Abigail in Trouble Chapter 21: The Substitute Part 2
Led by the uncle, they dragged her over to the dark doorway. She made one last attempt to break free, twisting her head around to appeal for rescue.
"Jake! JAKE! Help me! I don't want to go in there. They are making me! Jake! JAKE!"
They were through the door now and Abigail paused struggling for a moment to take in her new surroundings.
It looked like a men's smoking room. It wasn't particularly large. There were no windows. A small bar was lit in the corner. Very low, purple lighting surrounded the perimeter. The walls were lined with a continuous line of soft leather seats. There was also a freestanding square leather island near to the rear.
But Abigail's stomach lurched as her eyes fixed on the object in the dead-centre of the room. It was simply a vertical, polished stainless steel pole, fixed from floor to ceiling. It looked like one that a pole dancer would use. It was highlighted by some small spotlights.
Abigail's eyes opened wide in surprise as they tugged her towards the pole. "Surely they are not expecting me to give them a pole-dance in this fake bride gear?" she thought to herself. But she reckoned that's exactly what they wanted her to do: to dance for them. A private dance. A private pole dance in front of a number of strange men with no women present.
This was NOT what she'd signed up for!
"No, NO!" She told them. "I'm NOT pole-dancing for you! No! Jake? JAKE!"
The gathered men formed a circle centered around the pole and the reluctant bride lookalike. The rest of the men, including the one with the duffle bag and Jake, filed in, locking the door behind them and took seats around the perimeter. She couldn't see Asahi among them.
The two men holding her suddenly released her and left her standing alone, near the pole. Abigail stopped shouting when their hold on her was dropped, but she was still surrounded by expectant faces. The uncle kept frowning and nodding towards the pole.
Suddenly some loud music began to beat from hidden speakers around the room. The thumping rhythm and inferred indications towards the pole left Abigail in no doubt that they were all expecting her to dance around and with the pole.
She just stood there like a rabbit in the headlights, unsure of what to do, feeling trapped and silly in her puffed out wedding dress. The dress glowed and shone in sharp contrast to the attire of the gathered men who were all wearing dark clothes, suits and the like.
The men started chanting and clapping in time to the music. After a minute, when it became obvious that Abigail was not going to do what they were asking, the uncle lost patience with her.
He snapped his fingers at the guy with the bag who brought it to his side. He looked down into the bag and fished out a black leather item. He stood in front of Abigail and nodded towards the pole and then reached out his hand and offered her the object.
Abigail took it in her hands and immediately recognised what it was. It was a pair of felt lined, leather cuffs welded together at right angles. It looked like leather, but it was all too stiff and heavy to be leather alone. She reckoned they were reinforced with flat steel bands inside. The cuffs had slots and eye-rings rather than buckles.
She squealed and immediately dropped the cuffs in horror, shaking her head.
The uncle pointed at the pole and then the cuffs. She realised he was giving her a choice: dance or be restrained. What option did she really have?
Finally, amidst increased chanting, she moved up to the pole and stood with her back to it, holding on to it behind her for security. As the beat throbbed, she began to move her hips and feet in time, starting to gyrate and wiggle a bit half-heartedly. Her arms waved a little behind her.
She didn't think it was much of a show; her heart really wasn't into it. But she had to show some willingness didn't she? The men calmed down a little when she first started moving, but soon realised that she wasn't putting on the kind of show they were expecting. They started jeering and chanting again.
The uncle watched her for a while, then shook his head disappointedly and picked up the discarded cuffs.
The other men stopped jeering as the uncle walked up to Abigail and regarded her up and down. She stopped moving and simply stood in front of him with her head bowed, intimidated by the situation.
She still held onto the pole behind her for some kind of security. This small sanctuary was removed from her when she felt strong hands behind her, prise hers off the pole and bend her slender, lace glove clad arms up behind her back.
"No!" she shrieked, struggling against the strong hands that held her. "Not that! I'll dance. I'll dance, I will. I'll dance with the pole. Nice and sexy! I will! Let me go!"
The uncle was unmoved, and so were her arms. He faced her as his two accomplices behind her bent her arms high up behind her back and her dainty wrists were crossed together above the elbows. As she struggled to get free from their grip, the uncle handed them the cuffs.
"Let me go! What are you doing? No! I told you I'll dance for you, just let me go!"
The cuffs were fitted snugly around each of her upper arms, close to her narrow wrist. Each was tightened firmly around her narrow wrists over the lace gloves, firmly trapping them in an immovable grip. The uncle passed over two tiny padlocks and she heard the ominous clicks as they locked her arms securely in the cuffs.
The men behind her continued to hold her while the uncle drew another strap from the bag. This looked to be the same construction but was longer and wider. He held it up to her neck. Abigail shrieked again and tried to turn her head away, but she was being held tightly from behind and the uncle had no difficulty fitting the collar around her slender neck and tightening it up until it was snug all around. Another padlock secured the strong collar tightly around her neck.
A short, sturdy strap hung down from the back of the collar. Her wrists were lifted higher behind her back and a fourth tiny padlock secured the cuffs to a loop on the lower end of the short strap pinning her arms up high into her back. The men stood back to admire their handiwork.
Abigail found herself wearing a ridiculously fluffy wedding dress, standing in the middle of a dark room surrounded by men, with her hands tightly secured behind her back and clipped to her collar. She tested her bonds, but they felt as tight and immovable as steel. She also realised that the restricted position of her arms behind her between her shoulder blades, coupled with her futile struggling, was thrusting her ample cleavage up and outwards. This was not lost on her audience.
"Oh god" she thought. "What have I got myself into now?"
The uncle stepped back a little and let the rest of the men, mainly the younger ones, close in on the restrained substitute bride.
As one young man approached her, he reached out to touch her hip. Abigail scolded him and pivoted away from him as best as her platform heels and her bound arms could manage, only to fall within easy reach of another's groping hands. She tried rotating to fight them off, but soon found the crush of men had closed in and hemmed her in.
She felt fingers on her exposed arms, holding her still and stroking her skin through the long lace gloves. She felt hands grip around her narrow waist, stopping her from rotating. She felt palms on her largely exposed shoulders, smoothing over her soft skin. But most alarmingly, she felt a number of hands cup under, over and around her bountiful breasts. They stroked, cupped, squeezed and fondled her through the bodice of the dress, and her underwear beneath.
Abigail screamed loudly, trying to scare them off. When this had no effect, she appealed to them to leave her alone. Finally, she appealed to the only other westerner in the room, Jake, Lindsey's brother.
"Jake, Jake! Help me! They're grabbing me. Help! Please! Is this what your sister wanted? Please get them off me! HELP!"
Jake seemed happy to just sit back and watch the crowd molest his sister's best friend in her substitute wedding dress, and ignored her pleas.
The uncle, however, thought that she was making much too much noise. He rummaged in the bag and pulled out a large ball gag on a similarly sturdy black strap. Unseen, he pushed himself through the crowd and up to the struggling girl from behind. Then he quickly looped the gag around her neck, under her lustrous hair and brought the large ball up to her mouth, just as she was screaming for help.
He pulled back firmly on the strap, firmly seating the large ball deep in her mouth, stretching her jaw and effectively silencing her. Abigail tried screaming but all that came out was a series of grunts and moans. The uncle lifted her hair out of the way, tightened the gag strap, then secured it at the back with another padlock.