Molly parked her car in the driveway of a modest house in a nice suburban development. The houses were mostly brick with nicely manicured lawns on half-acre lots typical of most modern developments. She had never been to James' house before. Molly had been seeing James for about a month. She met him through a friend at work. He was very different from the guys Molly usually dated. She couldn't quite put her finger on it. He had an uncanny knack for seeming to know what she was thinking and there was something mysterious about him. They had been out a few times for dinner, drinks and movies β typical dates. She enjoyed his company and he made her laugh. He was a little over 6 foot tall with wavy black hair and a face that was maybe a bit too angular to call handsome. He kept himself in shape and he worked for a computer-consulting firm. A good job was always a plus in this environment. She was secretly hoping things would develop further.
Molly was meeting him at his house after work and then they were going to meet some friends from her work for dinner and drinks. His house was closer to the bar so she was going to leave her car there while he drove. She parked her car behind his black Jaguar. The garage door was open and James was moving around in the back. The garage was very clean with things hung neatly on the walls or in shelving. The floor was painted a light grey and looked very clean for a garage. James was moving around a strange looking wooden platform making some adjustments to things.
"Hi, Molly." He said coming over to give her a quick, friendly hug. " I wasn't expecting you so soon."
"I got off work a bit early. What's that you're working on?"
"Oh, this." James hesitated "It's for a friend. It's kind of complicated to explain, so lets just say its part of a bet."
"Sounds mysterious." Molly laughed, "Do you have somewhere I can change out of these work clothes?"
"I'm sorry. How rude of me. Come on in." James waved her inside the garage door that led to a mudroom off a modern looking kitchen. The kitchen was at least a little messy so apparently James wasn't a complete neat freak.
"There is a bathroom right there on the left, and there is a guest room down at the end of the hall there that will probably give you a bit more room to get changed." James pointed down the hall to a door that was half open on the right. Molly walked down the hall, swaying her hips a bit more just for fun and to see if she could get a reaction. She glanced over her shoulder and saw James glance away. He had been watching her she smiled to herself.
Molly closed the door, took off her work clothes and changed in to a pair of tight fitting jeans and a white silk button down shirt. She was about 5'5" with full breasts and more curves than she would like, but they seemed to get guys attention. She had clear, pale skin with shoulder length, dark hair, somewhere between brown and black, and bright blue eyes. She always thought her face was pretty. She freshened up her makeup, slipped on a pair of low platform heels and checked herself in the mirror. She unbuttoned one more button on her shirt to show a hint of cleavage, then folded her clothes back into her bag and went out to find James.
He was back in the garage still puttering around the platform. He was also wearing jeans and a dark green, button-down shirt. He had the sleeves rolled up to his elbows and she could see the muscle definition in his arms. He looked up when she came through the open door from the mudroom, giving her an admiring up and down glance before saying "You look great."
"Thanks. Ok, so what is the deal with this thing that has all your attention?"
"It's not that easy to explain. My friend Dave sort of dragged me into this bet, saying that I could devise something where he could secure his girlfriend Dawn with just this string." He held up some innocuous looking white string. "I'm not sure how the conversation started, but it has been an ongoing thing back and forth between them for a while now, and Dave's been bugging me, so I decided to do it. It's finished now β I think."
"Seems like a strange bet. Why would someone bet that?" Molly asked innocently.
"You would have to know them." James replied smiling.
"Why don't you try it out on me?" She asked playfully. James got a strange look on his face.
"That's probably not a good idea." He replied nervously.
"Oh come on. We have time. What's the worst that could happen? I don't think this thing will work." Molly challenged, now wanting to know more about this platform.
'What's the worst that could happen?' James thought to himself. She will run out of her screaming and never want to see me again. Then again, if things work out, it would open up all sorts of possibilities.
"OK. If you insist. But remember, whatever happens, you asked for it. Slip your shoes off and climb up on your hands and knees, head this way." He helped her up on the platform. It was a rectangular piece of wood roughly 2' x 4', that had some padding over the top. There was a wooden post on the backside that came straight up about 3' with a metal pipe sticking out over the platform. The platform was on some type of roller that made it tilt back and forth like a seesaw. It tilted forward as Molly climbed on so that most of her weight seemed to be on her hands. The pipe was about a foot over her back.
"Now hold still for just a couple of seconds while I secure the string." He gathered her hair in a loose ponytail and looped some of the string around her hair, pulling it tightly and tying it off. The string was a heavy-duty kite string, so although it looked thin, it was actually quite strong and would not break easily. He took both ends of the cord and looped it over the pipe. He threaded the ends through a tensioner and then looped another piece of cord through a large, smooth, polished hook he placed through the belt loop on Molly's jeans and tied that to the tensioner as well. He pulled the cord through the tensioner pulling on Molly's hair and her jeans so that her head and shoulders were pulled back. Molly shifted a bit to get more comfortable.
"Ooh, that tickles." She squirmed as he looped the thin cord around each of her big toes. Her head was still bent back and was starting to get a little uncomfortable. She was still confident that there was no way he was going to be able to tie her down to this platform with that string as she could just roll to the side and sit up at this point. It seemed like James was going to lose his bet.
James had taken each cord and passed it through an in line tensioner under the platform and now had made little slipknots in the end of each one. He was going to have to be quick with this next part before Molly could free herself. There would be no going back after the next step. He took up another inch of slack with her hair bending her head back a little more.
"Ouch. That hurts. Can you loosen that a . . . Stop! Oh my god what do you think you're doing?"
James had moved around to the front of the platform and brought the two cords up through small pulleys on the front of the platform. Molly was straining to see what he was doing while she was talking and he very calmly reached into her shirt and bra, pulling her right breast out and looping the slip knot over her very erect nipple, and then quickly doing the same for the left breast. Molly reflexively tried to reach up with her hands to stop him but when she took her hands from the platform, it put all her weight on her hair and neck. It hurt and she felt like she was falling so she put her hands back down to steady herself. This gave James the time to tighten the tensioners under the platform, taking up all the slack in the cord and pulling on Molly's nipples.