Rich: Okay, I lost and I will take my punishment
Sue: Oh you will...
Your wife does not enjoy does she?
Rich: No...
And so it had begun, in fact it had begun weeks before, we had been goading each other with bizarre bets and dares, stupid things involving glue and mess. I had promised that some day I would carry this out, and so Sue had suggested a bet, finish it once and for all. If I won he would have to do something nasty of my design, if I lost I was under her command to do something. Little did I know that she was an evil genius.
I watched in horror as the messages appeared with the requirements for my punishment. Knowing that I had to do it, but knowing that this could mean deep trouble.
* * *
It was two days later, I had got everything together and was as ready as I would ever be to carry this out. I was in our garden shed, it was an old, high roofed area previously filled with garden tools. I had cleared these out in order to give me space. There was a board on the floor which I had covered in a thick layer of industrial glue, I was standing with my feet bare, wearing a ball gag and with my hands cuffed behind my back with a pair of police handcuffs. I had played with self-bondage before and was pretty sure that I could grab a hanging key and undo them, it was difficult but not impossible. My key was attached to a piece of string held out of reach by the key being frozen in a block of ice. I would be trapped for about an hour. Of course this would be no risk. No risk of course without the other strings, I had been commanded to rig up three other strings also held up with ice, they were linked to three hanging buckets above my head. It was luck of the draw, if I pulled the right string first time I would have the key and could escape, but to pull the wrong string...
I could put it off no longer. I stepped on to the board, the glue squished between my toes, this was my last chance to escape before I started, I had a couple of minutes before the glue set solid.
* * *
The glue had set quicker than I had thought it would, I was on the brink of walking away when I found that my feet were trapped, it was too late now to get out I would need to have the key to get my hands free and reach in front of me to the bottle of solvent which would release the glue. So I just had to wait.
Time ran slowly as I stood trying to work myself free, I could feel the dripping of water down my back. It felt like an age before I felt a string drop with its small weight on the end to make sure it would drop by my hands. I had thought that I would know which string was which, but I realised now that there was no way to know. I gulped and pulled the string. There was a second when nothing happened before there was a sudden thump... I looked up foolishly as the bucket above my head tipped. I swore as the thick liquid started to pour hitting the top of my head and running down my face. I felt the sticky honey run over my body, down my t-shirt and cycling shorts. I had emptied jars and jars of honey into the bucket until it was almost overflowing and now I regretted my decision. The honey seemed to run for hours, I was totally coated, looking down I could see myself glistening in the sunshine spilling in from the windows. I sighed and hoped the next string would be the key.
* * *
Of course when I did grab the next string sometime later I was confident, but typically wrong. I pulled the string and released the bucket of flour. The cloud of white powder engulfed me sticking to the honey. I had been excited about the possible wam combination but now all I could think was how hard this was going to be to remove. I shook my head sending clouds of flour across the shed. Finally the last string fell, I grabbed the key and put it into the handcuffs, now I could get free. I tried turning the key but it would not move, I panicked and tried again, it was the wrong key. This was impossible. There was a beep and the laptop in front of me flashed up a message.
Sue: Oh you look good
Sue had wanted to make sure I had paid off on the bet and so had made sure she could watch on a webcam.
Sue: What's wrong?
Key not fitting?
My blood ran cold. I had been set up, but how.
Sue: Shame as Tracy will be home soon, in fact I just IM'ed her