This story is sequel to 'No Escape For Hubby'
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Narelle and her husband David were a typical middle-aged couple living in a middle-class house in a middle-class suburb. Their income was average, they looked average, their existence was, well, average.
Narelle needed to ask a favour from her next-door neighbours, Diana and Chris. She strolled from her house to theirs in her ordinary blue jeans, pink tee-shirt, and white tennis shoes. Friends in this part of the world didn't knock on each other's front doors, so she let herself through the side gate and approached the sliding glass door on the side of the house. There was no-one around, so she let herself in.
"Yoo-hoo! Anyone around? It's only Narelle!"
She wandered into the living room.
She stopped.
She stared.
She kept staring.
There, sitting on the living room floor with his back against a pillar, was Chris. He was naked apart from a lot of rope which had been used to tie him tightly to said pillar. There was a wide strip of black plastic which went across his mouth and was buckled behind his head. A rope around his ankles was pulled tight to another pillar in front of him, keeping his legs straight on the floor. His knees were tied together with some sort of silk, or at least silk lookalike, cord.
He stared back at her, unable to do anything else.
She gulped.
"Greetings N. How's things?"
Narelle nearly jumped into the ceiling. Her attention had been so focused on the scene on the floor, she had failed to notice Diana walking up behind her.
"I... er... ah...," she stammered. "I... just... I just... er... I didn't mean to... ah..."
Diana was wearing a pale blue silky bathrobe, white stockings, and, rather obviously, nothing else. The bathrobe happened to be the same colour as the thing around Chris's knees, and appeared to be missing its cord. She stood in a pose that suggested slight impatience.
"Yes? C'mon woman, out with it. What's up?"
Narelle pulled herself together just enough to say, "Um... Dave and I are going away next weekend... um... to visit his brother, and, um... we were wondering if you could, er... keep an eye on the house while we're gone? Um."
"Of course. No probs. He lives in the high country, doesn't he, D's brother? It should be nice there at this time of year."
"Yes. Er... that's what we're hoping. Um... right. I'll be... er... going then. Um. Yes, I'll just be going...". Narelle stayed where she was, as if paralysed. A small detached part of her brain was thinking, 'Stockings? Why the hell is she wearing stockings? Nobody wears stockings these days.'
Diana cocked an eyebrow. "Is there anything else?"
"No, no. Er... nothing else. Um... I'll just be..."
"You might be wondering why I have my husband bound and gagged on my living room floor."