Chapter 2
She felt it appropriate to tell him about an incident which happened to her as a young teenager. "Well not since being a child if that's what you mean." She confessed.
"Go on." He told her wanting to hear about it.
With the need to take his mind away from any offence she may have caused by accusing him of being kinky when he'd pinned her arms above her head, she began to tell him about one day that haunts her and one she will likely remember for the rest of her life.
"It happened in the July, a few months after my fourteenth birthday." She began. "I was playing on the fields with the two brothers from next door and two other boys who I didn't really know at the time. Angus was younger than me by at least one school year I remember that much, his brother Phillip and Phillip's friend Billy were eleven years old with Owen being the youngest at only ten."
"I knew Angus had a crush on me but I had my eyes on other boys at school so kept him at my side as the life long friend that he was, because he posed no threat to me at all."
"Go on." Ally said, knowing first hand about the uncontrollable emotions which come from boys of that age, remembering back to how he behaved growing up.
"Well, I don't think anybody planned the sequence of events, the situation just seemed to run away with itself and get out of hand."
Tess took a deep breath and continued. "Phillip, Billy and Owen ran ahead into the rough grass just ahead of the wooded area, shouting loudly as they disappeared. I could tell that Angus was torn between joining his brother and having fun, or trying to keep his cool by striking up adult conversation with me." "Blood being thicker than water, Angus ran after them but not without waiving and shouting for me to follow on too."
Tess touched Ally's hand. "Don't get me wrong. I grew up playing in the woods, they had become nothing more than a back yard to me. To all of us in fact."
Ally lay in silence allowing her to continue uninterrupted.
"To cut a long story short, they all scattered into the usual play areas dotted around the woods, the most tempting was the waste area used by the locals as a rubbish dump."
"By the time I'd got to the woods I couldn't find any of them but I could hear them 'shushing' each other and giggling from hiding behind trees." "I wasn't bothered about their immature antics so carried on walking towards the pond. Which I must tell you, was more of a bog and stank."
"The two youngest Owen and Billy jumped out on me, playfully shouting, accusing me of being an escaped princess who had to be recaptured and returned to the tower, or some bullshit like that." "I was really too old for all that crap but I went along with it anyway."
"Still messing around they called for the brothers Angus and Phillip by saying they had found me and for the elder two to help them quickly before I ran away."
"Harmless fun yes so I just laughed it off. But then Angus appeared with some rope in his hand that the boys had found and announced that they were going to have to tie me up so that I can't escape again."
Ally smiled and prayed for her story to continue in the bondage direction, repositioning himself on the bed to another comfortable position as her fable now possessed excellent potential.
"You have to remember that I'd grown up with Angus and Phillip, so I could trust them a hundred percent and so again I laughed it off as they approached me from all around."
"I pretended to dither and run from tree to tree, purposely not running outside of their enclosing 'box formation', playing along with Owen the youngest and Phillip when they grabbed hold of a hand each."
"I can remember thinking what a cheeky bastard Angus was by threatening me with the rope but it didn't matter because I was playing a young princess surrounded by boys who I trusted. I thought that in an hour or so we'd be all bored and messing with some other shit from the rubbish dump so playing along was actually a good way to kill some time."
"I'll never forget the concentration and lack of concern Angus had on his face as he tied that damp rope so tight around my left wrist but I didn't know how soon it'd start to hurt and so I allowed him to continue without realising how quickly I'd be in trouble."
"Angus ordered all of us over to a tree we knew as the 'Witches hat'. So called because after the trunk it bushed out into a wide platform like shape and then shot up in the middle giving it the silhouette shape of a witches' hat from a distance."
"We had names for all the rocks, mounds, paths, puddles and trees around us, some passed down to us by our elders, the rest everybody made up as they went along."
"To me it seemed as though Angus was simply using me to entertain the younger three boys but after I faced the tree and allowed him to tie my other hand around the trunk, feeling how tightly he pulled the rope, I had to complain."
"The rest of the boys ignored my protesting, instead they cheered and celebrated, obviously at the successful capture of the supposed princess. I found the pain in my wrists to be too much and having no way of doing anything voluntarily anymore, I just wanted the game to end. I asked Angus to loosen the ropes but he gave me a frightening look and told the boys that they should all leave me alone to get used to being tied to the tree."
"Wow." Ally interrupted. "And were your arms tied to the tree with the rope going around the trunk?"
"Yes. The tree was about this round." Tess explained by holding out her hands to about her shoulder width apart, demonstrating the diameter of the tree trunk. "It felt as though I should be able to touch my fingers around the far side of the trunk but try as I did, my arms were just not long enough."
"That must have been some sight to look at. I'm surprised they left you?" He said.
"Well they did. They ran off, leaving me shouting and swearing at Angus to untie me." "I eventually calmed my voice but continued quietly swearing at the knots and at Angus in his absence."
"How did that make you feel?" Ally asked.
"Well that part wasn't the worst." Tess continued. "I knew I would be released eventually but this was before noon. At the time I could potentially be there all day before anybody significant came looking for me so I panicked and got angry." "My anger turned into a tantrum which hurt my wrists so I had to admit defeat, leaving me crying and scared."
"The silence and loneliness had a strange effect as I remember. It sent a quivering sensation through my nervous system to places like my arse hole and legs, I even thought that I wouldn't be able to hold my bladder for much longer."
"The tree eventually became my rock of comfort; I can only describe it as cuddling a parent when crying as a child."
"It was a very scary and painful waiting game, not knowing who might discover me or what they might do to me."
"The reality was that not long after the boys had disappeared into the silence, they returned from behind me, still shouting and cheering."
"I remember that prick Angus giving out some order of 'ten lashes each' or something but I didn't know what he was talking about."
"When I turned to one side and saw Angus and Owen hiding something behind their backs, I felt Phillip crack a bamboo garden cane across the bottom of my arse."
"Ouch." Ally said pretending to condole her but in reality thinking to himself how he'd loved to have been there.
"I screamed out louder than ouch." She continued. "I was screaming before it started to hurt but the whipping turned into a frenzy because they all had garden canes and stood two either side of me, taking turns at whacking me, too quickly to count."
