Like Grandfather, Like Mother, Like Daughter

“Hey Dad – any sign of the girls yet?”

Shaun smiled as he came out of the kitchen, drying his hands as he said “not yet Clare – Helen, good to see you again.”

“Good to see you as well, Shona,” the second woman said with a smile as she looked at Clare’s father. He was wearing a reddish-brown wig that came over his neck, as well as red rimmed glasses, and a short sleeved brown dress with coloured stripes that came to above his knees. Dark tights, and black kitten his completed his outfit.

“Okay,” Clare said as she shook her head. She had long blonde hair with a hint of grey, her rose tinted glasses large over her eyes, and she was wearing a grey t-shirt and a long floral skirt with brown sandals. Her friend Helen was wearing a dark blue denim dress that buttoned up the front, the sleeves rolled back to her elbows and the front open to show the green top she was wearing underneath. A wide brown leather belt, and brown sandals completed her outfit.

“Well, go in, sit down, I’ll bring some tea in,” Shona said with a smile as she headed back to the kitchen, Clare and Helen nodding as they walked in.

“One of these days, your father is going to redecorate,” Helen said as she sat down.

“Unlikely – it still looks the same after all these years,” Clare said with a smile. “I still remember the day you brought the girls in here, and found me and Dad bound and gagged by the Gentlemen Robbers.”

“Oh yeah – the look on their faces,” Helen said as she shook her head. “Has it really been six years?”

“Yeah, it has,” Clare said as Shona brought in a tray with mugs of steaming tea on them.

“What are you two taking about?”

“The time you an di got robbed,” Clare said as she took a mug.

“Oh lord – yes, they were so polite as they made sure we could not stop them,” Shona said with a laugh as she sat down and took a sip from her mug. “Still, it was an experience, if one I have no wish to have again.”

“Nor I – three times I met those two,” Clare said as she shook her head.

“I don’t know – it sounds exciting, being tied up and gagged,” Helen said – and then she saw the way both Shona and Clare were looking at her. She blushed as Clare shook her head and laughed.

“Yeah, looking back I guess it could have been a lot worse,” Clare said as they all heard the front door open and close, and two fifteen-year-old girls came in. Both were wearing a pale blue V-necked sweater over a white blouse, a grey knee length skirt, dark tights and black laced up flat shoes.

“Hey Mum,” the brunette said, “Annie and I are going to go up and change before we head out.”

“Fine – see you in a few minutes.”

“Hi mum, Bye Mum,” the blonde said as they both left the room and went up the stairs. Helen shook her head as Shona stood up and collected the tray of mugs.

“Let me take these through,” she said as she left the room and went into the kitchen, placing the tray down – and then her eyes opened wide as a gloved hand was placed over her mouth, and a man dressed in blue overalls stood in front of her, a black balaclava pulled down over his head.

“Gently, Bert, gently – we don’t want to harm this find lady, do we?”

“No we do not Ernie – after all, she is going to tell us where her valuables are, isn’t she?”

“Yes she is – right after she tells us who else is at home…”

“So, the theatre trip this weekend – still on?”

“Oh yes,” Helen said as she looked at Clare, “I know Helen is looking froward to it as well.”

“Well that’s… OH lord, not again?”

“I’m afraid so, Clare dear,” Shona said as she came into the room – followed by tow men wearing balaclava masks. One of them had a gloved hand on Shona’s arm, the other was carrying a large duffel bag, and smiled as he saw the two women sitting there.

“Hello there – please, hand over to me your phones,” he said with a smile, “after all, you’re not going to call for help, are you?”

“Clare, are they…”

“No – no they’re not. But they are robbers – after all, they have already tied my father up.”

“Sad, but true,” Shona said as she twisted round, the twin bands of rope holding her arms firmly against her sides and her wrists secured snugly together behind her back. “I guess you’re going to find out exactly what it feels like to be bound and gagged. Clare, Helen, meet Bert and Ernie.”

“Oh come on,” Clare laughed, “who next, Oscar and Big Bird?”

“Not the first time we’ve heard that ladies,” the man said as he helped Shona to sit down. “Please, give your phones to Bert.” The two women went into their handbags and handed their phones over, as Bert put the bag down and opened it.

“Many thanks – please stand up, turn round, and put your hands behind your back.”

Helen slowly stood up as Clare said “so let me guess, you tie us up, you steal the valuables from the house?”

“Indeed – but not just you, although we need to deal with you both first,” Ernie said as he selected two lengths of rope from the bag and put one in his pocket, doubling the other one over and then using it to secure Clare’s wrists snugly together behind her back.

“You may not be gentlemen,” Clare said as she felt the rope rubbing on her wrists, “but you are doing this just as tightly as they did.”

“I take that as a compliment,” Ernie said as he took the rope between her wrists, securing the ends out of the reach of her fingers, and then doing the same thing to Helen.

“Oh my – that feels so different from what I expected it to,” she said quietly as the rope was taken around and between her wrists, before more rope was passed round her body and pulled tighter so that her arms were forced against her sides.

“That feels – feels…”

Clare nodded as Shona said “welcome to the club, Helen. I hope Cath and Annie are as calm as you are about this.”

“Ah yes – and where are the younger generation,” Ernie said as he tied the ropes off, then allowed Helen to sit down before he passed the rope round Clare’s body as well.

“Upstairs – changing out of school uniform. Annie keeps some clothes here.”

“Annie?”

“My daughter,” Helen said as she twisted round, while Bert knelt down and passed rope around Shona’s ankles to hold them together. She watched as he passed the ripe between her legs and then secured the ends together, before he passed a second length of rope around her legs below her knees.

As he passed the rope between her legs, Bert said “Ernie, perhaps now is a good time to go and fetch the young ladies down here?”

“Of course,” Ernie said as he collected more ropes from the bag, and then went out of the room, as Bert said “now, perhaps you can tell me where you keep your jewellery…”

Bert reached the top of the stairs and listened at a doorway, smiling as he heard the two young voices before he opened the door and said “hello.”

“What the…”

“May I ask which of you is Cathy?”

“That would be me,” the brunette said as she put down the book she was holding. Cathy had changed into a grey t-shirt, pink jeans and snakeskin slippers, while Annie was wearing a short denim waistcoat over a yellow t-shirt, faded blue jeans which were folded back above her knees, and brown moccasins.

“Well, that makes you Annie – you can call me Bert, and today I am one of the two men robbing your grandfather, Cathy. I trust you understand that I need you to not panic, or try to raise the alarm.”

“Robbing… Oh lord, like that day with Granddad and Mum, when we came home and…”

“Oh yeah,” Annie said quietly. She then saw the rope sin Bert’s hand, and said “I guess… I guess we’re going to find out what that feels like now.”

“Quite,” Bert said with a smile, “why don’t you both kneel down, hands on your head, and I will do as quickly and painlessly as possible.”

“We don’t have a choice do we?”

“No – oh, and put your phones on the bed where I can see them as well.”

The two girls looked at each other and then gently threw their phones down before they knelt next to each other, putting their hands on their heads.

“What is this – fourth time for your mother,” Annie said as Bert knelt behind Cathy and moved her hands behind her back. She then felt the rope on her bare wrists, raising an eyebrow as it was pulled tightly round her limbs.

“Something wrong?”

“No Cathy – just a very strange feeling,” Annie said as Bert took the rope between her wrists and then secured the ends on top of the binding, out of reach of her fingers. She then watched as he moved Cathy’s hands behind her back, and lashed them together with rope as well.

“Guess we won’t be going to the cinema tonight then,” she said, Cath nodding as she felt the rope tightening round her wrists.

“What were you planning to go and see anyway?”

“We were going to decide when we got there,” Cathy said as she felt the binding tighten round her wrists – and then she gasped as the rope was passed round her, pulled tight under her chest as her arms were forced against her sides, and then the rope was taken round her above her chest.

“That’s – tight…”

“That’s the idea,” Bert said as he pulled the rope round several times, and then secured the ends at her back before he did the same thing to Annie. When he was done, he helped the tow girls to stand up, and said “right then – why don’t we take you down to join your mothers?”

The two girls nodded as they walked in front of him, going down the stairs as Cathy saw her mother being made to sit on the couch and turn round. As they walked in, they saw that their mothers were now sitting back-to-back on the couch, ropes round their ankles and their legs below their knees to hold them together.

“Well, now you know how it feels, Cathy,” Clare said as Ernie tied a length of rope from the ropes round her chest to the ones under her knees, then walked round and did the same to Helen.

“Where’s Grandad?”

“Rhhhthhrh.”

Both girls turned round to see Shona in the armchair, ropes round her arms and legs, and white tape covering her mouth. Her cheeks were puffed out, as she said “hmshhrrhhgls.”

“You didn’t have a choice, did you Grandad?”

Shona shook his head as they watched Ernie push a folded scarf into Clare’s mouth, and then cover her lips with white tape. As he did the same to Helen, he looked at the girls and said “Sit down on the floor. Bert, perhaps you could make sure we have all we can get upstairs?”

“Of course,” the other masked man said as Cathy and Annie sat themselves down, stretching their legs out as Ernie selected more ropes from the bag and knelt next to Clare’s daughter. Doubling the rope over, he passed it under the young girl’s ankles and then pulled the ends back through the loop, forcing them together as he took the rope round in neat coils.

“Do you think they’ll believe us at school?”

“No idea,” Cathys aid as the rope was taken between her legs, and then tied off, before Ernie moved over to secure Annie’s ankles in the same way. “I’m just glad it doesn’t hurt.”

“Yeah strange that,” Annie said, Clare shaking her head as her daughter’s friend’s ankles were bound tightly together, nd then another length of rope used to secure her legs together below her knees.

He moved over and pulled Cathy’s legs together in the same way, before standing up and going to the bag, returning with two blue scarves.

“Talk to you later?”

“Sure,” Annie said as Cathy opened her mouth, and allowed the masked man to push the cloth in. she could taste it on her tongue, feel it against her cheeks before he peeled the tape from the roll and pressed it firmly down over her mouth.

“Uhrrthghddheshothnths.”

“Fhllhnguhreshampmhm,” Cath said as Annie was gagged in the same way, before they were both made to lie face down on the floor, their ankles pulled back and secured to their chest ropes.

“Whhlwhrrhllhshthknh,” Cathy said, Annie nodding as they watched Ernie start to search the living room. “Ghrrhndhd?”

“Hmmm? Hshthhchlm,” Shona said, Cathy nodding as she gripped Helen’s fingers to comfort her. Eventually, Bert came back in, the two men checking their ropes before they left the five women struggling in the front room.

“Whsnnsdhdhm?”

“Hnhffrhrh – shthhrs. Wh?”

“Mthhswhlrhlsk,” Cathy said as she looked round, wondering why this felt so good…

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