Part 1 - Schoolgirls?
Little Celia and tall, dark, Natasha could do nothing without instruction from the grey haired, seemingly genial old man they had so foolishly taken to be a teacher. Celia desperately needed to wee but could say nothing - neither ask permission nor release the pressure in her bladder. Did Natasha perhaps feel the same?
It was not as if she and Natasha had been bosom buddies or even friends. Natasha was in her class at uni. Celia certainly spoke to her, admired the way the tall girl moved, spoke and dressed, they had been at the same parties but they were not close. They were not intimate.
Not 'bosom buddies' - that was just so the wrong phrase and now simply not true. 'Not intimate?' It was absurd to say they were not that... now.
It had all happened so suddenly. Perhaps it had not been planned. Perhaps she had been caught up in something she should not have been involved in; perhaps it was another girl they had been after and not her: or was it Natasha that had been accidently involved?
The university had seemed so secure. Uniformed security personnel patrolling the grounds, CCTV cameras watching, yet one moment walking through a familiar short cut between buildings, one she had used many times before, the next...
The next, the next indeed. She had come from a lecture with Melia and Rollo but they had peeled off for a different class and Natasha had caught her up. Not, as she remembered, to speak but simply because her legs were longer. They had turned as one into the short alley; they had started talking a little before and had been walking together and to one side, to pass a white Transit van just at the end when...
The only other person in the passage - and it was not as if it was a narrow passage - was a grey haired old man whom she had taken to be a teacher, a lecturer, just standing holding a walking stick. What had been odd, so strange in retrospect was the way he seemed to be half looking beyond them, perhaps looking for others as he had smiled pleasantly and then tapped on the van door... Perhaps it had been the smile that had fixed him in her mind or what happened next - and of course later.
Celia knew about chloroform. Had seen it 'used' in the movies. The pad over the mouth, the brief struggle and then the collapse into oblivion.
It had been rather like that. The doors banging open, the pads and then... nothing. Presumably she had collapsed. She did not remember anything after the brief, the very brief struggle.
Celia had woken, groggy at first. Unsure where she was, disorientated. A nurse, she thought it was a nurse had asked her if she was "OK." Celia had answered in the affirmative. Again looking back it was hardly likely she would have said anything else. Not at that point. Not just when coming to her senses.
It was the nurse opening her mouth, dropping in what she took to be a pill - only it was too big, applying what she took to be toothpaste - only who squeezed toothpaste all along the teeth and not on the brush, followed by a feeling of something being tied around her wrists, perhaps a hospital name band - only that would be only to one wrist. It all helped to rather focus her still befuddled mind.
Even so, it took Celia a little time to realise she was not in hospital, was not wearing her own clothes and things were most definitely not right. Not right at all, not with the thing in her mouth seeming to be getting even larger and finding she was unable to spit it out. It was not that her jaw was not working or her tongue but she could not separate her teeth.
The long white socks, the sensible shoes, the pleated maroon skirt, the white blouse, neat tie and woollen jacket was not at all what she had been wearing. Not the sort of thing she had worn since sixteen at school. As her eyes cleared there too was Natasha in a matching uniform smiling in a rather toothy way at her. Her long hair no longer free but tied in plaits either side of her face.
What was she saying? Celia tried to ask but found it was surprisingly difficult to talk with teeth glued together and something rather large in her mouth. It came to her that Natasha was not so much smiling in a pleasant way as trying to talk with stuck together teeth.
Celia made to get up but the ropes around her wrists which were tied to the bed prevented her and as she tried to kick her legs she realised there were ropes around her long white socks, tied around her ankles holding her down.
Her next conscious thought was being on a train. She could not remember how she got there but there she was, sitting with her hands neatly folded in her lap, sitting next to Natasha, both in their mock school uniforms. Celia tried to rise but realised she was tied. Her hands were not so much resting on her lap but bound together under a coat, seemingly, casually thrown across Natasha and her laps. Her feet were neatly together - yet, again, she could not move them apart. She could not see if they were bound or perhaps in some way the shoes were hooked together.
Again Celia tried to rise but was gently pushed back into her seat by the very same old man she had seen in the alley way at the university.
"Sit still, my dear, we have a long journey ahead of us. You can't need to go again already."
He turned to the man sitting next to him. A man smartly dressed, clearly a businessman.
"I don't know. Have you daughters? These are my two granddaughters... yes I know - don't ask - it was, how might I put it? A mixed marriage. They do so like their drinks, their Cokes and 7-UPs but these fizzy drinks do go through them so."
The old man's chatter caused the man's eyes to flick from Celia's face to Natasha and back again.
"Don't they look so smart in their school uniforms?"
To Celia it seemed the business man had been given permission to cast his eyes all over the girls and he did. Celia had the distinct feeling of being mentally undressed.
"I'm taking them south for the holiday. Their parents take time away and they come to stay at my old beach house. Have done for years. They do so love it there. The sand and the sea you know. I'm fortunate. It's such a lovely place and so private. Such happy days on the beach. Every year; I do so look forward to it and I know the girls do. Sand and sea - they have a lovely time.
You know, I'll tell you a bit of a secret, I don't think it will embarrass the girls if I say the place is so private we've never had to bother with swimming costumes. It all makes it so much easier than having to pull things on under towels and so on. Don't you think?"
The business man looked surprised, more than surprised.
"Of course they are getting bigger but I can't imagine they will want the bother. Would you?"
The man seemed almost tongue tied. Celia rather thought he was imagining running after a naked Natasha and herself across the sands to the sea. Playing with the girls and not with a bucket and spade either. Bother? No, he probably would rather not 'bother.' She could barely move but she did not miss movement in his trousers. The man's thoughts betrayed. But could he not see they were not schoolgirls?
Celia thought it a good time to really try and move but again a firm push from the old man.
"Emily-Sue! Sit still or it'll be the hairbrush on your backside later."
He turned back to the business man. "You have to be firm you know. There's no point in being lax. Don't you think?"
"Oh, um, no," replied the man, staring at Celia, "no a firm hand is the best policy."
'Or a firm something else,' thought Celia. It was just so obvious what the man was thinking - a firm spanking and then a firm... She turned to Natasha who was now seeming a bit more animated as if waking from some sort of stupor. She looked into Natasha's eyes and smiled, a rather toothy smile but there was nothing else she could do.
Surely the man must realise they were not schoolgirls but, instead, young women dressed as schoolgirls, or did he just think girls grew up rather fast these days?
Why were they on a train? Why such a public place if they were being - or rather had been - abducted? Why were they not travelling in a car or locked up in the back of a van? Why the strange pretence of them being schoolgirls on the way to the beach and apparently expected as 15, 16 or was it 17 or 18 year old schoolgirls to be happy to frolic naked whilst building sandcastles and swimming with their aged grandfather?
And was it not so risky with the two girls however tightly bound and gagged to be in a public place - just him and them? It was then Celia noticed the two big men dressed in identical dark suits sitting very close by and seeming to be watching Natasha and herself through dark glasses. Were they in on the act or just men interested in observing rather well built schoolgirls?