so that Cora’s right ankle was on top of
my left one.
Now, Cora was
wearing white ankle socks, while I had on grey ones – but I was glad of that as
Dad took the green tape and taped our ankles together – Cora’s to mine – so
that we could not move them apart. He
then put my right ankle on Cora’s, her left ankle on mine, and used the red
tape to secure them together as well.
When he had
finished, we were both stuck there – and even more so when Mum wrapped a spare
set of white tree lights round both of us, while Dad tore some strips of the
green tape off – and pressed them over Cora’s mouth, keeping her somewhat quiet
as she tried to talk.
I wasn’t in a
position to laugh a few minutes later – Dad did the same to me, only with the
red tape, and we looked at each other, seeing our smiles as they took the
photo.
The best bit is
now, though – as they left the room, the lights twinkling, and told us to both
try to escape. I’m starting with the tape over my mouth…
12th December
It was
Christmas Eve
In the front room
My brother said to me
"Go on, I dare you"
And
then he looked at Mum
and said “we want you,
To take a photograph
And make your wish come true.”
I had my sleepsuit on
with penguins wearing scarfs
Purple like my hat
And, well, I like a laugh
That’s why I nodded
and said “let’s do it.”
But how was I to know
That would not be enough.
We sat on the floor, and Mum said “okay”
As she took the duct tape, and tore the end free
In my blue shark pyjamas, and my hat of that colour
She taped my wrists together in front of me
You started off laughing
the
tape it was rasping, and I knew I could not move them apart
Mum finished the taping, and you said
“Ankles too,” and I heard the ripping
I smiled as I pictured the look on your face
Then Mum knelt by me, and my wrists I held up high
She taped them together
Then secured my feet tight.
As we sat with the tree lights shining
And twinkling there so bright
We knew we were staying there
For Silent Night
The tape it was ripped, o’er my mouth to
stick
I heard my bro mumble
And then I saw Mum with the tape in her hands
I heard her go quiet,
And then saw the wires
As the green fairy lights
Were wrapped round our arms
As we sat there
with these lights shining
And twinkling there so bright
We knew we were staying there
For Silent Night
13th December
Hey – my name’s
Amy, and I’m eight years old. I have a
three year old sister, called Andi – and last week, Mum played a special game
with us along with another woman.
We had both had
our bath and were changed for bed – and we had on identical pyjamas, pink ones
with Santas and Christmas trees on them.
We were having our supper when Mum came in, wearing her blue dressing
gown over her pyjamas – but she had someone with her, a woman wearing a black
jumper, leggings and trainers, with black gloves on – and a stocking pulled
down over her head.
Mum said we
were going to play a game called Silent Night, with the help of the lady. She smiled, and said it was going to be fun –
while Mum left the room, and returned with two small white chairs which she put
ibn the centre of the room, back to back.
The lady then told me to sit in one, and asked Andi to come and watch
what she did.
She then opened
her rucksack and took out a ball of green wall, and told me to put my hands
together in prayer. Andi and I then
watched as she wrapped the wool round my wrists, which meant they were held
together, and then took it between my arms to make it tighter – and then she
wrapped it round my lap on the chair, and then round my ankles.
Andi watched,
her eyes wide open, and then the lady said she was going to do it to Andi as
well. Mum said it would be all right,
and she knelt down and stroked my hair away as the masked woman sat Andi behind
me, and I heard her giggling as she had her wrists and legs tied as well.
I asked Mum if
the lady was going to do this to her as well, and she nodded and smiled as I
heard the sound of something ripping – and then Andi started mumbling.
For a moment, I
wondered why – and then I saw as the lady came back to me, with a roll of tape
in her gloved hand. It was red tape,
with white squiggles on it – and she tore a length off before she gently
pressed it down over my mouth.
Mum then smiled
as she was handed a length of large lights, and then wrapped it round both of
us, before she plugged it in and told us to wait there. Andi tried to talk to me, and I mumbled back,
before we both watched the lights shining as Mum and the woman left the room.
When they came
back, Mum had some of the tape over her mouth, as she lay on the couch and
allowed the woman to tie her wrists together, then wrap the wool round her
dressing gown, and finally her ankles before she left. We stayed there, looking at each other and
twisting round a little, until Dad came home and we told him what happened…
14th December
After the year
we’ve had, we really wanted to get the Christmas tree and decorations up early,
just to cheer us all up. And then…
There was only
one man – but he surprised me and my daughters as we watched the television,
and he had a gun. Elsie is 15, Jessie
13, and both of them had their blonde hair in a pigtail, while they were both
wearing black vest tops and leggings. As
for me, I was wearing a black zipped top and leggings, with blue socks that had
white spots on them.
But, as I say,
he had a gun, and he told me to sit with my hands on my head while he ordered
the two girls to kneel on the floor, facing me, and to put their hands behind
their back. I also saw him take out of
his jacket pocket a roll of red tape, as he knelt behind both of them.
The sound of
the tape being ripped free from the roll was unmistakeable, as he first secured
Elsie’s wrists together behind her back, and then did the same to Jessie as she
quietly sobbed. I said it would be all
right, as I heard the tape rip again, and I saw him taping their bare ankles
together as well, the band of red just visible.
He then tore
strips of the tape from the roll, and pressed it down over their mouths as they
looked at me, before he told me to stand up.
When I did so, he walked behind me and guided my wrists behind my back,
before I felt the tug of the tape on my wrist as he started to tape them
together as well. He certainly knew what
he was doing, because very quickly I realised I was not going to be able to
move them apart.
He then made me
sit down in front of the girls and cross my legs, so that I was sitting in the
lotus position – before he taped my ankles to my thighs, and then covered my
own mouth with tape as well. I wondered
what he was going to do next as Elsie and Jessie whimpered behind me – and then
we found out.
He took one of
the sets of fairy lights from the trees, and wrapped it round all three of us
so that the lights hung over out upper bodies – and they were on, twinkling as
we tried not to move. This was how he
made us stay there while he searched the house – and left us like that until my
husband came home…
15th December
Mary, did you
know
That your little bro would want to do a photo?
Mary, did you know
Where he wanted you to go to?
Did you know
That your mum and dad had already said yes?
Your little bro was ready, and you did not guess?
Mary, did you know
That your little bro was going to stand behind you?
Mary, did you know
That your dad would wrap red tinsel around you?
Did you know
That you were both going to be gagged?
And the folded red bandana, was going to be tied?
Oh Mary did you know... Ooh Ooh Ooh
Your scarf was red
His scarf was blue
And you both were gagged
Upon your lips
The scarf was tight
As it kept you so quiet…
Mary, did you know
That your little bro had seen the photos online?
Mary, did you know
That your little bro was wanting to be like others?
Did you know
That your baby bro was happy you didn’t fight?
Because you both together, are sharing Silent Night!
16th December
“All right you
two – get in there and sit quietly.”
“Please, don’t
hurt them,” Queenie said as she saw her daughters pushed into the room by the
armed and masked man. Helga was
thirteen, and the fear in her eyes was clear behind her glasses, dressed in her
blue pyjama top and striped pants. Ten
year old Ilsa was just as scared as she hugged herself, in her pink onesie, her
brown hair braided.
“NNhhhh,” her
husband said through the light brown tape that covered his mouth. He was wearing a grey t-shirt and jeans, but
his hands were tied together in front of himself with rope, and his ankles
secured together as well. Queenie was
wearing an olive coloured scoop necked top and pants, her glasses over her eyes
as well.
He was angry,
and twisting round, until the masked man behind him put his hand on his
shoulder and said “don’t – you’ll only make yourself sick. You two,” he said a she looked at the girls,
“sit on the floor, back to back, and put your hand under your bent knees.”
“Mum…”
“Just… Just do
what they say,” Queenie said as the girls sat down, and the man who had brought
them in took the roll of brown tape, and taped their wrists together under
their legs. He then took a length of
lights from the Christmas tree, and tied it tightly round both of them to hold
their arms to their sides, and their upper bodies together.
“Keep those
lips together,” he then said as he tore strip after strip of the tape from the
roll, and pressed it down over their mouths, silencing them as they looked at
their father. When he had finished, he
sat down, the gun on his lap as Queenie was frogmarched out of the front room.
Ilsa and Helga
turned and looked at their father, seeing the tears running down his cheeks as
he sat there, feeling he had bene unable to defend his family when the two
masked men had burst in…
“Phlsdhdnhchrrphphhh,”
Ilsa said, the tape crinkling as she looked up to him. He nodded and said “Hllthrrhh” as they then
all looked towards the door. They could
hear their mother upstairs, hear the noise of things being thrown around – and
then, silence.
A silence that
was explained a few minutes later when Queenie was marched back in, her mouth
covered with the brown tape as well, and her wrists tied together in front of
herself. She was sat next to her
husband, the man kneeling and lashing her ankles together with more rope,
before another set of lights was taken off the tree and used to secure the two
adults together.
The intruders
looked at them, and laughed, before they left them, silent in the night…
17th December
Santa baby, Please
help both my sister
For me
To do a special photo
Santa baby, help us both to have a Silent Night
Santa baby, aren’t our party dresses
Cool too
Gold silk and white lace
Santa baby, we’re waiting to have a Silent Night
We can sit back to back
Bend our legs and wrap our arms around
We know we won’t be able to move
so use that tape and we’ll make no sound
Santa baby, tape my wrists
While the two of us sit
We’ve been angela all year
Santa baby, then make sure my ankles are taped tight
Santa honey, Make sure my sister gets taped
As well
So we’re both the same
Santa baby, then we can start to have a Silent Night
Santa cutie, Now
you can wrap the tree lights
round us
so that they shine out bright
Santa cutie, one more thing for the Silent Night
Now cover our lips with three
lengths of the tape, and we’ll be
As quiet as
The Teddy Bear sitting next to me
Santa baby, forgot to mention one little thing
plug in
the plug into the socket
Santa baby, then we’ll have a Silent Night
We’ll have a Silent Night
Silent, Night
18th
December
It was Kerry
and Jenny’s idea – my twin daughters are thirteen, and they wanted a special
photo to send to their grandparents.
Where they got the idea from, I have no idea, but…
So it was after
dark when they put the two cream plastic chair back to back, and then looked at
me. Their long blonde hair was falling
down their backs, and they were wearing matching pyjamas – red body with their
names in white on the front, white sleeves and pants with big red dots, and
smiles as they sat down, and handed me the yellow tape.
First, they pulled
the chairs forward and put their arms round the chair back, so that I could
tape their wrists together. I then taped
their ankles to the front legs of the chair, and pushed them together before I
wrapped the lights around them.
The final
touch? The tape over their mouths, and
the hats on their heads. Simple, and it
was a cute photo…
19th
December
We three boys
of Whitley Bay
Could not sleep on Christmas Day
Presents calling, tired and yawning
We went down the stairs
Oh, what a
shock there, what a fright
Two masked men with torches bright
There they left us, bound and helpless
So that it was a Silent Night
As the oldest,
I said it was all right
Although they said we’d be tied up tight
I was tied first, ankles and wrists
I really looked a sight
Oh, what a
shock there, what a fright
Two masked men with torches bright
There they left us, bound and helpless
So that it was a Silent Night
The fairy
lights all twinkled and shined
As they used them around us to bind
Arms to bodies, Bro to Buddy
Before they had to find..
Oh, what a
shock there, what a fright
Two masked men with torches bright
There they left us, bound and helpless
So that it was a Silent Night
Red ribbons
tied, between our lips
Eyes were wide as we watched them slip
Outside, quiet, without a riot
Leaving us to quietly think
Oh, what a
shock there, what a fright
Two masked men with torches bright
There they left us, bound and helpless
So that it was a Silent Night
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